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

Rundgren has a few for sure

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - RNR Hall of Fame (1:06)

Bombs away on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Even if I got indicted I'd probably feel the same
I don't wanna see Eric Clapton's stuffed baby
I don't want to see the shotgun of Kurt Cobain
Bombs away, bombs away
Cleveland's cool, Cleveland's cool
I don't want to see the liver of David Crosby
I don't want to see all the drugs I couldn't take
I don't want to see the collector scum pay

Blow it up, blow it up, blow it up
Blow it up before Johnny Rotten gets in
Blow it up before Paul Westerberg sits in
Blow it up before Steve Albini makes a speech
Blow it up, blow it up

Spoon - You Gotta Feel It 1:29

xp — does he really sing “indicted”?

how much time is left for nominations?

1:59.

ok, i will hurry up then.

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

I was ready to nom "New Amsterdam", which I was sure was under two minutes, but nope

Rod Stewart - Henry (0:32)
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do to Me (1:59)

Morning! 1:00 to 1:29

Oh No - Exp Out the Ox (1:01)
Dawn Of The Replicants - Let Them Eat Coal (1:01)
Melt-Banana - Mouse Is A Biscuit (1:05)
Antwood - Sublingual (1:05)
Crass - Heard Too Much About (1:08)
GFOTY - My Song (1:08)
Squarepusher - Metteng Excuske v1.2 (1:08)
Roni Size - Beatbox (1:09)
Gail Force 3 - Letter Home To Ma (1:10)
Todd Rundgren - Tic Tic Tic, It Wears Off (1:14)
Lung Leg - Accident (1:15)
Henry Mancini - Pink Panther Theme (1:16)
Ivor Cutler - Good Morning, How Are You, Shut Up! (1:17)
Kid Carpet - Special (1:17)
Broadcast - Oh How I Miss You (1:17)
Clinic - Hippy Death Suite (1:18)
Squarepusher - Tommib (1:19)
The Fall - Mansion (1:20)
Phantom Pregnancies - Ants In Your Pants II (1:20)
Vangelis - Spinner Ascent (1:20)
Milky Wimpshake - Creepfoot (1:21)
Half Man Half Biscuit - Bogus Official (1:22)
Boards of Canada - In The Annexe (1:22)
Fanfare Ciocarlia - Hora lui Pusac (1:24)
Childbirth - How Do Girls Even Do It? (1:26)
Kenickie - Walrus (1:28)
Money Mark - Robo dancing (1:28)
Minty - Homage (1:28)

love too order iTunes by track length

yeah I'll only listen to music by track length from now on

Arca - Hallucinogen (1:24)
J Dilla - Lightworks (1:18)
James Ferraro - Linden Dollars (1:57)

xp don't use itunes, never will, these nominations are whittled down from the billions of mp3s I've stored on my hard drive and queued up in wimamp

iTunes crashes if I attempt to add my whole library in it so it was a painful add one chunk, remove the sub 2 minutes, add another chunk, remove the sub 2 minute tracks, etc.

I think there is a Windows Explorer advanced search limiter based on "length:" but I couldn't get it to work.

Listening to the spotify list is a lot of fun

some that came to mind:
Electric Eels - No Nonsense (1:15)
Black Randy & The Metrosquad - Sperm Bank Baby (1:23)
DNA - Blonde Red Head (1:50)

Listening to the spotify list is a lot of fun

Yeah I mean I have to admit, like others I was worried the nominations list might be daunting but actually listening through it has been great.

Girlpool - Dear Nora (1:54)
Girlpool - Corner Store (1:31)
Frankie Cosmos - Embody (1:49)
The Chills - Hidden Bay (1:44)

The Creatures - Mad Eyed Screamer (1:54)
OMD - Time Zones (1:50)
Hybrid Kids - D'Ya Think I'm Sexy? (1:52)
Public Enemy - Incident At 66.6FM (1:37)
Moloko - Sorry (1:34)

Putting together my list of every Wu-Tang skit for this. brb

Calamine "Sealab 2021 Theme" (i dont know how long this is)

fucked up the formatting sorry

Calamine - Sealab 2021 Theme (0:25)

i guessed

Is "The Lovely Linda" really a good choice for this?

contra morrisp these eno tracks are v welcome in the noms playlist

They may not fit very well in the overall punk/rock'n'roll-ish slant of the playlist, but those Eno tracks were the first thing I thought of as examples of 'miniatures'.

