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l0l… I sound better letting one rip.
That’s lovely to know.
well of course, because it relieves the pain and scarring of what you heard.
As a former trumpet player, I know what that’s like, trying to reach those high notes
lol, how cruel of a band director to force 6th graders to play this song.
It’s a crime. I was there several years ago, and damn… that teacher would be a jerk to give kids stuff like that to play before they were ready.
rofl xD sound fail. but dude it must be embarasing to not de able to play good… i really feel sorry for them =/
Failblog fail or YouTube fail, I can’t decide which. XD
All right, comment withdrawn, I was having video errors and I thought that was the point. Now, I find the music laughable.
Judgment fail
they’re professional musicians who play instruments completely unfamilar to them, not sixth graders
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You play bassoon?
Yeah, or embarrassing not to be able to spell or talk well
let’s be fair: i’m sure (s?)he doesn’t talk in the same way as spelling
*speak
they’re adults
Boba Fett… Boba Fett… WHERE?!?!?!
Boba Fett ROX!!! Favorite character of all time from anywhere:)
As another former trumpet player, I second that emotion. The conductor must be both sadistic and masochistic at the same time to do this to himself and his band
As a current trumpet and bassoon player, I third that. I had to learn trumpet for marching band. I had to go from barely playing Sleigh Ride marching in a straight line to doing High School field drills while playing Aaron Copland. It was a painful process. I still suck. XD
Which is why I’m still on bassoon.
Actually, the original Sleigh Ride isn’t easy. I assume you were playing Sleigh Ride in junior high (Is it still called that?), because you said you were playing high school drills. Well, for a junior high-schooler, the original Sleigh Ride is quite difficult.
dont suck, try to blow in it
Tell this me, trombonist. Quite harder to do it.
However, it is still FAIL.
wait.. that’s a trumpet? i thought it was a vevuzela
OMG LOL Me too.
WOW You fail
No, those weren’t sixth formers. That was the Halle Orchestra after a really big bender.
Apparently this is Swedish Child Orchestra.
Those poor kids… I remember being in band in 6th grade and being laughed at for things we couldn’t play yet. They must’ve felt like crap! Boo to the band teacher!!!
Um… these were professional musicians playing instruments they weren’t used to playing. As has been mentioned here many, many times.
These are not 6th graders. They are the legendary Portsmouth Sinfonia. Some of them were professional musicians. Brian Eno was a member. The rules were that you had to play an instrument you didn’t know and that you weren’t allowed to practise.
And so everything is explained and all makes sense.
as a trumpet player now i agree
oh well i dident read the whole thing. they did good whinging it.
My high school band might have been able to pull it off. We had an epic trumpet section with three-part harmony, each very well-represented. Our pep band in college played “Also Sprach…” as the opening for our hockey team’s entrance.
Is this the Portsmouth Sinphonia?
Youtube:
watch?v=_uOpk8NwFL8
If so, it’s a win. Or a false fail. Or something.
No, it’s not that video. The one here is clearly 39 seconds, and the one you link is a minute longer.
It could have been cut off.
Yes, it is.
They billed themselves as “The World’s Worst Orchestra” back in the 70′s.
Believe it or not, they were all PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS, but their schtick was in switching their instruments — flutists playing double bass, tubists playing violin, percussionists playing oboe, etc. They made a couple recordings and toured in limited fashion in the northeastern United States.
For a second I read that as “made a couple recordings and TORTURED in limited fashion…”
I’m pretty sure both interpretations are equally valid.
Same-same.
Well, THAT’S why they’re so bad. EVERY orchestra needs a good oboe player.
GO OBOES! Needed to put that out there
i meant the flutist thing to be for you… let’s make out later
or you… crap i feel like a slut
you know you want to =)
That’s what I assumed. And it does sound like a recording of them playing the same piece that I’ve heard. In fact I’m 90% sure it’s them, no other orchestra would record something this purposefully bad!
OMG im soo happy! you said FLUTIST! not flautist!!!! i love you
This is definitely the Portsmouth Sinfonia. But I think you’ve misunderstood them. They weren’t trying to play badly. They were skilled musicians trying to play as well as they could within the constraints of not knowing their instrument and not being allowed to practise. It is a very different sound and a very different tension to that created by people trying to sound wrong.
what the hell are you all talking about . isn’t it obvious there are playing the VUVUZELA !
Vuvuzelas would sound better since they only play one note and can’t go out of tune.
