...of Christmas, my Zombie gave to me: ♪
7 minute music
6 ft. tall Grace Jones
Ben Folds Fiiiiiiive
4/4 time
3 Pips and Gladys
2 Live Crew
and Tom Waits singing in a treeeeeeee!
Most pop songs fit neatly into the 4 minute mark. There are many reasons for this, not the least of which is our increasingly shrinking attention spans (but tradition is strong on this matter: the first recordable discs could only hold about 3-4 minutes of music). There are many radio-friendly rock songs that run well over the typical four minutes, stretching to 7 minutes or more. Here are just a few of them:
The End -- The Doors
Isn't It a Pity --George Harrison
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant --Billy Joel
Maggot Brain --Funkadelic
In-a-Gadda-da-Vida --Iron Butterfly
Free Bird --Lynyrd Skynyrd
Purple Rain --Prince
Cortez the Killer --Neil Young
Won't Get Fooled Again --The Who
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