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[[I Thought It Meant|No, relax,]] someone hasn't [[Renamed Tropes|renamed]] [[Autobots Rock Out]]. [[Biting the Hand Humor|Yet, anyway.]]

 

 

 

Done right they maintain the listener's attention, and sound really cool, sometimes [[Crowning Music of Awesome|downright awesome]]. Done poorly they just ramble, cause yawning, suffer chronic [[Ending Fatigue]] and fall squarely into [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] territory. Of course, it was this being done poorly that led to the awesome consequence that was the birth of Punk Rock in the 70s. Which songs are which is the source of endless [[Fan Wank|debate]]. [[Dave Barry]] advances the theory that a major purpose for these songs is that they give radio DJs time to go to the bathroom.

 

== Psychedelic Rock, Blues-Rock, early Heavy Metal ==

** "Dark Star" in particular gets expanded a lot in live performances. The version on the aftermentioned Dick's Picks Vol. 4 is over a half-hour long, and longer versions do exist (Such as the 41 Min. version performed at the Cleveland Convention Center).

* [[Jimi Hendrix]]: "Hear My Train A'Coming", "Voodoo Chile", "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)", "Machine Gun", "Country Blues", "Bold As Love".

* [[Black Sabbath]]: "The Warning", "War Pigs", "Hand of Doom", "Wheels of Confusion", "Heaven and Hell".

* [[Dire Straits]] have "Telegraph Road" (14 minutes), "Brothers in Arms" (Nearly 7 minutes) and "Tunnel Of Love" (8 minutes).

** What about "Money for Nothing" or "Love Over Gold"?

* [[The Doors]]: "The End", "Riders on the Storm", "Light My Fire" , "LA Woman", "Celebration of the Lizard", "When the Music's Over", "The Soft Parade".

* [[Queen]]: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Innuendo" "The Prophet's Song", "March of the Black Queen", "Father to Son", that 22-minute ambiance at the end of "Made in Heaven"

** Queen: full stop. Though the songs usually are epics with many changes of rhythm with less than 5 minutes!

** Also, you can't leave out live versions of "Wooden Ships", "The Other Side of This Life", and "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil"

* Quicksilver Messenger Service: "The Fool", "Mona" (a [[Bo Diddley]] cover), "Calvary", "The Hat".

* The Outlaws: "Green Grass and High Tides" (as recently made famous by ''[[Rock Band]]'').

* Rainbow: "Stargazer", "A Light in the Black"

** Special mention must be given to "Catch the Rainbow", which is a not-at-all-short six and a half minutes in the studio, and gets expanded into a fifteen minute epic live song, featuring Ritchie Blackmore and Cozy Powell trying to out-awesome each other while Ronnie James Dio screams his head off. Most of their live material is like this.

* Stevie Ray Vaughan: "Texas Flood", "Lenny", "Little Wing".

* UFO: "Rock Bottom", "Love to Love"

* Jethro Tull: ''Thick as a Brick'' and ''A Passion Play'' each had an entire album dedicated to the eponymous songs, and both ran for over forty minutes, filling a whole LP each.. Live versions of 'Thick as a Brick' run up to 90 minutes, leading to the band opening with an epic take on 'Thick as a Brick' and, an hour and a half later, Ian Anderson saying, "And now, for our second number..." While not full-album epic, 'Baker St. Muse' clocks in at 16 minutes, and they have a number of songs in the seven or eight minute range.

* Mountain. While classics like ''Mississippi Queen'' is up there, special mention has to be made to ''Nantucket Sleigh Ride''. The live version found on ''Twin Peaks'' is 31:42. So long it took up two sides on the LP.

* [[ACDC]] - While "For Those About To Rock" is on the shorter side at 5:44, it makes up for the brevity with several tempo changes, blistering interleaved guitars, and cannons. FIIIIIRE!

** On the ''AC/DC Live'' album, "High Voltage" and "Let There be Rock" also pitch in with respectable times of 10:33 and 12:17 respectively.

* [[Modest Mouse]]: "Spitting Venom", "Stars are Projectors", and "Trucker's Atlas" all clock in over 8 minutes long. Heck, their average song is close to 5 minutes long

 

 

* [[The Who]]: "A Quick One, While He's Away", "Underture", "We're Not Gonna Take It", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Who are You", "Eminence Front", "I've Known No War".

