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So I was making a Spotify playlist the other day of songs that are under 2 minutes, and was trying to find songs that are complete songs, not just short instrumentals or breaks between real songs (White Album, Wowee Zowee, Tommy, etc.)  I was surprised that many of my favorite bands have some pretty good complete songs under 2 minutes, here are some of my favorites.  Do you guys have any personal favorites to add to the list?

 

Never Talking to You Again - Husker Du

I'm In Love With A Girl - Big Star

Buzzards and Dreadful Crows - Guided By Voices (kings of the under 2 minute song!)

Three Girl Rhumba - Wire

Communist Daughter - Neutral Milk Hotel

Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello

Time Between - The Byrds

Zurich Is Stained - Pavement

Hold On - John Lennon

Road - Nick Drake

You Can Do Better Than Me - Death Cab for Cutie

What Deaner Was Talkin' About - Ween

#1 Hit Song - Minutemen

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Feeling - The La's

Son of a Gun - The La's

Fortunately Gone - The Breeders

Words of Love - Buddy Holly

Black Sheep Boy - Tim Hardin

But I'm Different Now - The Jam

 

And, yeah... a hundred or so GBV tunes.

 

Also, I gotta give myself a plug, as I think this is a pretty good one at 1:51:
https://hoponpop.bandcamp.com/track/here

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So I was making a Spotify playlist the other day of songs that are under 2 minutes, and was trying to find songs that are complete songs, not just short instrumentals or breaks between real songs (White Album, Wowee Zowee, Tommy, etc.)  I was surprised that many of my favorite bands have some pretty good complete songs under 2 minutes, here are some of my favorites.  Do you guys have any personal favorites to add to the list?

 

 

Zurich Is Stained - Pavement

 

 

man this song is so good. the type that really affects you in a deep way. me, anyways.

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Feeling - The La's

Son of a Gun - The La's

Fortunately Gone - The Breeders

Words of Love - Buddy Holly

Black Sheep Boy - Tim Hardin

But I'm Different Now - The Jam

 

And, yeah... a hundred or so GBV tunes.

 

Also, I gotta give myself a plug, as I think this is a pretty good one at 1:51:

https://hoponpop.bandcamp.com/track/here

Pretty good little tune there...thanks for the La's recommendations, really digging "Feeling"

man this song is so good. the type that really affects you in a deep way. me, anyways.

Probably my favorite from Slanted, that or Trigger Cut

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there are a ton of awesome punk rock songs and GBV songs that clock in under 120 seconds, so i'll skip those.



they don't have a lot of short songs, but this is a great lead track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOR985mD0W8


i forgot you can't embed more than one video... four is the max # of images one can post. oh well.
 

speaking of great intros, this is called "Intro" and features an aborted start that they decided to leave in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PYE93D3ODw

 
 

i first learned of this song via Helmet's cover. still a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1q2oj1UcTs

 

 

lo-fi gem. lou broke his collarbone and canceled his solo tour...bummer. was gonna see him in a couple of weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZeSAw2PDPw

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Pretty good little tune there...thanks for the La's recommendations, really digging "Feeling"

Thanks!

And, I forgot that it's a Spotify list you're making and my song is on Spotify, too... if you were wanting to add it.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1VgCQi3KAODOliWQRirTxU

:)

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Pearl Jam - Lukin

 

Setting Forth and No Ceiling from the Into the Wild soundtrack by Eddie Vedder.

 

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Can't believe I forgot Ben Kweller. I saw Ben open for Jeff Tweedy on the Feb. 2001 tour as was immediately hooked.

BK Baby

How it Should Be (Sha Sha)

Launch Ramp

 

maybe a few others too....

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