The powerful title track from Gregg Allman’s fourth solo album, I’m No Angel, has always left me unsatisfied and longing for one more verse. Another verse would not lenghten the song, either – it lingers and fades quite a while at the end. I feel that song needs the completion of a final verse.
The song is worth saving. It is autobiographical, for one. Cher opened her concerts with it when it was current. She and he had been married in the 70’s.
I’m No Angel is a two-legged stool, and needs that third verse.
Padding? PADDING? That song is perfection! Well, maybe that one note at the beginning is too much.
Now the Allman brothers Mountain Jam, now there’s a song that needs more. First time I heard it, it came up in rotation. 20 minutes into it and I’m wondering if it ever is going to end, and I see I have nearly a half hour to go!
This. Especially the first part, before the doo wop girls chime in.
I’d like to add Vaseline by Stone Temple Pilots. My heart just gets pumping and then…done.
May I digress since I’m now thinking of the Beatles White album? Why do I have to turn up the volume to maximum for the song Long, Long, Long and it’s still not loud enough? Such a great tune and I want to crank it up.
Completely agree with this, and it lessens the quality of the song, IMHO. One of the few songs where I’ve paid attention to the lyrics and was thinking, “And then what happened?”
I always thought Blur’s Song 2 should have been longer. Maybe though it’s perfect as it is?
Many of the early hardcore punk songs from bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat. Lots of pure energy songs clocking in at a minute. Prime example: Wasted by Black Flag. Around 50 seconds depending on the recording. Maybe they would’ve lost something if they tried to make them “long” by adding verses to get them out to 2 minutes.
