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12 February 2010

Shortest/Longest Tracks Tell me what the shortest and longest tracks on your .mp3 player of choice are (in iTunes, just click the "time" column and it'll sort for you).→[More:]
My shortest: My Dad Sucks, Descendents, 0:38
My longest: March to the Sea, Pelican, 11:38

post by: ufez at: 18:44 | 17 comments

I'm beginning a major MP3 overhaul, so I only have about 2,000 songs on my player at the moment...

LONGEST: Negativeland - Helter Stupid (18:00). And since that's not technically a song, next is Velvet Underground - Sister Ray (17:31).

SHORTEST: the Who - Miracle Cure (from Tommy) (:12).

posted by Slack-a-gogo 12 February | 19:13

SHORTEST: One Last "Whoo-Hoo" For the Pullman, Sufjan Stevens (0:06)

LONGEST: Ghosts of the Ostfront Part II, Dan Carlin (a podcast about the eastern front of World War II) (1:30:30)

LONGEST ACTUAL SONG: Pussy Cat Dues, Charles Mingus (9:15)

posted by mdonley 12 February | 19:30

Ha! What a great question.

SHORTEST: "The Sky Is A Harpsichord Canvas," by the Olivia Tremor Control (:04)

LONGEST: "As Long As I Can Hold My Breath (By Night)" by Harold Budd (69:28)

posted by BoringPostcards 12 February | 19:33

My external hard drive crashed a couple of days ago, and I lost all my music. BUT I can still tell you longest and shortest:

LONGEST: Kleptones, "Uptime"
SHORTEST: Michael Giacchino "Theme from Fringe"

posted by WolfDaddy 12 February | 20:28

The shortest on this computer (except for a couple of sound effect clips) is 0:09 - "Convict", from Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime II.

The longest (except for HHGG episodes) is 20:43 - the 3rd movement of Aho's Symphony #10.

Counting back from that, the next few are Rush, Rush, Aho, Rush, Voivod, and Pink Floyd.

posted by Wolfdog 12 February | 21:48

Wow, this is a neat question. On my computer, the shortest track is a three-way tie, at four seconds, between G&D (Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins), Cincinnati turntablist Mr. Dibbs and an intro from the Afropop band The Green Arrows.

The longest is a DJ mix, Cosmo Baker's 'Too Much Posse,' at 2:37 or so. Outside of mixes and radio shows and podcasts and stuff, the longest song is a 69 minute Cecil Taylor concert.

posted by box 12 February | 22:26

"Side D - Intro" from Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime (0:02)

Part 1 of an audiobook of Neal Gabler's Walt Disney : Triumph of the American Imagination (533:40)

posted by Joe Beese 12 February | 22:40

Out of 6,536 tracks:
Shortest - LA Drone (Led Zeppelin - 0:15) Next in line are Eminem, Pink Floyd, Rogue Traders, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Genesis.
Longest - Echoes (Pink Floyd - from a BBC archives collection - 26:28) Next in line are Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Josh Millard.

posted by dg 12 February | 22:59

Not counting ringtones, whole gigs, radio shows and DJ mixes...

shortest: Outro, by Opus III, from the album Mind Fruit (0:30)
longest: (bloody hell there are a lot of DJ mixes here...) Biotrip by Shades of Orion, from the Fax records ambient collection. (41:50)

posted by pompomtom 12 February | 23:14

longest: "In-A-Godda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly (00:16:57)
shortest: (tie) "Kids With Guns" by Gorillaz and "On Off" by Daft Punk (00:00:19)

posted by birdherder 12 February | 23:32

Shortest: Fortissimo Wah - Jay Farrar (0:38)

Longest: Marais La Nuit - Neko Case (31:39) Half an hour of crickets chirping.

posted by octothorpe 12 February | 23:35

Longest: Klaus Schulze - My Ty She 1:15:49 I don't think I've ever listened to this

Shortest: Banyan - Any Time at All 0:00:04

posted by doctor_negative 13 February | 00:05

Shortest: Buster Bluth saying "Hey, Hermano", Arrested Development (0:01 sec)

Longest: Leopold Doppler, Jean Shepherd (reading his short story) (1:11:17)

Musical Shortest: Ain't That Fine (False Start), Ray Charles (0:09 sec)

Musical Longest: I Dream a Highway - Gillian Welch (14:40)

I too have a bunch of old radio shows, audio books, random humorous videos, etc. on my ipod that I discounted for the second set.

posted by julen 13 February | 00:40

Excluding podcasts & audiobooks:

Longest: "Dopesmoker" by Sleep, 1:03:31

Shortest: Field recording of a tree frog, 0:05

posted by BitterOldPunk 13 February | 02:18

Longest song: "Lincoln Center Medley" by Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett (13:12) (utterly terrible)

Shortest song: "How Pretty Can You Get?" by The Shangri-Las (0:12) (a Revlon radio jingle)

posted by cillit bang 13 February | 07:14

Shortest - The Sound of a Cash Register (0:01)
Longest - Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused (live) (29:10)

thats not including full albums or session tapes

posted by rollick 13 February | 12:24

What a great question, a bit late here:

Shortest: Happy Boy - The Beat Farmers (1:22)

Longest: Like A Hurricane - Neil Young & Crazy Horse (14.01)

posted by Marxchivist 14 February | 12:31

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