Top 10 Best Songs Over 10 Minutes Long

Some songs are built for radio. Others stare at the clock, laugh, and keep going until you forget what minute you were on. When you press play on a track that runs past the ten-minute line, you are not signing up for background noise. You are stepping into something bigger, stranger, and a lot more satisfying than the usual verse-chorus sprint.

The best long songs earn every second you give them. They pull you through slow burns, wild detours, huge solos, and endings that feel less like fade-outs and more like surviving a trip.

The Top Ten

  1. Echoes - Pink Floyd

    Whoa, this song is 23 minutes long, probably one of the longest songs ever.

  2. Child in Time - Deep Purple

  3. Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

  4. Dogs - Pink Floyd

    Dogs is wonderful. One of my favorite songs ever.

    Their best song.

  5. Octavarium - Dream Theater

    Probably not better than Echoes, but it really deserves to be in the top 10.

  6. Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

  7. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin

    It was 10 minutes and 31 seconds, making it one of the longest songs by Led Zeppelin.

  8. Voodoo Chile - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Even though I can't get over the fact that he said something like the line at 3:52, it's still a good song. (I'm not telling you the line.)

  9. And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian

  10. 2112 - Rush

    The fact that that stupid copycat song Octavarium is higher than this one, and is higher than a lot of these, makes me so angry.

    11. The Newcomers
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    World Without End - Neal Morse

    It's 33 minutes 39 seconds & was the last track in his 2012 album Momentum. The album itself featured only 6 tracks, with "World Without End" being the final track & separated into 6 movements.

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    Bed (Yeezy Season 5) - Kanye West

    It was 17 minutes 23 seconds & was made solely for his show at New York Fashion Week 2017.

    13. The Contenders

  13. Art of Life - X Japan

  14. Halloween - Helloween

    Helloween are the kings of songs over 10 minutes. The ones on their Keeper of the Seven Keys albums are all so great in their own right, but this one trumps them all. Love me some power metal!

  15. Strobe - deadmau5

  16. Coma - Guns N' Roses

    It was 10 minutes and 16 seconds.

  17. Close to the Edge - Yes

  18. Rosetta Stoned - Tool

  19. The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish

  20. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

  21. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly

  22. Ghost Love Score - Nightwish

  23. Keeper of the Seven Keys - Helloween

  24. The End - The Doors

  25. Impossible Soul - Sufjan Stevens

  26. Starless - King Crimson

    Probably the best song in this category, period!

  27. The Count of Tuscany - Dream Theater

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