What's the most annoying music possible?
The house next door to me is going up for sale soon and I’d like to delay that process as much as possible. What would be the most annoying music I could play when prospective buyers are next door?
When German people go to hell, or skiing, they are forced into little tents, served shitty overpriced beer, and are subject to repeated blows to their ears by a type of parasitic earworm whispered fearfully only in dark circles as "schlagermusik".
Once exposed to it, it eats into their brain and gets behind their eyeballs, forcing them to wear manic grins, and tap tables to the weak, incoherent, barely thought out beats drumming mercilessly into what's left of their soul.
Oktoberfest?
Let him who hath understanding
Reckon the Month of the Beast
For it is a Human Month...
Years after leaving the German part of Switzerland I still get A!-tem!-los! in my head out of nowhere sometimes :(
Oo-la-pa-loo
I was going to say polka music but this is close enough
When German people go to hell, or skiing, they are forced into little tents, served shitty overpriced beer, and are subject to repeated blows to their ears
That's pretty accurate, actually. Same goes for "Apres Ski", which is the same but more annoying and sexist.
Christian Rock
There's a McDonald's down the block from me that plays nothing but Christian music all the damn time. I honestly feel bad for the employees.
Oml can't stand that shet polluting the airwaves
I'm just going to say Nightcore.
I get that Nightcore has an audience, but what makes it annoying for me is when I am trying to search for an obscure song and think I've found it, only to realize that it's yet another low-effort nightcore remix.
I'm not certain about the most annoying, but this song is pretty bad
Exactly what I expected. Saved me from posting it, thank you.
Exactly what I expected to find in the comments
Thank you for this
A low pitched hum that they don't even notice until they leave and appreciate the silence when they're away from it.
Calm down satan.
(Top answer though)
i already have tinnitus; i literally can't sleep without some noise to block it out.
Mine drove me crazy for the first few years. Now i notice it a lot less. Sometimes if i put that ear on my pillow the wooshing drowns out the screeching.
The dreaded B note
Every Christmas song ever.
“Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney is the worst song of all time and I’m willing to die on this hill
I submit that these songs aren't necessarily terrible but terribly overplayed to the point that they're painful.
I swear half of Mariah Carey's fortune is Christmas songs alone.
Also the whole "Boomers spent their entire lives and our entire lives trying to re-live their own childhood Christmases," since the majority of original Christmas songs are from that period.
Also some people love Christmas music so this could backfire.
Care to elaborate why?
They want to dissuade buyers by being a conspicuously noisy and annoying neighbor to the point that the house sits empty for a while.
Which, like, if your first thought is to do this, maybe you actually are an annoying neighbor and you're doing everyone a favor by letting them know.
Hey at least they're open with it. I'd have love to have known that my neighbours were cunts before I'd move in. Sometimes a simple sign short of a burning poop bag is a nice olive branch.
They are going to only get neighbors that also suck, and since it has to sell lower it will lower their own home value.
OP is really punching their own nutsack here.
Reggaeton
Cam here to say this. The beat was catchy the first time I heard it but it is so annoying when they repeat the same thing 200 times in a song. Not creative at all .
This. Most annoying thing I've ever heard.
This is the one, OP. Enjoy it while it lasts, some day this stuff will be restricted by treaty inshallah.
Just play loud ass black metal. The music doesn't have to be bad, It just needs to scare normies.
Edit: I thought of the most annoying music ever. Crunkcore! Play some Blood on the Dancefloor and people will fuck off to avoid listening to that shit.
Oh man, you weren't kidding. That's just objectively bad.
Right? It's the fucking worst.
Baby Shark
I was thinking this one, thanks!
There's always the risk that people who visit the house next door are into whatever annoying music you're playing and end up moving there and blasting it for the rest of your life
I'll raise "Sales Call Abyss", a hold music made for torturing telemarketers if you have access to your work's phone exchange
What's that dolphin-sounding song someone played during sex in that meme? That.
Alternatively, the brown note (assuming it's real).
Or like hardcore noise stuff. Is "Wall of sound" a type of it?
Edit: How could I forget Ram Ranch?
Yes! Cbat hahaha. Thanks.
I mean honestly through a wall the only annoying music is thumpy bass with a big subwoofer. Unless you're playing it suuuuuuper loud.
They’ll be looking at the backyard for this property so walls not needed. There’s only about 6 feet that will separate their property from my Bluetooth speakers.
Then kids bop.
Bagpipes
Skrillex
Regeaton and Trap 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I would feel mostly meh about reggaeton if it wasn't the one and only thing everyone ever hears in a 300km radius of where I live. It's frankly sad that Latin America, having so much creativity and diversity in culture, ended up with such talentless noise as the absolutely dominant genre.
It's literally inescapable and an entire generation already only listens to reggaeton. It's lazy and unpleasant, combined with a completely commercial mindset.
I'm a huge fan of southamerican rock, and sadly is true that it has been drawn by that misogynistic shit.
