The long and short of it

Favorite Long Songs (over 7 minutes)

1. Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
2. Patti Smith - Land
3. Television - Marquee Moon
4. Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
5. Genesis - Supper's Ready
6. Red House Painters - Katy Song
7. Beatles - Hey Jude
8. Can - Yoo Doo Right
9. Gary Numan - Slow Car to China
10. Buzzcocks - I Believe

Favorite Short Songs (Under 2:01 minutes)

1. Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing (2:01 exactly)
2. Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks
3. Clash - White Riot
4. Residents - Amber
5. Ramones - Cretin Hop
6. Wire 12XU
7. Buzzcocks - Love You More
8. Sparks - Batteries Not Included
9. Jonathan Richman - Buzz Buzz Buzz
10. Clash - Career Opportunities

Long : Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Desolation Row (Dylan) ; Short : Arbeit Macht Frei (Libertines)

jeez ffff crispy

i forgot desolation!!!!????????

the winner!!!

i'd add

fairport's Matty Groves
thompson's night comes in
Sigur Rós Svefn-G-Englar
Can's Pinch/future days/ oh yeah
pulp's wickerman
eno music for airports
G F White Lines (Do Them!!)



as for short ones i KNOW the stones have a dozen or so
suzie q, she said yeah, fortune teller (i think), and not fade away which i presumes wins this poll!


btw
ray, moon, and jennie would prob top my list!

Crap - forgot Svefn-G-Englar. So I have a top 11 now.

suicide - frankie teardrop - (ten and a half minutes)

napalm death - "you suffer" - (2 seconds)

Whoops - now my long song list goes to 12, as Laurie Anderson "O Superman" just popped up on the iPod.

And on the short list I forgot Archers of Loaf "Strangled by the Stereo Wire" which I think clocks in at under 2.

Good picks on the Richard Thompson. "Calvary Cross" is available in some epic-length versions. "Cortez the Killer" by Neil Young is 7:31 on Decade.

E's "Symphony for Toy Piano in G Minor" is around 11 seconds.

On the long end, I'd add Slint's "Good Morning Captain" to the excellent list above, but would concur that you gotta go with "Marquee Moon" as the hands-down winner.

On the short side, I'd nominate just about everything in the Minutemen canon, but especially "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing".

I've been told there was a Cabaret Voltaire 45 minute single. As this was way way before the CD format I was wondering how they did it. I'm assuming you either turn it over halfway through or you can only get it on cassette or maybe Cartridge(!)

Long: Kraftwerk - "Autobahn"

Short: Kraftwerk - "Boing Boom Tschak"

13. Faust - It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
14. Faust - Krautrock
15. Faust - Munic A (Devoted Bone Dance)

Another great short song is Squirrel Bait's "Black Light Poster Child."

Fools Gold and I am the resurrection always do it for me, especially the segue into the prog ending of resurrection,
Perfect kiss by new order is another long one at 8:02,
the cabvol single i don't know about,
but john cale did a 42 minute song " sun blindness music" from the album of the same name

longgggggggggggg:
Stones: "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'"
TV: "Little Johnny Jewel", "MM"
VU: "European Son", "Sister Ray"
Patti Smith: "Radio Ethiopia"
Fripp and Eno: "Swastika Girls"
Fripp and Bryne: "Under Heavy Manners"
XTC: "Melt the Guns" (a hair under 7)
Tom Tom Club: "Wordy Rapping Hood"
Canned Heat: "Fried Hockey Boogie"
Stooges: "Fun House", "Dirt"
Lou Reed: "The Kids", side three of "Metal Machine Music"
Captain Beefheart: "Korn Ring Finger"
Zappa: "Willie the Pimp"
The Who "Won't Get Fooled Again"

short:
Descendants: "M16"
Big Black: "L Dopa"
Ramones: 1st 3 albums
White Stripes: "Fell in Love With a Girl"
Buzzcocks: "Oh Shit"
Godz: "Godz"
Weirdos: "Pagan"
Suburban Lawns: "UNable"
Captain Beefheart: "A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond ", "The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back "
Zappa: "Ivor's Boogie, Phase One"
Bonzo Dog Band: "Cool Britannia"
The Who: "Can't Explain"

Thin Lizzy's Cowboy Song Is around 7 min, I think.
Rael-Who
John Cooper Clarke-Beasley Street
Gen X-youth, youth, youth
Alice Cooper-Killer
Holly Beth Vincent-Unoriginal Sin
BD- I'm Alright Ma

The only shortie that comes to mind right now is Sparks' Batteries Not Included.

lettuce get high. right mr daughtery? feckin ed.



Post Edited (12-24-05 01:37)

Ok, I'm game.

Long:
Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida": 17 minutes
Pink Floyd - "Echoes": 23 minutes

Still, these are like advertising jingles compared to many of my classical music recordings.

Short:
Something by either the Buzzcocks or the Ramones...the musical equivalent of bottle rockets.

Well, if we're talking classical, I've gotta go with the London Sinfonietta & Dawn Upshaw recording of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony. Absolutely gorgeous and what, about 80 minutes long or so?

What was the name of that guy who a few years ago was putting out symphonies based on Superman and Jackie O? Was it Daugherty or something like that? I really wanted to like his stuff but never got into it.

[www.michaeldaugherty.net]


boring subjects!



Post Edited (12-22-05 16:00)

More boring subjects:

Favorite Counting Crows song

The films of Chris Columbus

lettuce

My favorite invoices

Thimbles from around the globe

my ex roomie co wrote round here--he has not worked (or failed to tell a teenage girl) in the last 12 years!

more boring topics for mr daugherty:

my dreams
nascar
jackie o's sister
holiday wreathes

Long:onic Youth-Trilogy
Short::Weirdos-Pagan & the entire Minutemen catalog