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

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

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My last two:

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

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

The Mountain Goats - Going to Maine (1:43)
The Mountain Goats - Alpha Incipiens (1:36)

Beck - Hollow Log (1:54)

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 endorse this, if only because (like clemenza, and I suspect, many of us) ranking 50 songs is kind of a headache.

Bad phrasing there: I wasn't in any way suggesting that clemenza and many other ILXors were headaches.

yep, we'll definitely make it an option!

i’m not going to nominate john lennon’s “nutopian international anthem” (0:04), but if somebody does i will vote for it.

it’s like “ 4’33” ” but better and without all the boring waiting

Unwound - Lucky Acid (1:44)

Rudimentary Peni - The Evil Clergyman (1:52)
Rudimentary Peni - Zenophobia (1:52)
The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences (1:52)
Pete and the Pirates - she doesn’t belong to me (1:59)
James Plotkin/Atomsmasher - Zanzibar (1:51)

Elvis Presley - That's All Right (1:55)
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up (1:57)
Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear (1:47)

Jim Guthrie - Mr. Work Stubborn (1:45)
Jim Guthrie - Thousand Songs (2:00)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Torso Corso (1:48)
Nerves - When You Find Out (1:58)
Grifters - Piddlebach (1:57)
Family Fodder - Dazomo (1:49)

Habibi - I Got The Moves (1:45)
Josephine Foster - Amuse a Muse (1:57)
Aniello Maffettone - Vco 2 (1:28)

Lee Hazelwood - Love and Other Crimes (1:02)
Matt Elliott - A Beginning (1:28)
Oneohtrix Point Never - Lovergirls Precinct (1:36)
Smog - Wild Love (1:37)
Mayhem - Witching Hour (1:50)
Codeine - Summer Dresses (1:57)
Trembling Blue Stars - The Floating World (0:57)
Emiliana Torrini - Sea People (1:14)
Ariel Pink - The Birds They Sing In You (1:32)

Patrick Carney - BoJack Horseman Theme (0:53)
Limmy - Wrong Way Down A One Way Street (0:04) (approx)

Ice-T - Fried Chicken (1.00)

What are the most recent few Hot 100 chart or Top 40 rotation songs that qualify for this?

I don't think "Fell In Love With A Girl" charted on Hot 100 so probably before then?

Angry Samoans - My Old Man's a Fatso (1:32)
Angry Samoans - The Todd Killings (0:38)
Descendents - Hope (1:58)
Descendents - Weinerschnitzel (0:10)
Wire - 106 Beats That (1:12)
Germs - The Slave (1:01)
Germs - Richie Dagger's Crime (1:56)
Germs - Strange Notes (1:52)
Bad Brains - Sailin' On (1:55)

Evil Superstars - Love Happened (1:53)

Orbital - Quality Seconds (1:25)
Casino vs Japan - Moonlupe (1:26)
Drexciya - Running Out Of Space (1:55)

I narrowed my Angry Samoans' vote down to "Lights Out" or "Steak Knife"--voting for the first.

Suzanne Vega - When Heroes Go Down (1:57)
Saint Etienne - Half Timbered (1:20)
Low - One Special Gift (1:49)
Micachu & The Shapes - Floor (1:23)
Micachu & The Shapes - Never (1:38)
Grouper - The Races (0:50)
Priests - Puff (1:53)
Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again (1:33)
The Sugarcubes - Take Some Petrol Darling (1:29)

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

No problem:

Spoon - Utilitarian (1:51)
Spoon - Car Radio (1:30)
Spoon - No You're Not (1:43)

the eldorados - go little susie (1:52)

bo diddley - gunslinger (1:50)

As I'm seeing them later,

The Armed - Apperception (1:51)

As I'm seeing them on Friday:

No Age - My Life's Alright Without You (1:59)

Are nominations closed now?

BTW Karl Malone, the Joanna Wang song tt nominated IS on Spotify, albeit in Chinese. It's here if you want to add it to the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/track/2BCfrUVifsAAUmfWfu1f85?si=XrCzfXAIT82XyZF09pnPuw

nominations are closed!

