History Main / EpicRocking

->''"14. The longer a song is, the more epic it is."''
-->--'''[[http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/fun_comments.php?fun_id=6&page=&message_id= The 101 rules of Power Metal]]'''

->''"14. The longer a song is, the more epic it is."''v

* Brazilian band Legião Urbana has [[https://lyricstranslate.com/en/faroeste-caboclo-caboclo-western.html "Faroeste Caboclo,"]] a 9-minute-long song (with 42 stanzas and ''no'' choruses or solos) about a poor boy from the countryside who moves to the country's capital and becomes an outlaw folk hero (it even earned a movie adaptation!). They managed to surpass it with 11-minute long [[https://lyricstranslate.com/en/metal-contra-nuvens-metal-against-clouds.html-1 "Metal Contra as Nuvens."]]

->''"14. The longer a song is, the more epic it is."''

* Music/SlyAndTheFamilyStone: "Sex Machine", "Africa Talks to You 'The Asphalt Jungle'", "Thank You for Talkin' to Me, Africa" (itself an Epic Remake of their own [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} "Thank U Falettin Me Be Mice Elf Again".]]

* The long version of Music/TheChambersBrothers' psychedelicized rock/soul epic "Time Has Come Today" runs 11:02. It also counts in another medium, as film director Creator/HalAshby used the whole 11 minute song to soundtrack an especially tense climatic scene in his film ''Film/ComingHome''.

* The long version of Music/TheChambersBrothers' psychedelicized rock/soul epic "Time Has Come Today" runs 11:02.

* Brazilian band Legião Urbana has [[http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Legião_Urbana:Faroeste_Caboclo "Faroeste Caboclo,"]] a 9-minute-long song (with 42 stanzas and ''no'' choruses or solos) about a poor boy from the countryside who moves to the country's capital and becomes an outlaw folk hero (it even earned a movie adaptation!). They managed to surpass it with 11-minute long [[http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Legião_Urbana:Metal_Contra_As_Nuvens "Metal Contra as Nuvens."]]

* Music/{{Melvins}} have a few examples, the longest being the 22-minute title track to ''Pigs of the Roman Empire'' (a collaboration with Lustmord). Although their self-titled album is indexed as one 31 minute track, it's actually several different songs, including covers of Music/AliceCooper and Flipper, so it may not count.
** Just barely beating "Pigs of the Roman Empire" by 30 seconds is "Hands First Flower", which is technically a solo piece by one-time member Joe Preston (as a tongue-in-cheek nod to Music/{{Kiss}} doing the same thing, they had put out 4 solo EP's under the Melvins name in one year): It's much more in line with drone metal than the rest of their material, which makes sense because Joe Preston had joined the band just after leaving the already mentioned Earth.

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* These [[https://www.discogs.com/lists/5-Hours-New/1094723 two]] Discogs [[https://www.discogs.com/lists/5-Hours/933946 lists]], both quite long themselves (ArchivePanic in full effect here), but to save you the time looking through them, the longest entries of both lists are 10^100 years & 9×10[[superscript:3623]] years long, respectively.

* These [[https://www.discogs.com/lists/5-Hours-New/1094723 two]] Discogs [[https://www.discogs.com/lists/5-Hours/933946 lists]], both quite long themselves (ArchivePanic in full effect here), but to save you the time looking through them, the longest entries of both lists are 10^100 years & 9^10[[superscript:3623]] years long, respectively.

* These [[https://www.discogs.com/lists/5-Hours-New/1094723 two]] Discogs [[https://www.discogs.com/lists/5-Hours/933946 lists]], both quite long themselves (ArchivePanic in full effect here), but to save you the time looking through them, the longest entries of both lists are 10^100 years & 9^10[[superscript:3623]] years long.

* The ''Franchise/{{D4DJ}}'' franchise has the song "LOVE!HUG!GROOVY!!", which features all 24 members of the series' original six units, and is about 6 1/2 minutes long. When the song was added to ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'', it was split into three separate songs, with each one representing two of the units, [[spoiler:[[SecretLevel although the full version can be played]] through an EasterEgg]].

* The ''Franchise/{{D4DJ}}'' franchise has the song "LOVE!HUG!GROOVY!!", which features all 24 mebers of the series' original six units, and is about 6 1/2 minutes long. When the song was added to ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'', it was split into three separate songs, with each one representing two of the units, [[spoiler:[[SecretLevel although the full version can be played]] through an EasterEgg]].

* Carbon Based Lifeforms has a lot of tracks that run from the 7- to 10-minute range, but special note goes to "VLA": in addition to the [[https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/track/vla-edit 10-minute version]] on the album ''Twentythree'', there's the 45-minute EP edit that's used on streaming services and finally, the [[https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/album/vla full version]] that's ''one hour'' long!

* The full version of "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" by soul group The Temptations is nearly 12 minutes long - a lot of that length is due to a four-minute EpicInstrumentalOpener. Even the single edit only cuts it down to about 7 minutes.