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

you could generate that list with the results afterwards

I don't want to vote for 119 different categories

Jawbox - His Only Trade (1:59)
Jawbox - Mule/Stall (1:55)
The Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat Main Title Theme (1:56)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Dust Blows Forward 'n The Dust Blows Back (1:53)
Bongwater - Ill Fated Lovers Go Time Tripping (1:53)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Ain't No Telling (1:51)
The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe (1:49)
Deerhoof - Flower (1:47)
Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day (1:47)
The Mothers of Invention - Oh No (1:46)
The Residents - Amber (1:04)
Frank Zappa - Excentrifugal Forz (1:34)
Harry Nilsson - Jesus Christ You're Tall (1:26)
Emmet Otter and Friends - Barbeque (1:40)
The Muppets - Muppet Show Theme Song (1:12)
Belle & Sebastian - Scooby Driver (1:13)
Raymond Scott - Lightworks (1:52)

Also, I feel like this collection is relevant to the poll:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Miniatures-A-Sequence-Of-Fifty-One-Tiny-Masterpieces-Edited-By-Morgan-Fisher/release/347586

you could generate that list with the results afterwards

― ogmor, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:34 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, this is true, it's just another way to present the same data.

I don't want to vote for 119 different categories

― ogmor, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:35 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't mean for the voting, just for the results.

Also, I feel like this collection is relevant to the poll:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Miniatures-A-Sequence-Of-Fifty-One-Tiny-Masterpieces-Edited-By-Morgan-Fisher/release/347586

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:36 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Quentin Crisp's "Stop The Music For A Minute" is a solid choice for any compilation, but putting it anywhere apart from right at the end is just terrible sequencing

xxp that's the 3rd time Diamond Day has been nominated, CTRL-F people

How about instead of ranking 77-1 or w/e we could have the highest-scoring track 0:01 long, 0:02 long, etc.?

i like that idea but it might cause some confusion for people viewing the results (for example, the 11th place track would say 0:11 long, but it would actually be 1:42, or whatever)

but also, leee already suggested a fun idea for the roll-out of the results...don't know how to describe it without blowing it, but it'll be fun!

For the 2:00 side poll, Elvis Costello - Mystery Dance.

On Spotify, this clocks in at 1:36 (the album version; are there others?)

The Knife - High School Poem (1:24)
Radiohead - you never wash up after yourself (1:44)
Idlewild - You've lost your way (1:30)

can you ctrl-f on the Flagging app?

Quentin Crisp's "Stop The Music For A Minute" is a solid choice for any compilation, but putting it anywhere apart from right at the end is just terrible sequencing

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

No way! It's perfect for a middle song - you're stopping the music for a minute.

(Speaking from years and years of putting it on compilation tapes for people)

Also, I was really looking forward to this but am feeling quite overwhelmed by the prospect now, there are so many songs. I know they're short but I also feel like a lot of people have just dumped every short song they can think of onto the list, so it's not just the best cool short things but every track by every band who regularly write short songs.

^^^^^^^this ffs

seriously think we should lock this thread and begin again with a nomination limit

obviously I appreciate the hard work KM has put himself in for but it could be a lot less hard for him and all of us with a few more rules

uh oh poll police, nothing to see here guv

yr probably rite tho

as the wielder of ultimate power i reject this idea

it will be ok! it's a lot of songs! it's ok to just skim through them and pick the ones you know. you're not legally obligated to listen to every nominated song and formulate the all-time perfect list. you ARE legally obligated to listen to some good music and pick your faves, potentially in an ordered list, and to have fun doing it

No way! It's perfect for a middle song - you're stopping the music for a minute.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:24 (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Disagree! He's calling for all must to stop, now, nothing can follow that, surely.

Also, I was really looking forward to this but am feeling quite overwhelmed by the prospect now, there are so many songs. I know they're short but I also feel like a lot of people have just dumped every short song they can think of onto the list, so it's not just the best cool short things but every track by every band who regularly write short songs.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 16:26 (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agree! Dumping 5+ tracks from one band is really not on, why not choose the best 2 or 3? Can anyone really deal with a 1000+ song playlist to get through?

and i will have fun suing everyone who doesn't have fun after this is all over

I am morally obligated to try to listen to everything though!

I just think having too many songs that people don't really love dilutes the whole experience, but fine idk

it's possible that i am more easygoing about this than most people, but that is the consequence of Leee officially handing over the flaming sword of pollrunning authority. as i sliced my tongue open and felt the searing heat blend in with the rivers of blood running down my throat, i knew that it would not be easy. but i am determined to make sure that it is fun

i DO agree that people should not nominate songs that they're not going to seriously consider voting for. definitely agree with that. but i think that's an implied rule for every nominations thread, right? starting it over will just result in lower participation, plus a side-argument about whether or not starting over was the correcting thing to do.

so i do declare, from this point on, please just nominate songs you actually like. as i mentioned in section 19 of my multivolume Q&A (the first of a planned quadrilogy), it's not a fucking list thread ffs (though it is, technically, but you know what i mean)

how many tracks can we vote for again?

