Long songs that are totally worth it
 

Or not? Talking over 7 minutes here...

Worth it:
Sonic Youth- The Diamond Sea
Pink Floyd- Echoes
Porcupine Tree- Anesthetize
Opeth- The Lotus Eater
Tool- Third Eye

Need editing:
Lynyrd Sknynrd- Free Bird
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- American X
Steve Roach- Structures From Silence
Creedance Clearwater Revival- I Put A Spell On You

Others?

Worth:

Neil Young - Down by the River
Zep - Stairway, Carouselambra, In the Light
SUICIDE - Frankie Teardrop
Yes - South Side of the Sky, Roundabout, Starship Trooper
Hendrix - Voodoo Chile
Television - Marquee Moon
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine Parts I-V and V-VIII or whatever they are, Echoes of course too..
Rush - LaVilla Strangiato, Xanadu, Natural Science, Cygnus X-1, shit half their body of work, good tough trivia question to guess how many over 7
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man,
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
MGMT - Siberian Breaks, Metanoia


Not worth it:

Eagles - Hotel California
Don McLean - American Pie ...God i hate that song!

Worth:
Miles Davis- Pharaoh's Dance
Bob Dylan- High Lands
Bob Dylan- Desolation Row
Bob Dylan- Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Velvet Underground- Sister Ray
Jimi Hendrix- Machine Gun
Funkadelic- Maggot Brain


Not:
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno- No Pussyfooting
I got love for Fripp and Eno. But, this album goes on entirely too long

Sympathy for the Strawberry sy
Rain on Tin sy.

well almost any long sy song.

European Son VU

Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Sunn 0))) - 0))) Bow 2
Fantomas - Delirium Cordia
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
The Tubes - White Punks On Dope
Limp Bizkit - Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)
Electric Wizard - I, The Witchfinder

Willie The Pimp by Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly (yes, this is debatable, but its such a classic of stoned excess)

Desolation Row by Bob Dylan

I never understood that long ambient sequence in Karen Revisited. It just sounds like filler to me.

Bunch o' lame asses y'all.

Boris - Absolutego
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Corrupted - most things by them.

Let's get with the program, please!

Great topic and lots of great references in here!

I'd add:

Television - "The Dreamers Dream"
Herbie Hancock - "Head Hunters"
Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
My Morning Jacket - "Steam Engine" & "Dondante"
SY - "Hits of Sunshine"
Jane's Addiction - "Three Days" & "Then She Did"
Explosions in the Sky - "Time Stops"
Mudhoney - "Broken Hands"
Yes - "Roundabout"
Cracker - "Euro Trash Girl"

You're beautiful.

Boredoms - Super Going
Shellac - Didn't We Deserve A Look at the Way You Really Are?
most Rodan songs
every A Minor Forest song
tons of drone/ambient/etc

hear, hear!

Shit & Shine's Ladybird

Every good drone song.

The Graze of Days also.

Maggot Brain

Just say the whole of sapphie

The whole of Sapphie.

Happy? Cunt.

My cunt if I had one would be happy.

Francisco Lopez - Untitled #89