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

Christmastime in the mtns! Hell yes thx

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - Lakeland Aquarelle (1:40)
Blitz - Razors in the Night (1:55)
DEVO - Too Much Paranoias (1:57)
Dead Milkmen - V.F.W. (1:49)
Dead Milkmen - Violent School (1:57)
Dos - Funk One (1:59)
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Beaten to the Punch (1:49)
Frank Zappa - I Was a Teenage Maltshop (1:27)
Frank Zappa - Naval Aviation in Art? (1:33)
Frank Zappa - T’Mershi Duween (1:32)
French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson - Killerman Gold Posse (1:46)
Half Japanese - Bingo’s Not His Name-O (1:20)
Half Japanese - Daytona Beach (1:47)
Half Japanese - Open Your Eyes - Close Your Eyes (1:08)
John Zorn/Yamantaka Eye - Eep Man (1:08)
Klaus Doldinger - Sitar Beat (1:32)
Larry Young - Alive (1:50)
Mothers of Invention - A Pound for a Brown on the Bus (1:29)
Mothers of Invention - Dog Breath Variations (1:49)
Negativland - New Is Old (1:33)
Replacements - Stuck in the Middle (1:49)
Robert Fripp - Haaden Two (1:57)
Rutles - Ouch! (1:52)
The Boys - Sick On You (1:53)
The Clash - The Leader (1:42)
Undertones - I Gotta Getta (1:54)
Ween - I’m Dancing in the Show Tonight (1:56)
Ween - Tick (1:53)
Ween - I’m in the Mood to Move (1:17)
Zero Boys - Mom’s Wallet (0:47)
Zoogz Rift - Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course (0:29)
Zoogz Rift - Torture Sequence (0:56)
Minutemen - Please Don’t Be Gentle With Me (0:48)
Minutemen - Storm in My House (1:59)
Minutemen - God Bows to Math (1:16)

Thanks in advance to anyone with free Minutemen slots who would add The Politics of Time (1:13) and Themselves (1:18).

Has no one yet nominated Napalm Death “You Suffer”?!
0:01.

The Jale song in the playlist is great. I'd never heard of them.

Rocket From the Crypt - Middle (1:02)
The Jesus Lizard - Mistletoe (1:53)
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - We'll Get Ahead Someday (1:57)
The Amps - Mom's Drunk (1:42)
Descendents - Jean is Dead (1:34)

of Montreal - Knight Rider (1:06)
Pearl Jam - Lukin (1:02)
The Tams - What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) (1:57)

paging morrisp, please select three

LOL, ok (I was sort of joking anyway, but with pleasure):

I’ll let UMSh@kedown have “Beverly Hills”; and I’ll take “Wasted” and “Red Tape” (won’t be greedy)!

Also, I’ll limit my SeBADoh choices to “Temporary Dream,” “Ride the Darker Wave,” and “Kath.”

Got it, thanks!

Mega City Four - Awkward Kid (1:55)
Spratleys Japs - Sparrows (1:54)
Burial - Stairwell (1:23)
Absolute Body Control - Tanzmusik (1:26)

Also, this is not for noms, but for all you short-song fans, my old band did a whole album where all 51 songs were under two minutes:

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Special mention for the Earache comp "The World's Shortest Album" which came out as a 5" vinyl single, has 13 tracks and a total running time of 83 seconds, so shorter than a lot of the individual songs on this poll

https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Worlds-Shortest-Album/release/4492305

Descendents - I Like Food (0:17)
Descendents - Suburban Home (1.40)
Minutemen - Life as a Rehearsal (1:36)
Minutemen - The Politics of Time (1:13)
Minutemen - Themselves (1:18)
The Wipers - Messenger (1:55)
Alain Gorageur - le Bracelet (1:27)
Ennio Morricone - Gli Intoccabili (Titoli) (1:39)
Ennio Morricone - Dies Irae Psichedelico (1:59)

Karl, if you would like a hand updating the Spotify playlist I can offer my services over from tomorrow night over the weekend

Randy & The Rainbows - Denise (1:57)

Chan Romero - The Hippy Hippy Shake (1:40)

the clash - Protex Blue ((1:46)

Chuck Berry - Dear Dad (1:49)
Chuck Berry - Jaguar and Thunderbird (1:49)
Thee Mighty Caesars - The Double Axe (1:45)
Thee Mighty Caesars - Loathsome 'n' Wild (1:47)
Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk (1:54)
Daniel Johnston - I am a Baby (in My Universe) (1:37)
The Dils - Class War (1:41)
The Misfits - We Are 138 (1:41)
Lo Borges - O Cacador (1:59)

