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Related to the "few seconds" thread, but I was gonna post this a couple days ago and I forgot, so there. So: favourite/most notable short pieces of music- be they intros, outros, midtros, interludes, really short songs etc.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seeing as I'm a big fan of the Faust Tapes,I have to mention that,but I don't know how to refer to a specific bit without sounding like an idiot.Eno's Music For Films has some nice short pieces,and then there's Wire.

― Damian, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Living for the Depression", Flipper - it's a bit long but it SOUNDS like a fragment, which is a really cool thing to do,

― dave q, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the instrumentals on the new Human League album, Secrets are fantastic. Ran (0:49) and Lament (1:12) are two good little 'uns from this album.

Further back in time - you can't beat The Prefects' 6-seconds long "I've Got VD". They've reformed by the way - a friend of mine saw them the other week in Wolverhampton.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not my favourite little bit ever or anything, but there's that one bit of guitar tha wavers between two notes in Supergrass' Richard III (I think that's the one anyway) that kind of catches your attention and sounds as if it wanted to be more of a real hook but then they didn't really know what to do with it so it's just kind of there. Or perhaps that's a tease on purpose, but I don't know if I'm willing to give them that kind of credit.

― Kim, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dozens of Minutemen and Wire songs, the short tracks on Boards of Canada's Music Has the Right to Children...

― Andy, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love the loopy circus samba thing on Crooked Rain Crooked Rain.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Roky Erickson-"I'm a Demon"

― Arthur, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Song on Melt Banana's Scratch or Stitch that goes:

"What is your blood type?

"A! ... B! ... O! ... A-B!"

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Beach Boys' "Mama Says," from Wild Honey--minutelong final track, astonishing a cappella thick-wall harmony vocals: "Eat a lot, sleep a lot, brush 'em like crazy/Run a lot do a lot never be lazy" phrased different each time. Just heavenly.

Am also REALLY liking the minutelong tracks off Clinic's Internal Wrangler

― M. Matos, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Beach Boys item was orig. from Smile sessions. But you probably knew that.

The interludes from Surfer Rosa are immortal.

On the Beach Boys tip, the always classic intro to California Girls.

The noise at the end of Sonic Youth's Experimental Jet Set Trash.

Odorono, by The Who.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Paradical" by Mouse On Mars sounds like ONE beautiful, beautiful, beautiful second crammed into two and a half minutes. That doesn't really answer the question. It kind of functions as a "midtro" on the album though.

Maybe the acapella intro to "Road To Nowhere" by Talking Heads... that's probably just me...

― Keiko, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All of the transitions on 'Loveless' and the "Tremolo" EP are quite amazing, to give a cliched answer. I sometimes wish MBV had made an entire album that sounded like those moments...

― Clarke B., Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Black Dog--bytes lots of eratic snippets (phil)

― jk, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten months pass...

2001 Mitch: Do short hiphop verses count? cos there's this bit in Jay-Z's "Squeeze 1st" where repeats the "you shalt not" hook 3 times like a mantra, like he's "part of a cult", I really like it for some reason. Also I was thinking about this yesterday: has there ever been a hiphop 'instrumental' that tried to replicate the rapper's flow instrumentally?

SHIT I've just noticed this big spider on the wall and now its fucking climbing all over the place, coming towards me and shit, now i can't see it no wait there it is on the wall, i'm so outta here, goodnight all.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 22 September 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I know they're not too popular on ILM, but Blur are very good at the little snippets of which you speak. "Intermission" is one of my favourite tracks of theirs, at any rate.

Snuff's 56-ish second cover of "Wannabe" is class an' all. "Zigga-zagga! Zigga-zagga! Oi! Oi! Oi!"

― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 22 September 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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