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

Low - Sea (1:49)
The Shaggs - Things I Wonder (1:50)
Undertones - Emergency Cases (1:53)
Undertones - Male Model (1:59)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Love Comes In Spurts (1:59)

hey karl malone, i'm nominating the original version of Richard Hell & the Voidoids' 'Love Comes In Spurts', which is 1:59: https://www.discogs.com/Richard-Hell-The-Voidoids-Blank-Generation/release/916481

mommy! mommy! mommy!

i didn't mean to establish that exact template for letting me know of the original track length, but it does help to catch my attention lol!

i'm looking forward to the voting/persuasion thread. there are a ton of wonderful new songs i've found already, and i'm only halfway through

I've been working on a new song (1:59, of course), "Hey, Karl Malone."

friendly reminder in all caps bold:

NOMINATIONS DEADLINE: MONDAY, FEB 25, MIDNIGHT (WHATEVER TIME ZONE YOU WANT TO USE)

Karl as per your process please note that the version of The Misfits' "Mommy Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight" that I nominated is the live version from the Walk Among Us album as per this Discogs entry:

https://www.discogs.com/Misfits-Walk-Among-Us/release/4194436

1:59 in that listing, but if Spotify says the same one is 2:00 I can nominate something else :)

There's a studio version that's the B-side of "Die Die My Darling" that might be the 2:00 one, no times on that.

noted! thanks!

Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Hausen (1:47)
Leo Kottke - Stealing (1:42)
Maher Shalal Baz - Open Field (1:24)
Martin Kolbe, Ralf Illenberger - Opening (1:24)
Massive Attack - The Academy (1:45)
Max Richter - Written on the Sky (1:48)
Meat Puppets - Magic Toy Missing (1:22)
Miles Davis - Mystery (Reprise) (1:28)
The Montgolfier Brothers - Pro-Celebrity Standing Around (1:45)

The Names - Music for Someone (1:57)
Nick Drake - Brittle Days III (Variation) (1:47)
Ougenweide - Rumet uz die Schäemel und die Stüele (1:56)
Pavement - Internal K-Dart (1:51)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Zopf: From the Colonies (1:38)

R.E.M. - Walter's Theme (1:31)
R.E.M. - Windout (1:59)
Ramones - Let's Dance (1:52)
Ramones - I Don't Care (1:39)
Robert Wyatt - The Whole Point of No Return (1:26)

As we're up to the Rs,

Rudimentary Peni - Sonia (1:14)

Sonic Youth - Moustache Riders (1:08)
Tindersticks - Sweet, Sweet Man Pt. 2 (1:06)
Tord Gustavsen Trio - Song of Yearning (Solo) (1:59)
Young Marble Giants - The Clock (1:39)
Young Marble Giants - Radio Silents (1:53)

I think that is it from my side...

Spoon - Dismember (1:45)
Spoon - Idiot Driver (1:39)
Spoon - Wanted to Be Your (1:52)
Spoon - Theme to Wendel Stivers (1:58)
Spoon - Primary (1:10)
Spoon - Utilitarian (1:51)
Spoon - Car Radio (1:30)
Spoon - Chloroform (1:10)
Spoon - Staring at the Board (0:54)
Spoon - No You're Not (1:43)

― nate woolls, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:49 PM (five days ago)

hi nate, can you please narrow this down to 3?

Blur - Bank Holiday (1:42)
Blur - Chinese Bombs (1:24)
Blur - We've Got a File on You (1:03)
Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic (1:50)
Super Furry Animals - Chupacabras (1:24)
Super Furry Animals - Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir (1:54)
Super Furry Animals - Do or Die (1:59)
Super Furry Animals - Drygioni (1:23)
Super Furry Animals - The Gateway Song (0:43)
The Jam - In the Street Today (1:31)
The Jam - All Mod Cons (1:20)
The Jam - But I'm Different Now (1:52)
Green Day - In the End (1:46)
Green Day - Brat (1:43)
Green Day - Take Back (1:09)
Nirvana - Downer (1:43)
Nirvana - Been a Son (1:55)
Nirvana - Molly's Lips (1:54)
Nirvana - (New Wave) Polly (1:48)
Nirvana - Mexican Seafood (1:55)
Nirvana - Very Ape (1:56)
Nirvana - tourette's (1:35)

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican),

hi Turrican, you can narrow down SFA and Nirvana to three songs each?

I'd prefer Super Furry Animals - Drygioni (1:23) to survive the cull, so I shall nominate it myself pre-emptively

just entered in the 1000th song. i'm this far down the scrollbar for the thread.

https://i.imgur.com/uL3hp0Q.png

but i think there's relatively more conversation/less nominations on the latter half of the thread. so i'm thinking we'll end up with around 1500 noms or so, give or take.

the playlist is only at 628 right now, but that's because the person that legally agreed to share her money with me has been using our spotify account all day as she works on a paper. i'll make sure it's updated soon

Cowboy Junkies - Mining for Gold (1:31)
Francoise Hardy - Till the Morning Comes (1:33)
Low - Your Poison (1:14)
Dead Milkmen - Tiny Town (1:45)
Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste of Cindy (1:45)
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Ingrid Berman (1:51)
Uncle Tupelo - Atomic Power (1:52)
The Chiffons - He's So Fine (1:53)
Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey (1:56)
Elvis Presley - That's All Right (Mama) (1:58)
Alison Krauss - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby (1:58)
The Clientele - 6 AM Morningside (1:52)

I nominated five Neil Young songs. If you haven't taken any out already, make sure that "Till the Morning Comes" and "Cripple Creek Ferry" stay; take out whichever two of "There Goes My Babe," "Love in Mind," and "Bad Fog of Loneliness" that you want.

