FIVE TIMES FIVE UNDER THREE


equals a pretty great playlist.

I was bopping around the internets tonight, and I stumbled upon a meme question that seemed right up my alley and down my iTunes library: WHAT ARE YOUR TOP FIVE SONGS UNDER THREE MINUTES LONG? It sounded like a lot of fun, one of those short-and-sweet topics that could get me thinking and rocking and finally to posting. But with almost 1,000 under-three-minute songs in my digital music collection, the list was a hell of a lot more difficult to whittle down than I expected.

In the end, I'm still not entirely pleased -- not just because I had to omit a hell of a lot of my favorite songs, but also because I could only get the list down to five times its required length. So here, in excessive, alphabetical order, are my

TOP TWENTY-FIVE SONGS UNDER THREE MINUTES LONG

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding
Ain't Too Proud to Beg, The Temptations
Bad Moon Rising, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Career Opportunities, The Clash
Don't Cry No Tears, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Floorboard Blues, Cowboy Junkies
Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Green Day
I Walk the Line, Johnny Cash
Minority, Green Day
My Flying Saucer, Billy Bragg & Wilco
Never Goin' Back Again, Fleetwood Mac
Oh, Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison
Oklahoma, U.S.A., The Kinks
One Hundred Years From Now, Gram Parsons
Passionate Kisses, Lucinda Williams
Someday, Someway, Marshall Crenshaw
Something So Strong, Crowded House
The Kids are Alright, The Who
This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie
Walk On, Neil Young
What a Wonderful World, Sam Cooke
Windfall, Son Volt
You Really Got Me, The Kinks.

Have your own favorites that didn't make my list? Let me know. I'll work up an alternate playlist for next Friday's Notes. Until then, rock on (and short)...

Posted: Sun - January 14, 2007 at 11:06 PM          

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