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Short Music for Short People

 
Album Review: Short Music for Short People
 

  • Artist: Various Artists
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: June 01, 1999
  • Total Time: 49:25
  • Type: Contains explicit content, Lyrics are included with the album, Collection (various artists)
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Not that this hasn't been done before on albums like Wood Panel Pacer Wagon With Mags and Bllllaaarrrrrggghhh!-A Music War (which was on a 7" format no less), but that doesn't mean a compilation featuring over 100 bands on one record never fails to entertain. And the advantage Short Music for Short People has in comparison to the aforementioned records is that 80 percent of the bands on here fall under the "melodic pop-punk" classification. That and all the punk rock superstars can be found on here: Rancid, Black Flag, NOFX, Bad Religion, the Descendants, D.O.A., Less Than Jake, the Offspring, Green Day, Blink 182, the Misfits, the Circle Jerks, the list goes on and on. Whether or not the marketing department at Fat Wreck Chords thought that the big names would attract more buyers, keep in mind that every song on here is only 30 seconds and under. But even if Short Music for Short People isn't the best representation of all the bands on here, the fun factor is still pretty high. Other highlights include Lagwagon, Spazz, the Muffs, Nomeansno, Avail, the Criminals, Adrenaline O.D., and Wizo. Best song title award goes to "Farts are Jazz to Assholes" courtesy of the Dillinger Four. ~ Mike DaRonco, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Short Attention Span Fizzy Bangers, Brian Vincent Durkin Fizzy Bangers (:08)
Anchor Less Than Jake (:29)
Ketchup Song Teen Idols (:29)
All Cops Are Bastards Terrorgruppe (:24)
Overcoming Learned Behavior Good Riddance (:27)
Quit Yer Job Chixdiggit! (:24)
Ready The Living End (:34)
Out of Hand Bad Religion (:39)
Asian Pride Hi-Standard (:29)
Steamroller Blues Aerobitch (:26)
Doin' Laundry Nerf Herder (:29)
Freehgan Bigwig (:31)
Not Again Undeclinable Ambuscade (:30)
Waste Away Fury 66 (:29)
The Radio Stills Sucks The Ataris (:28)
Armageddon Singalong Unwritten Law (:35)
Hearts Frozen Soil Sod Once More by the Spring of Rape, Despaire, ... AFI (:31)
Farts Are Jazz to Assholes Dillinger Four (:33)
Surf City Brian Wilson, Jan Berry Spread (:28)
Back to You Swingin' Utters (:32)
Outhouse of Doom The Bar Feeders (:33)
Alienation Citizen Fish (:32)
Family Reunion blink-182 (:35)
Mirror, Signal, Wheelspan Goober Patrol (:28)
Saturday Night Killswitch (:31)
Bedroom Windows Enemy You (:24)
Sara Fisher No Use for a Name No Use for a Name (:30)
The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink Green Day (:32)
Delraiser Pt III: Del on Earth Consumed (:27)
Told You Once The Mr. T Experience (:11)
Randal Gets Drunk Lagwagon (:27)
Fishfuck GWAR (:32)
Howdy Doody in the Woodshed The Dickies (:32)
Long Enough to Forget You Samiam (:29)
Erik Sandins Stand-In Dogpiss (:33)
We Want the Kids 59 Times the Pain (:20)
Warren's Song (Pt. 6) Bracket (:30)
No Fgnuikc Nomeansno Nomeansno (:31)
I Like Food Bill Stevenson Descendants (:17)
Triple Track Dance Hall Crashers Dance Hall Crashers (:32)
Don Camero Lost His Mind Guttermouth (:29)
X-99 Limp (:37)
Faust Jughead's Revenge (:30)
Deny Everything Keith Morris, Roger Rogerson The Circle Jerks (:24)
Hand Granade The Offspring (:35)
Mike Booted Our First Song, So We Recorded This One Instead Mad Caddies (:28)
Union Yes The Criminals (:33)
Dirty Needles Ben Weasel Screeching Weasel (:27)
300 Miles One Man Army (:29)
Klawsterfobia Strung Out (:30)
You Don't Know Shit Youth Brigade (:34)
Doin' Fine The Groovie Ghoulies (:27)
John for the Workin' Man Tilt (:30)
A Prayer for the Complete and Utter Eradication of All Generic Pop-Punk Spazz (:26)
It's a Real Time Thing The Damned (:31)
All My Friends Are in Popular Bands 88 Fingers Louie (:30)
I Hate Puck Rock D.O.A. (:31)
Fun Pulley (:31)
To All the Kids The Vandals (:28)
30 Seconds 'Till the End of the World Pennywise (:31)
Get a Grip No Fun at All (:26)
Blatty (Human Egg) Sick of It All Sick of It All (:32)
I Got None All (:28)
See Her Pee NOFX (:32)
F.O.F.O.D. Seconds (:31)
Blacklisted Rancid (:26)
Chandeliers & Souvenirs Diesel Boy (:29)
Your Kung Fu Is Old...And Now You Must Die! Adrenalin O.D. (:31)
My Pants Keep Falling Down Frenzal Rhomb (:31)
I Hate Your Fucking Guts Joe Queer The Queers (:30)
Comin' to Your Town D.I. (:26)
Spray Paint Greg Ginn, Chuck Dukowski Black Flag (:32)
Rage Against the Machine Are Capitalist Phonies White Flag (:28)
Bring It to an End Anti-Flag (:28)
Not a Happy Man Avail (:34)
Old Mrs. Cuddy The Real McKenzies (:30)
Traitor Agnostic Front Agnostic Front (:30)
Life Rules 101 Down by Law (:31)
Wake Up Radio Days (:31)
Too Bad You Didn't Get In Useless ID (:33)
Humanity Poison Idea (:34)
In Your Head Ken O'Steel (:24)
Supermarket Forces Subhumans (:32)
Tribute to the Mammal Buck Wild (:22)
Pretty Houses Lunachicks (:28)
The Band That Wouldn't Die Dwarves (:37)
Like a Fish in Water Frankie Brown The Bouncing Souls (:33)
Turn It Up Trigger Happy (:30)
Madam's Apple One Hit Wonder (:31)
Staggering Hotbox (:28)
DMV Twenty Percent (:28)
Big Fat Skinhead Snuff (:30)
Pimmel The Muffs (:34)
Mr. Brett, Please Put Down Your Gun H2O (:29)
Wake Up Bodyjar (:33)
Eyez Nicotine (:25)
Another Stale Cartoon Satanic Surfers (:30)
I Don't Mind Ten Foot Pole (:31)
Welcome to Dumpsville Population You/NY Ranger/Count Caustic Soda (1:25)

