History Main / MinisculeRocking

* 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.

* 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''.