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'On Your Own Again' - Scott Walker

― Jonathan Z., Friday, 28 November 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ramones to thread.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Wire and the Minutemen to thread!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai - "A70"
King Missile - "Cheesecake Truck"
Wire - "Three Girl Rhumba"
The Box Tops - "The Letter"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

susuma yokota - grey piano

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Gay Bar innit.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Blonde Redhead.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shadows - Wonderful Land

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Too Much Joy - "Train In Vain"

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Smashing Pumpkins - "Sweet Sweet"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

lots of stuff by half japanese, lots of stuff by the angry samoans

― duane, Friday, 28 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

& "stay" by maurice williams & the zodiacs

― duane, Friday, 28 November 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Minor Threat - I Don't Wanna Hear It
Pixies - Allison
X-Ray Spex - I'm a Cliche

― dieblucasdie, Friday, 28 November 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Minor Threat - I Don't Wanna Hear It

I forgot about that one.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 28 November 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Angry Samoans - "Lights Out"
Primal Scream - "Velocity Girl"
Minutemen - "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"
Lou Miami and the Kozmetix - "Get Off My Back" (legendary 80s Boston band)
The Slits - "Shoplifting"
The Clash - "What's My Name"
Vaselines - "Molly's Lips"
Dead Milkmen - "Tiny Town"
Raincoats - "No Side to Fall In"
Jerry Lee Lewis - "Lovin' Up a Storm" and "Great Balls of Fire"
Ramones - "Cretin Hop"
Wire - "12XU"
Descendents - "I Like Food"
Fizzy Bangers - "Short Attention Span" (8 seconds)

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 28 November 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Negative Approach, "Pressure" (two choruses, a verse and an outro; 8 seconds)

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 28 November 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Pixies - Tame (and loads of others)
McLusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
British Sea Power - Favours In The Beetroot Fields

― Chris Jones, Friday, 28 November 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Three Dog Night, "It's For You"

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 28 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Complete Works of Henry Cow" by Fred Frith --the entire output of his former band edited into a 60-second collage.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 28 November 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Replacements - "Beer for Breakfast"

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince -- "Sister"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

moby grape - naked if i want to

― phil turnbull (philT), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Wire - "Field Day for the Sundays"

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

SOD - Diamonds And Rust (Extended Version)

figured I'd see your minutes and raise you seconds.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 28 November 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe there's 24 posts without:

Andrew WK - It's Time to Party

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 28 November 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Basically every 80's hardcore/punk band worth their salt owns this thread.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty much any song by Agoraphobic Nosebleed, but I'll go with "Clown Pointing A Gun At A Small Dog (Reprise)."

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Early Beatles to thread.
Hardly anything worth mentioning from the late 60s or later though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement "Flux = Rad"

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 28 November 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

P.S.: Naked City

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Guided By Voices - "Teenage FBI"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

palatka 'where the teachers go to learn'
reversal of man 'butterflies'
jandek 'long way'
asshole parade 'face off'
hair police 'magic tool, a big hammer'
black flag 'wasted'

and almost anything by assfactor 4.

― ian j0hns0n, Friday, 28 November 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Deep Inside" by Fishbone

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Lonnie Donegan's "Cumberland Gap" owns this thread. I have an indulgent fondness for Adam Faith's "Poor Me" based purely on the way he pronounces "when", although I couldn't actually defend it as a song.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The Residents "Commercial Album" to thread.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Much of XbXrX's output

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, but Milo, the 3 minute version of "Teenage FBI" is so much better!

GBV co-own this thread. I mean, off the top of my head:

Game Of Pricks
A Salty Salute
Choking Tara
As We Go Up We Go Down
Shocker In Gloomtown
Hot Freaks
Buzzards And Dreadful Crows
Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Peephole
Non-Absorbing
Wondering Boy Poet
I Am Produced
Caught Waves Again

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The only other "Teenage FBI" I've heard is off the Buffy TV soundtrack, and it's nowhere near as good. Too produced.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer the longer version that you know from Buffy - I think the song seems more complete with the solo and the repeated chorus. It makes more sense to me that way.

Actually, my favorite version of the song is the live version which has the structure that I like, but without Ric Ocasek's overbearing production.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't the Magnetic Fields' "Reno Dakota" less than 2 minutes? if so, it belongs here (as do certain other MF songs I haven't heard in aeons, I suspect)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 28 November 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Reno Dakota" = 1:04

I just checked.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Fight and Cry Wolf by Scream.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 29 November 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater Kinney - "Little Mouth"

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Stay is the shortest #1 song evah. 1:37

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay Z - Friend Or Foe

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd "Bike"
Big Star "I'm In Love With A Girl"
Swell Maps "Read About Seymour"
Mekons "Never Been In a Riot"
Liliput "Split"
The Fall "Prole Art Threat"
The Feelies "Fa Ce-La"
The Smiths "Please, Please, Please..."

