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Poll Question: What do you concider a short song?
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6 [15.79%]
17 [44.74%]
3 [7.89%]
4 [10.53%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
8 [21.05%]
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    Posted: August 28 2012 at 08:28
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Any length that leaves me feeling that they could've made much more with the song.




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3:30 is about average for most songs, especially older ones. I would consider anything under three minutes pretty short.
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2:30 and under. 
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Less than three minutes.
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less than 2:17, above that a song either is of normal length or longer.
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Originally posted by Hamef Ahakim Hamef Ahakim wrote:

less than 2:17, above that a song either is of normal length or longer.

Interesting, where did you get that info? 
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Not their shortest, but the shortest that actually made sense. I would probably set the bar at 1:00. Since my punk days were filled with :45 to 1:30 songs.

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Less than 4:00.
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it is not the size of the track that matters but what you put into it which is the clue

this is 3 min of ear orgasme
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Anything less than 15 minutes....haha! Just kidding, I voted less than 7.
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Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

it is not the size of the track that matters but what you put into it which is the clue

this is 3 min of ear orgasme



I couldn't agree more. All of DNA's songs are pretty short (almost all of them are under 3:00s), but I still love them to death.
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Less than 4 minutes.
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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Less than 4:00.
And this is for general music. For prog I say less than 6 minutes.
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3 minutes or less.
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It seems I was the first one to vote for <4m30s.
 
In the Prog environment anything less than that is short. but the next benchmark was 7 minutes and that, while not being ecessively long, feels not right for the question, a 6m30s is not what you can call a short song either.
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Originally posted by HarbouringTheSoul HarbouringTheSoul wrote:

Less than three minutes.
That was my first thought. But I voted 3:30 since it was closest.
 
There are many great short songs, like "Auslafen" from the Das Boot soundtrack (1:14)
 
 
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Any length that leaves me feeling that they could've made much more with the song.
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Points: 23210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2012 at 16:48
Hah I was just going to post some stuff off Scum....

Anyways back on topic: tracks that end very rapidly, I guess.
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