♫ Your NOMINATIONS for the best songs under 2 minutes poll ♫ (nominations close MARCH 1ST)

Guided By Voices - Pendulum (1:50)
Black Box Recorder - Lord Lucan Is Missing (1:50)
Pavement - Lions (Linden) 1:50
The Minutemen - West Germany (1:49)
Sleater-Kinney - It's Enough (1:47)

The Beatles - I'll Cry Instead (1:46)

and i haven't even thought about fat day

oh man, I hadn't even thought about GodCo so I guess we're even

Silkworm - Raging Bull (1:41)
The Vibrators - I Need a Slave (1:45)

You know who needs more nominations?

Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI (Wish in One Hand... EP version) (1:38)
Guided By Voices - 14 Cheerleader Coldfront (1:31)

My poll is bigger than yours.

The Pipettes - The Burning Ambition Of Early Diuretics (1:46)
Sleater-Kinney - Little Mouth (1:45)
Yann Tiersen - J'y suis jamais allé (AKA "I've Never Been There") (1:34)
Plaid - Tak 2 (1:08)
Boards of Canada - Telepath (1:33)
Boards of Canada - Over the Horizon Radar (1:09)
Cat Power - Space Oddity (0:35)
Cat Power - Wanderer (1:14)

Leee, it's not about the size of the poll, it's about the smallness of the poll because the tinier that everything is, the more relative space there is between everything. kind of like electrons floating around in the vast space of atoms

Electrelane - Spartakiade (1:41)

Adverts - Bored Teenagers (1:45)
Minutemen - Two Beads at the End (1:53)
Mano Negra - King Kong Five (1:58)
Pipettes - It Hurts To See You Dance So Well (1:53)

Bully - I Remember (1:48)
Mannequin Pussy - Denial (1:58)

Bully - I Remember (1:48)

ohh shit, thanks for nominating i forgot that one was so short

The Mountain Goats - Alpha Sun Hat (1:25)
The Mountain Goats - Deianara Crush (1:54)
Pixies - There Goes My Gun (1:50)
R.E.M. - White Tornado (1:51)
The Presidents of the United States of America - We are Not Going to Make It (1:52)
They Might Be Giants - Mr. Me (1:52)
They Might Be Giants - Dig My Grave (1:09)
Pavement - Debris Slide (1:57)

The Beatles - Polythene Pam (1:19) (if parts of multisong suites are allowed)

Oh one more:

Kleenex GIrl Wonder - Mayflower Looks at Asia (1:00)

Yann Tiersen - Le Fromveur (1:21)
Yann Tiersen - Le Banquet (1:33)

The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie
White Lung - Dead Beat
Iron Cross - Wargames
Moondog - Avenue of the Americas
Thin White Rope - The Clown Song
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - As Kind As Summer
Micachu - Lips
Metal Urbain - Futurama
The Beat - Click Click
Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold
Fugazi - Break-In
This Kind Of Punishment - What Can I Say?
World Domination Enterprises - Hotsy Girl
Throwing Muses - You Cage
The Fall - Industrial Estate
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
Scritti Politti - Messthetics
Tom Waits - Just Another Sucker On The Vine
Killer Mike - Go!
The Undertones - True Confessions
Haruomi Hosono - Pom Pom
Tom Rapp - Silver Apples
Unwound - New Energy
Bill Fay Group - Strange Stairway
Mission Of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph
James Brown - Think (from 'Live At The Apollo')
Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns

NickB can you do me a favor and list the track lengths for all those?

ooh good call on True Confessions, I love that one

Noname - Self (1:35)
PJ Harvey - No Child of Mine (1:13)

oops sorry...

The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie (0:53)
White Lung - Dead Beat (0:58)
Iron Cross - Wargames (1:22)
Moondog - Avenue of the Americas (1:09)
Thin White Rope - The Clown Song (1:11)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - As Kind As Summer (1:11)
Micachu - Lips (1:20)
Metal Urbain - Futurama (1:26)
The Beat - Click Click (1:27)
Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold (1:32)
Fugazi - Break-In (1:33)
This Kind Of Punishment - What Can I Say? (1:35)
World Domination Enterprises - Hotsy Girl (1:42)
Throwing Muses - You Cage (1:40)
The Fall - Industrial Estate (1:47)
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair (1:44)
Scritti Politti - Messthetics (1:47)
Tom Waits - Just Another Sucker On The Vine (1:47)
Killer Mike - Go! (1:54)
The Undertones - True Confessions (1:56)
Haruomi Hosono - Pom Pom (1:56)
Tom Rapp - Silver Apples (1:56)
Unwound - New Energy (1:57)
Bill Fay Group - Strange Stairway (1:57)
Mission Of Burma - This Is Not A Photograph (1:57)
James Brown - Think (from 'Live At The Apollo') (1:58)
Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns (1:59)

thanks!