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd has a song under two minutes?!

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 29 November 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

White Stripes "Fell In Love With A Girl" - is the shortest hit single in recent years, by the way?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 29 November 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the White Stripes.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

XTC - "History of Rock and Roll"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Pink Floyd has a song under two minutes?!

I realise I may have cheated - "Bike" proper is 1:50 minutes, but the LP is capped off with a minute or so of clocks chiming!?!?!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

How short is "Mystery Dance" by Sir Elvis of Costello?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

1:35 according to the label on my LP.

― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 29 November 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur - "Song 2"
Alastair Galbraith - "Ivy Bound"
Mclusky - "Gareth Brown Says"
The Zombies - "The Way I Feel Inside"
The Streets - "Sharp Darts"

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"suck my ass it smells," gg allin

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Blonde Redhead.

What Blonde Redhead song?

Tonight I will go with "Little Bird," by the Beach Boys, at 1:58.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i think he meant the song "Blonde Redhead" by DNA.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah. Guess that explains the band name, then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, "Raining in Darling" Exquisite.

― Ben Dot (1977), Saturday, 29 November 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't likes them Whites Stripes neither too.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 30 November 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Vivian Stanshall: "The Cracks are Showing". See how all is so concisely and cuttingly said in just around 60-80 seconds...

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

omg That Man from various live elpes by The Fall. "That man loves a heathen / That man he loves you! #

― Mark Oh!, Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

SHuggie Otis - Happy House 1:16

― Debito (Debito), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

THE URINALS

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

how come no one from australia has mentioned Sneeze yet?

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

husker du, "never talking to you again"

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

sex clark five, "faith"

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Felt - Ferdinand Magellan
Scott Walker - Winter Night
Scott Walker - Butterfly
Half Man Half Biscuit - Mathematically Safe
Elvis Costello - Hoover Factory

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking A, Alex beating me to Fishbone ref! Also by the 'Bone: "Simon Says the Kingpin".

Also also: Operation Ivy "She's a Bombshell", "Caution"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ween "Hey There Fancypants"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Every Hemoraging Abcess song evar.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Down At The Pub" Lunachicks
"Love Is All Around" as done by Joan Jett

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

king tee - on tha rox
heatmiser - wake
boards of canada - olson
fuckit i'm putting shonen knife - public bath but it's 2:03

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Every song by the Locust.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm normally opposed to them, but "Bullet" by the Misfits rules

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The three songs on the B-side of Black Flag's 'Nervous Breakdown' EP

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Good call, Sasha.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Also much of the Country Teaser's output, especially the stuff collected on 'Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire'

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Top Thirteen Pixies Songs Under Two Minutes:

Allison (1:17)
Isla De Encanta (1:41)
Tame (1:55)
Rock Music (1:52)
Trompe Le Monde (1:46)
Broken Face (1:30)
Tony's Theme (1:52)
Palace Of The Brine (1:34)
Something Against You (1:47)
Crackity Jones (1:24)
Oh My Golly! (1:47)
Distance Equals Rate Times Time (1:24)
I'm Amazed (1:18)

― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Weinerschnitzel by the Descendents didn't come up yet? Or is that being saved for top under eleven seconds songs?

― dlp9001, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care," Elvis Presley

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

'i say fuck' by the supersuckers i used to like a lot

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello

― Parker (Parker), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Otis Redding - Shout Bamalama

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Queens Of The Stone Age - Quick And To The Pointless

― Mog, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

What was that album compiled by Morgan Fisher for Cherry Red of songs under a minute long? "Miniatures"!

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

That was an album compiled by Morgan Fisher for Cherry Red of songs under a minute long? "Miniatures" it was called.

(Pipe records. There was a sequel recently)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Muffs - Pennywhore

― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

spirit of '78 by raooul
girl germs by bratmobile

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Theory "Bare Witness"

― somebody that's definitely not nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Anyway you want it" Dave Clark Five

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of bratmobile, i like "die"

― ron (ron), Thursday, 4 December 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Deerhoof "Holy Night Fever"

― Jole, Thursday, 4 December 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

King Missile: Martin Scorsese

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 4 December 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

There was an album put out a few years ago of something like 100 punk bands all doing 30 second songs - 'Short Music for Short People'

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 5 December 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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