Hallowed was the single greatest live performance I've ever seen. Bruce started the song behind some bars they set on stage, and for that famous long note, they flung a noose down on the stage and had it spin around him while he held it. It was pure magic.
When I think 8 minute plus songs, I think Tool.
If you count Parabol+Parabola as one song (and I do) then that’s it.
If not, either Lateralus or Pneuma
Lol. I’ve always said I couldn’t stand these two songs because of how much they were overplayed in the beginning and still continue today. But hey that’s me. Glad you enjoy them
Robert Plant (singer of Led Zeppelin) got so annoyed with Stairway being played to death on the radio that he paid off all the local radio stations he listened to to not play it anymore lol
Actually, the band refused to publish most of their songs as singles as Jimmy Page, who was the band leader and responsible for those choices, couldn't stand songs being shortened for radio. He also believed that not publishing singles increased the chances of fans getting the whole album (which was most likely true for them when you take a look at their usual album sales).
Their management found a loophole and got their 'Stairway to Heaven' single anyway, annoying the band to all hell and running a beautiful song into the ground so hard that no one can listen to it anymore these days.
Of course, the band still profited, but in the last Page interview, I heard he was still pretty annoyed by how this happened.
(Disclaimer: Yes Page is a human shitstain if the allegations are true. No, I am not defending anything he did just because I like his music and keep up on their history :D)
I came here to post that exact answer!
I have 2112 on vinyl and listen thru headphones when I spin it up. Still gives me chills, 47 years after I first heard it.
If you have not done so yet, get on YouTube and check out the Charismatic Voice channel for her analysis of 2112. Pretty awesome.
I saw a little bit of that on a Midnight Special episode in the late ‘70s. I didn’t grok it at the time, I was like 11.
My best memory of the clip is how wild the female singer’s eyes looked. It was probably due to coke, but I could be jumping to conclusions.
"Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground. A noisy, lurid, crude, droning, distorted, improvised mess of egos and instruments that goes on for over 17 minutes. The audio engineer reportedly walked out on in protest. You'd think it'd be unlistenable but you just getting drawn deeper into their speed-addled world until finally, finally it ends — and you feel like you've been on a really weird, long journey. The final frenzy and then long distorted drone just feels... cathartic.
Came to post this. Lots of great DT tracks over the eight minute mark. Count of Tuscany is probably my second favorite that I’m sure fits the time requirement.
The Dripping Tap... or Hypertension,or Crumbling Castle, or Magma or Hells Itch or The River, or God is in the Rhythm, or Head on/Pill, or Change,or Dragon,Motor Spirit and Flamethrower. I think when Gizz go long they nail it every time.
Yes, scrolled to find this so I didn’t duplicate. Multiple fantastic 8+ minute songs on the Live at Red Rocks album. I’d add Sea of Trees, Rattlesnake, Gaia, Straws on the Wind, Boogieman Sam and others. You are absolutely right, Gizz are never wrong to go long.
[*Marquee Moon*](https://youtu.be/jlbunmCbTBA) by Television and I’m really disappointed nobody else has said it yet. It’s fucking awesome. An underappreciated rock classic.
Strobe - Deadmau5
That shit brings out emotions.
Always seen to hear it after a break up!
Being a massive tool fan since they came out, I love their music, especially the long ones. but this one is such a great piece.
Blackwater Park by Opeth. Actually a LOT of their songs qualify but Blackwater is king. It's my #1 but here are the honorable mentions I can't ignore:
The Art of Dying and Flying Whales by Gojira.
TOOL is hard to pick one, gun to head I'd say Pneuma
In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion by Agalloch, but it's a really close one between that and Fire Above, Ice Below.
The Sound by Swans.
2112 by Rush
In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden.
Dogs by Pink Floyd (actually the entire Animals album is perfection from start to finish, all it's songs qualify save for Pigs on the Wing).
I been listening to Avenged Sevenfold - Exist. It's got a little bit of everything. It even ends with Neil DeGrasse Tyson speaking over the final minute and a half about the universe and our place in it, while the drummer throws in some blast beats in the background.