Jimmy Jones - Handy Man (1:58)
The Mascots - Words Enough to Tell You (1:58)
OutKast - ? (1:28)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Is This the Best Spot?

Some of these are probably duplicated above.

Bad Brains - Pay to Cum (yellow tape version) 1:26
Minutemen - Paranoid Chant 1:19
Iggy Pop - Dog Food 1:51
Cannibal Corpse - Scalding Hail 1:47
Cannibal Corpse - Puncture Wound Massacre 1:41
Cannibal Corpse - Severed Head Stoning 1:45
Cannibal Corpse - Savage Butchery 1:51
Obituary - Godly Beings 1:55
Rigor Mortis - Grudge Fuck 1:49
The Cramps - The Crusher 1:48
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - History of Sex 1:46
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Lovin' Up a Storm 1:45
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - The Feeling of Love 1:51

fwiw that version of "Pay To Cum" is different than the original 7" version that I nominated

I'd hate to see it place low from vote splitting.

not a duplicate, but the original, superior version of “the crusher” by the novas was already nominated

xp

xxp I think it would be fair to count them together and then specify the vote breakdown afterwards, as has been done in other polls

Kenickie - Come Out 2nite (1:58)
Buzzcocks - Love You More (1:55)
Sebastien Tellier - Slow Lynch (1:20)
Scritti Politti - No Fine Lines (1:43)
Prince - Venus De Milo (1:55)
Broadcast - Evil Is Coming (0:48)
Karmello Brooks - Tell Me Baby (1:55)
Saint Etienne - Record Doctor (0:53)
David Sylvian - September (1:18)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Kevin Ayes (1:43)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time (0:47)
The Associates - The End (1:07)
Annie - Intro (0:55)
Bobby Womack - Quicksand (1:41)
Antony & The Johnsons - What Can I Do ? (1:41)
Scott Walker - On Your Own Again (1:48)

This isn't really the place to have the argument, but I've never heard a song that the Cramps didn't improve by covering it.

The Beatles - Wild Honey Pie

― goats eat grandma (NickB)

pixies - wild honey pie (1:51)
chemutoi ketienya & girls - chemirocha (1:30)
swell maps - read about seymour (1:30)
van morrison - ring worm (1:30)
man or astroman? - u-uranus (1:30)
a tribo - peba & pobo (1:31)
jerry porter - 3/4 mostly lovin' (1:31)
phil everly - can't dance alone (1:31)
peter thomas - astral snow (1:33)

This isn't really the place to have the argument, but I've never heard a song that the Cramps didn't improve by covering it.

― grawlix (unperson)

captain beefheart's original of "hard workin' man" is better than the cramps' version

i also think the red crayola did a better version of "hurricane fighter plane" but i guess i could see preferring the cramps' take

anyway the cramps' version is better than nnb's, not as good as sort sol's.

Most all of my 2:00 songs were 2:00 on two different players, so I'll skip those. Salvaged two:

Vashti Bunyan - Love Song (1:58)
Odin - Lost (1:59)

"Lost" is this great garage thing from 1968 that sounds like it could be Beat Happening or some other lo-fi thing.

i’m sure there’s lots of nuggets-style garage singles that are very good and clock in around 1:57 but, as i said in the other thread, it would be disappointing to me if this roll out ended up being predominantly garage 45s and chuck berry and elvis and fats domino.

it’s much more interesting for me when the brevity is an integral part of the songwriting, or on the other hand when the song feels like a sketch, an idea for a song that is just kinda hanging in mid-air and it’s mysterious or weird (e.g. “can you take me back where i came from ...”) — yknow, rather than a conventional song that just happens to be short.

