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A staple of classical music, but a rare form nearly everywhere else, a great long song is something to behold.
Whether it be a chill out tune that drifts on and on (à la Lamb or Kruder & Dorfmeister), a live performance from a band getting lost in the moment (see Skynyrd's 'Free Bird' on the Old Grey Whistle Test), or a Jazz set infused with much improvisation or solos (Jimmy Smith's 'Got My Mojo Working'), or a drum and bass track that's perfect to drive to (LTJ Bukem for example), songs that last 7 or 8 minutes or longer can be wondrous things.
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Yes, the era of 78s and the 33rpm 'single' record probably were the limiting factors in the length of popular songs in the 20th century; now people expect something relatively brief - and with some sort of visual aspect, which I inevitably find tiresome - and thus have probably evolved into members of a species with a shorter attention span than before!
For something truly wondrous try the songs here. The subject of the page is 'only' a five-minuter, but Im Abendrot (At Twilight) is a great Long Song. I think Strauss was eighty-five when he wrote them.
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They're neither academia nor something useful; but they are glorious. Beim Schlafengehen is more about 'going to sleep' at the end of one's life than at the end of the day, but I didn't think that would go down well.
So I left it out of the description!