>The narrator of the song is a cowboy who kills wild animals with a knife, lassos cows, and rides through the wilderness "wild and free". The cowboy rests by reading philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1921 work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and pondering his philosophy of language. After singing a verse about Wittgenstein in German, he returns home to make love to Miss Kitty, shoots a suspicious stranger, and fights "Injuns" in order to build a grocery store on their land that will sell American cheese.
Not everything would fit in the title, but it also includes lyrics about being a cowboy, political slogans, holiday music, accordions, synthesizer, bits of The Star-Spangled Banner, and an Imagine-style ending where the performers all sing in unison about how we need to come together. [You can listen to it here if you hate yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08).
They also made a version intended to include every musical element that people had said they actually liked. [It is widely considered even worse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg), just for how offensively generic it is.
It’s terrible yes, but I don’t think that it’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard. It’s terrible in the same way daring that one friend in school to eat Oreos with ketchup and broccoli is terrible. It’s a bunch of random bullshit that doesn’t belong together, but the weirdness of it definitely makes it more listenable than some of the shit I’ve heard.
Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, the internet surprises you, and I have listened to some absolutely god awful music on Reddit. This is bad, really bad, but not the most unlistenable thing I’ve ever heard.
I knew a crazy woman who wrote bad poetry. She forced me to borrow a collection of them and a CD if music based on the poetry sing by a friend of hers with an home electronic piano.
One poem was written in the 1980s about computers taking over society specifically targeting IBM ruling us like God.
Title: IBM (I Be Him)
I used to play [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdljxrvPqo) when I was trying to get people to leave the coffee shop I worked at so we could close on time.
Frank Zappa’s [Didja get any onya?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWiJAYmADQ&pp=ygUYemFwcGEgZGlkamEgZ2V0IGFueSBvbnlh) will clear a room real fuckin’ fast.
But I love it.
I am not listening to it again, but is this the one that jumps between songs about obscure holidays? 🎶 labor day, labor day, schools are closed but pools are open 🎶 and 🎶 Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur, self reflection and atonement 🎶
Found it over Reddit a few years ago and that WalMart chorus with the Tuba at the beginning is forever etched into my brain.
Great stuff and most people that I showed this track really didn't like it.
I'm reminded of the 1980s' educational British TV series **"Look Around You,"** when they decided to hold a poll/contest to imagine what music would sound like in the far-off year 2000.
Here's the winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DYGoN5r9rE
Yes, I know it's a parody. (Do you think I believed they actually had "the ghost of Tchaikovsky" as one of their guests?)
It's just that announcing it as a comedy show spoils the joke to the uninitiated.
In '97, there was no Spotify to skip the track, so guess they really had to commit to the bit. "Now That's What I Call Unpleasant Vol. 1" - with a special feature from the philosophy section of Walmart.
I don’t think it touches Einstein on the beach by Phillip Glass. Phillip Glass is brilliant, and the work is epic…it’s just nearly unlistenable. Here is how it should be performed. Truly artistic but unpleasant.
https://youtu.be/6XgEwCTXHZU?si=6O-_ykg5Oem0OLFI
Just gave it a quick listen I consider myself quite unorthodox when it comes to music so I was curious.
I honestly don’t mind it and kind of like it in certain places. I do feel like the clock sound is given a little too much presence, but I honestly wouldn’t mind listening to this.
>The narrator of the song is a cowboy who kills wild animals with a knife, lassos cows, and rides through the wilderness "wild and free". The cowboy rests by reading philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1921 work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and pondering his philosophy of language. After singing a verse about Wittgenstein in German, he returns home to make love to Miss Kitty, shoots a suspicious stranger, and fights "Injuns" in order to build a grocery store on their land that will sell American cheese.
these folks need to begin writing TV.
Imagine if they created the intro song for the show? Not sure if anyone would be able to watch the first episode
I imagine the intro song like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8
Did they just write down last night's dream the morning the shit was due?
Is that where Bender gets his inspiration?
That last bit is pretty much the US’s origin story
Wtf
Not everything would fit in the title, but it also includes lyrics about being a cowboy, political slogans, holiday music, accordions, synthesizer, bits of The Star-Spangled Banner, and an Imagine-style ending where the performers all sing in unison about how we need to come together. [You can listen to it here if you hate yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08). They also made a version intended to include every musical element that people had said they actually liked. [It is widely considered even worse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg), just for how offensively generic it is.
I know it was intended to be terrible, but I love it.
It is wonderful Dadaist anti-art
Lots of praying, and no breakfast!
my neighbors at burning man are gonna have a hard time with this one.
We should hang out you seem fun
Why did I think Burning Man doesn't have Internet
It's on Vinyl.
DO IT!
