How long can you listen to the most unpopular song? fully created to be so! (funny..or sick!)

[NRaleighLiberal]

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

"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 commericals 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."

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song players are in the link.

[IDoMath]

1. 1:43 for the unwanted but only 0:29 for the most wanted

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. you need to go the distance on the unwanted....some undelightful surprises!

agree - I can't stand the most wanted one!

[dawg]

3. Best .... Song ..... Ever!

I shall do all my shopping at Wal*Mart!

[IDoMath]

4. I don't know whether to hate you or thank you...

"Laaaabor Day! Laaaaabor Day!"...

[AsahinaKimi]

5. This really sounds like a sound experiment

I came across something like it years ago, and though while most people couldn't stand to listen to it for more than a moment, i found it interesting and a bit funny..

Than again, a lot of people hated Yoko Ono's singing, and though I understood it, it was merely just performance art. I guess one has to look at it like one looks at a bizarre painting or weird movie. One persons art is another person's trash, and visa versa. I don't really mind weird music so much. I was never a fan of Opera, but I do like some of the traditional music of Japanese noh.

maybe cause I was exposed to it as a young age.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. In a way, it is - they did a survey and created a song using the most unpopular elements.

hence we get kids singing, holiday words, accordions, soprano rapping opera singers - it really has no equal!



And I do tend to like it better than the one they constructed with the elements the survey indicated people love! (then again, my own music collection is really eclectic/all over the place!)

[AsahinaKimi]

7. I always thought this was the weirdest combination

A Western Theme in Japanese... but who could pull off better than the guy who sings this, theme from Western Sukiyaki Django.

[Ron Obvious]

8. Are these the songs PRI's This American Life talked about?

I can't play audio or video at the moment, but this sounds awfully familiar. I think PRI's This American Life did a show about this years ago. By combining everybody's favourite elements of a song (female singer, singing about love, etc), they created a completely forgettable bit of fluff, but by combining everyone's least favourite elements (children's vocals, lyrics about Holidays, accordions & bagpipes), they created a song that virtually everyone preferred over the first one.

"Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur,... I'll meet you on Yom Kippur"... I thought it was hilarious.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. yes! one of our favorite TAL episodes!

[TuxedoKat]

10. Haha!

I didn't like the popular one. Sounds too much like pop music I don't care for on the radio. The worst one though, is at least interesting to listen to, because you don't hear combinations of sounds like this. Actually, I kind of like parts of it -- for the humor!