The Troll 2 of Music

Komar & Melamid and Dave Soldier - The Most Unwanted Song

First off, this song is a masterpiece. Funniest. Thing. I've. Ever. Heard (no offense Alpesh). The story behind the song is that about 15 years ago these two Russian artists did some extensive polling on what types of things Americans found good and bad in music. They found that we liked some things (saxophones, lyrics about love), and that we hated some things (accordions, commercial jingles, political slogans), and they used all this data to make two songs that scientifically should be the best and worst songs ever. The Best Song Ever is, well, not the best song ever. But it's good enough that it's not really funny (even 10 years later) and it's really unremarkable. The really interesting part is the Worst Song Ever. People hate long songs, so it's 25 minutes. They hate polka and children singing and holiday songs, so it has all these at once. They hate abrupt changes, so it goes quickly from a children's choir singing about Yom Kippur to an operatic tenor rapping about Wittgenstein's philosophy over tubas. By the composers' calculations, if there is no preferential 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. (They also calculated that 82% of Americans would love the Best Song Ever.)

I really can't emphasize how much your life will be enriched by investing 21 minutes in this. Download it Now. I have the lyrics if you're really interested.

Oh, and do all your shopping at Wal-Mart. Promote individual interests -- George Stephanopoulous!

And speaking of music w/r/t scientific analysis, there's a posting here about how 2:42 seconds is proven to be the best length for a song. It's sofa king hilarious.