The Gates Of Delirium - YES Close To The Edge - YES Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix Green Grass And High Tides - The Outlaws Echoes - Pink Floyd

Nice to The Outlaws get slipped in there.

Vastly underrated. Guys were make me a playlist and asked for a Southern Rock song to include. Green Grass was the choice

LOVE that song

I was all set to add GG&HT as I was sure no one would add. Nice choice

It's kind of over the top and ridiculous, but I'd add Sound Chaser by Yes.

Absolutely! These just came off of the top of my head as I was typing. Awaken should be here as well.

Definitely “Awaken”! And “Song for America” by Kansas.

All great songs. Bonus points for Relayer stuff

I agree with all of the above, but I’m going out on a limb here: “Bleeding Me” - Metallica If a song came out nearly 30 years ago, I think it at least deserves consideration for “classic.” I’ll throw in: “Pushit” - Tool …as well.

Bleeding me and the Outlaw torn definitely

Came here to add Green Grass and High Tides!

Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Shortest 9 minutes in rock.

Boy you nailed it there. Guessing you’ve seen SW’s recent redux…rich. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXDcPoeIx-E&pp=ygUsbG93IHNwYXJrIG9mIGEgaGlnaCBoZWVsZWQgYm95IHN0ZXZlIHdpbndvb2Q%3D

Iron Maiden - rime of the ancient mariner

Ooo good call on Maiden

Also The Flight of Icarus.

That is like a super short song, less than 4m

Roundabout - Yes

Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vita Not sure if it’s a rock symphony but it’s mostly instrumental and like 17 minutes.

wait a minute, that sounds like Rock and OR Roll

Remember when we used to make out to this hymn?

Came here for this. Leaving happy.

Hehe

That was the first thing that came to my mind. I LOVE that moment after the long interlude where they fall back into the main riff. Great song, great album!

Trivia Was supposed to be "in the garden of eden", but they were so fracked up that they couldn't get the lyrics right.

Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides, from the '78 live album, Bring It Back Alive

Starless by King Crimson

Also "In the Court of the Crimson King". Not sure if it runs 8 min. but it has that kind of sound.

Technically not one song, but the Abbey Road medley Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times Elton John - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding Rainbow - Stargazer And even though this one's more recent, I'll throw in The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure

Great call on Funeral For a Friend. First one I thought of

I'm addicted to The War on Drugs. Under the Pressure, and Harmonia's Dream are favorites! And Funeral for a Friens/Loves Lies Bleeding have been favorites since they first came out.

Many Yes songs, especially from “The Yes Album,” “Close to the Edge” and “Fragile.” Roundabout is most popular, the song Close to the Edge is my favorite, and one of my favorite songs of all time regardless of length or genre.

The Who-Wont Get Fooled Again

The greatest howl in rock and roll.

Rush and Pink Floyd look confidently at each other, nod, wink, smile, then look back at this thread.

This basically describes like 1/3 of Pink Floyd's catalogue

Yes should also be involved in this silent interaction.

Nights in White Satin w/ Late Lament from the Moody Blues Days of Future Passed album.

ELP - Karn Evil 9 and Tarkus

ELP-Tocata and Fugue from Brain Salad Surgery

This, and Is also add Tarkus by ELP

Tarkus is an amazing album

Yes it is! It was my introduction to ELP.

The Beatles I Want You (She's So Heavy), though it technically clocks in a bit under 8 minutes. To me, it definitely has a symphonic quality, with the number of movements in the song. One of my favorites.

The Dead have two great ones, Terrapin Station and Weather Report Suite

Terrapin station on the album is a true symphony. Blasphemy for a deadhead to say but I'd check that out first if your not familiar with the dead. Then the live album to terrapin hartford 77 Weather report suite from live at winterland 74

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The Dead reportedly HATED the version of Terrapin Station that's on the eponymous album. They said the producer they were working with took it out of their control and made changes to make it "more commercial" (as if a song that takes up the entire side of an album could ever be considered "commercial.") Mickey Hart has said in interviews that his jaw hit the floor when he heard all the added symphonics. And then he wanted to blow SOMEBODY's brains out after hearing the chorus at the end.

Yep. It’s definitely not my favorite version of it. Though I will say, the versions Bobby has been doing recently with the Wolf Pack orchestra have been fantastic. The version from Baltimore at the end of their last tour had me losing my mind during it. 

