# What's the shortest single album track you know?

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**Created:** [June 3, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortest-single-album-track-you-know/834951 "2019-06-03T14:34:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortest-single-album-track-you-know/834951/41 "2019-06-10T13:52:43Z")

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> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#):
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> I forget, was “I’m Jimmy Carl Black and I’m the Indian of the group” its own track, or tacked onto a longer one?

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> His trademark line was “Hi Boys and Girls, I’m Jimmy Carl Black, and I’m the Indian of the group.” The line can be heard several times on The Mothers of Invention’s album _We’re Only in It for the Money_ (for example, on the tracks “Are You Hung Up?” and “Concentration Moon”). The line can also be heard in Haskell Wexler’s 1969 ‘Medium Cool’. He was also addressed as such by Theodore Bikel in the film _200 Motels_.

> **[Jimmy Carl Black](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carl_Black)**
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> James Inkanish, Jr. (February 1, 1938 – November 1, 2008), known professionally as Jimmy Carl Black, was a drummer and vocalist for the Mothers of Invention.
> Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was of mixed American Indian descent through both his father and his mother. His trademark line was "Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group." The line can be heard several times on The Mothers of Invention's album We're Only in It for the Money (for example, on the tracks "Ar...

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**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortest-single-album-track-you-know/834951/42 "2019-06-10T16:13:30Z")

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> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> **Snowboarder Bo** ’s example may be impossible to beat.
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> They Might Be Giants’ album _Apollo 18_ contains a medley of very short songs called “Fingertips,” each of which is its own track on the CD. (It was written to take advantage of the then-somewhat-novel shuffle play feature on CD players.) The shortest songs (“[I heard a sound](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmdN31wZ_A)” and “[Who’s knocking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlwnODOQ5Y)”) are 4 seconds each.

They also had “Minimum Wage,” on Flood. That track is 48 seconds long.

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**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-shortest-single-album-track-you-know/834951/43 "2019-06-10T19:14:34Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> “Nutopian International Anthem” from _Mind Games_. Three seconds of silence. Nutopia was a conceptual country described in the liner notes, a country with no borders and no passports. One of the clear influences of Yoko Ono’s avant-garde conceptual art on John Lennon.

This is what I came in to say.

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