Top 25 Greatest Long Rock Songs (10+ Minutes)

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[junkhead_]

Other long songs that are great:
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick pt.1 (22:41)
The Velvet Underground: Sister Ray (17:31)
Led Zeppelin: Carouselambra (10:32)
Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner (13:38)
Iron Butterfly: In-a-Gadda-da-Vida (17:05)
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird (10:07)
Peter Frampton: Do You Feel Like I Do? (13:45)

[josemiguelcarrizo]

Shine on your crazy diamond does not have one bad second. It is perfection to me.

[braydencoversbeatles]

Love how I’ve either never heard of these songs or they are my favourite of all time

[thatcat]

Prog has so many great long songs
The Gates of Delirium - Yes (21:30)
Tarkus - ELP (20:45)
Heart of the Sunrise - Yes (10:34)
A plague of lighthouse keepers - Van der graaf generator (23:13)
Lizard - King Crimson (23:20)
Thick as a brick - Jethro tull (22:40 or 43:50 if you count part 2)
Awaken - Yes (15:31)
The revealing science of god - Yes (22:22)
Silently falling - Chris Squire (11:27)
The cinema show - Genesis (10:41)
Safe (canon song) - Chris Squire (15:13) This one is my personal favorite from this list
Man-erg - Van der graaf generator (10:19)
Slightly all the time - Soft machine (18:11)
Aton heart mother - Pink floyd (23:41)
April - Deep purple (12:10)

[hickorymccay]

Supper's Ready is my favorite of these honestly.

[robertlang]

I would definitely add Iron Butterfly:
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!

[jakehudson]

Pink Floyd made so many great long songs/suites

[andrewpappas]

Some other of my favourite long songs
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden (13:38)
- Sheep - Pink Floyd (10:28)
- Mercyful Fate - Metallica (11:11)
- Art of Life - X Japan (29:00)
- Octavarium - Dream Theater (24:00)

[pedrokropotkin]

My top 25 -
10+ minutes tracks:

- Genesis - The Musical Box
- Genesis - The Cinema Show
- Genesis - Supper's Ready
- Yes - The Gates of Delirium
- Yes - Close to the Edge
- Yes - And You and I
- Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
- Pink Floyd - Echoes
- Pink Floyd - Shine on Your Crazy Diamond
- Pink Floyd - Dogs
- Pink Floyd - Sheep
- King Crimson - Starless
- King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
- King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King
- King Crimson - Fracture
- ELP - Tarkus
- ELP - Karn Evil 9
- Camel - Lady Fantasy
- Deep Purple - Child in Time
- Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
- Doors - The End
- Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
- Mike Oldfield - Ommadown
- Van der Graf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

Honorable mentions:
- Rush - 2112
- Santana - Flame-Sky
- Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
- Yes - Ritual
- Yes - Awaken
- Yes - The Revealing Science of God
- Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
- Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
- Pink Floyd - Pigs
- King Crimson - Moonchild
- King Crimson - Lizard
- Guns n' Roses - Coma
- Doors - When the Music's Over
- Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
- Jimmy Hendrix - Voodoo Child
- Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

[johntiggleman]

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da_Vida around 17 minutes; Rare Earth: Get Ready 21:29; Rare Earth: (I Know) I'm Losing You 11:00; CCR: I Heard It Through The Grape Vine 11:11.

[jens]

Decent list. Honestly I was hoping for Thick as a Brick (pt. I) though.

[jimquillan]

I especially appreciate putting Telegraph Road on here....

[AntonXul]

My personal favorites not mentioned:
“Salisbury” by Uriah Heep (16:20)
“In A Gadda Da Vida” by Iron Butterfly (17:05)
“At War with Satan” by Venom (19:57)
“Black Lava” by Satyricon (14:29)
“Gettysburg” by Iced Earth (31:55)
“Carouselambra” by Led Zeppelin (10:28)
“Queen of Winter, Throned” by Cradle of Filth (10:27)
“The Magician’s Birthday” by Uriah Heep (10:21)
“Xanadu” by Rush (11:05)
“Lonesome Crow” by Scorpions (13:31)
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Iron Maiden (13:45)
“July Morning” by Uriah Heep (10:32)
“The Hierophant” by Steve Hackett (11:44)

[brianwilson]

In-A- Gadda- Da-Vidda, I Ron Butterfly

Get Ready. Rare Earth

[justme]

'A Beautiful Song' by Todd Rundgren on the 2nd Runt album, is a melodic 11 minute mostly instrumental tune that foreshadowed what was to come from him as a solo artist, and with Utopia.

[cheloocl._]

Los Jaivas- La Poderosa Muerte 11:13
Los Jaivas- Tarka y ocarina 13:19

[johnwise]

I knew In the Court of the Crimson King would be here, but I was pleasantly surprised to see Starless! IMO one of the greatest songs of all time.

I kinda wish another song by Yes made the list too. Like either Heart of the Sunrise, or Gates of Delirium.

[manoftheworld]

Let's not forget:
Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride Live 1973 (31:55)
Camel - Lady Fantasy (12:45)
Help Yourself - Reaffirmation (12:33)
Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed Live 1971 (19:45)
Grateful Dead - Playing in the Band Live 1972 (19:56)

[oynnotk]

You missed many greatest rock songs as follows:
Song of Scheherazade / Renaissance (24:40)
The Strands of the Future / Pulsar (22:16)
The Fall of the House of Usher / The Alan Parsons Project (16:10)
Pirates / Emerson, Lake & Palmer (13:22)
Take a Pebble / Emerson, Lake & Palmer (12:34)
Ashes Are Burning / Renaissance (11:25)
Kuiama / Electric Light Orchestra (11:16)
July Morning / Uriah Heep (10:33)
Phoenix / Wishbone Ash (10:27)

[capi.strano]

The studio album version (not the video version) of Meat Loaf, I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) clocks in at 12:00. Reportedly the initial version ran a full 15 minutes.