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

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chemirocha-how-an-american-country-singer-became-a-kenyan-star

Sorry to be a pain Karl but I've realised I'd like to make one change to the sub-30secs section of my ballot - am I better off re-submitting my whole ballot or can I just re-do that bit?

chemirocha is a definite all-time favorite; all that hugh tracey stuff is gold

Gavin, no problem! You can just submit another ballot with nothing on it except the correction. And maybe a quick handy note explaining what to change, in case I forget the details next week as I’m sorting through all this :)

Thanks, will do!

re-submitted! for all of the pages after the main list of 50 songs I just said "please see previous ballot" hope that's ok

Yep, that’s be fine!

All ballots must by law now include “Click Click”, would be a fitting #1. RIP RR

I VOTED

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

― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:44 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's back now.

I'm not even half way through the playlist, don't think there's any way I can finish it by tomorrow. oh well. I will get a ballot done tomorrow though.

I only got through about 100 songs on the playlist before I threw in the towel but found some songs for my ballot. "The Letter" is one of those songs I must have heard and enjoyed >10 times in my life but never knew the name of - thanks to whoever nommed!

did a little vote

thanks for all your hard work on this KM

Clemenza Option ftw

man, that Eraserhead song

it's a good one

Burial banger nonpareil: Stairwell

I just Clemenza Option'd. Felt good.

Decided to go with music I was already familiar with. First pass = 133 tracks.

Same and ended up with 31

Just voted

woo! some stuff i like might have an outside chance!

https://youtu.be/Uk6TD1PX22c
^cheers to whoever nominated this

link to the youtube playlist of non-spotify nominations
https://i.ibb.co/3p03hnz/pleaseextendthedeadlinebyoneweek.jpg

I was glad to discover that ditty myself. Thanks for the Youtube list, btw. A goodly chunk of my shortlist was over there.

Not least this 1981 obscurity I nominated. (Blessed with a very nifty found-footage fan video.)

looks like we're up to 30 ballots!

which is great, but hey lurkers out there or people who don't normally vote in these things - you should vote in this thing! doesn't have to be a full ballot, it can just be 20 of your faves.

even with 30 ballots, i'm a little concerned that since there are so many nominations, there will be a very wide, shallow pool of votes, with lots of ties and songs that only get 2 votes placing high, or whatever. the more ballots we get, the less of a problem that'll be.

i should vote in this. it's just hard for me to muster up the enthusiasm for random songs as opposed to a genre or single artist.

...i mean you could post a ballot that's entirely made up of guided by voices

but then there would fisticuffs

btw these are all the songs under 30 seconds:

Bikini Kill - In Accordance to Natural Law (0:28)
Brakes - Cheney (0:12)
Brian Eno - The Microsoft Sound (0:06)
Calexico - 6 White Horses (0:28)
Can - Pnoom (0:26)
Circle Jerks - Deny Everything (0:23)
Circulatory System - News from the Heavenly Loom (0:24)
Dead Kennedys - Short Songs (0:28)
Descendents - No! All (0:04)
Descendents - Weinerschnitzel (0:10)
Descendents - I Like Food (0:17)
Electrelane - Come Back (0:07)
Euros Childs - Stella is a Pygmy (0:25)
Gang Green - Snob (0:25)
George Brecht - Comb Music (0:02)
Guided by Voices - Hit (0:22)
Heavy Vegetable - Fired (0:25)
Jackson & His Computer Band - Promo (0:21)
Jad Fair - Shoes (0:26)
Jarvis Cocker - The Loss Adjuster (Excerpt 1) (0:27)
John Lennon - Nutopian International Anthem (0:04)
John Williams - 20th Century Fox Fanfare (0:21)
Johnny Hawksworth - Thames Television ident theme, c.1968-90 (0:07)
Joni Mitchell - I's a Muggin' (0:08)
Limmy - Wrong Way Down A One Way Street (0:04)
Melt-Banana - So far So bad So WHAT (0:27)
Michael Giacchino - Main Title - From "Lost" (0:17)
Moloko - Dirty Monkey (0:23)
Naked City - Blood Duster (0:18)
Naked City - Speedfreaks (0:29)
Napalm Death - You Suffer (0:02)
Necros - IQ 32 (0:23)
Out Hud - This Just In (0:28)
Sore Throat - Three Seconds Long (0:03)
Suzanne Ciani - Pop & Pour Coca (Cola Logo) (0:07)
The Beatles - Her Majesty (0:23)
The Who - Do You Think It's Alright? (0:25)
This Mortal Coil - Tears (0:22)
Vernon Elliott - Clangers Running Around the Planet! (0:19)
Wehrmacht - E! (0:01)
Wire - Field Day for the Sundays (0:28)
Wormsblood - The Asix of Adaptor (0:26)
Zoogz Rift - Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course (0:29)