Serendipity--great Francoise Hardy version of "Till the Morning Comes."

i wish i would have kept track of how many different people had submitted nominations. it might be a decent indicator of how many people we can expect to vote, at minimum

GFOTY - Lover (1:42)

I know this is jumping the gun, but can we have some flexibility when it comes to points? Ranking 50 songs is kind of meaningless for me. I was thinking of something like this:

1) a top 10 ranked
2) the next 15 split the #11-25 points equally
3) the other 25 split the #26-50 points equally

I'm good at math, I can make that work.

some that are missing

Blonde Redhead - Girl Boy (1:49)
Buddy Holly - Slippin' And Slidin' - Fast Version (1:27)
The Clovers - Love Potion Number 9 (1:52)
Elvis Presley - Crawfish (1:48)
Los Locos del Ritmo - Pólvora (1:56)
Moondog - All Is Loneliness (1:38)
Pierre Schaeffer - Erotica (1:19)
Ronnie Dawson - Rockin' Bones (1:58)
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle (1:56)
Tenorio Jr. - Nebulosa (1:53)
The Lumineers - Flowers in your Hair (1:51)
Vashti Bunyan - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (1:51)

Can't believe 'Killer in the Park' by Leoncie is 2:12, gah. And a lot of the other things I've thought of are over, too.

But thanks for nomming 'Bad Motorcycle', Moka, that will be way up there for me!

Tenacious D - Explosivo (1:55)

xpost yep, tiers/mixed ballots are fine with me. although hopefully most people will just submit ranked or unranked ballots, because if everyone does a unique scheme it will make life more complicated for me.
i'm not sure about how many points to distribute per ballot yet, but i'll provide details in the first post of the voting thread.

hey emil.y, i sent you some ilxmail earlier, hopefully you got it?

Clipping - The Breach (0:56)

Aha, I hadn't checked my email over the weekend, but yes - got it, thanks!

xp

My last two:

The Futureheads - Le Garage (1.45)
The Futureheads - Stupid and Shallow (1.35)

Andrew W.K. - Into The Clear (1:33)

The Mountain Goats - Going to Maine (1:43)
The Mountain Goats - Alpha Incipiens (1:36)

Beck - Hollow Log (1:54)

1) a top 10 ranked
2) the next 15 split the #11-25 points equally
3) the other 25 split the #26-50 points equally

I endorse this, if only because (like clemenza, and I suspect, many of us) ranking 50 songs is kind of a headache.

Bad phrasing there: I wasn't in any way suggesting that clemenza and many other ILXors were headaches.

yep, we'll definitely make it an option!

i’m not going to nominate john lennon’s “nutopian international anthem” (0:04), but if somebody does i will vote for it.

it’s like “ 4’33” ” but better and without all the boring waiting

Unwound - Lucky Acid (1:44)

Rudimentary Peni - The Evil Clergyman (1:52)
Rudimentary Peni - Zenophobia (1:52)
The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences (1:52)
Pete and the Pirates - she doesn’t belong to me (1:59)
James Plotkin/Atomsmasher - Zanzibar (1:51)

Elvis Presley - That's All Right (1:55)
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (1:57)
Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear (1:47)

Jim Guthrie - Mr. Work Stubborn (1:45)
Jim Guthrie - Thousand Songs (2:00)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Torso Corso (1:48)
Nerves - When You Find Out (1:58)
Grifters - Piddlebach (1:57)
Family Fodder - Dazomo (1:49)

Habibi - I Got The Moves (1:45)
Josephine Foster - Amuse a Muse (1:57)
Aniello Maffettone - Vco 2 (1:28)

Lee Hazelwood - Love and Other Crimes (1:02)
Matt Elliott - A Beginning (1:28)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Lovergirls Precinct (1:36)
Smog - Wild Love (1:37)
Mayhem - Witching Hour (1:50)
Codeine - Summer Dresses (1:57)
Trembling Blue Stars - The Floating World (0:57)
Emiliana Torrini - Sea People (1:14)
Ariel Pink - The Birds They Sing In You (1:32)

Patrick Carney - BoJack Horseman Theme (0:53)
Limmy - Wrong Way Down A One Way Street (0:04) (approx)

Ice-T - Fried Chicken (1.00)

What are the most recent few Hot 100 chart or Top 40 rotation songs that qualify for this?

I don't think "Fell In Love With A Girl" charted on Hot 100 so probably before then?

Angry Samoans - My Old Man's a Fatso (1:32)
Angry Samoans - The Todd Killings (0:38)
Descendents - Hope (1:58)
Descendents - Weinerschnitzel (0:10)
Wire - 106 Beats That (1:12)
Germs - The Slave (1:01)
Germs - Richie Dagger's Crime (1:56)
Germs - Strange Notes (1:52)
Bad Brains - Sailin' On (1:55)