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

Is there a quick way to tell how many songs you've hearted in a playlist?

not really, but you can go to your 'songs' list and then sort by date added and grab all the recent ones and throw in a separate playlist

Works for me.

For the luvva... I just liked a POTUSA song. :(

Jeff Phelps - Excerpts From Autumn (1:41)
Aaliyah - Came To Give Love - Outro (1:41)
Dean Shostak - The Star Spangled Banner (1:45)
Jacques Lasry - Toccata (1:47)
The Focus Group - Petroleum Paisley (0:46)
Kraftwerk - Uranium (1:27)

The Chills - Don't Even Know Her Name (1:52)

These are mostly silly, but enjoyably so:

Vernon Elliott - Clangers Running Around The Planet! (0:19)
Jackson & His Computer Band - Promo (0:21)
Moloko - Dirty Monkey (0:23)
Euros Childs - Stella Is A Pygmy 3 (0:25)
Terence Trent D’Arby - Welcome To My Monasteryo (0:31)
Bobby Valentino - Some Bobby (0:35)
John Baker - Factors (0:38)
Supreme NTM - Sista B (0:40)
De La Soul - I Can Do Anything (Delacratic) (0:41)
David Cain - Radio Sheffield (0:42)
Plaid - Lat (0:46)
King Geedorah - The Final Hour (0:49)
Anal Cunt - Hitler Was A Sensitive Man (0:50)
Paramore - Interlude: I’m Not Angry Anymore (0:53)
New Kingdom - Half Asleep (0:54)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - I Am Consumed (0:55)
Bis - Public School Boy (1:00)
Etienne De Crecy - Apretime (1:00)
Terrance & Phillip - Uncle Fucka (1:06)
Paris - The Hate That Hate Made (1:10)
Yellow Magic Orchestra - アクロバット (Acrobat) (1:13)
Autechre - Melve (1:15)
Was (Not Was) - Dad I’m In Jail (1:26)
Eric Weissberg - Mountain Dew (1:26)
Paul Lynde, Marijane Maricle - Kids (1:30)
Aphex Twin - Beetles (1:31)
Tetine - I Go To The Doctor (1:33)
Mogwai - Radar Maker (1:36)
Edan - Key Bored (1:37)
Knifehandchop - Sun Jammer Is My Favourite Pokemon Trainer (1:39)
Marine Girls - Marine Girls (1:40)
Venetian Snares - 8AM Union Station (1:41)
Johnny & The Hurricanes - Rocking Goose (1:50)
Therapy? - Knives (1:57)

ok but voodoo.... why?

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Thursday, February 28, 2019 3:08 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We’ll get into it later, but I’m a sucker for Tunes

Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant (1.55)
Bessie Jones - Sometimes (0.57)
Woody Guthrie - All You Fascists (1.33)
David Lynch - Ghost Of Love (1.29)
Negativland - Car Bomb (1.55)
Paul Page and His Island-Aires - Castaway (1.35)
Jody Reynolds - Fire Of Love (1.52)
Skinny Puppy - Love (1.52)
XTC - New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage (1.53)
Benjamin Zephaniah - Independence (1.13)
Zounds - War (1.30)

We must also remember that there are a lot of great songs not on Spotify, and come the campaigning thread, this may be a priority for some

― imago

one of the reasons i've been so desultory on the noms is because i don't do spotify and thus am, in a practical sense, precluded from meaningfully participating in this particular poll

i don't do Spotify but do have a radio show so am often in need of songs to fill a short gap at the end of the show.

one of the reasons i've been so desultory on the noms is because i don't do spotify and thus am, in a practical sense, precluded from meaningfully participating in this particular poll

Can you elaborate

Just get the song length from wherever you listen to it online, or from your CD player. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t match up to the Spotify length. I’m just using Spotify as the decider when songs are really close to exactly 2 minutes, in an attempt to defuse other inevitable complaints about the process

Pretty Girls Make Graves - Mr. Club (0:48)

I only just saw this thread and I probably have loads of these but let's go with these:

