50 Great Songs Under 2 Minutes Long
I had so much fun last week doing my list of 50 Great Songs Over 7 Minutes Long That Didn’t Make Rolling Stone’s List that I figured I would do a sequel.
Caveats: for better and worse, this list wasn’t created by a group of people sitting in a room, but rather just one guy using his iTunes. It’s probably too short on hardcore and too long on funny songs. However, when putting it together, it struck me that wittiness is a factor in a great short song in the same way that groove is a factor in a great long song.
This time, I narrowed it down to a single song per artist. Some of these are even the best song that artist ever did! And like last time, it’s alphabetical by artist.
50 Great Songs Under 2 Minutes Long
- The Apples in Stereo - She’s Telling Lies
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- The Breeders - New Year
- Buzzcocks - Oh Shit!
- The Byrds - Old John Robertson
- Camper Van Beethoven - Abundance
- The Cat Heads - Hubba Part 1
- Cheap Trick - Hello There
- The Clash - White Riot (U.K. Single)
- Elvis Costello - Mystery Dance
- Cowboy Junkies - Mining For Gold
- Bo Diddley - Gun Slinger
- Bob Dylan & The Band - Odds and Ends
- Dave Edmunds - What Did I Do Last Night?
- Elastica - Vaseline
- The English Beat - Click Click
- Guided by Voices - Hardcore UFOs
- Robyn Hitchcock - Uncorrected Personality Traits
- Hüsker Dü - Actual Condition
- ISM - Nixon Now More Than Ever
- The Jam - But I’m Different Now
- Lemonheads - Bit Part
- Magnetic Fields - Reno Dakota
- Masters Of Reality - Madonna
- Moby Grape - Truly Fine Citizen
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus - Bruce’s Philosophers Song
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Theme Song
- Nirvana - Molly’s Lips
- Pavement - Debris Slide
- Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time
- Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
- Queen - Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
- R.E.M. - Windout
- Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (Live)
- Rancid - Indestructible
- The Replacements - Wake Up
- The Rolling Stones - One More Try
- Simon & Garfunkel - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
- The Simpsons - The Monorail Song
- The Smiths - Please Please Please, Let Me Get What I Want
- South Park - Uncle Fucka
- Tenacious D - Dio
- They Might Be Giants - We’re The Replacements
- Too Much Joy - Train in Vain
- Van Halen - Eruption
- The Vaselines - Monsterpussy
- Violent Femmes - Old Mother Reagan
- The Waterboys - Spirit
- The White Stripes - Fell in Love With a Girl
- X - We’re Desperate
Next week: 50 Great Songs Between 3:00 and 3:30!!
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5 Comment(s) so far
1. Rob wrote on December 11th, 2007 at 9:58 am
You left off Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes.
2. Kirk wrote on December 11th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Nothing from the Commercial Album?
3. john r wrote on December 14th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Good list of short songs. Here is some more good ones.
Tom Waits- Underground
Nick Lowe- Heart Of The City
Husker Du- Target
Billy Bragg- Busy Girl Buys Beauty
Minutemen-This Ain’t No Picnic
The Clean- Someone
The Thermals- Our Trip
Wire- Champs
Yo La Tengo- Return of Hot Chicken
Link Wray - Run Chicken Run
Speedy West&Jimmy Bryant- Caffeine Patrol
Big Star-I’m In Love With A Girl
Sebadoh-License To Confuse
Moving Targets-Let Me Know Why
Johnny Cash-Pickin Time
Neko Case- I Missed The Point
4. The (Bi-)Weekly ‘Loper - December 16, 2007 | Medialoper wrote on December 16th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
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5. Jake wrote on December 16th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Rancid - Indestructible = Quite probably the band’s worst song/album.