tbd, but seems like consensus is leaning toward 50

Should be able to vote for 99 minutes so if your songs are EXTRA short you have more votes

i'm just kidding this is a bad idea

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cripple Creek (1.50)
Odetta - Come a Lady's Dream (1.48)

also your number one song should be worth one point, and your 50th-ranked song should be worth 0.02 points so all of the scores are lil baby scores

i'm so helpful today

not a bad idea Will M! ;) (leee mentioned something similar)

(via email)

Karl 50 sounds good

I stand by my 80 nominations but I could probably cut 30 of them since I wouldn't be able to vote for them anyway

let me know if you want an edited list - also, some of those tracks aren't on Spotify

i haven't gotten to your nomnoms yet, sleeve. but yeah, how about cut them down to 50 and repost your list below. when i go through more of the list tonight i'll just skip your post above

Disagree! He's calling for all must to stop, now, nothing can follow that, surely.

Iirc the last words are "AND DIE" so I always put something suitably doomy afterwards. Though a particularly peppy upbeat pop song could be a good contrast/FU Crisp move.

I definitely don't think we should restart the poll or anything, and a lot of stuff I think of as filler *will* be someone else's fave, I think I was more just expressing trepidation about dealing with it. I guess I'll pay more attention to the repping phase when voting opens than I will spend time trying to listen to the uber-list.

OK here's an edited list of 50

Black Flag - Fix Me 0:54
Misfits - Spinal Remains 1:23
Urinals - I'm White and Middle Class 0:52
Germs - What We Do Is Secret 0:41
Angry Samoans - Hot Cars 0:31
Bad Brains - Pay To Cum 1:29
Untouchables - Nic Fit 0:59
Dead Kennedys - Your Emotions 1:20
The Fix - Vengeance 1:25
Circle Jerks - Deny Everything 0:23
Teen Idles - Teen Idles 0:44
Dicks - Fake Bands 1:25
S.O.A. - Lost In Space 0:41
Adolescents - Word Attack 1:05
Big Boys - Advice 1:05
Minor Threat - Filler 1:31
Black Flag - I've Heard It Before 1:38
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off 0:58
The Fix - Cos The Elite 1:18
Angry Samoans - Lights Out 0:51
Necros - IQ 32 0:23
Zero Boys - Vicious Circle 0:41
Husker Du - Guns In My School 0:55
Really Red - Pigboy 1:18
Kraut - Matinee 1:27
Bad Brains - Attitude 1:19
Bored Youth - They Don't Have The Right 1:07
7 Seconds - Fuck Your Amerika 0:48
Black Flag - Police Story 1:30
Minor Threat - Out Of Step (With The World) 1:15
Angry Samoans - Gas Chamber 0:59
Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight? 1:39
Die Kreuzen - Fighting 1:00
Husker Du - M.I.C. 1:05
Bad Posture - GDMFSOB 1:30
Descendents - I'm Not A Punk 1:03
Big Boys - Apolitical 0:41
Really Red - Teenage Fuck Up 1:17
Gang Green - Snob 0:25
Scream - Came Without Warning 1:45
The Freeze - This Is Boston, Not LA 0:34
Void - Think 1:48
Husker Du - Obnoxious 0:51
Die Kreuzen - Don't Say Please 1:01
Bad Brains - F.V.K. 0:59
D.R.I. - I Don't Need Society 1:14
Big Boys - Assault 0:56
Misfits - Devilock 1:24
Die Kreuzen - Hate Me 0:43
Nip Drivers - New Meiji Takeover 1:08

xpost yeah, i'm with you there emil.y . my approach is just going to be to take the time to listen to each individual artist. but when it comes to bands that have 20 different songs listed or something, i don't feel the need to go through every single one (unless i worship them, like Wire) so i'll just skip to the next thing i'm interested in.

can't believe there's no ivor cutler nommed yet, but he has about 7,000 pieces to choose from. help me someone plz!

The one about being in a field?

Oneohtrix Point Never - SDFK (1:27)

I thought I saw an Ivor Cutler nom earlier, but if not then I am also surprised. Last.fm lists 'I'm Going In a Field' as exactly 2:00, though, and the only youtube I can see is 2:10.

Ivor Cutler - I Think Very Deeply (0:54)

Damn, I was just about to nominated 71 songs all titled "Intro" but now I can't with you guys ruining all the fun.

FWIW, I "actually like" (a lot!) all the songs I nominated; including the single-artist multiples. (There probably should have been a "one track per artist" rule, but I wasn't gonna handcuff myself unilaterally!)

John Cage, Sonata No. 5 (1:52)

(Well, I was kinda joking when I nominated every track from Group Sex... only kinda joking, though)

An Albatross - I Am the Lazer Viking (0:45)

^^ yes! I had forgotten about that song. It rules

Young People - Rhumba (1:31)
Nine Inch Nails - Pinion (1:03)
Larry Collins - Whistle Bait (1:34)
Hank Ballard - Finger Poppin' Time (1:48)

Castaways - Liar Liar (1:50)