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

i guess i'll let some other people get songs in now lol

The Byrds - Time Between (1:54)

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer...somehow didn't expect them to show up!

I almost wrote in "Jeremy Bender" as well but figured it might stretch credibility too much

"Fugue" really is gorgeous - I still get chills every time I hear it. I wonder why the hell Emerson didn't write more pieces like that one.

For the side poll:

Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 (2:00)
Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife (2:00)

I made a CDR80 with this theme (all songs under 2:00) for US hardcore

(in order from 1978 to 1985):

Black Flag - Fix Me 0:54
Misfits - Spinal Remains 1:23
Middle Class - Out Of Vogue 0:58
Bad Brains - Black Dots 1:05
Urinals - I'm White and Middle Class 0:52
Germs - What We Do Is Secret 0:41
Black Flag - Revenge 0:57
Angry Samoans - Hot Cars 0:31
Bad Brains - Pay To Cum 1:29
Untouchables - Nic Fit 0:59
Misfits - Horror Hotel 1:24
Dead Kennedys - Your Emotions 1:20
The Fix - Vengeance 1:25
Necros - Caste System 0:50
Circle Jerks - Deny Everything 0:23
Teen Idles - Teen Idles 0:44
Minutemen - The Maze 0:38
Dicks - Fake Bands 1:25
S.O.A. - Lost In Space 0:41
Adolescents - Word Attack 1:05
Big Boys - Advice 1:05
Minor Threat - Filler 1:31
Black Flag - I've Heard It Before 1:38
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off 0:58
The Fix - Cos The Elite 1:18
Angry Samoans - Lights Out 0:51
Necros - IQ 32 0:23
Zero Boys - Vicious Circle 0:41
Husker Du - Guns In My School 0:55
Really Red - Pigboy 1:18
Kraut - Matinee 1:27
SSD - Typical 0:37
Poison Idea - Give It Up 0:31
Negative Approach - Lost Cause 0:37
Bad Brains - Attitude 1:19
Bored Youth - They Don't Have The Right 1:07
Void - Condensed Flesh 0:39
7 Seconds - Fuck Your Amerika 0:48
Black Flag - Police Story 1:30
Minor Threat - Out Of Step (With The World) 1:15
Angry Samoans - Gas Chamber 0:59
Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight? 1:39
Negative Approach - Sick Of Talk 0:28
Die Kreuzen - Fighting 1:00
Tar Babies - Confusion 0:37
Articles Of Faith - Street Fight 1:31
Husker Du - M.I.C. 1:05
Zero Boys - High Places 1:14
Bad Posture - GDMFSOB 1:30
Descendents - I'm Not A Punk 1:03
Big Boys - Apolitical 0:41
Really Red - Teenage Fuck Up 1:17
Poison Idea - Castration 0:34
SSD - Wasted Youth 0:30
Fear - Gimme Some Action 1:00
Jerry's Kids - Straight Jacket 0:23
MDC - The Only Good Cop... 0:57
Gang Green - Snob 0:25
Scream - Came Without Warning 1:45
MIA - New Left 0:43
The Freeze - This Is Boston, Not LA 0:34
Void - Think 1:48
Husker Du - Obnoxious 0:51
Poison Idea - Think Twice 0:41
Die Kreuzen - Don't Say Please 1:01
Zero Boys - Splish Splash 1:28
Fang - Landshark 1:12
Necros - Satisfy 0:44
Bad Brains - F.V.K. 0:59
D.R.I. - I Don't Need Society 1:14
Big Boys - Assault 0:56
Deep Wound - Sick Of Fun 0:46
Suicidal Tendencies - Memories Of Tomorrow 0:55
Misfits - Devilock 1:24
Siege - Starvation 0:44
Die Kreuzen - Hate Me 0:43
Naked Raygun - Stupid 1:08
Nip Drivers - New Meiji Takeover 1:08
D.R.I. - Bail Out 0:49
Minutemen - Ack Ack Ack 0:26

Big Star/ ST 100-6 (1:01)
Smiths/Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (1:54)
Minutemen/I Felt Like a Gringo (1:59)
Fleetwood Mac/That's Enough for Me (1:51)
Fugazi/Great Cop (1:53)
Misfits/Hybrid Moments (1:42)

Lotsa punk, lotsa "oldies," lotsa John Zorn and grindcore stuff.

Mountain Goats - Fall of the Star High School Running Back (1:49)
Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will (1:49)
Paul Evans - Happy Go Lucky Me (1:58)

I was going to nominate "April Come She Will," but I think that song just works for me in the context of The Graduate, where I love it.

fuck it, i'm doing it

John Williams - 20th Century Fox Fanfare (0:21)

it's composed by a guy named Alfred Newman, but the version they've used for the past decade or so was conducted by Williams

Wheat - Slow Fade (1:40)

X - I’m Coming Over (1:14)
The Bongos - Question Ball (1:36)
Camper van Beethoven - Wasted (1:59)

Circle Jerks - Deny Everything 0:23

Why stop there?

