Ken
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Wed. 7/23/14 7:38am
F✩F✩ (:
John Cage - As Slow As Possible (approx. 5597640 hrs)
Wed. 7/23/14 7:45am
Jack:
"You Suffer" is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death, from their debut album, Scum. The song has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long.
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Wed. 7/23/14 8:08am
Okasa:
The Beatle's "Your Majesty" is 0:23, that's close. Also, at the end of Sgt. Pepper's, there is that looping "song" that is really short. "… never could be any other way"
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Wed. 7/23/14 8:12am
Okasa:
Good Morning. Good morning everybody. Everybody everywhere. Good morning.
Wed. 7/23/14 8:36am
Mark S:
"Newest H.C. Song #1" by Anal Cunt from their opus "Everyone Should Be Killed" is 13 seconds l
Wed. 7/23/14 8:39am
jeff:
the descendents - i like food. not great but it's like 16 seconds
Wed. 7/23/14 8:45am
Robert:
Sorry I got on a topic last week & wouldn't let it drop.
Wed. 7/23/14 8:48am
Robert:
Now I'm thinking about how many takes the lady catching her bra & pistol must've taken.
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:17am
Michael:
There was this 60 second song competition thing on some radio station a few years ago. They weren't 16 seconds but some were pretty short. Wish I could remember what station and who organized it...
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:28am
Ken From Hyde Park:
Is it cheating of you play a short song backwards and count it as unique? Or take a longer song and speed it way up?
Wed. 7/23/14 9:29am
F✩F✩ (:
What if we shrink the John Cage song to last only 16 secs? It would become the tiniest song with the largest atomic mass!
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:33am
Sem Chumbo:
@F✩F✩ (: brilliant idea, a Readers Digest version. Who would have thought?
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:34am
Sem Chumbo:
@KFHP: I give it a 1. No melody and you can't dance to it.
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:37am
Ken From Hyde Park:
OK, then. Next, I submit the signal when you reach a non-working telephone number. It has a beginning, a middle and an end. One tone each.
Wed. 7/23/14 9:37am
F✩F✩ (:
What about commissioning a 16-seconds song to the Passionate and Objective Joker Fan? He's so prolific that I bet he could produce 10 songs in less than 16 seconds.
Wed. 7/23/14 9:38am
Robert:
Perhaps you could batch download from SoundCloud and then use a Linux script or MS-DOS batch utility to sort by file size. That'd get you an approximation of duration from which you could proceed manually to find an appropriate ultra-short.
Wed. 7/23/14 9:46am
Emile:
fmu swag just arrived!
Wed. 7/23/14 9:48am
Robert:
I got it: just search 15-sec. commercials, radio or TV. Gotta be lots of jingles & background songs there, then just a matter of fitting your other criteria.
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:50am
Stevel:
Complication pic may have achieved perfection.
Wed. 7/23/14 9:50am
jeff:
A.O.D.'s Paul's Not Home is like 11 seconds
Wed. 7/23/14 9:50am
F✩F✩ (:
Did you know that the Napalm Death's 1 second song has a video?! Yes! It features a girl that just jumps, cries and then gets shot. Pretty obvious plot, don't you think? I mean, what other story can you fit under 2 seconds?
P.S. DIE GOLDEEEEEN ZITROOONEN + CHICKS ON SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
Wed. 7/23/14 9:54am
w41:
Tuned in just in time to hear Udon! Awesome! Good day to all!
Wed. 7/23/14 9:54am
glenn:
"baby shoes for sale, never worn".
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:55am
Sem Chumbo:
@glenn:apocryphal Hemingway or the real deal? Any idea of the source?
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:56am
holland oats:
talk about noodling
BOOM! thx i'm here all week (i really am)
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Wed. 7/23/14 9:56am
Ken:
Yeah I got Napalm Death but those are not real songs. They're just sonic blasts, which is cool but Im looking for real songs that re less than 15 seconds. Thanks to all the suggestions - I will check them all out after the show today.
