I’ve had a deep fascination with song lenghts for as long as I can remember

So… shortest song you’ve ever heard?

Bonus points if it’s a full song as opposed to an album intro or intermission

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
    3·
    21 days ago

    Shortest actual song that comes to mind is They Might Be Giants with Minimum Wage, 46 seconds.

    Even within the same band there’s Fingertips from the album Apollo 18, which is a something like 20 tracks that total a bit over 4 minutes. That calls into question what a song truly is, though, as these would qualify as snippets but not songs in my mind.

    If a snippet isn’t and a jingle is, where’s the line in the sand?

    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
      3·
      21 days ago

      Fingertips always felt like songs they started but couldn’t finish. They could make a record of those fleshed out and it would be great.

  • HexagonSun@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    Comma comma comma full stop by Brakes is 8 seconds long. It’s an album track and part of the track listing but opinions may differ on whether it’s truly a song or not.

  • phant@lemmy.world
    2·
    21 days ago

    I was gonna say the intros and interludes in the Modest Mouse Good News album are very short, but hard to call them songs per se. Dig Your Grave is 13 seconds of mumbling ‘something about diggin’ and ‘i hope that youre dead’…

    The Beatles song Her Majesty is ~23 seconds and feels like a complete song. Crazy stuff.