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

wow just when I think I've heard every stray 'Lab track from their 90's output something like that turns up, I actually tried to look it up on Discogs earlier and failed.

fwiw I don't think the version of Frownland by Captain Beefheart on the Spotify playlist is the version intended (it's an instrumental from a bootleg, kinda surprised Spotify allows bootlegs tbh) - in the event that anyone listening to it might like it but doesn't know it already - the proper version isn't on Spotify but is on youtube: https://youtu.be/r9lpLm7jwQY

damn, who nominated tanzmusik, this song is sick

ok i voted! last 50 or so cuts were brutal.

also in the "un nominated top 5" i included 4 songs i was too stupid to nominate, and one i didn't nominate because i cannot find proof of its existence on the internet anymore, but i KNOW IT EXISTED. and i know it was under two minutes. so the track length is listed as (???). don't worry, nobody else will nominate it unless there's some early 2000's ottawa punx on here. (sund4r?)

8 ballots in so far! which is pretty good, i think, given the amount of time it takes to put one together for this poll. 2 weeks left!

I voted btw

don't forget to consider the sub-polls (best ever <2 minutes artist, top 5 songs not on the noms list, and top 5 songs under 30 seconds)

i saw it, thanks!

also, i will note that someone besides clemenza used the Clemenza Ballot option :)

which makes it one of the fastest growing ballot options on ilx

As of this morning's listening, I currently have a 40-track ballot with 40 distinct artists.* I still have about 1/4 of the Spotify playlist to (hopefully) get through, but I find it encouraging that I won't have much room to repeat artists. There are about 5 artists where making calls on one or even two songs is gonna be a challenge, though.

Speaking of clemenza, btw, I recommend checking out that Odin track he linked (here it is again, to save you some scrolling). Hearing it amidst a bunch of GbV tracks was kinda surreal: it really does sound like something that coulda come off of Alien Lanes some 20 years later.

*Technically, anyway. John Darnielle and Scott Miller appear twice under different band monikers.

Sent in my vote. Looking through the nominees, I was disappointed that there were only a few Young Marble Giants songs nominated. But it was quickly explained when I looked at the album - a ton of their songs barely miss the cutoff!

one potentially poll-winning song just missed the cutoff as well (neil young's Needle and the Damage Done - 2:03)

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Clemenza Option is adopted by a few states in the 2020 election.

Since she had success in the year poll, please note this intense short song
Rosalía - Que se muere que se muere

When starting the nominations, I thought this was a favorite to top the vote. Turned out I had to nominate it myself.
Jay Dee - Stop

You might now know this haunting ominous French song (if you like Christine Ribeiro for example). She talks of a kid asking difficult family questions which she shrugs off.
Colette Magny - Melocoton

If you like short melancholic folk that is more recent than dear Vashti, check Diane Cluck
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPCskFWCkw]Diane Cluck - Diamonds]

Ok, so that's why there was an error. Apologies, I proceed.

No comment needed for this Brazilian lament.
Maria Bethania - Sol Negro[/url

One of my favorites (traditional, south african revolutionary hymn)
Safa Saphel Isizwe

If you don't know this explosive riot grrl song, well you might vote for it, it's a proper album closer
Team Dresch - Screwing yet courage

Two more
Unknown twee song I like
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXIJ6kxUYV8]Spiritual vocal jazz I like

I clearly don't know how to paste those links

dang, i love that team dresch tune. saw 'em once @ Gilman but all i really remember from that night is sleater-kinney headlining and blowing my **cking mind

just voted and already have so many regrets

VOTING and CAMPAIGNING and REGRETS thread

i regret that i have but two minutes to give for my poll

Voted! Did the side-polls as well but could only think of three songs for the non-nomination bit (how did we forget Very Ape by Nirvana?). Really looking forward to the rollout!

I'm trying to listen to the playlist before voting but I'm only about 10% through. not many surprises yet other than I guess I should probably listen to some Buddy Holly because I know nothing about him and I quite liked his songs on this

Some campaigning happening over on pitchfork for "Binz" by Solange:

Under 120 seconds, it’s a perfect little sunshower of a song.

