Special mention for the Earache comp "The World's Shortest Album" which came out as a 5" vinyl single, has 13 tracks and a total running time of 83 seconds, so shorter than a lot of the individual songs on this poll
https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Worlds-Shortest-Album/release/4492305
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Thursday, 21 February 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
Descendents - I Like Food (0:17)Descendents - Suburban Home (1.40)Minutemen - Life as a Rehearsal (1:36)Minutemen - The Politics of Time (1:13)Minutemen - Themselves (1:18)The Wipers - Messenger (1:55)Alain Gorageur - le Bracelet (1:27)Ennio Morricone - Gli Intoccabili (Titoli) (1:39)Ennio Morricone - Dies Irae Psichedelico (1:59)
― Chris L, Thursday, 21 February 2019 11:54 (five years ago) link
Karl, if you would like a hand updating the Spotify playlist I can offer my services over from tomorrow night over the weekend
― Hey hey, the tipple’s weak sherry (fionnland), Thursday, 21 February 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Randy & The Rainbows - Denise (1:57)
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 21 February 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
Chan Romero - The Hippy Hippy Shake (1:40)
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 21 February 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
the clash - Protex Blue ((1:46)
― The immortal Hydra Viridisimma (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 21 February 2019 13:38 (five years ago) link
Chuck Berry - Dear Dad (1:49)Chuck Berry - Jaguar and Thunderbird (1:49) Thee Mighty Caesars - The Double Axe (1:45)Thee Mighty Caesars - Loathsome 'n' Wild (1:47) Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk (1:54)Daniel Johnston - I am a Baby (in My Universe) (1:37)The Dils - Class War (1:41)The Misfits - We Are 138 (1:41) Lo Borges - O Cacador (1:59)
― Chris L, Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Sub 1-min, working on 1-2 min
Wehrmacht - E! (0:01)Jarvis Cocker - The Loss Adjuster (Excerpt 1) (0:27)Melt-Banana - So far So bad So WHAT (0:27)Out Hud - This Just In (0:28)The Streets - Who Dares Wins (0.34)The Yummy Fur - The Walt Disney Murder Club (0:36)Ivor Cutler - I'm Happy (0:37)Cassetteboy - Sick As A Dog (0:38)The Yummy Fur - Typical of Boys (0:44)Go-Kart Mozart - Drinkin' Um Bongo (0:44)Kiiiiiii - Kiiiiiii!!!!!!! (0:45)Melt-Banana - Party-hat (0:47)The Yummy Fur - The Optical Meat Dress (0:49)Chants Populaires Tahitiens - Chant d´amour (0:52)Jad Fair - Fish Can Talk (0:52)AMANDA - Carpet Burns On My Butt (0:53)Louis & Bebe Barron - Deceleration (0:55)Aphex Twin - Father (0:57)The Yummy Fur - Shaggy (0:59)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 February 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
The Beatles - She Came In Through the Bathroom Window (1:58)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
tempted to nominate the entire cassetteboy catalog, but won't, as that would be a nightmare for me
cassette-boyeeeeeee
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
xposts fionnland that's very nice of you, but i'll be ok with the spotify list! it really doesn't take me too long to find them and drag/drop, and i take a strange satisfaction in repetitive processes (hard to explain but true)
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
Special mention for the Earache comp "The World's Shortest Album"
Also the entire "scum" field-recording grindcore genre*
https://youtu.be/LJpvIofDZbo
*might not be a genre.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Thursday, 21 February 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Ennio Morricone - Watch Chimes (1:15)
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Thursday, 21 February 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
^ if you haven’t heard it you should check out the jacques denjean track i nominated above
― budo jeru, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
Grouplove - Back In The 90's (0:44)
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Man, it is not fair to this poll that the Ramones, Wire and the Minutemen were simply so good at this
Yes. Early Beatles and Buddy Holly too.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Also, I would def count myself as a Parquet Courts fan if all their songs were under 90 seconds
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
Meat Puppets - In A Car (1:21)
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Thursday, 21 February 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
Parquet Courts - NYC Observation (1:22)
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:06 (five years ago) link
Wire - Fragile (1:18)
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
Maybe we don't have enough songs by those bands yet
― imago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
I think maybe some more Minutemen is on the menu
(This is all a cunning ruse to votesplit everything)
― imago, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
The Breeders - Fortunately Gone (1:45)
― Chris L, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
I am a bit concerned about the results being dominated by minutemen, wire, and the ramones. and maybe TMBG. although maybe votesplitting may in fact solve that problem. Or maybe it's not a problem at all, and other songs be mixed in nicely? i dunno.
has there ever been a poll like this where you're only allowed to vote for 3 different tracks by the same artist? would that be weird?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
i mean, i love wire with all my heart, but there's no way i'm going to list more than 3 wire songs in my list of the top 50 songs of all time under 2 minutes. no band is that good. but then again, i can see like 5 different people saying "fuck it" and putting double nickels on the dime as their top 20
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Yeah, there's enough stuff where I don't think it's gonna be a problem. And if the top 20 ends up all Ramones and Chuck Berry, well, they deserve it for being so good at this!
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 21 February 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
There weren't any artist restrictions on the 10 minutes poll, but I definitely think that these handful of bands having so many songs nominated will definitely water down their placement.
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Thursday, 21 February 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
^ if you haven’t heard it you should check out the jacques denjean track i nominated aboveyeah pretty similar! bit more emotional development in the morricone though.
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
ok i know i talked shit about "sabotage tracks" earlier but uhh if this farrah abraham song was intended to be that, it backfired, this is insane, i think i love this? what the fuck? this is SO FUCKING WEIRD
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
i am still recovering from listening to it last night. it's like it the rebecca black "friday" song got really experimental
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
what i like about it is that it only takes like 20 minutes or so to listen to it 10 times
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
lol, i can't wait to read that thread later
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
i'm thinking i will maybe never listen to it ever again, because i didn't think it was bad...it was beyond bad or good, it's just way the hell out there, like an autotune eating itself
my official prediction is that Elvis Costello is gonna dominate the Top 10
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
dunno about that, he doesn't really have many songs this short, especially not fan favorites
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
afaik we were never really given a good explanation for this. it's still kind of an open mystery. every time I listen to it I think of this YouTube comment: "if Captain Beefheart made 808s & Heartbreak"
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
xp - wait a minute...I thought "Beyond Belief" qualified but apparently it doesn't
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
not even close!
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
yea must've confused me because it only has one chorus
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
a bunch of songs on get happy are slightly shorter than 2 mins and two on My Aim Is True are significantly shorter.
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Thursday, 21 February 2019 20:52 (five years ago) link
Archers of Loaf - Bones of Her Hands (1:59)
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
Pavement - Two States (1:47)
― Chris L, Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
Big Black - L. Dopa (1:41)
― goats eat grandma (NickB), Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
^^ great one
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
likely my #1:
A Frames - Hostage Crisis (1:39)
One of those Grind/Power Violence songs that really goes places, instead of just splattering everywhere
Weekend Nachos - For Life (1:05)
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
huh, that must be a different "A Frames" than the band I know from Seattle?
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
No! The Seattle one!
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
unless you were mistaking my Weekend Nachos hot take with the A Frames
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Thursday, 21 February 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link