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

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?)

I don't get Wire, but whatever, yrs wtev.

Karl Malone, thank you for the most entertaining poll ever. Pretty sure this brought so much joy into many people’s weeks.

Thanks KM. This was great fun. The Rewards Committee will consider your bonus at the end of Q1.

Best poll ever etc. Thank you Karl. And now we have a golden playlist, to treasure for the rest of our days.

Thanks for all the hard work KM

thanks everyone! when i get home later tonight i will post full results

I'm with emil.y. I also don't feel 'final day'. But my ballot was stacked with oldies. I said it before, but 'stay' was way too low.

A truly golden playlist, but let's not forget the members of the 120 who aren't on Spotify for their own foolish reasons. They're there in spirit!

Thanks KM. ILM at it's least partisan is ILM at its best.

And now we have a golden playlist, to treasure for the rest of our days.

xxp pour one out for Joanna Newsom

apologies for the rogue apostrophe there xxp

xxp pour one out for Joanna Newsom

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and both Cardiacs-ish songs :P

I am admittedly not very familiar with Wire and Outdoor Miner sounds like a GBV song -- lol!

Thanks KM!! I learned some things :)

the mailman DELIVERED!!

Kudos to Karl!

I was going to wait til he posted the full results but here is a sequenced youtube playlist for all the write-in “non noms”. Some suggestions that others brought up were added to the end.

My ballot in descending order (bold = placed):

The Pastels, Tenniscoats - Yomigaeru (1:51)
Boris - Electric (1:45)
Tinashe - Indigo Child (Interlude) (1:29)
Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day (1:47)
Burial - Stairwell (1:23)
White Lung - Thick Lip (1:48)
Sleater-Kinney - It's Enough (1:47)
Sleater-Kinney - Little Mouth (1:45)
Cat Power - Wanderer (1:14)
Madvillain - Accordian (1:59)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter (1:57)
Cat Stevens - The Wind (1:42)
J.S. Bach / Simon Preston - Organ Concerto in D Minor BWV 596 (1:09)
Le mystère des Voix Bulgares - Svatba (the Wedding) (1:31)
Tenorio Jr. - Nebulosa (1:53)
Bruce Langhorne - Leaving Del Norte (1:57)
Yann Tiersen - J'y suis jamais allé (AKA "I've Never Been There") (1:34)
Yann Tiersen - Le Banquet (1:33)
Sudan Archives - Time (1:39)
Amadou & Mariam - M' Bifé Balafon (1:59)
Low - One Special Gift (1:49)
The Pipettes - The Burning Ambition of Early Diuretics (1:46)
Aniello Maffettone - Vco 2 (1:28)
Wedding Present - Dan Dare (1:41)
Burial - UK (1:44)
Paramore - Moving On (1:30)
Killer Mike - Go! (1:54)
A$AP Rocky - Purple Swag (1:59)
White Lung - Dead Beat (0:58)
Earl Sweatshirt - December 24 (1:46)
Unwound - Lucky Acid (1:44)
Big Black - L. Dopa (1:41)
Summer Walker - Baby (1:28)
Brian Eno - Sparrowfall (3) (1:24)
Low - Sea (1:49)
Boss Hog - Green Shirt (1:51)
Elastica - Annie (1:15)
Mitski - Old Friend (1:53)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers - The ABC's of Love (1:56)
This Mortal Coil - Tears (0:22)
Simon & Garfunkel - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (1:42)
Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul (1:52)
Pixies - Tame (1:56)
Delia Derbyshire - Doctor Who Opening Theme (39 second version) (0:39)
Working for a Nuclear Free City - Euphone (1:47)
Yo La Tengo - Too Much, Pt. 1 (1:18)
MC Pyhä Lehmä feat. Kajo - Pohjantuuli (1:55)
Low - Your Poison (1:14)
Bad Posture - Time for Smack (1:57)
S.O.D. - March of the S.O.D. (1:28)

8 placements, would've voted for the Microphones song if I'd remembered. Special shouts to whoever nominated the "Yomigaeru" and the two White Lung songs, never heard them before but love them now.

Also thanks Karl for doing this so that I didn't have to!

Bad Posture - Time for Smack (1:57)

I really really need to hear this, pretty sure I voted for GDMFSOB

And now we have a golden playlist, to treasure for the rest of our days.
It's only 3 hours long, though! :S
― dorsalstop, Friday, April 12, 2019 11:20 PM (eighteen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've been listening to the nominations playlist off and on for a few weeks now and still not got to the end

yay!!! thx KM, great job all around. funny: i felt guilty putting my namesake *way* up on my ballot so had it second tier clemenza option style. good job everyone?!

had no idea what would win this, my guess at the one thing we could all agree on was…..ERUPTION lol

Shall we have a separate thread for ballots etc?

I would vote yes on that

y/n on waiting for KM to post the lot first tho

My #1 didn’t make it, which wasn’t a huge surprise but my. #2,’Follow the Sun’ one of the top 5 Beatles songs didn’t make the 120, totally sucks.

y/n on waiting for KM to post the lot first tho

thanks everyone! when i get home later tonight i will post full results

hmm

I couldn't remember which Madvillain track is "Accordian". Turns out it's the one with... all the accordian. Nice.

Thanks for all your work Karl Malone! Surely the least predictable poll rollout I've seen.

yeah the total unpredictability was great fun

1 and 2 were both new to me and I don’t think ill ever listen to them again. Just can’t understand how those are consensus picks. Very minor songs idk.

Great poll tho no doubt. Thanks for the hard work Karl Malone.

I've been watching this thread for a while (and listening along via the Spotify playlist) and the amount of work that must have gone into it is just amazing.

Thanks KM.

I should be home in about an hour! full results will be up then. i don't know if we need a separate thread for results? i mean, i'm fine with them all going here, but it's up to you all

sure why not~

Post your results to Top 120 Songs Under 120 Seconds - ILM Poll #95

Basically AWOL during the countdown, sorry--work. Great job, KM. I'll hold off on my ballot till everyone decides where they should go...Okay, now I know.

good job everyone who voted and a hundred thanks to km for running it.

rad to see leee voting for that lil bach tune, ppl should check it out

diamond day is a tune where the absurdly precious tone works, she sings the song like it's a bubble she has to take great care not to burst. its oversensitive to the point of being totally enchanted in a childish way that puts me in mind of things like studio ghibli animations and the combination of its fragility, its incredible lightness & its casual, domestic, comforting intimacy has grown to feel more overwhelming the more I've listened to it and the older I've got. plus it feels like she's singing to herself which is always my favourite sort of singing

Terrific poll, Karl, thanks!

kudos