What's your favourite under 3 min song?

[StanleyT]

They might be Giants, "Minimum Wage".

[jontykint]

deeen said:

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

I Want You

The only song called I Want You (is nearly 8 mins long)

[StanleyT]

JAMC "Frequency" (though whenplayed in teh full version as "Reverence it is better".

Sisters of Mersey "1:34"

[deeen]

jontykint said:

deeen said:

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

I Want You

The only song called I Want You (is nearly 8 mins long)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIS6ZZ9RVA

[motorizer]

Ace of spades

[Halmyre]

If the rules allow a 5% margin of error, then I'll throw in Wichita Lineman (3:05).

[Johnspex]

There are literally hundreds of great 3 minute songs.

Song of a baker The Small Faces
I can't explain The Who
My Generation The who
Brown sugar the Stones
All The Hollies hits
All that Tamla stuff
most of the early Beatles stuff.


Some great one-hit-wonder stuff too
Walking on sunshine
I am the one and only

It goes on forever.

[Penelope Stopit]

Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert - Roger Waters

[i4got]

White Rabbit.

https://youtu.be/Vl89g2SwMh4

[jontykint]

deeen said:

jontykint said:

deeen said:

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

I Want You

The only song called I Want You (is nearly 8 mins long)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIS6ZZ9RVA

Yes I knew that! Great tune.
There were a couple of levels to my quip, sorry 😐
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Beatles
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

[arfur]

Blur - Song 2 - Just over 2 mins

Don't hear it often, but always enjoy it when it's played

[Stiggolas]

I like traffic lights - Monty Python

[Riley Blue]

Not a song as such but 'Anji', Davey Graham has been a favourite since I first saw/heard him play it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXhWgbmc9yU

[ChevyChase77]

Good riddance - Green Day.
You say you don't love me - The Buzzcocks
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Edited by ChevyChase77 on Thursday 24th October 13:37

[Patch1875]

ChevyChase77 said:

Good riddance - Green Day.
You say you don't love me - The Buzzcocks
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Edited by ChevyChase77 on Thursday 24th October 13:37

Girlfriend In a Coma is another Smiths one.

[Digby]

Immigrant Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OtzJtp-EM

[wombleh]

Knives by Therapy.

https://youtu.be/SF5b_mf99AE
NSFW!

[BeastieBoy73]

Heart attack Man - The Beastie Boys!

I loves it!

[underwhelmist]

StanleyT said:

They might be Giants, "Minimum Wage".

This is the first one I thought of. A lyrically complex masterpiece.

My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello has 12 tracks and 10 of them are under 3 minutes. I'm going to choose "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes".

Edit: Incindentally, I recently saw the first of the three films in the American Epic trilogy. Look them up, they're on YouTube, well worth watching. The film tells the story of how one of the very earliest recording machines was reconstructed (no working examples survived) and used to record contemporary artists singing songs that would have been recorded on the original machines. All the mechanisms of the machine were entirely powered by a weight that descended slowly to the floor - the turntable, the worm gear that drove the cutting stylus, the pump that removed the swarf etc. It took around 3 minutes before the weight hit the floor, which is probably the reason why pop songs are generally 3 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Cdhv9eGsE

Edit 2 - URL added. I have to do everything for you people.

Edited by underwhelmist on Friday 25th October 00:03

Edited by underwhelmist on Friday 25th October 00:05

[wibble cb]

The La's - there she goes 2:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2iv-vMKT8

1990 vintage!! it sounded old then!