i voted for a few of those in my main ballot

If I'd known limmy was there i might have made him my sole entry in the <30s poll.

This song is getting popular just as voting winds up.
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (1:53)

Submitting a ballot this weekend

Same!

yo tambien

Voted. That was a MARATHON task.

it's just hard for me to muster up the enthusiasm for random songs as opposed to a genre or single artist

This is a genre, though--short songs. "But 'short' is subjective." So, at the margins, is any genre.

first pass through gives me a long list of only 61, I was ruthless

btw these are all the songs under 30 seconds:

look I'm sorry that I haven't been able to pay any real attention to this poll but I'm afraid you'll have to cancel and start again, this list does not include Babaganouj or Steak & Chips by Smudge

for that matter, the long list probably doesn't have Tea, Toast & Turmoil or Lighten Up Hank or Ugly, Just Like Me or Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra or Scary Cassettes or Alison Tells Me She's Not Sure That What She's Got's Contagious (the acoustic version is better but not on Bandcamp)

OK I've checked and it doesn't, nor has Tom Morgan's other band been acknowledged with Deaf Girl, Dumb Guy, Blind Love or (Closing Time At The) Tittie Bar or B.U. or I Got A Type or Loud & True or Isle Of Lesbos

or anything at all on the
Sneeze (41 Songs In 47 Minutes) album or
other short songs on their other studio albums

or the Love Positions' Into Your Arms (covered by Lemonheads at longer than 1:38) or Don't Slow Down (went to #1 when covered by Ratcat at longer than 1:24)

eh you had plenty of time to nominate

sic, only you can save the fate of the least used sub-poll:

4) there are also three optional sub-polls: Top 5 songs under 30 seconds, Favorite <2 minutes artist, and Top 5 songs that aren’t on the nominations list because of a technical formality or because i fucked up or because it wasn’t nominated because this world is going to HELL, etc

I still don't have time to listen to noms and vote :( but will hear everything on the results

everyone should throw an ear at Deaf Girl, Dumb Guy, Blind Love though

Can we have another week to get votes in?

i could be convinced, but it would help to know that their are others out there who could use the extra time.

right now we're sitting at about 35 ballots, which is pretty good. but this is supposed to be the companion poll to lee's 10 minutes+ poll, which had 58 ballots. so it would be nice if we had a comparable number of ballots, especially given that everyone took the time to submit 17 billion nominations. i might go through the nominations thread today and see who nominated a bunch of songs but hasn't voted yet, and then send them a singing telegram informing them to vote or die

Please don’t drag this out longer

it's true, extending the deadline would seem to be contrary to the spirit of the poll

I would use an extra week to procrastinate, not do any useful listening, and wind up with the same ballot that I'd produce by tomorrow night.

Voting for no-extension...The longer any poll goes on--or at least the longer it goes on past the moment of peak interest--the more that interest wanes.

More ballots getting submitted means more people with a stake in the results. You trippin clemenza

Not at all. Maybe you get 3 or 4 extra ballots, while simultaneously the 35 people who have already voted are steadily losing interest; I know I do, and I bet I'm not the only one.

The deadline was posted three or four weeks ago, with a very sensible suggestion that the fate of the world did not hinge upon the results and that it wasn't necessary to hear every single song before voting.

I expect nothing less than quick voters being impatient and having the ability to lose interest quickly though. I should be jealous of people that have the ability to get real excited about things though.

You've convinced me. Let's extend the deadline to July; there are under-2:00 songs being released as we type, and we need to hear those too.