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

^^ 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.

xp

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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5OXU-dAB2M

Pop & Pour Coca (Cola Logo) - Suzanne Ciani 0:07

lol at the juxtaposition of G.L.O.S.S. and "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows."

That's re: the Spotify playlist.

It pleases me to see that "Yakety Yak" and "Summertime Blues" (both obv. all-time klassics) slide in just under the 2:00 mark.

i feel like there are probably more songs under two minutes than over 10 minutes

that being said, i second this:

the united states of america - strand in time

I hope Karl keeps updating the Spotify playlist, it's fun to tear through

Phillip Glass - Helen's Theme (Candyman OST) (1.57)
Jeff Rosenstock - Planet Luxury (0.30)
Turnstile - Real Thing (1.56)
AG - MarcBerri (f. Roc Marciano) (0.56)
Tree - 50s (1.13)
Sean Price - Fei Long (1.16)
Stuff - The Gadd Solo (1.16)
Mos Def - Priority (1.35)
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Neighborhood Slang (1.32)
Danger Doom - Vats of Urine (1.48)
Burna Boy - More Life (1.32)
DJ Quik - Rhythm-Al-Ism (intro) (1.41)
Comptons Most Wanted - Hit the Floor (1.49)
Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall (1.50)
Bankroll Fresh - Live Yo Life (1.56)
OutKast - Wailin' (1.59)
Ice Cube - What They Hittin Foe? (1.23)
Todd Rundgren - I Don't Wanna Tie You Down (1.56)
MF Doom - LIghtworks (1.53)
Gravediggaz - 2 Cups of Blood (1.27)
Ghostface Killah - Stroke of Death (1.56)
Roc Marciano - 20 Guns (1.54)
Swearin' - Kill em With Kindness (1.31)
Max B - Reign (1.45)
Motorhead - Bite the Bullet (1.38)
Da Brat - Intro (f. Twista, Millie Jackson) (1.58)
Project Pat - North Memphis (1.39)
Bad Religion - Modern Man (1.58)
Sublime - Saw Red (f. Gwen Stefani) (1.58)
112- Q, Mike, Slim, Daron (Interlude) (1.58)

what do we do with versions of songs which are under two minutes whereas the original is not? an example being an a cappella "caroline, no" on a "pet sounds" bonus cd. i nominate it if that is possible:

The Beach Boys - Caroline, No (1:54), (a cappella, Pet Sounds, Disc 3)

hearing some of the songs yall are posting on this thread (and in the spotify i suppose) and i am like, did you nominate this because you hate the concept? is this sabotage?

examples plz

i am absolutely too much of a coward to call anyone out (also i hit skip angrily on shuffle so i can't go back)

I will say, while I agree with the sentiment, that Atom and His Package song is remarkably bad

I hope Karl keeps updating the Spotify playlist, it's fun to tear through

oh, i'm definitely going to. as i add the nominations to the spreadsheet, i also put them on spotify. only takes an extra second or two.

what do we do with versions of songs which are under two minutes whereas the original is not?

if it's under 2 minutes, it qualifies, but on the nominations list i will specify that it's a remix or acapella version or whatever. just make sure it's actually a song that you will likely vote for and might get more than one vote in the end.

I'm sad that the Taxi Driver main title theme is :18 too long.

The Cure - Subway Song (1:58)

I’m up to the Chuck Berry block in the playlist and so far I haven’t hated anything. But then again, I nominated Atom.

Madvillain - Accordion (1:59)

I'm sad that the Taxi Driver main title theme is :18 too long.

Yup, I sought this out to nominate and was similarly disappointed.

i'm back at it, updating. lil' note: someone nominated the gothic archies' "the dead only quickly". it's credited to the 6ths, so i changed it

by the way, for those out there who nominated more than 3 tracks by the same artist - if you want to help out, you can just go back to what you nominated and choose 3 only three tracks and let me know. otherwise, i'll compile a list at the end and pester people individually