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Porcupine Tree- Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Between The Buried and Me- White Walls

Martha Tilston- Firewood

Pure Reason Revolution- The Bright Ambassadors of Morning

Guillemots- Yesterday Is Dead

Porcupine Tree- Deadwing

Coheed & Cambria- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3

Anberlin- [*Fin]

Karl Jenkins- Tintinnabulum

Guns N Roses- Estranged

Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards- Piobaireachd

The Who- Won't Get Fooled Again

Coheed & Cambria- The Light and the Glass

Guns N Roses- November Rain

Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism (It's 5 seconds off)

Deadmau5- Strobe

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Rush - 2112, Hemispheres, Cygnus X-1, La Villa, Natural Science, Xanadu (christ, these ones are their best songs :lol:)

GNR - Estranged, November Rain, Coma

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir, How Many More Times

Buckethead - Look Up There

Iron Maiden - For The Greater Good of God, The Legacy, When The Wild Wind Blows, The Clansman (live version), Rime of the Ancient Mariner

John Butler Trio - Sometimes, Ocean

Primus - Hamburger Train (shocked they don't have more studio stuff over 8 minutes, they jam the shit out of everything live)

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy

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Dream Theater

The Glass Prison

Breaking All Illusions

Learning To Live

A Change of Seasons

Octavarium

Lost Not Forgotten

The Count of Tuscany

The Best of Times

Home

Bridges in the Sky

Finally Free

Metropolis Pt. 1

Beyond This Life

Tool

Third Eye

Ticks & Leeches

Lateralus

Led Zeppelin

Achilles Last Stand

Carouselambra

In My Time of Dying

Stairway to Heaven

Tea For One

Yes

Awaken

Close to the Edge

The Gates of Delirium

And You And I

Roundabout

Heart of the Sunrise

South Side of the Sky

Yours Is No Disgrace

Starship Trooper

Sound Chaser

To Be Over

Porcupine Tree

Russia On Ice

Time Flies

Deadwing

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Hatesong

Glass Arm Shattering

Anesthetize

Buying New Soul

Even Less (Extended Version)

Don't Hate Me

Up The Downstair

Dark Matter

Burning Sky

Rush

Natural Science

Xanadu

Cygnus X-1

Hemispheres

2112

The Camera Eye

La Villa Strangiato

By-Tor and the Snow Dog

Heathen

No Stone Unturned

Heathen's Song

Hypnotized

Iron Maiden

The Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Paschendale

Dance of Death

Isle of Avalon

The Talisman

When The Wild Wind Blows

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

For The Greater Good of God

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Alexander The Great

Iced Earth

Dante's Inferno

Travel In Stygian

Mastodon

Hearts Alive

The Last Baron

The Czar

Metallica

...And Justice For All

All Nightmare Long

To Live Is To Die

The Outlaw Torn

Orion

Master of Puppets

Disposable Heroes

Fixxxer

The Call of Ktulu

Opeth

Ghost of Perdition

Reverie/Harlequin Forest

The Grand Conjuration

Folklore

Hessian Peel

White Cluster

The Moor

Queensrÿche

Suite Sister Mary

Roads to Madness

Anybody Listening? (It's 7:58, so whatever. It's amazing)

Stevie Wonder

Black Man

Another Star

Steven Wilson

Raider II

No Twilight Within The Courts of the Sun

Salvaging

Remainder The Black Dog

Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye

Todd Rundgren

Fair Warning

A Treatise In Cosmic Fire

The Ikon

Arch/Matheos

Stained Glass Sky

Neurotically Wired

Any Given Day (Strangers Like Me)

Bruce Dickinson

Book of Thel

The Alchemist

Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum

The Offspring - Pay The Man

Queen - The Prophet's Song

Rainbow - Stargazer

Deep Purple - Child In Time

Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

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Dream Theater

The Glass Prison

Breaking All Illusions

Learning To Live

A Change of Seasons

Octavarium

Lost Not Forgotten

The Count of Tuscany

The Best of Times

Home

Bridges in the Sky

Finally Free

Metropolis Pt. 1

Beyond This Life

Tool

Third Eye

Ticks & Leeches

Lateralus

Led Zeppelin

Achilles Last Stand

Carouselambra

In My Time of Dying

Stairway to Heaven

Tea For One

Yes

Awaken

Close to the Edge

The Gates of Delirium

And You And I

Roundabout

Heart of the Sunrise

South Side of the Sky

Yours Is No Disgrace

Starship Trooper

Sound Chaser

To Be Over

Porcupine Tree

Russia On Ice

Time Flies

Deadwing

Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

Hatesong

Glass Arm Shattering

Anesthetize

Buying New Soul

Even Less (Extended Version)

