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

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

The "Desafinado" in question would be this one.

I see that Joanna Newsom's "On a Good Day" was nominated. I wish I had participated in this poll so I could have made it my #1

Xp oh nice i know that version well

Respect to the other 5 "Velocity Girl" voters for their discerning taste. A fully-realized song that just happens to end way earlier than you expect it to.

So, Stone Roses completely ripped off Velocity Girl, right? That was my first impression after listening

I love Velocity Girl but I also think Stone Roses have their own magic

https://i.imgur.com/kpGgcZ4.jpg
44. Pixies - Allison (1:17)
0.5625 points
8 votes

the sexiest frank black pic

xp for a second I was very confused and thought you were talking about the band Velocity Girl and not the song. did the band get their name from the song?

Yep!

I don't know if the Roses ever came out and said that they'd been inspired by 'Velocity Girl' for 'Made of Stone', but I've heard countless people comment on the similarity between the two over the years. Sounds obvious to me.

https://i.imgur.com/MuDPnHZ.jpg
43. The Castaways - Liar, Liar (1:50)
0.5670 points
9 votes (1)

love the guitar solo on allison