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

i was thinking 119

Also, everyone should submit drawings for art that they have to do in less than 2 minutes

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 1, 2019 2:13 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao hell yes

i love that idea but i'm guessing only 4 people will actually do it

wait would they have to draw it like, after the song is announced, or beforehand?

Whoever is coordinating the art would send like the names of five songs that made the list to each “artist” and they take 10 minutes and send em back

If someone (not me) wants to volunteer to do the coordinating/sizing/uploading, I’ll def draw some. I bet we could get at least 10 people who would draw 10 2-minute drawings, easily

Hey I can draw a ton of stick figures in 2 minutes!

i was thinking 119

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Friday, March 1, 2019 4:21 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

absolutely

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGKYiy8U0AAcM8p.jpg

Barry Gray - Space:1999 Year One (Main Theme) 1:41
Barry Gray - Joe 90 1:59
Barry Gray - Thunderbirds (Main Titles) 1:31
Barry Gray - Captain Scarlet (End Titles)(Commercial Version) 1:27
Barry Gray - UFO (Opening Titles) 1:10
Barry Gray - UFO (End Titles) 1:09

― Jeff W,

WTF Jeff, all those and no Stingray, madness...

Barry Gray - Stingray (Full Version) 1:56
Barry Gray - Stingray (TV version) 1:14
Barry Gray - Stingray (TV Version with Commander Shore saying "Stand by for action" and "Anything can happen in the next half hour") 1:16

Also, everyone should submit drawings for art that they have to do in less than 2 minutes

a variation on this idea: however long the song is, that's how long you have to draw

The accompanying image's filesize has to be equivalent in kilobytes to the track time.

Sloan - Someone I Can Be True With (1:31)
Solange - I’m a Witness (1:51)

sorry to split the Vernon Elliott vote but

Vernon Elliott - Ivor The Engine theme ('Ivor short theme' on Spotify) (0:28)

and sorry to split the NSRO vote but James Larcombe once of this parish needs recognition

North Sea Radio Orchestra - Organ Miniature (0:52)

i'm not pissed off, i'm not mad, i don't think you're doing anything wrong. not doing spotify is my decision. it's not a criticism but an explanation of why i'm _choosing_ not to participate as fully as i would like. that's on me. not you.

The Suburbs - Cows (1:38)
The Suburbs - Cig Machine (1:25)
The Suburbs - Chemistry Set (1:11)

it's ok rush, i was being weird last night (like most nights, but still). plus, whisky. i am get way too defensive about things, but i'll save that talk for the depresso thread. anyway, i'm just happy you're joining in, even if it's not as much as you'd like. this poll is going to be epic

i am get way too defensive

put this on my gravestone, please

trash can sinatras - houseproud (1:17)
tsunami - brick book building (1:01)
godstar - ersatz (:52)
hollywood squares - hillside strangler (1:54)
rocket from the tombs - raw power (1:53)
close lobsters - d.d.r.i.n. (1:23)
minutemen - bob dylan wrote propaganda songs (1:29)
bikini kill - capri pants (1:43)
bonzo dog - kama sutra (:41)
replacements - god damn job (1:19)
la's - feelin' (1:44)
p.e.e. - bruce loves big star (1:08)

King Creosote - Counseling (1:34)
King Creosote - King Bubbles In Sand (1:49)
Thingy - Destroy All Music (1:54)
Thingy - Semolina/Kessel Run (1:37)
Thingy - Nod (1:38)
Heavy Vegetable - On Purpose (1:45)
Heavy Vegetable - Jackie Chan Is A Punk Rocker (1:39)
Family Fodder - Wrong (2:00)
Earlimart - Untitled (1:54)

So who's going to host a torrent of all the noms? And also order them in a sequence that flows nicely

I might be able to help with images depending on timing

this poll is going to be epic

THIS IS NOT AN EPICS POLL ahem sorry, old habits.