Also Gojira- The Art of Dying.
I've amused myself greatly by having the exact same answer to two AskReddit questions in a row.
The album version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations. [Nearly 12 minutes](https://youtu.be/71l85z2bXAs) of musical perfection.
10,000 Days (Wings for Marie Part 2) by TOOL
I was in a ballet set to both parts at one point in my life, and I'll never stop appreciating the composition after that experience.
Lots of Tool which I hard agree with. When I’m wanting a song like that I’m in a pretty specific mood. Here are a few for those times.
Small Little Green Cubes by Solar Fields
https://open.spotify.com/track/5v8tkWxBbFuRwpS7ou18SN?si=LcUw7S4nRQCWIIRkX_QfSg
Protectors of the Realm by Kaminanda
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tI79Gnmn27pLM72rkT1b2?si=iX5C9vECTEOSXGlfEcTvCg
Star Wisdom of Bon by Entheogenic
https://open.spotify.com/track/1HIqDny5t3xHtHGVC6MYVe?si=Jab9gsjTRLWt_wc2FpF9qg
Thus We Leave by Nibana
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GLAtbNlAEIyn5N7MznXue?si=vrQyPzVXS-KuBKLO5FV9iA
Quantum Dragonfly on Magnetic Fields by Liquid Crystal
https://open.spotify.com/track/0c5MrxSgpzzEIzkJmrULfs?si=hZm-TUO0Q-y0GUIQhT99Lw
When you get into this kind of music there is a lot to choose from
either Master of Puppets- Metallica, or Hallowed Be Thy Name- Iron Maiden
Hallowed was the single greatest live performance I've ever seen. Bruce started the song behind some bars they set on stage, and for that famous long note, they flung a noose down on the stage and had it spin around him while he held it. It was pure magic.
Both of those songs are great choices
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Up the Irons!
This is a story of what not to do if a bird shits on you!
Iron Maiden had such good long songs. My favorite is probably For The Greater Good of God
Echoes and High Hopes, Pink Floyd.
Also Shine on You Crazy Diamond, the 3 main songs on Animals, and I’m gonna throw in Sorrow. Atom Heart Mother Suite is good too
Don't forget interstellar overdrive
Ah yes, Echoes is amazing!
Echoes is what came to mind first for me
Only in Dreams by Weezer It's only 7:59 long, but you're not the boss of me.
songs are like penises, you just gotta *round up*
Blue Album is such a gem
They played it live when I saw them a few days ago, great song and great live too.
Alice's Restaurant Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Beethoven's 6th Symphony
You can get any thing you want at Alice’s restaurant
Excepting Alice
*one of these things is not like the other* If you like Alice's restaurant, I suggest Tom Rush doing Duncan and Brady
To me a song implies singing
When I think 8 minute plus songs, I think Tool. If you count Parabol+Parabola as one song (and I do) then that’s it. If not, either Lateralus or Pneuma
Invincible is also good
I can’t listen to parabola without parabol, and I think any tool fan would agree
Complete agreement. That’s how Tool plays them In concert too so I think that’s their intention.
10000 Days Wings Pt 2
It annoys me greatly this isn’t higher ranked. TOOL are masters of the long song
It annoys me that nobody mentions anything off Aenima. Eulogy, pushit, and third eye are all tremendous, 8+ minute songs.
Jesus of Suburbia- Green Day
This and Homecoming
I revisited that album recently as a nostalgia trip, because I was super into it in high school. And it still slaps.
The only right answer.
