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** Since I Left You: Avalanche Rock (0:20) and Pablo's Cruise (0:52)
** Wildflower: The Leaves Were Falling (0:15), Park Music (0:54), and Over The Turnstiles (0:41)
** We Will Always Love You: Carrier Waves (0:57), Star Song.IMG (0:10), Pink Champagne (0:12), and Dial D for Devotion (0:31)

* Music/KingCrimson has the three Peace songs from ''In the Wake of Poseidon''.

* Music/{{Rush}} has one, the song [=BU2B2=] on the album Music/ClockworkAngels.

* "Anything", the first single and opening track on the Music/ThirdEyeBlind album "Blue", clocks in at exactly 2 minutes. A extended version exists and clocks in at 2:48 - but the so-called "extended version" merely loops the first and last 28 seconds of the song, along with the power chord around the middle.
** "An Ode To Maybe", also from "Blue" (2:36) and "All These Things" from "Dopamine" (2:25) qualify as well.

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

* Music/SufjanStevens' ''Illinois'' has a number of brief tracks (with overly-long titles like "A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons" or "One Last 'Whoo-hoo!' For The Pullman") ranging from 8 to 48 seconds long, which basically just serve as a coda for the preceding track. For some of these, you'd have to pay attention to your music player to even notice that they're a separate track.

''The song plays and ends...before the feather touches the floor.''\\

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-C0f5OxJBU Charge]]", which plays while fighting the second-to-final boss. One loop is about six seconds.

* Music/MinorThreat launched the Straight Edge subgenre with the song of the same name and is less than 50 seconds long

* The Gerogerigege are notorious for their music's intense brevity and abrasiveness and have gone so far as to release a 30-minute long album consisting of 75 tracks and condensing what may or may not be a cover of Music/TheCure's "Boys Don't Cry" into 20 seconds.

* Music/AesopRock's "Flies", off of ''Spirit World Field Guide'' is about him failing to rid his house of flies, and is only 46 seconds long. In [[https://floodmagazine.com/82725/aesop-rock-spirit-world-field-guide-track-by-track an interview]] with FLOOD Magazine, he remarked that "some stuff doesn’t need to be exhausted for two to three verses, but still deserves a song."

* Aesop Rock's "Flies", off of ''Spirit World Field Guide'' is about him failing to rid his house of flies, and is only 46 seconds long. In [[https://floodmagazine.com/82725/aesop-rock-spirit-world-field-guide-track-by-track an interview]] with FLOOD Magazine, he remarked that "some stuff doesn’t need to be exhausted for two to three verses, but still deserves a song."

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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.

* Most of the songs that make up "Fingertips" by Music/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".

* A couple of songs from Msuic/{{U2}}'s ''Music/RattleAndHum'' - Freedom For My People and The Star-Spangled Banner (the latter an excerpt from Music/JimiHendrix's performance at Film/{{Woodstock}}).

* A couple of songs from Msuic/{{U2}}'s ''Music/RattleAndHum'' - Freedom For My People and The Star-Spangled Banner.
* Music/{{REM}} have "Underneath the Bunker" from "Lifes Rich Pageant", 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).

* 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.

** After several albums with pretty average track-lengths throughout, ''Nanobots'' had them including some extremely short songs again - the shortest track being the six second "Hive Mind", and several others being under a minute long. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYiIcETO2A4 The official music video for "Insect Hospital"]] is actually a video for tracks 13-18 from the album in full, and is a little under three minutes long.

* Relient K has done many of these songs, which usually have the longest titles of any of their tracks. For example, The Only Thing Worse That Beating A Dead Horse Is Betting On One is a little over a minute. This trope is lampshaded with the song Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care, in which lead singer Matt Thiessen sings "I just wasted ten seconds of your life." And yes, this track is little over ten seconds.

* Music/JuliaNunes' ''Settle Down'' has a trio of short songs she's referred to as "vignettes": "He Is Mad" (52 seconds), "I Wasn't Worried" (57 seconds) and "Pizza" (23 seconds).

* Music/TheFlowerKings have an extreme example of both types with "Captain Capstan", a 45-second instrumental, and "Ikea By Night", a four second drum fill which both follow the nearly hour-long "Garden of Dreams" suite.

* Much of the discography of Music/AnalCunt falls into this category. They have had songs which have lasted as short as 8 seconds.

* A lot of Music/{{Dismember}} songs clock in around the two minute mark, including "Never Forget, Never Forgive" (1:43), "Soon to be Dead" (1:55), "Skin Her Alive" (2:15), "Eviscerated (Bitch)" (2:20), and "Wardead" (2:28).

* 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.
** Most of the songs on this album were recorded specifically for 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.

* The majority of songs by Cerebral Ballzy are under two minutes, with some just below or barely above the one minute mark.

* 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) and "Generational Divide" (0:49).

* Music/GeorgeStrait's "Heartland", "The Big One", "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" and "Don't Make Me Come Over There and Love You" are just over 2 minutes each. They were released in 1993, 1994, 1998 and 2001, respectively, and are both unusually short for any era.