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Line 1: {{trope}} [[Epic Rocking]] is the trope for really long songs. This trope is the opposite. [['''Miniscule Rocking]]''' is when a song is unusually short, either by normal standards or the band's standards (or, in many cases, both). Yet, much like [[Epic Rocking]], these songs will frequently contain no lyrics - after all, it's hard to fit meaningful lyrics into a piece that only lasts 30 seconds. Of course, if you have a band that specialises in songs of [[Epic Rocking]] length, a song of normal length by everyone else standards would, for them, be an example of this trope. Line 6: [[Needs a Better Description]]. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~ }} == Rock == * [[Sparklehorse]]'s first 2 albums had plenty of this trope, with "[[Broken Record\|850 Double Pumper Holley]]", "Little Bastard Choo Choo", "[[Ballad of X\|Ballad of a Cold Lost Marble]]", "Box of Stars" (a 1:20 song split into 2 uneven parts) and "Good Morning Spider". Line 57 ⟶ 56: * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T4SnnFQDKU PSA] by Nuclear Assault. * "Invocation of Apocalyptic Evil" by [[Dragon Force (video game)]] - 14 seconds of keyboard filler starting off their first album. * The [[Korn]] album ''Issues'' has several songs that are only ~~1-2~~1–2 minutes long, including "Dead" (1:12), "4U" (1:42), "It's Gonna Go Away" (1:29), "Am I Going Crazy" (1:00), and "Wish You Could Be Me" (1:07). ** "Twist" from ''Life is Peachy'' is 49 seconds long. * The "SGNL" tracks from the [[Isis]] album ''Celestial'' Line 72 ⟶ 71: * "Harvey the Wonder Hamster" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] is 0:26 seconds long. Also, "Bite Me", the 15-second [[Hidden Track]] from ''Off the Deep End'', which is an homage to "Endless, Nameless" from [[Nirvana]]'s ''Nevermind''. And "Let Me Be Your Hog", from the ''[[UHF (film)\|UHF]]'' soundtrack CD. * "The Tony Award Song" from ''[[Title of Show]]'', due to [[Musicalis Interruptus]]. * Presumably most songs by [[Scott Pilgrim\|Crash and the Boys]], most egregiously [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLz54rWO2xM I'm So Sad, So Very, Very, Sad]. * "Power Of The Power Of The Power (Of The Great Sword)" by [~~http~~https://web.archive.org/web/20190929024706/https://www.jamendo.com/~~artist/~~search?q=nanowar NanowaR]. == Punk == Line 81 ⟶ 80: * [[Green Day]] sometimes dip into this, with "Take Back" and "Song of the Century". ** ''[[American Idiot]]'' came to be after they decided to turn Miniscule Rocking into [[Epic Rocking]] by stitching a few fragmental songs into a suite, "Homecoming". * [[Five Iron Frenzy]] has a lot of these. The straightest examples were "Shut Up", "I Still Like Larry",<ref>which was also rerecorded with different lyrics as "Two Kids in Memphis" and "Never Ask Us to Play This"</ref>, and their cover version of Vengeance Rising's "Receive Him". There was also the eight-part "These Are Not My Pants", where all but one part were less than an minute long. Then there are songs that are ridiculously short on the studio albums but longer at live shows (like "When I Go Out" or "Pootermobile"), or vice versa (like "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs"). * [[Dead Kennedys]] have done this at least twice, with "A Child and His Lawnmower" (0:54) and the [[Lampshade Hanging]] "Short Songs" (0:20). * The Descendents have quite a few songs that are under a minute, but the shortest include "I Like Food" (0:16) and "Weinerschnitzel" (0:10). And then there's "All!" and "No, All!", both of which are five second tracks with one second of music, and have only their title phrases for lyrics. Line 88 ⟶ 87: * "I Say Fuck" by the Supersuckers is a succinct 46 seconds long. * ''Short Attention Span'' by the Fizzy Bangers. {{quote\|Why can’t people understand? I got a short attention span. A short attention span.<ref> That's the whole song.</ref>}} * [[Wire]]'s first album, ''Pink Flag'', contains a number of very short, very fast songs, the briefest being the 0:36 "Field Day for the Sundays". What makes this particularly notable is that [[Hardcore Punk]], as a genre, [[Ur Example\|did not exist when any of these songs were written]].