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Neapolitan · 08-14-2012, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by wisdom

Correct, I don't like classical. I also don't like jazz (though "Lily Was Here" is good). I'd blamed that on the usual lack of vocals, but now I realize length likely is a factor.

I like probably thousands of songs between 3 and 5 minutes in length. Those between 3:30 and 4:30 tend to be best.

3:30 to 4:30 is just statistically the most common duration of your favorite songs - the ones you think are the "best." I can't see how the length of the song could be taken into consideration whether or not a song is good or bad. It's almost like saying if you could eat dessert between three & a half to four & a half minutes it would taste better. No, either the dessert taste good or it doesn't. If you hear something you like.

In Art music e.g. Baroque music a peice can be a Suite or Concertos which can be broken into movements, and some of them are in binary form A-A-B-B. So even if the peice might be lengthy timewise it's actually composed of short sections. And the same is true for most Porgressive Rock songs they are a bunch of short songs that are strung together to make one long song. So if you used that critea that shorter is better and you broke a long song down into it's components it should be still acceptable to you, right?

I like Song 2 (~2 minutes) & Teen Age Riot (~7 minutes) and I can play the latter more than once, too. And they're both out of your 3:30 to 4:30 range. But how long they are really doesn't come into consideration what I like about them. Song 2 is hooky and Teen Age Riot developes as a song.