The Sixty Second Song Remix Contest (mp3s)

With my attention span declining by an average of three seconds per year, I thought it was high time to hold a sixty second song remix contest. The rules are simple: take any "known" song (whatever that means, I know, I know...) and reduce it to sixty seconds or less. I'd like to get 78 of these, if possible, so enter as many times as you like! I'll be playing these on the air and posting many of them here as well.

Extra credit for reducing extra long songs (such as those listed in Resident Clinton's Long Songs post).

The winner gets a WFMU messenger bag chock full of records and WFMU swag. Deadline is Friday, February 23rd. E-mail your mp3 submissions to me at ken at wfmu dot org. Here's a few MP3 examples to jog your imagination:

People Like Us - Something   |   Media Corti - Dear Jude  |   Media Corti - Blitzkrieg Bop

Media Corti - Enola Gay   |   Resident Clinton - Operator   |   Unknown - The Six Minute Revolver

UPDATE 1: Thanks to everybody who has submitted songs! We're up to about 20 so far. Here's a sampling of all the great ones that have come in:

Stiever - InAGadaDaVida (Iron Butterfly)   |   Tim Scullion - A Really Quick One (The Who)

Adnoisium - Stairway to Heaven   |   Shane Young - Step Right Up (Tom Waits)

Zoloft - WeilRokYu (Queen)   |   Adnoisium - The End (The Doors)

Mark Russell - We Can Work (The Beatles)   |   Ed Word - Fergielicious (Fergie)

Frank Difficult - Echoes (Pink Floyd)

UPDATE 2: Wow, I am blown away by the amount and the quality of the submissions I'm getting here! I can hardly keep up, but that's just the way I like it. Here's a batch more, and if you don't see your version here, don't worry, I'll be posting more as I find the time and I'll be playing these all on the air as well.

Otis Ball - More Than Half-Off-Bird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)   |  Grant Olsen - Bluest Minute (New Order)

Thant Tessman - Super James (James Brown)  |  Jerod Freitag - Climaxation (Elton & Betty White)

Easy EW - B--thd-y (The Beatles)   |   Four Italian Pep Pills - Rapper's Delight (Sugarhill Gang)

Alex Jackson - Part Tree (Trad., AAC file)   |   Diarrhea Mia - Beat It (Richard Cheese version)

Jonathan Wall - Prndandrd (Radiohead)   |   Kevin Hamilton - NotGonnaGetUs (tATu)

Mickey Mephistopheles - Paradise by the Dashboard Light Abortion Edit (Meat Loaf)

Grant Olsen - Phoenix in a Minute (18 minute Isaac Hayes version)

Saint Peter - The 60 Second Well Tuned Piano (LaMonte Young)

J. Henry Chunko - 1-60  (Charles Bernstein's 1-100, AAC file)

UPDATE 3: I made the unpardonable error of attending to other business for the last day and a half, and now I am woefully behind in my Sixty Second Song duties. While I continue to catch up, here's another batch of fun submissions:

Dave Krooshof - Toxic (Britney Spears)   |   Moonman - Kiss (Prince)

Chris T - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (The Bee Gees)

MP3J - Anarchy Generation (The Who vs The Sex Pistols)   |   Maintain - Boho Rap (Queen)

Famous Mortimer - I Am Sitting In A Room (but not for very long) (Alvin Lucier)

Quadraspazzed - White Lines (Grandmaster Flash)   |   Sherman Pants - Babaoriley (The Who et al)

Tom Nothing - Desolation Row  (Dylan)   |   Vaughn Healy - Oh, Yoko (John Lennon)

Jonathan Wall - Right Ontoppa Compton (NWA)

UPDATE 4: In which we break the Folk barrier, the Prog Rock barrier, the 18th century classical barrier, and... oh yes. Gwen Stefani goes a yodelin. Keep 'em coming!

