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Top 25 Greatest Long Rock Songs (10+ Minutes)

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25. I'm Your Captain, Grand Funk Railroad
24. Maggot Brain, Funkadelic
23. Voodoo Chile, Jimi Hendrix
22. Going Home, The Rolling Stones
21. Coma, Guns n Roses
20. Telegraph Road, Dire Straights
19. Supper's Ready, Genesis
18. Starless, King Crimson
17. Camera Eye, Rush
16. Station to Station, David Bowie
15. Pigs (Three Different Ones), Pink Floyd
14. Close to the Edge, Yes
13. Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Elton John
12. I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Creedence Clearwater Revival
11. In My Time Of Dying, Led Zeppelin
10. Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson
09. When the Music's Over, The Doors
08. Dogs, Pink Floyd
07. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Traffic
06. Child in Time, Deep Purple
05. Achilles Last Stand, Led Zeppelin
04. Echoes, Pink Floyd
03. 2112, Rush
02. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pink Floyd
01. The End, The Doors

Comments? Omissions? Unworthy entries? Additions?

I'm going to have to think about this.
 
I saw Pink Floyd do Echos much like they did at the Pompei venue -about the same time frame just before Dark Side was released
I dropped acid - lost track of my date and finally found my car and slept there till daylight..amazing
 
BTW.. If I remember correctly...

Stairway to Heaven was never a #1 song because it was what 8 minutes? So it seldom got played on the radio.. But over the years it maybe the most popular song, ever..
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.. Iron Butterfly..

The radio version was always cut down to 4-5 minutes.. Back in the day, radio didn't play any songs over 4 minutes

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Yeah, the business end of rock n roll. The 'ideal' song was 3:20. That way you could play three songs and have commercial breaks, news, etc. at ten after the hour. Longer songs cut into the commercial breaks.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
BTW.. If I remember correctly...

Stairway to Heaven was never a #1 song because it was what 8 minutes? So it seldom got played on the radio.. But over the years it maybe the most popular song, ever..
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It was never released as a single and that hurt it in the charts. But it did get airplay and it drove album sales. Led Zeppelin IV hit #2 in the U.S.
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.. Iron Butterfly..

The radio version was always cut down to 4-5 minutes.. Back in the day, radio didn't play any songs over 4 minutes

. Lol
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Overrated, but still iconic.
 
No Emerson, Lake and Palmer?
 
Any list that has Funkadelic on it can't be altogether meritless, but there's a lot of [redacted] on there I wouldn't give houseroom to. Maybe nowadays they're filed under electronica rather than rock but I would've thought Kraftwerk's Autobahn e.g. merited inclusion.

21st rock is probably more attention-challenged, all I can think of that I own are some Wolves in the Throne Room songs:

 
That's a respectable list.

I'd add "Beginnings" by Chicago, "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Marquee Moon" by Television and "Whipping Post" by the Allman Brothers.
 
I wouldnt put any of those songs in my top 250.
 
Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead.
 

My contribution is already on there at #19...Supper's Ready, by Genesis. It should be #1.

And I've been fortunate to see them do it in concert, more than once.
 
Several of the songs suggested are under ten minutes.
 


I'm Your Captain, a top 40 ditty bread from previous top 40 ditties? That's ahead of Telegraph Road? And NO Sultans of Swing?

NO EAGLES? At All. Hotel California is consider the consummate rock ballad and it's not even an afterthought?

And there was this band made kind of a smash. Maybe you never heard of them.....The Beatles!
 
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