I can play multiple notes on a Vuvuzela. An it sounds worse xD
I think these are vuvuzelas being played by elephants.
I’ve found my new ringtone!
That is the greatest thing I’ve heard all day.
Seriously! I laughed harder at this than any fails I’ve seen for months.
i can’t believe this was shared almost 8500 times on FB… i would spare my friends the 38 second loss of life..
What’s a fail about this? THE TITLE!!! This isn’t an orchestra; it’s a band. Just sayin’.
ROFLMAO FAIL
Easy, first, a concert C, then G, C again, and then E and Eflat…
C…..G…..C…………E,Eb
This is definitely a band…
I had the volume up… my ears hurt D:
That makes two of us. D:
I only made it 8 seconds in. There was no way … Just, no.
*ears explode*
*ears explode x2*
*ears explode x4*
*ears explode x8*
Why are your ears exploding in powers of two? Are you all robots?
*ears explode x16*
*ears explode x2^5*
If anyone knows how to get this on failbook.com or epic win FTW, TELL ME NOW
C-c-c-erebellum breaker!
(Y)
*snort*
Actually, that would be ‘temporal lobe breaker’ but I know what you mean. Ouch!!!
*Big old frowny face*
Oh man, this is amazing.
Since when do we get video fails at 11:30 PM??
Okay, audio fails.
9:30pm according to timestamp + Failblog HQ time.
Oh sure, according to the timestamp. But still, that’s really late for these parts.
Since Failblog they decided they wanted to hurt those with a musician’s ear.
(Or any ear for that matter)
*Goes into corner and cries*
I seriously cringed. That was really really bad.
I had to open iTunes just to remind myself what music sounded like.
That sounds like an idea.
It’s the product of under-trained musicians. Cheek muscles don’t tighten-up overnight.
Perhaps Richard Symphony-ins should start of a program to train their “cheeks of steel.”
What? *is too busy listening to actual music in the vain hopes of erasing that noise from the Fail*
*listening to “Equinoxe” by Jean Michelle (sp?) Jarre*
*”New Light” by The Great Lake Swimmers here*
Is it helping?
Yes, the whole song, despite the polyphony is very calm a relaxing. I have been restarted…
All Better!
*Ugh*
Can you please hand me my bukkit?
*hands over the buklkit*
Like I said over on FB2, we’ve all been there.
*Sticks head in bukkit*
*Removes head, covered in liquid equivalent of this noise*
MY cheek muscles sure tightened up after hearing… oh. Oh, I see what you mean.
I have an artists ear. And was Van Gogh pissed!
*snorkroffle*
Well, you’re not going to like what I have of an artist…
*snerk*
The mating call of the vuvuzela
Vuvuzelas multiply? God help us all.
No no Vincent, I said take a year off.
*joins Ferme in corner, crying*
*pats you comfortingly*
Personally, this gave me the giggles
12:30, for me.
first
damn…
eww..
P.D.Q. Bach would put this on CD. And I would buy it.
You actually can get it on CD. A few tracks (Including this one) were featured on Dead Parrot Society: The Best of British Comedy. They also released an album on vinyl back when that was the norm. Look up Portsmouth Sinfonia.
P.D.Q. Bach (or, rather, Peter Schickele) isn’t a BAD performer; his music is more puns and musical jokes. If all his music were just bad performances, that wouldn’t be very funny for very long.
PDQ Bach was so much fun to play. I totally nailed a clarinet player with a roll of toilet paper one time by accident.
This fail gives me beginning band flash-backs!
Hmmmm…. Add the trademark fart noises, homemade instruments, and sophisticated bathroom humor, and this would be a hit.
They actually did have a top 40 hit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQMBsomNLVw.
Lawl, I think it’s a band, not an orchestra, but oh my god that was too funny for words…
It lacks the violins of an orchestra, but it has enough violence to spare.
You are clearly correct; I didn’t hear a single string instrument. Knowing the difference between band & orchestra fail.
Yes. I’ve been in orchestra since the fourth grade, and we never sounded that bad (oh, and of course different instruments, but the music quality instantly alerts one to the presence of bandies!)
Agreed. I’m an orchestra geek, and I was always the pissed-off concertmaster who couldn’t take the stupid bandies who couldn’t learn their parts.
1) its orchadork
2) no wind instrument sounds like that
3) not everyone in band is a bandie
4( everyone in orchestra is full of themselves
5) obviously
Yowza! That’s bad!
