Best Ever Albums

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 08:29:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/16/2022 12:29

The template :
The Beatles: From Me to You

Personnal favourites (not instrumentals):
Supergrass : Time to Go
Big Star : I'm in Love with a Girl
The Mabuses : Diego N°2
The Divine Comedy: Geronimo
Liz Phair : Glory
The Byrds : Renaissance Fair

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

indieshins — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 21:10:01 GMT

Author: indieshins

Posted: 07/16/2022 01:10

Breaking Glass by Bowie - off of Low. One of my favourites on one of my favourite Bowie albums.

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

SD100852 — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 20:56:05 GMT

Author: SD100852

Posted: 07/16/2022 00:56

Beatles- Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, I Will
Janis Joplin- Mercedes Benz
Elvis- That's All Right

That's all I can think off the top of my head right now

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 03:35:09 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 07/15/2022 07:35

Another great Beatles one is She came in through the bathroom Window (1:57).

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

DommeDamian — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:20:52 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 07/14/2022 21:20

Alot of classic tunes under 2 minutes. Most commonly favorite of mine is from XXXTentacion. Here are some of them:
Love Yourself (0:48 )
Options (1:14)
Let's Pretend We're Numb (1:20)
Schizophrenia (1:20)
Dead Inside (1:26)
I Won't Fall (1:30)
Very Rare Forever Freestyle (1:33)
Everybody Dies In Their Nightmares (1:35)
you're thinking to much, stop it (1:37)
Before I Close My Eyes (1:40)
Ayala (1:41)
Yung Bratz (1:42)
Freddy VS Jason Feat. Ski Mask (1:44)
Alone Part 3 (1:49)
King (1:53)
Jocelyn Flores (1:58 )

Other ones include:
The Who - Miracle Cure (0:12), Do You Think It's Alright (0:24), It's A Boy (0:39), Tommy Can You Hear Me (1:36), Smash The Mirror (1:35)
The entirety of Downsided by No Comment beside the last song.
World Peace - In God We Trust (0:17)
Daniel Johnston: I Picture Myself With A Guitar (0:45), I Am A Baby (1:37), Nervous Love (0:18 ), I'll Never Marry (0:21), Get Yourself Together (0:33), Running Water (1:32), Joy Without Pleasure (1:54)
Frank Ocean - Fertilizer (0:45)
Beastie Boys - 5 Piece Chicken Dinner (0:23)
Beatles - Her Majesty (0:23), Golden Slumbers (1:32), I Will (1:46), Misery (1:49), Its Only Love (1:57)
The Fallen Angels - Tell You A Story (0:36)
The majority of Double Nickels On The Dime by Minutemen
Paul McCartney - The Lovely Linda (0:44), Junk (1:57)
Husker Du - Never Talking To You Again (1:41), Dreams Reoccuring (1:40), Pride (1:47),
Morphine - Lisa (0:51)
Half of Madvillainy by Madvillain
James Taylor - Isn't It Nice To Be Home Again (0:54), Oh Baby Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me (1:50)
Blackstreet - Hey Love (1:12)
My Bloody Valentine - Touched (0:57)
Alexander Skip Spence - Doodle (1:01)
Ghostface Killah - Saturday Nite (1:39), Stay True (1:39), Stroke of Death Feat. RZA (1:56)
Half of Democrazy by Damon Albarn
Andrew Bird - /=/ (1:06)
The Ladies - Empathy On A Stick (1:10)
The Beach Boys - Whistle In (1:09), Our Prayer (1:10), Mama Says (1:10)
Blur - Chinese Bombs (1:25), Bank Holiday (1:42), Far Out (1:38 ), Lot 105 (1:19)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Communist Daughter (1:57)
Kanye West - Graduation Day (1:22)
Nick Drake - Horn (1:24), Harvest Breed (1:37)
Pixies - Tame (1:56), Crackity Jones (1:24), There Goes My Gun (1:50), Something Against You (1:52)
Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing 1/2 (1:28 )
The vast majority of Nails discography, prinicipally their album
Abandon All Life
Captain Beefheart - Telephone (1:32), Frownland (1:41), Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back (1:53), Bills Corpse (1:49), Dali's Car (1:27)
Yo La Tengo - Return To Hot Chicken (1:39)
Moby - Down Slow (1:35)
NIN - Big Man With A Gun (1:36)
Gorillaz - Punk (1:38 )
Genesis - Horizons (1:41)
Van Halen - Eruption (1:42)
Cop Shoot Cop - Smash Retro (1:42)
Jack White - Abulia And Akrasia (1:29), Ezmerelda Steals The Show (1:43)
Bladee - DNA Rain (1:47)
Donovan - Oh Gosh (1:46), Lay of The Last Think (1:49), Circles of Sour (1:49), Under The Greenwood Tree (1:56), The Magpie (1:30)
Willie Nelson - Heaven And Hell (1:54)
The Byrds - Old John Robertson (1:49), Time Between (1:57)
First of October - Coffee! Yeah! (1:47), October 1 (1:14)
White Stripes - You're Pretty Good Lookin (1:50)
Red House Painters - Brown Eyes (1:50)
Syd Barrett - I Never Lied To You (1:52), Effervescing Elephant (1:53)
The Replacements - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out (1:54), Careless (1:09), Customer (1:30), Rattlesnake (1:47), I Hate Music (1:52), Somethin To Dü (1:42), Shutup (1:23)
Lenny Kravitz - Butterfly (1:51)
Sebadoh - Temptation Tide (1:52)
Quasimoto - Put A Curse On You (1:47), The Blitz (1:16)
Nirvana - Very Ape (1:56)
AJJ - The Michael Jordan of Drunk Driving (0:22), Gift of The Magi 2 (1:57), Skate Park (1:46)
John Martyn - The Glory of Love (1:58 )

