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

does the (1) refer to a first place vote?

I can’t believe that someone made this and I’m very glad that they did. It is the pinnacle of songs being slightly off-sounding.

So yeah, this was my #1. It felt like a new musical language when I first heard it - a quivering, diaphanous, impossibly yearning creation hewn from mistake after bum note after folly - but the first run-through of the melody made me stop dead, and the second, more polyphonal run-through made me cry buckets. Somehow all of life is in this song

does the (1) refer to a first place vote?

― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve)

yep!

All the while there's this cosy, nostalgic, perfect piano humming away even as the horns embody the fragility of the human - uh, I mean anatid condition; it's just the loveliest thing

lovely song, i really hope something by the penguin cafe orchestra also places!

I'm really happy for those of you who, in discovering this, discovered life.

duck was a fun discovery from the voting thread, definitely the best thing that any combinations of the words "bill" and "maher" have ever done

Haven't heard 'Duck' before, but it sounds like a more discordant version of an instrumental Belle & Sebastian track, which is good? yes.

Imago, have you listened to Maher Shalal Hash Baz's From A Summer To Another Summer yet? 'Duck' was getting all the discussion from the nominated short songs by MSHB but there are other (longer) songs by them that I love more.

https://i.imgur.com/4RJE9W2.jpg
60. Bjork - Frosti (1:41)
0.4878 points
9 votes

fell in love Frosti again after a bjork binge for the recent ilm poll

so that song i've heard 1 trillion times is by Moondog

― to halve and half not (voodoo chili),

otm. had no idea

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie),

you might have heard Get A Move On by Mr Scruff 1 trillion times instead

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:38 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

That Derbyshire track is so good.

ziwzih should be higher

Duck was a nice discovery from the noms for sure. its hard to keep my mind from wandering off into good memories when listening to it.

after adding in a vote that I had failed to incorporate earlier, hot chicken makes its reappearance here:

https://i.imgur.com/AkC4hgg.jpg
59. Yo La Tengo - Return to Hot Chicken (1:40)
0.4899 points
9 votes

the return to the return to hot chicken

Imago, have you listened to Maher Shalal Hash Baz's From A Summer To Another Summer yet? 'Duck' was getting all the discussion from the nominated short songs by MSHB but there are other (longer) songs by them that I love more.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 15:54 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I listened to Osaka Bridge and found myself loving the shorter tracks most! But I'll certainly check this out, thanks. They strike me as a group that relies on alchemy for their best work, meaning that they possess the ability to come out of nowhere with something ineffably perfect

https://i.imgur.com/R4qlyMr.jpg
58. Neil Young - Love in Mind (1:56)
0.4917 points
7 votes

yes!

i'm a little bummed out by the inclusion of the inferior fusion version of Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" on the playlist; I assume it's a time issue?

yup

same

https://i.imgur.com/kwrN57n.jpg
57. Guided by Voices - As We Go Up, We Go Down (1:37)
0.4983 points
8 votes

yay, I think I voted for this one, great tune

I speak in monotone
leave my fucking life alone

Ah, THERE's my Neil track.

they're gonna have at least 3 placements I'm guessing (not complaining)

love in mind got a top 5 vote from me.

62. Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO (1:44)
0.4827 points
6 votes (1)

― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Wednesday, April 10, 2019 8:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw wtf is this?

Duck and Ziwzih are both great finds; thanks!

xp I daresay she'll be back, in her guise of time travel thread patron

https://i.imgur.com/Egs9mz2.jpg
56. Delfonics - Ready or Not Here I Come (1:59)
0.4995 points
8 votes

niiiiiice

i didn't vote but am following along -- this thread is a short little bright spot in the hellscape :)
you are doing a great job KM

also that is my favorite line from "as we go up" which is not my fave short gbv song but i figure there will be more

btw wtf is this?

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie)

Are you asking who Delia Derbyshire is or what this specific track is about, or both?

http://delia-derbyshire.org/index.php

And my favorite line as well, it is killer

And thanks LL!

And also flopson from last night, and others - very appreciated, very glad people are enjoying it!

this thread is a short little bright spot in the hellscape :)

la lechera OTMFM

man ready or not is just perfect, been sampled to death but those horns are eternal

WHO RUN IT

and also Missy

https://i.imgur.com/95dtQJA.jpg
55. Public Enemy - Show 'Em Whatcha Got (1:56)
0.5031 points
7 votes (1)

btw wtf is this?

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie)

Are you asking who Delia Derbyshire is or what this specific track is about, or both?

http://delia-derbyshire.org/index.php

― emil.y, Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9:59 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah both, thanks for the link!

ready or not should've been top ten we have failed

PE track another example of "mid-tier song on classic album that happens to be under two minutes" imo

yeah

xps Man I thought that was just the Doctor Who theme and Karl was just making TARDIS noises or something. But that is weird and awesome!

so this is what the dB's and Elastica sound like. cool!

A #1 vote for "Show 'Em Whatcha Got?"

I nominated "Ready or Not" but foolishly ended up cutting it from my ballot.

B&S reappears here, after adding in an additional vote:

https://i.imgur.com/fmkgpT6.jpg
54. Belle & Sebastian - Simple Things (1:46)
0.5112 points
7 votes

https://i.imgur.com/DFArXmH.jpg
53. Vaselines - Molly's Lips (1:44)
0.5163 points
9 votes