Help A Guy: Does Length Really Matter?

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by dissention

Say You Will is too long. With what she has to work with, it shouldn't be more than two and a half minutes. After that, it gets ridiculously cloying.



Free Bird is toooooooooooo long. A second of that sucker is too long, but the one they put on record is pure torture. I imagine having my testicles poked at with a soldering tool would be more pleasant than listening to that thing in it's entirety.

Yeah, like you need to imagine.

I know most posters agree about SYW, but I think it's fine.

Come, on the other hand... (And not one comment about my phrasing, thank you.)

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

If you change the length of the song, such as So Afraid and GYOW, then you've heavily altered it.

I get that, & I'd be all for it.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Another one that is agonizingly long is Hollywood on the Time album. It pains me.

- Jake

[face of glass]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Another one that is agonizingly long is Hollywood on the Time album. It pains me.

On the other hand "These Strange Times" should be a lot longer than it is, in order to include more verses about every member of FM.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by face of glass

On the other hand "These Strange Times" should be a lot longer than it is, in order to include more verses about every member of FM.

Listen, nobody likes a wise-ass lizard person.

- Jake

[amber]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Sisters of the Moon -- too much intro.

Blasphemer!! I can't get enough of John's bass!
The end of Come goes on way to long. But I think that about most guitar solos. Oh, so, add the end of ISA from the Dance, too.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by diamondsnake

The intro to In the Back of My Mind is unbearably long! It is pretty cool, but I don't have time to sit there and listen to two minutes of an alien invasion.

Jeez, after "Oh Well", that's the best two minutes of Fleetwood Mac's career.


The live versions of the Allman Bros Band's "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed", "Whipping Post", Fleetwood Mac's "Rattlesnake Shake", Blind Faith's "Do What You Like", Cream's "Spoonful" can never be deemed "too long".

Yet, Skynyrd's "Free Bird" is "too long" at the first chord change.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by amber

Blasphemer!! I can't get enough of John's bass!
The end of Come goes on way to long. But I think that about most guitar solos. Oh, so, add the end of ISA from the Dance, too.

- Jake

[madformac]

Originally Posted by amber

Oh, so, add the end of ISA from the Dance, too.

That's the most appalling thing I've ever heard...


ISA Dance Version is perfect....

[amber]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

- Jake

kisses? for me?

Originally Posted by madformac

That's the most appalling thing I've ever heard...


ISA Dance Version is perfect....

Yes, I figured I'd hear from you, or other super guitar heads, on that one. Sorry, I'm sure it's brill and all, it just gets old for me. And jake's kiss outweighs your appallation. Maybe in the far future, when I get really good on guitar ( ) I'll change my mind. But probably not.

[madformac]

Originally Posted by amber

Maybe in the far future, when I get really good on guitar ( ) I'll change my mind. But probably not.

Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind.....

[dissention]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

I know most posters agree about SYW, but I think it's fine.

For me, the song goes absolutely nowhere and it certainly isn't helped by her singing the same chorus over and over. And over and over. And over. Was she just too lazy to think of more stuff?

[sparky]

I like a really thick song generally...I mean, um..



A long song is fine if it's going somewhere. As has been said, I love the intro to In The Back Of My Mind. And I love the intro to SOTM. And the song BTM.
Sometimes though, instrumentals go nowhere...part of the live Stand Back intro, Mick's drum solo...

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

For me, the song goes absolutely nowhere and it certainly isn't helped by her singing the same chorus over and over. And over and over. And over. Was she just too lazy to think of more stuff?

IT'S THE POET THAT SHE IS, fer cryin out loud.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Yet, Skynyrd's "Free Bird" is "too long" at the first chord change.

I can't stand Skynyrd. I've seen, up close , the people who worship them. THAT has made me extremely prejudiced against them. White trash, redneck anthems.