Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever

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?

Actually, the best bit is the little synth wibble just before the kid yells "Hey everybody! It's Labor Day!"

No, the end is the best bit

argh poll this song already

I also lol at the aggressive way the kids yell "Gramma's on the phone, go and tell her that you love her!"

Max Tundra already did this

*shudder*

the most wanted song is actually equally awesome. I love the start of the scruffy verse talking about the "face of a baby"

Right!

http://mulatta.org/img/covers/peopleschoice250.jpg

This is the actual CD cover.

So is "Gonna buy a lot of Peaches" the most unwanted song, or is it "Lump"?

I'm thinking Van Dyke Parks, and I don't think it's just the accordion swaying me! Whatever the case, totez awes.

HOLY SHIT THIS "UNWANTED SONG" IS AWESOME!!

The rapping opera singer!!

totez awes

most unwanted person

omigod I have been laughing for about ten minutes straight

IT'S HALLOWEEN

YOM KIPPUR

the most wanted song sounds like something out of south park

AT WAL-MART!!!

This has totally made my day.

Where do I find the most wanted song?

http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html

Am about to listen to it myself

LET ME BE YOUR BRIDE

omg the last like minute of this is actually unbelievable, synths, key-changes, multi-tracked vocals and all

whoever said the guitar solo is wicked otm

this should inspire us all to go out and create

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/1081/boringso7.png

I swear that this song is less annoying better than 95% of the Cuneiform catalog.

Haha all you guys gushing over the fierce guitar solo...

Composed by Dave Soldier
Lyrics by Nina Mankin
Executive Producer: Charles Simonyi
Produced by Jane Bausman
Recorded by Rory Young at Big House Studios and Acme Recording Studio
Featuring Vernon Reid On Guitar

hey, can't front

GEORGE STEPHANOPOLOUS!

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