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

This will be ILM Ballot Poll #95

The Beatles - There's a Place (1:50)

Against Me! - Drinking With the Jocks (1.49)
Atom and His Package - If You Own the Washington Redskins, You're a Cock (1.47)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Optimist vs. the Silent Alarm (When the Saints Go Marching In) [1.51]
Christine Fellows - Paper Anniversary (1.14)
The Clash - Koka Kola (1:48)
The Extra Lens - How I Left the Ministry (1.43)
Game Theory - Exactly What We Don't Want To Hear (1.01)
G.L.O.S.S. - Outcast Stomp (1.55)
Kenickie - Private Buchowski (1.45)*
Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows (1:36)
The Magnetic Fields - Reno Dakota (1.05)
Pulsars - Owed To a Devil (1.59)*
Richard Buckner - 10-Day Room (1.26)
The Weakerthans - (Manifest) [1.45]
X - Suck Suck (1.55)*

* means not on Spotify (so I used time listed on my iTunes)

The Music Machine - Talk Talk (1:58)

The Boo Radleys - Lazy Day (1:34)

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (1:55)

actually, i could list all the songs in those earlier threads, but i think it's a better idea to just leave them there as a reference and let people nominate them if they're actually going to consider voting for them.

here's another useful thread: Top under-2-minute songs

Young Marble Giants – Final Day (1:44)
David Bowie – Breaking Glass (1:52)
Wire – Outdoor Miner (1:45)
Brian Eno – Over Fire Island (1:51)
Brian Eno – Little Fishes (1:35)
Captain Beefheart – Frownland (1:39)
The Ramones – Cretin Hop (1:56)

Wire - Three Girl Rhumba (1:24)
Wire - Champs (1:46)
Wire - 12XU (1:57)
The Ventures - Hawaii Five-O (1:54)
The Box Tops - The Letter (1:53)
Pixies - Tame (1:56)

You could list dozens of Ramones songs, but these 2 jump to the top for me:

The Ramones - Judy Is a Punk (1:32)
The Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (1:36)

Hot Snakes - Automatic Midnight (1:34)
Pavement - Serpentine Pad (1:16)
Guided by Voices - As We Go Up, We Go Down (1:37)
Husker Du - From the Gut (1:41)
Flying Burrito Brothers - If You Gotta Go (1:49)

Q: Are we doing a 50-track ballot?

They Might Be Giants - I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die (1.59)

Or, what's the normal number again? 25?

A: i think a 50-track ballot is warranted, given how many excellent songs there will be to choose between. but i'm open to suggestions. whatever it is, we'll make it clear in the OP of the voting thread

I Think We're Alone Now is close enough and a worthy winner.

i think they're alone now should win any poll it's eligible in, but at 3:49 it is just a touch over the limit

we're

it's 2:08 minutes

mcklusky - lightsabre cocksucking blues (1:51)
isaiah rashad - soliloquy (1:55)
isaiah rashad - hereditary (1:26)
jacquees - new wave (1:46)
best coast - happy (1:44)
magnetic fields - absolutely cuckoo (1:34)
jay-z - beach is better (:55)
white stripes - little room (:50)
be your own pet - blow yr mind (:44)
girls aloud - intro (:44)

Paul McCartney - Junk (1:54)
Randy Newman - Dayton Ohio 1903 (1:53)
Jorge Ben - Balanca Pema (1:29)
Beach Boys - Meant for You (0:40)
Joanna Newsom - On a Good Day (1:48)
Holy Modal Rounders - Euphoria (1:34)
Roger Miller - Dang Me (1:51)
Beach Boys - Wake the World (1:31)

Buddy Holly - Words of Love (1:56)
Buddy Holly - Think It Over (1:47)
Buddy Holly - Rave On (1:49)
Eddie Cochran - C'Mon Everybody (1:58)
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues (1:59)
Chuck Berry - I'm Talking About You (1:49)
Chuck Berry - Come On (1:48)
Chuck Berry - Let It Rock (1:47)
Little Richard - Ooh! My Soul (1:52)
The Coasters - Yakety Yak (1:53)

Neko Case - I Missed the Point
Neko Case - Outro With Bees

Napalm Death - You Suffer (0:05)

sorry --
Neko Case - I Missed the Point (1:42)
Neko Case - Outro With Bees (1:35)

Parquet Courts - Careers in Combat (1:07)
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold II (1:13)
Parquet Courts - Caster of Worthless Spells* (1:18)
Parquet Courts - Disney P.T. (1:12)

*BONUS: lyrical ref. to "You Suffer"

i'll try to remember to make "points per second" a poll results metric - "you suffer" would probably be up there. it's actually 2 seconds, right?

