Originally Posted by Janszoon

Can't say I agree. Some are boring, others aren't, but that's true of all songs regardless of length.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Absolutely not. If I like a song, then the longer it is the better (within reason). Songs like "Supper's ready" by Genesis, "Grendel" by Marillion, "Freebird", "Stairway to Heaven", "Bat out of Hell"... I could go on. Brevity is by no means any measure or guarantee of quality. Sometimes you have to let the song have time to develop to fully appreciate it, and that's seldom (though not never) possible with a 3/4 minute song.

Originally Posted by Ki

I listen to a lot of prog and post-rock so 95% of the music I listen to tends to exceed 6 minutes and pass 10 minutes and even reach 15 to 20 minutes. Longer songs are great, especially if an album is full of them.