Calamine "Sealab 2021 Theme" (i dont know how long this is)

― billstevejim, Friday, February 22, 2019 1:20 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn nice one

Tay-K - The Race (1:44)

ehh actually the Spotify version is 2:20, but the original YouTube version that caught fire was 1:44. I'll leave that one up to the judges

Is "The Lovely Linda" really a good choice for this?

― billstevejim, Friday, February 22, 2019 12:29 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes imo

Boris - "Electric" (1:45)

Aimee Mann - Just Like Anyone (1:22)
Air Miami - Sweet as a Candy Bar (1:33)
The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard (1:06)
The Beatles - It's Only Love (1:59)
Bert Jansch & John Renbourne - East Wind (1:25)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Baz - Duck (1:05)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Baz - On the Beach Boys Bus (1:47)
Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Baz - Banned Announcements (1:57)
Bob Dylan - Father of Night (1:30)
The Breeders - When I Was a Painter (1:40), "Pod" demo
Brian Eno - The Last Door (1:31)
Brian Eno - A Measured Room (1:03)
Broadcast - Microtonics 05 (1:47)
Calexico - Inch By Inch (0:48)
Calexico - 6 White Horses (0:28)

Waxahatchee - Coast to Coast (1:46)
Deerhunter - Cover Me (Slowly) (1:21)

a frames - u-boat (1:44)
buzzcocks - oh shit! (1:36)
electrelane - come back (0:07)
elvis costello & the attractions - no action (1:59)
guided by voices - a good flying bird (1:07)
hot snakes - mystery boy (1:59)
jawbreaker - boxcar (1:54)
jethro tull - cheap day return (1:23)
jethro tull - slipstream (1:13)
jethro tull - wond'ring aloud (1:55)
magnetic fields - wi' nae wee bairn ye'll me beget (1:55)
mekons - never been in a riot (1:43)
misfits - where eagles dare (1:59)
sleater-kinney - write me back fucker (1:37)
wedding present - dan dare (1:41)
yo la tengo - 86-second blowout (1:26)

***this version of 'where eagles dare' is from legacy of brutality; other versions appear to be longer, so this may not count

getting ready to enter song #440 into the spreadsheet. friday nights are wild around here!

just as a reminder, the giant nomnoms playlist is here: https://open.spotify.com/user/weinventyou/playlist/5NYa3dBthFiDcftI0ObtC3?si=xHwMqu3nTQSJ535K_5xs4w

so far, 403 of the 439 songs have been on spotify

i mean, this playlist is way too long. but also, it rules. good job ILM. but, also, ok, stop nominating songs sometime soon. gonna cut it off soon because i'm only about a 1/3 of the way through so far (just added Ken Nordine - Yellow). so i'm gonna guess that we already have around 1300 songs or so. that seems like a decent nominations list. i'll wait til the middle of Saturday to announce this, but maybe just 3 or 4 more days to get your nomnoms in.

Unrest - Bavarian Mods (1:18)
Cheap Trick - Hello There (1:41)
Cub - Go Fish (1:57)*
Cub - My Chinchilla (1:24)
James - What's The World (1:56)*
Jacques Dutronc - Mini-mini-mini (1:54)
Morrissey - I Know Very Well How I Got My Name (1:59)*
Perfume Genius - You Won't B Here (1:38)
Perfume Genius - Hood (1:58)*
Liz Phair - Glory (1:30)
PJ Harvey - Snake (1:37)
Robert Fripp - Mary (1:59)
The Damned - So Messed Up (1:50)
X-Ray Spex - I Am A Cliche (1:54)
The Breeders - I Just Wanna Get Along (1:44)
The Fall - Terry Waite Sez (1:38)
The Fall - Like To Blow (Peel Session) (1:47)
Syd Barrett - She Took A Long Cold Look (1:55)
Syd Barrett - Dark Globe (1:58)
PJ Harvey - Snake (1:37)
Air Miami - Airplane Rider (1:52)
Julie Doiron - His Girlfriend (1:16)
Galaxie 500 - Crazy (1:57)
The Wedding Present - Venus (1:53)
The Wedding Present - Every Mothers Son (1:36)
Wire - Men 2nd (1:44)
Wire - I Feel Mysterious Today (1:58)
Misfits - She (1:22)
Misfits - Skulls (1:59)