i like those mysterious fragments too (circulatory system - news from the heavenly loom, 0:24; mu - children of the rainbow, 1:12; most allison, young man's blues, 1:27; the android sisters, huh?, 1:27; captain beefheart, dali's car, 1:27), but a two minute song, even if it's a full song, for me has a certain air to it simply by nature of being concise (squirrel bait - black light poster child, 1:55; giles giles and fripp, digging my lawn (b) (from "the brondesbury tapes"), 1:55; ray cathode, waltz in orbit, 1:56)

those songs are all nominations by the way

getting ready to gather everything up into the first draft, which i shall (hopefully) post later tonight. i'm also going to put them all into a spotify playlist. i'll post a link to it once it gets started and then you can just follow it as i add onto it throughout the night

Residents - The Act of Being Polite (1:03)
Melvins - Oven (1:29)
Germs - Lexicon Devil (1:44)
Urinals - Ack Ack Ack (1:01)
Agent Orange - Bloodstains (1:54)
Minutemen - Fanatics (0:31)
The Replacements - I Hate Music (1:51)
Dicks - Dicks Hate the Police (1:59)

I would have nominated "Lexicon Devil"--2:05 on my player.

okeydokey, here is a link to the spotify list of the nominations thread, growing by the minute:

https://open.spotify.com/user/weinventyou/playlist/5NYa3dBthFiDcftI0ObtC3?si=Q4jRj-d-RtqGGIfAnT0QPQ

Piero Umiliani - Mah nà mah nà (1:56)
Hugh Le Caine - Dripsody (1:28)
Johnny Hawksworth - Thames Television ident theme, c.1968-90 (0:07) [The best composition evah, of any length, so...]
Felt - I Will Die With My Head in Flames (1:34)
The Moodists - Where the Trees walk Downhill (1:40)

<3 <2 <3

Thanks for the playlist! I was hoping someone would do it up.

I nominated "Dicks Hate the Police" upthread fwiw

i'll note little things as they come up:

I change Jacquees to Rodriquez Jacquees Broadnax, since that what he went by for At the Club, the album that has 'New Wave' on it.

Spoon - Dismember (1:45)
Spoon - Idiot Driver (1:39)
Spoon - Wanted to Be Your (1:52)
Spoon - Theme to Wendel Stivers (1:58)
Spoon - Primary (1:10)
Spoon - Utilitarian (1:51)
Spoon - Car Radio (1:30)
Spoon - Chloroform (1:10)
Spoon - Staring at the Board (0:54)
Spoon - No You're Not (1:43)

i've entered in about 100 songs so far. average length: 1:36

ok, just finished up the clemenza section (70 nominations!)

a couple things:

neil young - "there goes my babe" - is this the buffalo springfield demo? that one's 1:47. the version that's on neil's archives (the only one i could find under his name) is 2:23

everly brothers - "problems" is a touch over 2 minutes on spotify but the song clearly cuts off several seconds before, so i think it's fine.

jerry lee lewis - "lewis boogie" is the nightmare song. there are about a dozen versions on spotify, and every single one is 2 minutes or more. but the song does cut off a few seconds before. allmusic puts it at 2:02. *throws hands in air, but cares*

kleenex/liliput - "Split" is 2:01, but cuts off a few seconds before.

the luv'd ones - "stand tall" is 2:09 on spotify, and doesn't fade out until 2:05. i am tossing it out. BANNED.

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i'm tempted to toss both the jerry lee lewis and liliput songs as well. they're both under 2, if you listen to the song, but if that's the case we're gonna have a shitload of songs that are up to 2:02 or 2:03 but count because they actually cut off a few seconds before that. however, it's late here and i'm very tired, so i'm going to go to sleep and think about something else until i wake up again.

Miss Red - K.O. (1:37)
MacLean and MacLean - Dolly Parton's Tits (1:54)
Knight Rider theme (1:17)

Thanks for the playlist work, Karl - makes for a fun commute on shuffle! Co-sign for a 50 track ballet!

Before you look Stranger Calls - Honeydrum from my noms isn’t on Spotify but is on Bandcamp.

neil young - "there goes my babe" - is this the buffalo springfield demo? that one's 1:47. the version that's on neil's archives (the only one i could find under his name) is 2:23

I nominated the Buffalo Springfield version, yeah. (I don't dig the other versions nearly as much)