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Blame Hey Jude, but there have been some very long songs that have made the radio. For the purposes of this page, please stick to songs with lyrics (no 25 minute instrumentals, like Pink Floyd's "Echoes").
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 312 Super Long Pop Songs entries on the site.
"Sick Puppy," Lemon Demon Length:9:40
This song, originally conceived as a bonus track, starts as an instrumental, morphs into very quiet noise, and back into an actual song with lyrics toward the end.
Incompetentia
"The Day That Never Comes," Metallica Length:7:56
Jessiicah
"I am the Resurrection," Stone Roses Length:8:12
Driving Madchester tune stretched out with an extended freaky instrumental outro.
splinter
"Caves," Jack's Mannequin Length:8:19
Alex
"It Never Rains," Dire Straits Length:7:59
"It Never Rains" is a track for the 1982 album Love over Gold by the Blues-rock band Dire Straits. The song is the final song on the album. The song displays two distinct sections: the first section which is blues based, and the second second is more progressive. This blends the two major styles present during the album.
Mickey D.
"Love Over Gold," Dire Straits Length:6:16
"Love over Gold" is the title track for the 1982 album Love over Gold by the blues rock band Dire Straits. The song is the closest song to reveal any blues characteristics on a relatively progressive album; it is also jazz-tinged in that it prominently features a vibraphone part played by Mike Mainieri.
Mickey D.
"Industrial Disease," Dire Straits Length:5:52
The song takes a look at decline of the British manufacturing industry in the early 1980s, focusing on strikes, depression and dysfunctionality. For example, the absurdity of media-driven maladies is laid out in a segment of the song describing the narrator's visit to a doctor's office for treatment of his "Industrial Disease". The reference to "Brewer's Droop" as a medical condition is an in-joke, referring both to the effect of alcohol on libido and to the band of the same name that Mark Knopfler played in prior to Dire Straits.
Mickey D.
"Private Investigations," Dire Straits Length:6:45
"Private Investigations" is a popular song by Dire Straits from their album Love over Gold. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it reached #2 in the UK, and is one of their biggest chart successes in the United Kingdom, on a par with "Walk of Life". Similarly, the album it came from, Love over Gold, only sold 0.5 million copies in the US, though it was well-received elsewhere. The song begins with a slow piano riff accompanying an acoustic guitar. After several verses, the song opens up into a slow, bass-driven beat, with an electric guitar coming in at the end, before the gradual diminuendo featuring extended interplay between Mark Knopfler's acoustic guitar and Marimba played by Mike Mainieri. On the Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits DVD, Mark Knopfler said this about the song: "It's just about the Private Investigations... "What have you got at the end of the day" - Nothing more than you started out with..." It is said the song was inspired by author Michael Crichton. The riff from the song was used on a BT advert in 1994.
Mickey D.
"Telegraph Road," Dire Straits Length:14:22
"Telegraph Road" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits and written by Mark Knopfler. It appeared on their 1982 album Love over Gold. Clocking in at 14:21 minutes long, it is rarely played by radio stations, yet has remained well-regarded over the years by many fans of the band.[citation needed] The coda of the live recording on the 1984 album Alchemy features one of the band's most brilliant guitar improvisations. Inspired by a bus trip taken by Knopfler, the lyrics narrate a tale of changing land development over a span of many decades along Telegraph Road in Michigan. In the latter verses, the singer focuses on one man's personal struggle with unemployment. In an interview on RockLine, a "rock radio network" call-in show, broadcast live on May 10, 1993, Mark Knopfler said, while on tour, he... "in fact, was driving down that road, and I was reading a book at the time, called Growth of the Soil [by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun], and I just put the two together. I was driving down this Telegraph Road....and it just went on and on and on forever, it's like what they call linear development. And I just started to think, I wondered how that road must have been when it started, what it must have first been. And then really that's how it all came about yeah, I just put that book together and the place where I was, I was actually sitting in the front of the tour bus, at the time." The song starts out with a quiet crescendo that lasts almost two minutes, before the song's main theme starts. After the first verse, the main theme plays again, followed by the second verse. After a guitar solo, a short bridge slows the song down to a quiet keyboard portion similar to the intro, followed by a slow guitar solo. Next, the final two verses, with the main theme in between, play. The main theme is played one last time, eventually turning into a five minute guitar solo that eventually fades out.
Mickey D.
"Scenes from a Voyage," Men as Trees Length:12:17
TBuck
"The Devil Glitch," Chris Butler Length:69:00
The over 500 verse song was named the world's longest pop song by the Guiness Book of World Records.
Rachel
"Longplayer," Miscellaneous Length:1,000 years
It's true...you can even look it up. The song started playing on the internet in the year 2000, and will continue playing until the year 2999.
Rachel
"Who Are You?," The Who Length:6:16 (album version)
Most of the song is the chorus of "Who are, who are, who are?"
British Bullcrap
"A Sinking Ship Full of Optimists," Transistor Transistor Length:13:06
TBuck
"The Temptation That You Are," The Saddest Landscape Length:8:07
TBuck
"My Mind is a Birdcage," Suis La Lune Length:7:39
TBuck
"End on End," Rites of Spring Length:7:22
TBuck
"A Sonnet to Both Ugly and Murderous," Pg. 99 Length:10:54
TBuck
"Aren't You Angel," Indian Summer Length:7:11
TBuck
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