The song 'You Suffer' by Napalm Death is the shortest song ever recorded, lasting only 1.316 seconds.

The song appears on the 1987 album 'Scum' by the British band Napalm Death. Band members Nicholas Bullen and Justin Broadrick wrote it in Birmingham, England. Guinness World Records officially lists it as the shortest song in history.The track is shorter than the time it takes for a person to blink twice. Even though it is very fast, it still has a musical structure. It includes a quick drum beat, one guitar chord, and a vocal scream.The lyrics are hard to hear because they happen so fast. In 2007, the record label released a music video for the song that also lasts 1.3 seconds. It shows a single image of a girl jumping.The song is part of a music style called grindcore. This style focuses on extreme speed and short song lengths. Digital files of the song contain about 58,000 samples of audio data.This means a computer still processes a lot of information in that one second. The band often plays the song at the end of their concerts as a joke for the fans.