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Rock List: The Fifty Best Songs Over Seven Minutes Long

Editors' and readers' picks — in alphabetical order — from the Allman Brothers to Frank Zappa

Posted Dec 13, 2007 12:49 PM

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"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" [Listen]
The Allman Brothers Band

"Bela Lugosi's Dead" [Listen]
Bauhaus

"B-Boy Bouillabaisse"
The Beastie Boys

"Hey Jude"
The Beatles

"War Pigs/Luke's Wall" [Listen]
Black Sabbath

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"Tender" [Listen]
Blur

"Bel Air" [Listen]
Can

"Pictures of You" [Listen]
The Cure

"Station to Station" [Listen]
David Bowie

"Layla" [Listen]
Derek & the Dominoes

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"The End" [Listen]
The Doors

"Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" [Listen]
Bob Dylan

"Maggot Brain" [Listen]
Funkadelic

"The Message" [Listen]
Grandmaster Flash

"Jesus of Suburbia" [Listen]
Green Day

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"Estranged" [Listen]
Guns N' Roses

"Isn't It a Pity?"
George Harrison

"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" [Listen]
Iron Butterfly

"Three Days" [Listen]
Jane's Addiction

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" [Listen]
Billy Joel

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"Funeral for a Friend" [Listen]
Elton John

"In the Court of the Crimson King"
King Crimson

"All My Friends" [Listen]
LCD Soundsystem

"When the Levee Breaks"
Led Zeppelin

"Free Bird" [Listen]
Lynyrd Skynyrd

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"Autobahn" [Listen]
Kraftwerk

"One"
Metallica

"Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" [Listen]
Mother Love Bone

"Oh, Comely" [Listen]
Neutral Milk Hotel

"Blue Monday" [Listen]
New Order

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"We're In This Together" [Listen]
Nine Inch Nails

"Champagne Supernova" [Listen]
Oasis

"Sheep" [Listen]
Pink Floyd

"Purple Rain" [Listen]
Prince

"Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" [Listen]
The Rolling Stones

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"Svefn-g-englar"
Sigur Ros

"The Sprawl" [Listen]
Sonic Youth

"Jungleland" [Listen]
Bruce Springsteen

"I Am the Resurrection" [Listen]
Stone Roses

"Frankie Teardrop" [Listen]
Suicide

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"Marquee Moon" [Listen]
Television

"What Goes Around Comes Around" [Listen]
Justin Timberlake

"Heroin" [Listen]
Velvet Underground

"Only in Dreams" [Listen]
Weezer

"Ball & Biscuit" [Listen]
The White Stripes

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"Won't Get Fooled Again" [Listen]
The Who

"Spiders (Kidsmoke)" [Listen]
Wilco

"Starship Trooper" [Listen]
Yes

"Cortez the Killer" [Listen]
Neil Young

"Willie the Pimp"
Frank Zappa