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[[File:EpicRockingOctavarium.jpg|link=Dream Theater|frame|[https://web.archive.org/web/20131019115856/http://www.cracked.com/funny-2359-progressive-rock/ This] isn't even the longest track in their library.]]
{{quote|''CAUTION: "Three Minute Warning" is not for the musically faint-hearted, impatient, or critics of extreme self-indulgence. If you fall into any of the above categories, please hit the stop button on your CD player after track # 8''|The back of '''[[Liquid Tension Experiment]]'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s first CD.}}
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=== Electronic / Industrial ===
* "The Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space", by [http://www.bullofheaven.com/ Bull of Heaven], is more than ''two months long''. They also have other works that are multiple weeks long.
** "Blurred with Tears and Suffering Beyond Hope" (track 209) is 4,723 hours long, or
** "Like a Wall in which an Insect Lives and Gnaws" is 50,000 hours long. That's almost six fucking years.
** These guys
** That's nothing. The top song on their website is listed at... *deep breath* ''8,462,937,602,125,701,219,674,955 years long.'' That's longer than the universe has existed, by the way.
** One of their
*** Compressed into an 85 kb archive. In other words, the mother of all zip bombs. The files in the archive are all identical, so its just the same piece repeated a gazillion times over.
*** Like Mel's ''Olitsky'' mentioned below, those tracks consist of several tape loops of different lengths, so the length of the song is the LCM of the loops.
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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzZ4K0NjSI Lenny B. remix] of Jessica Simpson's "Where You Are" is nearly 11 minutes, which is lengthy even by dance/club standards. However, [[Ending Fatigue|the second half is mainly repetitions of the coda]].
* [[Joy Electric]] typically stuck with short and sweet synthpop tracks. However, ''The White Songbook'' saw Ronnie incorporate some prog-rock influences in his songwriting and featured several tracks ("Shepherds of the Northern Pasture", "Unicornicopia", "Sing Once for Me", "The Heritage Bough", "The Songbook Tells All") just over 6 minutes long. Then his ''Tick Tock Companion'' EP—an experiment in free-form jamming—consisted of four tracks, each between 12 and 19 minutes long.
* [[Nine Inch Nails]] have a few that pass six minutes in length, most notably:
** "Closer" (6:12), and "Reptile" (6:54) off ''The Downward Spiral''
** "We're In This Together" (7:16) off ''[[The Fragile]]'' and "Zero Sum" (6:14) off ''[[Concept Album|Year Zero]]''
** Some shorter songs become longer live, such as the version of "The Day the Whole World Went Away" (6:30 live vs. 4:32 studio) on ''And All That Could Have Been''.
** "The Background World" (11:44), from ''Add Violence''.
** "I'm Not From This World" (6:42) and "Over and Out" (7:50), from ''Bad Witch''.
** All of the tracks from ''Ghosts V: Together'', except "Out in the Open" and "Your Touch", last for more than 7 minutes, with "Apart" being the longest at 13:35.
** "The Cursed Clock" (7:00), "Around Every Corner" (10:52), "The Worriment Waltz" (9:25), "Just Breathe" (7:00) and "Turn This Off Please" (13:08), from ''Ghosts VI: Locusts''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycAC_6Bbto Delerium & Sarah MacLachlan - Silence (DJ Tiesto remix)] is 11:34. Epic trance indeed.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O84WZkbFaLc "45:33"] by LCD Soundsystem, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. The video linked shows someone making an ''[[Audiosurf]]'' run through the whole thing.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4NsNhRRUp8 "Operating Manual"] by Galleon.
* [https://soundcloud.com/postapocolyptica/fin "Fin."] (12:39) by [[Chiptune]] artist PostApocolyptica.
* "A 479" (23:04) and "A 477" (15:52) by ambient artist Kara-Lis Coverdale, from ''A 480''.
** "Disney" (8:15) and "Informant" (7:06), from ''Sirens'', with LXV.
** The digital version of ''Grafts'' is a one-track EP, lasting 22 minutes.
* Every track on ''Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)'' by Marconi Union, except "Weightless Part 6", lasts from seven to eight minutes.
=== Folk ===
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=== Hip-Hop ===
* The Sugarhill Gang, setting the norm for rap with the 14 minute, 35 seconds ''Rapper's Delight''.