Hans van der Valk - Wind It Up Lonesome Goatherd (Gwen Stefani)

Archie Marsh - Prelude (Glen Gould / Bach)   |   Chris Combs - One Minute Oatmeal (Melanie)

Chris T - Moby Dickless (Led Zeppelin)   |   Claude Heiland-Allen - Lesson 6 (Jurassic Five)

Dave Krooshof - Never Met A Girl Like You Before (Edwyn Collins)

Easy EW - Again and Again Or (Love)   |   Fatty Jubbo - C'mon Marianne (Donny Osmond)

Matthew Hane - Rock and Roll (Velvet Underground)   |   Microscope - Pink Moons (Nick Drake)

Scott W - Dreamhome Heartache (Roxy Music)   |   Vaughan Healy - A Love Supreme (Coltrane)

Mickey Mephistopheles - Take One (Dave Brubeck Quartet)

Quadraspazzed - Old TIme Religion (Woody Guthrie)

Ronny Waernes - The Great Gates of Kiev (Emerson Lake and Palmer)

Skip N Zener - Now In Arcade Exotica (Martin Denny)

UPDATE 5: In honor of Prince's nipple-free rain-soaked halftime show, we present a magnificent version of Purple Rain, plus the first appearances here by Yes, Motorhead, New Kids on the Block and two classic radio pieces by the prolific Chris Combs. On Monday I'll be posting Ten Albums in Ten Minutes (full LP 60 second reductions) in a separate post.

Snuffelruft - Purple (Prince)   |   Stiever - Break On Thru (The Doors)

Dave Krooshof - Fire (Hendrix)   |   Ghuckleberry - Yes, Maybe (Yes)

Uncle Bela - Ace of Spades (Motorhead)   |   Chris Combs - Quick Who's On First (Abbot and Costello)

Chris Combs - Shoving Match of the Worlds (Orson Welles)

Kid Kmart vs Kid Nascar - Hangin' Tough (New Kids on the Block)

Noddable Industries - One Minute Seinfeld (Senfeld theme vs Missy Elliot)

Shane Young - Shatner in a Minute with Diamonds (William Shatner)

UPDATE 6: Here's seven more, and hats off to Chris C for taking a song that's originally shorter than one minute and extending it!

Chris Combs - Her Minutesty (Beatles)   |   Daniel Urria - Believer (Robert Wyatt)

Uncle Bela - Paranoid (Black Sabbath)   |   Dave Krooshof - Hey Joe (Hendrix)

Chris T - Funhouse (Stooges)   |   Jim A - Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)

Michael Garofalo - Autobahn (Kraftwerk)   |   Nick Boffo - Sgt Ringo's Little Heart's Club Band

UPDATE 7: At last, we have a shortened version of the classic John Cage piece, 4:33. But that's not the only surprise in this wonderful new batch of submissions...

Uncle Bela - 18 Seconds of Fear (Fear)   |   Mighty Dawn Dart - Like A Rolling Minute (Judas)

People Like Us - 4:33 (John Cage)   |   PimpDaddySupreme - Christian Minute (Negativland)

Chris T - Notta Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)   |   Rick Parker - Kiss Off (Violent Femmes)

Chis Combs - Sixty Second Song (Shel Silverstein)   |   Ed Word - Xanadu (Rush)

Dave Krooshof - All The Things She Said (tATu)   |   John Tashiro - Real Love (Ex-Beatles)

John Roach - Run Run Run (John Roach & Bud Flanagan & Chesney Allen)

XGF Media - Them Bones (Alice in Chains)

Dad's New Slacks - Sixty Second Schizoid Man (King Crimson)

Stephen McQuillen - Tell Me Quickly Do You Love Me (The Contours)

UPDATE 8: And to think that when I started this contest, I said I wanted to receive 78 tracks. So far, I've received over 300 and there's still almost two weeks to the contest deadline. Thanks to everybody who's submitted! Please keep 'em coming at ken at wfmu dot org! I'm enjoying the hell out of this. Here's another batch:

Jerod Freitag - Stagger Lee (Nick Cave)   |   DJ Jesuspants - Breckman Pie

The Jazz Kissinger - MacArthur Park Minute   |   RJ Godin - Racket One (Sun Ra)

Kate Wilaert - Time (Pink Floyd)   |   N - Hell O n You (Nina Simone)

]}3y - Soixante Petits Chevalier (Nico)   |   Craig Mitchell - Fohat Dug Holes (Gong)

Dave Krooshof - Day Tripper (Hendrix on the BBC)   |   Uncle Bela - Du Hast (Rammstein)

Nick Boffo - Part of the Sunrise (Yes)   |   Stiever - Moonlight Feels Right (Starbuck)

