Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song
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Topic: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song
Date Posted: May 08 2011 at 07:30
MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song EverAn 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 http://musicology.typepad.com/dialm/2008/04/you-want-postmo.html" rel="nofollow - 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. http://www.diacenter.org/km/musiccd.html" rel="nofollow - 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 http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/" rel="nofollow - http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/ |
. (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.Replies:
Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: May 08 2011 at 10:00
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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 |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date 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 |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 08 2011 at 14:09
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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" rel="nofollow - http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/local/Its-Friday-A-Song-That-May-be-One-of-the-Worst--118232179.html |