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

I liked that song a lot too; I listened to the album it appears on for the first time last night. A little patchy but I will be revisiting

Everything's Alright Forever is the only Boos album and only shoegaze album I really rate and it's all killer no filler imo.

"White Riot" was casualty of my self-imposed "max three songs per artist" rule, so I'm glad it made it.

Is this the 7" version or the LP version? On Discogs, the former is 1:58 and the latter 1.55. (I think the LP version is significantly better... but I didn't vote for it.)

this would be the LP version (listed as 1:56 on Spotify)

https://i.imgur.com/XxQHqcU.jpg
49. Paul McCartney - Junk (1:54)
0.5424 points
8 votes

I voted Show Em Whatcha Got real high, top 5 for sure; it’s been my “get pumped the fuck up” song since the album came out.

re: junk - for people who don't dabble in solo beatles - this is good solo beatles

LP version of White Riot >>>>>> 7" version

https://i.imgur.com/h4VrpSa.jpg
48. The Clean - Beatnik (1:57)
0.5457 points
9 votes

in meetings for a bit, but will be back with the rest in an hour or two!

PS I LOVE BEATNIK AND THE CLEAN

yay!!

...to the clean. boo to meetings

Lazy Day is the happiest song in the world. A perpetual summer.

was abt to say that song almost made my ballot too, so good!

xxp yes indeed

Also, I didn’t vote for Show Em What You Got, but it’s more than just a filler track. It’s classic Bomb Squad, and it eventually inspired one of the best songs on Da Drought 3

"White Riot" was casualty of my self-imposed "max three songs per artist" rule, so I'm glad it made it.

my rule was one song per artist. ballots can become very lopsided otherwise. diversity is good

It's also the kind of rule that comes in handy when you have to make difficult cuts.

yep

yes

i think you're looking for the long songs poll

totes agree; that's why I self-imposed a rule on my ballot wherein I could vote only for one artist from each country AND no more than one artist per genre. not to brag but I do believe my ballot is the most diversest, most ethically pure, most best. it optimally represents not just my own personal taste in music songs no greater than 120 seconds, but also/simultaneously my idealized taste for everyone else too, on their behalf. so you're welcome

but, lemme guess, zodiac sign of artists means nothing to you

I only voted for fire signs and artists with at least one member with their moon in libra. not because I arbitrarily chose this condition objectively, but rather because I can intuitively sense that these artists resonate most auspiciously within my own entirely subjective heart

Show Em Whatcha Got was my number one :)

55. Public Enemy - Show 'Em Whatcha Got (1:56)

This should have been a photo of Eric Sadler and Hank Shocklee imo, not three people who aren't on the record. (ha xpost) I could not be more delighted to learn that Public Enemy's official youtube is called "Channel ZERO" though

my rule was one song per artist. ballots can become very lopsided otherwise. diversity is good

idk there wouldn't have been many repeated artists anyway. and i cheated - tim smith appears three times under different bandnames

good songs are replaced by other good songs.

sorry for this very consistent rollout today - work has been a shitshow. i have time to do just a couple right now, then another weird delay, then the last few for the day later this evening

https://i.imgur.com/4AxskYG.jpg
47. Primal Scream - Velocity Girl (1:22)
0.5556 points
6 votes (1)

Hurrah! My #2.

This was pretty much the very first short track that came to mind, cos I'm t*** as f***, so was glad to find that it was already nominated.

Also: big belated 'yay!' for Delia and The Clean!

https://i.imgur.com/jmtDoiA.jpg
46. Cat Stevens - The Wind (1:42)
0.5574 points
9 votes

one of my favorite songs

https://i.imgur.com/yDM7YRl.jpg
45. Joao Gilberto - Desafinado (1:58)
0.5607 points
7 votes

somehow missed cat stevens during my balloting but it wouldve been pretty high. my moms favorite ever musician and song.

ooh I don't think I even realized Desafinado was nominated, but I have been reading Caetano Veloso's autobiography and he talks quite a bit about this song and bossa nova at the beginning of the book

another classic

I just noticed there were over 2000 songs nominated!

w00t! I wondered how much support this could garner. Quite a bit, then!

A late cut from my ballot so glad it made it.

The Cat Stevens song is everything. Realised that about 30% of my ballot features in Wes Anderson films and there’s nothing I can do about that.

The Cat Stevens song is everything. Realised that about 30% of my ballot features in Wes Anderson films and there’s nothing I can do about that.

side q: i have caetano veloso's book and haven't read it -- would you recommend? it's just sitting there on my shelf but i have so many other things to read...

desafinado is such a good song, great melody
my 2nd group of students is giving their jazz presentations tomorrow and i think one of them chose joao gilberto!!

i haven't heard the cat stevens song! i do remember a song called "the wind" by a kids' musician named joe wise that scared the living daylights out of me as a kid

ll I am only like 30 pages in but it is VERY interesting if a bit dense and written in his unique voice. Just start it and see if it clicks

yay on The Boo Radleys making the cut. "Lazy Day" is such a great way to open an album, so short and sweet. i remember picking this up the day it was released and having so much anticipation on how it would sound, as i was a big fan of the previous three EPs. i also remember that the JAMC Honey's Dead came out the same day and of course i picked that up this same day.

I loved Tropical Trurth when I read it, but that was at least a decade ago. Also, fwiw, I was obsessed with Brazilian music at the time. An upside of reading it now would be easy access to other musician's work that he talks about. I remember trying to imagine what Jorge Ben's "Silencio No Brooklyn" sounded like based on Veloso's raves...it's probably streamable in 8 different ways now.

Automatically voted for Desafinado, though tbh I'm not sure what version we're really voting for here. The Clean were hard to narrow down, but I def voted for Beatnik

oof that typo hurth

my moms favorite ever musician and song.

One of my dad's favorites, and one of the few commonalities in our musical tastes (another being, weirdly, Rihanna).

Cat's/Yusuf's voice is still great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhTr7TsxfyQ