Sub 1-min, working on 1-2 min

Wehrmacht - E! (0:01)
Jarvis Cocker - The Loss Adjuster (Excerpt 1) (0:27)
Melt-Banana - So far So bad So WHAT (0:27)
Out Hud - This Just In (0:28)
The Streets - Who Dares Wins (0.34)
The Yummy Fur - The Walt Disney Murder Club (0:36)
Ivor Cutler - I'm Happy (0:37)
Cassetteboy - Sick As A Dog (0:38)
The Yummy Fur - Typical of Boys (0:44)
Go-Kart Mozart - Drinkin' Um Bongo (0:44)
Kiiiiiii - Kiiiiiii!!!!!!! (0:45)
Melt-Banana - Party-hat (0:47)
The Yummy Fur - The Optical Meat Dress (0:49)
Chants Populaires Tahitiens - Chant d´amour (0:52)
Jad Fair - Fish Can Talk (0:52)
AMANDA - Carpet Burns On My Butt (0:53)
Louis & Bebe Barron - Deceleration (0:55)
Aphex Twin - Father (0:57)
The Yummy Fur - Shaggy (0:59)

The Beatles - She Came In Through the Bathroom Window (1:58)

tempted to nominate the entire cassetteboy catalog, but won't, as that would be a nightmare for me

cassette-boyeeeeeee

xposts fionnland that's very nice of you, but i'll be ok with the spotify list! it really doesn't take me too long to find them and drag/drop, and i take a strange satisfaction in repetitive processes (hard to explain but true)

Special mention for the Earache comp "The World's Shortest Album"

Also the entire "scum" field-recording grindcore genre*

https://youtu.be/LJpvIofDZbo

*might not be a genre.

Ennio Morricone - Watch Chimes (1:15)

^ if you haven’t heard it you should check out the jacques denjean track i nominated above

Grouplove - Back In The 90's (0:44)

Man, it is not fair to this poll that the Ramones, Wire and the Minutemen were simply so good at this

Yes. Early Beatles and Buddy Holly too.

Also, I would def count myself as a Parquet Courts fan if all their songs were under 90 seconds

Meat Puppets - In A Car (1:21)

Also, I would def count myself as a Parquet Courts fan if all their songs were under 90 seconds

Parquet Courts - NYC Observation (1:22)

Wire - Fragile (1:18)

Maybe we don't have enough songs by those bands yet

I think maybe some more Minutemen is on the menu

(This is all a cunning ruse to votesplit everything)

The Breeders - Fortunately Gone (1:45)

I am a bit concerned about the results being dominated by minutemen, wire, and the ramones. and maybe TMBG. although maybe votesplitting may in fact solve that problem. Or maybe it's not a problem at all, and other songs be mixed in nicely? i dunno.

has there ever been a poll like this where you're only allowed to vote for 3 different tracks by the same artist? would that be weird?

i mean, i love wire with all my heart, but there's no way i'm going to list more than 3 wire songs in my list of the top 50 songs of all time under 2 minutes. no band is that good. but then again, i can see like 5 different people saying "fuck it" and putting double nickels on the dime as their top 20

Yeah, there's enough stuff where I don't think it's gonna be a problem. And if the top 20 ends up all Ramones and Chuck Berry, well, they deserve it for being so good at this!

has there ever been a poll like this where you're only allowed to vote for 3 different tracks by the same artist? would that be weird?

There weren't any artist restrictions on the 10 minutes poll, but I definitely think that these handful of bands having so many songs nominated will definitely water down their placement.

^ if you haven’t heard it you should check out the jacques denjean track i nominated above

yeah pretty similar! bit more emotional development in the morricone though.

ok i know i talked shit about "sabotage tracks" earlier but uhh if this farrah abraham song was intended to be that, it backfired, this is insane, i think i love this? what the fuck? this is SO FUCKING WEIRD

i am still recovering from listening to it last night. it's like it the rebecca black "friday" song got really experimental

What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?

what i like about it is that it only takes like 20 minutes or so to listen to it 10 times

lol, i can't wait to read that thread later

i'm thinking i will maybe never listen to it ever again, because i didn't think it was bad...it was beyond bad or good, it's just way the hell out there, like an autotune eating itself

my official prediction is that Elvis Costello is gonna dominate the Top 10

dunno about that, he doesn't really have many songs this short, especially not fan favorites

ok i know i talked shit about "sabotage tracks" earlier but uhh if this farrah abraham song was intended to be that, it backfired, this is insane, i think i love this? what the fuck? this is SO FUCKING WEIRD

afaik we were never really given a good explanation for this. it's still kind of an open mystery. every time I listen to it I think of this YouTube comment: "if Captain Beefheart made 808s & Heartbreak"

xp - wait a minute...I thought "Beyond Belief" qualified but apparently it doesn't