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

Reigning Sound - Time Bomb High School (1:36)

Lou Reed – New York Telephone Conversation (1:34)
Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years (1:52)
Delia Derbyshire – Doctor Who Opening Theme (0:39)
Tim Hardin – Reason to Believe (1:57)
Vashti Bunyan – Diamond Day (1:47)
The Vaccines – Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra) (1:22)
The Beatles – From Me to You (1:56)
Rolling Stones – Come On (1:48)

Diamond Day already nominated upthread :)

Tom Waits - Cemetery Polka (1:51)

Nick Drake - Introduction (1:33)

Delia Derbyshire – Doctor Who Opening Theme (0:39)

― Dan Worsley

ok i have to ask because i don't know how it gets handled - the original recording (track 1 on "doctor who at the bbc radiophonic workshop, volume 1") is 2:22 - as used on television it never runs that long, but 0:39 is in fact a shorter edit. how do we count these?

I think it should count, but we’ll be specific that each vote for it is a vote for the 39 second edit - if it’s been released somewhere

I took my timing from Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Rr3Qaf5yF2bRtcfBHkLFg?si=KNlqCj15SBu73mQ90ewLkg I see there's a number of versions varying from 0:39 to 2:21. 7 of the 9 are under 2:00

Someone asked for some more oldies:

Pine Mountain Girls' Octet — Wondrous Love (1937), 1:41
Charlie Parker — The Famous Alto Break (1946), 51 seconds
Thelonious Monk — Abide with Me (1957), 55 seconds
Willie Nelson — No Place for Me (1957), 1:21
Jay Blue — Get Off My Back (1959), 1:38
Fats Domino — Whole Lotta Lovin’ (1958), 1:41
Ritchie Valens — Ooh! My Head (1958), 1:49
Johnny Cash — Guess Things Happen That Way (1958), 1:51
Buddy Holly — Crying, Waiting, Hoping (1958), 1:51
Jerry Lee Lewis — Lovin’ Up a Storm (1959), 1:52
Jerry Lee Lewis — Real Wild Child (1958), 1:52
Ray Smith — Break Up (1958), 1:52
Allen Toussaint — Java (1958), 1:54
George Jones — If I Don't Love You (Grits Aint Groceries) (1958), 1:55

Thee Headcoats - All My Feelings Denied (1:57)
Beastie Boys - Flute Loop (1:56)
Guided by Voices - Lethargy (1:21)

The Misty Mountains song from the Hobbit soundtrack (1:42)

sic alps - bells (with tremolo and distortion) (1:33)
paul mccartney - the lovely linda (0:46)
jacques denjean - tema del voyeur (2a variación) (1:25)
max frost and the troopers - shape of things to come (1:54)
bert jansch - finches (0:51)
bob dylan - oxford town (1:50)
david bowie - don't sit down (0:43)
shuggie otis - happy house (1:16)
tom zé - complex de épico (1:19)
thelonious monk - this is my story, this is my song (1:42)
the pretty things - loneliest person (1:30)
alexander spence - lawrence of euphoria (1:30)
chris kenner - i like it like that, part 1 (1:55)
can - pnoom (0:26)
mirrors - i'm going to wyoming (0:36)
the coneheads - violence (1:04)
gong - chainstore chant (0:41)
tyrannosaurus rex - the seal of seasons (1:49)
tim hardin - you upset the grace of living when you lie (1:49)
the kinks - whip lady (1:22)
max matthews - bicycle built for two (0:40)
neil young - what happened yesterday (0:46)
john lennon - my mummy's dead (0:59)
de la soul - transmitting live from mars (1:12)
kevin ayers - two goes into four (1:52)
captain beefheart - flavor bud living (1:00)
departmentstore santas - photo album of baby (1:00)
lee dorsey - operation heartache (1:39)

Neat Beats - I Love You Vashti (1:43)
Acid House Kings - This Love Is All We Need (1:52)

Sam McGee - Buckdancer's Choice (1:28)
VHS Logos - Chimerical (1:55)
Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans (1:58)
Lucky Dragons - Oh I Understand (0:50)
Dustin Wong - On/In The Way (1:52)
Billy Ballantine - Billy Ballantine's Reel (1:46)
Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week (1:23)
Nuno Canavarro - Bruma (1:44)
Clara Hill - Wake Up (1:54)
Grimes - Life In The Vivid Dream (1:28)
Black Flag - Police Story (1:32)
Cornelius Cardew - Sailing The Seas Depends On The Helmsman (1:34)
Bob Dylan - Country Pie (1:36)
Earl Sweatshirt - The Bends (1:35)