** "The Song is Over" deserves special mention. It's the one song that Pete Townshend has sworn he'll never play at concert, because it would simply be impossible for four people to play all the parts it requires.

** The Live At Leeds versions of My Generation and Magic Bus clock in at 15:47 and 7:48, despite being 3 minute songs originally.

** "Paradise City" from ''Appetite'' is a possible example, considering it gets faster and faster as it goes.

* [[X Japan]]: "Dahlia," "Silent Jealousy," "Forever Love," "I.V.", "The Last Song," "Tears", "Rose of Pain".

** Is that the [[Chessmaster]], or the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Cheesemaster?]]

* Mother Love Bone: "Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns"

* [[Pearl Jam]] - "Release", 9:30.

* [[Blue Öyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]]: "7 Screaming Diz-Busters", "Shooting Shark", "Black Blade", and "Astronomy" all top six and a half minutes. This isn't counting most of their live output, notably the face-melting live versions of "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" and "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" from the album ''Extraterrestrial Live.''

* [[Alice Cooper]]: Halo of Flies. According to [[Alice Cooper]] himself, the song was written to prove that the band can perform long progressive suites

* [[Foo Fighters]] has the 7-minute long "Come Back". (many of their songs have shifts and [[Stop and Go|false endings]], but are usually concise enough to not fit the trope)

* [[Bon Jovi]]'s "Dry County" clocks in at 9:52.

* [[Alter Bridge]] has "Blackbird" at 7:58.

 

== Prog-Rock ==

** Bull of Heaven has broken their own record, with "Blurred with Tears and Suffering Beyond Hope," (track 209) that is 4,723 hours long, or 6 months.

** Their newest song, "Like a Wall in which an Insect Lives and Gnaws" is 50,000 hours long. That's almost six fucking years.

*** 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.

* [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer|Emerson Lake and Palmer]]: "Karn Evil 9" and "Tarkus".

* [[King Crimson]]: "One More Red Nightmare", "21st Century Schizoid Man", "In the Court of the Crimson King", "Lark's Tongues In Aspic Pt.1 & Pt.2", "Pictures Of A City", "Epitaph", "Starless and Bible Black", "Fracture"

** Indeed, the entire "In the Court of the Crimson King" (1969) classic album should be considered epic rocking.

** Also, from their later albums: "The ConstruKction of Light" (2000) - the titular song and "Lark's Tongues In Aspic Pt.4" - and "Level Five", "EleKtriK" and "Dangerous Curves" from "The Power to Believe" (2003) qualify just as well as the earlier compositions.

** "Lark's Tongues In Aspic" is actually an ongoing rock epic, spanning nearly thirty years and featuring segments on the albums ''Lark's Tongues In Aspic'', ''Three of a Perfect Pair'', and ''The ConstruKction of Light''.

** [[Phil Collins]]-era Genesis has some, too, like "Domino" and "Home By The Sea"/[[Sequelitis|"Second Home By The Sea]]".

** The short-lived four-piece era (1976-78) has "Mad Man Moon", "One For The Vine", "Ripples" and "Inside And Out".

* Early [[Rush]]. Some of the more complex examples include "By-Tor and the Snow Dog", "The Necromancer", "The Fountain of Lamneth", "2112", the "Cygnus X-1" and "Hemispheres" duology, "La Villa Strangiato"... the list goes on. Indeed, certain tropers would nominate the entire Rush catalog.

** ''Animals'' has a lot of this, excluding the "Pigs on the Wing" [[Book Ends]]. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is more like a regular song that just happens to be 11 minutes long than true [[Epic Rocking]], but "Dogs" and "Sheep" certainly qualify.

** "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast", from ''Atom Heart Mother'' also counts.

** "Intertellar Overdrive" was just a part of their early live repertoire. Only the beginning and the ending were the same. The band would just jam until they got bored and then would bring it back with the bookend riff. This sort of playing is also evident in "Pow R Toc H" and "Nick's Boogie".

** More recent ones are "Sorrow" and "High Hopes" (from their two last albums).

* [[Porcupine Tree]]: "Anesthetize", "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here", "The Sky Moves Sideways", "Russia On Ice", "Radioactive Toy". Hell, any of the big songs by the Tree qualify for Epic Rocking.

** Voyage 34 is split into 4 parts, so technically doesn't count. The 40 minute unedited version of Moonloop, however...

* Magma has several songs that are at least 30 minutes long.

