♫ Your NOMINATIONS for the best songs under 2 minutes poll ♫ (nominations close MARCH 1ST)

The Go! Team - Feelgood by Numbers (1:58)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter (1:57)
The 1975 - Anobrain (1:54)
Guided by Voices - Hardcore UFO's (1:54)
The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences (1:52)
Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists (1:49)
Red House Painters - Brown Eyes (1:48)
Wednesday Campanella - Twiggy (1:47)
Shiina Ringo - Stoicism - (1:46)
Modest Mouse - Wild Packs of Family Dogs (1:46)
the Microphones - Karl Blau (1:43)
The Magnetic Fields - In My Secret Place (1:41)
Bjork - Frosti (1:41)
Midlake - You Never Arrived (1:40)
Smashing Pumpkins - Sweet Sweet (1:39)
Jens Lekman - At the Dept. of Forgotten Songs (1:33)
Mitski - A Loving Feeling (1:33)

Liz Phair - Girls Room (1:47)

For the record, here are the cream of the crop of the Sebadoh songs (not already mentioned):

Moldy Bread (0:59)
God Told Me (1:10)
Wall of Doubt (1:28)
Soul Mate (1:34)
True Hardcore (1:37)
Ride the Darker Wave (1:42)
It's So Hard to Fall in Love (1:50)
Really Insane II (1:52)
Kath (1:53)
Junk Bonds (1:54)

Guided by Voices - Kicker of Elves (1:04)
The 1975 - The 1975 (s/t album) (1:20)
They Might Be Giants - Number Three (1:28)
Bjork - Frosti (1:41)
Blur - Bank Holiday (1:42)
Belle & Sebastian - Simple Things (1:46)
System of a Down - Bounce (1:54)
Super Furry Animals - Do or Die (1:59)

Ha, I've done a few of these myself. And there are so many good ones out there, this is going to be tough. Going to try to keep to ones that are GOAT.

First thoughts:

Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO (1:44)
Slapp Happy - Some Questions About Hats (1:49)
Plastics - I Am Plastic (1:55)
The Clean - Beatnik (1:57)

Not sure which songs to nominate from Ken Nordine's Colours or the Miniatures album yet.

Ran out of time to cull this further pre-work - all great tracks though:

Zip Code Rapists - Good Ship Pablo Cruise (0:52)
of Montreal - Sink the Seine (1:04)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (1:18)
Pinegrove - Problems (ESF version) (1:20)
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie (NJC Version) (1:20)
Neutral Milk Hotel - A Baby For Pree (1:21)
John Parish, PJ Harvey - Girl (1:21)
Tera Melos - Kelly (1:22)
Vril - Supersonic Canteen (1:28)
John Martyn - Singin' In the Rain (1:29)
Jim O'Rourke - Happy Holidays (1:36)
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Self Esteem (1:37)
Shugo Tokumaru - The Mop (1:39)
Trust Fund - idk (1:38)
Eddie Vedder - Setting Forth (1:38)
Pinegrove - Angelina (ESF version) (1:41)
Cat Stevens - The Wind (1:42)
Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever (1:46)
Nels Cline, Julian Lage - Abstract (1:48)
Vashti Bunyan - Winter is Blue (1:50)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Brooklyn Phone Call (1:51)
The Pastels, Tenniscoats - Yomigaeru (1:51)
Honeydrum - Stranger Calls (1:52)
PJ Harvey - The Sky Lit Up (1:53)
Teenage Fanclub - Slow Fade (1:54)
The Yummy Fur - Plastic Cowboy (1:55)
Paws - Narcissist (1:56)
The Replacements - Don't Ask Why (1:57)
The Velvet Satins - Nothing Can Compare To You (1:57)
Gloria Edwards - Lonely Girl (1:57)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Laughter (Victims) (1:57)
Old Time Relijun - This Kettle Contains The Heart (1:58)
Sleater Kinney - Slow Song (1:58)
PJ Harvey - Broken Harp (1:59)
Idlewild - Self Healer (1:59)

And my massive favourite that "I could have swore it was under two minutes" and narrowly misses out:

At 2:01, The National - Fashion Coat

Good job for those who nominated The Mountain Goats - DM, The Smith - PPLMGWIW, Joanna Newsom - OAGD, Pavement - ZIS which I had all scribbled down yesterday.