Elvis Presley - That's All Right (1:55)
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (1:57)
Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear (1:47)

Urinals - I'm a Bug (1:14)

Magnetic Fields - Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin (1:46)

Swell Maps - Read About Seymour (1:29)

oh heck yeah xp:

Urinals - Black Hole (1:18)

Swell Maps - Full Moon in My Pocket (1:30)

Pavement - Debris Slide (1:56)

Jorge Ben - Balanca Pema (1:29)

yes !

Buddy Holly - Words of Love (1:56)

Man ...

Coachwhips - Evil Son (1:38)
The Fall - Dice Man (1:45)
The Fall - In the Park (1:43)
The Fall - Prole Art Threat (1:57)
Swell Maps - Vertical Slum (1:12)
Residents - Moisture (1:07)
Wire - It's So Obvious (:54)
Wire - Germ Ship (1:51)
Chrome - Creature Eternal
Serge Gainsbourg - Docteur Jeckyll et Monsieur Hyde (1:55)
Serge Gainsbourg - La fille au rasoir (1:45)
The Kinks - Two Sisters (1:59)
Rolling Stones - She Said Yeah (1:34)

Sorry, Creature Eternal is 1:53

Parquet Courts - Yr No Stoner (1:50)
Parquet Courts - Outside (1:45)
Parquet Courts - Up All Night (1:02)
Parquet Courts - Vienna II (1:02)
Parquet Courts - Extinction (1:41)
Shellac - Boche's Dick (1:38)
Shellac - Copper (1:48)
Shellac - Mayor/Surveyor (1:41)

farrah abraham - the sunshine state (1:45)
guayaba - bye bich (dark meat remix) (1:46)
jefferson airplane - embryonic journey (1:56)
kacey musgraves - mother (1:18)
techmaster p.e.b. - don't stop the music (1:50)

Red Krayola - Save the House (1:24)
Red Krayola - The Jewels of the Madonna (1:29)

I really did drop a number of songs--these are all great. The times are from Windows Media Player, but they’re also under 2:00 on MP3 Tag. I’ll check some songs that showed up as 2:00 and 2:01 on MP3 Tag against other sources tomorrow--some may qualify.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Sunshine and Clouds (And Everything Proud) (1:02)
Chefs – Food (1:12)
Blues Image – Consuelate (1:15)
Neil Young – Till the Morning Comes (1:21)
Mendoza Line – An Enterprising Molecule (1:24)
Minor Threat – Minor Threat (1:27)
Bikini Kill – Carnival (1:30)
Bad Brains – Pay to Cum (1:30)
Viletones – Backdoor to Hell (1:31)
Neil Young – Cripple Creek Ferry (1:33)
Chris Twinning – Netherlands (1:34)
Wussy – Vivian Girls (1:33)
Mimi & Richard Farina – Tommy Makem Fantasy (1:34)
Undertones – Smarter Than U (1:36)
Love Positions – Into Your Arms (1:38)
Guided by Voices – Gold Star for Robot Boy (1:39)
Jan & Lorraine – Number 33 (1:40)
Maybellines - Space Mission Bible Camp (1:40)
Moby Grape – Ain’t No Use (1:40)
Jale – Despite (1:41)
Neil Young – There Goes My Babe (1:42)
Ramones – I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You (1:42)
Simon & Garfunkel – The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (1:42)
First Base – I Got a Girl (1:44)
Madvillain – Papermill (1:44)
Vaselines – Molly’s Lips (1:44)
Dustin O'Halloran – Opus 36 (1:45)
Yo La Tengo – Superstar Watcher (1:45)
Pretty Things – What’s the Use (1:45)
Earl Sweatshirt – December 24 (1:46)
Guided by Voices – Little Whirl (1:46)
Husker Du – Love Is All Around (1:47)
Angela Strange & Jennifer Lewis – You Know (1:49)
Johnny Cash – Guess Things Happen That Way (1:49)
Motions – For Another Man (1:49)
White Stripes – Fell in Love with a Girl (1:49)
Wire – Sand in My Joints (1:50)
Herman’s Hermits – A Must to Avoid (1:52)
Link Wray & the Wraymen – Black Widow (1:52)
Tasmanians – Love, Love, Love (1:52)
Welcome – Bunky (1:52)
Cleftones – Heart and Soul (1:53)
Fatal Microbes – Beautiful Pictures (1:53)
Who – See My Way (1:53)
Chiffons – He’s So Fine (1:54)
Husker Du – Hate Paper Doll (1:54)
Neil Young – Bad Fog of Loneliness (1:55)
Ramones – Carbona Not Glue (1:55)
Fat Tulips – Chainsaw (1:56)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers – The ABC’s of Love (1:56)
Margaret Mandolph – Something Beautiful (1:56)
Neil Young – Love in Mind (1:56)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – She Belongs to Me (1:56)
Buzzcocks – Breakdown (1:57)
Everly Brothers – Problems (1:57)
Knight School – Gardeninginginging (1:57)
Magnetic Fields – When You’re Old and Lonely (1:57)
Ramones – Do You Wanna Dance (1:57)
Shoes – Boys Don’t Lie (1:57)
Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues (1:57)
Beat Happening – Catwalk (1:58)
Bratmobile – Richard (1:58)
Fizzbombs – Sign on the Line (1:58)
Goldie & the Gingerbreads – Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat (1:58)
James Dean Driving Experience – Ballad of Bedford Town (1:58)
Jerry Lee Lewis – Lewis Boogie (1:58)
Accents – Ching a Long (1:59)
Liliput – Split (1:59)
Luv'D Ones – Stand Tall (1:59)
Rolling Stones – One More Try (1:59)

