Songs that go on way too long

[Talon_Karrde]

This is the song that never ends
it goes on and on my friend
some people started singing it not knowing what it was
and they’ll continue singing it forever just because
this is the song that never ends…

[anu-la1979]

I’ve always felt Catherine Wheel’s Black Metallic went on about 2 minutes too long, although I feel super guilty saying that because it’s such a seminal high school song. These days I zoom over that huge lull in the middle to the last minute of crashing cords.

I’d say they should end after the rocking part of Aqualung but it slows down and I usually forward to the next song.

Touch of Grey is a little too long as well.

Those 2 songs drove my parents up the wall when I was growing up, incidentally. I played them so relentlessly the cassettes wore thin and you could vaguely hear the other side of the tape, then they kind of slowed down during the long instrumental parts I used to love to play over and over again.

[Labtrash]

The end of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” drags on for a bit too long

[woodstockbirdybird]

@Voyager

Maybe you meant “The End?” Same album, longer, and no orgasm at the end.

Well, the album (as opposed to single) version of “Light My Fire” does go on for-fucking-ever - the whole middle section is just Ray Manzarek’s organ doodling.

[Cerowyn]

Really, I don’t understand the point of these threads. All they are is an opportunity for people to come and proclaim their particular prejudices as though they’re meaningful. Really, who cares if you have a hate on for prog-rock or grunge or whatever? Are people really so stupid that they have to blanketly claim that every song in a particular genre is “too long?” Really, take your toys and go home. Come back when you grow up.

[wonky]

@Spectre of Pithecanthropus

CCR’s version of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”. It’s fine until at the end where they try to be a “jam” band.

I actually like most of Creedence’s things that I’m familiar with, but they’re better when they stick to that rock-a-billy tinged groove that they accomplish on their standard three minute numbers. Their forte is not extended solos and jams.

Yep. I really enjoy their work, but that song just doesn’t have a fire lit under it.

[Asimovian]

@Dooku

Unmentioned so far is Message In A Bottle. Great song until the end, where all they do is sing “Sendin’ out an S.O.S” ad nauseum.

See, you missed the point there. He mentions in the song that a “hundred million bottles washed up on the shore.” Each one of those bottles contained their own S.O.S. So he has to sing that line once for every single bottle he received.

[Morbo]

@Asimovian

See, you missed the point there. He mentions in the song that a “hundred million bottles washed up on the shore.” Each one of those bottles contained their own S.O.S. So he has to sing that line once for every single bottle he received.

:smack:

[woodstockbirdybird]

@Cerowyn

Really, I don’t understand the point of these threads. All they are is an opportunity for people to come and proclaim their particular prejudices as though they’re meaningful. Really, who cares if you have a hate on for prog-rock or grunge or whatever? Are people really so stupid that they have to blanketly claim that every song in a particular genre is “too long?” Really, take your toys and go home. Come back when you grow up.

Really, I don’t understand the point of this post. All it is is an opportunity for you to come in and proclaim your superiority and advanced level of maturity as though it’s meaningful. Really, who cares if you have a hate on for people who can’t stand prog rock or grunge or whatever? Are you really so stupid that you have to blanketly claim that those who find interminable hippie jackoff artists boring are babies? Really, take your superciliousness and go home. Come back when you get any semblance of a sense of humor.