Disappointingly you've amassed ten zillion songs between you while I've been asleep! How impertinent

Anyway, quality over quantity - I was only going to nominate 3 for now but you've managed to get Mitski's 'My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars' already, so:

The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land (1:46)
Blanche Blanche Blanche - TED Talks (1:29)

Aphex Twin - I (1:17)
Beat Happening - Run Down the Stairs (1:55)
Best Coast - Crazy for You (1:50)
Boards of Canada - Bocuma (1:35)
The Breeders - Shocker in Gloomtown (1:17)
The Castaways - Liar Liar (1:50)
Daniel Johnston - You Put My Love Out the Door (1:53)
The dB's - Big Brown Eyes (1:59)
The Doors - Unhappy Girl (1:57)
Ghostface Killah - Stroke of Death (1:56)
Guided by Voices - My Son Cool (1:41)
Guided by Voices - Choking Tara (1:24)
Guided by Voices - Short on Posters (1:47)
Hüsker Dü - Every Everything (1:58)

brb getting myself sacked so i can go through the nominations lol

KM this is god's work, you beauty <3

Wormrot - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Grind (1:00)
Melt-Banana - Then Red Eyed (1:19)
Katie Dey - Unkillable (1:20)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux/Rosa Yemen - Rosa Vertov (1:48)
Chumped - Novella Ella Ella Eh (1:22)
Mike Krol - Fifteen Minutes (1:35)
Jeff Rosenstock - Pash Rash (1:43)
Angel Hair - This Stool is Cool (1:41)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Hudson Bottom Dance (1:42)
Current 93 - The Inmost Light (1:46)
The United States of America - Stranded in Time (1:50)
Anthroprophh - 2029 (1:53)
Slant 6 - G.f.s. (1:53)
Toenut - Feeder (1:55)
Joanna Wang - Isn’t It Exciting? (1:56)
Azusa - Fine Lines (1:58)
SOPHIE - Lemonade (1:59)

Blanche Blanche Blanche - TED Talks (1:29)

― imago, Tuesday, 19 February 2019 07:49 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I should stress I'm talking about the version of this song from the album Wooden Ball, NOT the re-recorded version on Breaking Mirrors (which is 1:27) - this is IMPORTANT

Seems to me like this poll will mainly attract rock fans and will be boring (not that I don't like rock).
I don't have a working music library that seems to let me order by track length (on winamp) so I feel useless, hence maybe why I'm grumbling.
But thanks to whomever nominated Newsom and Jorge Ben.

This makes it tricky as the version I nominated isn't on Spotify, but whatcha gonna do? It is on Youtube at least

xp to moi

Scratch that, I seem to be less computer illiterate than I thought I was. I should be able to participate.

Slayer - Necrophobic (1:41)

Somehow the only sub 2 minute song on Reign In Blood.

Doom - Police Bastard (1:32)
Siege - Drop Dead (1:08)

elastica - Vaseline (1:20)
elastica - generator (1:50)

plus half of the rest of their s/t album I guess, so
Annie (1:15)
smile (1:40)
all nighter (1:31)

mclusky - rice is nice (1:06)

A few to be going on with:

Beatles - I'll Follow the Sun (1:48)
Brian Eno - Amother Green World (1:41)
Maurice Williams - Stay (1:34)
John Barry Orchestra - Theme from James Bond (1;50)
Bert Jansch - Life Depends on Love (1:48)
They Might Be Giants - Minimum Wage (0:46)
Human League - Get Carter (1:02)
Ramones - Judy is a Punk (1:32)
Jack Trombey - Callan Theme (Girl in the Dark) (1:02)
Lemonheads - Alison's Starting to Happen (1:59)
Prefab Sprout - Mercy (1:22)
Ken Nordine - Yellow (1:35)

Minor Threat - Straight Edge (0:46)
Wire - Mr Suit (1:25)

Vince Guaraldi - Linus and Lucy (1:20)
No Age - My Life's Alright Without You (1:59)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Calloused Fingers Won't Make You Strong, Edith Wong (1:43)
Daft Punk - Nightvision (1:44)
Vivian Girls - No (1:19)
Times New Viking - DROP OUT (1:04)
be your own PET - Damn Damn Leash (1:52)
Hem - Eveningland (1:01)

Beach Boys - Shut Down (1:51)
Bob Dylan - You're No Good (1:40)
Bryan Ferry - River of Salt (1:49)
Buffalo Springfield - There Goes My Babe (1:47)
Caetano Veloso - Nostalgia (1:22)
Camper Van Beethoven - Shut Us Down (1:26)
Elvis Presley - (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (1:53)
The Everly Brothers - Stick With Me, Baby (1:58)
Iggy Pop - Dog Food (1:51)
Merle Haggard - Tulare Dust (1:48)
Nico - Le Petit Chevalier (1:18)
The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences (1:52)
Randy Newman - Dayton, Ohio - 1903 (1:53)
Roxy Music - Tara (1:47)
Scott Walker - 30 Century Man (1:28)

Cool poll, here's some nominations:

