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* ''Music/TheAvalanches'' have many short interludes;

* TheSmothersBrothers had a track titled "Soap" that had 10 seconds of music (not counting 20 seconds of banter and audience laughter).

* ''[https://newmotion.ca/album/one-second-a-compilation-album One Second: A Compilation Album]]'' consists of over a hundred 1 second somgs, with a total running time of about 2 minutes.

* Music/{{Danielson}}: The [[BookEnds first and last tracks]] of the double-album ''Tri-Danielson!!!'' are 22 seconds long, and just consist of a crowd cheering and shouting the album title.

* The main theme of ''VideoGame/SonicRivals 2'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5jPF_GdC-0 Race to Win]], is only about a minute long.

* "Diamonds and Rust (Extended Version)" from Music/StormtroopersOfDeath is about 4 seconds long and homages Music/JudasPriest[='=]s cover of the Music/JoanBaez song "Diamonds and Rust".

* The Stormtroopers of Death, a side project two members of Music/Anthrax, a former member, and somebody else, has a lot of these. The "Ballad of [dead musician]," for example, is several songs that are a distinctive part of a hit song by a dead musician ([[Music/JimiHendrix the opening chords to Purple Haze]], for example) followed by "You're dead."

** They also hold the world record for the shortest album ever released, clocking in at around 43 seconds in total. It's the same album that "You Suffer" is on.

* Music/Blink182 has the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIZDBCYd9Kk Brohemian Rhapsody]]," clocking in at 0:26 minutes. The also have "Family Reunion" (0:36 minutes), "Built this Pool" (0:16 minutes), "Happy Holidays, You Bastard!" (0:42 seconds).

Of course, if you have a band that specialises in songs of EpicRocking length, a song of normal length by everyone else standards would, for them, be an example of this trope.

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->'''Crash:''' This is called "I'm So Sad. I Am So Very Very Sad", and it goes a little something like this...
''The song plays and ends...before the feather touches the floor.
'''Young Neil:''' It can't be! That song was...
'''Knives:''' 0.4 seconds long?!?

* Anal Trump, a side project of Music/{{Cattle Decapitation}}'s Travis Ryan and Pinback's Rob Crow have taken this to further extremes with several EP's and a compiled album "The First 100 Songs" which clocks in around 11 minutes...for 100 songs. Most songs are under 10 seconds each.

Songs like this are frequently found on {{Concept Album}}s and {{Rock Opera}}s, where they usually serve as transitions between different scenes or movements. An AlbumIntroTrack will often be this, since its role is mostly to set the tone for the rest of the album.

* A couple of songs from Msuic/{{U2}}'s ''Music/RattleAndHum'' - Freedom For My People and The Star Spangled Banner.

* "Little Room" from Music/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.

* Music/{{Weezer}}'s "Evaline" is forty four seconds long, although it's a cover of a barbershop song with no known author. At the time the band were learning such material to practice harmonizing with each other, so they decided it'd be fun to record one and put it out as a BSide.

* Music/MyBloodyValentine has the 56 second long "Touched", a strange ambient track that sounds like 16-bit video game music.

* Japanese rock band Golden Bomber took the concept to a new level by playing ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkKTyLTcKPk an 8-second concert]]'' at a mall in June 29, 2017.

** They also hold the world record for shortest album ever released, clocking in at around 43 seconds in total. It's the same album that "You Suffer" is on.

* Music/FiveIronFrenzy has a lot of these. The straightest examples were "Shut Up", "I Still Like Larry"[[note]]which was also rerecorded with different lyrics as "Two Kids in Memphis" and "Never Ask Us to Play This"[[/note]], 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").

* Music/{{Descendents}} have quite a few songs that are under a minute, but the shortest include "I Like Food" (0:16) and "Weinerschnitzel" (0:10). And then there's "All!" and "No, All!", both of which are five second tracks with one second of music, and have only their title phrases for lyrics.

** Most of the songs on this album were recorded specifically for the the album, but a few were already released by the artists on previous albums. These include "No Fgnuikc" by Nomeansno, the above mentioned Music/{{Descendents}} song "I Like Food", and "Deny Everything" by The Circle Jerks.

* Music/MinorThreat launched the Straight Edge subgenre with the song of the same name, and is less than 50 seconds long
* Music/TheMinutemen did this frequently; their band name referenced their tendency of writing songs roughly a minute in length. Their first album is 15 minutes in length and features 18 songs. Their average song length increased to around a minute and a half to two minutes when they added things like guitar solos and choruses to their music, but they rarely surpassed the three minute mark.

* German Punk band Die Ärzte (The Doctors) have a song called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Og1vh2lU Yoko Ono]]" lasting exactly 30 seconds. It was even in the Guiness Book of World Records for shortest single with a music video.

* ''VideoGame/{{Magicka}}'' : Vietnam soundtrack has "Welcome to the 'nam" , a song that is less than two minutes long and inspired by Music/ChuckBerry's Johhny B. Goode.

* By most people's definition of "short", the vast majority of playable tracks in the VideoGame/{{BEMANI}} series, as well as other arcade rhythm games, fall under this, lasting typically around 90 seconds to two minutes, up to 2:30 in rare cases, in order to accomodate arcade games where the player is typically permitted three to five songs per credit. However, "Thank You For Playing" from the console version of ''[[VideoGame/{{GITADORA}} GuitarFreaks & Drummania]] V3'' is a shining example of this trope; it is a playable track that lasts only ''five seconds''.
* Tenacious D's "Destiny" and "The Divide" are both transition pices from the movie and last around half a minute.

** Likewise, on ''One Foot in the Grave,'' the longest song is three and a half minutes, with a majority of tracks around the two minute mark.

* You wouldn't think {{Medley}}s could fall on this page at all. You'd be wrong - some Website/NicoNicoDouga medleys have been known to last [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUB8PlrCUYE less than]] [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17687820 one second!]] If you're looking for something longer, try [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTGfhVLPZgc this 50 second one.]]

* The german band Die Ärzte did this with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Og1vh2lU Yoko Ono]], a 30 seconds long single that was released even with a videoclip.

* German Punk band Die Ärzte (The Doctors) have a song called "Yoko Ono" lasting exactly 30 seconds. It was even in the Guiness Book of World Records for shortest single with a music video.

* "Lily of the Valley" by Music/{{Queen}}. 1 minute and 43 seconds of pure epicness. "Dear Friends", "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" and "Nevermore" also fit into this trope. Coincidentally, all four were written by Freddie Mercury, but Brian May and Roger Taylor have their own examples in "Procession" and "Modern Times Rock and Roll" respectively.

* "Harvey the Wonder Hamster" by Music/WeirdAlYankovic is 0:26 seconds long.