Wed. 7/23/14 9:58am
Lewis:
@Ken - Michael Shelly might have some good ideas
Wed. 7/23/14 9:59am
Brendan:
This has a nice country feel. Makes me wanna sit on the porch with a can of aerosolized cheeze wizz and a Pabst , have good meal and fall asleep droolin
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:00am
bobdoesthings:
I remember an album by Curl Up and Die where the first 4-5 tracks were all 3-4 seconds each one word.. and I think it said something like "We are all dead" or something.. so the opening of the cd was 4-5 songs that repeated the same 3-4 seconds with one word screamed/growled over the chords.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:00am
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Hey, @Ken and all! I know they're not proper songs, but Gerogerigegege made two EPs of 99 songs fit into 15 minutes each. Orthrelm also did something like this.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:02am
Lewis:
leonard cohen on song writing as quoted on brain pickings (tinyurl.com...):
"My ordinary state of mind is very much like the waiting room at the DMV"
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:05am
adrian in mpls:
i agree with you on the "volume issue" ken.....soon it will be: "now that's what i call the wire tapper #105"
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:05am
holland oats:
golden hair is pretty short (the song not the hair)
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:06am
holland oats:
you suffer but why? why, ken, why?
Wed. 7/23/14 10:06am
F✩F✩ (:
Crash and the Boys - I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad (13 seconds)
Note: Sounds pathetic but this is actually a funny song and it is featured in the Scott Pilgrim vs The World movie.
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:07am
cory:
damn, GWAR's Fish Fuck is 34 seconds,
Wed. 7/23/14 10:07am
ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:
The Happy Birthday song?
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:08am
adrian in mpls:
Ken -- might there be some good short "songs" in the People Like Us archives/playlists?
Wed. 7/23/14 10:09am
Mark S:
The Wire is very quaint not only do they still send CDs but this month's issue also had a bookmark enclosed
Wed. 7/23/14 10:09am
Lewis:
I have an 11sec version of row row your boat ...
Wed. 7/23/14 10:09am
ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:
I keep thinking of songs from when I was a kid.
"Here comes the bride
All dressed in pink
Open the windows
And let out the stink"
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:10am
Webhamster Henry:
They Might Be Giants are really good at this. Try the "Fingertips" songs from Apollo 18, and on their new one "Nanobots" there are a few, although "Decision Makers" clocks in at 16 seconds.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:10am
F✩F✩ (:
Check UbuRadio. It features tons of dada artists/musicians doing loads of crap music under 16 seconds.
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:10am
Andrew Waterloo:
The Soft Machine's A Concise British Alphabet - Part II is 12 seconds.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:12am
Mark S:
The name of track 6 on Gamel is " Gamel Kamasu"
Wed. 7/23/14 10:13am
F✩F✩ (:
Problem with OOIOO is that you can never know if she made that song on her own or she simply ripped-off note by note the work of some other unknown artist.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:15am
Art:
It must be Gary Byrd week at FMU
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:16am
Brian in UK:
Ken, into the short song mix Arthur Lee's 'You Can Save Up to 50%, But You're Still a Long Ways from Home' from Vindicator. You could have a subsection of titles longer than songs.
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:16am
holland oats:
@F✩F✩ (: why do you say that?
Wed. 7/23/14 10:16am
Marcel M:
Oh my god what the hell
Wed. 7/23/14 10:17am
glenn:
pecan coloured??? raw or roasted?
Wed. 7/23/14 10:18am
Marcel M:
It would have been really funny if he said roasted pecan hah
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:19am
Webhamster Henry:
There are lots of short cuts on Dr. Nerve's, Beta 14 OK, but only a few have anything like lyrics.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:37am
tidalene:
Sorry to bug you guys. I'm trying to find a song from a show last week and I can't find it on any of the playlists. It was a young girl singing the entire Scientology space opera -- volcanos, nuclear bombs, evil galactic overlord and so on... Does anyone remember whose show that was on?
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:39am
bobdoesthings:
@tidaelene - did you try the search?
