Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever

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An online poll conducted in the ?90s set Vitaly Komar, Alex Melamid and David Soldier on a quest to create the most annoying song ever. After gathering data about people?s least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to the maximum percentage of listeners. The song is not new, but it resurfaced on Dial "M" for Musicology.

Amazingly, this "most unwanted music" contains little dissonance ? that would have been too easy. For the most part, they seem to have tried to assemble these elements in a listenable way.

Komar & Melamid and David Soldier?s list of undesirable elements included holiday music, bagpipes, pipe organ, a children?s chorus and the concept of children in general (really?), Wal-Mart, cowboys, political jingoism, George Stephanopoulos, Coca Cola, bossanova synths, banjo ferocity, harp glissandos, oompah-ing tubas and much, much more. It?s actually a fascinating listen, worthwhile for the opera rapping alone. (We didn?t think that was possible either.)
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Song can be found at the link: http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/04/a-scientific-at/

It's 22 mins or so and is absolutely brilliant.
 
I can so see this "song" with a visual background of some really campy B rate movies in the background.
 
You know, this is probably less annoying than 95% of what gets played on the Top 40 stations.

Also the opera rapping is pure win.
 
If they tried this today, instead of the 90's, all they would have to do is look at the top 5 most downloaded I-Tunes songs and blend them together and then go fishing.

Would save them some time.
 
xosniper said:
If they tried this today, instead of the 90's, all they would have to do is look at the top 5 most downloaded I-Tunes songs and blend them together and then go fishing.

Would save them some time.
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some guy from the 60's or 70's would probably say the same thing about 90's music, gg.


But yeah this songs terrible, i expected a troll link with the song being friday, but this is much worse. Opera Rapping made me cry.
 
The start of the song sounds like some ambient background noise from Fallout New Vegas..
 
High point of the song is when the kids sing about celebrating Ramadan by buying stuff from Walmart.
 
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