# The Quickies Playlist, Vol. I: Best of Short Indie and Alt Rock Songs

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2009/05/the-quickies-playlist-vol-i-best-of-short-indie-and-alt-rock-songs/
- Published: 2009-05-18T05:21:00-04:00
- Author: Max Hammer

[[A good song doesn’t necessarily have to fit a format, especially when it comes
to the time lapse of a song. However, the mega-obsessed music industry has pretty
much trained millions of people for decades that a song between three to four minutes
is the perfect cookie-cutter formula for a hit record. Huh.

There are plenty of songs that can make a big impact in two minutes or less, especially
in the independent and alternative music arena. The following are a collection of
songs that come in, do their thing and get out. Nothing wrong with that. But too
much of a short thing isn’t always satisfactory, especially when it is something
that you want to last longer.

Nevertheless, these songs each find their own way to make a short song work well.
Included in this playlist are and the now disbanded Phoenix rockers The Format, 
the mostly unknown solo artist Super XX Man, the under-rated indie pop band Okay,
90’s alt band Bells Of and London’s new eccentric purveyors of pop Micachu and The
Shapes .

[“Closer”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Closer.mp3) – The Format,
unreleased (2007)

[“Waiting For Your Return” ](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/06%20Waiting%20For%20Your%20Return.mp3)–
Super XX Man from Vol. IX (2000)

[“Only”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/02%20Only.mp3) – Okay from
Huggable Dust (2008)

[“Star And Sun”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/11%20Star%20And%20Sun.mp3)–
Bells Of from Two Dos Or Not 2 (1995)

[“Lips”](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Micachu_02_Lips.mp3) – Micachu
and The Shapes from Jewellery (2009)

Other playlist series you might enjoy:

[– The Great Unknowns ](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/The%20Great%20Unknowns1.html)

[– The Songs of Spring ](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/songs-of-spring-playlist-vol-i-annuals2.html)
[– Cover Me Indie Songs](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/Cover%20Songs.html)

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