The Good Reverand Doctor - The Dope Pusher (Bill Cosby)

Olaf Bloemberg - How Come How Long (Stevie Wonder and Babyface)

Sick to the Back Teeth - Ant Man Bee (Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band)

UPDATE 9: Sorry it's been a few days since I've posted an update. That day job of mine intervened... New submissions are still coming in though - here's a particularly inventive batch:

You™ - Sixty Second Man (Billy Ward and His Dominoes)   |   Oswald Wang - Balrom Bliz (The Sweet)

Dad's New Slacks - All One Song (Neil Young on 45!)   |   Joe D'Agostino - Bolero-ette (Ravel)

Dave Scarborough - Strobe Light (The B52's)   |   DJ Soft - Book of Right (Joanna Newsome)

RJ Godin - A Minute On The Beach (Philip Glass)   |   JC - A Number Nine In The Life (Beatles)

Harvey Loves Harvey - Cover Division (various versions of Love Will Tear Us Apart)

James Gardner - Many Boots Are Made For Walking (various version of Boots)

Justin Tripp - Chinese Children (Devendra Banhart)   |   Kate Willaert - Hysteria (Muse)

XGF Media - Empire (Queensryche)   |   Sick To The Back Teeth - Big New Priest (The Fall)

H. Grape Minkoff - Time Has Come Today (the Chambers Brothers)

No Sleep Nigel - Lunar Note (Captain Beefheart)

UPDATE TEN: Wow, there are only a few days before the contest deadline. After Friday, February 23rd at Midnight, I wont be accepting any more entries, so get in your last minute masterpieces now! It occurs to me that a solitary winner doesn't do this little experiment justice, so I will announce a more varied winner's circle scheme this weekend, after I catch my breath. Here's another batch of recent arrivals:

Craig Mitchell - In Between Hearts Lock3Down (Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs The Cure)

Rick McNamara - 20 Years of Confusing Anti-Drug Public Service Announcements in 60 Seconds

Dave Krooshof - If I'm In Luck I Just Might Get Picked Up (Betty Davis)

DJ Jesuspants - Political Minute For Michael Jackson to Sing (The Minutemen)

DJ Soft - Summercrane (The Avalanches)   |   Justin Tripp - Requesting Quiet (10CC)

DJ Frankie Pigeon - One Cut ("One" from Various Sources)

Max Johnson - Motel California   |   No Sleep Nigel - Abstract Nympho III (Chrome)

Oscar Marsh - Urso Minute (Jaap Blonk)   |   XGF Media - Breath (The Prodigy vs Silver Bullet)

Uncle Bela - The End of the World, Baby (Jerry Goldsmith / War of the Worlds)

Dave Scarborough - Autobahn (Kraftwerk)

UPDATE 11: Just to let you all know, the deadline for submissions has passed, but it's going to take me a few days to comb through the last few days worth of submissions. I will post a final batch here and then we'll work on to the final round for voting, in a separate post.

UPDATE 12: Here's a final batch of 30 tracks. After this comes the impossible task of narrowing down the 415 submissions to 20 or so finalists, and then letting you all vote on the winners. I'll do that in a separate post. I also have another post of full album reductions coming on Thursday. The final contest may take me a few more days, especially with the WFMU Marathon approaching.

Lester - Sympathy For The Devil (Blood Sweat and Tears)   |   Pflaphpschoen - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)

Mofobaru - OK Computer In 60 Seconds (Radiohead)   |   T Gould - Having My Baby (Paul Anka)

Russ Johnson - Rock Around 23 Seconds of the Clock (Bill Haley and The Comets)

Uncle Bela - O Fortuna (Carl Orff / Apotheosis)   |   You™ - Shook All Up (Elvis)

William Roarshock - Fanfare For The Common Zarathustra (Richard Strauss and Aaron Copland)

Mr Stavaris - DIY Meat (The Fall)   |   Mike Espinova - The Hellion / Electric Eye (Judas Priest)

Clark Paramo - The True Wheel (Eno)   |   Craig Mitchell - Bells of Rhymney (Robyn Hitchcock)

DJ Soft - Yeah (LCD Soundsystem)   |   DVAnt - Sly (Sly & The Family Stone)

Adam Ainsworth - Song 1 (Blur)   |   Chris Larsen - Bolero (Ravel)

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Gavin Bryars, from Miniatures 2)

EasyEW - Park That McArthur   |   Hip Transistor - Cool It Down (Velvet Underground)

Ed Word - Hungarian Dance (Brahms. featuring actual, honest to God VINYL!)

