what would be your "most wanted song" and your "most unwanted song"?

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a while ago, a whole bunch of people were polled by komar & melamid & dave solder to see what they'd like to hear in their "most wanted song" and vice versa for their "most unwanted song". using this info, they came up with the world's most wanted song, which 72% of people are most likely to warm to, as well as the world's most unwanted song, which apparently no more than 200 people in the entire world could like.

the stats were pretty interesting - the world's most unwanted song would include operatic rapping and bagpipes and be at least 25 minutes long, while the most wanted was ... well, you can see here: http://www.diacenter.org/km/musiccd.html

anyway, the point to my lengthy preamble is this: i am putting together a zine about music, and i would like to hear what people's personal "most wanted" and "unwanted" songs are. i've had a few so far, ranging from serious blow-by-blow descriptions of what instruments would feature to kooky scenarios where the federal immigration minister would be accompanied a capella by employees of ACM, who run the UN-condemned detention centres incarcerating asylum seekers in australia. ("most unwanted" song indeed.) someone else simply quipped that their most wanted song as ozzie osbourne conducting a psychedelic orchestra.

so i was wondering, what would people's most wanted and unwanted songs sound like?

My unwanted one would have loops of Celine Dion-like squealing and end with Elton John trying to rap the Tax Pack for 40 minutes. Oh, and there'd be a sex scene guitar solo in there somewhere too. My wanted one has boy-girl vocals and ba-ba-bas and bass clarinet and glocks and 70s disco-esque flute-samples etc etc with some permafrost Cat Power-esque vocals & kooky electronic flourishes and sharp beats. No bagpipes though.

lee tran, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This does explain why the Beautiful South are popular.

Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. so everone would love the a-side and no-one would love the b-side.

Who / what single is that most like?

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

split 7" John Cage/GYBE! I'm there

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

At least 50 of those 200 people must be ILM regulars.

Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'd like the least wanted song more.

the most wanted song....
only feature in lyric subjects that occurs in both most wanted and unwanted categories is “intellectual stimulation.”

ugh.

djdee2005, Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost 7 hours an no one has yet said "more cowbell."

dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The question: Who will compose the world's most unwanted song?

Adm Mhel (adam michel), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred Durst, obv

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

no, who will, not who has. ALthough he will do it again...

mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

http://musicology.typepad.com/dialm/2008/04/you-want-postmo.html

clotpoll, Friday, 18 April 2008 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

That is absolutely hilarious. The most wanted song (available here) is, unsurprisingly, utterly bland in comparison - although lyrically it's quite intriguing, somehow managing to cover bases between "filling ketchup bottles" and "reading wittgenstein".

ledge, Friday, 18 April 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

The most wanted song isn't just bland, it is fucking disgusting. Its only saving grace is that its quite cleary a pastiche. I do love the most unwanted one, though the disparate qualities and length make it seem more like a 'piece' than a 'song', with reprises of certain movements etc.

emil.y, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

I've just read that back, and I sound rather pompous. Just try reading it with the general gist intact but the assholeness removed.

emil.y, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

i came here with the intent of going against the contrary ilm hivemind & repping for whatever the most wanted song was but its garbage and the most unwanted song is unbelievably awesome :-|

and what, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

kinda sounds like basement jaxx

and what, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)


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