Basic Trope: A band plays songs that last longer than usual.
- Straight: The Alice and Bob Project, a prog rock band, is well known for playing 20-minute songs containing unusual rhythms, extended instrumental sections, and more.
- Exaggerated: The Alice and Bob Project are well known for releasing 4-disc epic concept albums featuring only one song, replete with 20-minute keyboard solos, Word Salad Lyrics, and taking in pretty much every musical influence you can think of.
- Downplayed: The Alice and Bob Project tend to write fairly conventional, but interesting songs lasting around seven minutes.
- Justified: The band like to be creative, pushing the boundaries of the genre.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: The Alice and Bob Project finally release an album consisting of three minute songs.
- Double Subverted: Until you turn the record over to Side 2, which is all one 20-minute epic.
- Parodied:
- The lyrics contain self-deprecating jokes relating to the song's length, such as "It feels like we started an hour ago," or - at the end - "Is it over yet?"
- The song literally has no end.
- Parodied/Justified: That's the "Please flip the record" song put in the lead-out groove of Side Anote .
- Zig Zagged: The song lasts for 53 seconds, then ends, but it was a Fake-Out Fade-Out but then it ends again later, but that was also a Fake-Out Fade-Out.
- Averted: The Alice and Bob Project are a normal rock band who play conventional four-minute songs.
- Enforced: Their fans wouldn't have it any other way.
- Lampshaded:
- "Good lord, how much longer is this song?"
- The album (or song) starts with "—finally over," and ends with "thank god it's—"
- Invoked: The act of writing the song in the first place.
- Exploited: The Alice and Bob Project, who have been trying to release a two-disc album for a long time, realize they can accomplish this by filling one whole CD with a single mega-length song.
- Defied: The record company are trying to make the band more commercially successful, and insist on them writing songs which are of marketable single length.
- Discussed: "I really want a song that can just be us showing off. I know, let's make a 17 minute song!"
- Conversed: "Say, is there a rule that states the longer a song is, the more epic it is?" "Something like that, yes."
- Deconstructed: The Alice and Bob Project wrote an album consisting of 20 plus-minute rock songs, but the listeners eventually grow bored of listening to even one song that never seems to end. The album would eventually fail in sales and become disliked by critics and audiences alike.
- Reconstructed: But the Alice and Bob Project didn't care, and claimed all their effort in writing those absurdly long songs was Worth It.
- Played For Laughs: When the Alice and Bob Project appear on a popular sketch comedy series, they perform a song here, the camera cuts to another sketch, and the song can still be heard in the background.
- Untwist: In later years, the Project claims that their next song will be shorter, and it is... by less than 30 seconds.
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