what is the most pointless song ever recorded?

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what songs have you heard where, after they're done, you say to yerself, "god, that was so fucking pointless! why in the name of all that's holy did they ever record such a thing?"

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 07:27 (twenty-three years ago)

50 cent - "Heat"

― Brock K. (Brock K.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

my vote: Shellac's "Didn't We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are," which damn near put me off Shellac for ever.

there's also the complete works of the Grateful Dead and Sigur Ros, but that should go without saying.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

there's so much pointless music out there, this thread
itself is pointless.

but, to address the topic, I would like to get the
members of Wheatus, Good Charlotte, and B2K together
in a small cabin so I can padlock the door and
burn that motherfucker down. they'd be so busy
having gay sex they'd never notice.

― to_the_pain (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 08:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Mogwai - Stereo dee

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd put money on it appearing one or two tracks before the end of a Pavement album.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

they'd be so busy
having gay sex they'd never notice.

how gay do you think? HOW GAY WOULD THE SEX BE? i think we have a right to know

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

SOCKEYE to thread!

― tony bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

American Pie by Madonna

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

DID IT ALL FOR THE NOOKIE

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

That cover of 'Perfect Day' with all the daft stars.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

my vote: Shellac's "Didn't We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are," which damn near put me off Shellac for ever.

BUT!...

repetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is funrepetition is fun.....

― original bgm, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

American Pie by Don McLean.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Closer, NIN

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"No Rain" - Blind Melon. It's a total package kinda thing.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

That godawful first song on the last Bright Eyes album (and really everything afterward, but especially the first one).

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Leee has made me sad.

― gygax!, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the warm jets complete works

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Mogwai are not supposed to be Merzbow though.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Bohemian Rhapsody

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)

thoroughly unre,arkable "Tiny Dancer" cover by some shit boring MOR sounds-like-Wallflowers band, it was playing in the theater before the movie started.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Bohemian Rhapsody is a good choice. Also, Artemisia by Rachel's.

― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" by the Beatles.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one's said John Cage's "4'22". I mean, the *idea* is more important than any recording of the song, so that renders the song pretty pointless, no?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

4'22"? If it's 11 seconds less pointless than 4'33" then it can't be so bad

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The radio edit (2'45") is a further improvement.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 23:40 (twenty-three years ago)

nerds making fun of other nerds for not being nerdy enough = CLASSIC!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

its very

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 03:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"Good." Better than Ezra. whoever Ezra is ought to be a shamed if this is true. UGH!

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The hip hop remix of "4 '33" is far better. Same deal, its just a load of mean lookin' guys stood around doing nothing infront of some decks.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

probably louise's stuck in the middle with you. dull but attractive singer attempts to get career on track by covering dull karaoke bollox.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynskey that hip hop version you are talking about is in Pootie Tang!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

"Looking for Freedom" David Hasselhoff

― Alicia, Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mr. Roboto."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 27 March 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I just spent three hours recording something then erased it by mistake, does that count as 'pointless'?

― dave q, Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Was there ever a recording of "4'33"?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

my vote: Shellac's "Didn't We Deserve a Look at You the Way You Really Are," which damn near put me off Shellac for ever.

That's one of my favourite Shellac songs. It's not the same all the way through, you can hear the timing shifting in every bar. It's a great idea and a great song and it makes the balance of Terraform just so great, starting with that then building through to the blinding "Copper" at the end.

― mei (mei), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"My Heart Will Go On". Yes, I know the song is supposed to be romantic, but not after it has been played millions of times. After that, the sentiment escapes me.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

there was a compilation album featuring 10 different interpretations of 4'33", I applauded, but did not buy.

― jl, Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

http://artists.iuma.com/site-bin/mp3gen/70706/IUMA/Bands/nickaliscious/audio/nickaliscious_-_Contact.mp3

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Want Candy". Because really, who doesn't want candy?

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

THat one that goes "I love you period. Do you love me question mark. Please please exclamation point. I want to hold you in parenthesis." That's really my least favorite song of all time. I hate it so much, it somehow is still ingraned in my BRANE.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

That would be "I Love You Period" by Dan (Georgia Satellites) Baird, from his forst solo lp.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ingraned in the memBRANE.

IN GRANED IN THE BRANE!

(ps Ally, you have no idea how much I agree with you on that atrocity to both the world of music and the world of basic grammar education)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Nickalicious don't take this the wrong way but your rapping is WAY better than I expected from what I know of yr. taste etc. On some of yr. tracks at least. "Spirits Escape" is a bit much but "The Contagion" has a nice vibe.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The Polyphonic Spree - Stage 10

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling dishes out the Backhanded compliments

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)

pretty much everything by sonic youth is the most pointless song ever recorded. except for that first song on Daydream Nation which is kinda cool.

And goddammit, I've sat through "Death Valley 69" AND "The Sprawl" AND "Swimsuit Issue" AND every other piece-of-shit song from Bad Moon Rising up to Dirty and I conclude that that bitch in Sonic Youth may very well be the most annoying, most talentless piece of shit on the face of the Earth. Yes, even WORSE than Yoko Ono and PJ Harvey.

Will somebody PLEASE tell me just what the fucking appeal to this band is?? Isn't this the kind of self-indulgent shit that punk was supposed to destroy forever?

― Evan (Evan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, thanks Sterling! I really do 'preciate it!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I just imagined this "funky" hippie lose-jawed jam rapper and instead you kick it real tight on some of those tracks. So yeah -- props.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

there was a compilation album featuring 10 different interpretations of 4'33"

Come to think of it, I have a box standing just beside the monitor here, with around 20 CDs containing extended 80 minute versions of "4'33".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha! Totally, if I were confronted with someone with my taste in music, that's exactly what I would've expected, spot on.

And another big rawkus "ha ha" to the excellent John Cage funny Geir just made as I was typing this!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Evan's comments inspired me to sample _Bad Moon Rising_.
Wow, this is bad. It reminds me of _Thrakatak_ with worse
poetry. I'm not gonna bother to explore further.

― Skwirl Plise, Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

"Was there ever a recording of '4'33'?"

John Lennon covered it once as "Two Minutes of Complete Silence."

― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

amm have a track of 10 sec of silence too ('to be pregrammed whenever you wish' or somefink) on their first rec

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

'March of Death', Zack de la Rocha y DJ Shadow

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Leee has made me happy.

― jack cole (jackcole), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Goddamn, I knew that fucker was the guy from the Georgia Sattelites. I hate them with a passion. Christ almighty. That is the worst song ever, but that Keep Your Hands To Yourself song is almost as bad! God I'm going to be sick.

That fucker should be shot. I mean, "I Love You Period"? How fucking romantic.

And nickalicious is spot on, it's an affront to the English language.

hey I wanna hear nickalicious rapping.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 28 March 2003 05:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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