3:30: Game on

David Janes picked up on my post yesterday, about my curiosity about disparate songs that had one thing in common: being 3'30" in length.

His post is here. (I should note that my list is abridged, although I did fess up to a Duran Duran tune.)

What about yours? If you have iTunes or a similar program, you can find out in a jiffy.

Leave a comment, or post a note on your own blog, and let me know.

Comments

[John Mutford]

My list (embarrassing as it might be) is listed in the original post.

[James Hrynyshyn]

I think it interesting that so many modern artists are wedded to a song length that has its roots in the technology of a century ago. In 1910, the new thing in music tech was the 78, which could hold just a bit over three minutes of music.

So here we are 95 years later, listening to music on digital computers rather than mechanical needle-in-groove equipment, but the songs remain the same.

Further note: I have a handful of iTunes tracks on my PC, but I still prefer listening to music on a proper stereo. The reproduction of MP3s is only acceptable if you're playing them in the background and not really LISTENING to them. Which, I suppose, it the case when you're blogging all day long anyway....

[Karen Chappell]

Here is my list. I do have good songs, it just seems none of them are 3'30"! And several that others have listed as 3'30" are not that length on my computer (but are only off by a second or two).

BJ Thomas - Rock Me Gently
Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Jim Croce - Roller Derby Queen
Linda Ronstadt - All I Have To Do Is Dream[With Kermit The Frog]
Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E's In Love
Zombies - Time Of The Season
Air Supply - Every Woman In The World
Bangles - In Your Room
Bob Seger - Fire Lake
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
Billy Vera - At This Moment
Dire Straits - Twisting by the Pool [Remix]
Eagles - Desperado
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Grover Washington-Bill Withers - Just The Two Of Us
OMD - So In Love
Psychadelic Furs - Love My Way
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Supertramp - Dreamer
Stray Cats - (She's) Sexy + 17
Sos Band - Take Your Time Do It Right
Tubes - She's A Beauty
Alanis Morisset-Everything
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
Jann Arden - Never Mind
Las Ketchup - Asereje
Michael Buble - Maria Elena
Natalie Cole - That Sunday That Summer
Pink - Dont let me get me
Ray Charles - Fever (with natalie cole)
Tom Jones - Sex bomb
Tragically Hip - Fully Completely
Vanessa Williams - The Sweetest Days
Great Big Sea - The Old Black Rum
Rankin Family - Fisherman's Son
The Rankin Family - North Country
Lennie Gallant - Fisherman's Wharf

[Heather Patey]

What the heck. Here's my list:
http://www.pateys.nf.ca/weblog/music/playlists/songs_threethirty.html

Karen: my copy of The Old Black Rum, from Up, is only 2:27 - is that a live or other version?

[Karen Chappell]

Heather, it's the live version from "Road Rage".

[John Mutford]

I've been finding that some of my songs are slightly off the time as those listed here. Terrence Trent D'arby's "Wishing Well" for instance is 3:31 on my MusicMatch Jukebox.

[Craig Welsh]

My list is up as well...I suspect the difference in song lengths comes from ripping or downloading music. A second or two might get cut from a song in that process, although it's likely just dead air at the beginning or ending of a song.

[James Hrynyshyn]

OK, there's something very wrong going on here. My copy of some of the songs on some of these alleged 3:30 lists are not 3:30, or even close. One of my favorite tunes, for example, Dire Strait's Where do you think you're going, is actually 3:43. Are the iTunes versions truncated THAT much? Another reason to stick with CDs. Or even LPs. Speaking of Dire Straits, I remember being most disappointed that the CD version of the classic "Sultans of Swing" was a dozen seconds shorter than the original LP version, fading out just as the closing guitar solo really got going. Most annoying. I say, a pox on iTunes!

[J0hnnyB]

My wife and I share this collection, so there's a wide variety of stuff, including some oddities I had downloaded, but not listened to yet.

El Con Con
Fo Fum Fi Fee and New Happy Birthday Song / Happy Birthday Song - Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
The Way You Love Me - Faith Hill
Every Woman In The World - Air Supply
Cruel summer - Bananarama
Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
Walking To You - Everything But The Girl
Dreamer - Geert Grote School (Groep 8)
We In There - Boogie Down Productions