Songs that go on too long

[Benni]

Love in an elevator

[bad company]

Nom de ploom said:

a few led zep tracks could do with being trimmed - when the Levee breaks.....jesus it broke 2 minutes in and you're still going.

Nooooooooo. When The Levee Breaks is fantastic just as it is.

Philistine.

[castex]

Wonderwall runs out of ideas after 90 seconds.

[Lucas CAV]

bad company said:

Nom de ploom said:

a few led zep tracks could do with being trimmed - when the Levee breaks.....jesus it broke 2 minutes in and you're still going.

Nooooooooo. When The Levee Breaks is fantastic just as it is.

Philistine.

I don't mind WTLB but Moby Dick is a terrible noise.

[cherryowen]

Lucas CAV said:

bad company said:

Nom de ploom said:

a few led zep tracks could do with being trimmed - when the Levee breaks.....jesus it broke 2 minutes in and you're still going.

Nooooooooo. When The Levee Breaks is fantastic just as it is.

Philistine.

I don't mind WTLB but Moby Dick is a terrible noise.

The riff for Moby Dick is pretty good, IMO, but it's just a carrier for Bonzo's drum solo; and drum solos are tiresome. That's not to say I don't appreciate the work of Gene Krupa / Buddy Rich / Cozy Powell

[Rude-boy]

cherryowen said:

Lucas CAV said:

bad company said:

Nom de ploom said:

a few led zep tracks could do with being trimmed - when the Levee breaks.....jesus it broke 2 minutes in and you're still going.

Nooooooooo. When The Levee Breaks is fantastic just as it is.

Philistine.

I don't mind WTLB but Moby Dick is a terrible noise.

The riff for Moby Dick is pretty good, IMO, but it's just a carrier for Bonzo's drum solo; and drum solos are tiresome. That's not to say I don't appreciate the work of Gene Krupa / Buddy Rich / Cozy Powell

Nope. Bozo deserved his little spot.

Context is also required. Background, not great. Few mates, post pub beers and music trying to keep pace with chopsticks; different story.

[darren9]

There’s a half hour version of fast love by George Michael.

https://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/geor...

[MKnight702]

Anything at all "sung" by the Proclaimers. One note past the opening bar is too many, let alone giving them time to open their gobs.

[Halmyre]

Steve Hackett's "Shadow of the Hierophant" - it just goes on and on without development. There's even an extended version which goes on and on AND on!

There's a Jethro Tull song, can't remember the title, which is one song repeated twice for no good reason other than to increase its running time.

And the album version of Yes's 'Going For The One' overstays its welcome by several minutes, not helped by Steve Howe's pedal-steel love-in.

[yellowbentines]

The album version of 'Light my fire' by The Doors, a 3 minute song with 4 minutes of dicking about on the organ/keys in the middle.

[Leonard Stanley]

Anything by Paloma Faith, Clean Bandit or the 1975 goes on too long.

Most of all the 1975, what a cunch of bunts.

[Johnnytheboy]

darren9 said:

There’s a half hour version of fast love by George Michael.

https://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/geor...

It's just called "Love".

[kowalski655]

Johnnytheboy said:

darren9 said:

There’s a half hour version of fast love by George Michael.

https://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/music/geor...

It's just called "Love".

Is that version by Sting?

[rover 623gsi]

Whole Lotta Love

[techguyone]

yellowbentines said:

The album version of 'Light my fire' by The Doors, a 3 minute song with 4 minutes of dicking about on the organ/keys in the middle.

Psychedelic Rock, I bet if you were on LSD when you listened to it, you'd think it wasn't long enough

Personally (and sans LSD) I like all the long doors songs: When the Musics over, The End etc.

[kuro]

Halmyre said:

And the album version of Yes's 'Going For The One' overstays its welcome by several minutes, not helped by Steve Howe's pedal-steel love-in.

Going for the one has a run time of 5 minutes 32 seconds. That album marked a move towards shorter song lengths.

Edited by kuro on Saturday 26th May 11:46

[TonyRPH]

I just heard another.

The Police - Message in a Bottle

Trails off with 'sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos...'

Zzzzzzz

[The Hypno-Toad]

The longest 1:58 of yours and probably anyone else's life.

Out of context it probably doesn't seem all that funny but the whole album builds to this one track and taken with a lot of alcohol this genuinely one of the most hysterical moments in comedy. I remember many a night in my youth doubled over with laughter at this.

And no, my names not Bamber.

Enjoy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=850ci_XMOps

[glazbagun]

Despite the quality his is my favourite recording of Maggot Brain by Funkadelic on the internet. But you can tell when he's ran out of ideas, and doesn't take the hint when the rest of the band have given up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNJ52YSKww

Queen have some, too. Get Down Make Love in particular has one of those middle sections (like whole lotta love) that could easily be removed to no detriment.

I get the impression that when a new synth had just came out it seemed really cool to absolutely flood your song with it

[glazbagun]

TonyRPH said:

I just heard another.

The Police - Message in a Bottle

Trails off with 'sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos... sending out an sos...'

Zzzzzzz

Sinilarly theres a drinking game where one half of the room must stand and drink everytime they hear "Roxanne" and the other half when they hear "put on the red light".

It goes on.