Is That The Time? 10 Of The Best Long Songs In Pop

First there was Justin Timberlake trying to best Oasis’s ‘Be Here Now’ for sheer weight of songs designed to be slightly longer than ‘Hey Jude’. Now The Knife have swanned in with new album ‘Shaking The Habitual’ and its central 19-minute monstrosity ‘Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realized’, a track as elongated and devoid of event as a cricket innings. Yeah, sort of. Are we witnessing the rebirth of the epic? If we are, artists could do worse than emulate these radio-unfriendly marathons (and not, say, ‘November Rain’).

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