What a terrifying mixture of hilarity and acoustic pain.
What is this.. Music… I don’t even
No Mom, it’s not music. It’s torture. Sonic torture.
What is this attitude? ARE YOU SASSING ME? D:<
it sounds like they were trying to play it with vuvuzelas!! lol
You deserve a lawl. LAWL. that was pretty clever
Best part about that awesome(ly bad) bit of music is that it was produced by Brian Eno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
Simply fantastic
Oh! I remember this! It’s the Portsmith Philharmonic. I should let you all know, however, that the horriblness is completely intentiional. Yes, that’s right, they did this on purpose. XD Still fantastically bad, though!
D’: how can you even call that an orchestra!!
Oh God make it stop!!
2001: A Space Travesty
Word.
Moar liek, “Thus Spat Zarathusuck”
Well, you could always use this if you really really wanted to annoy someone XD
what the screeching noise!!
I think it was a Weasel.
♫ There’s a real cool club on the other side of town… ♫
Sounds like an elephant passing gorebladder stones.
AAAA! THE ELEPHANTS ARE COMING! RUN! RUN!
Also sprach Vuvuzela
*ROFLTFO!!!!!*
Seriously!
An der schönen blauen out my Eardrum
Did he blaas die vuvuzela?
*RIGLMAO*
How can a comment be so right and so wrong at the same time?
AA, you just won a lifetime achievement in comments.
- Basil, turn off that racket!
- Racket!? That’s Brahms! Brahms’ Third Racket!
God, this sounds just like my high school’s marching band…
I feel sorry for you
Yeah… I say it sounds like a beginner band – but ours had the range to play this piece last year…
I’m so sorry.
This is what happens when you give the junior band a piece that’s too hard for them. These poor kids have a horrible band director. You don’t give kids who have been casually playing for a couple of years this. Since trumpet is my instrument, I’ll throw in this; way to destroy your trumpet players’ embouchure. They don’t have the range for this. Wait until you’ve got at least one more serious player and then try it. With your /senior/ band!
at first this sound track was known as “child orchestra” but it turns out it was “swap instruments day”
Actually, that’s about right… I think this is the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
Swap them with what? Whoopee cushions?
Me thinks this is a clue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
That’s a band of elephants!
ear rape!!
Clearly the filter is gone.
Granted, the statement is true…
Or maybe FB just consented.
Eeep!!
Now there’s a thought!
Bloggy needs a little loving too, right?
I’m not so sure about that.
I am however watching Louis C.K. and trying not to pee in my pants. He’s hysterical!
Seriously, I’m dying here, I’m very close to peeing in my pants. He’s THAT funny!
LOL I remember seeing this on an old tv show in the 80s or early 90s! No one had any training on their instruments, I was in tears laughing so hard
Really? I try to forget things like that.
It’s sounds like the Portsmouth Symphonia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_symphonia
Thus spake Zarathustra’s “special” younger brother.
Hahahahaha
I’m pretty sure this is the Portsmouth Symphonia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
That doesn’t make it any less funny. In fact, it’s nice to know that there are more recordings like this to be heard.
Superbly bad! At the very end I ripped my glasses off my face, afraid they would shatter!
are these elephants ???
My God! It’s full of stars!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Well at least the guy on the drum was pretty spot-on.
Yes, a good (at least not sucky) rhythm helps anything.
Sounds like the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia
ROTFLMFAO
It’s not really a mistake as such. It’s ” The Portsmouth Sinfonia ” Look it up in wikepedia.
THANK YOU SOMEONE WHO KNOWS! This is not a fail at all, these people swap instruments every time they play pretty much. They are excellent musicians on their native instruments, but playing something that is completely alien to you is rather difficult. That is the whole point of this “Orchestra”.
Either way, it sounds AWFUL!!!!
It was never meant to sound good.
It achieved it’s goal then.
Hence a win?
Not completely true. It’s true that they play on instruments that are not their native ones, but they can also be a non-musician to join.
Just because you meant to do it doesn’t mean you should have.
It’s like using the “think system” from “The Music Man.”
Glad to see someone who has a clue. +1 for knowledge…
Yet said person misspelled ‘Wikipedia.’
FINALLY I can’t believe it took me this long to find someone who knew what it was in the comment!
Very true – I also have a whole album of them somewhere in my collection. I’ll have to dig it out and dust off my turntable now!
thanks! I was trying to remember why this was familiar…
Ho, the aim of our patrol
Is a question rather droll
For to march and drill
Over field and hill
Is a military goal!