* [[The Mars Volta]]: "L'Via L'Viaquez"; in fact, the whole of ''Frances the Mute'' fits this trope.

** The Willing Well songs. IV (and ''more'' especially with the unbelievably long Neverender Night Three version), can seem like this, but is mitigated by the fact that it is actually ''two'' songs: the second (Bron-Y-Aur) is hidden in the first.

*** The Neverender version is an hour. There's even a twenty minute long drum solo where everyone but the drummer goes backstage! "Ladies and Gentlemen, Chris Pennie!" indeed...

** Their latest album, ''Death Magnetic'', is a return to form. Not one song on Death Magnetic is under 5 minutes, and only 1 is under 6 minutes ("My Apocalypse" - 5:01).

** ''Load'' also has a pair of long ones - "Bleeding Me" runs 8 minutes and "Outlaw Torn" just short of 10 minutes (and originally, available as the "Unencumbered by Manufacturing Restrictions Version" - see Epic Albums below - was close to 11 minutes).

** Showing the bad side of this trope, Kirk Hammett said that they spent a long time without playing "...And Justice For All" because "I couldn't stand watching the front row start to yawn by the eight or ninth minute."

* Many post-metal bands are like this. Rosetta has songs averaging at about 8 or 9 minutes, the longest being the final track off their debut album which is 16 minutes long. Mouth of the Architect's longest song is 15:38, and Neurosis' longest is a bit longer than that (15:58).

* [[Pantera]]: "Cemetery Gates", "This Love", "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks", "Suicide Note Pt. I & II", "Floods", "It Makes Them Disappear".

* [[Tool]]: "Lateralus", "Parabol/Parabola", and "Pushit" all clock in around 10 minutes or longer. The majority of their songs are no shorter than 4 minutes, and feature constantly changing time signatures, heavily symbolic lyrics, and some of the most epic (and technically challenging) drumming in metal/art rock/music history.

** Don't forget Disposition/Reflection/Triad. Concieved as one song, split into 3 tracks, much like Wings after it, it clocks in at around 23 minutes. And again, it WORKS.

** "Disgustipated" may be a counter-example, becuase it ends with 10 minutes of chirping crickets, followed by a answering machine message, apparently [[Epileptic Trees|by an assassin named "Bill The Landlord"]].

*** It was also on track '''69''', meaning that the CD player would skip the rest of the tracks at about 2 per second, making for a delay of about 30 seconds before the [[Mind Screw|"Song"]] begins. And only about 4 Min. of the song is truly [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Disgustipated]].

** Also, "Third Eye," "Eulogy" and the eponymous "Aenima."

* [[Faith No More]]: "The Real Thing", "Jizzlobber", "King for a Day".

* Fantômas, another [[Mike Patton]] band, has "Surgical Sound Specimens From The Museum Of Skin (Delirium Cordía)," which takes up an entire album on its own and clocks in at nearly an hour even if you don't count the 20 minutes of respirator noise at the end.

* [[Nightwish]]: "The Poet and the Pendulum," "Ghost Love Score," "Fantasmic," and "Beauty of the Beast" to name a few.

* [[Stratovarius]]: Several across all albums but the Song "Elysium" from the album of the same name really takes the cake clocking in at 18 minutes 6 seconds long.

* [[Iced Earth]]: "Dante's Inferno (16 minute tour of Dante's Hell)", "The Coming Curse", "Travel in Stygian", "When the Night Falls", all of the "Gettysburg" trilogy...

* How the friggn' hell did we miss Opeth? Every track they have that isn't an atmospheric bit or a transitional song is really, really long.

* [[Between the Buried and Me]] does it frequently (especially in their album, "Colors"), going from incredibly heavy to very soft to heavy again, somewhat similar to Opeth, but with more modern sound.

** Used to a great extent on most recent album "The Great Misdirect" three tracks clock in at over ten minutes long ("Disease, Injury Madness" is 11:03, "Fossil Genera - A Feed From Cloud Mountain" is 12:11 and the truly epic "Swim to the Moon" is 17:54).

* [[Mastodon]]: While fans of very technical songs in general, "Hearts Alive" alone qualifies at truly epic, clocking at 13:39

** "The Last Baron" is also over 13 minutes long.

* Black Metal bands do this a lot. The band Wolves in the Throne Room have only made eight songs, but the average length is 14-15 minutes long.

* Experimental black metal band Trist has a song called "hin", which clocks in at 59:55!

