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)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)
Who / what single is that most like?
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Adm Mhel (adam michel), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)
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.
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