I know it's silly to want to verify the write-in process for a poll that has 2,019 nominations, but it's a crime that I forgot to nominate this (it's 1:59) on the Complete Hank Williams box)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATx6m3Lm7I

Bleepy noisy pretty: Aniello Maffetone - VCO2

Weird outsidery folky I dunno: Philemon Arthur and the Dung - Jag Vill Va I Fred (it's < 2:00 on Spotify)

Deep dramatic Bulgarian folk: bulgarian state television female vocal choir - svatba

Haunting dramatic Bulgarian folk: molih ta majk i moli

Chill and silky smooth Malian vibes: Amadou & Mariam - M' Bifé Balafon

Enchanting Kenyan folk: Chemutoi Ketienya - Chemirocha

Minor notes for voters:

Ramones - Lover, Come Back to Me doesn't exist
Bad Boys Brains - F.V.K.
F.S.O.L. T.S.O.L. - Abolish Government/Silent Majority
Sean Price - One More Try
Heavy Vegetable - Heavy Vegetable Fired
Robert Fripp - Mary 2:06 too long <Not sure if Karl wants to remove this one

And good news.
Here's a playlist of the tracks left off spotify.
I was kind of picky with the first 95 songs and how I sequenced them. The next 300 or so songs will be more or less dumped in the playlist over the next 2 or 3 days.

Robert Fripp - Mary 2:06 too long <Not sure if Karl wants to remove this one

My apologies - my mp3 was faulty and has a skip. I just consulted my FLAC archive and it is definitely just over 2 mins.

i will remove it from the list of nominations that's linked within the Google Forms ballot, and also make the other changes mentioned in FlopsyDuck's Minor notes above. but first i am going to eat some pizza and watch game of thrones

okeydoke, updated nominations list:

https://pastebin.com/PuG4RdvE

i've updated the links to this list in the Google Form/ballot as well.

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if a very kind MOD sees this, it would be very kind and in character if you could once again update the three pastebin links in the OP so they point to https://pastebin.com/PuG4RdvE:

the first link is the "link to full list of nominations", near the very top.

the second is "the final list of nominees", just a few lines beneath that.

third link is in the middle: "3) **PLEASE** form your baby ballot by copying and pasting from this full list of nominations: XXXXXXXX";

thanks again Flopsy for your help, and for all the effort in putting together the playlist of songs not on Spotify, which i will definitely be making use of as i form my own ballot

btw, 15 ballots are in so far! the clemenza option is the most popular format so far (6 voters), with the full ranked vote close behind (5 voters)

Think I've got all those pastebin changes for you.

Thank you!!

oh and if yr looking for that andrew jackson jihad song on spotify, they're called ajj now -- and it's a decent little tune! (someone already said this probably)

i think i would have voted for this little jewel by hüsker dü from the manic strumming thread if it had been nominated..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIbxmwdcnmM

Kudos to person with the brains to nominate "You're Not Blank" by the Dils. What a song.

that will be on my ballot (I didn't nominate it but would have if it weren't already nominated)

Trompe Le Monde has just been removed from Spotify ffs, the title-track was one of my best discoveries in this

Jacques Lasry's Toccata seems to have gone missing from the playlist tho I'm sure it was there before. If anything we need more cristal baschet in the list :(

Ah fuck I forgot to vote for Tame

one week left!!

only 17 ballots in so far, so ... god please don't make me actively promote this

I'll try not to leave mine to the last minute, but... I usually do end up submitting at the last minute.

yup

I'm on a longlist of 83. Cutting and ordering slowly up to Saturdayish.

god please don't make me actively promote this

Having run three or four of these, always the worst part--you don't want to appear needy as you wait for ballots to arrive.

I’ll be last minute for sure.

you don't want to appear needy as you wait for ballots to arrive.

what you don't understand is that i made a bad bet, and now i owe someone big. i really DO need all these ballots to arrive, or else.

lol Leee must be cashing in all his chips

Still (foolishly?) attempting to make it through the Spotify playlist. I feel like I'm losing momentum with this project, though, so I may just finalize a ballot with what I have in the next day or two.

Same