September 13, 2009
The Snippettes
For those who demand quantity over quality, here you go - a selection of songs all less than a minute long! In the interests of maintaining listenability I’ve excluded hundreds of intros / skits / interludes etc, choosing instead to focus on pieces that, while short, still establish their own identity as songs. So here we go, strap yourself in and feel the Gs: thirty-four songs in twenty-five minutes, twenty seconds!
1. The Dodos, “Eyelids” (mp3)
2. Black Flag, “Wasted” (mp3)
3. De La Soul, “A Little Bit Of Soap” (mp3)
4. Mellow, “Codename Dragonfly” (mp3)
5. Why?, “Twenty-Eight” (mp3)
6. The Flaming Lips, “The Spontaneous Combustion Of John” (mp3)
7. Monty Python, “I Bet You They Won’t Play This Song On The Radio” (mp3)
8. The Bulgarian Voices, “Stoyan Ide Ot Grad Zarigrad” (mp3)
9. The Undertones, “Casbah Rock” (mp3)
10. The Stone Roses, “Elizabeth My Dear” (mp3)
11. The Polyphonic Spree, “The Crash” (mp3)
12. Porn Theatre Ushers, “Nabo Himself” (mp3)
13. Sublime, “Drunk Drivin’” (mp3)
14. Fight Like Apes, “Megameanie” (mp3)
15. The Beatles, “Moonlight Bay” (mp3)
16. The Art Of Noise, “Nothing Was Going To Stop Them Then, Anyway” (mp3)
17. Consolidated, “There Is A Mountain Filled With Blood” (mp3)
18. The White Stripes, “Passive Manipulation” (mp3)
19. Minor Threat, “Small Man, Big Mouth” (mp3)
20. Princess Superstar, “Blue Beretta” (mp3)
21. The Red Elvises, “Follow The Yellow Brick Road” (mp3)
22. Ween, “Old Man Thunder” (mp3)
23. Neutral Milk Hotel, “Seven” (mp3)
24. Richard Cheese, “99 Luftballoons” (mp3)
25. Jenny Owen Youngs, “First Person” (mp3)
26. Stiff Little Fingers, “Here We Are Nowhere” (mp3)
27. Men Without Hats, “Bright Side Of The Sun” (mp3)
28. Michael Andrews, “Cellar Door” (mp3)
29. Run-DMC, “Son Of Byford” (mp3)
30. Primus, “Sathington Willoby” (mp3)
31. Deerhoof, “The Eyebright Bugler” (mp3)
32. Pink Floyd, “New Machine, Pt. 2″ (mp3)
33. The Books, “PS” (mp3)
34. Raymond Scott, “In The Hall Of The Mountain Queen” (mp3)
ZIP file of all songs will be posted tomorrow!
September 15th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Awww… I was looking for Blind Melon’s intro to Galaxie.
September 15th, 2009 at 6:41 am
TECHnically, that’s part of the longer song as a whole. My self-imposed rules were that I not chop or edit anything. Sorry!
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Princess Superstar’s ‘blue beretta’ is actually 2 mins 43 sec on the album
February 4th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Josh, thanks for the correction. The reason this happened on my end is that I was given a cassette copy of this long-out-of-print album back in 1998, recorded it into my computer not long after, but had to pick arbitrary start / end points for the songs. I didn’t even know the song titles until fairly recently when I looked it up online. At that point I realized I had chopped up many of these eclectic constantly changing tracks into sub-songs; for instance in the case of “Blue Beretta” I ended one track at “ain’t you Conchetta” and started another with the Billy Squier beat. Upon learning the correct track listing, these then became “Blue Beretta” and “Blue Beretta part 2″, hence my mistake upon arranging my iTunes by song duration. Thanks again for catching this, for visiting here, and most of all for confirming there is at least one other person out there familiar with this great rare album.