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

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

yeah I'll only listen to music by track length from now on

Arca - Hallucinogen (1:24)
J Dilla - Lightworks (1:18)
James Ferraro - Linden Dollars (1:57)

xp don't use itunes, never will, these nominations are whittled down from the billions of mp3s I've stored on my hard drive and queued up in wimamp

iTunes crashes if I attempt to add my whole library in it so it was a painful add one chunk, remove the sub 2 minutes, add another chunk, remove the sub 2 minute tracks, etc.

I think there is a Windows Explorer advanced search limiter based on "length:" but I couldn't get it to work.

Listening to the spotify list is a lot of fun

some that came to mind:
Electric Eels - No Nonsense (1:15)
Black Randy & The Metrosquad - Sperm Bank Baby (1:23)
DNA - Blonde Red Head (1:50)

Listening to the spotify list is a lot of fun

Yeah I mean I have to admit, like others I was worried the nominations list might be daunting but actually listening through it has been great.

Girlpool - Dear Nora (1:54)
Girlpool - Corner Store (1:31)
Frankie Cosmos - Embody (1:49)
The Chills - Hidden Bay (1:44)

The Creatures - Mad Eyed Screamer (1:54)
OMD - Time Zones (1:50)
Hybrid Kids - D'Ya Think I'm Sexy? (1:52)
Public Enemy - Incident At 66.6FM (1:37)
Moloko - Sorry (1:34)

Putting together my list of every Wu-Tang skit for this. brb

Calamine "Sealab 2021 Theme" (i dont know how long this is)

fucked up the formatting sorry

Calamine - Sealab 2021 Theme (0:25)

i guessed

Is "The Lovely Linda" really a good choice for this?

contra morrisp these eno tracks are v welcome in the noms playlist

They may not fit very well in the overall punk/rock'n'roll-ish slant of the playlist, but those Eno tracks were the first thing I thought of as examples of 'miniatures'.

Calamine "Sealab 2021 Theme" (i dont know how long this is)

― billstevejim, Friday, February 22, 2019 1:20 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn nice one

Tay-K - The Race (1:44)

ehh actually the Spotify version is 2:20, but the original YouTube version that caught fire was 1:44. I'll leave that one up to the judges

Is "The Lovely Linda" really a good choice for this?

― billstevejim, Friday, February 22, 2019 12:29 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes imo

Boris - "Electric" (1:45)

Aimee Mann - Just Like Anyone (1:22)
Air Miami - Sweet as a Candy Bar (1:33)
The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard (1:06)
The Beatles - It's Only Love (1:59)
Bert Jansch & John Renbourne - East Wind (1:25)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Baz - Duck (1:05)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Baz - On the Beach Boys Bus (1:47)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Baz - Banned Announcements (1:57)
Bob Dylan - Father of Night (1:30)
The Breeders - When I Was a Painter (1:40), "Pod" demo
Brian Eno - The Last Door (1:31)
Brian Eno - A Measured Room (1:03)
Broadcast - Microtonics 05 (1:47)
Calexico - Inch By Inch (0:48)
Calexico - 6 White Horses (0:28)