They ignored the rules.

Bob Dylan’s new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, is sold as two discs: nine songs on one CD and one song on the other. It wasn’t necessary to divide them up this way; all 10 songs will fit on a standard ...

Good things come to those who wait, or so the proverb says. And this maxim also applies to long songs. There are times, of course, when a terse pop song fits the moment—a quick sugar high when you ...

In 1972, the U.K rock band Yes released a song unlike almost anything else in rock music. Running 18 minutes and 43 seconds, "Close to the Edge" occupied an entire side of the band's landmark album of ...

“The Last of Us” may have had its “Stranger Things” moment early, in the third episode of its initial season. The bump that the Netflix show gave to a song, Kate Bush’s classic “Running Up That Hill ...

Reasonable people may disagree on what makes a song long. But for this list, I set the minimum at five minutes. That’s well past the radio-friendly mark. Plenty of time to bore us before you get to ...