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

*sounds of "i live in a car" being strangled in background*

― Karl Malone

monty python - farewell to john denver (0:16)

let's make it a TRUE daily double

VU - Here She Comes Now

2:05 on spotify, so i'm afraid there she goes now

incredible to ctrl+f frogs, see 1300 nominations, and only get here now so close to the deadline

The Frogs - Richard Dick Richards (1:40)
The Frogs - Homos (1:55)

this is what you were born for

*considers final nomination closely*

The Frogs - I'm Sad The Goat Just Died Today (1:14)

everything you have done has led to this moment

xp and you fucking NAILED it

Agnostic Front - "Victim In Pain" (0:46)
Bad Brains - "Don't Need It" (1:07)
Banner Pilot - "Empty Your Bottles" (1:49)
Elvis Costello - "The Imposter" (1:58)
Dag Nasty - "Can I Say" (1:59)
Dils - "You're Not Blank" (1:37)
Dillinger Four - "Music Is None of My Business" (1:39)
Discharge - "The Nightmare Continues" (1:51)
Dropdead - "A Fall of Empires" (0:59)
Fugazi - "Back to Base" (1:45)
Guided by Voices - "Jar of Cardinals" (1:22)
Guided by Voices - "Non-Absorbing" (1:37)
Marked Men - "Don't Lose It" (1:23)
Minor Threat - "Seeing Red" (1:03)
Minutemen - "Search" (0:54)
Minutemen - "Tension" (1:20)
Misfits - "Angelfuck" (1:38)
Misfits - "We Bite" (1:15)
Naked Raygun - "Rocks of Sweden" (1:26)
Offenders - "Face Down in the Dirt" (1:21)
Offenders - "Victory" (1:56)
Radioactivity - "Don't Try" (1:34)
Royal Headache - "Give It All to Me" (1:47)
Royal Headache - "Electric Shock" (1:30)
Saccharine Trust - "I Have..." (1:27)
Scared of Chaka - "All My Friends Are Ghosts" (1:53)
Scared of Chaka - "Schoolboy" (1:52)
Wipers - "Telepathic Love" (1:32)

Times are from my digital files except for 1:55+ songs where I checked.

Jay Dee - Stop (1:39)
Rosalía - Que se muere que se muere (1:29)
Diane Cluck - Diamonds (1:31)
Colette Magny - Melocoton (1:43)
Maria Bethãnia - Sol Negro (1:59)
Sarafina The Sound of Freedom Soundtrack - Safa Saphel Isiwze (1:57)
Shirley Collins - Scarborough Fair (1:40)
Team Dresch - Screwing yer courage (1:40)
Melanie de Biasio - I feel you (1:44)
Amadou et Mariam - M'Bifé Balafon (1:59)
Confetti - Jenny (1:37)
The Motifs - Dots (1:55)
The Motifs - Secret Address (1:46)
Various artists (Smolyan Folk Ensemble) - Molih ta, majcho i molih (1:43) (1988, Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records)
Nick Drake - Horn (1:22)
Beat Happening - Fourteen (1:44)
Vashti Bunyan - Find my Heart Again (1:59)
Le mystère des voix bulgares - Svatba (the wedding procession) (1:31)
Os Tincoas - Iansa, Mae Virgem (1:53)
Ichiko Aoba - 卯月の朧唄 (1:27)
Kanye West - Who will survive in America (1:38)
Solid Space - Afghan Dance (1:43)
The Magnetic Fields - Absolutely Cuckoo (1:35)
The Magnetic Fields - Wi' nae wee bairn ye'll me bege (1:59)
Elizete Cardoso - Luciana (1:38)
Andrew Rowan Summers - Searching for Lambs (1:47)
Brigitte Fontaine and Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tanka 1 (1:46)
The Dovers - She's not just anybody (1:52)
White Lung - Thick Lip (1:48)
Sudan Archives - Time (1:39)
Bob Andy - My Time (1:58)
Marvin Gaye - God is Love (1:42)
Tyva Kyzy - Ayak Shaiym - My Bowl of Tea (1:55)
Philemon Arthur and the Dung - Jag vill va i fred (1:44)
The Microphones - The Gleam Pt. 2 (1:58)

Let's bring the Of Montreal and Cardiacs totals to 3, because every artist should have 3 songs in this thing. Total. 3 songs total.