* Green Carnation's "Light of Day, Day of Darkness" clocks in at 60:06

** Good grief, no wonder the version featured on the ''[[Damnatus]]'' album was only an "excerpt"...

* [[Fan Nickname|Djent]] band Periphery chose to close their 73-minute debut album with a 15-minute epic titled "Racecar". LOTS of guitar solos, high singing and technical riffage.

* The Melvins have a few examples, the longest being the 22 minute title track to ''Pigs Of The Roman Empire'' (a collaboration with Lustmord). Although their self-titled album is indexed as one 31 minute track, it's actually several different songs, including covers of [[Alice Cooper]] and Flipper, so it may not count.

* Slough Feg's Ape Uprising clocks in at 10:02 and half of the track consists of guitar duels.

* [[Gamma Ray]] has Insurrection at 11:33 and Heading for Tomorrow at 14:32

* [[Venom (band)|Venom]]: "At War With Satan", which clocks at over 19 minutes. Also "Cursed" and "Destroyed & Damned".

* [[Avenged Sevenfold]], especially in ''City of Evil''. The shortest song is two seconds short of five minutes, and the two longest are 8:46 and 9:14. Their self-titled has "A Little Piece of Heaven" at eight minutes flat, and ''Nightmare'' has only two songs under five minutes with "Save Me" topping out at 10:56.

* [[Savatage]] toes the line in length. While their longest songs range from seven ("Alone You Breathe") to ten ("Morphine Child") minutes long, they are as complicated in change of pace and tone as other examples here.

* [[Scar Symmetry]] has "Holographic Universe", the title track from their third album, which runs to 9:05.

== Jazz ==

* [[Duke Ellington]]'s work, while not as long as that of some later jazz men, is notable for pushing the limit back when music was released on <ref>the most common 10-inch discs could hold about 3 and a half minutes of music per side; 12-inch discs could hold 4 or 5 minutes per side</ref>. His 1931 "Creole Rhapsody" took up both sides of a 10-inch record, and his 1935 "Reminiscing in Tempo" took up four 10-inch sides. It's telling that, once the long-playing record format was invented, Duke's very first LP consisted of four songs, ranging from 8 to 15 minutes in length.

** Then there's Epitaph, a piece clocking in at 127 minutes that was never performed in full before his death. It carries all the complexity of Mingus' normal work, but just at an insane length.

* A special achievement awarded to a certain Mr. [[Miles Davis]], who between 1968 and 1975, starting with ''Miles in the Sky'', dedicated himself to going too far with this. This culminated in the albums ''A Tribute to Jack Johnson'' (two tracks, both 25-28 minutes long), ''Big Fun'' (a double album with four songs between 21-28 minutes) and ''Get Up With It'' (another double album with two songs that broke 32 minutes).

* Herbie Hancock in his jazz-funk fusion era.

* The [[wikipedia:Free jazz|Free Jazz]] subgenre largely does away with fixed tempos, chord changes, harmonic structures in favor of simultaneous improvised soloing. It tends to be (but is not always) fast, loud, chaotic, and frenetic. The pieces also tend to be 20+ minutes long. It's an epic experience that one endures as much as enjoys. The epicness is especially apparent in any of the large-ensemble Free Jazz pieces along the lines of John Coltrane's ''Ascension'', Peter Brötzmann's ''Machinegun'', and Ornette Coleman's seminal ''Free Jazz: a Collective Improvisation''. Many of these kinds of pieces feature multiple drummers and walls of horns each blasting their own disparate riffs and solos.

* [[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.

 

 

* Sly & the Family Stone: "Sex Machine", "Africa Talks to You 'The Asphalt Jungle'", "Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa" (itself an Epic Remake of their own [[Shrek|"Thank U Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Again".]]

* Ohio Players: "Skin Tight".

 

 

** Almost the entire album of ''Tak...''. Notable examples include "Milano" at 10 minutes and "Glosoli" which, alas, is only 6 and a half, but it truly is an epic rocking.

* [[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]]: The only song shorter than ten minutes on any of their official album releases is "09-15-00 (Continued)", at 6:16. ''F♯A♯∞'' and ''Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven'' have tracks that run, on average, twenty minutes, with each divided into several movements.

== Jam Bands ==

* [[Phish]]

 

 

* "Shut Down" by The Germs (9:30), unusual in being a slow, dirge-like, proto-[[Music/Grunge|Grunge]] song rather than The Germs more usual fast and sloppy (yet vaguely arty) material.