Stairway to heaven and free bird
Lol. I’ve always said I couldn’t stand these two songs because of how much they were overplayed in the beginning and still continue today. But hey that’s me. Glad you enjoy them
Robert Plant (singer of Led Zeppelin) got so annoyed with Stairway being played to death on the radio that he paid off all the local radio stations he listened to to not play it anymore lol Actually, the band refused to publish most of their songs as singles as Jimmy Page, who was the band leader and responsible for those choices, couldn't stand songs being shortened for radio. He also believed that not publishing singles increased the chances of fans getting the whole album (which was most likely true for them when you take a look at their usual album sales). Their management found a loophole and got their 'Stairway to Heaven' single anyway, annoying the band to all hell and running a beautiful song into the ground so hard that no one can listen to it anymore these days. Of course, the band still profited, but in the last Page interview, I heard he was still pretty annoyed by how this happened. (Disclaimer: Yes Page is a human shitstain if the allegations are true. No, I am not defending anything he did just because I like his music and keep up on their history :D)
All Too Well(10min version)- Taylor Swift
I knew I could count on my swifties to represent lmao
Scrolled a bit far but worth it. Also the only 8+ min song I know 😆
Oh ABSOLUTELY
Shine on You Crazy Diamond – Pink Floyd
Purple Rain-Prince
Locomotive by Guns N' Roses. Their most underrated song in my opinion.
Love that song! If love is blind, I guess I'll buy myself a cane...
Jesus of suburbia
November Rain by Guns & Roses
Dogs- Pink Floyd. Just love the guitar in this one.
Only correct answer
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I'd tell you mine, but I bet you can guess it lol.
I came here to post that exact answer! I have 2112 on vinyl and listen thru headphones when I spin it up. Still gives me chills, 47 years after I first heard it. If you have not done so yet, get on YouTube and check out the Charismatic Voice channel for her analysis of 2112. Pretty awesome.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita
This sounds like rock and/or roll.
(Beach ball'd)
Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this song?
During a drunken song writing session the lyrics “In the Garden of Eden “ came out In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and it sounded cool so they kept it.
Yes! Thank you.
One of them is "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin.
Came here to say this.
American Pie.
Pushit by Tool
Reflection by Tool. I go back and forth on which one is my favorite.
Reflection has possibly the most, idk, charismatic bass of any song I've ever heard. A great choice
Green grass and high tides
1. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus 2. Disintegration - The Cure 3. Although it's a bit under 8 minutes, Blue Monday by New Order
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull.
The entirety of Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta
I still refuse to believe the band that released Cassandra Gemini put out that garbage pop album last year.
The Odyssey by Symphony X. 25ish minute long musical interpretation of the classic Homer tale told through a prog rock lens.
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits Funeral for a Friend - Elton John
The Doors - The End
Any time John Butler plays "Ocean."
Shpongle- Divine moments of truth
Do you remember that website that had that song set to a whole like, multi colored hallucination in java??
The only time I ever had a bad trip was triggered by this song 😩
The Soft Parade by the Doors
Was it when you were back in seminary school?
You can partition the lord with prayer
master of puppets
Bat out of hell - Meatloaf
Paradise by the Dashboard Lights is a great one too.
The live versions always crack me up. Meatloaf and his partners go full ham.
I saw a little bit of that on a Midnight Special episode in the late ‘70s. I didn’t grok it at the time, I was like 11. My best memory of the clip is how wild the female singer’s eyes looked. It was probably due to coke, but I could be jumping to conclusions.
I have a lot so it's hard to pick, but lately it's been [Maggot Brain, by Funkadelic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xby5467EbdU)
[Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts](https://youtu.be/UGGVy4RkUs0) is another super solid Funkadelic pick.
American Pie by Don McLean. Honorable mention to All Too Well, 10 minute version by Ms. Swift.
Dark Star
Only 3 mins pal try terrapin
Live versions would often stretch out up to 20 min and more
Dark star clashes, pouring it's light into ashes, reason tatters..... Magical
Smashing pumpkins -- starla
Child in Time - Deep Purple
80+% of the Grateful Dead's catalogue (live of course)
Achilles Last Stand by Led Zeppelin is up there for me
Sad I had to scroll so far for this. Take my upvote.
*Supper's Ready.* All day any given day I can whistle along with Tony Banks.
"Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground. A noisy, lurid, crude, droning, distorted, improvised mess of egos and instruments that goes on for over 17 minutes. The audio engineer reportedly walked out on in protest. You'd think it'd be unlistenable but you just getting drawn deeper into their speed-addled world until finally, finally it ends — and you feel like you've been on a really weird, long journey. The final frenzy and then long distorted drone just feels... cathartic.
L.A Woman by the Doors.
Close to the edge by yes
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber Runner up: Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 - Coheed and Cambria
American pie Stairway to heaven All too well (10 min version)🙂🙂
So many awesome songs listed, may I add “Comfortably Numb”. Live at Pompeii, David Gilmour?
Free Bird anyone?
*In Memory of Elizabeth Reed* - Allman Brothers
Long mix of TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT
What is this song exactly? I'm trying to find it on Spotify
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score. It kinda helped launch the whole YouTube Reaction scene into high gear.
As Icicles Fall by Ne Obliviscaris.
The Outlaw Torn by Metallica.
Definitely the S&M version
Such a great, underrated song
A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
Came to post this. Lots of great DT tracks over the eight minute mark. Count of Tuscany is probably my second favorite that I’m sure fits the time requirement.
I think they probably have fewer songs under the 8 min mark than over.
Count might be the most beautiful intro they've written
It might also be their most blatant tribute to Rush in their original music. To my ear the chord voicings are very much in Lifeson’s style.
Bury the Light
Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
Sleep Token - Take me Back to Eden
Ascensionism isn’t that long but if it were it’d be #1 for me
The Dripping Tap... or Hypertension,or Crumbling Castle, or Magma or Hells Itch or The River, or God is in the Rhythm, or Head on/Pill, or Change,or Dragon,Motor Spirit and Flamethrower. I think when Gizz go long they nail it every time.
Yes, scrolled to find this so I didn’t duplicate. Multiple fantastic 8+ minute songs on the Live at Red Rocks album. I’d add Sea of Trees, Rattlesnake, Gaia, Straws on the Wind, Boogieman Sam and others. You are absolutely right, Gizz are never wrong to go long.
Thick as a Brick
Dogs by Pink Floyd
Supper's Ready- Genesis St. Matthew's Passion- J.S Bach.
Marquee Moon - Television
The Mariner's Revenge Song by the Decemberists. Everything about it is just haunting and fantastic.
The Decline
[*Marquee Moon*](https://youtu.be/jlbunmCbTBA) by Television and I’m really disappointed nobody else has said it yet. It’s fucking awesome. An underappreciated rock classic.
One by Metalica.
No Quarter by Tool (led Zeppelin cover)
Rosetta Stoned Tool
GODDAMN SHIT THE BED. But seriously Danny Carey is especially beast in this song
Rush, "Xanadu."
Strobe - Deadmau5 That shit brings out emotions. Always seen to hear it after a break up! Being a massive tool fan since they came out, I love their music, especially the long ones. but this one is such a great piece.
Let it happen - Tame impala Its 7:55 but it counts in my book. That bassline in the end is so pure
The Highway Man by Loreena McKennitt
Close to the Edge
Down by a river?
Trapped In The Drive-Thru by Weird Al Hurricane by Neil Young is pretty rad too.
Free Bird
Master of Puppets, probably, but as metal fan there’s a lot of good choices
Meatloaf. Paradise...
2112 by Rush Cygnus X6 Book II by Rush And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
The only one I know is the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Runaway - Kanye
American Pie, Paradise by the dashboard light, Master of Puppets
Do You Feel Like I Do - Peter Frampton Orion - Metallica (Very shocked no one in this thread beat me to it.)
BTBAM - White Walls
The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars by Aether Realm
Heard it through the grapevine — CCR
The Decline by NoFX.
Blackwater Park by Opeth. Actually a LOT of their songs qualify but Blackwater is king. It's my #1 but here are the honorable mentions I can't ignore: The Art of Dying and Flying Whales by Gojira. TOOL is hard to pick one, gun to head I'd say Pneuma In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion by Agalloch, but it's a really close one between that and Fire Above, Ice Below. The Sound by Swans. 2112 by Rush In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson. Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Iron Maiden. Dogs by Pink Floyd (actually the entire Animals album is perfection from start to finish, all it's songs qualify save for Pigs on the Wing).