Also, everyone should submit drawings for art that they have to do in less than 2 minutes

Feel like Whiney is taking the piss and also I cannot draw anything given 2 days, but I would participate in this if it didn't make KM's life harder trying to herd us all.

i'll have to think about it. tbh, i also like just making new images, which also takes a ton of time, and despite many kind words i'm sure the result images were not everyone's cup of tea. i made custom ones for each song for the b-52s poll, but that was relatively easy because i used the album covers as the template for each song. i'm not sure what i would do for this one. but i kind of like the challenge of figuring it all out and making a cohesive set of images. on the other hand, i really like the idea of a bunch of people submitting images because participatory projects are just so much fun, and people tend to get more excited about things when they played an active role in some way.

anyway, plenty of time to think about it

that whole paragraph is a fucking mess, sorry.

I do think that it would be super fun, but honestly, trying to herd people is the worst. I think it'd actually be easier on you to do it on your own.

Also, please don't worry about trying to please everyone with everything, ilx is full of people who enjoy getting cranky (hi) and it genuinely isn't because you've done anything wrong. <3

The Loud Family - Sword Swallower (1:45)

Also, everyone should submit drawings for art that they have to do in less than 2 minutes

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 1, 2019 3:13 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would do this for all the songs that place tbh

xp thank you emily - it is in my nature to try to please everyone + to feel overly defensive about criticism. it's bad. trying not to do that so much but when i drink i regress.

if we do end up doing the drawing idea i think minutemen songs should get the obvious time limit

i still reserve the right as ultimate pollmaster for this poll to totally change my mind and do it my own way and piss everyone off though, sorry

fair

happy to do some two minute drawings but i will need three months to think about each one first

Final nominations!

Dominique Leone - Those Productive Millennials (1:25)
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - All White (1:50)

Oh man, All White! Definitely getting a vote from me. Good late nom

the nomination process is officially over!

and yet, i am abusing my power to add one final nominee (and to close the opposite-of-epic playlist):

The Vaselines - Dum-Dum (1:57)

still working on adding in nominations. i promise not to take for fucking 'ever, but it will take a couple days. then i'll open up the voting/campaign thread. early next week, promise!

is this the most ever nominees for a poll? i'm not sure that's an "achievement", exactly, but it would be something

I feel like whoever is brave enough for an end of 10’s decade poll will have to deal with twice the nominations of this poll unless it’s limited to 30 noms per person.

if i could turn back time to the beginning of this thread, i definitely would have put a limit of 30 or 40 per person

but first i would probably turn back time to other moments that were more consequential for the rest of humanity and attempt to make some changes

as i continue through the thread, i'll list the songs i have to kick off. for those who missed my mid-thread post, i'm using spotify as the arbitrator of song length, just to have some sort of concrete judge.

X - we're desperate (there are several versions on spotify, all at 2 or above. just missed it by a second or two. sorry)
Solomon Burke - Got to Get You Off My Mind (almost all the versions on spotify are 2:36. there's an edit that's 1:57 on one release (soul clan), but it doesn't seem right to include it)

it pains me to remove this, but almost every version of it is over 2 minutes, except for some obscure choral renditions

henry mancini - pink panther theme

teenage fanclub - what you do to me
2:01 on spotify

Slide the pitch control to +1 on your turntable, it’ll sound basically the same but will have a run time of 1:59, problem sorted

It's 1:59 on the 4,766 Seconds compilation. But if consensus is the original is too long that's fine.

on a related note, i am angry that somehow the batman theme is longer than 2 minutes

way late here (and past the deadline), but:

Link Wray and His Ray Men - Batman Theme (1:55)
The Who - Batman Theme (1:21)
The Jam - Batman Theme (1:30)

(and also, The Mekons - 32 Weeks (1:38))

Also prob too late, not mad if it doesn't stick, but

Dennis Challen Brown & Chuck Lorre - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme (1:28)

(yes, that chuck lorre!)

I can't read, let's try that again

Miles Doppler - Heroes In A Half Shell (1:28)

per the wikipedia -- The soundtrack was composed by Dennis Challen Brown (credited as "D.C. Brown" and later as "Dennis C. Brown") and Chuck Lorre. Lorre recorded the theme song (and performed the spoken parts) and became a successful television producer. The performer of the song was James Mandell (aka Miles Doppler).[21] To date the soundtrack has never been released for retail.

mookie i had to remove hot snakes (mystery boy) and elvis costello (no action), at 2:00 and 2:01 on spotify, respectively. rules chaotically settled upon halfway through a process are rules