* "(I Saw You) Shine" (8:30) and "Sex Bomb" (7:48), among others, by Flipper. They were unusually slow for a Punk band, but they still counted.

* "Kids of the Black Hole" by the Adolescents.

* "Glazed" and "Ghost Shark" by Rocket from the Crypt.

* Half of the songs on "The Monitor" by Titus Andronicus are over seven minutes long, but "The Battle Of Hampton Roads" takes the cake at 14 minutes.

* "Reoccuring Dreams" by Hüsker Dü.

* "Pay the Man" by [[The Offspring]].

* Any of the Zodiac singles by the Canadian experimental punk band Fucked Up. The longest one so far, "Year of the Pig", clocks in at 18 minutes, and the others are around 13 minutes long apiece.

* [[No Means No]] accomplish this several times: No Big Surprise on the Generic Shame album is longest at 11:19; then there are Real Love and Brother Rat/What Slayde Says on Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed at 9:57 and 9:07; and The World Wasn't Built in a Day on Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie at 9:34. All of their albums have a mix of Three Chords-style songs alongside the more expansive tracks (although it's impressive just how much they can fit in a three-chorder as well)

* The Prefects' "The Bristol Road Leads To Dachau" is over twelve minutes long.

 

== Various other rock & pop ==

** Also "All Around the World", which at 9:20 in length is the longest ever A-side on a UK number 1 single. It's likely to retain this record since the rules were changed. Most of the songs in that album (''Be Here Now'') are long as hell too.

** And the 22-minute-long "Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix" of "Falling Down", by Amorphous Androgynous (a side project of The Future Sound of London).

* [[Radiohead]]: "Paranoid Android".

** And even better, this six-minute epic was the first ''single'' from the album.

* [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]. If Billy Corgan can make a song longer, he will. His magnum example is the "Pastichio Medley" b-side, 73 different riffs and other odds and ends but together for 16 minutes of insanity. And seven minutes of the 73rd piece on a continuous loop.

* The Dears, a Montreal indie band. Particularly, on their 2004 album ''No Cities Left'', only three of eleven songs clock in at under five minutes, and even those have a grand orchestral sweep to them.

* The video version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWn0FjYSazU New Order's "Perfect Kiss"] is 9:28, even longer than the 12'' single version, which was 8:50. The original long version of "Blue Monday" is 7:23.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV3VYYag1oo Dead or Alive's "Turn Around and Count 2 Ten"], at 6:55. There's also an 8-minute version of "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)", which has [[Epic Instrumental Opener|a 3-minute instrumental intro]].

* The German band Norbert und die Feiglinge probably topped them all with what used to be known as the longest single ever—"Todesanzeigen". 79:19. You read it right, one hour, nineteen minutes, nineteen seconds. The song is neither remixed and reengineered from shorter material nor a jam session, it is composed and has lyrics all through (okay, it has dozens of verses). In fact, when someone made a mistake playing or mixing the song, they had to start over from the very beginning.

* [[Billy Idol]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdCXa2MB6M "Don't Need a Gun"] (6:16).

* [[New Wave|The Buggles']] "We Can Fly From Here" clocks in at over nine minutes if you take the two parts together, though they're separate on the CD.

* "So Many Men, So Little Time" by Miquel Brown (8:14)

* Don McLean's "American Pie" clocks in at over eight and a half minutes (LP version is 8:33; the two "parts" of the original single add up to 8:42).

* [[Of Montreal]]'s "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" is just shy of 12 minutes, while [[Either or Title|"The Hopeless Opus or The Great Battle of the Unfriendly Ridiculous"]] is over 17.

* "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)" by [[Everything Else]] clocks in at almost eight minutes. The song Everything Else is nearly eighteen.

* "Enough Is Enough" by Silkworm is an 8 minute, 14 second long multi-section crescendo.

* Anne Briggs' version of [[Tam Lin|"Young Tambling"]] is a bit over 10 minutes long. (And completely a cappella, to boot.)

* [[Bob Dylan]]'s song "Desolation Row" is about ten minutes, and is one of the few true folk songs on his album Highway 61 Revisited.

* Iron & Wine has a few, but "The Trapeze Swinger" is notable for being both over ten minutes long, and featuring no repeating chorus. Just verse after verse strung together to a lilting acoustic melody.

