What's the shortest single album track you know?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@Horatio_Hellpop

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?

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

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@Thudlow_Boink

Snowboarder Bo’s example may be impossible to beat.

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” and “Who’s knocking”) are 4 seconds each.

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

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@Johanna

“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.

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