http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/a-scientific-at.html
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.
You can download the song at the bottom of the article..
And thereby dislodge “Afternoon Delight” from its throne? NEVER!
can’t imagine anything more annoying than “Bohemian Rhapsody” (even “Hallelujah”)!
The extensive use of free reed instruments throughout just about says it all.
djm
I’d vote for “MUSKRAT LOVE”
IB, youre not listening to enough Prokoffiev…
The same people also researched paintings.
Meh. Nothing I haven’t already heard from They Might Be Giants…
I kind of like the recurring kids’ verse:
“Ramadan, Ramadan lots of praying, with no breakfast!
Ramadan, so much fun. Do all yer shopping… at WALMART!”
etc., extempore ad lib. ad infinitum.
etc., extempore ad lib. ad infinitum. ditto. 
Shudder!!!
I cannot believe the number of videos that never made it to MTV.
And like a masochist I actually clicked the link.
I’m going to cower in a corner now.
I like her voice though.
I like her bangs. So 70’s!
The most annoying song ever – and possibly the most dangerous brain worm ever let loose on an unsuspecting world – in playing evrery damn night on several channels.
F-R-E-E, that spells “free”
Credit report dot com, bay BEE!
F-R-E-E, that spells “free”
Credit report dot com, bay BEE!
F-R-E-E, that spells “free”
Credit report dot com, bay BEE!
F-R-E-E, that spells “free”
Credit report dot com, bay BEE!
If you’ve heard it even once, just reading the above will trigger the most insidious of brain worms and will start you screaming for your Partridge Family CDs to get rid of it.
Damn you…
There’s some pretty bad songwriting on those Embarq commercials, too.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8HtB0SCpPKQ
yep, that’s the one…
KAC
P.S. Damn! I can’t believe I actually listened to that…
I listened to the recording, and at first I loved it - it was pure École Frank Zappa, I thought - and then it just got more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more annoying, and I had to get outta there. If this was attempt, I think it succeeded. Even Zappa knew when to quit.
A wee bit on the long side, (deliberately, to annoy me?) but I could not stop listening in case I missed another pearl of a chorus from the kids like ‘It’s veteran’s day, it’s veteran’s day, lots of guns and old men marching’. They composer/s could have saved a lot of time and had immediate success had they used only the operatic voice (the singing one, not the rappeing one) because the opera singer is reaaaaallllllly annoying. The rest was pure gold!
One of the parameters that the artists looked for in their search for a least wanted song was length of time. The first time I tried to listen to the thing I lasted about 2 minutes, the second time about 15. At a certain point the children’s chorus seems to turn into a mantra that drifts in and out of consciousness in a thick soup of sound. Unlike Frank Zappa, this song shows the strain of being made by committee and public poll, much like most Pop music today. To me that was the most annoying part (even though that was not a parameter they were looking at and is probably why I didn’t like their Most wanted song either).