* [[Danielson]]'s "Deeper than the Gov't" is divided into three tracks on the CD, but they flow together as a single, 9-minute song. And "Joking at the Block" is raga-inspired piece that lasts for 12 minutes.

== Hip-Hop ==

* The Sugarhill Gang, setting the norm for rap with the 14 minute, 35 seconds ''Rapper's Delight''.

* 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 '''ONE HOUR AND 24 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.

 

 

** The two part piece "Kometenmelodie" from the same album.

** "Trans Europe Express/Metall auf Metall/Abzug" is a total of 14 minutes.

** Sometimes their studio albums employ [[Fading Into the Next Song]], and the band will then treat the entire song suite as a single epic song at live shows. For example, "Lush / Impact / Remind", and "Way Out / Spare Parts Express / Know Where to Run".

** Their EP ''The Box'' had 4 different alternate mixes of the title song. Later, for the second disc of the American release of ''In Sides'', all four of these tracks were strung together as a single 28-minute track.

 

== Soundtracks ==

** "Yakitori", also 7 minutes long, a jam rock track.

* The last battle theme of ''[[Atelier Iris 3]]'', "Schwarzweiβ (Kiri No Mukouni Tsunagaru Sekai)", features a lot of epic instrumental work. Points for Sakuraba-san (Game composer and also a prog artist) doing the Hammond and keyboard works.

* [[Frank Zappa]] doesn't quite fit squarely into any genre, but some of his songs clocked in at over 20 minutes, most notably the song "Billy The Mountain", a song about a mountain that tries to go on vacation with his wife, a tree named Ethel, but his large size leaves a path of destruction in his wake. He also wrote complex jazz pieces like "Willie the Pimp" or "Son of Mr. Green Genes".

* [[Havalina Rail Co.]], whose style can best be described as "eclectic", have a few. "New Song" is 7 minutes of accordion swing-pop; "Bullfrog" is a 7-minute hybrid of bluegrass and jam-rock; "Let's Not Forget Hawaii" is a 6-minute Hawaiian steel guitar ballad; "Rivers of Russia" is a 7-minute violin-piano duet; the live-in-the-studio version of "You Got Me Cry'n" takes what would otherwise be a pop song and drops 4 minutes of organ and guitar solos into the bridge, stretching the whole thing to 8 minutes long; and the 6-minute "Space, Love, and Bullfighting Suite" veers between theremin noodling, Wurlitzer jamming, mariachi violin, and acoustic guitar accompanied by bird calls.

** You may also include "Negative Energy" from Jim Thirwell's You've Got Foetus On Your Breath era, clocking at 15:55, although the last 12 or so minutes are just sustained feedback.

* A lot of songs by [[Vernian Process]], especially those outside of the LP ''Behold the Machine''. From that album however, there is the nearly fourteen minute instrumental "The Maiden Flight".

* ''Lateralus'' by [[Tool]]. The songs are plenty long (more than half are 6 minutes or longer), but the real whopper is the album itself, at 78 minutes and 58 seconds.

** "The manufacturer would only guarantee us up to 79 minutes... We thought we'd give them two seconds of breathing room." - Danny Carey

** It's one song that's over an hour.

** Similarly, ''The Great Barrier Reefer'' by Bongripper. One song, clocking in at 1:19:23.

* ''Light of Day, Day of Darkness'' by Green Carnation

* ''[[American Idiot]]'' by [[Green Day]]. ''[[21st Century Breakdown|Twenty First Century Breakdown]]'' even more.

* The suite on side two of ''Abbey Road'' by [[The Beatles]], if taken as one song.

* [[Sufjan Stevens]]. Nearly all of his albums are at least an hour long. ''Songs for Christmas, Vol V'' clocked in at a mere 11 tracks and 35 minutes; most would consider this a full album, but he marketed it as an EP.

* [[Sound Horizon]]'s ''Moira'' is just two minutes shy of a full hour and a half. While this is impressive in of itself, Revo's commented that the album is more or less ''a single song'' that was broken up into sections for practical reasons.

* [[Moonsorrow]]'s ''Viides Luku - Hävitetty'' lasts 56 minutes and 29 seconds. Okay, that's short for an album (it's officially an EP), but the shortest track lasts over 26 minutes.

* The Downward Spiral and The Fragile by [[Nine Inch Nails]]. Especially the latter, which is a double album.

 

 

== Parodies ==

** "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.

* 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)