History Main / MinisculeRocking

* {{Yes}} have an example that is ''both'' kinds of this trope, Five Per Cent For Nothing, at 0:35 - extremely short for any band, and Yes are known for producing such 20-minute epics as Close to the Edge. There's also "We Have Heaven", which - at 1:40 - is mostly just an example of the second kind.

* Bush's "X-Girlfriend" closes out ''Sixteen Stone'' with exactly 45 seconds of the line "you only call me when you're down" set to a simply, punk-ish riff. They were probably going for deliberate anticlimax, because the second-to-last song, "Alien" is six minutes long and thus the closest thing the album has to EpicRocking.

* The HiddenTrack on {{KMFDM}}'s ''Nihil''.

* "You Suffer" by NapalmDeath, which clocks in at a whole 1.316 seconds. Officially holds the record for "shortest song ever".

* "Foreplay with a Tree Shredder" by Anal Cunt is 51 seconds.

* GreenDay sometimes dip into this, with "Take Back" and "Song of the Century".

* FiveIronFrenzy has a lot of these. The straightest examples were "Shut Up", "I Still Like Larry"[[hottip:*:which was also rerecorded with different lyrics as "Two Kids in Memphis" and "Never Ask Us to Play This"]], and their cover version of Vengeance Rising's "Receive Him". There was also the eight-part "These Are Not My Pants", where all but one part were less than an minute long. Then there are songs that are ridiculously short on the studio albums but longer at live shows (like "When I Go Out" or "Pootermobile"), or vice versa (like "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs").
* DeadKennedys have done this at least twice, with "A Child and His Lawnmower" (0:54) and the LampshadeHanging "Short Songs" (0:20).

* TheResidents' ''Commercial Album'' consists of 40 one-minute songs.

* TheBeatles have the 0:32 ''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand Sgt. Pepper]]'' Inner Groove, the 0:23 "Her Majesty" and the 0:41 "Maggie Mae".

* The appropriately named "Tiny Little Song" by BarenakedLadies.
* Most of the songs that comprise "Fingertips" by TheyMightBeGiants. From the wiki: "Fingertips" is a series of twenty-one short tracks ranging in duration from four to sixty-one seconds (although most of them are under fifteen), totaling four minutes and thirty-five seconds. Also "Theme From Flood" and "Minimum Wage".
* Several songs from TheWho's ''{{Tommy}}''- "It's a Boy", "Miracle Cure".

* "Lily of the Valley" by {{Queen}}. 1 minute and 43 seconds of pure epicness.
* {{Coldplay}} have Parachutes (0:46) and Postcards from Far Away (0:48). Their new album, Mylo Xyloto, adds 3 mood-setting pieces: the title track, M.M.I.X and A Hopeful Transmission.

* The punk compilation ''Short Music For Short People'' is themed around this, and the tracks average out to be around 30 seconds each: It manages to fit 101 songs by 101 different bands on one 48 minute album. Yes, CD's have a maximum of 99 tracks, but they got around this by putting the last three songs all on the same track.

* The {{Halo 3}} soundtrack has "Legend" (0:43, for a small hidden scene after the credits) and the 0:29 "Movement" (which doesn't seem to have any reason for being there).

EpicRocking is the trope for really long songs. This trope is the opposite. MinisculeRocking is when a song is unusually short, either by normal standards or the band's standards (or, in many cases, both). Yet, much like EpicRocking, these songs will frequently contain no lyrics - after all, it's hard to fit meaningful lyrics into a piece that only lasts 30 seconds.

Examples include:

* A couple of songs from U2's ''Rattle and Hum'' - Freedom For My People and The Star Spangled Banner.

* PearlJam's "Pry, To", "Lukin", and "Red Dot" (that track on ''Yield'' that has a little red dot in place of a title) are all just a little longer than a minute. "Pry, To" and "Red Dot" have one line repeated over a few times, but "Lukin" actually fits in two whole verses of lyrics, due to Eddie Vedder using some fairly impressive {{motormouth}} skills.

* ''Little Room'' from TheWhiteStripes. It has lyrics (a single verse), and isn't especially short for a band that mostly produces 2-3 minute songs, but it still weighs in at only 53 seconds long.

* ''Diamonds and Rust (Extended Version)'' from StormtroopersOfDeath is about 4 seconds long and homages {{Judas Priest}}'s cover of the JoanBaez song ''Diamonds and Rust''.

** The first game's soundtrack had "Shadows", a 40-second PsychoStrings track that was even shorter in the actual game.

* R.E.M have "Underneath the Bunker", at 1:27 - longer than most of the examples here, but still arguably short enough to count (normal R.E.M song length being around 4 minutes).

* A huge number of songs from the {{Homeworld}} soundtrack, mostly for the small between-level cutscenes.

* {{Coldplay}} have Parachutes (0:46) and Postcards from Far Away (0:48).

* The {{Korn}} album ''Issues'' has several songs that are only 1-2 minutes long, including "Dead" (1:12), "4U" (1:42), "It's Gonna Go Away" (1:29), "Am I Going Crazy" (1:00), and "Wish You Could Be Me" (1:07).