4 Skins - Evil 1:47
7 Seconds - Skins, Brains And Guts 0:55
Action Pact! - Suicide Bag 1:54
Agent Orange (NL) - Lingerie 1:57
Agnostic Front - Society Suckers 1:10
Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias - Kill 1:34
Amy Linton & Stewart Anderson - The Lights Are Out 1:55
Angry Samoans - My Old Man's A Fatso 1:32
Anthrax (UK) - Got It All Wrong 1:53
Anti-System - Government Lies 1:51
Ashley Von Hurter & The Haters - You Really Shouldn't Have 1:43
B.G.K. - Police Crimes 1:41
Bad Posture - Time For Smack 1:57
Bags - We Will Bury You 1:55
Beatnik Filmstars - Skill 1:39
Bleach Boys - Stocking Clad Nazi Death Squad Bitches 1:58
Blitzkrieg Bop - Bugger Off 1:19
Box Elders - Hole In My Head 1:47
Bratmobile - Girl Germs 1:47
Celibate Rifles - Kent's Theme (They Don't Listen) 1:54
Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young 1:33
Cockney Rejects - Flares 'N' Slippers 1:36
Comes - Panic 1:46
Confuse - No Victor 1:56
Count Five - Revelation In Slow Motion 1:58
Criminal Class - Anti Social 1:43
Cross Stitched Eyes - Mourn For Life 1:40
D.I. - Hang Ten In East Berlin 1:53
Deep Freeze Mice - What More Can I Do 1:36
Detention - Dead Rock'n'Rollers 1:36
Dickies - You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla) 1:52
Dicks - Kill From The Heart 1:55
Dirt Shit - Exit 1:40
Discharge - You Take Part In Creating This System 1:18
Disclose - Destruction 1:41
Disrupters - Young Offender 1:38
Donnas - I Wanna Be A Unabomber 1:30
Doom - Multinationals 1:59
Drunks With Guns - Punched In The Head 1:54
Dwarves - Smack City 1:48
Ejected - Have You Got 10p 1:33
Endtables - Circumcision 1:56
Eratics - National Service 1:44
Exploited - Dead Cities 1:53
Fear - I Don't Care About You 1:50
Fizzbombs - You Worry Me 1:58
Free Loan Investments - Bomb The Bourgeoisie 1:51
Freestone - Bummer Bitch 1:36
Freeze - Broken Bones 1:31
Frumpies - She's A Real Cutie Pie 1:29

OK I've had enough now

sorry Deep Freeze Mice was already nommed

ABC - The Look Of Love, Part 4 (0:59)
Van Dyke Parks - Down Laurel Canyon (1:19)
Jean-Michel Jarre - L'hélicoptère (1:29)
Joanna Gruesome - Honestly Do Yr Worst (1:51)
dEUS - Opening Night (1:38)

one of the reasons i've been so desultory on the noms is because i don't do spotify and thus am, in a practical sense, precluded from meaningfully participating in this particular poll

Can you elaborate

― Karl Malone

looking up several thousand short songs individually on youtube to see if i like them vs. clicking on a spotify playlist

What would we do if Spotify didn’t exist? Having a convenient way for some people to listen to songs doesn’t decrease anyone else’s ability to participate.

CP do you mind just limiting your noms to things you might vote for on a 50-track ballot? Do you want to go through the rest of the alphabet and pick yr favorites or just stick with those?

I said this upthread, but there is no mandate to listen to every single possible song and come up with the perfect list. Just participate in a way that doesn’t make your life living hell. That goes for everyone else whose life has been ruined by this poll

"Smack City" is so fucking great

In at the buzzer!

Wilco - Another Man's Done Gone (1:36)
Múm - Behind Two Hills, A Swimming Pool (1:09)
Tom Waits - Bend Down the Branches (1:06)
Bruce Springsteen - Held Up Without a Gun (1:17)
Gnarls Barkley - Feng Shui (1:27)
R.E.M. - Underneath the Bunker (1:28)

thanks! but the buzzer isn't quite here, everyone has through the end of march 1st (friday)

Cat Stevens - Was Dog A Doughnut? (1:17)

i can't find a version of this that is less than 4 minutes, so cutting for it now

rush i paid spotify $10 just so i could hopefully hear most of everything here. you could do the same, no ? (genuinely curious to know if you have a specific objection)

alternately you could ilx email me and i could send you 30 c90s :)

side note: ppl don’t get upset when i post a non-TMBG alternate playlist in the campaign thread. p done with having my vibe severely harsh’d every ten songs

spottie i'm not sure which song this is on the album - the sub-2 minute ones i can see are 'intro', '112/faith evans interlude', and 'thank you interlude', but none of those are near 1:58. removing for now but just let me know if i'm off

xp i just don't get the spotify objection at all, tbh

the poll could be 'best songs of the 1990s', and the possible nominees would be too large to count. and that would be ok. people would just pick their favorite songs from the 1990s. (actually, i'm probably wrong - i'm sure everyone would complain)

or this poll could exist, in a world where spotify doesn't exist, and that would be ok. everyone would just seek out the songs however they did so before youtube/spotify, and vote based on what they knew. (actually, i'm probably wrong - i'm sure everyone would complain)

but instead, it's this poll, but i made the mistake of spending a bunch of extra time to make a spotify playlist, which makes life easier for some people. but i shouldn't have done that? because it now means that life is harder for others? what

just fucking blows to spend a ton of extra time trying to help people only to end up pissing others off

Karl many of us are greatly appreciating and grooving to the Spotify playlist!

km what on earth !!

nobody is pissed off afaict.

as i said, i actually joined spotify for a month so i could appreciate the effort you put into this tremendous playlist of small songs.

you have done and are doing a wonderful job running this poll.

if there are spotify refuseniks i don’t think it’s a personal attack on you, i get that stance and fwiw i think you’ve made a number of thoughtful posts articulating why it needn’t be necessary to interact with spotify to get the most out of the poll.

no complaints from me !

message boards

you didn’t make a mistake by making a spotify playlist, c’mon now

you're right, i'm just being...weird. sorry.

