Greatest Short Releases by ForegroundNoise

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A love letter to those musical journeys that are cut intentionally short.

My criteria for 'short releases' is anything that runs under the half-hour mark, a distinction I justify over traditional album/EP differentiation in the following thread:

https://www.besteveralbums.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20954&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Since I spend most of my time listening to full length releases, this chart is (perhaps appropriately) extremely brief, so please feel free to recommend your favourite EPs/shorter albums before giving the chart a rating! I've extended the list to every short release I've given an 8/10+ on BEA. Others that aren't eligible as per BEA's album guidelines would include SPK - Mekano / Contakt / Slogun (1979), Yōran - Montparnasse (1981), Interpol - Interpol (2002) and Lil Ugly Mane - Uneven Compromise (2012).

Chart updated: 06/12/2023 08:45
(Created: 06/27/2019 22:03).
Chart size: 20 albums.

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Desertshore

Nico

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avant-folk • chamber folk

(Reprise, 29:44)

10/10

"You are beautiful and you are alone"
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Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

237 charts

Rank Score:

2,031

Rank in 1970:

Rank in 1970s:

196

Overall Rank:

896

Average Rating:

78 (273 votes)

Comments:

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Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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post-rock

(Kranky, 28:36)

9/10

"'Don't get loud?' I says 'I've got every right to get loud.'

I says, 'You can't do a god damn thing about it, because I'm expressing myself in your court, and there is nothing you can do about it.

You think you're god because you have a robe and you can put people up the goddamn river for 20 years? Well you're not.'

And I left it at that"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]

Year of Release:

1999

Appears in:

255 charts

Rank Score:

2,392

Rank in 1999:

Rank in 1990s:

135

Overall Rank:

760

Average Rating:

84 (406 votes)

Comments:

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Pink Moon

Nick Drake

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contemporary folk

(Island, 28:22)

9/10

"Which will you hope for?
Which can it be?
Which will you take, now
If you won't take me?"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,489 charts

Rank Score:

21,052

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abstract hip hop • experimental hip hop

(Tan Cressida, 24:39)

9/10

"Flashing through the pain, depression this is not a phase
Picking out his grave, couldn't help but feel out of place"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 08/05/2019]

Year of Release:

2018

Appears in:

282 charts

Rank Score:

2,214

Rank in 2018:

Rank in 2010s:

122

Overall Rank:

818

Average Rating:

78 (365 votes)

Comments:

5. (=)

Safe Mode: On

Blood Visions

Jay Reatard

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garage punk

(In The Red, 29:09)

9/10

"I won't stop
Until your dead
Because of voices in my head"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]

Year of Release:

2006

Appears in:

93 charts

Rank Score:

521

Rank in 2006:

Rank in 2000s:

498

Overall Rank:

2,926

Average Rating:

78 (99 votes)

Comments:

Jeromes Dream/Orchid

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emoviolence

(Witching Hour, 11:43)

9/10

"Your wife hates you
We're doing donuts on your lawn
It's hard to look good
All the time, isn't it?
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one

'This wine tastes so sweet'
Well, it tastes like turpentine to me
Tastes like turpentine
Turpentine
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one
Drag the bones out
Drag them, one by one"
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Year of Release:

2000

Appears in:

6 charts

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7. (6)

Dialoghi Del Presente

Luciano Cilio

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post-minimalism

(EMI, 29:47)

8/10
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

31 charts

Rank Score:

341

Rank in 1977:

Rank in 1970s:

722

Overall Rank:

4,160

Average Rating:

80 (40 votes)

Comments:

8. (7)

Demo?

The Brave Little Abacus

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emo • experimental rock

(n/a, 21:16)

8/10

"Don't you know, you're tearing me apart
Yeah, my insides with your antique brand of clumsiness
The halls, they reek of your scent
Oh, please crawl out
And tell me where have all your buffalo gone"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 08/19/2020]

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

3 charts

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9. (8)

Ferris Wheel On Fire

Neutral Milk Hotel

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indie folk

(NMH, 24:25)

8/10

"My dream girl don't exist
At the age of five she slit her wrist
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So her parents buried her in the ground"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 05/21/2021]

Year of Release:

2011

Appears in:

81 charts

Rank Score:

435

Rank in 2011:

Rank in 2010s:

600

Overall Rank:

3,413

Average Rating:

80 (132 votes)

Comments:

10. (9)

Zombie

Fela Kuti & Africa 70

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afrobeat

(Coconut, 25:21)

8/10

"Zombie no go go, unless you tell 'em to go (zombie)
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell 'em to stop (zombie)
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell 'em to turn (zombie)
Zombie no go think, unless you tell 'em to think (zombie)"
____________________________________________________________________________ [First added to this chart: 06/28/2019]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

267 charts

Rank Score:

1,813

Rank in 1977:

Rank in 1970s:

213

Overall Rank:

1,005

Average Rating:

81 (258 votes)

Comments:

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Greatest Short Releases composition

Decade	Albums	%

1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	0	0%
1970s	4	20%
1980s	1	5%
1990s	3	15%
2000s	6	30%
2010s	4	20%
2020s	2	10%

Artist	Albums	%

Mount Eerie With Julie Doiron & Fred Squire	1	5%
Luciano Cilio	1	5%
Animal Collective	1	5%
The Brave Little Abacus	1	5%
Slauson Malone	1	5%
Neutral Milk Hotel	1	5%
Mission Of Burma	1	5%
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Country	Albums	%

	13	65%
	1	5%
	1	5%
	1	5%
	1	5%
	1	5%
	1	5%
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Down 1 from 7th to 8th Demo? by The Brave Little Abacus
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ForegroundNoise 03/09/2021 13:03

@DommeDamian thank you will check it out!

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