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

not a new act but I was going to nominate this before, forgot: Teenage Fanclub - Hardcore/Ballad (1:50)

Phoenix - School's Rules (1:32)

Working For A Nuclear Free City - Euphone (1:47)

Depeche Mode - Sometimes (1:54)

Avi Buffalo - Two Cherished Understandings (1:42)

Midnight Oil - Bakerman (0:56)

Right that's it. You can go to bed!

Georgia Island Sea Singers - Hop Along Lets Get Her
Bettie Jones- Go to Sleep Little Baby
Alameda Riddle - My Little Rooster
Hobart Smith - Last Chance
Alan Lomax - All The Pretty Little Horses
Curly King - Boil them cabbage down

Ahhh already done and I forgot the lengths anyway

Sleep well, Mr Malone

Beastie Boys 'Funky Boss' is in the playlist and noms list twice btw

Another duplicate - PJ Harvey's 'Snakes'

And the Broadcast track is 'Microtronics' not 'Microtonic' but do we know which of the 21 Microtronics tracks it is?

Couple of very minor corrections!

Lung Leg - Accident -> Lungleg - Accident
Yummy Fur - Policeman -> The Yummy Fur - Policeman

we are removing articles from the beginning of names I thought?

So glad to see Raymond Scott's 'Lightworks' in the list but it's also in there twice.

3 more duplicates

Talking Heads - Who Is It?
The Sea Nymphs - On the Dry Land
They Might Be Giants - Mr. Me

Thanking you!

Keeping articles at beginning of band names!

Will add final songs and make other edits when I get home 13-16 hours from now!

Late to work! Fuck!

oh sorry I saw someone request we remove them but request was not approved... in that case there's probably loads in my list that should have The at the beginning, sorry

This 54 second edit of the Doctor Who theme (from the Troughton era) is a bit better than the 39 second edit as it just about squeezes in the middle eight (rubbish fade out though): https://open.spotify.com/track/5edEe378gFi6xxhveG7jAk?si=8LfLuGTQTF-RjnlsXoWeGA

Better still might've been the 1:20 Closing theme from the same era as the opening theme nominated: https://open.spotify.com/track/12eaGTQ57QR7E1XhAevAXo?si=CfpwBrWTTHaaPXEfa2aVkA

i'd hope the majority of campaigning will be for those songs who never found life on that particular streaming platform

let me tell you about some of these US hardcore songs.... oh wait, that's for the next thread

damn i bet we didn't nominate a single tonetta song did we

mea culpa

but do we know which of the 21 Microtronics tracks it is?

Microtronics 05

wait are nominations still open cuz I love tiny music and could name like a dozen on the spot

they're closed, let's not get Karl fired here

I hereby de-nominate my last five nominations (posted after Karl announced a final ten) but ONLY for Stevie D. They're all yours. Of course as a Dandies and Swirlies (I assume) fan you might opt to re-nominate a couple of 'em idk

Hey guys, this is Karl’s friend, logged into his account. He got fired because of this poll, earlier today, and he asked me to come on here and ask you all to send him money to cover his costs while he looks for a new one. He’s going to be busy out looking for a job for the next few weeks but you can just send the money to me and I will pass it onto him, as I see him just about every night.

SAVE KM

fyi Stevie my offer lasts until 2pm EST and then I renominate and it's all over

(The) Beach Boys
Alain Gorag(eu)r
Beastie Boys - Funky Boss x2 /already mentioned
(the) Bonzo Dog
(the) Dicks
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues x2
(the) exploited
Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans x2 (please replace one with Thingy - Drugs)
Frank Zappa / Mothers
Georgia Ann(e) Muldrow

over the weekend I'm thinking I'll make a youtube playlist with the songs left off spotify

Hmm. I guess I'll renominate those tracks. Apologies

Missing from the Google Doc (I don't know about the playlist):

The Pipettes - It Hurts To See You Dance So Well (1:53)

damn i bet we didn't nominate a single tonetta song did we

― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.)

FUCK.

that said tho i am struggling to find one under 2:00! in my memory they were all short songs, weird

Not sure if it makes a difference but Discogs has Elvis Costello & the Attractions - No Action at 1:58 on the old Rykodisc reissue CD (and 1:57 on the original LP). This would be in my top 10.
https://www.discogs.com/Elvis-Costello-This-Years-Model/release/1493731🕸

/Super Furry Animals Do or Die 1:59/

2:06 on spotify, allmusic, and discogs

*does not, dies*

Which version of "Do or Die" were you using, KM? The one from Guerrilla on Spotify is indeed 1:59

https://i.imgur.com/TXZj8bYs.png

one more try...

https://i.imgur.com/TXZj8bY.png

apols for large image

*wakes up covered in mud and dirty band-aids*

ok, thanks for all of the nominations list-cleaning! i made all of the little adjustments everyone mentioned above. removing all the doubles opened up several more spots, so i was able to almost all of the last wave of nominations to bring the total to the very satisfying and relevant number of 2019 songs. these were the songs i added:

Bill Wurtz - Alphabet Shuffle - 1:00
The Chap - Partly People - 1:56
The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone - 1:54
Swirlies - No Identifier - 1:45
Teenage Fanclub - Hardcore / Ballad - 1:50
Phoenix - School's Rules - 1:32
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Euphone - 1:47
Depeche Mode - Sometimes - 1:54
Avi Buffalo - Two Cherished Understandings - 1:42
Midnight Oil - Bakerman - 0:56
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - No Action - 1:58 (this is above 2:00 on all versions on spotify, so i left it off there. but it's 1:58 on discogs)
Super Furry Animals - Do or Die - 1:59
Georgia Island Sea Singers - Hop Along, Let's Get Her - 1:04
Alameda Riddlle - My Little Rooster - 1:49
Hobart Smith - Last Chance - 1:30
Thingy - Drugs - 1:36
The Pipettes - It Hurts To See You Dance So Well - 1:53

The Pipettes one is interesting - on Spotify it's 2:09, and it's the version on We Are the Pipettes. It's legitimately that long. But I looked it up on Youtube and elsewhere, and the album version is indeed shorter, at 1:53. So i'm guessing they put a slightly different/longer version on the U.S. version of the album? at any rate, i've added it to the nominations list, but not the spotify playlist.

Near-final_nominations_draft3_Final_v2_2019_03_09(FINAL)
Spotify Playlist

god's work

i have the remaining items before i can launch the voting/campaign thread later today:

- finalize points/tiers system (i will try to provide several options, including ranked and unranked ballots, and a few varieties of tiers for people who would rather do it that way
- set up voting system
- register a gmail account

fionnland's system seems like a good one (see 500 posts ago)

still think you should do 119 songs

think he said he would!

oh cool missed that post nice.

yep! planning a 119 song countdown (assuming we have enough votes to make it interesting, but i think we will)

whoops, one more addition (Alan Lomax - All The Pretty Little Horses 1:49)
(i realized one of nominees in the list was the beautiful "Artist - Track - Length", which is unfortunately ineligible for this poll. so i squeezed in one more late nom from fionnland)

getting closer, just preparing the google forms and stuff