What is the shortest CD you own?

I've just uploaded the bonus CD from Love Bites and it's 9.9 minutes long which seems like a real waste of cd making material but I'm sure it's pretty long compared to some.

Do one track (promo or retail) CD singles count?

I've held this in my hands but didn't buy it. (CD 1 = 6 x 30 seconds)

I remember being really cheesed off that Dwarves "Blood, Guts and Pussy" CD was only 12 minutes long AND it sold for full retail.

I have a one-track CD single that lasts about 4 minutes.

Or, to be more correct, 3 minutes 35 seconds.

They're all the same size, aren't they?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Blank-cd.jpg

no. You can get 3" cd's

I was always amazed this was being sold for $8.99...it's got one song on it, and the song is 2:18 long...

http://warpmart.com/images/content/releases/large/WAP149.jpg

(and of course I can't tell you how tempted I was to buy it)...

I was always amazed at what an opportunist piece of shit Vincent Gallo is

I keep forgetting!

A CD single of 'Born In 69' by Rocket From The Crypt - two tracks, 5m 45s in total.

(Hey whiney, I've just sent you a ilxmail (with various apologies) let me know if you get it!)(or not).

Got it!

Excluding singles, the shortest one I can think of is the Italian Job soundtrack, which clocks in at just over 28 minutes.

http://www.dummymag.com/dummymonthly/images/skeelo.jpg

Isn't "Historie de Melody Nelson" dead short? Without seeming so, particularly?

Re: Love Bites: that was bad timimg. The first three Buzzcocks albums are being reissued as three separate full-length double CD packages, which also contain two full live performances, all of their Peel session tracks, all remaining non-album A-sides and B-sides (including the three 1980 singles and the lone track that ended up on C81), and a large number of demo versions, many previously unreleased. Basically, it's everything they recorded before the original split, barring Spiral Scratch, the Time's Up sessions and the Live at the Roxy tracks. With sleeve notes by Jon Savage. Presumably this is in advance of next year's tour, where they'll be playing Another Music In A Different Kitchen and Love Bites back to back, in their entirety.

Yeah, good call on Melody Nelson - also about 28 minutes long.

The Bonus CD from love Bites is less than 10 minutes long?

Surely not.

I can imagine the bonus *tracks* are! (two singles, plus b-sides)....

I just paid $14 (the most I've paid for a disc in a long while) for the new Vivian Girls album, which is something like 20 minutes long

siege - 'drop dead' 17 mins. the circle jerks' 'group sex' is pretty short too.

I don't mind that Vivian Girls album, but 20 minutes is taking the piss.

3 of 4 CDs released by a band I was in:

7 songs, 9.1 minutes
7 songs, 11.9 minutes and
7 songs, 16.2 minutes

The last one was ruined by a six and a half minute song.

Probably this

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51936FJ08AL._SS500_.jpg

The Bonus CD from love Bites is less than 10 minutes long?

Surely not.

But yes! It seems crazy (because why didn't they just put them on the main CD?) but there it is.

Did Napalm Death put out any CD singles?

Time to re-release this on CD...
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/427101.jpg

Ha! I didn't see pillbox's post there. Psychic powers...

Of course, there's the equally long Mega-Armageddon Death Pt. 3 on the other side, so would be getting your money's worth.

NT: yr image needs to be re-posted.

Hmmm, I can see it.
It's here anyway...
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/427101.jpg

No it isn't.

I am confused - when I click on it I get an image of a Napalm death single.

It's a pity because it's quite an attractive etched single.

I see a blank page.

Dunno bro, it might be a Mac/PC thing. I looked at this thread in Safari & Mozilla on Mac style & it does not appear. S'cool tho. Link works.

Strangeness.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/af/150px-Squirrel-bait-cover.jpg
This is less than 20 minutes and the follow-up's not much longer.

TV Shit EP by Sonic Youth + Eye -- nine minutes and change.

boring, I know, but the truthful answer is: Oasis "Morning Glory" CD promo single, one of many potentially discardable things I picked up as a writer for my college newspaper. It just has the one song on it.

Yeah the Circle Jerks one is about 14 minutes (xpost to cb).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Wearevoiceandrhythmonly.jpg

^^ Ten minutes ish. 48 tracks.

The Minutemen's 'The Punch Line', the Descendents' 'Milo Goes to College' and indeed the first Circle Jerks album are all in or around the 15-minute mark. The first Meat Puppets album is 20 minutes or so, too. And each has more than 10 tracks.

Of course for biggest ratio of number of songs to length of CD, you have to give it to Agoraphobic Nosebleed's 'Altered States of America', which has 100 tracks in 20 minutes.

real album: pascal comelade: "september song". 7 tracks and it clocks in at 19:25.

I think the shortest I have right now is GridLink's Amber Gray - 11 songs in just under 12 minutes.

probably Black Dice-number 3 (or whatever its called). i'm pretty sure it is no longer than 15 minutes (possibly shorter).

possibly Blood Guts & Pussy by the Dwarves

about 13 minutes iirc