I Just Want Some Skank 1:09
Beverly Hills 1:03
Operation 1:28
Back Against the Wall 1:32
Wasted 0:41
Behind the Door 1:23
World Up My Ass 1:14
Paid Vacation 1:27
Don't Care 0:35
Live Fast Die Young 1:33
What's Your Problem 0:57
Group Sex 1:02
Red Tape 0:56

Q: how do we feel about TV theme songs/soundtrack pieces?

A: imo we feel really good about them

on a related note, i am angry that somehow the batman theme is longer than 2 minutes

still the best lyrics ever

You know, I was thinking that too...hey speaking of the lyrics have you ever heard the theory that there ARE no lyrics ?? That the “Batman” is only implied by the horns? Once I read that, my whole understanding of the world was forever altered....

A: imo we feel really good about them

Hawaii-Five 0!

DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (1:57)
DJ Quik - Quik's Groove (1:49)
J Dilla - One For Ghost (1:20)

Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing 1 (1:24) and 2 (1:27)
Devendra Banhart - Rejoicing in the Hands (1:41)
Devendra Banhart - Dragonflies (1:00)
Beach Boys - Our Prayer (1:10)
GBV - Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory (1:45)
GBV - Hot Freaks (1:45)
Mose Allison - Young Man's Blues (1:24)

SIDE POLL
Searchers - Love Potion #9 (2:00)

Hawaii-Five 0!

got there first! :D well actually someone in one of the previous short songs threads got there first and i just reposted it upthread, but yeah, it's a classic

Gil-Scott Heron - Whitey On The Moon (1:29)
Digable Planets - Highing Fly (1:23)

The Raincoats - No Side to Fall In (1:50)
The Raincoats - Adventures Close to Home (1:54)
Red Krayola - Dirth of Tilth (1:26)
The Byrds - Renaissance Fair (1:51)

stop that train - beastie boys (1:59)
only in 3s - the breeders (1:57)
new year - the breeders (1:56)

Michael Giacchino - Main Title - From "Lost" (0:17)

john lennon - hold on (1:52)
paul mccartney and wings - single pigeon (1:53)

unsolved mysteries intro/theme (1:10)

karl ty and allow me to reformat and add some glad yr doin this

Beastie Boys - Stop That Train (1:59)
The Breeders - Only in 3s (1:57)
The Breeders - New Year (1:56)
The Microphones - The Universe Is Shown (1:57)
The Mountain Goats - The Car Song (1:56)

Beastie Boys - Flute Loop (1:55)

Rihanna - James Joint (1:12)
Minutemen - Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing (1:31)
System Of A Down - Shimmy (1:51)
Ultramagnetic MCs - Traveling At The Speed Of Thought (Remix) (1:51)
Beastie Boys - Funky Boss (1:35)
King Missile - Martin Scorsese (1:57)
The Lemonheads - Alison's Starting To Happen (1:58)
Sebadoh - License to Confuse (1:46)
Dinosaur Jr - I Live For That Look (1:56) (Does this count?)
Deluxx Folk Implosion - Daddy Never Understood (1:18)
Alex G - Harvey (1:40)
Tony Molina - Don't Come Back (1:32)
Surface To Air Missive - Surfacing (1:44)
Floor - Madonna (1:33)

Damn, I'm psyched for the poll of songs that are exactly 4 minutes and 30 seconds.

Guided By Voices - A Salty Salute (1:29)

Folk Implosion - Blossom (1:00)
Folk Implosion - Sputnik's Down (1:16)
Folk Implosion - Slap Me (1:44)
Folk Implosion - Take a Look Inside (1:16)

Herman's Hermits - I'm Henry VIII, I Am (1:50)
PIKOTARO - PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) (0:44)
The Presidents of the United States of America - Toob Amplifier (1:22)

Gary Young - Plantman (1:58)

^^^
this better win

The Microphones - Sand (1:53)
Wire - Another the Letter (1:08)
Crass - Do They Owe Us A Living? (1:24)

Solange - Rise (1:42)
The Shins - The Celibate Life (1:51)
Guided by Voices - Queen of Cans and Jars (1:55)

Finally turning to my personal music storage:

Air Miami - Neely (1:56)
Ariana Grande - Pete Davidson (1:14)
Chiffons - He's So Fine (1:54)
Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park (1:54)
Neil Michael Hagerty - Rockslide (1:57)
Sebahoh - Temporary Dream (1:23) *and so many other Sebadoh songs, I didn't bother listing them
Pavement - Zurich Is Stained (1:41)
Prince - Sister (1:32)
Royal Trux - Sometimes (1:33)
Run On - Xmas Trip (1:57)
Unrest - Can't Sit Still (1:43)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Tick

The Beach Boys - This Whole World (1:56)

(xp) sorry: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Tick" (1:49)

Shangri-Las - Hate to Say I Told You So (1:36)

