Top 10 Songs that Should Be Shorter

Some 8-, 10-, or 20+-minute songs can be long without getting boring or repetitive, and can introduce a new tune or idea every minute. However, there are also songs where quantity was prioritized over quality.

The Top Ten

  1. Hey Jude - The Beatles

    I have noticed that it works pretty well for a singalong at concerts, but besides that, yes, this song would be better without much of the later part.

    The end of the song is too long and it gets boring fast.

    It's extremely repetitive. You can't deny that.

  2. The Angel and the Gambler - Iron Maiden

    I don't like comments asking for thumbs up, but thumbs up if you expected to see this song on the list after reading the title.

    Yes, I like metal and Iron Maiden, but this song...

    This song is kind of boring and repetitive.

  3. Dopesmoker - Sleep

    I had not heard of this song, but an hour long? Wow, that is going to be a struggle to listen to.

    Not one-hour material. Extremely monotonous.

  4. November Rain - Guns N' Roses

    This song is great, but they need to fade out the end.

  5. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

    I think half of the current length would be enough for this song.

    It's too long. It is just about the Arabian orchestra repeating.

  6. Mirrors - Justin Timberlake

    Actually, the same could be said of the entire album. The average song was over six and a half minutes, extremely unusual for a mainstream pop album.

    I think this is one of Justin Timberlake's better songs, but it does not have enough variation to justify it being over eight minutes long.

  7. American Pie - Don McLean

  8. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson

  9. Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) - Type O Negative

  10. Moonchild - King Crimson

    11. The Newcomers
  11. ?

    Endless Nameless - Nirvana

  12. ?

    Invisible Kid - Metallica

    13. The Contenders

  13. Echo - Leprous

  14. Enter Rain - Pain of Salvation

  15. Around the World - Daft Punk

    I admit, this song was made with the intention to be overlong and repetitive.

    It should be four or five minutes instead of eight minutes.

  16. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

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

    In my opinion, the "drum solo" should be cut out, if you can call someone doing the same slow, repetitive, generic beat for literally 2:20 a drum solo.

    Some solos are quite boring, especially the drum solo. The same beat for like three minutes.

    Should be higher. The 13-minute middle section is repetitive and overlong in my opinion.

  18. 2000 Light Years of Darkness - The Ark

    This is basically the 2000s version of Hey Jude. The first four minutes make a decent song, then they repeat the same sentence (from 3:48) over and over again.

    Note: the last one minute is not part of this song. It's an introduction to the next track on the album.

    Note 2: I really like the fact how this album is just four days younger than me.

  19. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

    I'm going to be honest here. I think the build-up goes for too long and it's too repetitive.

  20. St. Anger - Metallica

    The verse riff is repeating too much.

  21. Panda - Desiigner

  22. Bohemian Rhapsody - Lil Meerkat

  23. Kim - Eminem

  24. Layla - Derek & The Dominos

  25. Vidage - 1000mods

    The intro is 1:38 long, but it's the same roughly 10 seconds on repeat.

  26. Someone Like You - Adele

  27. All Around the World - Oasis

    If you think "Hey Jude" is too long, then you're not gonna like this. It's about nine and a half minutes long and has two, not one, but two key changes. And how many verses does it have? Only two. The rest is pretty much either a repetition of the chorus or some variation of "na na na."

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