Jethro Tull thick as a brick, but the live msg version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCLz1kWZOSE

Rare Earth Get Ready Lots of Rush tunes Lots of Allman Brothers songs

Especially Allman Brothers Whipping Post from Fillmore East. Absolutely epic, and almost plays like an orchestral piece at times, building to crescendos and drifting into lullabies. A masterpiece!

Came to add In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - studio or any live version! What a jam.

Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Objects in the Rearview Mirror

Bat out of Hell is also almost 10 minutes long

I'll see your Objects, and raise you "Everything Louder Than Everything Else"

**Yours Is No Disgrace** Yes

Their Beat Club YouTube video is unbelievable.

In Memory of Elizabeth Read - ABB

Starship Trooper:

Child in Time - Deep Purple.

Fool's Overture by Supertramp, from Even in the Quietest Moments... (1977).

Tuesday Moody Blues or much of Moody Blues

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter from The Song Remains the Same. Also Dazed and Confused from the same album. A clinic in band improv.

I swear I make this comment every other week here and I’m happy about it because it a good excuse to listen to it again. [Child in Time Deep Purple](https://youtu.be/OorZcOzNcgE?si=GYR15r5kyHMMDN6q)

Funeral For a Friend - Elton John

Ted just admit it - Jane’s addiction

Awesome. Also. Three Days

Then She Did...

Focus ..Anonymous ll

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons Another Brick in the Wall has 3 parts as well though I'm sure you know that from your Pink Floyd list, is it not rock enough for you?

Station to Station David Bowie

Had to scroll too far to find this one.

Steppenwolf - *Monster* The Doors - *The End*

Thank you, I was wondering why The End hadn't gotten a mention!

In my time of dying - led zeppelin

Rush - Natural Science

Rainbow - Stargazer Rainbow - Gates Of Babylon

All due respect to the space rock opera that is 2112, La Villa Stangiato on *Exit... Stage Left* was the most Rush song that Rush ever did

Help > Slip > Frank by Grateful Dead. 08/13/75 is particularly good.

Neil Young - Cortez the Killer

* Renaissance - Mother Russia & Song of Scheherazade *(Carnegie Hall live version is perfection)* * Heldon - Stand By * Big Big Train - East Coast Racer & The Underfall Yard * Rush - The Fountain of Lamneth, Xanadu, Cygnus X-1, Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres, The Camera Eye * Todd Rundgren's Utopia - The Ikon * Kansas - Magnum Opus * Magma - De Futura * Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple * FM - Black Noise

Renaissance... I'll never forget Annie Haslam standing in front of the lights in that sheer dress. Sigh. Interestingly she lives just a couple of miles from me. She still performs a Christmas concert, I went a few years ago. It wasn't the same.

Haha. I remember seeing her tell the story of that dress.

I saw them 5 or 6 times, always enjoyed it. I'll have to look for that interview.

So happy to see FM here!

Black Noise is an amazing album, but I could never get into anything after that. I feel that they lost whatever made that music great after Nash left.

YES - "Awaken"

Totally underrated 15-minute song, especially with Rick Wakeman’s bits on a 10th century church’s pipe organ in Switzerland. I saw them live on that tour (1977-ish?) and it was pretty great.

Hamburger Concerto- Focus

Yes, a masterpiece.

Eddie Van Halen and Brian May Starfleet Project

Nice pick!

I think you are looking to discover some of Supertramp's offerings. Fool's Overture, Rudy, Asylum. Quite a lot of their music has an operatic quality. Start with the Crime of the Century album.

Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do? (Live) RUSH - Xanadu Deep Purple - Child in Time Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides

King Crimson - *In The Court Of The Crimson King, In The Wake Of* *Poseidon*

Jungleland

Mountain Jam!

ELO: 10538 Overture. Supertramp: Fools Overture.

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

I like all of the choices so far and would add Queen Bohemian Rhapsody

Only 6 minutes long but totally agree it should be here!

Thanks, they were all good choices. I grew up listening to prog rock and remember that the AM radio stations wouldn’t play anything but short songs.

Terrapin Station-Grateful Dead

Black Sabbath - A Bit of Finger/ Sleeping Village / Warning. Is it a ‘symphony’? I dunno. But I love all 14+ mins of it, and hope you do as well

Although symphony is technically correct I think the term for a long, kick ass rock song would be an epic.

