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Album Review: Short Music for Short People

  • Artist: Various Artists
  • Release Date: June 01, 1999
  • Total Time: 49:25
  • Type: Collection (various artists), Compilation (best of), Lyrics are included with the album, Contains explicit content
  • 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 (Lyrics) 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 (Lyrics) 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 (Lyrics) 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 (Lyrics) 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 (Lyrics) Keith Morris, Roger Rogerson 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 (Lyrics) Frenzal Rhomb (:31)
I Hate Your Fucking Guts Joe Queer The Queers (:30)
Comin' to Your Town D.I. (:26)
Spray Paint Chuck Dukowski, Greg Ginn 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

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


Track listing
# Title Artist Length
1. "Short Attention Span"   Fizzy Bangers 0:08
2. "Anchor"   Less Than Jake 0:30
3. "Ketchup Soup"   Teen Idols 0:30
4. "A.C.A.B. (All Comic Heroes are Fascist Pigs)"   Terrorgruppe 0:24
5. "Overcoming Learned Behavior"   Good Riddance 0:27
6. "Quit Your Job"   Chixdiggit 0:24
7. "Ready"   The Living End 0:34
8. "Out of Hand" (Greg Graffin) Bad Religion 0:39
9. "Asian Pride"   Hi-Standard 0:29
10. "Steamroller Blues"   Aerobitch 0:26
11. "Doin' Laundry"   Nerf Herder 0:29
12. "Freegan"   Bigwig 0:32
13. "Not Again"   Undeclinable Ambuscade 0:31
14. "Waste Away" (Clements, Crowen, Dunegan, Haberman, Frady) Fury 66 0:29
15. "The Radio Still Sucks"   The Ataris 0:28
16. "Armageddon Singalong"   Unwritten Law 0:36
17. "Hearts Frozen Solid, Thawed Once More by the Spring of Rage, Despair, and Hopelessness"   AFI 0:32
18. "Farts Are Jazz to Assholes"   Dillinger Four 0:33
19. "Surf City"   Spread 0:28
20. "Back to You"   Swingin' Utters 0:33
21. "Outhouse of Doom"   The Bar Feeders 0:34
22. "Alienation"   Citizen Fish 0:32
23. "Family Reunion"   Blink-182 0:36
24. "Mirror, Signal, Wheelspin"   Goober Patrol 0:28
25. "Saturday Night"   Killswitch 0:32
26. "Bedroom Windows"   Enemy You 0:24
27. "Sara Fisher"   No Use for a Name 0:30
28. "The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink"   Green Day 0:32
29. "Delraiser Part III: Del on Earth"   Consumed 0:27
30. "Told You Once"   The Mr. T Experience 0:11
31. "Randal Gets Drunk"   Lagwagon 0:28
32. "Fishfuck"   GWAR 0:32
33. "Howdy Doody in the Woodshed"   The Dickies 0:32
34. "Long Enough to Forget You"   Samiam 0:29
35. "Erik Sandin's Stand-In"   Dogpiss 0:33
36. "We Want the Kids"   59 Times the Pain 0:20
37. "Warren's Song Part 8"   Bracket 0:31
38. "No Fgcnuik" (from Sex Mad) Nomeansno 0:31
39. "I Like Food" (Bill Stevenson; from the Fat EP) Descendents 0:17
40. "Triple Track"   Dance Hall Crashers 0:32
41. "Don Camero Lost His Mind"   Guttermouth 0:29
42. "X-99" (Limp) Limp 0:38
43. "Faust"   Jughead's Revenge 0:31
44. "Deny Everything" (Keith Morris, Roger Rogerson; from Group Sex) Circle Jerks 0:25
45. "Hand Grenades"   The Offspring 0:36
46. "Mike Booted Our First Song, So We Recorded This One Instead"   Mad Caddies 0:28
47. "Union Yes"   The Criminals 0:34
48. "Dirty Needles" (Ben Weasel; from Television City Dream) Screeching Weasel 0:27
49. "300 Miles"   One Man Army 0:29
50. "Klawsterfobia"   Strung Out 0:30
51. "You Don't Know Shit" (Youth Brigade) Youth Brigade 0:34
52. "Doin' Fine"   Groovie Ghoulies 0:27
53. "John for the Working Man"   Tilt 0:30
54. "A Prayer for the Complete and Utter Eradication of All Generic Pop-Punk"   Spazz 0:26
55. "It's a Real Time Thing"   The Damned 0:31
56. "All My Friends Are in Popular Bands"   88 Fingers Louie 0:31
57. "I Hate Puck Rock"   D.O.A. 0:31
58. "Fun"   Pulley 0:31
59. "To All the Kids"   The Vandals 0:28
60. "30 Seconds Till the End of the World"   Pennywise 0:32
61. "Get a Grip"   No Fun At All 0:27
62. "Blatty (Human Egg)"   Sick of It All 0:32
63. "I Got None"   ALL 0:29
64. "See Her Pee"   NOFX 0:32
65. "F.O.F.O.D." (Kevin Seconds) 7 Seconds 0:31
66. "Blacklisted"   Rancid 0:27
67. "Chandeliers and Souvenirs"   Diesel Boy 0:29
68. "Your Kung Fu Is Old...and Now You Must Die!!!"   Adrenalin O.D. 0:31
69. "My Pants Keep Falling Down"   Frenzal Rhomb 0:31
70. "I Hate Your Fucking Guts"   The Queers 0:30
71. "Comin' to Your Town"   D.I. 0:26
72. "Spray Paint" (Chuck Dukowski, Greg Ginn; from Damaged) Black Flag 0:32
73. "Rage Against the Machine Are Capitalist Phonies"   White Flag 0:28
74. "Bring It to an End"   Anti-Flag 0:28
75. "Not a Happy Man" (Davis White) Avail 0:35
76. "Old Mrs. Cuddy"   The Real McKenzies 0:31
77. "Traitor"   Agnostic Front 0:31
78. "Life Rules 101" (Dave Smalley) Down by Law 0:31
79. "Wake Up"   Radio Days 0:32
80. "Too Bad You Don't Get It"   Useless ID 0:34
81. "Humanity"   Poison Idea 0:35
82. "In Your Head"   Men O' Steel 0:25
83. "Supermarket Forces"   Subhumans 0:32
84. "Tribute to the Mammal"   Buckwild 0:22
85. "Pretty Houses"   Lunachicks 0:28
86. "The Band That Wouldn't Die"   Dwarves 0:38
87. "Like a Fish in Water"   The Bouncing Souls 0:34
88. "Turn It Up"   The Almighty Trigger Happy 0:30
89. "Madam's Apple" (Dan Root, Daniel Gadbury) One Hit Wonder 0:32
90. "Staggering" (Mel Chappell) Hotbox 0:28
91. "DMV"   20% 0:29
92. "Big Fat Skinhead"   Snuff 0:30
93. "Pimmel" (Kim Shattuck) The Muffs 0:34
94. "Mr. Brett, Please Put Down Your Gun"   H2O 0:30
95. "Wake Up"   Bodyjar 0:33
96. "Eyez"   Nicotine 0:26
97. "Another Stale Cartoon"   Satanic Surfers 0:31
98. "I Don't Mind"   Ten Foot Pole 0:31
99. "Welcome to Dumpsville, Population: You"
"NY Ranger"
"The Count"  
Caustic Soda
Misfits
Wizo
1:25
49:27

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

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