10 Perfect Hard Rock Songs That Are Ridiculously Long

10. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles

There's probably a good contingency of hard rock fans scratching their heads about why the Beatles would populate a list like this. The Fab Four may have certainly done a lot to put rock and roll on the map, but most of their music tended to fall on the more pop-flavored side of the spectrum. That was the first half of their career, and John Lennon gave us something much more savage in the back half of the '60s.

Outside of the different experimental songs that they would get into every now and again, I Want You (She's So Heavy) is fairly bluesy most of the time, taking the standard tropes that you would have found in the blues clubs from around that time and sprinkling some tasty licks over Lennon's melody. What makes this hard rock territory is the main riff that carries the back half of the tune, sounding like the end of the world taking place before your ears before slowing back up and tapping back into bluesy territory.

Once you reach the outro of the song, the riff seems to build to an even bigger climax, as others guitars are overdubbed sounding like some dark monster that's stomping its way across the land. If you had asked John what he was doing at the time, he may have just been trying to be experimental for the hell of it, but there's something more at work here. He may have been messing around, but across 7 minutes, he gave us the basis for doom metal without even trying.