Music by committee?

[unixronin]

"[...] an easy listening-style adult contemporary sound that could peel the paint off of the Space Shuttle."

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[docstrange.livejournal.com]

It's kind of like sitting in a dentist's chair. In fact, I am pretty sure that is the exact music piped in at mine.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

My god, man, you actually tried to listen to it?

You're a braver man than I am, Gunga Din.

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Yeah, though I had to "skip a bit, brother" as it became painfully predictable. And at about 5 minutes long, it's definitely overdone. Listening to the "most unwanted music" right now, a mere 22 or so minutes of something only Yoko Ono could love, although the children singing various holiday bits is pretty hilarious.

GAH. Edit. Cymbal crash typo.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I had the misfortune to hear something by Yoko Ono once. It convinced me she must have had something on John Lennon somehow, because I can't imagine any musician ever willingly marrying someone who made such a godawful horrible noise. It sounded like someone butchering live rabbits, except louder.


After some additional thought, I find myself able to characterize it only as atonal, unintelligible screeching.

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Many years ago, "We're Geniuses in France" (Chicago public access sketch comedy show) did a flip of the John Lennon bio film, as a Yoko Ono bio film ("He wooined all my songs...") including her performing a song called "Screech" which consisted of repeated screeches. It was parody so true, it was kind of hard to tell the difference.

Of course, their best piece back then was Palukaville, a spoof of Alphaville.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

http://musicmachinery.com/2010/05/21/the-swinger/

an interesting take?

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[polaris93.livejournal.com]

I agree: it's horrible! How could so many have labored so long to create something so utterly ghastly? It makes you wonder about the human brain -- anything that can come up with such a counter-productive result has to be Nature's ultimate kludge. Which maybe explains how Obama got elected . . .

[polaris93.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can finally sum it up as "The Worst of Disco" crossed with "Elevator Music: Greatest Hits." Torquemada would have loved it: five minutes of this, and his interrogees would be singing like canaries, no exceptions. Gack. (It sounds like something put together by a committee -- as in, "A camel is a horse put together by committee.")

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

Ouch. My brain just stopped processing the input about the time the guy started impersonating a rusty band saw (my wife's comparison).