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

(This is all a cunning ruse to votesplit everything)

The Breeders - Fortunately Gone (1:45)

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?

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

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!

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?

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.

^ if you haven’t heard it you should check out the jacques denjean track i nominated above

yeah pretty similar! bit more emotional development in the morricone though.

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

i am still recovering from listening to it last night. it's like it the rebecca black "friday" song got really experimental

What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?

what i like about it is that it only takes like 20 minutes or so to listen to it 10 times

lol, i can't wait to read that thread later

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

dunno about that, he doesn't really have many songs this short, especially not fan favorites

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

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"

xp - wait a minute...I thought "Beyond Belief" qualified but apparently it doesn't

not even close!

yea must've confused me because it only has one chorus

a bunch of songs on get happy are slightly shorter than 2 mins and two on My Aim Is True are significantly shorter.

Archers of Loaf - Bones of Her Hands (1:59)

Pavement - Two States (1:47)

Big Black - L. Dopa (1:41)

^^ great one

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)

huh, that must be a different "A Frames" than the band I know from Seattle?

No! The Seattle one!

unless you were mistaking my Weekend Nachos hot take with the A Frames

no I just couldn't find that song on Discogs!

"Radiation Generation" is my favorite of theirs but idk the track time and I used up all my noms on US hardcore tracks

Bruce Langhorne - Leaving Del Norte (1:57)
Joe Zawinul - Arrival in New York (1:57)
Ronnie Allen - Juvenile Delinquent (1:58)
Curly Coldiron - Rockin' Spot (1:56)
Paul Williams - Fat Sam's Grand Slam (1:45)
Frank Sinatra - She Says (1:51)
Vern Pullens - Bop Crazy Baby (1:39)
Shirley Collins - The Silver Swan (1:26)
Papa M - Arundel (1:06)
Appendix Out - The Night is Advancing (1:22)
The Clovers - Rotten Cocksucker's Ball (1:18)

Naked City - Demon Sanctuary (0:42)
Naked City - Thrash Jazz Assassin (0:49)
Naked City - Blood Duster (0:18)
38/50

If there's a limit of 3 per artist for noms, then I'm not nominating any of these, but any of them could make my ballot:
Naked City - No Reason To Believe (0:28)
Naked City - Igneous Ejaculation (0:25)
Naked City - Ujaku (0:31)
Naked City - Kaoru (0:55)
Naked City - Cairo Chop Shop (0:26)
Naked City - N.Y. Flat Top Box (0:46)

Black Flag - Gimme Gimme Gimme (1:47)
Dow Jones and the Industrials - Can't Stand the Midwest (1:27)

Thoughts on ‘Henry’ by Rod Stewart aka the introduction to ‘Maggie May’ on ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’, it’s listed as a separate track on some pressings.

Never knew that. Another oddity: even though it's always "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" for Jefferson Airplane--I never see them listed separately--digitally, they're two separate songs (with "Won't You Try" just over a minute). That'd be on my list for sure, but I'll bypass it--I just don't think of it as a standalone.

Buddy Holly - Love Is Strange (1:53)

Mississippi John Hurt - First Shot Missed Him (1:45)

Joao Gilberto - Desafinado (1:58)
Softies - It's Love (1:29)
Solomon Burke - Got to Get You Off My Mind (1:58)
The Undertones - Julie Ocean (1:46)
X - We're Desperate (1:57)
Shirley Collins - I Sing of Maiden That Is Makeless (1:48)
Bridget St. John - Early Morning Song (1:56)
Felt - Autumn (1:55)
Julie London - No Moon at All (1:52)
Lo Borges - Faça seu jogo (1:46)
Elis Regina & Tom Jobim - Brigas nunca mais (1:39)
Diane Cluck - Maybe a Bird (1:41)

ugh I forgot all about the friggin a frames. I love them. Most of black forest qualifies for this thread but I've just completely run out of nomination energy, having made my own lil spotify playlist to listen to the best of the best here. everyone else is doing great though. excellent poll idea/thread and like McDonalds, I'm lovin it

Todd Rundgren - Izzat Love? (1:55)

Rundgren has a few for sure

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - RNR Hall of Fame (1:06)

Bombs away on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Even if I got indicted I'd probably feel the same
I don't wanna see Eric Clapton's stuffed baby
I don't want to see the shotgun of Kurt Cobain
Bombs away, bombs away
Cleveland's cool, Cleveland's cool
I don't want to see the liver of David Crosby
I don't want to see all the drugs I couldn't take
I don't want to see the collector scum pay

Blow it up, blow it up, blow it up
Blow it up before Johnny Rotten gets in
Blow it up before Paul Westerberg sits in
Blow it up before Steve Albini makes a speech
Blow it up, blow it up

Spoon - You Gotta Feel It 1:29

xp — does he really sing “indicted”?

how much time is left for nominations?

1:59.

ok, i will hurry up then.

wait a minute...I thought "Beyond Belief" qualified but apparently it doesn't

I was ready to nom "New Amsterdam", which I was sure was under two minutes, but nope

Rod Stewart - Henry (0:32)
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me (1:59)

Morning! 1:00 to 1:29

Oh No - Exp Out the Ox (1:01)
Dawn Of The Replicants - Let Them Eat Coal (1:01)
Melt-Banana - Mouse Is A Biscuit (1:05)
Antwood - Sublingual (1:05)
Crass - Heard Too Much About (1:08)
GFOTY - My Song (1:08)
Squarepusher - Metteng Excuske v1.2 (1:08)
Roni Size - Beatbox (1:09)
Gail Force 3 - Letter Home To Ma (1:10)
Todd Rundgren - Tic Tic Tic, It Wears Off (1:14)
Lung Leg - Accident (1:15)
Henry Mancini - Pink Panther Theme (1:16)
Ivor Cutler - Good Morning, How Are You, Shut Up! (1:17)
Kid Carpet - Special (1:17)
Broadcast - Oh How I Miss You (1:17)
Clinic - Hippy Death Suite (1:18)
Squarepusher - Tommib (1:19)
The Fall - Mansion (1:20)
Phantom Pregnancies - Ants In Your Pants II (1:20)
Vangelis - Spinner Ascent (1:20)
Milky Wimpshake - Creepfoot (1:21)
Half Man Half Biscuit - Bogus Official (1:22)
Boards of Canada - In The Annexe (1:22)
Fanfare Ciocarlia - Hora lui Pusac (1:24)
Childbirth - How Do Girls Even Do It? (1:26)
Kenickie - Walrus (1:28)
Money Mark - Robo dancing (1:28)
Minty - Homage (1:28)

love too order iTunes by track length