Simone Dinnerstein/J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations: Variation 1 (1:47)
Lasse Mårtenson - Kampelavalssi (1:51)
Robin Blaze & Elizabeth Kenny/Matthew Locke - The Delights of the Bottle (1:09)
ECD - Hand Made (0:59)
Anssi Karttunen/Kaija Saariaho - Sept papillons: Papillon V (1:32)
Earth, Wind & Fire - Brazilian Rhyme (0:53)
Imogen Holst & Purcell Singers/Gustav Holst - Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda: II Hymn to the Waters (1:50)
Ramsey Lewis - Rubato (0:41)
John Williams & Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchesta - Brother of the Cruciform Sword (1:53)
Anonymous 4 - Or ne sai je que devenir/Puisque d'amer (1:48)
Anonymous 4 - Spiritus et alme/Gaude Virgo salutata (1:49)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Labyrinth I (1:31)
MIA - Bittersüss (1:56)
Christina Pluhar & L'arpeggiata - Lu gattu la sonava la zampogna (Ninna nanna) (1:36)
Steven Rickards & Dorothy Linell/John Dowland - Lady, If You So Spite Me (1:55)
Masters of Psychedelic Ambiance - Plastify (0:54)
Nina Simone - Compensation (1:35)
Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI ‎– Guabina de Vélez (1:35)
Sheila Chandra - Speaking in Tongues I (1:45)
MC Pyhä Lehmä feat. Kajo - Pohjantuuli (1:55))
Rafael Kubelik & Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Felix Mendelssohn - Fairie's March (1:13)
Vangelis - Sword of Orion (1:55)
Marilyn Mazur's Future Song - Kalimbaduo (1:24)
Elizeth Cardoso - Cidade do interior (1:58)
Ioculatores - La sexte estampie royal (1:28)
The Meters - Running Fast (1:22)
Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley & Reta Shaw/Richard & Robert Sherman - Sister Suffragette (1:43)
David Tomlinson & Dick Van Dyke/Richard & Robert Sherman ‎- Let's Go Fly a Kite (1:49)
Ah! Kosmos - Out/Ro/In/Growth (1:49)
Anthony Gonzalez & Gael Garcia Bernal - Un poco loco (1:52)
Ana Ofelia Murguía & Anthony Gonzalez - Remember Me (Reunion) (1:13)
Mary Youngblood - She Watches Them Play (0:56)
Cabbage Head - Commercial Suicide (1:20)
Biosphere - As the Sun Kissed the Horizon (1:47)
Zach Callison - Giant Woman (0:56)
Erica Luttrell & Charlyne Yi - Something Entirely New (1:47)

can we do this all again with a 20-song nomination limit pls

no? no fine. i will wade through the 900 guided by voices songs from everyone's itunes

Agree, this is nigh on impossible to get through

What I could conjure up from my stash up until M. More to come. Possibly some dups in here, but hopefully not too many. Forgot the times... if that's required I'll grab them tomorrow.

Aphex Twin - Kesson Daslef
Beastie Boys - Funky Boss
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It in the Road
Bikini Kill - New Radio
Boards of Canada - Bocuma
Boards of Canada - Olson
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Coldcut - Theme From "Reportage"
Daphne & Celeste - Save the World
DJ Q-Bert - Turntable TV (re-vizion)
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor
Flying Lotus - Melt!
J Dilla - Time: The Donut of the Heart
J Dilla - Two Can Win
J Dilla - One for Ghost
Jenny Hval - Ritual Awakening
Kid Koala - Nerdball
Kid Koala - Like Irregular Chickens
Lapalux - Make Money
M83 - Strong and Wasted
M83 - Space Fertilizer
Madlib - Toe Fat (Ghettozone)
Max Tundra - Lights

Down for a limit. Just might wait until the end to submit.

Guided by Voices - Hit (0:22)
Heavy Vegetable - Fired (0:25)
Wormsblood - The Axis of Adaptor (0:26)
Bob Drake - Attar of Roses (0:32)
Torche - Little Champion (0:34)
TheUSAisamonster - Too Many Moves (0:40)
Cardiacs - Billion (0:41)
P.E.E. - I Hate All Vegetables (0:48)
Hosome - Venetian Acrobat Son (0:52)
Botanist - ...Gazing... (0:52)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Inspector Fat Ass (0:53)
Dianogah - Work (0:57)
After Dinner - Dancing Twins (0:59)

I will leave GBV toother people aside from that one unless there's something good missing later on.