Credits

Agnostic Front (Performer), All (Performer), Bad Religion (Performer), Black Flag (Performer), The Circle Jerks (Performer), The Damned (Performer), Descendents (Performer), The Dickies (Performer), GWAR (Performer), The Misfits (Performer), Nomeansno (Performer), Adrenalin O.D. (Performer), D.O.A. (Performer), Down by Law (Performer), Dwarves (Performer), The Mr. T Experience (Performer), NOFX (Performer), No Use for a Name (Performer), Pennywise (Performer), Poison Idea (Performer), Samiam (Performer), Screeching Weasel (Performer), 7 Seconds (Performer), Snuff (Performer), Subhumans (Performer), The Vandals (Performer), White Flag (Performer), Youth Brigade (Performer), Citizen Fish (Performer), Lunachicks (Performer), The Offspring (Performer), Lagwagon (Performer), The Muffs (Performer), The Queers (Performer), Rancid (Performer), Sick of It All (Performer), Tilt (Performer), Spazz (Performer), Brian Clarke (Illustrations), D.I. (Performer), Green Day (Performer), Ken Lee (Mastering), Buck Wild (Performer), One Hit Wonder (Performer), Sergie Loobkoff (Design), Bracket (Performer), Dance Hall Crashers (Performer), WIZO (Performer), Ten Foot Pole (Performer), Unwritten Law (Performer), Guttermouth (Performer), Hi-Standard (Performer), Avail (Performer), The Groovie Ghoulies (Performer), Chixdiggit! (Performer), H2O (Performer), Pulley (Performer), Less Than Jake (Performer), 88 Fingers Louie (Performer), Good Riddance (Performer), Goober Patrol (Performer), Nerf Herder (Performer), Terrorgruppe (Performer), AFI (Performer), The Ataris (Performer), Bodyjar (Performer), The Bouncing Souls (Performer), Fizzy Bangers (Performer), Jughead's Revenge (Performer), No Fun at All (Performer), The Real McKenzies (Performer), Satanic Surfers (Performer), Strung Out (Performer), Swingin' Utters (Performer), Mad Caddies (Performer), Anti-Flag (Performer), Bigwig (Performer), blink-182 (Performer), Limp (Performer), 59 Times the Pain (Performer), Frenzal Rhomb (Performer), Teen Idols (Performer), Diesel Boy (Performer), Dillinger Four (Performer), Hotbox (Performer), The Living End (Performer), Consumed (Performer), One Man Army (Performer), Trigger Happy (Performer), Dogpiss (Performer), The Criminals (Performer), Enemy You (Performer), Twenty Percent (Performer), Undeclinable Ambuscade (Performer), Useless ID (Performer), Caustic Soda (Performer), Descendants (Performer), The Bar Feeders (Performer), Nicotine (Performer), Spread (Performer), Aerobitch (Performer), Fury 66 (Performer), Ken O'Steel (Performer), Radio Days (Performer), Seconds (Performer), Killswitch (Performer)
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Short Music for Short People
Short Music for Short People cover
Compilation album by Various artists
Released June 1, 1999
Genre Punk rock
Length 49:27
Label Fat Wreck Chords
Professional reviews
Fat Wreck Chords chronology
Life in the Fat Lane
(1999)
Short Music for Short People
(1999)
Live Fat, Die Young
(2001)

Short Music for Short People is a 1999 compilation album released on the Fat Wreck Chords record label. The title is a parody of the 1980s punk compilation Rat Music for Rat People. It features 101 bands playing songs averaging approximately 30 seconds in length.

With a few exceptions, most of the album's tracks were written and recorded specifically for this release at the request of Fat Wreck Chords founder and NOFX bassist/vocalist Fat Mike. It peaked at #191 on the Billboard 200.


Note: Since a CD may only have 99 tracks, the final three songs are all on track 99.

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