Is a military goal!
I thought they all got the same music except for the last measure or so…
it almost sounds as if a car is drivin down the road and scraping along every car on the road just a never ending make you wanna shoot yourself in the head sound
Okay, Fluffy. Did I lie?
No, it made me cry.
You’re lucky, it made me die.
I discovered I like pie.
Why?
I actually have this on CD. Its on a cd with lots of monty python stuff. There are other tracks from this group as well. It is deliberately bad.
Ugh, Lord, can someboy please put the dying pterodactyl out of it’s misery?
It won’t load past 5 seconds. Am I disappointed? No. It just shows that my computer has good taste.
*nods*
Yes, yes it does.
hey, it’s the portsmouth sinfonia. Sweet. And by sweet I mean……………..it sounds like elephants being raped, while there’s an alarm clock going off, plus a screeching cat beign dragged on a blackboard. That, plus vuvuzuelas.
Still better than the biev
*cries*
AHAHAHA hot damn i love this
The second time watching this literally made me vomit.
What’s to watch?
Ah, the famous piece, written in Fail Major.
I was gonna say FailBlog was running out of content if it had no video/picture. But goddamn, this is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen– uhh, heard. It sounds like a dying elephant! MUST… PLAY… AGAIN.
Oh my God!! Somebody help those poor elephants!
IT’S ELEPHANT!! OAO
with vuvuzelas!
AWESOME!
Wow, that’s more fail than Failblog’s most recent videos.
Does anyone know how to make a ringtone of that?
I have just placed an international price on your head for even suggesting such a thing.
The good news is that no one would try to steal his phone.
that is a truly great idea.
As a trumpet player, I find this excruciatingly painful. Poor old Strauss is probably still spinning in his grave.
Are you blowing your own horn again?
I hope so. Whose horn could it be?
What is up with all the people saying “I’m a trumpet player”? As though you have to play the trumpet to know this doesn’t sound good?
If you’re a trumpet player, you can feel the pain.
There was something wrong with the way they played it?
Actually, this is a real orchestra.
The Portsmouth Sinfonia has played with Brian Eno.
Give them a google.
i’m sure thismade it to vinyl at somepoint…pretty sure i own it lol
An intentional fail. Portsmouth Sinfonia…just google them. Or better yet, youtube search them…there is much more where this came from.
Yes, it’s the Portsmouth Sinfonia. But this clip only reveals about half of the piece. To hear it in its entire glory, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKH3iemEd-A
I play Clarinet in a band and this srsly killed my hearing. Epic fail to the max. Never heared such madness!
I liked it!
This is the BEST, most HILARIOUS fail I have ever come across! I now have it as the main video on my YouTube page, on Autoplay, so EVERYONE who visits me there will hear its epic failness! Yaaahhh!!
I should send this to my former band teacher… no, he’d probably die. Never mind.
I concur!
It actually made me lol hard!
look up John Williams Shreds on Youtube…marvellous with the accompanying video!
I’m a tone deaf pedant – what’s the fail? Is it “a historic” instead of “an historic”?
hate to break it to you, but that’s not an orchestra, they’re out of tune bagpipes
ah, sounds like my middle school band class. good times, good times.
*crying* How could they torture elephants like that?! Seriously, that was terrible. They obviously weren’t ready to perform such a song. It was horrible of the director to force a song above their learning level on them.
We shouldn’t be too quick to judge. For all we know, this may have been a band of kids at a school for the developmentally challenged.
HEY! Don’t be mean to them. It’s really hard to play the trumpet with your butt.
holy cow…!!!
Also Sprach der Amateur-Blaskapelle.
Portsmouth synfonia or I miss my guess….
amagad i found my new ringtone
sounds like the Linzer Philharmonic Orchestra. it´s a orchestra full of amateurs. check it out: http://www.myspace.com/philharmoniker
Wasn’t too funny until the very end, when I burst out laughing in my quiet office. * embarrassed face*
Ahh, brings back memories of the world cu-BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…
My eardrums are bleeding
This is a copy. Original is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuJrg_U8SNY John Williams Shreds.
Had me on the floor laffing so hard!
