None of these songs listed are as simple as this Nillson classic...One chord..start to finish and IMO brilliant.
None of these songs listed are as simple as this Nillson classic...One chord..start to finish and IMO brilliant.
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to (insert name)
Happy Birthday to you
Utterly Brilliant!
Tahoe47 wrote:
Dead Kennedys "Short Songs"
haha yes. Also +1 to the guy that said "Big Me" by Foo Fighters.
Others:
Oasis- Married with Children
Weakerthans- One Great City!
Band of Horses- The General Specific
Bright Eyes- June on the West Coast
A lot of Black Keys songs
Elvis Costello has a whole bunch of them.
"Woody" by Hayden
Hot Cross Buns
Damn you guys are old.
Wire - Field Day for the Sundays
Weary wrote:
And the very short "United States of Whatever" by Liam Lynch
Yeeeaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Premiered by Sifl n Olly, my TV pitchmen.
Russian composers
Bad Religion, "The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking."
This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie.
Short, simple, and brilliant. The first two stanzas alone could be the whole song if need be.
His notebooks on how he wrote this song and distilled this down still exist. Not sure where they are. Library of Congress? I've seen photocopies of them.
I'm sure there's a video, but here's the words:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me.
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me.
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
Diamonds and Rust by S.O.D.
Yesterday
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Coldplay - 'Parachutes'... 47 seconds of beauty!
And the answer is marshal Tucker's ab's song. All one minute of it...
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=FLx4BeinzzY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DFLx4BeinzzY
if i die at 23
won't you bury me
in the sunshine?
please let me know
that you're still mine.
though i'm gone,
my love for you
is, oh, so strong.
and when the grass grows over me,
let me know
you still love me.
never put nobody else
above me.
then i'll know
my love for you
will always grow.
Blackbird -the Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAgceen153I
A lot of Beatles songs are short and brilliant.
Norwegian Wood is another good example.
April Come She Will - Simon & Garfunkel
April come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain;
May, she will stay,
Resting in my arms again
June, she´ll change her tune,
In restless walks she´ll prowl the night;
July, she will fly
And give no warning to her flight.
August, die she must,
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold;
September I´ll remember.
A love once new has now grown old.
Questa o Quella