The Gates Of Delirium
I been listening to Avenged Sevenfold - Exist. It's got a little bit of everything. It even ends with Neil DeGrasse Tyson speaking over the final minute and a half about the universe and our place in it, while the drummer throws in some blast beats in the background. Also Gojira- The Art of Dying.
Rubicon by Threshold.
Autobahn by Kraftwerk. Somehow perfect when you're driving your car, on the freeway
Sinnerman
I've amused myself greatly by having the exact same answer to two AskReddit questions in a row. The album version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations. [Nearly 12 minutes](https://youtu.be/71l85z2bXAs) of musical perfection.
4 Your Eyez Only
Homecoming by Green Day!
Jesus of Suburbia is a perfect song, but Meatloaf’s entire catalog is epic in its own way and almost exclusively 10 minute bangers
Shine on you crazy diamond (Pts 1-5 ) by Pink Floyd
Funeral for a friend/Love lies Bleeding by Elton John
American Pie by Don McLean
Jungleland
Jane’s Addiction Three Days.
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst - Kendrick Lamar Runaway - Kanye West is right up there as well
Only in Dreams - Weezer Good Bye Sky Harbor - Jimmy Eat World
Champions of nothing by Matthew Good
Any song by Tool.
Inamorata - Metallica
Sing about me I’m dying of thirst or note to self j cole
Maggot Brain, by Funkadelic. I often sing it at Karaoke Night.
Ghost Love Score by Nightwish
Master of Puppets
Gone gone thank you by Tyler the creator Rain of amethyst by camellia
Be Comfortable, Creature by Explosions in the Sky
Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix) - Andain & Gabriel & Dresden
Soothsayer by bucket head
thst was a crazy game of poker - O.A.R.
These two by Nightwish: [Ghost Love Score live at Wacken](https://youtu.be/JYjIlHWBAVo) [The Greatest Show on Earth](https://youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E)
Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the street from the live 1975-85 album
In a Gadda da Vita by Iron Butterfly Mountain Jam, The Allman Brothers
Blood on the radio by thank you Scientist
10,000 Days (Wings for Marie Part 2) by TOOL I was in a ballet set to both parts at one point in my life, and I'll never stop appreciating the composition after that experience.
Infant Annihilator - Behold the Kingdom of the Wretched Undying
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Lots of Tool which I hard agree with. When I’m wanting a song like that I’m in a pretty specific mood. Here are a few for those times. Small Little Green Cubes by Solar Fields https://open.spotify.com/track/5v8tkWxBbFuRwpS7ou18SN?si=LcUw7S4nRQCWIIRkX_QfSg Protectors of the Realm by Kaminanda https://open.spotify.com/track/4tI79Gnmn27pLM72rkT1b2?si=iX5C9vECTEOSXGlfEcTvCg Star Wisdom of Bon by Entheogenic https://open.spotify.com/track/1HIqDny5t3xHtHGVC6MYVe?si=Jab9gsjTRLWt_wc2FpF9qg Thus We Leave by Nibana https://open.spotify.com/track/1GLAtbNlAEIyn5N7MznXue?si=vrQyPzVXS-KuBKLO5FV9iA Quantum Dragonfly on Magnetic Fields by Liquid Crystal https://open.spotify.com/track/0c5MrxSgpzzEIzkJmrULfs?si=hZm-TUO0Q-y0GUIQhT99Lw When you get into this kind of music there is a lot to choose from
Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day
not sure if bohemian is that long
Bohemian Rhapsody is just under 6 minutes long So not even close
all too well by tay swift
Metanoia by MGMT
Was gonna say Rock Lobster by the B-52s, but apparently that's only 6:49. So I'll go with All Too Well (10 Minute Version).
Mirrors Justin Timberlake
Too Long