* [[DJ Shadow]]: "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" (6:40), "Changeling" (7:51), "Stem/Long Stem" (9:21), "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" (9:23), "In/Flux" (9:21), "What Does Your Soul Look Like
** "Blood on the Motorway" (9:12), from ''The Private Press''.
* [[R. Kelly]]'s bizarre, overblown, [[So Bad It's Good|hilarious]] "[[Trapped in the Closet]]" saga.
** It currently has about 22 parts and a total running time of '''
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCUiG9aZSh8 Demain, c'est loin]'', by French group IAM has epic ''rapping'', clocking at about 9 minutes of continuous rhyming one after another. (Then again they ''are'' five people.)▼
* This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmVyFnd9rSw unofficial megamix] of "Who Run It" by [[Three 6 Mafia]] lasts for ''53 minutes.''
** Rapper Akhenaton, of IAM fame, closed his album "Soldats de Fortune" with "La Fin De Leur Monde", a ten-minute (and very eloquent) rant against world politics carried by Akhenaton and fellow member of IAM, Shurik'n.▼
▲* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCUiG9aZSh8 Demain, c'est loin]'', by French group IAM, has epic ''rapping'', clocking at about 9 minutes of continuous rhyming one after another. (Then again they ''are'' five people.)
▲** Rapper Akhenaton, of IAM fame, closed his album
* "Liberation" by [[OutKast]] is an 8-minute, piano-driven, semi-spiritual piece featuring Cee-Lo, Erykah Badu, and spoken word artist Big Rube.
* "Last Call" (12:41), "We Major" (7:28), "Runaway" (9:07), "Blame Game" (7:49) and "Illest Motherfucker Alive" (8:23) by [[Kanye West]]
* "Beat Boy" (8:20) by [[Die Antwoord]].
* "Oldie" (10:36) by [[Odd Future]].
* "Bad Guy" (7:14) by [[Eminem]].
* "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" (12:03) "Real" (7:23), "untitled 07 | 2014 - 2016" (8:16) and "FEAR." (7:40) by [[Kendrick Lamar]].
* "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)" (22:30) by [[Death Grips]]▼
* From ''Rodeo'' by Travis Scott, "3500" (7:41), featuring Future and 2 Chainz, and "Ok Alright" (6:57), featuring ScHoolboy Q.
* "Ninety" (7:48) and "Lost Boy" (9:29) by [[Jaden Smith]]▼
▲* "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)" (22:30) by [[Death Grips]].
* "Uneven Compromise" (10:58) by Lil Ugly Mane▼
▲* "Ninety" (7:48) and "Lost Boy" (9:29) by [[Jaden Smith]].
▲* "Uneven Compromise" (10:58) by Lil Ugly Mane.
* Every track by [https://impossiblenothing.bandcamp.com/ Impossible Nothing], starting with ''Phonemenomicon'', lasts 10 minutes long. There are 26 songs on each album, so prepare for [[Archive Panic]].
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* [[Pat Metheny]]'s "The Way Up (68:10)" is exactly that. Technically, it's divided on the album into four sections, but it's really just one really, really long track. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|And one hour, eight minutes, and ten seconds long]].
* [[Jaga Jazzist]]'s longest track is the 28-minute-long "Out of Reach (or Switched Off)"—although 22 minutes of it is taken up by a vocal skit in Norwegian. Their longest proper song is "Toccata", at 9 minutes.
* Every song on ''Face the Music'' by George Duke, except "Chillin'", "Ain't It Funky Now", "Close to You" and "Creepin'", last for more than seven minutes. "Ten Mile Jog" is the longest song on the album, at 11:27.
=== Metal ===
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* "Cause I Love You" (7:11) by Lenny Williams.
* "Pyramids" (9:52) by [[Frank Ocean]].
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** "Sex Me (Part I) / Sex Me (Part II)" (11:27), from ''12 Play''.
** "Step in the Name of Love (Remix)" (7:12) and "Showdown" (7:54), from ''Chocolate Factory''.
** "Happy People" (7:49) and "Three-Way Phone Call" (7:03), featuring Kelly Price, Kim Burrell and Maurice Mahon, from ''Happy People / U Saved Me''.
=== Rock ===
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** That game had more incredibly long songs. The ending theme uses bits from nearly every leitmotif or theme in the game, and lasts an incredible 21 minutes. This is topped (in Final Fantasy games) only by the orchestral performance of "The Dream Oath" - a 23 minute long mini-opera. Which actually has lyrics, although technical limitations kept them off the game proper. No other song in the series even comes close - the next, the ending theme to VIII, is a "mere" 13 minutes.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5ExwsXUiQ "The Kraken".]
