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

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

not even close!

yea must've confused me because it only has one chorus

a bunch of songs on get happy are slightly shorter than 2 mins and two on My Aim Is True are significantly shorter.

Archers of Loaf - Bones of Her Hands (1:59)

Pavement - Two States (1:47)

Big Black - L. Dopa (1:41)

^^ great one

likely my #1:

A Frames - Hostage Crisis (1:39)

One of those Grind/Power Violence songs that really goes places, instead of just splattering everywhere

Weekend Nachos - For Life (1:05)

huh, that must be a different "A Frames" than the band I know from Seattle?

No! The Seattle one!

unless you were mistaking my Weekend Nachos hot take with the A Frames

no I just couldn't find that song on Discogs!

"Radiation Generation" is my favorite of theirs but idk the track time and I used up all my noms on US hardcore tracks

Bruce Langhorne - Leaving Del Norte (1:57)
Joe Zawinul - Arrival in New York (1:57)
Ronnie Allen - Juvenile Delinquent (1:58)
Curly Coldiron - Rockin' Spot (1:56)
Paul Williams - Fat Sam's Grand Slam (1:45)
Frank Sinatra - She Says (1:51)
Vern Pullens - Bop Crazy Baby (1:39)
Shirley Collins - The Silver Swan (1:26)
Papa M - Arundel (1:06)
Appendix Out - The Night is Advancing (1:22)
The Clovers - Rotten Cocksucker's Ball (1:18)

Naked City - Demon Sanctuary (0:42)
Naked City - Thrash Jazz Assassin (0:49)
Naked City - Blood Duster (0:18)
38/50

If there's a limit of 3 per artist for noms, then I'm not nominating any of these, but any of them could make my ballot:
Naked City - No Reason To Believe (0:28)
Naked City - Igneous Ejaculation (0:25)
Naked City - Ujaku (0:31)
Naked City - Kaoru (0:55)
Naked City - Cairo Chop Shop (0:26)
Naked City - N.Y. Flat Top Box (0:46)