Favorite L-O-N-G Rock&Roll Songs

[TopCatGr58]

Hey there Xsives!

Just another trip down memory lane tonight! Was thinking about many of the l-o-n-g (over 7 minutes) Rock and Roll songs that I've enjoyed over the years, and wanted to post many of my favorites, and then hear about any others!

Ted Nugent: Stranglehold

CCR: Heard it thru the Grapevine

Doors: Riders on the Storm

Here's a rare one, Original Album Cut from Little River Band:
It's a Long Way There!!!

Pink Floyd: Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part1
honorable mention: Comfortably Numb ~6:23 < 7 min

Grand Funk: Inside Looking Out

Santana: Abraxas Suite....Crying beasts/Black Magic Woman/ Oye Como Va.

Dire Straits: Money For Nothing

Any Led Zep that qualifies!

Beatles: Abbey Road Suite:

Frampton: Do You Feel like I do.

[Hobbit]

songs

Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

[macnut xj]

Grand Funk: I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home.

Boston: Long Time

Traffic: Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys

Don McLean: The Day the Music Died

Steppenwolf: The Pusher (live version)

Rare Earth: Get Ready

Joe Cocker: With a Little Help From My Friends

Sugarloaf: Green Eyed Lady

The Doors: Roadhouse Blues

Creedence: Heard it Through The Grapevine

Elton John: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

The Who: Won't Get Fooled Again

Just a few of my favorites!

[jetmechmarty]

Charlie Daniels Band -Saddle Tramp

Actually for any of us listening to album oriented rock in the mid seventies, we should be able to make a very long list. I still have my LP collection and dozens of those records have one or two songs on an album side.

[Materi]

Freebird - Lynard Skynard
100,000 years - KISS (Live version from KISS ALIVE)

Don't get me started on Classic Rock,

Great thread

[tfm3]

Something tells me that this thread is going to take on a life of it's own, like the favorite movie lines thread.
ELP- karn evil 9
King Crimson- 21st Century Schizoid Man
Yes- Starship Troopers
Rush- 2112
Zep- Kashmir [obviously]
It's a Beautiful Day- Whitebird
The The- Uncertain Smile
Okay, where did I leave my medication?? I know it's around here somewhere....

[John]

My choices would be:

Yes- anything from Tales From Topographic Oceans(4 sides, 4 songs), anything from Close to the Edge, Gates of Delirium, Awaken, South Side of the Sky, Hearts of the Sunrise etc...Basically anything from them
Uriah Heep- Gypsy, Look At Yourself, July Morning, and Circle Of hands
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon, It's all one long song anyway. Wish You Were Here.
ELP- Most anything from Brain Salad Surgery, and Tarkus
King Crimson-Court of the Crimson King
Iron Butterfly-Innagadadevita (?)
Rush-Any older concept album
Grand Funk-Anything up to the Phoenix album
And I'm sure there are others that I can't think of right now.

[TopCatGr58]

Bit o Trivia re: In-a-Gadda-da-vida

That name came into being due to the writer being so smashed, drunk, stoned, that he couldn't speak correctly, and was trying to say: "In the garden of eden"! Least, that's what I heard on either Kasey Kasem, or Flashback!? Sounds Plausible anyways!
T.C.

Surprised haven't seen mentioned:

Neil Young: Down by the River!

[Geezer]

Most of the ones listed are on my golden moldy favorites list but I'd like to add a few more.

Janice Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGhee" Not a long album cut but good traveling music just the same.

Deep Purple's "Smoke on the water" Even the short version was long.

There was a 3 Dog Night song with a long drum solo on one of their albums but I don't rememer the song or the album.

Geezer

[John]

Hell, Geez, I figured you for Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, and Lawrence Welk!

[Geezer]

Originally posted by John
Hell, Geez, I figured you for Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, and Lawrence Welk!

Hell, I'm old but I'm not dead. I had to listen to the Lawrence Welk show at my grandmother's house when I'm a kid, that stuff makes me wretch...

I'm a full generation behind the big band stuff but most of it isn’t' bad once in a while but it gets old pretty quick.

A friend of mine introduced me to traditional Irish music. I don’t know what the hell they’re singing about most of the time but I like most of it.

[TopCatGr58]

Shoot, John,

I think Geezer saw George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin in CONCERT!!
T.C.

[John]

I was also 'forced' to watch Lawrence Welk, and Sing Along with Mitch, Gunsmoke and the like when I used to stay at my grandmothers also. Which was every weekend. 40 years ago...
But ya know, now I find myself liking Motown now, and even some...(gulp) classical stuff. When it's performed with passion, some Beethoven ain't too bad.

[Geezer]

Originally posted by TopCatGr58
Shoot, John,

I think Geezer saw George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin in CONCERT!!
T.C.

Actually it was the Woody Height (sp?) band in concert at the Roase Garden in Portland about 22 years ago... Also I was the second string network administrator at the Oregon Symphony for awhile. I like all kinds of music except for disco and that crap my grandmother used to force me to listen to.

I can even tolerate a little Country music but I prefer Bluegrass banjo picking. Is that "foggy mountain breakdown playing in the distance... ;o)

Geezer

[tfm3]

Woody Hite Big Band, Geezer. They were awesome.