Top 120 Songs Under 120 Seconds (ILM Poll #95)

the water's going down, it's a mighty tight squeeeeeze

I woke up from a dream a few months ago where I thought I'd somehow written a great song in my sleep and then a few minutes later realized it was the tune of "Cripple Creek Ferry."

https://i.imgur.com/4OutGn6.jpg
95.Wilson & Larson - Knight Rider Theme (1:17)
0.3495 points
5 votes

btw, i totally made up "Phillips & Larson" as the artist, based off of the credits for the theme on wikipedia

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about my #2 and #3 votes ("Walking To New Orleans" and "Koka Kola") receiving more points/votes than the Knight Rider theme, but okay.

Enjoying the rollout so far, btw.

William D Drake handing over vocals to Tim Smith is some 2001 A Space Odyssey shit

damn, HAL 9000's Daisy Bell would've been a good nomination for the poll

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("more" = "less")

the knight rider theme is all time, should have been higher imo

it is completely of its time and somehow also forwardthinking

basically it encompasses all of time and space

i didn't vote for it btw

lol Karl. It is a great tune, though.

https://i.imgur.com/8DaNtrS.jpg
94. DEVO - Too Much Paranoias (1:57)
0.3549 points
5 votes

lol at the number placement on knight rider, great images karl

this has got to have the ugliest riff I can think of

https://i.imgur.com/DSDwQBR.jpg
93. Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter (1:57)
0.3573 points
5 votes

I totally can't bookmark this thread. I've logged out and all sorts. Ah well. Great results so far.

This isn’t one of the best songs on the album, but even so I couldn’t help voting for it quite high on my ballot. It is a wonderful dirge and a delight to play.

I kind of thought NMH would end up higher, since it's basically indie canon (though it only got onto my radar because of this poll).

Wilson & Larson must've come from thinking about Phillips the wrong way. A freudian flight into the dangerous world of a songwriting team who does not exist.

i just posted the last two results over on the mike trout thread. whoops! here we go:

https://i.imgur.com/sA61B56.jpg
(tie) 91. Captain Beefheart - Frownland (1:39)
0.3672 points
5 votes

https://i.imgur.com/YqsqlKS.jpg
(tie) 91. Napalm Death - You Suffer (0:02)
0.3672 points
8 votes

Too...short!

Didn't vote for either of these but could have

i posted some really, really great comments on the beefheart song, over on the wrong thread. so good that i'm not going to repeat them here

same!!

too low, but why

i know i know i didn't vote but the shaggs better place somewhere on here

what are the lyrics of "you suffer"?

btw the beefheart is fine not the one i voted for which is less ramble shamble.

10-minute explainer about Frownland

https://youtu.be/58nPEe-TU-w

that .286 BABIP actually suggests he's getting unlucky this year

It's kind of weird how "You Suffer" is actually a good song. Not just a joke.

what are the lyrics of "you suffer"?

apparently they are "you suffer but why?"

however, i have slowed down the recording to 0.25x speed and listened repeatedly, and i have no idea how anyone could hear that

another tie! this time for #89. i think this is the last tie.

https://i.imgur.com/7mGndl0.jpg
(tie) 89. Lizzy Mercier Descloux/Rosa Yemen - Rosa Vertov (1:48)
0.3675 points
5 votes

https://i.imgur.com/Lb3jUQP.jpg
(tie) 89. Hüsker Dü - Never Talking To You Again (1:41)
0.3675 points
7 votes

I think my college funk-metal band maybe used to cover Knight Rider?

attn: Knight Rider fans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT13EP8cOos

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xzMBFX_ZRg

and the fatal farm night rider theme that NBC Universal blocked from youtube because they hate fun

what are the lyrics of "you suffer"?

apparently they are "you suffer but why?"

thanks. now i can hear "you why", the singer swallows the two words in between.

it's still on dailymotion though

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3qu30

still incredibly funny/baffling

if he just could have gotten the 's' sound in there he could have done 'you-sigh' and formed the template for all of sigur ros' lyrical output as well as the hopelandic language

lizzy mercier descloux is one of the great discoveries of this poll for me. a breathtaking vocal performance, post-punk at the top of its game.

oh hi dere I voted for the Husker Du, nice

https://i.imgur.com/jypPiKd.jpg
88. Scott Walker - 30 Century Man (1:28)
0.3681 points
5 votes

love 30 century man, down to the idiosyncratic title.

for some reason, since his death, i've been waking up nearly every morning with "See the dwarves and see the giants/ Which one would you choose to be?" going in my head, like it's already been playing in my sleep

Bob Mould played "Never Talking to You Again" in DC last month.

i thought the jay-z version of beware of the boys (mundian to bach ke) sampled the bassline from the knight rider theme too, but nothing listed for it on whosampled

Yay! I’d resigned myself to Rosa Yemen not appearing. This was #2 or #3 for me I think? It is just the very coolest music. The ‘whole’ album/EP is very worth ten minutes of your life.

Expected that to be much higher, such a perfect song.

Rosa Vertov was my #7. It is, as they say, undeniable

Voted for different Devo and Scott tracks - I didn't keep to one song per artist entirely but tried to cut down where I could. Napalm Death had to get moved to feature only in my under 30s ballot, 'Frownland' was longlisted but cut, LM Descloux an incredibly painful cut right at the end. So basically, I'm very into most of this run.

posting one more, then another meeting, then the rest of 87-81!