*wolf howling in the distance*

imago, thank you! I'll add it to the playlist.

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION BURIED DEEP IN THE NOMINATIONS THREAD WHERE EVERYONE WILL DEFINITELY SEE IT

so, just to set the table for the upcoming voting/campaign thread:

1) i will aim to have all the nominations formatted, spotify playlisted, and google doc-ified by this Friday.

2) about how long do you all think the voting period should be? is 3 weeks long enough? i know there are a ton of songs (possibly literally a ton, if each song weighs a pound) to sift through. but i don't want to make the voting period so incredibly long that all momentum gets lost. i want to run this poll like a well-oiled machine on a tight ship that also allows frequent smoke breaks and pays everyone a living wage. wherever that sweet spot is, that's how long i'd like the voting period to last.

3) i want to get the points system ironed out so i can lay down the law in the opening post of the voting thread. this much i'm sure on: (up to) 50 vote ballots. ranked ballots are fine, unranked are fine. mixed/tier ballots are ok as long as the total points add up correctly.

does anyone have a points system for 50 ballot polls, or should i just make one up? (e.g., first place = 100 points, second place = 90, third = 82, fourth = 76...forty-ninth = 3, fiftieth = 2, etc)

4) side-ballot ideas?

there's the exactly 2 minute songs idea, but A) that's messy because of issues with what counts as a 2:00 song, and also, how many 2:00 songs are there? like...10? is that a fun thing to vote on? i could be persuaded.

top 5 songs under 30 seconds? i'm just riffing here

top 5 songs under 30 seconds?

I like this idea!

mixed/tier ballots are ok as long as the total points add up correctly

Once you've settled on your basic ranked ballot, I'd be happy to do the math and come up with two or three alternatives for anyone who wants to do a tiered ballot.

I've been away from this for a couple days. has there been a rule change so only a set number of songs per act are allowed? For example Wire, Minutemen etc. I hope not.

ah, that's a good question too - i meant to include that. A few people weighed in on that upthread. i think we settled on no limit on number of songs per act. personally i will think it is kind of lame to vote for 25 guided by voices songs, but if jay carney ilxors want to do that, they're free to do so. willing to hear arguments for or against it though, since the voting thread won't open for several more days.

you should be allowed to do it but be regarded as no good, just the worst, by your peers going forward

imago OTM, you can make a ballot of one artist but then you will be ILX-communicated.

I think I'm going to give myself a thoroughly reasonable two-songs-by-a-single-act limit on my ballot and encourage anyone who doesn't want to be in THE ILM DOGHOUSE to do similar

otm

the coint and plick analogy here is people who continued to vote for marvel puzzle quest year after year

"but imagine having to choose JUST TWO Minutemen songs!"

it's a challenge, I know. but I also know you can do it. if you really try.

i have to say, as a result of this poll my appreciation for guided by voices has increased quite a bit. the only GBV i ever owned was alien lanes, and i didn't really like it much as a teen. but now i really appreciate it - "as we go up, we go down" is kind of an amazing song, a top 10 for me for sure. i think part of it is that after listening to sooooo many short songs, the songs that are really tightly composed and "complete" just really stand out.

there are a few wire songs like that as well. "Another the Letter" is one. it has a full intro, a verse, an insane instrumental breakdown, a build-up to a finale - all in 1:08. it's fucking insane.

i should save my GBV praise for the campaign thread, but "I speak in monotone / Leave my fucking life alone" is a wonderful line

spoiler: Another The Letter will be my primary Wire choice, everyone vote for that one. here endeth my Wire campaigning

My vote is for a three track limit, but there should definitely be a limit, if not enforced then at least seriously encouraged

Why? We're all grown-ups here, no-one would vote for 50 GBV songs You're probably right.

FYI I'm gonna vote for as many Misfits songs as necessary

please continue the debate on limiting single-artist votes, but meanwhile that gives me an idea for a side poll:

Best Ever <2 Minute song artist

I love that side poll idea, also the under 30 seconds one. We need to honor the smallest masterpieces, cause I think the results will probably be dominated by songs that are 1:59