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

nice thing here is that I don't think anyone really has any idea what's coming

aside from "Pay To Cum" of course ;)

probably three more clash songs

I hope not (and I love them)

I don't think anything else I voted for will place, but let it be known I very nearly voted for Hybrid Moments and will cheer if it places high

Oh, I voted for that Rihanna song actually, reckon that might make it

nice thing here is that I don't think anyone really has any idea what's coming

― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, April 12, 2019 9:41 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have the ramones showed up yet?

I don't think so, good point.

a lot of these bands could have been done in by vote splitting - Misfits, Ramones, TMBG, but we'll see

(just did a quick search for EC's "No Action" and I think it runs 2:01 ... aw)

it placed earlier!

The overall punk/HC quotient in general has been a lot lower than I expected.

Would be surprised not to see 'Outdoor Miner' and 'Breaking Glass' in the top 20 (maybe even top 10).

would be surprised to see outdoor miner outside the top 3 tbh

Suspect there will be 2-3 Ramones, 1-2 Beatles, Wire, and GBV, and at least 1 Misfits.

i didn't vote for outdoor miner fyi #pianoversionforever

it placed earlier!

Huh, must have missed it! So was it not the highest placing EC song?

Gonna be lots of oldies and punk I imagine/hope. And GBV.

No Action was #35, I would be surprised if anything from Get Happy beats it.

I voted pretty highly for Welcome To The Working Week, but I'm not hopeful

https://i.imgur.com/PtnfOT7.jpg
20. DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (1:57)
0.7278 points
12 votes

oh fuck yes

my #5

This alleged vote splitting has not hurt the Minutemen or the Clash, who have very deep catalogs and have appeared multiple times!

never really listened to Shadow, but that's a great image Karl

in some ways, corny as hell; in others, a classic of its time

would be surprised to see outdoor miner outside the top 3 tbh

but the single version of Outdoor Miner is better (and is over 2 minutes)!

I think I voted for Hybrid Moments actually

lol I did say I preferred the single version too just afterwards

I didn't really consider Organ Donor as I prefer the remix.

Starting to worry Rihanna may not show up here.

Yep, I assumed I'd be voting highly for Organ Donor but when I relistened it feels like an artifact. Ultimately didn't make my ballot.

https://i.imgur.com/mVFtXUV.jpg
19. Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire (1:53)
0.7362 points
10 votes (1)

Organ Donor was a late cut for me.

All y'all speculating about what's left are overlooking one biggie, I think. (at least I hope)

i think everyone's that is interested has found it already, but in case you're a newcomer to the thread, here is a link to the spotify playlist

goodness gracious!

ilxors be reminiscin' about takin' their sweethearts dancin', in a Pontiac

daddy said it might be dangerous!

Expecting a Wire or Bowie to win but if Whitey On The Moon isnt top 10 I whitey riot.

there are some really great songs here. makes me picture an alternate universe where the 45 RPM single is 6 inches instead of 7 and the average pop song length winds up being around 1:50 or so. what a wonderful world....

Or LPs were the size and length of singles!

There was room on my ballot for the likes of both GBV and GB of F.

I think the Knight Rider theme is the only 77 second long track to place? Sad.

44. Pixies - Allison (1:17)
0.5625 points
8 votes

I think 1:59.9 with a recurring decimal mark over the last 9 is considered an equal amount of time as exactly 2:00.0 with a line over the zero. This emphasis was a good way to ensure that none of the recordings exceed 120 seconds, even by a small fraction of a second. Had the nominees accepted recordings labelled with a length of 2:00, the variance between 2:00.0 and 2:01.0 may not have been detected.

Was this discussed already? I am not a math person.

A song that hasn't been mentioned that I thought would do well is Final Day by Young Marble Giants. Really hope that's still to come.

wouldn't be surprised if it makes it

xp

for reference:
https://i.imgur.com/df2GK5h.jpg

my intent with the line over the last 9 (actually the last 9's, for no reason at all other than being drunk) was to represent 1:59.9999999999999 (infinite number of 9s), or the infinitesimal fraction of a second before 2. i haven't seen a number with zero with a line over it, but if i understand correction that would just mean 2.000000000, which is infinitesimally longer than 1:59.99999 (to infinity)

*world explodes*

https://i.imgur.com/QSGZ3Mk.jpg
18. Brian Eno - Another Green World (1:42)
0.7404 points
13 votes (1)

line over the .0 is the same as .0 so that checks out.

.9 with line over the 9 is the same as 1 tho? i think that's supposed to be a thing. again I am not a math person.

i thought this was my last cut, but i just checked and i think i threw it in at #49. beautiful piece of music at any rate

xp that is correct. a simple proof (using underscore to represent a recurring decimal):
0.3_ = 1/3
0.3_ * 3 = 0.9_
1/3 * 3 = 1
0.9_ = 1

therefore 1.59_ seconds = 2 minutes.

eno killed the thread

https://i.imgur.com/ouO90AS.jpg