J Dilla - Waves (1:39)
J Dilla - Anti-American Graffiti (1:54)
The Jam - But I'm Different Now (1:50)
Jay-Z - Friend or Foe (1:49)
Judee Sill - The Phantom Cowboy (1:46)
The Kids - There Goes My Heart Again (1:57)
Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap (1:58)
Marine Girls - Leave Me With the Boy (1:50)
Minutemen - Viet Nam (1:30)
Nas - The Genesis (1:45)
Pixies - Rock Music (1:52)
Prince - I Wonder U (1:40)
Scritti Politti - Scritlocks Door (1:35)
Torche - Piraña (1:32)
Tori Amos - Agent Orange (1:26)

hmm for some reason i thought i saw this already nominated:

moby grape - naked, if i want to (0:58)

^ just a perfect song, probably will be my #1

of what has been nominated, this is really the cream imo:

Jorge Ben - Balanca Pema (1:29)
Roger Miller - Dang Me (1:51)
Bad Brains – Pay to Cum (1:30)
Neil Young – Cripple Creek Ferry (1:33)
Shoes – Boys Don’t Lie (1:57)
The Zombies: "The Way I Feel Inside" (1:49)
The Beatles - Her Majesty (0:23)
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off 0:58
Big Star/ ST 100-6 (1:01)
Caetano Veloso - Nostalgia (1:22)
R. Stevie Moore - Theme From A.G. (1:24)
Wire, "Field Day for the Sundays" (0:28)

I can't be arsed to hook up my external drive, so going to have to drip these as they come to mind:

Grant Lee Buffalo - The Last Days of Tecumseh [1:03]
Minor Threat - I Don't Wanna Hear It [1:16]
Simon & Garfunkel - Song for the Asking [1:51]

dead kennedys - short songs 0:28
butthole surfers - weber 0:35
guided by voices - pimple zoo 0:42
stretchheads - confront 1:43
stretchheads - rex perplexed 1:10
god is my co-pilot - 2 meats 1:08
talking heads - who is it? 1:44
firehose - under the influence of meat puppets 1:58
and i haven't even thought about fat day

Guided By Voices - Pendulum (1:50)
Black Box Recorder - Lord Lucan Is Missing (1:50)
Pavement - Lions (Linden) 1:50
The Minutemen - West Germany (1:49)
Sleater-Kinney - It's Enough (1:47)

The Beatles - I'll Cry Instead (1:46)

and i haven't even thought about fat day

oh man, I hadn't even thought about GodCo so I guess we're even

Silkworm - Raging Bull (1:41)
The Vibrators - I Need a Slave (1:45)

You know who needs more nominations?

Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI (Wish in One Hand... EP version) (1:38)
Guided By Voices - 14 Cheerleader Coldfront (1:31)

My poll is bigger than yours.

The Pipettes - The Burning Ambition Of Early Diuretics (1:46)
Sleater-Kinney - Little Mouth (1:45)
Yann Tiersen - J'y suis jamais allé (AKA "I've Never Been There") (1:34)
Plaid - Tak 2 (1:08)
Boards of Canada - Telepath (1:33)
Boards of Canada - Over the Horizon Radar (1:09)
Cat Power - Space Oddity (0:35)
Cat Power - Wanderer (1:14)

Leee, it's not about the size of the poll, it's about the smallness of the poll because the tinier that everything is, the more relative space there is between everything. kind of like electrons floating around in the vast space of atoms

Electrelane - Spartakiade (1:41)

Adverts - Bored Teenagers (1:45)
Minutemen - Two Beads at the End (1:53)
Mano Negra - King Kong Five (1:58)
Pipettes - It Hurts To See You Dance So Well (1:53)

Bully - I Remember (1:48)
Mannequin Pussy - Denial (1:58)

Bully - I Remember (1:48)

ohh shit, thanks for nominating i forgot that one was so short

The Mountain Goats - Alpha Sun Hat (1:25)
The Mountain Goats - Deianara Crush (1:54)
Pixies - There Goes My Gun (1:50)
R.E.M. - White Tornado (1:51)
The Presidents of the United States of America - We are Not Going to Make It (1:52)
They Might Be Giants - Mr. Me (1:52)
They Might Be Giants - Dig My Grave (1:09)
Pavement - Debris Slide (1:57)

The Beatles - Polythene Pam (1:19) (if parts of multisong suites are allowed)

Oh one more:

Kleenex GIrl Wonder - Mayflower Looks at Asia (1:00)

Yann Tiersen - Le Fromveur (1:21)
Yann Tiersen - Le Banquet (1:33)