Portsmouth Sinfonia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia, broke up in 1979
I’ve been to music school and this is by far the funnyest fail i’ve ever (not)seen/heard. Haven’t had a laugh like this in a while =))
That band director should be shot. It is more impressive to play easy music well than hard music badly. This could also injure the students who don’t have enough muscle to play that. And they clearly didn’t have enough rehearsal time either. Yes, this is a fail, but it is not a fail on the musicians part. It’s clearly a fail on the director.
Just found my new ringtone, thank you Failblog.
This made me want to shove sharp objects into my ears and twist until the pain stopped.
Just stop the torture! I’ll talk! I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything!!
ROFLMAO!!!
omg it’s like some whale just died in front of me xD
Now that I think about it, it sounds alot like a badly made freight elevator. o_O
Why don’t we just try to play songs with vuvuzelas?? That’s what it sounded like…
Sounds like a horrorctra. All creepy and dark.
Actually it’s not a fail: this is a sound used by Pain to start their rock concerts. See:
simply beautiful :’D
That sounded like several midgets with emphysema attempting to play the trumpet while balancing their checkbooks… my ears…
Could be some early by The Residents
Some things you can’t un-hear either
I am sure that is just a grade school band, but still, I pity the Band director
I can’t see the video :/
….I really hope that is an intentional fail.
Richard Strauss must be rolling on his grave.
Never played a wind instrument, but as a musician I can tell you I would play better than this on my first trumpet class.
Actually, a trumpet is a brass instrument, not a wind instrument.
D’oh. A trumpet requires wind to make sound, thus, a wind instrument. As opposed to a drum which does not.
is there a didgeridoo in the background?
AHHHHH! KILL IT!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!
2010: A Fail Odyssey
I’m glad there was no video. It would have been embarrassing.
Like sucking on soap…scene Christmas Story
This is actually a vuvuzela win!
I have sensitive ears…
This was me watching the video. (Note: I am curled up in a ball, rocking back and forth in my chair with my hands clasped on my ears)
OH GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(My brother turned it up super loud.)
2001: A day that will live in infamy…
That’s the jewish interpretation of Wagner.
It’s a WIN!! This is a clip from monty python episodes. They would put these really bad songs in between sketches. I’m a nerd.
Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” always sounds like it’s in danger of crashing of its own sheer weight even without parody!
sooo painful…
I do believe that piece is called 5th grade brass ensemble and confused timpani in F major, and it is standard for elementary school bands across the country
See kids? This is the reason why it’s important you go to your piano lessons…
This is still better than Lady Gaga.
this is totally going to be my ringtone now.
This absolutely has to become Failblog’s theme song. HAS to.
FAIL
Oh dear lord. Sounds like a pack of elephants having seizures.
Folks, folks – come on, this is clearly a wind-up… they all come in on the note for a start.
They must’ve done this with vuvuzelas…
Oh my goodness….thank goodness there is no picture.
Dang!
OMG! … What is wrong with that director? It is well done that there be any pictures involved. it’ll be a proper hanging when all said and done.
I assumed it was a band from a middle school.
This is definitely part of the danish comedy show Ørkenens Sønner (Sons of the Dessert). So it’s made like this totally on purpose…
This is definitely part of the danish comedy show Ørkenens Sønner (Sons of the Dessert). So it’s made like this totally on purpose…
- You can se some of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vGvmsU750Y
okay, my ears are bleeding, im wearing my bloody headphones!
I think they play the sound that you hear at 0:34 when you enter the gates of Hell.
rofl
Thats a real classic!
BRAVO!!!
It’s the new Fox News theme song.
I LOVE IT!!! lmaoooo I almost want to meet them and/or make that my ringtone!!! lmfaooooooo I can see it in class now. Bummmm….Bahhhhh…. BJFUjuio*%j4fndajkf …. Oh sorry, that’s mine, Classy right? ^_^
Hey, the drummer(s) did AWESOME!
PLEASE let this be Failblog’s theme song!!
I can almost guarantee that that is a middle school band concert. If you’ve ever been to/in a concert, middle school or otherwise, you know that not every musician is a prodigy, lol.
It is not. It is the legendary Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Still better than Kesha
It’s Swedish… Örebros Symfoniorkester. Ofc inspired by the clip above. Had it as ringtone on my cellphone for a while… very disturbing for ppl around me, thus makes me happy
they just killed 14 elephants in that video
Okay, what was that? Sick elephants mating?
The elephants where with FLU and that sound is them sneezing while mating…lolol
Not sure anyone mentioned this already but this is from the guy that does the “shreds” videos on youtube. He redubs the sounds from video of famous performers. This one is John williams shreds, its not a real orchestra.