*timed these myself - extraneous silence at end skew timings

qual thx

Last batch:
The Beat - Walking Out on Love (1:44) *
Delfonics - Ready Or Not Here I Come (1:59)
Superchunk - Me & You & Jackie Mittoo (1:58)
Big Black - The Power of Independent Trucking (1:28)
Michael & the Messengers - (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet (1:58)
The Byrds - It Won't Be Wrong (1:58)
Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever (1:55)

*the history of this song is a little confusing (to me). The band soon became Paul Collins' Beat, and I think the version on Spotify might be a later re-recording. It was originally recorded when Collins was in The Breakaways, who shortly became the Nerves, and that version is on there too. I'm definitely voting for it though.

Frankie Cosmos - Fool (1:59:99)
This is p borderline so i understand if it’s thrown out but I make it just under two minutes removing the silence at the end. Absolute tune though so worth the argument.

Scratch that I feel bad for bending the rules and I think the silence is an important part of it

Oh damn throwback!

Fagatron - Asskickatron (1:48)

Stereolab - Black Ants in Sound-Dust (1:56)
Stina Nordenstam - Proposal (1:57)
Daphne & Celeste - Golden Doldrum (1:57)
Denim - The New Potatoes (1:55)
Mitski - Strawberry Blond (1:54)
Mitski - Class of 2013 (1:50)
Serge Gainsbourg - Ah! Melody (1:47)
Go-Kart Mozart - Plead With the Man (1:36)
Stina Nordenstam - Clothe Yourself for the Wind (1:36)
Sleater-Kinney - The Professional (1:31)
Tori Amos - Mr Zebra (1:07)
British Sea Power - Favours in the Beetroot Fields (1:17)
OMD - This is Helena (1:58)
Prince - Sister (1:32)

Brakes - Heard About Your Band (1:31)
Brakes - Cheney (0:12)
Papa M - Sorrow Reigns (1:19)
tompaulin - Wedding Song (1:48)

I have finally trawled my iTunes and this is my extremely extensive list of things I would like to nominate as a result (for now)

Serena-Maneesh - Un-Deux (1:57)

EMA - Coda (1.01)
Game Theory - The World's Easiest Job (1.33)

so now that the nominations have slowed to a trickle of dozens upon dozens per day, i'm going to go ahead and say

NOMINATIONS DEADLINE: MONDAY, FEB 25, MIDNIGHT (WHATEVER TIME ZONE YOU WANT TO USE)

Aw no, I was hoping it would be Tuesday or Wednesday, give me a little more time to go searching through my brain. But I guess noms can't go on forever, I'll have to just work hard through my hangover tomorrow.

Maura pointed out that Ween's "Pumpin' 4 The Man" isn't on here

Ween "Pumpin' 4 the Man" (1:31)

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - One Rose That I Mean (1:53)
The Durutti Column - Beginning (1:41)
e.s.t. - Ajar
Elliott Smith - Georgia, Georgia (1:46)
The Fall - Coach and Horses (1:49)
The Fall - To Nkroachment: Yarbles (1:23)
Felt - Red Indians (1:54)
Felt - Ferdinand Magellan (1:59)
Geisterfahrer - Himmel auf Erden (1:57)
Giant Sand - Thrust (0:35)
Gonzales - Oregano (1:25)

Guided By Voices - To Remake the Young Flyer (1:43)
Harmonia & Brian Eno - When Shade Was Born (1:31)
Hatfield & the North - Bossa Nochance (0:40)
The High Llamas - Cuckoo Casino (0:56)
Idaho - Let's Cheat Death (1:37)
John Cale - Days of Steam (1:58)
Joy Division - Drawback (1:47), RCA demo