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

keep it simple, use the Dead Kennedys' "I Like Short Songs" title

even though I did not vote for it, it is kind of a statement of purpose

"Cut Off My Legs and POLL Me Shorty?"

'Brevity is the Soul of Hits'

Apologies to W. Shakespeare for that.

Something could probably be mined from Jacques Dutronc's "Mini, mini, mini", another actual treatise on smallness amongst the nominations.

This Is the End of the Stupid Song: The Under-2:00 Results Thread

Top ≤119

Brevity is... wit

people = shit
brevity = wit

Keep it short & sweet: The best 119 songs under 2 minutes

Or better: Poll it short & sweet

"It Won't Be Long," to paraphrase one of the nominated Byrds songs.

ILX Jams Econo: best 119 etc etc

"30 Minutes or Less or This Poll Is Free"

There's no time to explain:

You people are iconoclasts, mockers of institutions. Poll thread titles need to play off the word poll. Submitted for your approval: POLL Art Threat

(from Prole Art Threat by the Fall, a nominee)

Briefly:

YOU POLL BUT WHY

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Poll thread titles need to play off the word poll

I know I'm going to lose this one, but please, please, no.

YOU POLL BUT WHY

Yes!

Someone explain to this dummy?

idgi either

reference to "You Suffer" iirc

yes indeed

sorry to insist but where is the relation to the shortness of the songs?

that part usually comes after the pun

Hey everyone, here’s my rough plan:

Rollout on Friday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, about 20-30 per day. Mostly during daytime/working hours (USA) but maybe a few in the early evening as well.

I wanted to start today but I didn’t have time to finish up the first batch of images before heading in to work.

You'll probably have a slower start in terms of responses as people will be out for the weekend, but I like the sound of a Wednesday climax (ahem).

Yeah, there’s also the option of starting on Monday and finishing on Friday? That would give me time to get more of a head start on the images for the rollout, too. I just didn’t want people to be pissed that it was taking forever to get to the results.

End of year polls tend to be Monday to Friday and that seems to work for good engagement/excitement, and it's not been all that long yet! I'd probably vote for Mon-Fri but don't have a massively strong preference.

if you do start tomorrow then i would skip sat-sun and start up again monday. you could start tomorrow and do the first 19 then you have 20 per day next mon-fri. do what you want with the time you have.

agreed with spottie

Side polls and a handful of results Friday, main deal starting Monday?

Sounds like a plan. Taster on Friday before the main course next week.

cosign last 2 posts

Sounds good! I should be able to do 20 tomorrow. And also 2 of the side polls.

did anyone vote for Morpha Too, because it is, no kidding my favorite Big Star song and among my all time favorite songs

This POLLS up to 11(9 seconds)

i am way too excited for this poll

Really looking forward to this. Most polls I have a pretty good idea what will win, but here I haven’t a clue. Could be a rock ‘n’ roll classic, amphetamine punk or one of a million GBV tracks. Whatever, sure it’ll be super entertaining.

I'm going to be super ill if neither of my top 2 make at least top 3.

Haven't a clue either. With the long songs, there is sort of a loose canon: "Marquee Moon," "Dark Star," Neil's long ones, Dylan's long ones, etc. I don't know if there's really a famous short song outside of "Her Majesty," and no way that'll win.

Well, I guess there are a handful: "Blitzkrieg Bop," too.

lol what was the Ramones average song length on their first couple of albums?

There are 15 songs on the first three albums under 2:00--"famous" is a relative term, but outside of Ramones fans (in which case they're all famous), I don't know if I'd count any of them as famous. The two songs from those first three albums I would classify as such, "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Sheena Is Punk Rocker," both are over 2:00 ("Sheena" almost runs 3:00).

To answer your question: about two minutes?

Yah not many canon short songs under 2 mins which will make this rollout all the more weird and good. Hope it’s not just a ton of repeat artists tho.

not a ton, but there are some repeats - i believe the top 120 is made up of 104 different artists

Sweet!