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November 08, 2025

Music Thread: The Longer The Better? Maybe Not!

[Garrett's cartoon rock phase]

Rock And Roll started out with short, snappy songs, but then meandered into new territory as it absorbed different styles and began to dabble in all sorts of new stuff. Folk and grunge and R&B and metal and new wave and progressive and yacht rock and ska punk and you name it, somebody did it.

One of the reasons I was amused by punk rock is that even if the songs sucked, they were only two minutes long! But a lot of other genres specialized in long...sometimes ridiculously long...songs.

I know what I like, but what about you? Anyone have any strong feelings about the length of songs and how they fit into Rock And Roll? Rock-n-roll? Rock & Roll?

Hell! We can't even agree on how to spell it!

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