Favorite long songs (10+ minutes)?

Not metal but Telegraph Road by Dire Straits.

Oh boy, I've got a bunch!  But some of my favorites are:

40 Watt Sun - Restless
Adorned Graves - Rheingold
Alcest - Elevation
Alcest - Delivrance
Angra - Carolina IV
Asunder - Twilight Amaranthine
Becoming The Archetype - Elegy
Dauðaró - basically every song hahaha
Departe - Ruin
Epta Astera - Ausburg
Erasmus - Sanguinus Nocturnus
The Gault - The Shore Becomes The Enemy
Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Kauan - Äidin Laulu
Kauan - Föhn
Kauan - Ikuinen Junan Kulku
Leonov - Wake
Musk Ox - Entre La Terre Et Le Ciel
Musk Ox - Part 4 - Above the Clouds
Musk Ox - Part 5 - Serenade the Constellations
My Silent Wake - Hunting Season
My Silent Wake - Tunnels
My Silent Wake - Third Season
Pylon - Returnal Etern
Sacrotorsus - Crucified
Sexit - Cesta do podsvetia
Sonata Arctica - The Power of One
Sonata Arctica - White Pearl, Black Oceans, Pt. II
Theocracy - The Healing Hand
Virgin Black - The Everlasting
Virgin Black - ...And I Am Suffering
Virgin Black - Lacrimosa (I tread alone)
Weakling - Dead As Dreams

Big Big Train - Miramare

....Best 10-minute+ prog rock song I've heard so far this year.

Superjuice wrote:Good topic.

I agree. 

There is one problem - to sample each song mentioned takes WAY longer than most threads!

Most Neal Morse songs, IMHO, are parts of a longer story that include smaller songs with similar themes linked together. For releases, Neal decides whether to group them together in larger parts or smaller--hence the difference in track numbers between ? and Sola Scriptura. So although I would say SS is one of my favourite concept albums, I wouldn't really consider The Door as a 9min+ song. You can disagree with me, I'm cool with it! But because of that, there's fewer Neal Morse songs I that I consider as contenders for this list.

My choices:

Neal Morse: Lifeline, Author of Confusion

Dream Theater: Lines in the Sand, Octavarium, Trial of Tears, Hollow Years (Live in Budokan edition), In the Name of God

Theocracy: I Am, Easter

Tourniquet: I didn't have any here. IMHO (and again, it's just mine!), they could have fit all their songs under 9 minutes and they would have been better for it.

Those of you who know me a bit better know that my listening repetoire is not nearly as extensive as most of you, so I don't have much to add other than these.

Metallica: after playing through some of the albums with my son (a drummer in junior high), I figure the Metallica is like Tourniquet in the sense that their longer songs get boring and they should have shortened them.

Sevenoneself wrote:

Superjuice wrote:Good topic.

I agree. 

There is one problem - to sample each song mentioned takes WAY longer than most threads!

Most Neal Morse songs, IMHO, are parts of a longer story that include smaller songs with similar themes linked together. For releases, Neal decides whether to group them together in larger parts or smaller--hence the difference in track numbers between ? and Sola Scriptura. So although I would say SS is one of my favourite concept albums, I wouldn't really consider The Door as a 9min+ song. You can disagree with me, I'm cool with it! But because of that, there's fewer Neal Morse songs I that I consider as contenders for this list.

My choices:

Neal Morse: Lifeline, Author of Confusion

Dream Theater: Lines in the Sand, Octavarium, Trial of Tears, Hollow Years (Live in Budokan edition), In the Name of God

Theocracy: I Am, Easter

Tourniquet: I didn't have any here. IMHO (and again, it's just mine!), they could have fit all their songs under 9 minutes and they would have been better for it.

Those of you who know me a bit better know that my listening repetoire is not nearly as extensive as most of you, so I don't have much to add other than these.

Metallica: after playing through some of the albums with my son (a drummer in junior high), I figure the Metallica is like Tourniquet in the sense that their longer songs get boring and they should have shortened them.