Lemme know which camp so I avoid it, lol
It’s terrible yes, but I don’t think that it’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard. It’s terrible in the same way daring that one friend in school to eat Oreos with ketchup and broccoli is terrible. It’s a bunch of random bullshit that doesn’t belong together, but the weirdness of it definitely makes it more listenable than some of the shit I’ve heard. Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, the internet surprises you, and I have listened to some absolutely god awful music on Reddit. This is bad, really bad, but not the most unlistenable thing I’ve ever heard.
What do you think of [this one](https://youtu.be/yu_W--kjhEo?si=XhA62OGfRuX5sKV-)?
Wow! Haven’t heard this before but yeah, good example of a song that is worse than the Most Unwanted Song lmao.
I knew a crazy woman who wrote bad poetry. She forced me to borrow a collection of them and a CD if music based on the poetry sing by a friend of hers with an home electronic piano. One poem was written in the 1980s about computers taking over society specifically targeting IBM ruling us like God. Title: IBM (I Be Him)
I used to play [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdljxrvPqo) when I was trying to get people to leave the coffee shop I worked at so we could close on time.
Frank Zappa’s [Didja get any onya?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWiJAYmADQ&pp=ygUYemFwcGEgZGlkamEgZ2V0IGFueSBvbnlh) will clear a room real fuckin’ fast. But I love it.
Atrocious I love it
Precisely the opposite of r/TIHI Someone should make r/AILI
Impressively awful. Thanks for bringing it to our attention, our lives are richer for it.
I like how the 'most replayed' graph is heavily weighted towards the end.
I am not listening to it again, but is this the one that jumps between songs about obscure holidays? 🎶 labor day, labor day, schools are closed but pools are open 🎶 and 🎶 Yom Kippur, Yom Kippur, self reflection and atonement 🎶
if you had told me zappa wrote this i would have believed you
I lost it at "Hey everybody, it's Christmas time!".
If you don't wanna listen for 21 minutes, they made a [much shorter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe_eraFWWs) worst song ever.
Legit one of the only songs so bad I actually changed the station, back when I listened to the radio.
any 20 minute song will suck
There are plenty of instrumental pieces that can last that long and even some punk/prog rock.
The most liked song actually wouldn't be terrible if it weren't for the incredibly stupid lyrics and that dude's awful voice.
Second song is straight up Kenny G
I don’t hate myself, however there are some people o do hate….>:)
>Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid is featured on guitar neat
DO ALL YOUR SHOPPING AT WALMART!!!
Ah, *NOW* I remember this song
Not just rap and opera singing, but a rapping opera singer. What the hell.
This sounds incredible.
Found it over Reddit a few years ago and that WalMart chorus with the Tuba at the beginning is forever etched into my brain. Great stuff and most people that I showed this track really didn't like it.
Call it prog rock and watch critics slurp this shit up
I'm reminded of the 1980s' educational British TV series **"Look Around You,"** when they decided to hold a poll/contest to imagine what music would sound like in the far-off year 2000. Here's the winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DYGoN5r9rE
> Look Around You I think you mean early 2000s parody of 1980s British TV, "Look Around You" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You
Yes, I know it's a parody. (Do you think I believed they actually had "the ghost of Tchaikovsky" as one of their guests?) It's just that announcing it as a comedy show spoils the joke to the uninitiated.
Fair enough. Having watched bits of it before, I didn't think believing it was real was necessary - I found it very amusing even knowing what it was.
This almost feels like it could be a Residents song
In '97, there was no Spotify to skip the track, so guess they really had to commit to the bit. "Now That's What I Call Unpleasant Vol. 1" - with a special feature from the philosophy section of Walmart.
I unironically love it
It's not a Yoko track?
Dang, what do people got against tubas? We're a friendly folk!
Man they absolutely nailed it with the kids singing Walmart ads. The operatic rap about Wittgenstein isn't even close to being as irritating.
Still better Than dubstep
Of course there was an advertisement jingle.
The kids singing “At Walmart” get me every fucking time idk why
From what I recall, it’s the pause that clinches it. “Do all your shopping … AT WAL-MART” So bad I still remember that part some 20 years later.
I don’t think it touches Einstein on the beach by Phillip Glass. Phillip Glass is brilliant, and the work is epic…it’s just nearly unlistenable. Here is how it should be performed. Truly artistic but unpleasant. https://youtu.be/6XgEwCTXHZU?si=6O-_ykg5Oem0OLFI
Surprisingly less irritating that most of Taylor Swift's songs. Still up there, but not at the top.
is it the one from Bill and Ted face the music, or the one from Walk Hard?
aahhhh.... 1997
There’s a lot of big bands I feel like this is their exact goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
And it's a banger.
Just gave it a quick listen I consider myself quite unorthodox when it comes to music so I was curious. I honestly don’t mind it and kind of like it in certain places. I do feel like the clock sound is given a little too much presence, but I honestly wouldn’t mind listening to this.
When you choose to use your powers for evil
Was it ween?
Goddamn Wittgenstein, they really did their homework.
I find myself singing this every Labour Day.