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Author: Sally Jo Cunningham
Posted: Apr 05 2005 - 10:02 AM
Subject: music retrieval research survey: what's the worst song ever?

I'm running a survey to find the worst song in the world, as part of an ongoing study of people and music. This is part of a music retrieval project in New Zealand.

If you've got a song that you really, really despise, then please tell me--and the world--about it. The survey is available at:

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/music/

It just takes a few moments to describe which song you hate, and why--and think how much better you'll feel once you've vented! Remember that the more votes that are submitted, the better the understanding that can be gained about what makes a song truly loathsome. Do it for science!

Once you've submitted a vote, then you can see other submissions; be careful, though, it's hard to get some of these vile songs out of your head!

Cheers, Sally Jo Cunningham
University of Waikato

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Add a bit of sheet music, along with a MIDI file, simply by entering note names in Lilypond syntax between the [L] and [/L] tags.
For example, you can try what happens if you enter: [l]g'4 g'4 d''4 d''4 e''4 e''4 d''2[/l] (use the Preview function if you don't actually want to post this).
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