Of Montreal - Touched Something's Hollow (1:26)
Cardiacs - Goosegash (1:56)

Sorry, that's the fourth Cardiacs nomination! Whoops! SORRY EVERYONE

Are y’all only nominating tracks you’re definitely going to vote for? These results are going to be all over the map.

Except for “Dicks Hate the Police” which will emerge as the clear front runner obv

I nominated tracks I like, but I'm ready to be wowed by other people's noms and work a bunch of them into my ballot. I doubt I'll vote for everything I nominated.

The variety has been one of the main pleasures when looking for those songs, I'm glad if we a have a variety of structure and tone: energetic songs, little laments, interludes, traditional songs. In such a context, many genres can shine, including vocal jazz or Bulgarian village songs.
I won't list all my nominates, but most.

Low - Sea (1:49)
The Shaggs - Things I Wonder (1:50)
Undertones - Emergency Cases (1:53)
Undertones - Male Model (1:59)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Love Comes In Spurts (1:59)

hey karl malone, i'm nominating the original version of Richard Hell & the Voidoids' 'Love Comes In Spurts', which is 1:59: https://www.discogs.com/Richard-Hell-The-Voidoids-Blank-Generation/release/916481

mommy! mommy! mommy!

i didn't mean to establish that exact template for letting me know of the original track length, but it does help to catch my attention lol!

i'm looking forward to the voting/persuasion thread. there are a ton of wonderful new songs i've found already, and i'm only halfway through

I've been working on a new song (1:59, of course), "Hey, Karl Malone."

friendly reminder in all caps bold:

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

Karl as per your process please note that the version of The Misfits' "Mommy Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight" that I nominated is the live version from the Walk Among Us album as per this Discogs entry:

https://www.discogs.com/Misfits-Walk-Among-Us/release/4194436

1:59 in that listing, but if Spotify says the same one is 2:00 I can nominate something else :)

There's a studio version that's the B-side of "Die Die My Darling" that might be the 2:00 one, no times on that.

noted! thanks!

Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Hausen (1:47)
Leo Kottke - Stealing (1:42)
Maher Shalal Baz - Open Field (1:24)
Martin Kolbe, Ralf Illenberger - Opening (1:24)
Massive Attack - The Academy (1:45)
Max Richter - Written on the Sky (1:48)
Meat Puppets - Magic Toy Missing (1:22)
Miles Davis - Mystery (Reprise) (1:28)
The Montgolfier Brothers - Pro-Celebrity Standing Around (1:45)

The Names - Music for Someone (1:57)
Nick Drake - Brittle Days III (Variation) (1:47)
Ougenweide - Rumet uz die Schäemel und die Stüele (1:56)
Pavement - Internal K-Dart (1:51)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Zopf: From the Colonies (1:38)

R.E.M. - Walter's Theme (1:31)
R.E.M. - Windout (1:59)
Ramones - Let's Dance (1:52)
Ramones - I Don't Care (1:39)
Robert Wyatt - The Whole Point of No Return (1:26)

As we're up to the Rs,

Rudimentary Peni - Sonia (1:14)

Sonic Youth - Moustache Riders (1:08)
Tindersticks - Sweet, Sweet Man Pt. 2 (1:06)
Tord Gustavsen Trio - Song of Yearning (Solo) (1:59)
Young Marble Giants - The Clock (1:39)
Young Marble Giants - Radio Silents (1:53)

I think that is it from my side...

Spoon - Dismember (1:45)
Spoon - Idiot Driver (1:39)
Spoon - Wanted to Be Your (1:52)
Spoon - Theme to Wendel Stivers (1:58)
Spoon - Primary (1:10)
Spoon - Utilitarian (1:51)
Spoon - Car Radio (1:30)
Spoon - Chloroform (1:10)
Spoon - Staring at the Board (0:54)
Spoon - No You're Not (1:43)

― nate woolls, Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:49 PM (five days ago)

hi nate, can you please narrow this down to 3?

