beyer160
Poster Extraordinaire
Pretty much the entire Minutemen catalog:
Short songs - waddaya got?
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Pretty much the entire Minutemen catalog:
Rick330man
Tele-Afflicted
Interesting. Makes me think of the Hives.
shobotan
TDPRI Member
Milk & blood, blood & milk
posttoastie
Friend of Leo's
JSMac
Tele-Afflicted
A 1:58 jam
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Throttleneck
Tele-Afflicted
This is, for me, one of the great songs of all time. Changed my life when I heard it and the reason I play guitar. Basically a minute long
Skyhook
Friend of Leo's
S.O.D. have many shorties to choose from.
Their shortest has to be Momo, but I'm partial to this one:
Their shortest has to be Momo, but I'm partial to this one:
El Tele Lobo
Poster Extraordinaire
I remember in the 80s when hard-core punk songs that were super short we’re a thing. There was this band in California called Sticky and they had a song on their cassette album called, “No.“ It was listed as 3 seconds long. It was basically the entire band playing one chord/note/beat and shouting, “No!” I thought it was pretty funny at the time… Still do. That’s the shortest song I’ve ever heard.
memorex
Poster Extraordinaire
acoustic rob
Tele-Holic
jimmywrangles
Tele-Holic
Bob Womack
Friend of Leo's
Joe joined the fray. Listen to the high hat:
Do you guys remember why these miniatures exist in the first place? It was the problem of inner groove distortion. Vinyl records are a velocity-based storage system. While the revolution rate of the record is stable, the medium velocity lowers from the outside of the record to the inside because the circumference of one revolution continually shrinks. The slower the relative movement of the medium, the lower the headroom. A too loud or too dense last song would distort and sound ugly. Too long an album side would enter the ugliest region of distortion. However, a well-loaded album side looks shy of music.
Soooo... In the '70s, producers urged musical artists to come up with simple, quiet, sparse, short songs to fill out the inner groove with as little distortion as possible. They were still distorted, but it was less noticable to the average listener. People like me, then a future recording engineer/producer, agonized through the inner groove miniatures, especially because they were often wonderful, beautiful little things. I remember the repeated moments of wonder when the full-fidelity of these songs was revealed when the albums were released on CD. Joe's was one of them.
Bob
Do you guys remember why these miniatures exist in the first place? It was the problem of inner groove distortion. Vinyl records are a velocity-based storage system. While the revolution rate of the record is stable, the medium velocity lowers from the outside of the record to the inside because the circumference of one revolution continually shrinks. The slower the relative movement of the medium, the lower the headroom. A too loud or too dense last song would distort and sound ugly. Too long an album side would enter the ugliest region of distortion. However, a well-loaded album side looks shy of music.
Soooo... In the '70s, producers urged musical artists to come up with simple, quiet, sparse, short songs to fill out the inner groove with as little distortion as possible. They were still distorted, but it was less noticable to the average listener. People like me, then a future recording engineer/producer, agonized through the inner groove miniatures, especially because they were often wonderful, beautiful little things. I remember the repeated moments of wonder when the full-fidelity of these songs was revealed when the albums were released on CD. Joe's was one of them.
Bob
"Slipsteam" on Aqualung. 45 seconds if you don't count the cheesy outro, and "Wond'ring" Aloud at 1:53 (I may have to relearn that one).
fishermike
Tele-Meister
Comes in at a tad over two minutes, but it's such a sweet tune that it always seems too short:
