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Originally Posted by kelchlsm
I dont know why people are getting all caught up in how long these songs are.
The band has enough songs that go past 7 minutes in their repertoire to play at a show
If a song like Monsters comes along at 3 minutes and gets the job done (it does) from a songwriting standpoint then whatever, its a good song- sometimes you dont need to force a horn section for a few more minutes.
Some of these songs will certainly have a long jam in a live setting. This has happened to a bunch of songs like TGIY or ABI. Even like Mercy was listed at 4 minutes on the album and in 2012 the song was played live for 8 minutes with a repeating piano riff. Or better yet Smooth Rider was 2 minutes on the Stand Up album and they played it for 12 minutes at Red Rocks (be careful what you wish for)
We already know Break Free is jammed out longer live than the studio version listed at 4 minutes.
Maybe im the only one - but, Ive never been a fan of listening to long jams from studio albums anyways. Ive looked at the studio as a way for us to see what the songs are worth, and then most certainly listen to the live version of the song 9 times out of 10- because this a live band.
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Quite frankly, if I had one criticism of Monsters is that it should be longer. Because I can't stop thinking about how there is ample opportunity for transition instrumentation that the band could provide that would continue to build the tension of the song or even an instrumental breakdown before the last chorus, so that happens and then the final quiet verse of the song closes it out perfectly.
Dave did a great job in how he constructed the chorus melody, to be a little bigger the 2nd and 3rd time. Overall I love the structure of the song, but at its length, the same concept for the instruments can't necessarily be that way.
And this is one of the longer ones.
So I'm personally still super worried about that, but also think this track is destined to be very good with the full band regardless. Wont' stop me from thinking what could have been though. Maybe I'll be wrong when I hear it, still open to that possibility.