♫ Best Songs Under 2 Minutes poll - VOTING and CAMPAIGNING (voting closes March 31st) ♫

Idk if you're allowed to campaign for your own nominations or if it's in bad taste but then again I am a vulgar, vulgar man, a real nouveau riche ilx type shithead, so I am gonna do it anyway and beg for your forgiveness later, MAYBE.

Brian Eno - The Microsoft Sound (0:06) - Just wanted to remind you all this is available to put on your ballot. IT'S REAL GOOD, Y'ALL!
Danny Elfman - The Simpsons Main Theme (1:39) - This too. It's fine? I don't even know if I'll vote for it, but it is iconic.
AFI - Hearts Frozen Solid, Thawed Once More by the Spring of Rage, Despair, and Hopelessness (0:32) - A real test of Poe's law here (or whatever the... not internet? equivalent? of poe's law? is?), I can't tell if this is just the most "angry pop punk" song ever or a send-up of the genre. Either way, 30 seconds of Davey Havoc screaming I WILL DIE SCREAMING is a joy, and this is probably the only AFI song I have ever liked. Plus, there has to be at least one representative from Fat Wreck's "short music for short people," an album of 100 thirty-second songs, right?
Project X - Straight Edge Revenge (1:20) - Yes, yes, you should vote for the Minor Threat song, blah blah blah, YAWN, but, like, this is the best update to the "short song about not doing drugs hardcore" microgenre ever. I'M AS STRAIGHT! AS THE LINE! THAT YOU SNORT UP YOUR NOSE! hahaha. Come on. vote for it
Mitski - Old Friend (1:53) - maybe my fave short song by my fave artist of the decade so you know i'll stan for it. with 50 spots i'm still worried i'll vote for her 5 times? but if someone said "one vote per artist" it's this. (or maybe my body's made of crushed little stars. shit. tough pick)

And some I didn't nominate, because, that's the CLASSY MOVE

Guayaba - Bye Bich --- daaaaaaaaamn one of the (very) few songs that I hit while shuffling the spotify and went WAIT WHAT? WHAT IS THIS. it is very good
Farrah Abraham - The Sunshine State --- NOBODY TOLD ME SHE IS A SECRET GENIUS? help this is amazing
Boards of Canada - .......all of it? ugh how am I supposed to pick from these?

If it helps you decide, I am going to be giving My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars a LOT of points

and yeah the Farrah Abraham thing is glorious haha

i'm planning on voting for crushed little stars too

KILL MEEE IN JERUUUSALEM

one per artist is only like a code of honour thing tho, right? bc like... yeah i'm not gonna LIE and pretend i don't love both of those songs

imo two is fine and three is a bit much but probably tolerable

My ballot has five Minutemen songs right now

Also, we should have let whoever nominate the whole Circle Jerks album because "World Up My Ass" is not on the list

yeah there's no limit, but i'm gonna limit myself to one artist per song so i can spread the wealth a bit and go a little bit less insane when choosing and ordering my ballot

vote for the songs you like best imo

There's 3 different versions of the theme to 'Stingray', will they be collated seperately or together? i.e. does it matter which version I vote for?

I’m not familiar with the theme (and at work so I can’t listen), but if they sound pretty similar I will collate is there are votes for separate versions

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Not sure if I'll vote for it, but definitely under consideration.

Vote for 'UFO' instead, Dan :)

Jesus, that was exhausting.
There was definitely something liberating about comparing the relative merits of C86 songs, hardcore, first-wave rock 'n roll classics, and incidental filler.
Anyway, ballot submitted.

Attention Trump conspiracy hysterics: I voted twice.

(Don't worry, KM--the second ballot catches one of the subcategories I missed on the first one. The rest is blank.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoFhiKaq9UQ

Campaigning for Canadian cuddlecore champions Cub...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBAWgU_JMz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3L6SPM6xYs

How ironic that a song called Martin Scorcese is brief

Every song: “What song is this?”
“Guided by Voices again”
“Put it on the list”.

I guess I didn’t realise they were actually quite good.

From my noms I obviously want to campaign for all of them but I’ll settle for 3 that I’d specially recommend:

Tenorio Jr - Nebulosa

This is from the early 60’s but actually sounds like it is some instrumental hip hop song by nujabes or someone of that ilk. Which is to say it sounds decades ahead of its time. Short piece but every musician in it is so good and the song has such an energetic pace it feels like it’s much longer.

Buddy Holly - Slippin n Slidin (fast version)

This stripped down version is not only my favorite version of the song, it might be my favorite Buddy Holly song. I love his voice in this unadorned state. The whole apartment tapes are really good and better than the overdubs they made with them imho.

