The People's Choice Music

The People's Choice Music is an extended play by artists Komar and Melamid and composer Dave Soldier, released in 1997.

Accordingly, the track includes bagpipes, cowboy music, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir that urged listeners to "do all [their] shopping at Walmart!

"[1][2] The People's Choice Music was released on CD in 1997, sold through the Dia Art Foundation bookstore and later through Soldier's Mulatta Records.

The album has been praised both for its comedic value and as a social statement criticizing the influence of market research, focus groups, and opinion polling on contemporary society.

[9] When asked by an art gallery owner to make a CD for him, Komar and Melamid approached American neuroscientist and musician David Sulzer (known in his musical career as Dave Soldier), with whom they were working on the opera Naked Revolution for The Kitchen in Manhattan.

[10] According to the survey, the most unwanted music is "over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between loud and quiet sections, between fast and slow tempos, and features timbres of extremely high and low pitch, with each dichotomy presented in abrupt transition".

The poll determined that the least wanted ensemble would be large, featuring accordion, bagpipes, banjo, flute, tuba, harp, pipe organ and synthesizer.

The most unwanted lyrical subjects were cowboys and holidays, while the most unpleasant listening circumstances were involuntary exposure to commercials or elevator music.

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.

[2] Emerson's verses are repeatedly interrupted by a children's choir that describes various holidays and urges listeners to call their relatives and shop at Walmart, and by several sections of dissonant free improvisation designated in the score as "slams".

[13] "The Most Wanted Song" tells a simple and emotional story with a clear rhyme scheme about a woman who meets a lonely traveler and falls in love with him.

Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (pictured in 1929) is referenced in both "The Most Wanted Song" and "The Most Unwanted Song". [ 11 ]