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Monday Coffee Break: Short and Sweet

Posted at 8:16 AM on November 23, 2009 by Steve Seel (24 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

(updated below)

In honor of the short week this week (for many folks, that is - our hearts go out to those working in service or retail who will be on the clock Thursday and/or Friday), the topic for today's 9:30 Coffee Break is "short and sweet"; songs that are over practically before they've even gotten rolling. As usual, make your requests below, or here.

Update: Given the topic, we had the time to play plenty of songs. Your requests that we went with:

1) The White Stripes, "Fell In Love With A Girl"
2) Elvis Presley, "A Little Less Conversation"
3) Minutemen, "Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing"
4) The Beatles, "Maggie Mae"
5) The Bees, "Voices Green And Purple"
6) The Pixies, "Allison"
7) They Might Be Giants, "Minimum Wage"
8) The Replacements, "Run It"
9) Neutral Milk Hotel, "A Baby For Pree"
10) Guided By Voices, "Teenage FBI"
11) Magnetic Fields, "Asolutely Cuckoo"
12) Ramones, "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"
13) Tom Waits, "Bend Down The Branches"

Comments (24)

This one is so easy! Anything by the Ramones fits the bill!!! I dare you to find more than a few songs of theirs that's longer than 3 minutes

Posted by Mike | November 23, 2009 8:55 AM

"Dear George" by Tori Amos is a nice short song that's really cool. Definitely an indictment of George Bush. Soft and quiet yet powerful.

Posted by Nick Reynolds | November 23, 2009 9:02 AM

"The Fire" - Imogen Heap (From Ellipse)

Seems to be 1:59 on Amazon.

Posted by Nyles Breecher | November 23, 2009 9:04 AM

Smiths..."Please, please, please, let me get what I want"

Posted by Susie | November 23, 2009 9:04 AM

"Thalassocracy" - Frank Black, from Teenager of the Year

It rocks too hard to be longer than 1:33

Posted by John | November 23, 2009 9:12 AM

Relient K - Crayons Could Melt On Us For All I Care

Posted by Shane | November 23, 2009 9:12 AM

Iron and Wine - Die -- Its on the "Dark Was The Night" compilation

Posted by Kyle J | November 23, 2009 9:12 AM

Radiohead - Fitter Happier

Posted by Allyson | November 23, 2009 9:12 AM

The Pixies have some great slenderly-sized tracks. Some of my favorites are "There Goes My Gun", "Broken Face", and "Crackity Jones". There have to be at least 3-4 songs under two minutes on each of their albums.

Posted by Jonathan Rajavuori | November 23, 2009 9:13 AM

Little Room - White Stripes

Posted by Mia | November 23, 2009 9:13 AM

this song is a must for a list like this:
Song 2 by Blur

although I would rather hear you guys play "Fitter Happier" ;)

Posted by Simon | November 23, 2009 9:14 AM

"Reno Dakota" by The Magnetic Fields. I think of this song whenever you guys play that new MM song. Darn good Banjo tune the both of them. Also, I know that someone working over there loves 69 Love Songs. Here's an excuse to play something off it.

Posted by Erik Thomsen | November 23, 2009 9:14 AM

Back in the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles
Fell in Love with a Girl - The White Stripes
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon and Garfunkel

Posted by Sean | November 23, 2009 9:14 AM

if anyone needs ideas:
http://medialoper.com/50-great-songs-under-2-minutes-long/

gotta say the most popular song on that list is #49 ... would have figured its under 3min but not under 2!

Posted by Simon | November 23, 2009 9:16 AM

There are so many Hives songs that are just SECONDS too long:

A.K.A. IDIOT - 2:12
The Hives - Introduce the Metric System in Time - 2:06
Supply and Demand - 2:26

Here are some great ones that fit the bill:

Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones - 2:00
What's that Spell? Go to Hell - 1:41
Dead Quote Olympics - 1:59

Posted by Matt | November 23, 2009 9:16 AM

Little Room - The White Stripes
You Gotta Feel It - Spoon
Arco Arena - Cake
End Of The Movie - Cake
Georgia Georgia - Elliot Smith

Posted by Jackie | November 23, 2009 9:17 AM

"Over It" by Matthew Sweet
"Up in Arms" by Foo Fighters
"Stand on Your Own Head" by They Might Be Giants
"Rockin' Stroll" by The Lemonheads

Posted by Kevin | November 23, 2009 9:18 AM

They might be giants - minimum wage

Posted by mike | November 23, 2009 9:19 AM

From Me to You - The Beatles (1:58)
The Wind - Cat Stevens (1:42)
Feng Shui - Gnarls Barkley (1:27)
Take Back - Green Day (1:09!!) + lots of Green Day options under 2
Bombshell - Operation Ivy (1:04!!) + ditto
She's Automatic - Rancid (1:35)
The Celibate Life - The Shins (1:51)

Posted by Joy Z | November 23, 2009 9:21 AM

Her Majesty - The Beatles
and/or
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

Posted by Helena | November 23, 2009 9:21 AM

Tom waits - frank's wild years

Posted by mike | November 23, 2009 9:22 AM

•Passive Manipulation - the White Stripes (35 seconds)

•Her Majesty - the Beatles (23 seconds)

•Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy - The Swell Season (48 seconds)

•Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon - Queen (1:08)

•Hospital - The Daredevil Christopher Wright (1:09)

Posted by Jess | November 23, 2009 9:27 AM

Here's my input: at 1:05 minutes, Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman"

Posted by Laura | November 23, 2009 9:28 AM

Missed it. What did you play?

Posted by Lbird | November 23, 2009 3:13 PM

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