Rock Epics: The Songs So Long They Could Outlive Your Lease

Welcome, fellow sonic pilgrims and vinyl-preachin’ time travelers. Today, we don’t just listen to songs — we move into them. These are the epic anthems so long, you could cook a stew, write your memoirs, or raise a couple of chickens before the last note lands.

These ain’t tracks — they’re odysseys, carved in feedback and blessed with guitar solos longer than most marriages. So grab your snack tray, wrap yourself in your favorite band tee, and prepare for a trip through the cathedrals of rock’s extended sermons.

“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” – Iron Butterfly

17:05 – Long enough to grow a beard, learn to drive stick, and question reality. This track ain’t a song — it’s a psychedelic thunderstorm, complete with a drum solo that sounds like the world ending in tie-dye.

“Thick as a Brick” – Jethro Tull

43:46 – You read that right. This song is so long, you could bake a pie and get a parking ticket in the same sitting. This is the entire Book of Rock Psalms, delivered in flute solos and poetic riddles. You don’t listen — you commit.

“Close to the Edge” – Yes

18:43 – Structurally confusing. Spiritually enlightening. Halfway through, you’re not sure if you're in a song or an enchanted forest. Either way, you’re not getting out unchanged.

“The Gates of Delirium” – Yes

22:55 – Starts as a song, ends as a mental breakdown with synths. If you've ever wondered what it sounds like when a band fights a cosmic war, wins, and builds a utopia — this is it.

“The End” – The Doors

11:43 – Spoiler: It's not really the end. It's the beginning of your existential crisis. Jim Morrison whisper-preaches over a sunset apocalypse, and somehow it still grooves.

“Dazed and Confused” (Live) – Led Zeppelin

26:06 – You might forget where you are halfway through, but that’s part of the plan. Jimmy Page turns guitar strings into spells while Plant preaches like the world’s most seductive werewolf.

“Kashmir” – Led Zeppelin

8:32 – Shorter than most here but still sounds like God arriving on a sandstorm. You don’t tap your foot to this one. You bow.

“Echoes” – Pink Floyd

23:31 – A song so vast, you could build emotional real estate in it. Every time you think it’s ending; it reincarnates as something dreamier and stranger.

“Supper’s Ready” – Genesis

22:58 – Imagine if dinner came with prog-folk angels, synth noodles, and a message from beyond. This song is a seven-course meal served on a plate of time signatures and pipe organ prophecies.

“Desolation Row” – Bob Dylan

11:21 – Bob took a guitar, a notebook, and a bottle of something strong and rewrote literature. It’s poetry, madness, and American folklore stitched together in 11 minutes of fingerpicked righteousness.

Still With Us? Welcome to the Revival Tent.

If you made it through that list and still have eardrums intact, then friend — you’re ready for the next chapter in rock history.

Meet the Broken Stone Rock Revival — a powerhouse trio fronted by the sermon-singing’ Firestarter Dirk Allmon. Together, they’re revivin’ the forgotten thunder of the 80s and 90s and turnin’ every bar into a full-blown rock-and-roll tent revival.

No tracks. No filters. Just real music played loud, honest, and hot enough to bless the walls.

So, if you like your solos long, your sermons electric, and your band dressed like they mean it…Pull up a chair.