Grammer fail!
how is this a grammar fail? it is “a historic,” not “an historic”
Either one is correct. But it is funny that Paul, linguistics expert, misspelled “grammar”.
Spelling fail!
Oh, god, now I have macaroni and cheese up my nose! Seriously, very uncomfortable…
OMG this hilarious!! XD
Sounds like an elefant’s orchestra. XD
Stop raping those elephants!!! What did they ever do to you… And shame on the public for putting up a video for more people to listen to this horrible act!
How were they even allowed to play in public?… Bad music teacher..
*Dies laughing*
i have never saw dies laughing ^^
Their Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy makes me ROFL every time…I think there are saxophones in it. Saxophones, for the love of all that’s holy!
It was then that they realized, they were in fact not listening to an orchestra, but listening in as a herd of elephants were being massacred.
just brutal!
Hahahaha love it!
*pick-up bone*
As a former viola player in a symphony I have only one thing to say – who killed the elephant?
2001 just came and went…pppphhhttt!
lol herd of dying elephants lol…
That second crescendo just sounded like scraping metal to me. >>
If you listen closely you can hear the sounds of pigs being slaughtered in the background accompanied by the gnashing teeth of millions of damned souls…
Wow. I have never heard such unparalleled suck.
this isnt real which makes it not funny. fails are only funny when people are really trying.
this is a guy playing all the different instruments by himself and trying to sound bad. he was dubbing over a real video/song and made it sound bad.
You’ve misunderstood. They weren’t hamming it up. Rather they were playing to the best of their ability within the constraints that they had to play an instrument they didn’t know and that they weren’t allowed to practise.
Unfortunately people come across recordings like this on the web and tend to go LOL ROFL FAIL high school band ROFL Haha in a thoughtless knee-jerk kind of way without bothering to question what is actually going on. I don’t think Failblog has helped by cutting out the first 40 seconds and the last few seconds of this recording where it becomes much more clear that the musicians do understand what they are trying to play even though they lack the technical means to realise it.
Please add to the build up of every fail vid XD
O.O It sounds like my nightmares…
Wait, so people actually make a living by playing worse then a 3 year old with a vuvuzela?
Where is this world going to!?
*shoots himself*
No. They definitely aren’t making a living at this. Very few traditional orchestras make enough money for their musicians to actually perform full time. Most professional orchestra musicians teach in an school or work in retail to pay the bills. (Giving private lessons don’t pay the bills either.) They are musicians because they love music, NOT because it pays.
The orchestra in this recording was a kind of a concept orchestra – non-traditional to say the least. Plenty of other commentators have already pointed this out.
Ring tone!
This is NOT a fail!!! It is the legendary Portsmouth Sinfonia, as some people have already pointed out. It is not gag, even though it was intended to be funny. It is an orchestra of musicians all playing the wrong instrument.
I’m very disappointed with Failblog for only playing a 40 second excerpt when the whole piece is less than two minutes long. If you listen to the whole thing you can hear that these really are people who understand music, even if they are playing with both hands and a foot tied behind their backs.
OMG sounds like my brakes on my car at time.RUN everyone…….
thats what happens when you have too much sex blowing.
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Failblog Fail.
Where is HD quality???
This is not portsmouth orchestra, it is a swedish youth orchestra called Örebro kommunala musikskola.
The original is available here. The audio track is identical:
Sorry, I take that back… Seems like the video I posted is a fake.
Orchestra composed by vuvuzela
This is from Monty Python- They put out a tape called “The Dead Parrot Society” and it had lots of these on it…
Dead Parrot Society is a compilation of British comedy (although IMO the word “comedy” only scratches the surface of what the Portsmouth Sinfonia were up to). Anyway, it most definitely is the Portsmouth Sinfonia.
There is an insightful (if not a little hyperbolic) article about them from 2004 from the Sunday Times at http://www.portsmouthsinfonia.com/media/sundaytimes.html
OMG…My ears are still bleeding!
My browser failed when watching this video on youtube…Oo
Epic Fail!
Needs more cowbell…
…and vuvuzela
And a win, since it’s a “video” posted without any annoying ads. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m skipping the videos because I’m tired of sitting there listening to lame ads before I get my few seconds of humor.
Failblog fail, this is the Portsmouth Sinfonia. They play like this on purpose and are all professional musicians. It’s a joke. FAIL.
