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

xpost 1:05 with a 20 second intro!

never heard young marble giants and after one listen I don't know why its up here. it doesn't go anywhere? sounds like an intro and I'm left waiting for something to happen. is that the point?

Cooooooome on Baby Shark!

My no.1!

idrg the ymg song either but hey, i don't write the rules

Not my fave YMG, but yeah, it's short.

never heard young marble giants and after one listen I don't know why its up here. it doesn't go anywhere? sounds like an intro and I'm left waiting for something to happen. is that the point?

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Friday, April 12, 2019 10:49 PM (thirty-one seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no i don't think so, but i think we're missing the point

i had never heard that YMG song before today!
it's slight but charming? doesn't deliver the <2 min power slap i was hoping for in a #2

and i don't know what the point is

imo it's fully formed and there isn't a wasted note, verse, chorus, tiny solo, verse, chorus, stop

"Another Green World" on the other hand...

ymg rule

best band I've ever seen live

jealous, I got to see Stuart Moxham once though at least

he did "Brand-New-Love" and I just about died

YMG songs are subtle growers in many cases

Anyway, KM, did we give you enough of a......moment?

Ooh, awake just in time for #1. I voted for Big Star, Vashti, Smiths and YMG. Seems unlikely, but hope first place is even more brittle and fey!!! LOL

Fuck all y'alls who don't rate 'Final Day'. We're all going to die.

and when we do, there will be peace outside in the narrow light

It's a truly beautiful and apt ode to the nuclear bomb.

(Btw half my music listening these days is about nuclear apocalypse)

i had never heard it (and i didn't vote) but i am glad this poll is enlightening me to short songs i don't know! there are a lot of them.

what will #1 be?!?!?!?!?!?

https://i.imgur.com/CDOa0sW.jpg
1. James Newton Howard - E.R. Opening Theme
1.7077 points
24 votes (3)

Beautiful :’)

thanks for all of the participation, everyone!

*collapses in pile of cat food*

xpost sums up a generation

We did it, E.R. fans!!

I was one of the #1 votes

Perfect winner!

what will #1 be?!?!?!?!?!?

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, April 12, 2019 11:02 PM (fifty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Outdoor Miner" is probably #1?

― billstevejim, Friday, April 12, 2019 10:37 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no idea how but that's ILM.

yaya!

I still call shenanigans lower down

did they have any songs less than 2 minutes?

oh shit, i made a big mistake

https://i.imgur.com/ooyWjnR.jpg
1. Wire - Outdoor Miner (1:45)
1.9674 points
23 votes (2)

THERE we go. :)

so...uh...

Congratulations to McNulty, Freamon, and the rest of the Wire crew.

I mean this is a brilliant song really and a worthy winner (even if I prefer it with a dinky piano solo) but...um...uh...where's...Hybrid....Moments?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNXBgces1Q

Can't spell Wire without ER.

Who dat

Thanks a million/bunch KM, the last few weeks have been a blast x

"Hybrid Moments" isn't even in my top ten Misfits songs fwiw

thanks KM, looking forward to listening to the rest of the list later! super fun.

My actual Number One! This never happens.

yes - a spectacular undertaking KM - take the week off!

Amazing winner that I didn't vote for on a silly technicality.

Great work Karl Malone, this has been great fun.

I'm not as familiar with that as I guess I should be. It reminds me a lot of an MBV tune. Did they steal the tune?

Great work on one of the best ever ILM polls KM.

I was soooo sure Hybrid Moments would be here. Tif I hadn’t heard it before this poll, but then I REALLY loved it. Not so with other nominated Misfits songs. But anyway thank you whoever nominated it! Further thanks later for other favourite finds.

Also, fully deserving winner! So great.

A worthy winner of any poll.

Outdoor Miner isn't bad, either.

Thanks, Karl! This poll was great fun, and the images were superb.

I voted for 'Outdoor Miner' but it doesn't feel like an overpoweringly BEST SHORT SONG OF ALL TIME song to me, it's just... real good. But I'm not sure what would have felt more right (maybe 'Final Day', maybe one of the oldies?)