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Can you name a track less than a minute long that's ever meant anything at all?

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by twee_loser

and not been completely irrelevant?

I just don't see the point. Fair enough if it's the introduction to a record, or an actually formed song, but otherwise i just think it's a token gesture.

These are some that i don't dislike:
Beirut - A Call To Arms
Casiotone - Theme From David Hanna
David Thomas Broughton - Interlude 2
These New Puritans - H
We Are The Physics - Action Action Action Action Action

These are the only one i actually think enhance whatever record they're on:
The Maccabees - Diamond Solitaire
Dananananaykroyd- Infinity Milk
Casiotone - Students For Scarves & Charm

Am i being silly?

twee_loser | 30 May '08, 19:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

short tracks which are links between other tracks on flowing albums

without them the albums in question would sound pretty wrong


examples?


i don't do examples

the notion should be enough


See GBV

7 or so tunes on Alien Lanes are under a minute. My favourite is 'Hit'


PIMPLE ZOO

ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.


a lot of hardcore bands write songs that are exclusively

less than a minute long. E.g. Agoraphobic Nosebleed.


but then you could argue

that none of their songs really 'mean much at all' so... I don't really know.


touched

by my bloody valentine
is better than most bands entire back catalogue

also, you suffer by napalm deatha
and let's get sandy by be your own pet


...

You're not just being silly, I'd say it was borderline retarded. How has length ever been an indicator of quality? You obviously don't listen to much music if you can't think of bands who have short songs that are awesome.


or Cheney!


COMMA COMMA COMMA

FULL STOP


Dubyadubyadubyadubyadubyadubya

WON'T YOU PICK UP THAR PHONE?!!


How long is Untitled off Untrue by Burial?

It's pretty short, and not really a song. But it's a beautifully eerie quote from a even more eerie film.


What film is that

quote from, ive always wondered.


you fucktard.

most of my favourite songs are under a minute long.


yeah you are being silly

straight edge by minor threat is 45 seconds long. you might not like it but it means something for sure. i could go on but cant be arsed


That album is quality!

The first one is good too. Pity about that tird one.


Her Majesty is 22 seconds long

I quite like the jollity of it.


Candydiosis

by Pop Will Eat Itself and Elizabeth My Dear by the Stone Roses. Both 'say something'


It's from a film called 'Inland Empire'

directed by David Lynch. And it's always scared the living shite out of me.


Certainly can my man.

Looking on my i-tunes I can name a few:

boa constrictor, magnetic fields
mi-o-mai, mclusky
harolds dewlaps, winnebago deal
little room, white stripes
tick eats the olives, devendra banhart
hi how are you, brakes

and the standouts

the shadow sea, partick wolf
the gateway song, SFA
i'm here for your daughter, desert sessions
cassandra geminni, mars volta
jus de canneberges, malajube


Nearly every song by Some Girls.

Proper rage/emotion and all that amongst the screams/grinding guitar noise.


Wire

- Field Day For The Sundays


<3 some girls

the big question is though, who wins out of daughters v some girls? some girls for me.


I'm with you on Some Girls.

I like Daughters, but Wes's mob has the edge due to the fact 'Deathface' is proper epic and they have a song called 'I Need Drugs' which has an awesome bass line intro.


their cover of No Fun is immense too

we played it last night when we djed. people were slightly thrown by it. we also played the number 12 looks like you- my sharona which led to even more confusion


Awesome!

I should really go to Norwich. Good call on the No Fun cover.


yeah i wish there were good people there

no one danced really, then some bloke started heckling us then asked us to play good music, and asked for rock the casbah, and our mate got annoyed at us because they were being dicks and he blamed us, so we got pissed off and played scholastic deth and the locust


BOOKSTORE CORE!!

I've played the Locust during the DJ set and it went down really well! Some guy even asked who it was and approved!


yeah it didnt really go down too well last night

but we just got pissed off and decided to be dickheads :)

the scholastic deth song was 15 seconds long (killed by school) so presented quite a challenge in changing the other deck and playing in time


oh sod you both :D

i ordered that some girls album you told me to the other day.the £1 one off amazon.pregnant something


:D good.

Heaven's Pregnant Teens is brutal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2lMASKEvjc

WARM MILK


heavens pregnant teens?!

its great! but i prefer all my friends are going death


You stupidhead

there are millions. Even this possibly underappreciated NOFX song, the best thing they ever did. By miles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXFgNRMAYng


you talk more crap than probably anyone alive

anyway, i think someone's mentioned bikini kill already but yeah, TOTALLY RAD SONG UNDER THIRTY SECONDS is In Accordance To Natural Law.


HAPPY

BIRTHDAY


Her Majesty

Final track on the Beatles album, Abbey Road.... great little ditty.


Back And Forth by Unkle

Awesome intro to the album "Never Never Land" and also xbxrx "the end of quitting"


Wire and the Minutemen?

get a grip. since when did song length = how much a song means





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