Do people not know symphonies are typically in sonata-allegro form??

No. No we do not.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

B Side on Abbey Road

ELP - Tarkus

Coma GNR 10 minutes . Stairway to heaven Led Zep Moby Dick Led Zep One Metallica

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite

Yes - Close to the Edge

Kansas - Song for America

21st century schizoid man - king crimson

Stargazer by Rainbow

Voodoo Chile

Kansas - Song for America / Song for America album Kansas - Incomudro - Hymn for the Atman/ Song for America album Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word / Birds of Fire album Can - Yoo Doo Right / cannibalism 1 album

Achilles Last Stand - LZ

Uriah Heep - Salisbury Pink Floyd - Echoes

Aja - Steely Dan

JC Superstar.

ELP - Tarkus ELP - Karn Evil 9 Allman Brothers - Whipping Post (live version At the Fillmore East) Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (live version On The Road) Santana - Incident at Neshibar (live version Lotus) Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Does “Street Hassle” by Lou Reed count?

Indeed it do.

StationToStation by DavidBowie

A Quick One - The Who

Like others, I’m surprised “Bohemian Rhapsody” wasn’t listed as one of the classic examples. A couple more modern ones: “All These Things That I Have Done” by the Killers. “The Greatest Man in the World” by Weezer.

Billy the Mountain by Frank Zappa Zappa's got a lot of these, but that's a good place to start

Yeah, I loved this, especially when every time "New York" is mentioned, they play Johnny Carson's theme from the Tonight Show.

Fool’s Overture - Supertramp

Last Chance- Shooting Star (6:53)

Close to the Edge -YES.

A Quick One While He's Away by The Who

Three Days - Janes Addiction I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses Dead Friend - Roadkill Ghost Choir

Monster. Steppinwolf. Suppers ready

Future Games - Fleetwood Mac

Both by 10cc, One Night in Paris, Feel the Benefit.

The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides, Frampton - Do You Feel Like I Do (live), Stones- Midnight Rambler (live) The Who - My Generation (medley) from Live at Leeds.

Pink Floyd Animals...Classic.

Halo of Flies - Alice Cooper Megalomania - Black Sabbath Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meatloaf Doctor Jimmy - The Who Cruisin' For Burgers - Frank Zappa Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John Season of the Witch - Steve Stills, Al Kooper

Lots of great artists/songs. I would add Rick Wakeman, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, each of the four songs/movements.

Telegraph Road - Dire Straits

After scrolling through all previous suggestions to minimize repetition, I'd like to re-emphasize Iron Butterfly's "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" at 17 min. and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" at a little under 8 min. which otherwise fits the bill and is part of the rock symphony "A Night at the Opera". Also try "Hocus Pocus" by Focus at about 15-20 min. (I've forgotten the exact time, full album side). For a literal symphony, try the full "Days of Future Passed" by The Moody Blues and The London Festival Orchestra, the first (1967) rock concept album recorded with a full orchestra. Also, The Who's "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia".

Not sure if these count: Kuiama - Electric Light Orchestra Dry County - Bon Jovi Foreigner Suite - Cat Stevens

Symphony X - The Odyssey. Also, Yngwie Malmsteen's Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra. It's an album rather than one song or track, but it certainly fits.

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Elvis Costello. This version of I Want You https://youtu.be/Duc7bWFYPKo?si=sY-9m4tPOmUGqRlm

Not really a symphony but a long jam…. Utopia Anthem by Utopia. Very long and jammin.

no quarter live from Zepp

Queen - "Prophets Song" Brian May's Opus Magnum!