But bands like Los 3 are still live and so many people still hear them, there is hope.
Apparently you never listened to Young Dolph
Who?
You need to look up Komar & Melamid. They did market research art, and they commissioned "The Least Favorite Song" after a survey that showed the least favorite features of songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Choice_Music#The_Most_Unwanted_Song
Clown Core is for those with discerning tastes.
If it won't get you in trouble, throw some cheap lawn ornaments up as well. Maybe get creative with loose hubcaps.
No HOA thankfully. I’d paint my house with big, veiny, throbbing dicks if I thought it’d do the trick.
This indeed would probably do the trick
*takes extra deep breath
Fuck I hated middle school
But I love Lambchop!
It is a horrible earworm, very true.
Edit - Aww, not the Lambchop version.
I have a love-hate relationship with that song. I'll have to purge with a doco later, thanks! 😁
Why annoying?
Based on what kind of people they are, you might be able to get away with something else. Maybe play some Christian music if you think they don't want to live next to a god-botherer. If you're bible-belt, put one of those 24 hour Mecca livestreams on loud, and go do your grocery shopping or something.
If you want just plain annoying, you can't go wrong with Justin Bieber or tween pop.
Christian music would definitely backfire where I’m from
I'd break out the heavy metal or anything else that sounds "demonic"
It is, and always will be, children's music, like Baby Shark.
Can't go wrong with the Goat Simulator soundtrack. https://youtu.be/DHdpuzqD2wg
I'm so sorry.
Limburg Carnaval music. Hoompapa hoompapa…or Darude - Sandstorm on repeat.
A novelty Christmas song played six months after it spent six plus weeks at number one in the (TOTP) charts. "Aga do" anyone?
[Not sure that any recent charts in this century are worth a damn.]
Modern pop country
Earthbound - Inside Dungeon Man
Love the soundtrack but hate this doozy
Incredible. I wonder what the vocals are.
Speaking of video games, This from World of Goo might work if OP wants a bit more subtlety.
The beginning (end is similar) is the only part that's in the game and despite sounding pretty generic it somehow manages to be deeply unsettling in some way.
chicken dance it whatever the hell it's called
In high school we called it “Worship the Chicken Before It Destroys You”
It's something that I don't know whether it's a dying subgenre ofa subgenre (genre?), but the nightcore music where all they do is speed up the music and shift the pitch. Literally no other edits. I would be running fast if a neighbor of mine started blasting that.
*Honorable mention: https://youtu.be/sct3-fvL56M
Those first two are great but that Shoenberg piece... Man, some things are best left on paper.
My highschool blasted Christmas in Ignace - Arrogant Worms every single day during fundraising drives, they'd stop when they hit their goals. Was very effective.
Anything played with the recorder
Play banana phone on repeat 24/7 at max volume
Alright. Y'all ever hear about the shaggs?
A dad was told by a fortune teller that his yet-unborn kids were destined for musical stardom. After that, the dad had no choice but to force his eventual kids into a band.
These kids had no musical training. No sense of rhythm, no sense of pitch.
Their released music is the auditory equivalent of a child's crayon drawing hung on the fridge. It's astoundingly disjointed. It's all wrong. Frank Zappa said they're better than the Beatles. SOMEONE out there likes screamo. Some folks out there like bagpipes. Then what happens? Your neighbor loves blasting screamo. You've played yourself. Unless Frank Zappa is moving in, you'd be hard pressed to find a potential buyer that like the shaggs.
Opera singing and high pitched violin
Nyam cat for sure
Scat
Someone went ahead of me and mentioned Nightcore, but I'll add any song by DJ KHALED would work too.
Reggae can be fun, especially to dance to, but when heard through a wall, you mostly hear the bass and all reggae has the same bass track. It's almost comical, like that beat is a requirement of the genre. After hours of reggae you'll wanna smash that stereo.
This is not a judgement of the musical genre and I think it's way more profound and expressive than the average commodified pop music we have. However, I remember making a report about the history of music (for an arts appreciation class in college) and I ended the report with some Japanoise (a genre of noise music) like this one:
The teacher was really delighted, but my classmates were like "WTF?"
EDIT: Reworded some confusing sentence construction
The ice cream truck in my area plays the calliope version of “It’s a Small World” every summer, every day, and I want to burn it all down when I hear it. Alternatively, you could plays sounds that are above the adult frequency of hearing if they have children. The kids will be super annoyed and the adults will have no idea it’s even happening. Look up the “mosquito tone”.
Why try to delay it? Also trying to buy a house in this economy sheesh
The Cattle Callin album buy Hank III. Every song is "music" played along with cattle auctioneers doing their thing
Not sure about annoying, but have you considered psyopus? It tends to be my goto to piss people off
For me, it has to do with context.
Upbeat pop music while heading to the finish line of a 5k? Pretty good.
Upbeat pop music while I'm waiting in the psychiatrist's office so I can tell them my life is spiraling out of control? Not preferable.
Something like this could get interesting
Love this