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' brings us "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130922091336/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/cascade Cascade]", the thirteen-minute-long [[Genre Busting]] soundtrack to the climatic [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006009 End of Act 5] for which it is named. While technically a patchwork of four different songs, they were specifically written/rewritten and meshed together to flow as one consistent piece for this purpose.
* The Delta Halo Suite on ''[[Halo 2]]'''s OST is the longest piece in the series, at over 11 minutes.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjLkGGGGZo Oblivion's Theme] from ''[[Turok]] 2'' runs for over 15 minutes before its main loop completes; it actually is composed of several loops of different lengths, according to one Youtube user's calculations, the LCM of the loops is over ''208,398 years''. ''Turok 3'' also has a 19-minute song.
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* Canadian singer/songwriter [[Matthew Good]] tends to have one of these per album since he went solo. ''Avalanche'' has two, "Avalanche" and "Near Fantastica", ''White Light Rock and Roll Review'' has "Blue Skies Over Bad Lands",<ref>And "Ex-Pats of the Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra", but only because of a hidden song</ref> ''Hospital Music'' has the opening track "Champions of Nothing", ''Vancouver'' has "The Vancouver National Anthem" and "Empty's Theme Park", and ''Lights of Endangered Species'' has "Non Populus".
* [[Sisters of Mercy]]'s "This Corrosion" and "Temple of Love", at the very least.
* "Mary on the Mend" by Cherry Ghost is almost eight minutes long.
* "Stay Home" (8:10), "Silhouettes" (7:22) and "Doom in Full Bloom" (7:49) by American Football.
* "Here Comes the Night" (10:57) by [[The Beach Boys]], from ''L.A. (Light Album)''.
** "God Only Knows (Highlights From Tracking Date)" (9:25), from ''The Pet Sounds Sessions''.
** "Heroes and Villains Sections (Stereo Mix)" (7:16), "Smile Backing Vocals Montage" (8:30), "My Only Sunshine (11/14/66)" (6:52), "The Elements: Fire Session (11/28/66)" (8:27) and "Good Vibrations Session Highlights" (8:20), from ''The Smile Sessions''.
** "Fun, Fun, Fun (Session Highlights)" (7:39), from ''Keep an Eye on Summer - The Beach Boys Sessions 1964''.
** "Good Vibrations (Rehearsal / Live in Hawaii 8/25/67)" (8:27), from ''1967 - Live Sunshine''. Three other tracks, "The Letter" (8:38), "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring" (8:18), "The Lord's Prayer" (7:58), are rehearsals from the next day.
** "Been Way Too Long (Sections)" (7:56), from ''I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions''.
== Defies category ==
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* Parodied by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]], repeatedly: "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", "Genius in France", "Nature Trail to Hell", "Albuquerque", "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", "Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me", "You Don't Love Me Anymore".
** "You Don't Love Me Anymore" isn't a true example; the song is only 4 minutes long. It just looks longer on a CD thanks to the 10 minute filler for the [[Easter Egg|bonus track]] "Bite me", which is just [[Last-Note Nightmare|a cacophony of screaming and instrument bashing]] designed to scare anyone who accidentally left their CD player on after the song ended.
* The [[Jello Biafra]]/[[Ministry]] side project Lard have "70's Rock Must Die", which lyrically is a rant against 70's nostalgia, and musically is 7 minutes of parodying 70's hard rock tropes (gratuitous cowbell, endless guitar soloing, a power ballad style bridge, vocal histrionics, and of course an [[Overly Long Gag]] of an ending). They also have debatable straight examples with the 15 minute "I Am Your Clock" and the 32 minute "Time To Melt" (debatable in that neither really go through a lot of changes, they're just deliberately punishingly slow)
* Parodied in a season one episode of ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'', when Bret writes a love song for his girlfriend, Coco, and asks Jemaine to critique it. When he sings it for Jemaine, the camera keeps cutting to moments that clearly happened several minutes later as Jemaine moved around the apartment until a final cut when Bret finished singing. Jemaine's first complaint is the two hour length of the song. Parodied again in a season two episode when the duo is commissioned to write a jingle for a 30 second toothpaste commercial, but wind up turning in an eighteen minute ballad.
* Parodied
* ''[[Wondermark]]'' [http://wondermark.com/c1323/ #1323]: "[[In Which a Trope Is Described|In which]] is begun an Epic".
{{quote|'''Woman''': I thought you said this song was about a ''submarine battle''.
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