Most Complex Songs of All Time

These are the most complex songs of all time. Songs that have more than one meaning, or make you really think about why the artist wrote the song.
The Top Ten
1 Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Not only the best song of all time, but certainly the most complex. Doesn't necessarily have a double meaning, that I know of though.

Reminded me of a Musical or a play. I loved how the song somehow told a story and how I immediatly fell in love with it.

Nah, its not easy but their are definitely harder songs to play

2 Octavarium - Dream Theater

Jesus Christ Bohemian Rhapsody is only 7 min but this is 24 min and I just orchestra not any lyrics

Not only it lasts 24 minutes but it also changes time signatures a lot of times.

Have yet to hear anything more complex

3 The Dance of Eternity - Dream Theater

This is easily #1. I mean, 130 time signature changes in just 6 minutes? Surely no band has gone as complex as this. Dream Theater is amazing.

This needs torn be no. 1

4 Lateralus - Tool

Tool are like the Pink Floyd of the 21st century, and this song proves it. This is a masterpiece! The rhythms and tempos change very often thorough the song and the lyrics are amazing... Made by GENIUSES!

Lateralus is a song weaved from the fabric of the universe. It goes deeper and deeper in order to lift you ever higher.

This song is one of the most complex songs I've ever heard. Bohemian Rhapsody was legendary, but not as complex as this mind****.

5 Hotel California - The Eagles

Some believe that "Hotel California" is basically a replica of the Playboy Mansion. Others believe that the Hotel is full of drugs. But most, including me, don't believe in this nonsense, and just believe that the song is meant to be taken as, "you should always lie life to the fullest."

6 And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian

This song is so complex and long, with so many tracks that it alone required as much production time as the rest of the album.

7 Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

There are many different theories for what the meaning of the song truly is, a few of them really creepy. But it is a wonderful song!

8 La Villa Strangiato - Rush

What is "Complex"?
For me the musicality in this is complex but for others Bohemian Rhapsody's meaning is complex.

Get this to #1. Bohemian Rhapsody is nothing compared to this.

Try playing the drums of guitar on this song

Impossible

9 Wheel of Time - Blind Guardian
10 Sound Chaser - Yes
The Contenders
11 Let It Be - The Beatles

Some believe that the song is about Jesus's mother, Mary. Others believe that "Mary" is actually marijuana. And some believe that "Mary" is Paul's mother, and that she came to him in a dream and said, "Let it be."

McCartney has stated that he had a dream about his mother (who died before hia rise to fame) during the Beatles' breakup in which she told him everything would be all right.

12 Paranoid Android - Radiohead

Bohemian Rhapsody but with better lyrics and better everything else.

One of the most sonically complex songs I’ve ever heard. Similar to, but more modern than Bohemian rhapsody

13 A Change of Seasons - Dream Theater
14 Supper's Ready - Genesis

Are there other songs with as many instruments, as many different sections with different feelings and meanings and as much lyrics and solos? There may be, but it's hard to find many. 23 minutes in seven sections of pure mindblowing effort.

incredible

15 Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead
16 Walk This Way - Aerosmith

Some believe that the whole song is talking about sex, which makes sense if you listen to it closely. Also, when played backwards, "Walk This Way" turns into "Hail Satan."

17 Sacred Worlds - Blind Guardian
18 Discipline - King Crimson
19 Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

Some believe that the song is about drugs.

20 March of the Black Queen - Queen

Should be one of the top 5

21 Hey Jude - The Beatles

Some believe that the song was written about using heroin. But the song is really about Lennon's son Julian, after his parents broke up.

22 Car Radio - Twenty One Pilots

It's about Tyler getting his car radio stolen, not much complexity to that. Instrumental wise, bland as usual. Dream Theater below this? No.

The meaning is hard to uncover at first, but it is very complex and deep.

23 Chance - Savatage
24 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Doesn't have a double meaning that I know of, but the song is really hard to fully understand.

25 American Pie - Don McLean

Virtually every single line has another meaning; see if you can figure them all out.

The most brilliant lyrics ever put to music.

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