Don't Hate Me

Up The Downstair

Dark Matter

Burning Sky

Rush

Natural Science

Xanadu

Cygnus X-1

Hemispheres

2112

The Camera Eye

La Villa Strangiato

By-Tor and the Snow Dog

Heathen

No Stone Unturned

Heathen's Song

Hypnotized

Iron Maiden

The Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Paschendale

Dance of Death

Isle of Avalon

The Talisman

When The Wild Wind Blows

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns

For The Greater Good of God

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Alexander The Great

Iced Earth

Dante's Inferno

Travel In Stygian

Mastodon

Hearts Alive

The Last Baron

The Czar

Metallica

...And Justice For All

All Nightmare Long

To Live Is To Die

The Outlaw Torn

Orion

Master of Puppets

Disposable Heroes

Fixxxer

The Call of Ktulu

Opeth

Ghost of Perdition

Reverie/Harlequin Forest

The Grand Conjuration

Folklore

Hessian Peel

White Cluster

The Moor

Queensrÿche

Suite Sister Mary

Roads to Madness

Anybody Listening? (It's 7:58, so whatever. It's amazing)

Stevie Wonder

Black Man

Another Star

Steven Wilson

Raider II

No Twilight Within The Courts of the Sun

Salvaging

Remainder The Black Dog

Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye

Todd Rundgren

Fair Warning

A Treatise In Cosmic Fire

The Ikon

Arch/Matheos

Stained Glass Sky

Neurotically Wired

Any Given Day (Strangers Like Me)

Bruce Dickinson

Book of Thel

The Alchemist

Nightwish - The Poet and the Pendulum

The Offspring - Pay The Man

Queen - The Prophet's Song

Rainbow - Stargazer

Deep Purple - Child In Time

Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

forgot the poet and the pendulum and child in time both great fucking songs. for nightwish ghost love score is probably my favorite of theirs over 8 minutes

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Fuckin' beast song. It's my favorite as of late, too.

LOL @ whoever picked The Angel and the Gambler. Its length is one of its biggest flaws in my opinion. I think the chorus is repeated ~30 times. But I have to admit, most of my favorite Maiden songs are 8+ minutes.

Ayreon -- Into the Black Hole

Black Sabbath -- Megalomania, Wheels of Confusion

Bob Dylan -- Desolation Row

Bruce Dickinson -- Cyclops (best song off the record), Book of Thel

Deep Purple -- Child in Time

Elton John -- Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Guns N' Roses -- Coma, Estranged, Locomotive, November Rain

Iron Maiden -- Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Sign of the Cross, Paschendale, The Clansman, The Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Alexander the Great, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, When the Wild Wind Blows, The Talisman, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, The Unbeliever, Dream of Mirrors, The Nomad, Dance of Death, For the Greater Good of God, The Legacy.

Judas Priest -- Cathedral Spires

Led Zeppelin -- Achilles Last Stand, In My Time of Dying

Mastodon -- The Last Baron, The Czar

Megadeth -- She-Wolf (Rude Awakening)

Porcupine Tree -- Gravity Eyelids

Queen -- The Prophet Song

Queensryche -- Suite Sister Mary

Rainbow -- Stargazer

Rush -- Xanadu, 2112, La Villa Strangiato, By-Tor and the Snow Dog, Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres, The Camera Eye

Temple of the Dog -- Reach Down

Timothy Mahr -- Endurance

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Anything over 15 minutes is most likely not gonna be good. At that point you will either get repetitive or have some really disjointed stuff with a unifying theme really. You see these track here and there, 23 minutes long, 35 minutes, or a whole disc. What's the point? It's always a sequence of moments that make sense individually, some may really good in fact, but what's point in having them as a single song? Why not split the tracks and give them each their own name? All you do is make it harder for the listener to skip the parts that he doesn't like. And it only comes across as a gimmick: "ok, so we've got 5 songs, 6 minutes each, let's play them in sequence with awkward so called segues and say it's just one song. And then we'll play the first one again at the end and say we've got a theme!"

I mentioned Estranged (by GNR) and Telegraph Road (by Dire Straits) in my list. I love them, I know them by heart, they're my two favorite songs, and they're 9 and 14 minutes long respectively and go through a series of changes each of them. But it makes sense! You cannot possibly imagine any part of these songs on its own. I think that's where you can see mastery in songcraft best: in segues. How well does an artist do transitions between parts of a song

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