♫ Best Songs Under 2 Minutes poll - VOTING and CAMPAIGNING (voting closes March 31st) ♫

I made a playlist of a certain subset of all the nominations, not stanning for any of them just a bit of fun, best effect if you skip each song after 1-2 seconds:

https://open.spotify.com/user/ledge/playlist/1uMkeSUpwlJHLzx1QkpyN9?si=LJOVMgCxQQOs0273IMaVkA

aka the Gerogerigegege playlist lol

Karl you must have missed the last batch of corrections I made in the nominations thread. One song is on there twice and I mentioned 'the' White Stripes and other splits with 'the'.

xp to imago,
I didn't know that about Earlimart (a band I don't really care much about despite nominating that song). Maybe you are mistaken?
Family Fodder is one of my all time favorite bands.

I am not mistaken. But it's a nice remix

hmm. now I'm thinking I was mistaken and it's just the same (unusual) instrument

ok, I approve of the Earlimart then :D

Not well known (the song, not the band).

What's the Use (Pretty Things, 1970)

Possibly a belated answer-song to "She's Leaving Home."

There definitely are some big similarities there imago. The thing that most intrigues me about the Earlimart song is when it hangs on the minor piano notes (from about 1:06 - 1:22) instead of finishing the sequence.

And since KM took the trouble to fix up the spelling, some great doo-wop from 1959 (of admittedly dubious sensitivity):

Ching a Long (Accents, 1959)

Contrary to the credits on the clip, it is "Ching a Long," not "Ching a Ling" (a point raised in the comments section). Seems to be listed as "Ching a Ling" all over the internet, but:

http://images.45cat.com/the-accents-i-give-my-heart-to-you-1959.jpg

I've just realised that I've forgotten to nominate something. Are we accepting write-ins?

u kidding m8

it's this haha a neural network wrote a christmas song

lol. it's good but not quite as good to further toy with KM's sanity imo

ok fine, i won't mention it again. but it's going on my ballot :D

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg8mJP7y6Wg

o god haha

I can proudly declare it's right there on the noms list too!

For those that like their songs *really* short, here's a playlist I made of songs that are all 7 seconds or less

https://open.spotify.com/user/1000timesyes/playlist/3n34eIuHsO4ZARoSYymkwL?si=hZ1Gn9dsS02tj5Jkmw3pCw

59 songs in 5 min, 13 seconds

Also, let me know if there's any good ones (0:07 or less) on Spotify that I'm missing!

lol, my immediate thought was "death metal and tmbg" and i was not disappointed

grindcore 👏 is 👏 not 👏 death 👏 metal 👏

i was looking forward to that response too tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU75AiKynag

I was looking forward to exchanges like that in this thread <3

Thanks for your work on this Karl, still going through the playlist but looking forward to putting a ballot together.

Would like to put a word in for one of my non-Spotify playlist nominations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFUoPRjhEG8

Idk if you're allowed to campaign for your own nominations or if it's in bad taste but then again I am a vulgar, vulgar man, a real nouveau riche ilx type shithead, so I am gonna do it anyway and beg for your forgiveness later, MAYBE.

Brian Eno - The Microsoft Sound (0:06) - Just wanted to remind you all this is available to put on your ballot. IT'S REAL GOOD, Y'ALL!
Danny Elfman - The Simpsons Main Theme (1:39) - This too. It's fine? I don't even know if I'll vote for it, but it is iconic.
AFI - Hearts Frozen Solid, Thawed Once More by the Spring of Rage, Despair, and Hopelessness (0:32) - A real test of Poe's law here (or whatever the... not internet? equivalent? of poe's law? is?), I can't tell if this is just the most "angry pop punk" song ever or a send-up of the genre. Either way, 30 seconds of Davey Havoc screaming I WILL DIE SCREAMING is a joy, and this is probably the only AFI song I have ever liked. Plus, there has to be at least one representative from Fat Wreck's "short music for short people," an album of 100 thirty-second songs, right?
Project X - Straight Edge Revenge (1:20) - Yes, yes, you should vote for the Minor Threat song, blah blah blah, YAWN, but, like, this is the best update to the "short song about not doing drugs hardcore" microgenre ever. I'M AS STRAIGHT! AS THE LINE! THAT YOU SNORT UP YOUR NOSE! hahaha. Come on. vote for it
Mitski - Old Friend (1:53) - maybe my fave short song by my fave artist of the decade so you know i'll stan for it. with 50 spots i'm still worried i'll vote for her 5 times? but if someone said "one vote per artist" it's this. (or maybe my body's made of crushed little stars. shit. tough pick)