Brain eaters by the misfits!!!!!

There's another great Viletones song I could have listed, but I exercised a little self-censorship because of an unfortunate title.

Yo La Tengo - Return to Hot Chicken (1:40)
Talking Heads - Who Is It? (1:44)
Bob Dylan - Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues (:51)
Bob Dylan - Odds and Ends (1:47)
Bob Dylan - Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance (1:58)
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Ingrid Bergman (1:50)
The Mountain Goats - Dance Music (1:58)
The Microphones - My Roots Are Strong and Deep (1:53)
The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape (1:55)
Nick Drake - Harvest Breed (1:35)
White Stripes - Little Room (:50)
Daniel Johnston - True Love will Find You in the End (1:48)
Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire (1:57)

FOR THE SIDE POLL:
Nick Drake - Road (2:00)

Camper Van Beethoven: "Abundance" (1:53)
Deerhoof: "Come See the Duck" (1:07)
Deerhoof: "Top Tim Rubies" (1:56)
France Gall: "N'écoute pas les idoles" (1:44)
The Gothic Archies: "The Dead Only Quickly" (1:10)
The Magnetic Fields: "Asleep and Dreaming" (1:53)
Minutemen: "If Reagan Played Disco" (1:21)
Minutemen: "This Ain't No Picnic" (1:58)
Naked City: "Speedfreaks" (0:29)
Naked City: "You Will Be Shot" (1:29)
Primal Scream: "Velocity Girl" (1:22)
The Raincoats: "No Side to Fall in" (1:50)
The Red Krayola with Art & Language: "Kangaroo?" (1:35)
The Residents: "Bach Is Dead" (1:14)
The Residents: "Smelly Tongues" (1:46)
Secret Cities: "No Pressure" (1:41)
Slapp Happy/Henry Cow: "A Worm Is at Work" (1:53)
Stephin Merritt: "Forever and a Day" (1:57)
Sun City Girls: "Cooking with Satan" (1:57)
Talulah Gosh: "Steaming Train" (1:44)
Toy Love: "Pull Down the Shades" (1:45)
The Zombies: "The Way I Feel Inside" (1:49)

This is not directed at anyone or any poll, just something that's always bugged me: can we eliminate all articles from band names? It's so much easier to alphabetize (and find things) without them.

