VA - Great Long Songs, Over 10min Long (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1 + CD2 + The 25 Longest 45RPM Singles.

GREAT LONG SONGS (OVER 10 min.)

VA - Great Long Songs, Over 10min Long CD1 + CD2 + The 25 Longest 45RPM Singles.

Sometimes we want to hear our favorite artist stretch out and create songs that are expanded in length from the standard three or four-minute  song we are used to hearing. Thankfully, there are plenty of great long rock songs that exceed the radio-friendly three or four-minute mark. There are many long track in Rock music but I wanted to present tracks that have a minimum running time of 10 minutes in length (thanks  @Bucephallus for the suggestion). I have left out live versions, extended remixes, improvised jams and medleys, classical and jazz which are often longer tracks. Here are some of the longest tracks in rock musics. Very few tracks here are multi-part suites and are only included if the track sounds like one track. For me the tracks presented are so good that they seem much shorter listens. Sometimes I listen to them and you lose time. They are so well structured and musically are so extraordinary that they remain compelling even after multiple listens.

As a bonus I have also prepared a 25-track compilation of great long songs that appeared on 45RPM singles. Only two of these are over 10 min in length, which is amazing length for a 45RPM single. The shortest track here is just over 7 min in length. The songs here all occupy only one side of a 45RPM single. In the early 1990s, EMI pressed a small number of the full-length 8:27 version of "American Pie" by Don McLean on one side of a 45RMM single but it was also issued as a split single A&B side.

Nearly all the research suggests that the track "Incident on 57th Street (Live)" by Bruce Springsteen is the longest 45RPM single at 10:03.

Anyhow, sit back, relax, take your time and enjoy these wonderful looooong songs.

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Track list 1

01    Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard it Through the Grapevine    :11:07    1970
02    Rascals - Peaceful World    :21:24    1971
03    Isaac Hayes - Walk on By    :12:01    1969
04    Van Morrison - Listen to the Lion    :10:58    1972
05    King Crimson - Moonchild (Full Version)    :12:16    1969
06    Rare Earth - Get Ready    :21:35    1969
07    Neil Young With Crazy Horse - Cowgirl in the Sand    :10:07    1969
08    Isaac Hayes - By the Time I Get to Phoenix    :18:41    1969
09    Dogfeet - Voodoo Chile    :10:53    1970
10    Traffic - Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys    :11:41    1971
11    Deep Purple - Child in Time    :10:17    1970
12    Funkadelic - Maggot Brain    :10:21    1971
13    Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home, I'm Your Captain    :10:11    1970
14    Gypsy - Dead and Gone    :10:53    1970
15    Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida    :17:11    1968
16    Yes - Heart of the Sunrise    :10:34    1971
17    Temptations - Smiling Faces Sometimes    :12:44    1971
18    Uriah Heep - July Morning    :10:33    1971
19    Who - Underture    :10:04    1969
20    Bob Dylan - Desolation Row    :11:22    1965
21    Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today    :11:07    1967
22    Raw Material - Sun Good    :11:10    1971
23    Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree    :18:36    1967
24    Velvet Underground - Sister Ray    :17:32    1968
25    Doors - The End    :11:42    1967

Track list 2

26    Television    Marquee - Moon    :10:47    1977
27    David Bowie - Station to Station    :10:14    1976
28    Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (Part I)    :22:37    1972
29    Flower Travellin' Band - Look at My Window    :11:43    1973
30    Jesse Colin Young - Ridgetop    :12:56    1973
31    Endless Boogie - On Cryology    :11:17    2013
32    Dragon - Avalanche    :11:09    1974
32    Kush - Christopher John: Birth/Life/Death/Infinity    :10:13    1974
34    Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)    :17:33    1975
35    Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying    :11:05    1975
36    Bob Dylan - Joey    :11:05    1976
37    Camel - Lunar Sea    :10:50    1976
38    War - The World is a Ghetto    :10:09    1972
39    10cc - Feel the Benefit (Parts 1, 2, and 3)    :11:32    1977
40    Temptations - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone    :11:46    1972
15    Alan Parsons Project - The Naked Robot    :10:19    2007
42    Lou Reed - Street Hassle    :10:55    1978
43    Dire Straits  - Telegraph Road    :14:20    1982
44    Dexys Midnight Runners - This is What She's Like    :12:19    1985
45    Primal Scream - Come Together    :10:21    1991
46    Ayreon - Amazing Flight    :10:15    1998
47    Man Doki - Look Up To The Sky    :14:46    2002
48    Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)    :12:04    2011
49    Jonathan Wilson - Valley of a Silver Moon    :10:32    2011
50    Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Part One    :25:29    1973

Track list 3

01    Bruce Springsteen - Incident on 57th Street (Live)    :10:07    1987
02    George Harrison - Isn't it a Pity    :07:08    1970
03    Richard Harris - Macarthur Park    :07:30    1968
04    Van Morrison - T.B. Sheets    :09:37    1968
05    Vanilla Fudge - Some Velvet Morning    :07:33    1969
06    Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out    :09:32    1969
07    Guns 'n' Roses - November Rain    :08:57    1991
08    Derek & the Dominos - Layla    :07:10    1970
09    Oasis - All Around the World    :09:41    1997
10    Alice Cooper - Halo of Flies    :08:22    1971
11    Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven    :08:02    1971
12    Booker T. & Priscilla - The Weding Song    :09:29    1971
13    Don McLean - American Pie    :08:34    1971
14    Renaissance - Kiev    :07:33    1972
15    Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do    :07:46    1973
16    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Take Your Time    :07:29    1974
17    Mungo Jerry - Get Down on Your Baby    :07:57    1976
18    Meat Loaf     - Paradise By the Dashboard Light    :08:30    1977
19    Deep Purple - Child In Time    :09:53    1980
20    Laurie Anderson - O-Superman    :08:23    1981
21    Eurythmics - Paint a Rumour    :08:01    1983
22    Beatles - Hey Jude    :07:04    1968
23    Cashman & West - American City Suite    :07:49    1990
24    Cannonball Adderley - Games    :07:19    1966
25    Steppenwolf - For Madmen Only    :08:34    1971
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