Yeah you’re right about The Door, but I think Seeds of Gold definitely counts as one, with themes repeating throughout the song

Seth, my comment about not being widely-listened is demonstrated here, as I've actually never listened to Seeds of Gold (even though I consider myself a rabid NM fan!). So off I am now to get schooled in Neal morse...Thx!

Kerrick wrote:Oh boy, I've got a bunch!  But some of my favorites are:

40 Watt Sun - Restless
Adorned Graves - Rheingold
Alcest - Elevation
Alcest - Delivrance
Angra - Carolina IV
Asunder - Twilight Amaranthine
Becoming The Archetype - Elegy
Dauðaró - basically every song hahaha
Departe - Ruin
Epta Astera - Ausburg
Erasmus - Sanguinus Nocturnus
The Gault - The Shore Becomes The Enemy
Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Kauan - Äidin Laulu
Kauan - Föhn
Kauan - Ikuinen Junan Kulku
Leonov - Wake
Musk Ox - Entre La Terre Et Le Ciel
Musk Ox - Part 4 - Above the Clouds
Musk Ox - Part 5 - Serenade the Constellations
My Silent Wake - Hunting Season
My Silent Wake - Tunnels
My Silent Wake - Third Season
Pylon - Returnal Etern
Sacrotorsus - Crucified
Sexit - Cesta do podsvetia
Sonata Arctica - The Power of One
Sonata Arctica - White Pearl, Black Oceans, Pt. II
Theocracy - The Healing Hand
Virgin Black - The Everlasting
Virgin Black - ...And I Am Suffering
Virgin Black - Lacrimosa (I tread alone)
Weakling - Dead As Dreams

Yeah, I guess Slayer doesn’t have any 10+ minute tunes.

Sevenoneself wrote:

Metallica: after playing through some of the albums with my son (a drummer in junior high), I figure the Metallica is like Tourniquet in the sense that their longer songs get boring and they should have shortened them.

I’d agree for most recent Metallica. But the epics on MoP and AJfA are perfect as is.

I don't find TQTs long songs boring at all.

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:

Metallica: after playing through some of the albums with my son (a drummer in junior high), I figure the Metallica is like Tourniquet in the sense that their longer songs get boring and they should have shortened them.

I’d agree for most recent Metallica. But the epics on MoP and AJfA are perfect as is.

Yeah, but if you're doing all that down-picking on MoP... it probably gets long in the tooth and you're ready to put some ice on your wrist.

It’s an endurance test for sure.

Black Rider wrote:I don't find TQTs long songs boring at all.

The only one I’d say needed to be shortened was In Death We Rise (original mix).

So no one has mentioned Maiden’s 18 minute ode to a blimp? (“For all you unbelievers, the Titanic fits inside!”) 🤪

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:

Metallica: after playing through some of the albums with my son (a drummer in junior high), I figure the Metallica is like Tourniquet in the sense that their longer songs get boring and they should have shortened them.

I’d agree for most recent Metallica. But the epics on MoP and AJfA are perfect as is.

I've long been an AJfA fan. And then in the fall I played it for my son and felt kinda silly because it SEEMED like all the melodies were basically one note and the riffs were just repeated again and again and again. He kept waiting for something new and interesting to show up and it never did.

I know I'm generalizing and over-simplifying. But he kept looking over at me with that look of, "Is this all it is?"

I’d say One is certainly interesting and varied enough to justify its length

seth wrote:I’d say One is certainly interesting and varied enough to justify its length

For sure. The title track is the only one that "drags" IMO (still a great song though)

Pethead wrote:

Black Rider wrote:I don't find TQTs long songs boring at all.

The only one I’d say needed to be shortened was In Death We Rise (original mix).

I recognize I'm not a fan of the longer songs of genres like doom metal. I like songs to say what they want to say and then stop. Long intros like Architheutis and Drawn & Quartered bore me. Even Skeezix Dilemma's drawn-out instrumental sections stretch my ADHD.

seth wrote:I’d say One is certainly interesting and varied enough to justify its length

It's still too short to be included on the lists of this thread. Yes, One is not too bad. And yes, I was generalizing. 

Opeth - Black Rose Immortal (maybe I should start a thread for 20+ min. songs)