AHHHH MOMMYMOMMY MAKE IT STOP those were the only words going through my head listening to this. This piece of music would make Hitler cry in pain.
dead parrots society
This is brilliantly done in the way that it makes me want to vomit in the worst way possible.
If this makes any sense, this is far too well done to be just bad playing. This is intentionally bad, parodying the song by making it discordant. When I was in marching band, we used a similar technique for when the opposing team would kick off at football games, playing what was called the “Mystery Note.” Each player would play whatever note they pleased, causing a rather disturbing effect. And it wasn’t against the rules! Go team!
Not a parody. As already explained above, the Portsmouth Sinfonia was composed of musicians of all levels of ability from complete novices to famous professionals. Brian Eno and Michael Nyman among others were both members. The rules were that you weren’t allowed to play an instrument you knew and that you weren’t allowed to practise. In other words this was a group of people playing to the best of their ability within ridiculous constraints. Apparently they started off their collective career by playing famous pieces like this one, which meant that at least the musicians had some idea what they were aiming for, but as time went on they went for “harder” works and their performances became less and less recognisable.
Wow. If this is real, they do suck. Even if they’re in, say, fifth grade, they should play the low notes WAY better. I mean, it starts on a MIDDLE C, for crying out loud. That’s why I think this is fake. No band that can even get above an E could possibly play that badly, since they would have been playing for a while, and they were much higher than that.
I’m also extremely dissapointed that they cut of the high C. If this is real, imagine the suckiness of THAT note. That would be incredible fail.
RTFT.
Anyone know where I can get an MP3 or .wav of this?
wow, the name of this entire thing’s a fail. It’s “Band” not “Orchestra”. Orchestra is for stings like violin, viola, cello, and bass.
There are strings in the arrangement.
go the timpani!!! only instrument that mostly sounds right
I’m a high school trumpet player on the first part, I know what sounds good and what sounds bad. No offense to the trumpet player playing this, that sucked.
For those who haven’t read the comments about this earlier, this is the legendary Portsmouth Sinfonia. The rules were that you weren’t allowed to play an instrument you knew and you weren’t allowed to practise. I was almost going to say that it was meant to sound like this, but I think the truth is that the founders really didn’t know what it would sound like until they actually heard it.
As well as members who were “non”-musicians, several famous and accomplished musicians were involved, such as Michael Nyman and Brian Eno.
rofl ;D
The drummer is really good.
also spazzed zarathustra
this is a recorded song that was marketed to the public in the 70′s. it is purposefully done like this. not a real recording. whoever submitted this is an imposter.
Did I hear a rusty trombone in there?
Hi! This is the audio from the video “John William Shreds”. You know?
Thx:)
its the “shreds” guy. He makes lots of famous people sound horrible by overdubbing the sound himself
We had to play this is in school band, but we were half-way good. This is like listening to an elephant orgy… o_O
WTF?!
PORTSMOUTH WIN.
I’ve gotta vomit. This is the worst orchestra I’ve ever heard.
ROTLFMAO! my cat was sleeping next to me when i was listening to this. when the orchestra got to the worst part, my cat jumped straight up in the air!!! totally f**king funny!! dear god i should have had that on tape!!
My god, poor kids.
the trumpets voice is breaking or something…
It sounds like elephants.
this is the music i think of every time i see some one about to be under way with and recover from fail, this should be voted to become the sound track to failing
the return of dying elephants
Oh dear God! I’m glad it’s over.
My sixth grade band class could do that!
this so a band fail not an orchestra fail
Poor Deafs can’t hear the fail. Or maybe that’s a good thing…?
This is from Monty Python … it’s supposed to sound bad.
Well, it made me laugh
This had better be a Monty Python show . . . or at least the orchestra all just stepped out to get toasted or something.
The first FAIL post without any picture or video in it.
also, the first FAIL post without LAGGGGGGGGG
This reminds me of a painful moment at a football game i was playing at (in band) and the other schools band was surprised to learn that they were supposed to play the national anthem. All well and good right? Wrong!
This other school is your basic thugs-who-will-either-sell-drugs-or-work-at-McDonalds kind of school. When they played… Oh…myeee…gawd.
It was as if they never heard the song before. and the icing on the fail cake is it was Veterans day.
no wonder there´s no picture… i´d be ashamed too D:
wow. My ears said that my dad’s singing was bad. they tell me that this is just to failed for words.
this is the opening to the special olympics
MY EARS! MY EARS! MELTING!