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.
― An adult loves to win awards (Stevie D), Thursday, 10 September 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― An adult loves to win awards (Stevie D), Thursday, 10 September 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone who dislikes bagpipes is as likely to hate elevator music as someone who despises the organ.
― m0stlyClean, Friday, 11 September 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Maltodextrin, Friday, 11 September 2009 08:04 (fourteen years ago) link
stumbled across this on futility closet, i like it
― nxd, Monday, 10 April 2017 10:03 (seven years ago) link
I had forgotten exactly how hilarious the rapping soprano is.
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
haven't heard this in years but I do remember the bagpipe causing me to laugh out loud
― frogbs, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
made it without cracking up until the kids singing about yom kippur and spiritual atonement with the national anthem playing and wal-mart plugs
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
okay the last couple minutes of this are great
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Ahhh, I loved this so much, always glad to be reminded of its existence.
― emil.y, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
I'd like to see the whole project revisited, tbh. I wonder if tastes will have changed.
― emil.y, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
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!
― sarahell, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
xp - we could always do this. We could start by creating ILX's most unwanted song
― sarahell, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
extrapolate it from a bunch of unwanted posters
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
so the lyrics would be composed of tanuki, gabbneb, loujags, and whiney g posts
definitely should involve a non-hemiola for old tymes sake
― sarahell, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
LJ and Turrican should collaborate on the music for it.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
i think you mean the musical content
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― emil.y, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
now there's a collaboration that needs to happen
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Not trying to say I'm *not* on Team Toilet Duck, btw. Duck is definitely on my team (quack).
― emil.y, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Also we could just do this in google forms, couldn't we? No need for complex ballots. HMMMMM.
― emil.y, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:12 (seven years ago) link
geez I still need to do a toilet duck remix of our recent singer-songwriter's train track
― sarahell, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
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!
― emil.y, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
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 ...
― sarahell, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
too hard
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Monday, 10 April 2017 19:45 (seven years ago) link
This doesn't really need to be done as The 1975 have put two albums since 2009, so take your pick.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 10 April 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
*out
don't they make children's music?
― sarahell, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
America's Most Wanted Paintinghttp://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidAmericaMost.jpg
France's Most Wanted Paintinghttp://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidFranceMost.jpg
China's Most Wanted Paintinghttp://www.gwennseemel.com/images/blog09/KomarMelamidChinaMost.jpg
Holland's Most Wanted Paintinghttp://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
― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Monday, 10 April 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Dan Peterson, Monday, 10 April 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
France's most unwanted painting rules!
― JRN, Monday, 10 April 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
That's my new national flag
― The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Monday, 10 April 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
Closest in sensibilities to the Least Wanted Song is probably the Italian Least Wanted Painting
http://awp.diaart.org/km/ita/least.jpg
― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Monday, 10 April 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
Denmark's Least Wanted is awesome http://awp.diaart.org/km/den/least.jpg
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 01:49 (seven years ago) link
Denmark really hates Custer's Revenge?
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
I had the two songs on one CD, the third track was The Hoosiers' "Stop giving me verses" aka the least wanted song.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
Delighted to see that so many other people agree with me that operatic soprano is the most annoying sound in music.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 07:33 (seven years ago) link
Still a jam in 2020.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 15 February 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
if i ever get married, this song will be played at the wedding.
― sarahell, Saturday, 15 February 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
it occurs to me that SDSS14+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter) might just be scott walker's attempt at this concept
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 15 February 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link