OK now for the 1:00+

Deep Turtle - A'la'la'la (1:03)
P.E.E. - Metallica (1:03)
Bob Drake - You Can't Outwit That Thing (1:04)
P.E.E. - Mexico (1:11)
P.E.E. - San Salvador (1:14)
Bob Drake - Summertime is Here (1:15)
Ruins - Classical Music Medley (1:15)
Melt-Banana - Dog Song (1:20)
Heavy Vegetable - Song for Wesley (1:21)
P.E.E. - See Photo (1:24)
Thingy - Rope Swing (1:26)
Hosome - Tired Man (1:33)
maudlin of the Well - Interlude 1 (1:38)
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Guitar Miniature 3 (1:43)
Cardiacs - The Safety Bowl (1:45)
BOaT - Pretend (1:46)
The Sea Nymphs - On the Dry Land (1:46)
Pixies - Trompe le Monde (1:47)
P.E.E. - Making Soccer History (1:49)
Torche - Kiss Me Dudely (1:49)
Bob Drake - The Box in the Orchard (1:53)
Picky Picnic - Pig! Me! Oh! Mambo! (1:54)
Thingy - Wave of Depression (1:56)
Fugazi - I'm So Tired (1:58)

Sorry I really did try to be selective...

And just to be clear the capitalisation of 'maudlin of the Well' and 'BOaT' are the way the band's insisted on spelling them, not some kind of stupid typo I manage to do regularly

I'll tackle 2:00 songs tonight. I don't know, though--as a matter of common sense, if you have a song that clocks in at 2:00 on one of your media players, the song itself must be under 2:00 allowing for the dead space before and after the song, which is 1-2 seconds minimum.

I had completely underestimated this exercise, the number of songs runs way into the four-digits and it seems to be an art in itself, plenty of these ditties are wonderful little constructions, whether they're short songs, intros, ad-libs, to the point where I'm thinking we should have done genre / purpose subcategories (and maybe a Madlib - Jay Dee special fightoff). I mean, it's really bad.

Under 1 minute would have been more of a challenge, there's hundreds of great songs under 2 minutes.

Wire, "Field Day for the Sundays" (0:28)

At first I opened the songs and thought it said the playlist was 1 hour 21 minutes. Then I realized it was 1 day 21 hours.

Same boat of underestimation, Nabozo. I got 11 day on iTunes! Though as I have a lot of live performances I think the vast majority of this are intros, encore breaks, outros, abandoned songs etc.

I also largely ignored punk, grindcore, metal, and short classical pieces from larger movements because there is nothing "special" about the song being short. Though this was really just a coping mechanism to filter down what I had to look through to something manageable.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Raining in Darling (1:53)
The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (1:50)
Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time (1:24)

Mclusky - Viva Minor Legends (0:38)

Sonic Youth - Nic Fit

Erykah Badu - Rimshot (Intro) (1:56)
Erykah Badu - Agitation (1:33)

in case the time length is required, that should be :

Sonic Youth - Nic Fit (1:00)

xp

C.P.E. Bach – Solfeggio ("Solfeggietto") in C Minor, H 220, Wq.117:2 (~1 minute)
Bill Evans – Waltz for Debbie (1:18)
Boards of Canada – Wildlife Analysis (1:16)
Halim el-Dabh – Wire Recorder Piece (1:58)
? & the Mysterians – Can't Get Enough Of You, Baby (1:55)
The Dicks – Dicks Hate the Police (1:58)

Velvet Underground - Here She Comes Now (1.59)
Elvis Costello - Secondary Modern (1:58)
Elvis Costello - Girls Talk (1:58)
Beach Boys - How She Boogalooed It (1:58)
X - When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch (1:57)
The Doors - Wintertime Love (1:57)

I've seen VU Here She Comes Now listed at different lengths but on my itunes it's 1:59.

Boards of Canada - Kaini Industries (1:00)
Boards of Canada - Melissa Juice (1:33)

Nirvana - Been a Son (1:56)
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack (1:55)
Beach Boys - I'd Love Just Once To See You (1:51)

I hope that people who are knowledgeable of oldies will nominate lots more.

the ones that popped to mind immediately have already been nominated!

If we're still looking for side-poll ideas, I'd be interested in a vote on artists with best catalogue of songs under 2 minutes (meaning they join quality and quantity). Like a top 10 you know.
Some artists I have noticed: Madlib, Vashti Bunyan, The Motifs, Shirley Collins, Uproot Andy, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Las Malas Amistades, Veronika Dolina.
Will we have a promotion thread ? I feel like it's necessary, for the stuff a little on the unknown side.

The Eat - Communist Radio (1:40)
Husker Du - Never Talking to You Again (1:41)
The Wipers - Mystery (1:48)
Guided by Voices - Buzzards and Dreadful Crows (1:43)
Guided by Voices - Closer You Are (1:57)
Guided by Voices - Unleashead! The Large-Hearted Boy
Oblivians - Christina (1:59

last GBV song above is 1:59