Shortest song of all time

Jeremy1012
Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
edited March 2007 in Other Music
is apparently "You suffer" by legendary UK Grindcore band Napalm Death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1IGjr2cT0

apparently the vocals say "You suffer, but why?" in 1.3 seconds

I can't decide if its the funniest or dumbest thing ever.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    definitely the dumbest. that's not a song.
  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    How about the song titled "One Note" by Pearl Jam. I'm pretty that was less than 1.3 seconds.
  • Alex_Coe
    Alex_Coe Posts: 762
    I think the shortest song ever that was not intended to be a partial song or a throwaway gesture...

    Little Room, by the White Stripes. Certainly there are many, many songs that are shorter, but Little Room is 50 seconds and certainly not a throwaway filler song.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I wouldn't be surprised if Brian Eno has them all beaten.
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Awesome
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Lame.
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    that was dumb. even though I do think a point can be made or something can be expressed in 1.3 seconds.......this video didn't do it.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    In 1994 Eno was approached by Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk, senior designers at Microsoft on the Cairo project. The result was the start-up sound for the Windows 95 operating system. From an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:

    The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem – solve it." The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3¼ seconds long." I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
  • SomethingCreative
    SomethingCreative Kazoo, MI Posts: 3,422
    Red Lukin wrote:
    How about the song titled "One Note" by Pearl Jam. I'm pretty that was less than 1.3 seconds.


    that's a who song I believe
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    In 1994 Eno was approached by Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk, senior designers at Microsoft on the Cairo project. The result was the start-up sound for the Windows 95 operating system. From an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:

    The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem – solve it." The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3¼ seconds long." I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
    fascinating.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Red Lukin wrote:
    How about the song titled "One Note" by Pearl Jam. I'm pretty that was less than 1.3 seconds.
    Proud to say that I was there for the first performance of that classic...:rolleyes:
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  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    In 1994 Eno was approached by Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk, senior designers at Microsoft on the Cairo project. The result was the start-up sound for the Windows 95 operating system. From an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle:

    The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem – solve it." The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3¼ seconds long." I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.


    haha, that's fucking awesome; the man's crazy.
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    tybird wrote:
    Proud to say that I was there for the first performance of that classic...:rolleyes:

    you lucky bastard ;)
  • bestsane
    bestsane Posts: 131
    Here's something from Wikipedia. It's a Guiness World Record dude.

    "You Suffer" is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. The song has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long and consists of the almost incomprehensible lyrics "You suffer - but why?".

    The song was recorded in 1986 and is featured on the album Scum, released in 1987. Napalm Death usually perform the song during live concerts as well.

    To coincide with the release of the Scum dualdisc in March 2007, a video was released for the song
  • Dogman3
    Dogman3 Posts: 330
    As in a decipherable, actual song, it's gotta be from The Who's Tommy. "Miracle Cure" I think.
  • niall
    niall Posts: 244
    One note isn't a Who cover. it is actually an underestimated moving piece of music that needs only one note played to display all the emotion and meaning..!!!!!
  • lars
    lars Posts: 524
    bestsane wrote:
    Here's something from Wikipedia. It's a Guiness World Record dude.
    Respect! Short and to the point...much better than most british bands and american emo bands. The second shortest could be nuclear assaults "Art", it´s 8 seconds and the lyrics go: ".....it´s fucking art, man"
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  • Jennytree
    Jennytree Posts: 5,340
    Kyuss had a really short song too that just went 'yeah'... think it was called 'Yeah' :D
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  • luxpjamer
    luxpjamer Posts: 837
    Here's not the shortest song but the shortest music Video. It's called Yoko Ono by die ärzte

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4oI9SKO_PA


    lyrics:
    Du hast mir nichts als Pech gebracht,
    hast mich nur belogen,
    hast mich lächerlich gemacht,
    mein Konto überzogen!

    Du nervst noch mehr als Yoko Ono!
    Du gehst mir tierisch auf den Sack!
    Du haust nicht ab aus meiner Wohnung;
    hast einen beschissenen Musikgeschmack!


    (+/- ;))Trsl
    You brought me absoutely no luck
    You were just lying to me
    you were bringing me to ridicule
    and were owerdrawing my account

    you unnerved me more than yoko ono
    you're really mithering me
    you won't get out of my flat
    and got a really bad music taste
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • Alex_Coe
    Alex_Coe Posts: 762
    Jennytree wrote:
    Kyuss had a really short song too that just went 'yeah'... think it was called 'Yeah' :D


    I bought that song off of Blues for the Red Sun... Thumbs up to Brant Bjork.

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