What about ‘10,000 Days’ by Tool?!

Seriously….no The Mars Volta? Seriously?

Anything but Green Day

No RUSH???

Why Bother!!!

way to get rid of “sister ray” bitches

Justin Timberlake? All I’m gonna say is questionable. No Radiohead? But you have Justin Timberlake? Also, if you’re gonna put JT you could put, I’m going to say it again, Kings of Leon, “Knocked Up.” That song is amazing and is far more worthy than Justin Timberlake, aside from the fact that their song is better, they have done far more for music.

No Mars Volta (although their best stuff is usually broken into severl sections) or Rush?

Also, I don’t even really mind that Timberlake is on the list, but I have to say it does look a tad odd between “Marquee Moon” and “Heroin”- perhaps this is an inside joke or something.

How the F do you consider that Green Day crap anything other than splicing like 4 of their normal songs into one?
And yes, no Mars Volta and Tool means the people who made this list are absolute morons!
2112, anyone?

Reading these comments, I find people complaining that there is nothing from Mars Volta, Tool or Rush on this list. I imagine people could wonder why there aren’t many R&B/soul/funk numbers on this list, like “For The Love Of Money”, “The Payback” or “Wake Up, Everybody”. And I’m sure the Beastie Boys aren’t the only rappers to record something over 7 minutes long. I could complain, too. I’m wondering how “Nights In White Satin” by the Moody Blues was left off the list. There are preferences, too; I would take “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” over “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” by the Rolling Stones, or “Rosalita” over “Jungleland” by Bruce Springsteen, or “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” over “Sleep” by Pink Floyd”, or “21st Century Schizoid Man” over “In The Court Of The Crimson King” by King Crimson. And I could listen to “Tuesday’s Gone” a hundred times over and over with pleasure, but I’ve heard “Freebird” so many times, I spend the first minute of the song getting over my cringe feelings until I can recapture how I felt during the first thousand times I heard it.

But let’s face it. Rock & Roll Daily set themselves up to fail no matter what they included on a short list, and 50 listings is really generous of them. They would have had to make a list a 1000 tracks long to cover all the great music that’s seven minutes long or longer. And even then, “you can’t always get what you want.” This must have been hard for any music lover. I think they did a great job.

Besides, I can’t really complain. They included “Autobahn” by Kraftwerk. That, to me, was way cool.

Swingline | 12/4/2007, 11:05 am EST

“And yes, no Mars Volta and Tool means the people who made this list are absolute morons!”

If you’ve been listening to and following TOOL since their beginnings (as I have), these “popular” list results should not bother you at all. If you understand the meaning of true integrity, and like a band’s music regardless of how it ranks on popular lists and charts, you will not question my point.

The list doesn’t bother me. Like you, I’ve been with Tool since back in the day and have never measured my love for them with their popularity.
I’m just saying some of their choices are crap. That’s all.

Great Post Charles Crossley Jr.

The day would be boring if we all were in agreement.

Swingline | 12/4/2007, 12:14 pm EST

“The list doesn’t bother me. Like you, I’ve been with Tool since back in the day and have never measured my love for them with their popularity.
I’m just saying some of their choices are crap. That’s all.”

I’ve seen TOOL in concert over the years, including back in the time when “alternative music” was not used as a “popular brand name” for marketing, as it is today. There never used to be chart categories for alternative and indie music. I understand your opinion about the choices on the list, but some of my favorite music completely falls off the radar, as it should.

Radiohead only have one song over 7 minutes in 7 of their albums, sorry Dort. Main complaints “The Core”-Clapton, “Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby”-Counting Crows, “Tuesday’s Gone”-Skynard, “Drown”-Smashing Pumpkins, or what about Stairway to Heaven or Exodus if it is ‘greatest of all time’??

Swingline | 12/4/2007, 12:14 pm EST

“The list doesn’t bother me. Like you, I’ve been with Tool since back in the day and have never measured my love for them with their popularity.
I’m just saying some of their choices are crap. That’s all.”

A few additional comments…
There never used to be *popular* chart categories for alternative or indie music, for the purpose of sales to mainstream audiences. It just simply was what it was, and if you liked it, it was because you found, discovered or stumbled across it yourself, rather than it being chosen for you to listen to(ie: by way of top 40 popular mainstream radio, which has to abide by song playlist rules).

This is one reason for punk rock. If you can’t say it in 3 minutes, SHUT UP!
The ramones are rolling over in their graves.

As far as Radohead goes, I was specifically thinking about “Motion Picture Soundtrack,” from Kid A, because it is a great song.

WRONG…there has always been alternative / indie charts, always.

It was called ‘Modern Rock’, don’t know what Billboard calls it now.

Johnny Kickass | 12/4/2007, 4:59 pm EST

“WRONG…there has always been alternative / indie charts, always.

It was called ‘Modern Rock’, don’t know what Billboard calls it now.”

You only glanced at what I wrote, without understanding and absorbing what I said. I reiterate: There never used to be *popular* chart categories for alternative or indie music, “FOR THE PURPOSE OF SALES TO MAINSTREAM AUDIENCES”. You were either into underground/alt music “before” it broke through the barriers into mainstream, or you weren’t. What we are left with now are a lot of copycat bands which are commercialized, mass-produced and mass-marketed to the sheep herds.

Johnny Kickass | 12/4/2007, 4:59 pm EST

“WRONG…there has always been alternative / indie charts, always.”

There never used to be *popular* chart categories for alternative or indie music, “FOR THE PURPOSE OF SALES TO MAINSTREAM AUDIENCES”.
…and if you don’t understand my point of view, I don’t care, because somebody else reading this will understand and agree with what I said.

Re: Johnny Kickass | 12/4/2007, 4:59 pm EST

“WRONG…there has always been alternative / indie charts, always.”

Your comment reminds me about an angry song which Kurt Cobain wrote…the lyrics (open to interpretation) seem to be directed towards somebody who insists that they are “right” and everybody else is “WRONG”.

You remind me of a narrow-minded, self-righteous, dishonest, womanizing, prejudiced jerk who I detest.

7 minute songs? What a load of self important crap.

I know this sounds terrible but I have no choice but to be perfectly blunt: when is this band’s plane going to crash into a mountain? god, I friggin’ hate these guys

Big Shit Storm abrewning

No Iron Maiden? Not surprising and disappointing as usual from Rolling Stone mag.

“The Trapeze Swinger” by Iron & Wine.
“Rosetta Stoned” by Tool
“Sins of my Father” by Tom Waits
“Say Hello Wave Goodbye” by David Gray
“Master of Puppets” by Metallica
“Seahorse” by Devendra Banhart

No November rain??? Seriously? Are these people kidding me?

Not a good list in my opinion. Heys few you missed:
Deep Purple-”Child in Time”
Rainbow-”Stargazer”
Bu dgie-”Parents”
Guns N’ Rose-”November Rain”
Metallica-”Master of Puppets”
Don Mclean-”American Pie”
Led Zepplin-”Stairway to Heaven”
Steppenwolf-”Monster/ Suicide/America”
Judas Priest-”Victims of Change”
Rush-”2112″
Blue Cheer-”Docter Please”
Iron Butterfly-”Butterfly Bleu”
Ted Nugent-”Stranglehold”
Humble Pie-”I Don’t Need No Doctor”
Peter Frampton-”Do You Feel Like We Do?”
Pink Floyd-”Us and Them”
Dream Theater-”Pull Me Under”
Pantera-”Cemetary Gates”