The most annoying song ever

Tip of the ET deerstalker to Silenced Majority Portal for re-upping this story.

In the Nineties, two Russian conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid with a fellow named David Soldier conducted an online poll to try to create the most annoying song ever. The result, a 22-minute long piece utilising opera, bagpipes, children's choirs, holiday themes, oompah, jingoistic lyrics, cheerleading, pipe organs and Christ knows what - but no white noise or actual dissonance because that would have been too obvious - is surprisingly chirpy, like Rednex or Jive Bunny using opera singers to cover "The Stars And Stripes" at a racetrack meeting, mixed in with "Mull Of Kintyre" over and over and over again, but maybe that's more a reflection of my tastes than a failure on their part.

I've already listened to it twice.

They also created a piece called "The Most Wanted Song" which, for my money, is way more heinous (being composed of all the schmaltz-y bits of 70s and 80s soul) but does have the undeniable saving grace of being nearly 17 minutes shorter.

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Of course, all concerned have missed the point. Criteria for the most annoying song ever has to include exposure to the most annoying song ever, in which case the following MUST qualify...

1. The Stars And Stripes

2. God Save The Queen

3. Happy Birthday To You

4. anything by Pussycat Dolls

5. We Are The World

6. anything by Coldplay

7. Do They Know It's Christmas?

8. Can We Fix It?

9. Eye Of The Tiger

10. Candle In The Wind

etc etc