MOST, AND LEAST, WANTED SONGS, BY SCIENCE
Relax all you budding songwriters, working tirelessly to crack the code of a hit song. Analyzing subject matter, tempos, keys, arrangements. Constructing Excel spreadsheets with the musical statistics of every top 10 billboard charter of the last twenty years.
Science is already way ahead of you.
More than a decade ago, pop culture eggheads Komar and Melamid, in partnership with composer Dave Soldier, compiled answers from an elaborate questionaire in order to construct the absolute "Most Wanted" and "Least Wanted" songs ever composed.
See for yourself if you can resist the "Most Wanted" entry below. Check also if you or your loved ones can stand even five minutes of the epic-length "Least Wanted" tune.
Here at Music Nation, we did our own experiment on these two extreme versions of good, and bad, song-making:
We played both tracks over our office speakers. Within seconds, several Music Nation staffers demanded that "Most Wanted" be turned up -- note: they had no idea what we were playing.
When the "Least Wanted" spun next, the room collapsed into a tense, anxious uproar. "Who is playing this?" "What IS this?" "Shut it OFF!" "Ugh... what... I mean... WHAT is THIS?!"
Real anger, people.
In fact, Komar and Melamid, and of course Soldier, may just be the musical scientists that they claim they are. The team posited that less than 200 people in the world would enjoy "Least Wanted." Judging by our own office experiment... that number may be a little high.
Listen for yourself! And tell us what you think.
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Holworks says
So yes, there is an audio perception linked to several centers of the brain, some leading to alpha wave interaction while others stimulate beta wave receptors. Cool, here is one that will stimulate all of your receptors at once. Maybe it will eventually lead to our troops returning from war.http://musicnation.com/music/holworks/for-our-soldiers
amandamn says
That song sucks so hardJohnny Fibonacci says
life changing.sassy44a says
This is genius! Oddly enough, I like the most unwanted song better than the most wanted!The Altruistic Messiah ~ Ben Vandagriff ~ The CEO of Rock & Roll ! says
I love everything !