Scientifically designed to displease everyone. How long can you stand it?
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/02/the_scientifically_engineered.php
Isn’t that part of one of the Fallout games soundtracks?
That’s not bad. That’s just stupid. I have no idea who “scientifically designed it”, but it’s simply parts of other, decent tunes stuck together randomly. I hear vastly worse songs all the time. This doesn’t even rate on the scales O’ badness although I wouldn’t rule out smacking whomever wasted their time on this.
Ohhhhkaaaay…
I had thought you were talking about songs that contain bad science - like Carly Simon’s “Diamonds and Rust”, with the lyric about an old romance “a couple of light-years ago”. Drive me nuts every time I hear it. Kinda like the “Kessel run in under 12 parsecs”.
And at 8 minutes I gave up. It didn’t so much drive me away but that it’s so worthless as a song that I can’t imagine why anyone would bother listening to it. Seriously, all they did was chop a few other songs and slap them together.
At least this kinda makes sense, in that maybe they found a shorter route other ships were unable to navigate for some reason or another.
I listened to all of the 21:59 minute length of it. Some of it was catchy and some of it was beautiful. I in particular like the last 90 seconds of it. While I can understand why some bits would not be to some people liking, in no circumstances can this composition can be accurately be described as the “worst song in the world”.
This thread reminds me of the two Russian artists who surveyed 1001 Americans for their art preferences, and based on the answers painted a supposed potentially favorite painting. Many declared it to be blandly awful. Well, at least it was based on some sort of “scientific” process.
I’ve heard way worse.
The same people were behind both projects. The “Most Unwanted” song project was based on an Internet survey. There was an accompanying “Most Wanted” song (a schlocky smooth rock/R&M love song), designed to appeal to the largest group of people.
The point of all this was more a commentary on commercialized art and the creative process than a genuine attempt to produce the “best” painting or song.
That’s hilarious. Is that George Washington standing there?
I thought it was the Blue Boy, but you might be right.
Didn’t we do this before? Discussion starts at post 60, with links following.
::shrug:: Kind of fun actually.
The operatic rapping around the 1:45-2:00 mark caught me off guard and gave me, probably, the biggest smile I’ve had today.
This tried so hard that it ended up being kinda good in it’s own right.
Oh, there she she goes again at the 6:00 mark! When I hear her rapping I picture it being sung by a hen in a Parappa the Rapper game.
9:00 in, I’m going to enjoy every bit of this. Wait. I think the Kingston Trio is about to come on…
Hey Everybody! It Labor Day!
Schools are closed…Pools are open…
something, something something
Do a lot of shopping at WalMart!
“Worst song in the world” - Great song, or greatest song?
Halloween, halloween…
Then it finishes the last minute or so off with an ode to another classic epic, Pink Floyd’s The Wall (specifically “Outside the Wall”), with the spoken word accompanied by the choir and accordion.
Brilliant!
They obviously never heard Florence Foster Jenkins.
(I dare you to listen to the whole thing.)
It’s funny! 
I want an MP3 of this; it would be the perfect thing to have on hand when they open the pool across the street from my house this summer!
It is slightly better than a Thomas Kinkade painting.
We had a previous thread where I mentioned this song, and it turns out it is available on iTunes.