Van Halen - Eruption (1:42)
Vince Staples - '06 (0:52)
The Beach Boys - Farmer's Daughter (1:51)
The Beatles - Golden Slumber (1:32)
The Beatles - Her Majesty (0:23)
The Beatles - I Will (1:46)
Brian Eno - Another Green World (1:42)
The Clash - Career Opportunities (1:53)
Daniel Johnston - Devil Town (1:03)
Danny Brown - XXX (1:51)
Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week (1:23)
Ghostface Killah - Beauty Jackson (1:32)
Isaac Hayes - Bumpy's Lament (1:49)
Madvillain - Accordian (1:59)

Kleenex - Krimi (1:39)
The Red Krayola - Music (1:01)
They Might Be Giants - Letterbox (1:25)
They Might Be Giants - Women & Men (1:47)
Max Tundra - Lights (1:40)
Annette Funicello - Beach Party (1:49)
Jerry Coulston - Caveman Hop (1:44)
Bobby Please & The Pleasers - The Monster (1:51)

Andrew WK - It's Time to Party (1:30)
Barnes & Barnes - For You (1:57)
The Bongos - Question Ball (1:35)
Cardiacs - Horsehead (1:21)
Cornelius - I Hate Hate (1:43)
De La Soul - A Little Bit of Soap (0:59)
Deathray Davies - Don't Point at the Stoners (1:14)
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Love For Tender (1:58)
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Black and White World (1:56)
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Fugue (1:57)
Frank Zappa - Oh No (1:46)
Max Tundra - Merman (1:56)
They Might be Giants - Twisting (1:57)
They Might be Giants - Meet James Ensor (1:33)
They Might be Giants - Judy is Your Viet Nam (1:26)
They Might be Giants - Stand On Your Own Head (1:16)
They Might be Giants - Nightgown of the Sullen Moon (1:58)
They Might be Giants - It's Not My Birthday (1:51)

had to limit myself on TMBG honestly, they're the kings of this

could also nominate every song on Double Nickels on the Dime but, I'm not gonna

The Mountain Goats - Dance Music (1:58)

Can't believe I missed this one. Thanks for catching it!

I purposely didn't nominate any Ramones or Guided by Voices tracks, because I figured I'd have too many candidtates for each, so why not just let the nomination process sort them out? So far, you've been picking good ones.

nice, thanks! I should have done a better job checking the The's section - but I ended up moving straight on to the rest of the prep work. Thanks for the fixes.

btw, for those who are up late on a Saturday night (or up super early on a Sunday morning): how long should the voting period be? 3 weeks sound about right (ballots due by the end of Sunday, March 31st)?

I know it's a ton of songs so we need a decent amount of time, but I don't want to do one of those interminable polls that go on and on (even this nominations process took forever, i thought)

xpost

clemenza, for your option how about:

1-10: 300 points (3,000)
11-25: 217 points (3,255)
26-49: 150 points (3,600)
50: 145 points (145)

it's a ridiculous compromise: you know you want to agree to this

or if not, i'll just go with your option you mentioned above. but it's really not a big deal (on my end) to do the one i just posted, and then the spread would be a lot closer. others might like that too, and also they might appreciate your option because it's entirely made up of tiers

clemenza let me know what you decide by tomorrow morning, if you can! if i don't hear back i'll just go with the first option you proposed. other than that, i have everything ready to go for the voting poll, and i will post it sometime between 10-11 am Central time tomorrow morning

god's work

KM for Homecoming King of ILX

Thank you for adding back Elvis Costello - No Action, KM, but now it’s on there twice w/ different times.

Sorry, just got up. That's fine, thanks again.

That's perfect, yeah--you got my 2-1 ratio. Thanks!

I also like that I now get to punish my #50 song by docking it a few points. It's like, "Okay, you made my top 50, great--but don't you think you could have tried just a little bit harder?"

thanks for catching the double No Action, Chris. not sure how i fucked that up! that means i get to add one final song to the nominations list:

The Cramps - Rock on the Moon (1:54)

just gonna edit the pastebin list of nominations, add the Clemenza Option to the google form, and then we'll be ready to go! daylight savings time threw me off but i still expect to meet my goal of posting the voting thread between 10-11am Central

You're doing great work here. Pretty sure I'm going to be making use of your original mixed ballot tiers, otherwise it'll all be a bit too much for me.

it is happening

♫ Best Songs Under 2 Minutes poll - VOTING and CAMPAIGNING (voting closes March 1st) ♫

(the) Cleftones - Heart and Soul x2 (also on spotify twice)
(not F.S.O.L.) T.S.O.L. - Abolish Goverment/Silent Majority
The Mothers of Invention ---> Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
(the) Pretty Things
(the) Stretchheads
(the) The Trash Can Sinatras
(the) Urinals
(the) Wedding Present
(the) West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
(the) White Stripes

on spotify twice - They Might Be Giants - Mr. Me

# of songs not on Spotify = 407

Bad Boys --(should be)---> Bad Brains - F.V.K. 0:59

KM gave everyone a chance to make corrections on the other thread last night...

