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The Most Unwanted Song (FULL VERSION)
The 1997 novelty song by Komar and Melamid with composer Dave Soldier, built from survey results on what listeners dislike most in music. It features bagpipes, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir urging shopping at Wal-Mart.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in threads about taste and terrible music as a famously engineered 'worst song', mostly for its curiosity value.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- FraKctured
- Topic
- survey-designed music
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A tangent from the point of the post, but Komar & Melamid did a similar "experiment" with music to produce both the most wanted and most unwanted songs, and the results are amazing/hilarious. The most unwanted song, for example, features all the thing people dislike …
jonnycat on Hacker News · 2023-03
InI know your description includes "still get regular radio play", but one of my favourite pieces of troll music is "The Most Unwanted Song". They surveyed people to find the things they liked least in music and put it all together. I don't want to …
endgame on Hacker News · 2024-11
In An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.