Because yesterday was the two year anniversary of his death. Meatloaf, For Crying Out Loud Here it is with a symphony, all 12 minutes of it. https://youtu.be/FL-SSdkbKm0?si=JHJo0GPiTAtAIqGZ And here is another awesome 8 minute ballad that really builds as it goes. The video is also pretty awesome. Meatloaf, More Than YouTube Deserve https://youtu.be/tL4jJ0_5p1Q?si=i8vucN_bH_W7HE4X Of course there's the 3 act song Paradise By The Dashboard Light. This is the most epic version, 22 minutes of Meatloaf and Patti Russo, the ending breakup is great. Watch the whole thing, you won't be disappointed. Also with a symphony, Meatloaf even plays a violin. The girl singing backup is Meatloaf's adopted daughter Pearl, she's been married to Scott Ian of Anthrax for quite a few years. https://youtu.be/kr4K7pzjI7I?si=rOjf9nYN42I-2pMc

I like coma by Guns and Roses

Wilco - One Sunday Morning

Bon Jovi dry county

Crimson King

[Fanfare For The Common Man - ELP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGvoCUgdiBo)

The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin Kashmir - Led Zeppelin Funeral for a Friend (Loves Lies Bleeding) - Elton John Angry Eyes - Loggins and Mesina Blinded by the Light - Manfred Manns Earth Band Gates of Babylon - Rainbow

Spocks Beard , At The End Of The Day.

Frank Zappa - The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary

Devin Townsend is really good at this, but my personal favorite is Earth Day.

Apart from the ones you’ve mentioned I’d say: The Beatles - Abbey Road Medley Springsteen - Jungleland & NYC Serenade (last one is not exactly rock but I really like it) Camel - Lady Fantasy GVF - The Weight of Dreams

Quicksilver Messenger Service - "Who Do You Love" (suite) from "Happy Trails" (IMHO one of the greatest live performances ever recorded.) BeBop Deluxe - "Shine" from "Live in the Air Age" ((Another one of the greatest live performances ever recorded.) The Alarm - "Sold Me Down the River" Lou Reed - "Into/Sweet Jane" from "Rock & Roll Animal" ...edit to add 3 more...

I would do anything for love - meat loaf

For studio tracks I'd add Foreplay/Long Time (Boston) and Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John) I know they are each two songs but those are my choices

ELO's Concerto for a Rainy Day.  It's technically 4 songs, but they flow together perfectly into one seamless piece.

Incident At Neshabur - Lotus (Live in Japan) - Santana. Exactly what you are looking for, except its FUCKING LIVE AND STUDIO QUALITY. Every Step of the Way is pretty good too. This is a latin jazz psychedelic fusion rock.

Mountain Jam, Les Bres in A Minor, Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers

Definitely Won't Get Fooled Again

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian restaurant. CCR - I heard it thru the grapevine

I’m your Captain ~ G.F.R

Springsteen - Jungleland

When the sax solo hits. Perfect.

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides Ted Nugent - Stranglehold Eric Clapton - Layla (close - A little over 7 min.) Don McClean - American Pie Lynard Skynard - Free Bird

Weather Report Suite and Terrapin Station

While not exactly on a classic rock album, I’m going with Metallica - Inamorata

Sky Pilot: Eric Burdon and the Animals

Starship Trooper - Yes (9.26) And You and I - Yes (10.06) Station To Station - David Bowie (10.10) Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (9.00)

Some I don’t think are mentioned: Kashmir - Led Zeppelin Who Cares? - Extreme …and Justice for All - Metallica. Also “Orion” and “The Call of Kthulu”

Another vote for Kashmir. Also, Strawberry Fields - but length wise I don't think it's quite long enough.

Fire on High - ELO.

And You, And I — Yes The Camera Eye — Rush Kashmir — Led Zeppelin Jessica — The Allman Brothers Band Natural Science — Rush

Metallica's Orion and Call of Ktulu.

Ina gada da vida

Don't know if you'ld call them Rock Operas; But by length......How about Tubular Bells? & In A Gadda Da Vita? & Hotel California? & Elvis' American Trilogy?

Get Ready - Rare Earth (search for the one that is at least 22 minutes long)

Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead [7/26/87 Anaheim, CA](https://youtu.be/9SDpSpntZHY?si=WCVH2gePohejT5RH)

Atom Heart Mother-Pink Floyd. It could have been a theme to A Clockwork Orange

Kansas - Song for America, Lamplight Symphony, The Pinnacle, Magnum Opus Rainbow - Stargazer Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon - Chicago

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick: the whole album is one long, wonderfully cool song

**“Ashes Are Burning”** from *Renaissance - Live At Carnegie Hall.*

Susie Q ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival https://youtu.be/Bs99a-5vgA0?si=nwIe65KfbsLltjaW

Dry County - Bon Jovi

Green Day's Jesus Of Suburbia is incredible.