Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever

Old, but can't see it elsewhere.
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The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition. The most unwanted orchestra was determined to be large, and features the accordion and bagpipe (which tie at 13% as the most unwanted instrument), banjo, flute, tuba, harp, organ, synthesizer (the only instrument that appears in both the most wanted and most unwanted ensembles). An operatic soprano raps and sings atonal music, advertising jingles, political slogans, and "elevator" music, and a children's choir sings jingles and holiday songs. The most unwanted subjects for lyrics are cowboys and holidays, and the most unwanted listening circumstances are involuntary exposure to commercials and elevator music. Therefore, it can be shown that if there is no covariance—someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ, for example—fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population would enjoy this piece.

the problem is that many parts of this are fantastic

xp - chances are, these 200 people are hanging out right here

actually pretty much every part except for the obnoxious rap near the beginning are awesome

the section with the operatic rap mixed with the children choir jingles is hurting my brain

there was a not very long thread on it a while back...
what would be your "most wanted song" and your "most unwanted song"?

do people really like operatic sopranos less than they like animal collective

wtf that description makes me really want to hear it

something i am about to do

I bet it sounds like the Fiery Furnaces.

yeah it kinda does

this is basically gonna be like half an hour of Resonance FM :D

lol I'm thinking "The Beta Band's self-titled album" rather than The Fiery Furnaces

(a record I totally love fwiw)

these guys have also come up with "America's most wanted painting", ie "an autumnal landscape with wild animals, a family enjoying the outdoors, the color blue, and George Washington". I guess that should be on ILE

but what the hell

http://www.diacenter.org/km/usa/most700.jpg

america really loves its kinkade shit and really hates its awesome musical clusterfuck insanity

what a nation

Holy crap that rapping soprano. Words fail me.

denmark's least wanted painting is radical:

http://www.diacenter.org/km/den/least.jpg

I took it to ILE:

Scientific Attempt To Create Most Wanted and Least Wanted Paintings (according to country)

this is more like a Patton project tbh

oh lol wow

Hey look they made a video for it as well!

(xxxpost) does that man have udders and a nob?

Anyway, this sounds like someone going through all the presets on their Yamaha auto-accompaniment keyboard.

the last 3 minutes is almost unbearbly moving

^^^^^this, it's the best bit IMO

greatest agit-prop choral hoedown elevator music...ever

If they removed the kids singing it would be really good.

I loved the kids choir till they got to holloween

These guys should tour with sun city girls or something. This is awesome.

You've gotta hear 'the most wanted song as well', it's a lost 80s soul classic. Second verse is a killer.

Whoever made the Fiery Furnaces comment was OTM.

Last section sounds like what I'd imagine a Danielson Famile song to sound like.

That, or I'm From Barcelona.

this song makes me happy. Every so often I think about organizing a live performance.

Holy crap that rapping soprano. Words fail me.

― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I need a thread to talk about Dina Emerson and Jonathan Segel's new band Chaos Butterfly

I simultaneously love and hate the children.

holy shit hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Oh shit Ramadan! Lots of praying, no breakfast.

I am giving myself a headache trying to muffle laughter omg

i could have sworn we had a thread on this... i halfway think i started one

I know I heard about this on This American Life or something once upon a time but I never heard the whole thing before.

Max Tundra already did this

Komar & Melamid: C or D?

ere tis

lol "Morning is Broken" interpolation!

OMG THANK U. hahahahaha this thing is amazing. I heard the 'rappin soprano' bit on the WMFU & People Like Us: DIY or Die podcast (a must for people who actually, uh, enjoyed this) and have been searching for it for ages. It goes into total merciless power-up mode when the bagpipes come in.

Wow I learned something about Wittgenstein.

the most wanted song is fucking intolerable

Good tune, kinda like a poppy NWW.

ok the guitar solo is pretty righteous

Sorry I meant the Most Unwanted one.

lol the most wanted song is also hilarious, who knew a duet between Karyn White and Bob Seger would be so desirable?

Hey Everybody! It's LABOR DAY!

Labour day! Labor day! Do all your shopping - AT WALMART!

confused brit inserts extra 'u'

I always thought the Yom Kippur one was self-reflection and a trumpet ...

i think i recall reading about this in carl wilson's celine dion book, curious to hear this

this song just makes me retardedly happy ... like, if I was to make a list of things to do to cheer myself up when I'm bummed, listening to this song would be on it.

I finally heard this yesterday!

It's a permanent fixture on my 'phone.

(both, that is...)

My friend sent me a text on labor day that just said "Pools are closed and schools are open!" and I lol'd loud.

I remember the first time I heard it was on All Things Considered. I was listening to the podcast while I was walking to class and they played a clip of the opera singer rapping, and right after she was done that bagpipe kicked in and I just fucking lost it and started laughing uncontrollably on the crowded sidewalk. I think I ended up rewinding/relistening like 3 times.

