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!
It’s far too much fun to find songs about sex, and sometimes it’s a bit too easy. There are the obvious culprits: George Michael’s entire Faith album deals with relationships and sex, Two Live Crew did quite a few lewd numbers about fornication, and AC/DC’s “You Shook Me” is a favorite of sex-crazed teens (and these days, many of their parents, too).