He missed a message when I asked him to check this thread out

I'm going to continue working on a youtube playlist with the 407 songs not on Spotify. They are the last songs for me to check for mistakes and I might be done checking by tonight. I've pretty much been working on corrections/youtube song gathering a few hours each day since Friday

7 are The Yummy Fur songs I posted on the other thread, so can just add that list.

The version of Lungleg - Chop Chop on youtube is all kinds of wrong too, will upload the good version later today.

Actually I should really have nominated some more Lungleg, oh well

For your YouTube playlist: I added downloadable mp3 links to Odin and Chris Twinning on the other thread...I'll repost them here.

Odin - LostChris Twinning - Netherlands

Not sure if that helps.

They're melded together there, but they're separate links.

It helps, I was going to slsk and upload everything myself but that works too

Aaarrgh we didn't nominate my favorite Ramones track.

fuck there are a ton of great songs and I've just barely started the listening

The Ramones cover of Billie Holiday's "Lover, Come Back to Me" is an excellent song you should consider voting for ;)

My youtube playlist of all the remaining tracks will be out by Saturday.
The tracks I can't find so far:

2013 Electro Quirk: Dominique Leone - Those Productive Millennials (on bandcamp)
1966 Rockabilly Guitar: Jerry Porter - 3/4 Mostly Lovin'
2006 Rock Electronic: Lansing-Dreiden - Dazzle Magic
1992 Indie Lofi: Mosquito - Down
1995 LoFi Punk Rock: Phantom Pregnancies - Ants In Your Pants II (is it the same as Ants In Your Pants I?)
1937 Southern Folk: Pine Mountain Girls' Octet - Wondrous Love
2000 Classical Lute: Robin Blaze & Elizabeth Kenny/ Matthew Locke - The Delights of the Bottle
2015 Punk: Semi - Above the Law
2013 Indie Pop Bit Punk: The Tee-Tahs - Fun Forever
2002 Acoustic Rock: Tom Liwa & Florian Glässing - Kathleen in Grün

I've been using dates and personal descriptions to help me order the playlist because I'm a bit OCD

After lots of digging and converting I'm only missing 1 song:

2008 Lansing-Dreiden - Dazzle Magic (Part of the Promise) from album D.I. by D.D. (1:46)

Thanks for coming up with the supplementary playlist flopsy

I'll see if I can upload that Semi track to YouTube or something

I also have that Phantom Pregnancies song, probably, I have most of their stuff

I found them on bandcamp. I used a website to convert those to 128k - the best I can get without paying

~

Your welcome Karl. I don't know why I'm doing all of this other than putting off doing other stuff. Menial computer tasks are my bread and butter though.

I actually don't have Ants In Yr Pants II. I only have Ants In Yr Pants I.

The Semi song on bandcamp is a different version to the one I was nominating fwiw

Ants in Yr Pants II is from Astral Angora, my favourite multi-artist EP ever, I will upload it all to yt tonight.

I have no idea how to do this :( there used to be Windows Movie Maker that would do it but it's not available on Windows 10. Tried installing something calling itself Movie Maker but it doesn't let you add an audio file

n/m found something called TunesToTube that does it:

Semi - Above The Law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbr99c2xKlU

please consider voting for these amazing tracks:

Young Marble Giants - Final Day - perfection

Sun City Girls - Cooking With Satan - just listen to this thing

Bikini Kill - New Radio - fury personified

Swell Maps - Read About Seymour - post punk falling down the stairs

this way, sleeve!

♫ Best Songs Under 2 Minutes poll - VOTING and CAMPAIGNING (voting closes March 31st) ♫

oops wrong thread! sorry.

For the youtube playlist

Phantom Pregnancies - Ants in Yr Pants II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_fMF_NhV_4

Lungleg - Chop Chop (not the other version on yt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aLT1tjVIAw

After lots of digging and converting I'm only missing 1 song:

2008 Lansing-Dreiden - Dazzle Magic (Part of the Promise) from album D.I. by D.D. (1:46)

Yes. I've uploaded 50 songs to youtube so far and they are listed as private until I'm finished. I will be able to get a lot done on Monday.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaYK_3feCVSGT45x8IM4WZxWeI5Q93krg

^ For those of you who didn't see me post this to the VOTING and CAMPAIGNING thread.

It's a curated youtube playlist of the songs missing from Spotify. I quite like the selection and flow of the first 95 songs. The rest of the songs will be dumped over the next 2-3 days with less flow.