Just the fact they were trying to cram ALL these "unwanted" things into one piece, and hearing an 1)opera singer 2)rapping about 3)cowboys/western themes, interjected with such an intentionally obnoxious 4)bagpipe

Someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ.

You know what the "Most Annoying Song" reminds me of, funnily enough, is the "Kangaroo?" album by the Red Krayola with Art and Language. Which is one of my favorite albums ever.

stumbled across this on futility closet, i like it

I had forgotten exactly how hilarious the rapping soprano is.

haven't heard this in years but I do remember the bagpipe causing me to laugh out loud

made it without cracking up until the kids singing about yom kippur and spiritual atonement with the national anthem playing and wal-mart plugs

okay the last couple minutes of this are great

Ahhh, I loved this so much, always glad to be reminded of its existence.

I'd like to see the whole project revisited, tbh. I wonder if tastes will have changed.

whenever there's a terrorist attack or US bombing raid in the middle east, I always think:

WHO KILLED ALL THE INNOCENT CHILDREN?!! YOU DID! YOU!

xp - we could always do this. We could start by creating ILX's most unwanted song

extrapolate it from a bunch of unwanted posters

so the lyrics would be composed of tanuki, gabbneb, loujags, and whiney g posts

definitely should involve a non-hemiola for old tymes sake

LJ and Turrican should collaborate on the music for it.

i think you mean the musical content

xp - we could always do this. We could start by creating ILX's most unwanted song

― sarahell, Monday, April 10, 2017 6:46 PM (twenty-one minutes ago)

I'd be up for running a ballot survey and doing this, but I fear the most wanted music would just be overrun with votes for Gaz Coombes and Toilet Duck.

now there's a collaboration that needs to happen

Not trying to say I'm *not* on Team Toilet Duck, btw. Duck is definitely on my team (quack).

Also we could just do this in google forms, couldn't we? No need for complex ballots. HMMMMM.

geez I still need to do a toilet duck remix of our recent singer-songwriter's train track

feel guilty about stalling on my own esperantish megamix

anyway e.mily this is not a terrible idea and i promise not to duck boost if it goes ahead

Their 'most wanted painting' survey is all online, but I can't find the music one anywhere, so I'm going to have to make it up from scratch. I am into this idea, though!

I don't think it was a ranked choice survey, I think some of the questions were yes/no, with some multiple choice.

It was something like this (though I added things here and there)

Genres: pop, rock, R&B, opera, country/western, classical (instrumental), classical (choral), rap, jazz, military/national anthems, electronic dance music, non-idiomatic free improv

Subject matter: love, sex, holidays, food, politics, history, philosophy, art, literature, television and films, family, fashion, transportation, science, religion, jokes

Instruments: guitar, electric bass, drums, flute, piano, organ, electronic noise generators, violin, cello, viola, contrabass, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, tuba, trombone, trumpet, saxophone, sousaphone, flugelhorn, bagpipes, oud, drum machine, field recordings of nature sounds, field recordings of urban sounds, xylophone, classical percussion, ethnic percussion

vccal styles ...

too hard

This doesn't really need to be done as The 1975 have put two albums since 2009, so take your pick.

*out

don't they make children's music?

America's Most Wanted Painting
http://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidAmericaMost.jpg

France's Most Wanted Painting
http://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidFranceMost.jpg

China's Most Wanted Painting
http://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidChinaMost.jpg

Holland's Most Wanted Painting
http://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidHollandMost.jpg

I wonder if I'm too old to learn Dutch.

I think France's Most Unwanted Painting is my favorite of the lot:

http://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidFranceLeast.jpg

I am giving myself a headache trying to muffle laughter omg

― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:13 (eight years ago) Permalink

^^^ OMG this! How have I never heard this before today? Much of it sounds like my record collection (accordion, tuba, opera, Residents) thrown into a Cuisinart.

France's most unwanted painting rules!

That's my new national flag

Closest in sensibilities to the Least Wanted Song is probably the Italian Least Wanted Painting

http://awp.diaart.org/km/ita/least.jpg

Denmark's Least Wanted is awesome
http://awp.diaart.org/km/den/least.jpg

Inspired by this revival, I played the Most Unwanted Song on the radio this afternoon and totally made some six-year-old girl's day, her mom called me in awe.

Denmark really hates Custer's Revenge?

I had the two songs on one CD, the third track was The Hoosiers' "Stop giving me verses" aka the least wanted song.

Delighted to see that so many other people agree with me that operatic soprano is the most annoying sound in music.

Still a jam in 2020.

if i ever get married, this song will be played at the wedding.

it occurs to me that SDSS14+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter) might just be scott walker's attempt at this concept