Mars Argo is an eponymously named alternative indie pop group based in Los Angeles featuring: Mars Argo, Titanic Sinclair, Nigel Silverthorn, Julian Mirijanian, and Jake DeSouza.
The band’s original song, “Don’t Call Me (Live at Bedrock Studios),” was recorded completely live in one unedited take.
The song features an familiar sample: Apple iPhone’s “Marimba” ringtone.
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
More from Mars Argo via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
MacDailyNews Take: Somebody answer the fscking phone!
[Attribution: Cult of Mac]
Warning! Do not watch or listen to this video or you will have this ringtone going through your head for the rest of the day.
Holy fsck that may be most annoying song ever
Here is story why Steven Jobs chose Marimba as default ringtone, and why it was made to be intentionally annoying:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/04/30/whats-the-story-behind-the-iphones-default-marimba-ringtone
Popular culture is painfully annoying, give me that old time rock and roll.
Yes, but a bad producer is to blame. Would not be so bad if the rigntone came in only at the chorus point for emphasis and interest, and not droning on ENDLESSLY through the ENTIRE song where it becomes annoying instead of a clever, punchy, effect. Where’s Mutt Lang when you need him (probably on a beach enjoying his fortune because he had the talent not to create song disasters like this one).
…the song would be better without the marimba….or at least used more artistically than just setting it to loop
Agreed. If used as part of the refrain, it would be more effective and less annoying. The woman’s voice reminds me somewhat of Cyndi Lauper.
Without the talent
Hey, Cyndi Lauper can fart a tune better than that girl can sing. She sounds like Minnie Mouse having an orgasm! I jammed sharpened pencils into my eardrums to make it feel better. Yikes!
Well just screw you people if you can’t take a joke.
I clicked you 5 stars. To me, she might as well be one of the Kardashian sisters singing. I’d rather listen to my hero of clueless dissonance, Florence Foster Jenkins. Or even, lord help me, Mama Cass Elliot. Just put a drill to my head! (x_x)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins
Agreed, three rings at the start of the song, three at the end would help this song a lot. Hope they didn’t bother to send in the copyright forms. The $35 is probably more than they’ll make selling it on iTunes.
Most. Annoying. Song. Ever. I keep looking for my phone.
Will someone answer that DAMN phone???!!!!
Great way to get some publicity. Getting a call from Apple’s lawyers in three… Two… One.
Now they’ll have that ringtone stuck in their head.
Theoretically, they could, as Marimba was composed by Apple staff and its musical rendition is copyrighted.
Of course the ringtone is set to a loop, and of course it’s annoying! The song’s title “Don’t call me…” should give you a clue…!
Well, good; they intended “annoying.” I fervently hope they don’t decide to do a song titled “Don’t Eat the Bean Soup”. That too would be an annoying song and, in my opinion, would also fail to support calling this group “artists.”
Eyow!
At least it’s not the Nokia ringtone… 🙂
Actually I like it.
Singer is damn cute.
This song is dreadful, it shows absolutely no imagination or culture.
If it drives us mad, just imagine the state of the band and mix engineer having to listen to the damn marimba riff OVER AND OVER AND OVER. They must all be certifiable by now.
And there’s other problems: the vocals are out of tune, the guitar is abysmally played and the drums stink. Oh yes, and the mix itself is completely out at sea. There are ways of blending the marimba nightmare into the mix to give the song at least a little bit of interest and momentum. Instead it just sits there, too loud, driving us all crazy.
Totally bonkers. Maybe their follow up single, should they dare to do one, might incorporate the iPhone Alarm Ringtone? That way we’ll duck for cover every time the song starts.
Let’s see you try to do better.
unfortunately even silence is better
Actually I think I do Dave- or at least my peers seem to think so. I have 1 Grammy and 2 Oscars to my name. And Tom Bamford is my ‘nom de plume’.
Yea well then I have a bridge you might be interested in buying. Only one Oscar?
ANSWER THE PHONE, BITCH!
I think that song is OK. but Marimba ring tone is so annoying. please, get rid of it.
Nice!
I am really excited about iPhone Ringtone Remix. I use Xiaomi Mi5. And I want Xiaomi Ringtone Remix for my phone. I heard iPhone Ringtone Remix here and I liked them too much.