And some I didn't nominate, because, that's the CLASSY MOVE

Guayaba - Bye Bich --- daaaaaaaaamn one of the (very) few songs that I hit while shuffling the spotify and went WAIT WHAT? WHAT IS THIS. it is very good
Farrah Abraham - The Sunshine State --- NOBODY TOLD ME SHE IS A SECRET GENIUS? help this is amazing
Boards of Canada - .......all of it? ugh how am I supposed to pick from these?

If it helps you decide, I am going to be giving My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars a LOT of points

and yeah the Farrah Abraham thing is glorious haha

i'm planning on voting for crushed little stars too

KILL MEEE IN JERUUUSALEM

one per artist is only like a code of honour thing tho, right? bc like... yeah i'm not gonna LIE and pretend i don't love both of those songs

imo two is fine and three is a bit much but probably tolerable

My ballot has five Minutemen songs right now

Also, we should have let whoever nominate the whole Circle Jerks album because "World Up My Ass" is not on the list

yeah there's no limit, but i'm gonna limit myself to one artist per song so i can spread the wealth a bit and go a little bit less insane when choosing and ordering my ballot

vote for the songs you like best imo

There's 3 different versions of the theme to 'Stingray', will they be collated seperately or together? i.e. does it matter which version I vote for?

I’m not familiar with the theme (and at work so I can’t listen), but if they sound pretty similar I will collate is there are votes for separate versions

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Not sure if I'll vote for it, but definitely under consideration.

Vote for 'UFO' instead, Dan :)

Jesus, that was exhausting.
There was definitely something liberating about comparing the relative merits of C86 songs, hardcore, first-wave rock 'n roll classics, and incidental filler.
Anyway, ballot submitted.

Attention Trump conspiracy hysterics: I voted twice.

(Don't worry, KM--the second ballot catches one of the subcategories I missed on the first one. The rest is blank.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoFhiKaq9UQ

Campaigning for Canadian cuddlecore champions Cub...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAWgU_JMz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3L6SPM6xYs

How ironic that a song called Martin Scorcese is brief

Every song: “What song is this?”
“Guided by Voices again”
“Put it on the list”.

I guess I didn’t realise they were actually quite good.

From my noms I obviously want to campaign for all of them but I’ll settle for 3 that I’d specially recommend:

Tenorio Jr - Nebulosa

This is from the early 60’s but actually sounds like it is some instrumental hip hop song by nujabes or someone of that ilk. Which is to say it sounds decades ahead of its time. Short piece but every musician in it is so good and the song has such an energetic pace it feels like it’s much longer.

Buddy Holly - Slippin n Slidin (fast version)

This stripped down version is not only my favorite version of the song, it might be my favorite Buddy Holly song. I love his voice in this unadorned state. The whole apartment tapes are really good and better than the overdubs they made with them imho.

Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle

Because it’s awesome and deserves a top 20 spot in this poll.

Don't know if I'll be able to submit a ballot, but wanted to drop in to say that this playlist is the best thing ever

I don't know who nommed Primal Scream - Velocity Girl, but to me, this song really sets a template here:
Beautiful pop song starts off with a perfect verse and a perfect chorus, and just as you're settling in to hear them repeated 2 or 3 more times and really luxuriate in the ascending melody and the chiming guitar, the song just ends.
It has a more palpable sense of leaving me wanting more than any other song I can think of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8KynrRA1u8

Disregarding the artists that are split between _x_ and _the_x_, it is still pretty strange that Karl didn't update the two bands named incorrectly or remove the last duplicate song, imo.

Some people move fast. They get things done. Some people move slow (e.g. patience makes perfection or a compulsive perfectionist). They don't always get things done but are great at obliterating tiny annoyances.

Also some people vote fast