Greatest Really Short Rock Songs

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Greatest Really Short Rock Songs

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Criteria: Songs must be 1:45 or shorter. This means on their original release either on an album, EP or a single. Songs were chosen and ranked based on initial and lasting popularity, acclaim and influence.

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Last Updated: 2021-11-25

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1. Stay - Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs (1:38)
2. Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys (1:41)
3. Outdoor Miner - Wire (1:44)
4. Golden Slumbers - Beatles (1:32)
5. Carry That Weight - Beatles (1:37)
6. Straight Edge - Minor Threat (0:46)
7. Eruption - Van Halen (1:44)
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - Beatles (1:18)
9. The Hippy Hippy Shake - Swinging Blue Jeans (1:44) / Chan Romero (1:41)
10. Whole Lotta Lovin' - Fats Domino (1:38)
11. Judy is a Punk - Ramones (1:32)
12. Game of Pricks - Guided by Voices (1:33)
13. Final Day - Young Marble Giants (1:44)
14. Three Girl Rhumba - Wire (1:23)
15. Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran (1:38)
16. Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin (1:45)
17. Pay to Cum - Bad Brains (1:25)
18. Broken Face - Pixies (1:30)
19. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel (1:43)
20. Velocity Girl - Primal Scream (1:22)
21. The Wind - Cat Stevens (1:40)
22. You Suffer - Napalm Death (0:07)
23. Viet Nam - Minutemen (1:27)
24. Never Talking to You Again - Hüsker Dü (1:39)
25. Frownland - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (1:41)
26. Another Green World - Brian Eno (1:41)
27. There's A Place - Beatles (1:44)
28. Welcome to the Working Week - Elvis Costello (1:20)
29. United States of Whatever - Liam Lynch (1:29)
30. What's The Ugliest Part of Your Body? - Mothers of Invention (1:03)
31. Elizabeth My Dear - The Stone Roses (0:58)
32. I Wanna Be Your Man - Rolling Stones (1:44)
33. Time (The Donut of The Heart) - J Dilla (1:38)
34. I Will - Beatles (1:45)
35. Tourette's - Nirvana (1:36)
36. Wasted - Black Flag (0:42)
37. A Little Bit of Soap - De La Soul (0:49)
38. Absolutely Cuckoo - Magnetic Fields (1:34)
39. Johnsburg, Illinois - Tom Waits (1:34)
40. Lukin - Pearl Jam (1:02)
41. Here Comes the Summer - Undertones (1:45)
42. Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Dead Kennedys (1:03)
43. Polythene Pam - Beatles (1:13)
44. Mean Mr. Mustard - Beatles (1:06)
45. Till the Morning Comes - Neil Young (1:21)
46. Three Nights A Week - Fats Domino (1:45)
47. Follow That Dream - Elvis Presley (1:35)
48. Prelude - Millennium (1:18)
49. Never Never Land - Todd Rundgren (1:35)
50. Minor Threat - Minor Threat (1:28)
51. 1977 - The Clash (1:41)
52. Shoehorn with Teeth - They Might Be Giants (1:15)
53. Oh Shit! - Buzzcocks (1:37)
54. Lament #1 ("Bird's Lament") - Moondog (1:44)
55. Tommy Can You Hear Me? - The Who (1:37)
56. She - Misfits (1:22)
57. i - Aphex Twin (1:13)
58. Party - Elvis Presley (1:27)
59. Political Song for Micheal Jackson to Sing - Minutemen (1:29)
60. Feelin' - The La's (1:44)
61. Touched - My Bloody Valentine (0:58)
62. Sister - Prince (1:32)
63. 30 Century Man - Scott Walker (1:29)
64. Horn - Nick Drake (1:19)
65. Molly's Lips - Vaselines (1:45)
66. Crackity Jones - Pixies (1:24)
67. Pigs on The Wings - Pink Floyd (1:24)
68. The Blue Nun - Beastie Boys (0:33)
69. Ramrod - Duane Eddy (1:40)
70. Everybody Knows (I Still Love You) - Dave Clark Five (1:41)
71. Our Prayer - Beach Boys (1:05)
72. Easter Woman - Residents (1:00)
73. Quick and to The Pointless - Queens of The Stone Age (1:42)
74. God Is Love - Marvin Gaye (1:44)
75. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue - Ramones (1:36)
76. Curls - Madvillain (1:35)
77. The Suburbs (Continued) - Arcade Fire (1:32)
78. Kickstand - Soundgarden (1:34)
79. Punk - Gorillaz (1:38)
80. College - Animal Collective (0:53)
81. My Way Home - Kanye West (1:43)
82. Wildlife Analysis - Boards of Canada (1:19)
83. I Like It Like That - Dave Clark Five (1:38)
84. Shu Rah - Fats Domino (1:42)
85. The Hellion - Judas Priest (0:41)
86. Chesley's Little Wrists - Pavement (1:16)
87. Misery - Beatles (1:43)
88. Nørgaard - Vaccines (1:38)
89. Vaseline - Elastica (1:24)
90. Matchbox - Jerry Lee Lewis (1:40)
91. Countdown to Armageddon - Public Enemy (1:41)
92. N.Y. Flat Top Box - John Zorn (0:45)
93. Cocksuckers Ball - Clovers (1:20)
94. Bookends Theme - Simon & Garfunkel (1:18)
95. Custom Machine - Bruce & Terry (1:37)
96. White - Frank Ocean feat. John Mayer (1:16)
97. Gangster of Love - Steve Miller Band (1:24)
98. Glad All Over - Carl Perkins (1:40)
99. Rock Your Baby - Wanda Jackson (1:43)
100. Her Majesty - Beatles (0:23)
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Re: Greatest Really Short Rock Songs

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"The Hellion" by Judas Priest should be added.

Some other songs at least considering:

Straight Edge - Minor Threat
Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello
Why Don't We Do It in the Road - The Beatles
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon - Queen
Allison - Pixies
Dio - Tenacious D
Mining for Gold - Cowboy Junkies
Close to You - Frank Ocean
All - Descendents
Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants
Travelin' West - Bo Diddley
Ram On - Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink - Green Day / Silverstein
Diners Only - The Avalanches
UK - Burial
New Thrash - Sublime
Old Mother Reagan - Violet Femmes
Uncle Al - Earl Sweatshirt
To the Workers of the Rock River Valley Region, I Have an Idea Concerning Your Predicament - Sufjan Stevens
Why Hip-Hop Sucks in '96 - DJ Shadow


Also, I think bumping the threshold to, say, 1:50 wouldn't be a bad idea. Then we could include stuff like:

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Fell in Love with a Girl - The White Stripes
Love You More - Buzzcocks
Ain't No Telling - Jimi Hendrix
Odds and Ends - Bob Dylan & The Band
I'm in Love with a Girl - Big Star
Oxford Town - Bob Dylan
Rockin' Stroll - Lemonheads
There Goes My Gun - Pixies
Goodbye - Elton John
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll - Queen
What Did I Do Last Night? - Dave Edmunds
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