50 Great Songs Over 7 Minutes Long That Didn’t Make Rolling Stone’s List
Yesterday, Rolling Stone online put together a list of what they called “The Fifty Best Songs Over Seven Minutes Long.” Not so much. Sure, there were some all-time great songs on that list, but other songs weren’t even the best long song by the particular artist, much less on a 50 best ever list.
So, I figured that I’d do my own. Thanks to the magic of an iTunes playlist sort, it didn’t take very long to put together. Here are my rules: because some artists (Neil Young, Velvet Underground) work better with long songs, I figured that it was OK to have multiple songs by individual artists. I did, however, discount anything that had never been commercially released, which wiped out a lot of Bruce Springsteen songs.
Like Rolling Stone’s list, this is alphabetical by artist.
50 Great Songs Over 7 Minutes Long That Didn’t Make Rolling Stone’s List of the Fifty Best Songs over Seven Minutes Long
- Ryan Adams - Nobody Girl
- The Beatles - I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
- Belle & Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
- Dan Bern - Simple
- Bettie Serveert - The Ocean, My Floor
- Boston - Foreplay /Long Time
- James Brown - Cold Sweat
- Buzzcocks - I Believe
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ramble Tamble
- Miles Davis - Shhh/Peaceful
- Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
- Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water (Live)
- The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
- Drive-by Truckers - The Living Bubba (Live)
- Drive-by Truckers - Angels And Fuselage
- Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
- Bob Dylan - (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the) Memphis Blues Again
- Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
- Grandaddy - He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot
- Guns N’ Roses - Breakdown
- Hüsker Dü - All Work and No Play
- Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying
- Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
- Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry (London 1975)
- Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
- New Order - Temptation (12″)
- Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pts 1-5
- Preston School of Industry - Encyclopedic Knowledge of
- Prince - Let’s Go Crazy (12″)
- The Rolling Stones - Miss You (12″)
- The Patti Smith Group - Land
- Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- The Stratford 4 - Telephone
- The Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
- Tonio K - The Ballad of the Night the Clocks All Quit (And the Government Failed)
- U2 - An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart
- UB40 - Don’t Let It Pass You By
- The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
- The Velvet Underground - Ocean (Live 1969)
- The Velvet Underground - What Goes On (Live 1969)
- Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good
- The Who - A Quick One, While He’s Away (Live)
- Stevie Wonder - As
- Yes - Close To The Edge
- Yo La Tengo - Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
- Neil Young - Down by the River
- Neil Young - Over and Over
- Neil Young - Natural Beauty
- Neil Young - I’m The Ocean
- Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
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12 Comment(s) so far
1. tim wrote on December 4th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Brand New - Limousine
2. tim wrote on December 4th, 2007 at 11:34 am
also
Don McLean- American Pie
3. Arlo wrote on December 4th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Alice’s Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
4. Music News » Blog Archive » 50 Great Songs Over 7 Minutes Long That Didn’t Make Rolling Stone … wrote on December 4th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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5. will wrote on December 5th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Excellent list, thanks for including Sister Ray.
6. maths wrote on December 5th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Blue Room by The Orb brought ambient to another level. Full length version comes in at a whopping 40:00 but in order to qualify for the British charts as a single rather than an EP they did a 39:57 version and promptly charted at No.8
7. Andrew wrote on December 6th, 2007 at 3:39 am
What a great list. I’m sure there’ll be a few arguments but I wont quibble with a list that includes the astounding Beatles - I Want You (She’s So Heavy) AND the Stones - Miss You.
8. john r wrote on December 6th, 2007 at 7:41 am
Your list is way more entertaining and much more relevant than the Rolling Stones list. These songs are good too.
1. Pink Floyd- Interstellar Overdrive
2. The Died Pretty- Mirror Blues
3. Van Morrison- Almost Independence Day
4. Eleventh Dream Day- Tenth Leaving Train
5. Rainy Day- Rainy Day, Dream Away
6. Television- Little Johnny Jewel
9. Jim wrote on December 6th, 2007 at 9:49 am
All of the suggestions that people have left above are really good. A couple were on early versions of the list, and might have made it had I decided to limit each artist to a single song.
I’m not big into techno, so I’ve never heard that Orb song, but I really love the story about how they gamed the U.K. charts.
Here are some others that I might have added:
Genesis - Supper’s Ready
The Seeds - Up in Her Room
Jethro Tull - Thick as A Brick
Flipper - Sex Bomb
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (All Night Version)
10. Arnar wrote on December 7th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
David Bowie - The Width Of A Circle
The Doors - When The Music’s Over
The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Doors - Riders on the Storm
Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand
Chemical Brothers - It Began In Afrika
11. Chris Blake wrote on December 9th, 2007 at 12:57 am
I used to listen to at least ten of those songs over and over and over. “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” “When the Levee Breaks,” “Layla,” “Heroin,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “The End,” “Only in Dreams,” “Hey Jude,” etc. I had no idea how much the seven-minute song has meant to me over the years. Alas, who has the time anymore?
SHAME ON ROLLING STONE for leaving out:
Catherine Wheel: “Black Metallic”
Bruce Springsteen: “Rosalita,” “Incident on 57th Street,” “New York City Serenade”
Bob Marley: “No Woman, No Cry”
Stevie Wonder: “Living for the City”
Bob Dylan: “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),” “Visions of Johanna,” “Idiot Wind”
Boston: “Foreplay/Long Time”
Don McLean: “American Pie”
Jackson Browne: “The Load-Out/Stay”
There are some others that I also would’ve overlooked, but Rolling Stone has more time to research this stuff and therefore should not be excused for passing over these brilliant gems:
The La’s: “Looking Glass”
Peter Gabriel: “Come Talk to Me”
Joni Mitchell: “The Sire of Sorrow”
Sade: “No Ordinary Love”
David Gray: “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”
Dave Matthews Band: “Proudest Monkey”
Chris Blake: “Harbor” (it probably just missed the cut, right?)
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