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

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

re: the Pipettes, there are two versions of We Are the Pipettes, the (original) UK version and the US version, and they each have different arrangements.

And it's annoying that the obviously superior UK version isn't on US Spotify, but that would be the one we'd be voting on.

Which (UK) TV show was Alan Parson Project's 'Sirius' used in? It's been bugging me all evening. Maybe it was just continuity music during snooker coverage in the late 80s or something.

okeydoke, after some messing around i have a proposed points system. there will be up to 50 votes on each ballot.

there will be three voting options:

1-50 ranked
Rank, Points
01 500
02 475
03 450
04 425
05 400
06 375
07 350
08 330
09 310
10 290
11 272
12 255
13 240
14 230
15 220
16 210
17 202
18 197
19 192
20 187
21 182
22 177
23 172
24 168
25 164
26 160
27 155
28 151
29 147
30 144
31 142
32 139
33 136
34 134
35 131
36 128
37 125
38 122
39 118
40 115
41 112
42 109
43 106
44 103
45 100
46 97
47 94
48 90
49 86
50 83

this adds up to the pleasing total of 10,000 points. don't worry, when we do the final rollout i will multiply everything by a tiny number so that we can have pleasingly tiny results.

1-50 ranked
in an unranked ballot, every song receives 200 points, for a total of 10,000 points. wow, that's pleasing!

mixed/tiers ballot
based off of fionnland's suggestion above, but with slightly altered numbers so that everything adds up to 10,000 at the end. voters can submit a ranked 1-20 ballot, then three tiers from 21-30, 31-40, and 41-50.

01 500
02 475
03 450
04 425
05 400
06 375
07 350
08 330
09 310
10 290
11 272
12 255
13 240
14 230
15 220
16 210
17 202
18 197
19 192
20 187

21 - 30: 162 points each
31 - 40: 129 points each
41 - 50: 98 points each

all of that adds up to 10,000 points as well.

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in addition, there will be three side polls:
1) top 5 songs under 30 seconds (can include songs voted for as part of the regular poll too, of course)
2) your favorite ever <2 minutes artist/band
3) top 5 songs that aren't in the nominations but you believe are actually less than 2 minutes (meant to capture songs excluded from this song on a technicality, because spotify said it was over 2 but actually it's really not, or because it wasn't nominated, etc)