History Quotes / EpicRocking

-->--'''Music/{{Beck}}''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Bendin' in the Wind"

->I think a number of rock classics fall into this category. For example--and I know I'm going to get into serious trouble with the Led Zeppelin people for this, but I need to get it off my chest--I sincerely believe that "Stairway to Heaven" would be a much better song if they cut maybe 45 minutes out of it.[[note]]For example, they don't need the part about [[{{Mondegreen}} "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow."]][[/note]] I also feel this way about "Layla" by Eric Clapton (both versions), "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "American Pie" by Don [=McLean=], "Taxi" by Harry Chapin, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procul Harum, "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd, and of course, "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, some of whom are still singing the na-na-na part.

->Not one short, or even medium-length song, except for one blessedly tight two-minuter right at the end [[note]]As it turns out, this was merely a reprise of the nine-minute song "All Around the World"[[/note]]. This isn't new, exactly. They've recorded songs like this before - [[Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory "Champagne Supernova"]] was eight minutes; [[Music/DefinitelyMaybeAlbum "Rock 'n' Roll Star"]] spends its last two minutes just blasting away. But it's one thing to do it on one great song on a classic album and another to expect your fans to have spend seven minutes listening to something called [[WordSaladLyrics "Magic Pie"]].

-->-- '''J. Bennett''', on Music/{{Sleep}}'s Dopesmoker

->Sometimes the riff's so fucking good that you just want to hear it over and over again... sometimes for 52 minutes.

->I've been singing this song now for 25 minutes. I could sing it for another 25 minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

-->-- Isaac Brock of Music/ModestMouse on this trope.

-->-- '''[[http://davidwynne.livejournal.com/168853.html David]]"For The" [[ParticleFiction Wynne]]''' on metal

-->-- '''DaveBarry''', ''Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs''

-->-- '''TheClash''', "The Magnificent Seven", Live in Boston, Sept 7, 1982

-->--'''Beck''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Bendin' in the Wind"

->I think a number of rock classics fall into this category. For example--and I know I'm going to get into serious trouble with the Led Zeppelin people for this, but I need to get it off my chest--I sincerely believe that "Stairway to Heaven" would be a much better song if they cut maybe 45 minutes out of it.[[hottip:*:For example, they don't need the part about [[{{Mondegreen}} "If there's a bustle in your hedgerow."]]]] I also feel this way about "Layla" by Eric Clapton (both versions), "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "American Pie" by Don [=McLean=], "Taxi" by Harry Chapin, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procul Harum, "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd, and of course, "Hey Jude" by the Beatles, some of whom are still singing the na-na-na part.

-->-- '''Dave King''' of FloggingMolly, following a 12-minute-long live version of "Black Friday Rule"

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->''"I don't know about you bastards, but I've grown at least five years fucking older during that song."''
-->-- '''Dave King''' of Flogging Molly, following a 12-minute-long live version of "Black Friday Rule"

->Bender, that was the best forty-minute washboard solo I've ever heard. The parts where I was awake blew my mind.
-->--'''Beck''', WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, ''Bendin' in the Wind''

-->--'''Beck''', [[Futurama]], ''Bendin' in the Wind''

-->-- '''[[http://davidwynne.livejournal.com/168853.html David Wynne]]''' on metal