Blur - Bank Holiday (1:42)
Blur - Chinese Bombs (1:24)
Blur - We've Got a File on You (1:03)
Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic (1:50)
Super Furry Animals - Chupacabras (1:24)
Super Furry Animals - Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir (1:54)
Super Furry Animals - Do or Die (1:59)
Super Furry Animals - Drygioni (1:23)
Super Furry Animals - The Gateway Song (0:43)
The Jam - In the Street Today (1:31)
The Jam - All Mod Cons (1:20)
The Jam - But I'm Different Now (1:52)
Green Day - In the End (1:46)
Green Day - Brat (1:43)
Green Day - Take Back (1:09)
Nirvana - Downer (1:43)
Nirvana - Been a Son (1:55)
Nirvana - Molly's Lips (1:54)
Nirvana - (New Wave) Polly (1:48)
Nirvana - Mexican Seafood (1:55)
Nirvana - Very Ape (1:56)
Nirvana - tourette's (1:35)

― Le Baton Rose (Turrican),

hi Turrican, you can narrow down SFA and Nirvana to three songs each?

I'd prefer Super Furry Animals - Drygioni (1:23) to survive the cull, so I shall nominate it myself pre-emptively

just entered in the 1000th song. i'm this far down the scrollbar for the thread.

https://i.imgur.com/uL3hp0Q.png

but i think there's relatively more conversation/less nominations on the latter half of the thread. so i'm thinking we'll end up with around 1500 noms or so, give or take.

the playlist is only at 628 right now, but that's because the person that legally agreed to share her money with me has been using our spotify account all day as she works on a paper. i'll make sure it's updated soon

Cowboy Junkies - Mining for Gold (1:31)
Francoise Hardy - Till the Morning Comes (1:33)
Low - Your Poison (1:14)
Dead Milkmen - Tiny Town (1:45)
Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste of Cindy (1:45)
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Ingrid Berman (1:51)
Uncle Tupelo - Atomic Power (1:52)
The Chiffons - He's So Fine (1:53)
Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey (1:56)
Elvis Presley - That's All Right (Mama) (1:58)
Alison Krauss - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby (1:58)
The Clientele - 6 AM Morningside (1:52)

I nominated five Neil Young songs. If you haven't taken any out already, make sure that "Till the Morning Comes" and "Cripple Creek Ferry" stay; take out whichever two of "There Goes My Babe," "Love in Mind," and "Bad Fog of Loneliness" that you want.

Serendipity--great Francoise Hardy version of "Till the Morning Comes."

i wish i would have kept track of how many different people had submitted nominations. it might be a decent indicator of how many people we can expect to vote, at minimum

GFOTY - Lover (1:42)

I know this is jumping the gun, but can we have some flexibility when it comes to points? Ranking 50 songs is kind of meaningless for me. I was thinking of something like this:

1) a top 10 ranked
2) the next 15 split the #11-25 points equally
3) the other 25 split the #26-50 points equally

I'm good at math, I can make that work.

some that are missing

Blonde Redhead - Girl Boy (1:49)
Buddy Holly - Slippin' And Slidin' - Fast Version (1:27)
The Clovers - Love Potion Number 9 (1:52)
Elvis Presley - Crawfish (1:48)
Los Locos del Ritmo - Pólvora (1:56)
Moondog - All Is Loneliness (1:38)
Pierre Schaeffer - Erotica (1:19)
Ronnie Dawson - Rockin' Bones (1:58)
The Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle (1:56)
Tenorio Jr. - Nebulosa (1:53)
The Lumineers - Flowers in your Hair (1:51)
Vashti Bunyan - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants (1:51)

Can't believe 'Killer in the Park' by Leoncie is 2:12, gah. And a lot of the other things I've thought of are over, too.

But thanks for nomming 'Bad Motorcycle', Moka, that will be way up there for me!

Tenacious D - Explosivo (1:55)

xpost yep, tiers/mixed ballots are fine with me. although hopefully most people will just submit ranked or unranked ballots, because if everyone does a unique scheme it will make life more complicated for me.
i'm not sure about how many points to distribute per ballot yet, but i'll provide details in the first post of the voting thread.

hey emil.y, i sent you some ilxmail earlier, hopefully you got it?

Clipping - The Breach (0:56)

Aha, I hadn't checked my email over the weekend, but yes - got it, thanks!

xp

My last two:

The Futureheads - Le Garage (1.45)
The Futureheads - Stupid and Shallow (1.35)

Andrew W.K. - Into The Clear (1:33)