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

JOSweetHeart — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:31:51 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 07/14/2022 12:31

Go here and start with the #7 track and then go into the next one. A minute and forty-six seconds that only makes me smile especially when my newest favorite person has the first and last singing solo of track #8. 😄 😄 😄

God bless you always!!!

Holly (a girl who will forever love the late beautiful precious masterpiece of a gentleman)

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

wizardalien — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:35:31 GMT

Author: wizardalien

Posted: 07/14/2022 11:35

MadhattanJack wrote:

Two minutes is too much time — there are punk fans on this forum for whom half their music library probably consists of songs that are under 2 minutes. My own has 2,148 such tracks, and I was never really that much of a punk fan. (Okay, maybe for a year or two...) Besides, "Fitter Happier" from OK Computer is 1:57, so everybody's just going to pick that, right?

Still, here's my Top Thirteen (and note that none of these are just instrumental "sketches" used to segue from one longer track to another):

Minor Threat, "Straight Edge" (0:45)
Paul & Linda McCartney, "Ram On" (0:56)
The Replacements, "Run It" (1:11)
Field Mouse, "Meaning" (1:25)
Lilac Time, "Honest to God" (1:29)
Ramones, "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" (1:43)
Wire, "Outdoor Miner" (1:44)
Elvis Costello, "Hoover Factory" (1:46)
The Suburbs, "Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling" (1:51)
Pixies, "Rock Music" (1:52)
Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians, "Insect Mother" (1:53)
Beach Boys, "Child is the Father of the Man" (1:57)
Original Mirrors, "Heart-twango & Raw-beat" (1:58)

So if you made the thread about songs that were under one minute, I'd say that would be a legitimate challenge. (Roughly half of the Minor Threat catalogue would still qualify, though.)

Ah okay, I'm usually not a fan of short songs, to me anything less than 1 minute I don't really consider a song. More an interlude. As I'm not sure you have enough time to really have the buildup to different sections of a song. So to me finding good songs less than 2 minutes is a challenge!

I also missed another obvious one that is one of my favourites - Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens. Would probably put that second behind Golden Slumbers.

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

Hyggevinyl — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 04:14:08 GMT

Author: Hyggevinyl

Posted: 07/14/2022 08:14

Accordion on Madvillainy 😄

Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

Rhyner — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:06:10 GMT

Author: Rhyner

Posted: 07/14/2022 00:06

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Re: Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

MadhattanJack — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:07:19 GMT

Author: MadhattanJack

Posted: 07/13/2022 22:07

Two minutes is too much time — there are punk fans on this forum for whom half their music library probably consists of songs that are under 2 minutes. My own has 2,148 such tracks, and I was never really that much of a punk fan. (Okay, maybe for a year or two...) Besides, "Fitter Happier" from OK Computer is 1:57, so everybody's just going to pick that, right?

Still, here's my Top Thirteen (and note that none of these are just instrumental "sketches" used to segue from one longer track to another):

Minor Threat, "Straight Edge" (0:45)
Paul & Linda McCartney, "Ram On" (0:56)
The Replacements, "Run It" (1:11)
Field Mouse, "Meaning" (1:25)
Lilac Time, "Honest to God" (1:29)
Ramones, "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" (1:43)
Wire, "Outdoor Miner" (1:44)
Elvis Costello, "Hoover Factory" (1:46)
The Suburbs, "Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling" (1:51)
Pixies, "Rock Music" (1:52)
Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians, "Insect Mother" (1:53)
Beach Boys, "Child is the Father of the Man" (1:57)
Original Mirrors, "Heart-twango & Raw-beat" (1:58)

So if you made the thread about songs that were under one minute, I'd say that would be a legitimate challenge. (Roughly half of the Minor Threat catalogue would still qualify, though.)

Best songs under 2 minutes in length?

wizardalien — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:28:55 GMT

Author: wizardalien

Posted: 07/13/2022 20:28

I think there are a couple of obvious candidates for this that many of you will suggest - Golden Slumbers by the Beatles and Please let me get what I want by The Smiths.

A few other personal favourites of mine, glancing at my itunes library:

Puncture Repair by Elbow
Norgaard by The Vaccines
Forget It by Rodriguez
Flying Dream 143 by Elbow

Anyone else got any others?