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* Christian rock band Stryper perform a short but awesome version of ''Battle Hymn Of The Republic'' (Mine eyes have seen the glory...") which lasts barely 2 minutes. But it's a magnificent chunk of rock all the same.

* Music/{{Beck}} does this every now and then.

** "Madrigal" (from ''Music/AFarewellToKings'') and "Need Some Love" (from ''Music/RushAlbum'') were the two shortest standalone songs the band had recorded until the release of ''Snakes & Arrows''. Both of them clock in at or just under two and a half minutes.

* The Frogs' [[LongTitle "Who's Sucking On Grandpa's Balls Since Grandma Ain't Home Tonight?"]] is 11 seconds long. As you might expect, the only lyric the song has is the title itself.

* A 1964 version of "Little Boxes" by a group called The Womenfolk runs just 1:03 and held the record for the shortest song to ever make the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for over half a century, until it was broken by Pikotaro's "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen" (:45), and Music/KidCudi's "Beautiful Trip" (:37).

* A 1964 version of "Little Boxes" by a group called The Womenfolk is exactly 1:00 long and held the record for the shortest song to ever make the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for over half a century, until it was broken by Pikotaro's "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen" (:45), and Music/KidCudi's "Beautiful Trip" (:37).

* Music/BobDylan, the TropeMaker for EpicRocking, went way in the opposite direction on ''Nashville Skyline'' in 1969. It has 10 songs, with the longest being 3:41 and the shortest 1:32, with the entire album clocking in at 27:14. In comparison, his next album, the widely panned ''Self Portrait'', is 73:15.

* The 1969 Music/BobDylan album ''Nashville Skyline'' has 10 songs, with the longest being 3:41 and the shortest 1:32, with the entire album clocking in at 27:14. In comparison, his next album, the widely panned ''Self Portrait'', is 73:15.

** They've pretty much clinched the career achievement award for this. Over nearly three decades of recording their longest song (not counting remixes or live tracks) clocks in at a mere 4:39 ("They Got Lost").

* A 1964 version of "Little Boxes" by a group called The Womenfolk is exactly 1:00 long and held the record for the shortest song to ever make the Billboard Hot 100 until "Pen Pineapple Apple Pen" overtook it at 45 seconds.

** And from ''Film/{{UHF}}'', there's "Let Me Be You Hog", which is 17 seconds long.

* Being the band that ''invented'' and [[TropeCodifier codified]] PunkRock, Music/TheRamones' [[Music/{{Ramones}} debut album]] packs 14 songs into barely 29 minutes. They didn't even write a three-minute song until "Questioningly" on their fourth album, ''Music/RoadToRuin''.