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

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)

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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)

There probably should have been a "one track per artist" rule

if it helps to address the Too Many Songs! concerns, which i can understand, i can comb through the list later and look for people who nominated more than one song by the same artist and ask them to revise their nominations!

seriously, i don't mind doing it, and it would cut down the nominations quite a bit and emphasize just the best stuff.

what do you all think? if it's a good idea let me know and i can ask an all-powerful gmod to edit the first post to include that rule as the number #1 Q&A

My Bloody Valentine - Touched (0:56)
The 1975 - An Encounter (1:15)
Tinashe - Indigo Child (1:29)
Mitski - Lonesome Love (1:51)
Gold Panda - Quitters Raga (1:57)

def cut down the multiple artist picks per user. maybe 3 max per user?

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?

some bands do a lot of short songs! They Might Be Giants have a ton of them and a lot of them are among their best work. 3/4s of the songs on Double Nickels on the Dime and Pink Flag are under 2:00. Elvis Costello had an unexpected flair for it. I dunno, that's a bit like polling the best prog epics but saying, "you should only nominate one by Yes"...that's the whole point isn't it?

I'm listening thru the Spotify playlist; these barely-anything-happening Brian Eno tracks are some straight nonsense in this context! (sorry)

that's true, but those kinds of bands would still be represented pretty robustly here in the nominations. For example, 7 different people on this thread have already nominated TMBG songs, so would still plenty of good options for them.

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Food for Animals - Elephants (1:47)
The Locust - Bring Your 65 Italian Carbine (0:43)
The Locust - Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants? (1:06)
Black Dice - Live Loop (1:28)
Animal Collective - College (0:53)
C-Murder - Otis Commercial (0:37)
Rebel Truth - All I Know (1:11)
D.O.A. - Fucked Up Ronnie (1:20)
Zero Boys - Civilization's Dying (1:58)
Esham - Garbitch (1:51)
Madvillain - Curls (1:36)
Domingo ft. Eminem - Hustlers & Hardcore (1:14)
Jay Dee - Digi Dirt (0:54)

Put as many by an artist as you want, but if one person posts like 10, make them cut it down

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

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

I used the time from Discogs. I had remembered Mystery Dance as being shorter than 2:00 - would be happy if it is so it can be part of this poll.

trying to think of house/techno/disco/boogie songs that qualify. failing.

probably some good synthpop we're forgetting about though.

just who are the carcass of progressive trance?

so stoked 4 tha playlist /add

Actress - Holy Water (1:40)
Basement Jaxx - Cosmolude (0:54)
Cat Stevens - Was Dog A Doughnut? (1:17)
Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland - 11 (1:50)
Laurel Halo - Holoday (1:51)
Neon Indian - Bozo (1:23)
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain (I Want A Divorce) (1:49)
Sampa The Great - F E M A L E (1:52)
Van Halen - Cathedral (1:23)

Prince - Ronnie, Talk to Russia (1:58)
Danny Brown - Wonderbread (1:58)
Grimes - Infinite Love Without Fulfillment (1:36)
Soundgarden - Kickstand (1:34)
The Knife - The Cop (0:44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLbyPA57bPA

you're not legally obligated to listen to every nominated song and formulate the all-time perfect list

Yes. Yes. Yes. I will never understand the hand-wringing that goes on when it comes to nominations.

If the list is too long for you, don't look at it and vote for whatever you want to vote for. If the playlist is overwhelming, don't go near it. Pretend it doesn't exist.

Eyeless In Gaza - Veil Like Calm (1:55)
The Passage - Man Of War (1:54)
Vice Versa - Riot Squad (1:39)
Yello - Coast To Polka (1:54)
Art Of Noise - Snapshot (1:02)
Einsturzende Neubauten - Trinklied (1:16)

This Mortal Coil - Tears (0:22)

Sore Throat - Hang Norman Tebbit (0:58)

Sore Throat - Three Seconds Long (0:03)

Where is the Spotify playlist?

Sonny Sharrock - Space Ghost Coast to Coast Theme (0:38)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Just Got Back from the City (1966 demo) (1:54)
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends Theme Reprise (1:20)
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Green Peppers (1:29)
La Luz - Hey Papi (1:46)

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

Raekwon - Pyrex Vision (0:55)
Circle Jerks - Beverly Hills (1:00)

oops on circle jerks already named

Part I of IV

Joni Mitchell - I's a Muggin' (0:08)
Yo La Tengo - George (0:43)
American Analog Set - New Drifters IV (0:47)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Firing Results (0:55)
Nico - Prelude (1:01) [from The Marble Index]
The Trash Can Sinatras - The Perfect Reminder (1:03)
Popol Vuh - Kleiner Krieger (1:05)
Mittagspause - Innenstadtfront (1:12)
Yo La Tengo - Too Much, Pt.1 (1:18)
Boards of Canada - Rodox Video (1:19)
Brian Eno - Sparrowfall (3) - (1:24)
This Mortal Coil - The Lacemaker II (1:25)
Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier - Champêtre et Pop 2 (1:26)
Tom Liwa & Florian Glässing - Kathleen in Grün (1:27)
Pixies - Broken Face (1:30)
Les Négresses Vertes - La valse (1:33)
ZK - In der Ecke stehen (1:37)
Man or Astroman? - Intoxica (1:38)
The Durutti Column - Jazz (1:39)
KFC - Stumpf ist Trumpf (1:40)
Pixies - Isla de Encanta (1:41)
Boards of Canada - Constants Are Changing (1:42)
John Carpenter - Shape Escapes (1:43)
Moondog - Lament 1 (1:45)
Lansing-Dreiden - Dazzle Magic (1:46)
The Durutti Column - Sleep Will Come (1:49)
The Lemonheads - Bit Part (1:51)