Wed. 7/23/14 10:40am
Dan B From Upstate:
www.wfmu.org... "The Way That It Began" by The Fabulous Entrourage. 55 minutes, 52 seconds.
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:42am
holland oats:
those african movie posters will cost you an arm and a leg
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:44am
Webhamster Henry:
Timothy was a studio joke, bt it turned into a hit and then they had to make a band and tour with it.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:45am
P-90:
Rotosound Strings Jingle by The Who
It's a Boy by the Who
Decisions Makers by They Might be Giants
Short Songs by Dead Kennedys
Hit by Guided by Voices
Doin Fine by Groovie Ghoulies
Don't Care by Circle Jerks
Scary Smurf by Kid Dynamite
Q: Do TV theme songs count? There are lots of GREAT ones under 20 seconds...
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:46am
egal:
Novelty songs are an extinct art form.
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:47am
AnAnonymousParty:
Do cannibals really eat body parts like corn-on-the-cob?
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:48am
bobdoesthings:
@anannon - I'd like to think they're still civilized and cook it proper and serve with wine and silverware.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:48am
nate:
I have been away for a few weeks, did anyone find the Jandek dollar ?
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:49am
egal:
According the the puritan colonists, native americans would serve them a stew, leavened with human flesh. The "Black Eucharist" was the name of this dish.
Wed. 7/23/14 10:49am
Mark S:
We'd have to ask a cannibal
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Wed. 7/23/14 10:50am
adrian in mpls:
@nate Jim Price played the Jandek the other day
Wed. 7/23/14 11:11am
P-90:
Corection: if you check the woman's hair you can see she is NOT upside down. She did the "bra catch" herself and the gun is a computer generated image.
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Wed. 7/23/14 11:12am
Ken:
Damn Bob, that was fast!
Wed. 7/23/14 11:22am
P-90:
Definitely the most "out" choice for 3oaK ever!
Wed. 7/23/14 11:27am
Emannuel Goodtdaughter:
Ken, where did you hear that Chris Denny lost his testicles in a "kitchen accident"? Notwithstanding, I really like his music. Thanks for playing it.
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Wed. 7/23/14 11:27am
Stevel:
Wow, to the Mary Wing marathon.
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Wed. 7/23/14 11:34am
Ken:
Emmanuel - I think I giot that from his publicist? Not sure. I like his music too.
Wed. 7/23/14 11:37am
P-90:
Sort of a coincidence: I once almost lost a testicle in a "kitten accident"
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Wed. 7/23/14 11:38am
egal:
This song brings back memories of the Palladium.
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Wed. 7/23/14 11:45am
βrian:
Nor am I asking to hear Dr Baby Botty-Grabber Animal ...
Wed. 7/23/14 11:47am
Some dude:
In 2012 Dennis Diken with Bell Sound recorded a version or Love Grows for a fundraising album titled Super Hits of the Seventies for radio station WFMU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Grows_(Where_My_Rosemary_Goes)
Wed. 7/23/14 11:48am
Jiminy Cricket:
Now, if I only had someone to shout out to ...
Wed. 7/23/14 11:48am
Andy Plants:
Ken and his boomboxx on the platform waiting for the Duane train
Wed. 7/23/14 11:48am
nate:
"you suffer" by napalm death, that's about 3 seconds
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Wed. 7/23/14 11:49am
bobdoesthings:
You should phone the gulch ahead of time.. so they can prepare for tonight's train wreck.
Wed. 7/23/14 11:49am
DANIMAL:
HOW BOUT BANANNA PHONE?
Wed. 7/23/14 11:59am
F✩F✩ (:
Thank you, Ken! Exquisite choice of GIFs and gorgeous selection of music. Till next episode everybody!
Wed. 7/23/14 12:07pm
Keith in Oregon:
I think "The Life Song" by Mason Williams would be perfect for your concept tonight. It's a little long for your purposes, 24 seconds I think, but it WOULD get funnier with repeated playing. The lyrics are: "Isn't life beautiful/Isn't life gay/Isn't life the perfect thing to pass the time away?" It's on "The Mason Williams Phonograph Record", I think.