Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song

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MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
An online poll conducted in the ’90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners. The song is not new, but it resurfaced on Dial "M" for Musicology.
Amazingly, this "most unwanted music" contains little dissonance — that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way.
Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It’s actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone. (We didn’t think that was possible either.)
Click link for the song. It's a bizarre listen with some weird prog in it . (the instrumentation around min18-19 is surprisingly good tho). You can also find the complete opposite "most wanted song ever" which is ironically less listenable: a horrible adult-contemporary style track.
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/

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Zitro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 11 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1321	Topic: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Posted: May 08 2011 at 07:30
	MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever An online poll conducted in the ’90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people’s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners. The song is not new, but it resurfaced on Dial "M" for Musicology. Amazingly, this "most unwanted music" contains little dissonance — that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way. Komar & Melamid and David Soldier’s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children’s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It’s actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone. (We didn’t think that was possible either.) Click link for the song. It's a bizarre listen with some weird prog in it . (the instrumentation around min18-19 is surprisingly good tho). You can also find the complete opposite "most wanted song ever" which is ironically less listenable: a horrible adult-contemporary style track. http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/

Henry Plainview Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2008 Location: Declined Status: Offline Points: 16715	Posted: May 08 2011 at 10:00
	That link is over 3 years old and the song was actually recorded well before that. Even a cursory use of the search function would have revealed that this has been posted many times before.
	if you own a sodastream i hate you

zappaholic Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 24 2006 Location: flyover country Status: Offline Points: 2822	Posted: May 08 2011 at 10:26
	Zappaholic's Internet Observation: No matter how old something is, or how many millions of people have already seen it, somebody, somewhere, is seeing it today for the first time.
	"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken

crimhead Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: October 10 2006 Location: Missouri Status: Offline Points: 19236	Posted: May 08 2011 at 14:09
	Wouldn't that song be Friday by Rebecca Black!?! http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/local/Its-Friday-A-Song-That-May-be-One-of-the-Worst--118232179.html