Your favourite no-nonsense, rock-n-roll, 3 minutes max, get off your arse, CHOOOON please folks.
Sod that jazz, that prog, that drippy singer-songwriter slop, THIS is what I need.
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Wanda Jackson shows us how it’s done
Sorry Foxy, looks like everyone else is spending the evening putting their James Blunt CDs into chronological order.
When it comes to unpretentious, 3 minutes or less rock n roll, there is only one true text:
Chuck Berry – Johnny B Goode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFo8-JqzSCM
Actually, Billy Fury CDs in chronological order!
The Boys mutated into The – George Martin produced and utterly fabulous – Action.
then became Mighty Baby.
and 3 minute no arty pretensions, statements, odd musical signatures, time changes, or self-indulgent noodling is still happening in the 21st Century
The Professionals – Good Man Down
I’ll go for that
Just stop listening after 3 minutes if you wish
The utter brilliance of this was probably the only thing that ianess and I ever agreed on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siGKxcKol0
Ok, if it really HAS to be 3 minutes
“We cheat you fair!”
John Lee Hooker may hit the spot.
Here’s a prime slice of rockabilly for you. Play loud!
That OP clip is priceless, by the way. Never seen it, or knew the Boys turned into the Action come to that. And Sandra Barry, it turns out, mutated into Slack Alice, of fond memory. (More than 3 mins, soz.)
https://youtu.be/yuhQaBETRlc
They don’t even need a video
Hundreds to choose from, but this made me grin like a loon earlier today:
I laugh in the face of your 3 minute rule…
Even this is over 3 minutes…
CHOOOON – 2min 20….
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufzRV3xspYA
And, also….
And, furthermore….
It’s waaaay past my bedtime: so, finally…..
Peace: out
2’48” and no messing, Dr Feelgood, Milk and Alcohol…
There’s another doctor in the house
Flamin Groovies – Doctor Boogie
No mucking about.
The Music! Music! Music! hitmaker? Who’da thunk it?
4.12 … if The Kinks’ “Scattered” from 1993 had been cut down by 90 seconds it would probably – given Blur at the time were doing an impression of The Kinks – have been a hit.
Slightly breaches your 3 minute rule I’m afraid, but I only discovered this excellent croon recently. It was while expanding my Fall collection (unashamedly) in the wake of the man’s death – this is the sort of primal rock and roll which was always at their heart:
2:11 of f**ki** perfection.
Covered by a bunch of people including Buddy Holly and a rather excellent version by Iggy Pop is the theme music to a long running music video show down here.
https://youtu.be/bc9oTGOZ9WA
My man Ray don’t need no three minutes to make his point
One from Basher…
How bleeding skinny are his legs? He looks like a set of compasses!
And another banger from the same stable.
or, according to taste, Basher’s later version
Ack, great minds…i was going to pitch Fool Too Long for much the same reason.
In The Heart Of The City.
Allegedly the original Stiff single (b/w So It Goes) cost £50 to make. Most of that was for the drummer’s participation.
Zeppelin at their most……economical…
Faster than a speeding jet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ra-L_oLDlSU
It clocks in at 3’30” but this fairly recent track by Demob Happy is a great Beatles-y psychedelic rock ‘n rolla
Who needs three minutes….or two?
The Undertones Here Comes the Summer….clocking in at 1.45 is all you need.
Or maybe Two Chords, Two Fingers by The Hardskins.
Under two minutes but still featuring a blistering guitar solo.
This to me is perfection. Turn it up to AT LEAST eleven.
If it’s under three minutes of ‘get in, say what you have to say, get out again’ straight down the line rock and roll you’re after, then Creedence Clearwater Revival are the boys for the job.
At full volume on the Wurlitzer in The Slaughtered Lamb. 1 shilling for three plays.
Here’s everyone’s 17th favourite Russian group, Здравствуй,песня, performing their hit Не обещай! (For full appreciation, turn volume and brightness down to minimum):
That is remarkable, Gary. Have you been visiting the Beanysphere on the quiet….
Musically it seems to owe something to Boney M, but the casual, kolchoz fashionwear is in a league of its own.
Give me a large bottle of vodka and a cosy dacha and I could listen to this retro-Soviet pop all evening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbru8Lf_h1k
I’ve said it before…. put the bloody Wall back up!!
If you talk to me again, @Gary, I’ll call the police. This is your first and last warning.
I was expecting Graham Chapman’s colonel to show up there…
Thanks all for a splendid playlist of carefree hell raisin’ rackets. Just what the year needs to kick winter into the ditch and herald spring.
Strewth, wait, there’s more…..
The Sadies have form on this, from snotty teen rock through to surfer dude mayhem.
This is the single most exciting instrumental recorded by anyone ever. Stampede by The Scarlets. Unbelievably arse kicking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYYCmxqI7mQ
See what I mean?
Aye, Aye, Aye, Aye Moosey Likes This Very Much.
A couple of seconds over the 3 minute mark, but that will be the fade out at the end
Bob Seger – Old Time Rock and Roll
This is a stone groove
This one as well
Who says you can’t do Punk with a saxphone and a trumpet?
Rocket From The Crypt – On A Rope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=777kGx7-qLw
Georgie Fame – Soul Stomp.
Hep
The mighty Pirates at their filling-rattling best in 1978… gloriously preceded by their coming-on music (the theme to some film, I don’t know which one), which still doesn’t the the track to three minutes. This is the stuff!
Don’t know what that theme music is either. Shazam identified it as Please Don’t Touch by the Pirates!
Prezoombly it’s some nautical 50s Hollywood epic or TV series.
How can we fathom (SWITD) this mystery, without the aid of a drinks globe? The only solution may be to start whistling the tune on public transport and see if anyone joins in.
PS. I live in a film.
Buddy Rich – Wack Wack
Shirley Scott – Get Back
This is quite mental
Morphine – Honey White
Jimmie Vaughan – Just A Little Bit
Oh look, someone has to post the obvious…
If we’re going to have obvious Beatle tracks, the Side One Track One of their first album fits our bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbig-xfCIQ
For when the Stones are just too damn respectable……..
The Pretty Things.
Astonishingly Shake Some Action is over 4 minutes. So we’ll have to settle for this, by the Flamin’ Groovies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRqy15bzRI4&list=PLIJqc9G1A-y0y56A2kgKb_OtNQAD-NMr5
I always liked the Barracudas
https://youtu.be/KM84-VENfjA
(The Banned famously included members of Gryphon)
Wot – Gryphon as in “Midnight Mushrumps”?
They didn’t have too many sub-three-minute numbers. Indeed, “Midnight Mushrumps” only just squeezes in under 19 minutes. Ha!
Checked and it is indeed.
http://punkygibbon.co.uk/bands/b/banned.html
Think they missed a trick, punky krummhorns to the fore!
The delight in the truth of my tale is diminished slightly by the fact it was an erstwhile late period rhythm section, rather than the resplendent hairys plus choirboy depicted on the cover of Mushrumps.
Bo Diddley – Who Do You Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGoqMZRLB4
Who needs three minutes ?
Apropos of little else other than I listened to their (largely disposable) LPs today, have a sub 3 minute, um, anthem…..
(Jeff Beck – Bolero)
Recorded in 1966.
Keith Moon – drums
John Paul Jones – bass
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Jimmy Page – 12-string guitar
Jeff Beck – lead guitars
From the B-side of the “Hi-Ho Silver Lining” single. Includes the backwards-guitar outro which was omitted on the 1968 “Truth” album edit, re-titled “Beck’s Bolero”.