scientific attempt to create the most annoying song ever

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MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever

By Eliot Van Buskirk

 

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.)

audio at http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html

Gabber.

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me, i hate harps and accordion, but i love the bassline and the opera rapping

I actually kind of like this track, haha.

People need to market their shit in anyway possible these days I guess.

Hahahaha! This is great!

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Here are a few experimental things I did back in the day. They're pretty annoying:

01_But_This.mp3Fetching info...

02_Side_of.mp3Fetching info...

03_The_Street.mp3Fetching info...

parsley_is_a_ripe_bottocks.mp3Fetching info...

Parsely is a ripe buttocks-lol.

this stuff is jazz band. the most annoying song was really entertaining.

who doesn't like harps?

accordians are tragically underrated. ástor piazzolla, anyone?

A+ thread would read again.

the "most popular song" they also did was actually annoying. this one is just kind of stupid because it just sticks things together instead of trying to enhance whatever made them annoying in the first place....

  spraaaa said:

the "most popular song" they also did was actually annoying.

Oh without a doubt.

  Braintree said:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/annoying/

that is a pet hate of mine, and has been for a while

when my son wants to piss me off, he sings that at me for an hour or two. like chinese water torture.

We made this back in high school trying to scientifically attempt the same thing. I think we did better. It features punk guitar and a 1991 Casio horn solo.

I guess they just consider it bad because it combines instruments/themes/genresnobody cares about anymore. At least this is interesting. Most shit on the radio isn't even interesting enough to be shitty

it's not that one part is bad that makes it bad.. it's the transition s from one slightly annoying instrument to the next and then repeated. i couldn't listen to it lol

i really like that song "friends are forever." it's by lennie.

Ive had this(these) song(s) for years. The most likable song sucks.

kid choruses are annoying as fuck. I'll agree with that.

quite good