1064 Yes - Five Per Cent for Nothing

1064 Yes - Five Per Cent for Nothing

 

After my pick a couple of days ago where I was discussing the length of Mainstream Pop/Rock and Progressive Rock songs I decided I should do a theme week featuring "musical quickies;" all of the songs this week will be under 100 seconds in length.
I decided I should start this theme week with another track from Yes. This song: Five Per Cent for Nothing clocks in at a whopping :35 seconds. It is an instrumental that features a funk bass line with drums and keyboards.
What is very interesting here is that many of the shortest songs in the modern era come from the same Prog/Rock acts that also regaled us the songs from 10 minutes up to almost an hour in length. While these tracks are shorter they still contain all the musical technicality from their much larger brothers

Here is the studio version on YouTube.


My song pick a year ago today: Megumi Hayashibara - Fly Me to the Moon
My song pick two years ago today: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Pedal Up

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