The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie
White Lung - Dead Beat
Iron Cross - Wargames
Moondog - Avenue of the Americas
Thin White Rope - The Clown Song
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - As Kind As Summer
Micachu - Lips
Metal Urbain - Futurama
The Beat - Click Click
Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold
Fugazi - Break-In
This Kind Of Punishment - What Can I Say?
World Domination Enterprises - Hotsy Girl
Throwing Muses - You Cage
The Fall - Industrial Estate
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
Scritti Politti - Messthetics
Tom Waits - Just Another Sucker On The Vine
Killer Mike - Go!
The Undertones - True Confessions
Haruomi Hosono - Pom Pom
Tom Rapp - Silver Apples
Unwound - New Energy
Bill Fay Group - Strange Stairway
Mission Of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph
James Brown - Think (from 'Live At The Apollo')
Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns

NickB can you do me a favor and list the track lengths for all those?

ooh good call on True Confessions, I love that one

Noname - Self (1:35)
PJ Harvey - No Child of Mine (1:13)

oops sorry...

The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie (0:53)
White Lung - Dead Beat (0:58)
Iron Cross - Wargames (1:22)
Moondog - Avenue of the Americas (1:09)
Thin White Rope - The Clown Song (1:11)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - As Kind As Summer (1:11)
Micachu - Lips (1:20)
Metal Urbain - Futurama (1:26)
The Beat - Click Click (1:27)
Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold (1:32)
Fugazi - Break-In (1:33)
This Kind Of Punishment - What Can I Say? (1:35)
World Domination Enterprises - Hotsy Girl (1:42)
Throwing Muses - You Cage (1:40)
The Fall - Industrial Estate (1:47)
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair (1:44)
Scritti Politti - Messthetics (1:47)
Tom Waits - Just Another Sucker On The Vine (1:47)
Killer Mike - Go! (1:54)
The Undertones - True Confessions (1:56)
Haruomi Hosono - Pom Pom (1:56)
Tom Rapp - Silver Apples (1:56)
Unwound - New Energy (1:57)
Bill Fay Group - Strange Stairway (1:57)
Mission Of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph (1:57)
James Brown - Think (from 'Live At The Apollo') (1:58)
Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns (1:59)

thanks!

Jimmy Jones - Handy Man (1:58)
The Mascots - Words Enough to Tell You (1:58)
OutKast - ? (1:28)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Is This the Best Spot?

Some of these are probably duplicated above.

Bad Brains - Pay to Cum (yellow tape version) 1:26
Minutemen - Paranoid Chant 1:19
Iggy Pop - Dog Food 1:51
Cannibal Corpse - Scalding Hail 1:47
Cannibal Corpse - Puncture Wound Massacre 1:41
Cannibal Corpse - Severed Head Stoning 1:45
Cannibal Corpse - Savage Butchery 1:51
Obituary - Godly Beings 1:55
Rigor Mortis - Grudge Fuck 1:49
The Cramps - The Crusher 1:48
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - History of Sex 1:46
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Lovin' Up a Storm 1:45
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - The Feeling of Love 1:51

fwiw that version of "Pay To Cum" is different than the original 7" version that I nominated

I'd hate to see it place low from vote splitting.

not a duplicate, but the original, superior version of “the crusher” by the novas was already nominated

xp

xxp I think it would be fair to count them together and then specify the vote breakdown afterwards, as has been done in other polls

Kenickie - Come Out 2nite (1:58)
Buzzcocks - Love You More (1:55)
Sebastien Tellier - Slow Lynch (1:20)
Scritti Politti - No Fine Lines (1:43)
Prince - Venus De Milo (1:55)
Broadcast - Evil Is Coming (0:48)
Karmello Brooks - Tell Me Baby (1:55)
Saint Etienne - Record Doctor (0:53)
David Sylvian - September (1:18)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Kevin Ayes (1:43)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time (0:47)
The Associates - The End (1:07)
Annie - Intro (0:55)
Bobby Womack - Quicksand (1:41)
Antony & The Johnsons - What Can I Do ? (1:41)
Scott Walker - On Your Own Again (1:48)

This isn't really the place to have the argument, but I've never heard a song that the Cramps didn't improve by covering it.

The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie

― goats eat grandma (NickB)

pixies - wild honey pie (1:51)
chemutoi ketienya & girls - chemirocha (1:30)
swell maps - read about seymour (1:30)
van morrison - ring worm (1:30)
man or astroman? - u-uranus (1:30)
a tribo - peba & pobo (1:31)
jerry porter - 3/4 mostly lovin' (1:31)
phil everly - can't dance alone (1:31)
peter thomas - astral snow (1:33)

This isn't really the place to have the argument, but I've never heard a song that the Cramps didn't improve by covering it.

― grawlix (unperson)

captain beefheart's original of "hard workin' man" is better than the cramps' version

i also think the red crayola did a better version of "hurricane fighter plane" but i guess i could see preferring the cramps' take

anyway the cramps' version is better than nnb's, not as good as sort sol's.