The Go! Team - Feelgood by Numbers (1:58)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter (1:57)
The 1975 - Anobrain (1:54)
Guided by Voices - Hardcore UFO's (1:54)
The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences (1:52)
Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists (1:49)
Red House Painters - Brown Eyes (1:48)
Wednesday Campanella - Twiggy (1:47)
Shiina Ringo - Stoicism - (1:46)
Modest Mouse - Wild Packs of Family Dogs (1:46)
the Microphones - Karl Blau (1:43)
The Magnetic Fields - In My Secret Place (1:41)
Bjork - Frosti (1:41)
Midlake - You Never Arrived (1:40)
Smashing Pumpkins - Sweet Sweet (1:39)
Jens Lekman - At the Dept. of Forgotten Songs (1:33)
Mitski - A Loving Feeling (1:33)

Liz Phair - Girls Room (1:47)

For the record, here are the cream of the crop of the Sebadoh songs (not already mentioned):

Moldy Bread (0:59)
God Told Me (1:10)
Wall of Doubt (1:28)
Soul Mate (1:34)
True Hardcore (1:37)
Ride the Darker Wave (1:42)
It's So Hard to Fall in Love (1:50)
Really Insane II (1:52)
Kath (1:53)
Junk Bonds (1:54)

Guided by Voices - Kicker of Elves (1:04)
The 1975 - The 1975 (s/t album) (1:20)
They Might Be Giants - Number Three (1:28)
Bjork - Frosti (1:41)
Blur - Bank Holiday (1:42)
Belle & Sebastian - Simple Things (1:46)
System of a Down - Bounce (1:54)
Super Furry Animals - Do or Die (1:59)

Ha, I've done a few of these myself. And there are so many good ones out there, this is going to be tough. Going to try to keep to ones that are GOAT.

First thoughts:

Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO (1:44)
Slapp Happy - Some Questions About Hats (1:49)
Plastics - I Am Plastic (1:55)
The Clean - Beatnik (1:57)

Not sure which songs to nominate from Ken Nordine's Colours or the Miniatures album yet.

Ran out of time to cull this further pre-work - all great tracks though:

Zip Code Rapists - Good Ship Pablo Cruise (0:52)
of Montreal - Sink the Seine (1:04)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (1:18)
Pinegrove - Problems (ESF version) (1:20)
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie (NJC Version) (1:20)
Neutral Milk Hotel - A Baby For Pree (1:21)
John Parish, PJ Harvey - Girl (1:21)
Tera Melos - Kelly (1:22)
Vril - Supersonic Canteen (1:28)
John Martyn - Singin' In the Rain (1:29)
Jim O'Rourke - Happy Holidays (1:36)
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Self Esteem (1:37)
Shugo Tokumaru - The Mop (1:39)
Trust Fund - idk (1:38)
Eddie Vedder - Setting Forth (1:38)
Pinegrove - Angelina (ESF version) (1:41)
Cat Stevens - The Wind (1:42)
Neko Case - The Next Time You Say Forever (1:46)
Nels Cline, Julian Lage - Abstract (1:48)
Vashti Bunyan - Winter is Blue (1:50)
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Brooklyn Phone Call (1:51)
The Pastels, Tenniscoats - Yomigaeru (1:51)
Honeydrum - Stranger Calls (1:52)
PJ Harvey - The Sky Lit Up (1:53)
Teenage Fanclub - Slow Fade (1:54)
The Yummy Fur - Plastic Cowboy (1:55)
Paws - Narcissist (1:56)
The Replacements - Don't Ask Why (1:57)
The Velvet Satins - Nothing Can Compare To You (1:57)
Gloria Edwards - Lonely Girl (1:57)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Laughter (Victims) (1:57)
Old Time Relijun - This Kettle Contains The Heart (1:58)
Sleater Kinney - Slow Song (1:58)
PJ Harvey - Broken Harp (1:59)
Idlewild - Self Healer (1:59)

And my massive favourite that "I could have swore it was under two minutes" and narrowly misses out:

At 2:01, The National - Fashion Coat

Good job for those who nominated The Mountain Goats - DM, The Smith - PPLMGWIW, Joanna Newsom - OAGD, Pavement - ZIS which I had all scribbled down yesterday.

Disappointingly you've amassed ten zillion songs between you while I've been asleep! How impertinent

Anyway, quality over quantity - I was only going to nominate 3 for now but you've managed to get Mitski's 'My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars' already, so:

The Sea Nymphs - On The Dry Land (1:46)
Blanche Blanche Blanche - TED Talks (1:29)

Aphex Twin - I (1:17)
Beat Happening - Run Down the Stairs (1:55)
Best Coast - Crazy for You (1:50)
Boards of Canada - Bocuma (1:35)
The Breeders - Shocker in Gloomtown (1:17)
The Castaways - Liar Liar (1:50)
Daniel Johnston - You Put My Love Out the Door (1:53)
The dB's - Big Brown Eyes (1:59)
The Doors - Unhappy Girl (1:57)
Ghostface Killah - Stroke of Death (1:56)
Guided by Voices - My Son Cool (1:41)
Guided by Voices - Choking Tara (1:24)
Guided by Voices - Short on Posters (1:47)
Hüsker Dü - Every Everything (1:58)

brb getting myself sacked so i can go through the nominations lol

KM this is god's work, you beauty <3