Storey Sisters - Bad Motorcycle

Because it’s awesome and deserves a top 20 spot in this poll.

Don't know if I'll be able to submit a ballot, but wanted to drop in to say that this playlist is the best thing ever

I don't know who nommed Primal Scream - Velocity Girl, but to me, this song really sets a template here:
Beautiful pop song starts off with a perfect verse and a perfect chorus, and just as you're settling in to hear them repeated 2 or 3 more times and really luxuriate in the ascending melody and the chiming guitar, the song just ends.
It has a more palpable sense of leaving me wanting more than any other song I can think of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8KynrRA1u8

Disregarding the artists that are split between _x_ and _the_x_, it is still pretty strange that Karl didn't update the two bands named incorrectly or remove the last duplicate song, imo.

Some people move fast. They get things done. Some people move slow (e.g. patience makes perfection or a compulsive perfectionist). They don't always get things done but are great at obliterating tiny annoyances.

Also some people vote fast

I think you should cut Karl a bit of slack there, there's a lot of nominations (and I am somewhat to blame for that!) and running a poll this size is a lot of work as it is

yes

Good morning!

Oh wait

lol

Rare footage of Flopsy Duck and Karl Malone in a parking lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzX7BNJYSQ

lol

Anyone up for a nominations listening session on plug.dj/ILXORS?

If you like winsome, I have some winsome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6HF8N8_s4w

If you like your beautiful 60s tunes filtered from the vantage point of the 2000s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POK6yyHNIpU

If you like your Neil Young with winsome female vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vls0xGjorbQ

If you like your 60s straight up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRrys5XlRp0

I nominated this full band version of "Birds" from Neil Young's Archives box but it's not on the list. Maybe it got confused with the longer version from After the Gold Rush?
Neil Young - Birds (45 RPM Single) (1:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKN7JxBvuLM

'Time Between' is definitely going to be high up on my ballot (xpost).

May I recommend to all potential Aphex and Boards of Canada voters this piece of austere beauty from Autechre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWCkp_fDeg

Tenorio Jr - Nebulosa

This is from the early 60’s but actually sounds like it is some instrumental hip hop song by nujabes or someone of that ilk. Which is to say it sounds decades ahead of its time. Short piece but every musician in it is so good and the song has such an energetic pace it feels like it’s much longer.

Second this one. It's short but amazingly feels fully fleshed out with distinct sections.

The Pastels, Tenniscoats - Yomigaeru

I'm sure that most people have listened to this since it's near the beginning of the playlist, but it is so insanely charming.

file me under 'lots of points for Time Between' as well

Also, I bring you your near-daily reminder to vote for Duck

blasting this on repeat in the shower until pruney

xp i listened to that whole album based on the chatter about it. was not expecting a band sounding like an unpolished junior high school ensemble to hit me the way it did.

Glad that Maher Shalal Hash Baz are getting a lot of love here, will definitely be voting for 'Duck'.

I nominated a couple of Jun Togawa related things I'd like to rep for.

Jun Togawa - ある晴れた日: just over 30 seconds, a beautiful Japanese folk song.
Guernica - Bremen: avant-garde take on Brecht/Weill.

Damn I want to vote only one song per artist but Elvis towers above everything else so hard I can't choose only one for him.

every once in a while i'll hear a song on this list, wonder "hey is this (insert band here)", look and it isn't, and get mad at myself for not nominating (insert band here)

most recent one was hearing terror and getting mad i didn't nom american nightmare

feel like hip-hop's gonna need some help placing, so here are a few tracks that i'm strongly considering voting for

ghostface killah - beauty jackson - succinct and detailed ghostface story, and who else could've made any sense out of this beat? voting for this would let you to check the j dilla box too.
j dilla - one for ghost - speaking of whom. i think i've decided this is my favorite of the dilla traxx that we nominated, but i could be convinced if there's another one that people are rallying around.
danny brown - xxx - "Dark nights tryna sleep stomach on fire/Delusional from hunger so I couldn't get tired"; one of the bleakest songs ever put to tape
raekwon - pyrex vision - the chef x marley marl--the first five seasons of breaking bad or the first two hours of goodfellas packed into 55 seconds
digable planets - highing fly - single-handedly justifies the existence of the steve miller band
ultramagnetic mcs - traveling at the speed of thought (remix) - kool keith and ced-gee spin some body horror atop louie louie's riff and honky tonk women's drums.

the killer mike track nominated for this slays