Great Songs That Are Far Too Short

Should be a crime for good songs to be short, like that OPN Nobody Here song. You wanted it to go on forever but it lasted barely a minute or two...this is a thread for those too short gems.

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BONUS: Someone sped up Perlence Subrange 6-36 400% so it's far too short now at only 11 mins :<

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  On 11/5/2014 at 2:07 AM, morgang said:

+20

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  On 11/5/2014 at 2:00 AM, Bechuga said:

Should be a crime for good songs to be short, like that OPN Nobody Here song. You wanted it to go on forever but it lasted barely a minute or two...

 

A fellow watmmer thought the same, so he made this:

http://youtu.be/43zOwm34hqQ

  On 11/5/2014 at 4:43 AM, theinvasionboys said:

 

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There's a GBV song I specifically would put on playlists because it was both good AND almost 3 minutes long

http://youtu.be/WY_3uxzkoV4

http://youtu.be/jlwkOhdE60w

ok, i wish this song was longer too but holy lolz, not this long

Every track on cosmogramma

  On 11/5/2014 at 5:46 AM, feltcher said:

Every track on cosmogramma

Basically every track on this album

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That punk track from Blur could have been longer (and no I'm not talking about Song 2 here !)

Also, I'm always gutted when this Prefuse 73 track comes to an end :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMjNg4HftMw

Btw guys, do you know the Infinite Jukebox website ? Allows you to play a song for as long as you want by making connections between similar moments of the track, it works quite nice usually, you should try it !

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this trac soothes mǝ - at the same time it smooshes mǝ brainparts to mash. i wish it was a bit longer..

Can I whine about a part of a song too?

Depeche Mode - "The Landscape Is Changing" from 3:19 till the end is far too short. I could listen to it for tens of minutes in loop with some climax gradation.

I also thought "Roygbiv" by BOC was too short but changed my mind after couple of listens.

Dabrye's "In Water" could be longer too as it is a really hypnotic and trippy idea.

Good call on Pistachio Island - I would love to hear those tracks expanded.

  On 11/5/2014 at 1:42 PM, Jev said:

Dabrye's "In Water" could be longer too as it is a really hypnotic and trippy idea.

I immediately thought of Dabrye before even reading this thread

(Fucking THIS):

All else equal though I'd rather have something be too $hort than overstay its welcome

For a long time I always thought this one was criminally short:

Until the day I realised it was just a funkily re-ordered and trimmed down version of:

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sparkly-twinkle, teeny-weenie, tease-e meanie

It is nearly 3 min but it always feels too short.

Perlence Subrange 6-36

Flashbulb - Stinger

A Flashbulb track that I genuinely like (a rare thing) but also one of his shortest. Another minute would be nice

  On 11/5/2014 at 9:16 PM, o00o said:

Perlence Subrange 6-36

lol

Terre Thaemlitz ‎- Canto V: Meditation On Wage Labor And The Death Of The Album

My 2 cents, If you make many of the tracks longer, they'll no longer be as great & keep you coming back for more. I used to feel that way about certain tracks, but in the end, they wouldn't hold the same timelessness as the original length. (Roygbiv for instance). Less is more sometimes.

I'm more of a "wish that part went for 4-12 more bars" kinda guy. The 'bridge' in "Tundra" for instance.