General Assembly - Idiot Son (Zappa and Mothers)   |   Listen with Sarah - Fleur Bleue (Charles Trenier)

Ronny Waernes - So Unfilial Rule (Melt Banana)  |  Laura Panella - O Superman (Laurie Anderson)

Nathan DeWitt - No; Nobody (The Human Beinz)   |   Nick Boffo - Star Spangled Haircut

Oscar Marsh - Mwah (Holly Valance)   |   RJ Godin - I Feel Oooo (Donna Summer)

Ronny Waernes - Lauft... Heisst Das es Lauft Oder es Kommt Bald... Lauft (Faust)

UPDATE: I finally posted the final voting for this contest on this post here.

Comments

[Hell's Donut House]

Dang, Hey Jude is still too long.

[Boris]

How is the winner determined?

[NathanK]

I'm going to start a band to cover Easy_EW's version

[EasyEW]

NathanK: if you do, I pronounce the title "buth-dee". :)

[Cynthia]

Paradise by the Dashboard Light Abortion Edit:
KUDOS- thanks to you I now have a reason to associate a smile with this song.

[Mark L]

Freebird just has my vote so far, but some very strong entries!

[Dave Krooshof]

I have just been cutting up a few songs. Well, actually, a lot. I tried to make them sound uncut, as if they were always that short. I'll email them tonight, which will be 17.00 or so in your time.

What are the MSP-esk munged sound in the well tuned piano track? I like it!

[Vic Perry]

haven't heard them all but Mark Russell's "We Can Work" is my fave so far

[Station Manager Ken]

Boris - I haven't decided how to determine the winner, but I was thinking about posting my twenty favorites after the deadline and then opening it up to voting.

-ken

[mia]

the blitzkrieg bop one is the best, followed by frank difficult's .....

[james m]

I'm in the process of doing Karn Evil 9, by Emerson Lake and Palmer. I'll submit it later today.

[Woody]

We can't forget the "Explicit Only" version of the entire NWA Straight Outta Compton album.

http://www.ni9e.com/nwa.php

[Jonathan Wall]

Wow, "Toxic" is nice indeed. Good job, Dave.

[Dave]

Thanks Jonathan. Yours is editted well too.
I happen to like this one as well, as it brings out the breakbeat of mitch mitchell:
http://retecool.com/uploads/behanger/WFMU1MIN/1minJimiHendrix-Fire.mp3

[Dave]

The explicit-only version of Straight outta Compton is funny, but I would have liked it more if the beat was kept steady. I like Jonatan's version a lot, because the multilayering makes the rappers sound like dogs barking at bypassers, which, in a way, is what NWA was about.

[Mickey Mephistopheles]

Fatty Jubbo's Four Seasons in one minute: High five!

[Donny Osmond]

Four Seasons...HARUMPH! Fatty used MY version, thank you very much!

[Mickey Mephistopheles]

Hmm...I was thinking that was you thar Donzo, but that would actually involve admitting that I knew the source material. Rock Rock Planet Kolob!

[Martin K]

Try some of these.

www.myspace.com/oneminutealbum

mk

[Sonny Bitch!]

Wow! Very beautiful! Keep 'em cummin' Uncle Ken!!
DJ Sonny Bitch

[eric]

Take One is abstractly great

[Tim H]

How's about this first track entitled "touch" on our myspace page - the original was nearly 6 mins long!
www.myspace/objayda
Tim H

[Darren]

We've submitted:

NIN - 'Closer'
Alice in Chains - 'Them Bones'

If they're not hosted here soon, then we'll stick them up
on our myspaz - www.myspace.com/xgfmedia - until they
are.

Thus far, my favourite is NWA/'Compton'. The doubled verses are
bonkers.

Cheers,
Darren.
Director, X-GF Media Ltd

[joe nathan]

stephen mcquillan's contours remix made me BUST A GUT!! his ALREADY won as far as i'm concerned.

[Hazy Haphace]

I challenge you to listen to Jim A's Ring of Fire reduction and not laugh. Very cleverly done.