the lame real reason is that i have a drug test coming up and i just want it to be over so i can start smoking again instead of drinking too much. i'm happy when i smoke, i'm sulky when i drink. what, just don't do either? wtf, that's ridiculous. anyway, sorry again. rush, sorry to freak out on you. i spent this whole thread warning people to have fun and then i crapped all over it.

ok, jumping back into the list.

whats the most underepresented genre

so far

Hank Williams - Hey Good Lookin' (1:56)

love this song but the only sub-2 minute version i can find is a live performance on youtube. everything else is closer to 3

same with Willie Nelson's "hello walls", which is a bummer because that was going to be top 10 for me

spottie i'm not sure which song this is on the album - the sub-2 minute ones i can see are 'intro', '112/faith evans interlude', and 'thank you interlude', but none of those are near 1:58. removing for now but just let me know if i'm off

― Karl Malone, Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:18 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh shit, i was looking at the Q Mike Slim Daron album. thanks!

whats the most underepresented genre

― alomar lines, Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:49 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so far

― alomar lines, Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:49 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would imagine its r&b or even pop

i've only got 1150 entered so far, but in case anyone is curious:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VWy_tN0EBkQRieqebbWX9mzFacs7bjwdTzltCpLW_uE/edit?usp=sharing

it’s probably zydeco tbh

fwiw i don't use spotify & have nommed a buncha stuff that's unlikely to be on there but GO SPOTIFY! yay playlists! this poll is a can of worms & thank you karl malone for taking the mantle head on.

despite my whining, it's really not too big of a deal.

i'm done for tonight. vital stats so far: 1186 songs entered, 1000 of which are on spotify. average length of about 1:35

i don't want to single out any single posters over others, but certain stretches of the playlist are very satisfying. ok, i'll single out one: i love tuomas' stretch, much of which i hadn't heard before. but there have been many others that really hit the spot. i'm excited to see how it all shakes out at the end, but even just this big nominations list is a pleasure to listen to imo. thanks everyone so far for contributing

Even As We Speak - Getting Faster (1:32)

Also absolutely loving the Spotify playlist, Karl, and signed up just to listen everyday on my commute. There’s a beer with your name on it.

Some more to add to the mix:-

Big Star - Morpha Too (1:28)
Max Richter - Written On The Sky (1:40)
Elvis Costello - Mystery Dance (1:36)
Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes (1:59)
Elvis Presley - Surrender (1:52)
Elvis Presley - I Got Stung (1:49)
Elvis Presley - Working On The Building (1:53)
Elvis Presley - Bosom Of Abraham (1:37)
Elvis Presley - (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) [Ed Sullivan Show] (1:37)
The Clovers - Love Potion no.9 (1:52)
The Cleftones - Heart And Soul (1:54)
Buddy Holly - Ready Teddy (1:31)
Randy and The Rainbows - Denise (1:58)
DEVO - Timing X (1:12)
Super Furry Animals - Do Or Die (1:59)
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man (1:53)
Rockpile - Now and Always (1:55)
Manchester Orchestra - The Sunshine (1:57)
Eddie Cochran - Weekend (1:53)
Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock (1:45)

sorry, forgot these:

fIREHOSE - Under The Influence Of Meat Puppets (1:58)
fIREHOSE - It Matters (1:37)
fIREHOSE - Relatin' Dudes To Jazz (1:38)
Nick Drake - Horn (1:21)

Anneli Drecker - Rocks & Straws (1:53)
Arckanum - Þyster (1:34)
Asphyx - Incoming Death (1:56)
Atrium Carceri - Quarantine (1:59)
Autopsy - Lobotomized (0:51)
The Avalanches - Diners Only (1:44)
Barbatos - I Love To Eat Pussy (1:38)
Billie Holiday - Lover Come Back To Me (1:49)
Biosphere - Mestigoth (1:43)
Burial - UK (1:44)
Carcass - Excreted Alive (1:20)
Coil - An Emergency (1:18)
The Caretaker - I Feel as If I Might Be Vanishing (1:56)
Cro-Mags - Hard Times (1:40)
Current 93 - The Inmost Light (1:46)
Current 93 - Anyway, People Die (1:47)
D.R.I. - I'd Rather Be Sleeping (1:07)
D.R.I. - Couch Slouch (1:16)
Dead Can Dance - Tristan (1:49)
Dead Kennedys - Dog Bite (1:14)
Diamanda Galas - The Lord Is My Shepherd (1:31)
Dismember - Soon To Be Dead (1:57)
Ennio Morricone - Death Rattle (1:45)
The Exploited - I Believe In Anarchy (1:49)
Franz Falckenhaus - Escape From KGB Agents in the Old Town (1:42)

Front 242 - Angst (1:57)
The Future Sound Of London - Bird Wings (1:30)
Gehennah - Tough Guys Don't Look Good (1:50)
Global Communication - 0:54 (0:54)
Goatpenis - M110 Howitzer (1:04)
Ildjarn - The Blade Flares In Red Light (1:16)
Impaled Nazarene - Chaosgoat Law (1:49)
Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz (1:48)
Jean-Michel Blais - Forteresse (1:56)
Julie London - No Moon At All (1:53)

Piero Umiliani - Mah Na' Mah Na' (1:46) (the original album version not the Muppets one)