What's your favourite under 3 min song?

What's your favourite under 3 min song?

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StanleyT

1,994 posts

78 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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They might be Giants, "Minimum Wage".

jontykint

789 posts

128 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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deeen said:
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

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

StanleyT

1,994 posts

78 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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JAMC "Frequency" (though whenplayed in teh full version as "Reverence it is better".

Sisters of Mersey "1:34"

deeen

6,079 posts

244 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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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

1,498 posts

170 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Ace of spades

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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If the rules allow a 5% margin of error, then I'll throw in Wichita Lineman (3:05).

Johnspex

4,332 posts

183 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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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

11,209 posts

108 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert - Roger Waters

i4got

5,624 posts

77 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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jontykint

789 posts

128 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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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

3,871 posts

213 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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Blur - Song 2 - Just over 2 mins

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

Stiggolas

324 posts

146 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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I like traffic lights - Monty Python

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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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

1,079 posts

57 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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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

4,893 posts

131 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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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

8,230 posts

245 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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wombleh

1,778 posts

121 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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Knives by Therapy.

https://youtu.be/SF5b_mf99AE
NSFW!

BeastieBoy73

633 posts

111 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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Heart attack Man - The Beastie Boys!

I loves it!

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Thursday 24th October 2019
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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

3,586 posts

206 months

Friday 25th October 2019
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The La's - there she goes 2:42

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

1990 vintage!! it sounded old then!

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