Following on from the 'favourite sound' thread, what sounds really can't you stand?
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 2 September 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
bjork
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
For me it's the string/orchestra synths... actually hate most of synth sounds based on organic instruments, like say... synth saxophones or synth guitars.
― Moka, Thursday, 2 September 2010 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate the sound of those tinkling vertical bells, especially when they introduce the verse bit of a mushy ballad. People who use it seem to think they're being so sophisticated.
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 2 September 2010 07:58 (thirteen years ago) link
80's drums sound, especialy the overblown snare-horrible.
― nakamura, Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know what makes this sound, but it's the creaky wind-up noise that's all over the rhythm track of "Right On" by Marvin Gaye. Almost ruins the song for me.
― seandalai, Thursday, 2 September 2010 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a guiro (although I always think of it is a fish 'cause that's what the ones in my school looked like)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31CBSV9EPAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiro
― ledge, Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Tambourines
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Heather Small
― ledge, Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Axl Rose on Reading festival TV coverage this weekend. Very unpleasant.
Also, that kind of over-the-top mall-punk style of singing that was popularised by bands like Blink182 but people still emulate today, where "myself" become "moy-saalf".
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
relative to bjork and mall-punk singing, guiros & tambourines aok
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Yamaha DX7 - Classic or Dud?
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
that strangled gurgle of death metal vocalists
― margana (anagram), Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Heavy breathing, except for Serge Gainsbourg's music
― van smack, Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that high-pitched "woo! yeah!" sample that was all over shit pop-house in the 90s.
― ledge, Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ledge, you hate fun.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
xp especially when repeated throughout the song: "woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 September 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:24 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark
Seconded. Also really not a fan of can't-be-arsed indie vocals.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Think you're getting confused with this and the other thread about sounds you like.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Need a couple of "Ah Yeah!"'s and you have pure sonic bliss.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:03 (thirteen years ago) link
dl this is your favourite song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR98gRckjmY
― ledge, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Just to expand on this, I really can't abide tambourines played by singers with no sense of rhythm. You get this particularly on live recordings, I think it's basically something for them to do with their hands. Once you notice them in the mix, they're just poison to your enjoyment.
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Saxophones. You can tell badness has come when the saxophone blunders in. There's a few obvious exceptions, but usually, it's all too much.
― I'm being a smartass here, but in a fun way (NotEnough), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ffs
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ledge - i think that was my favourite song when i was, like, 9. Which would explain a few things I suppose.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVhPEwXfnk&annotation_id=annotation_90981&feature=iv
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
That definitely needs some "Woo! Yeah!"s.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The banjo. And most of the sounds in the following piece in isolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCtDO7OcRM
― No one can penetrate me. (Sanpaku), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBRbzf3Fws
^ for Ledge
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a James Brown sample btw iirc
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
sanpaku that is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVqkGOYWDEQ
^ also for Ledge
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
That chimey keyboard used on loads of 80s and 90s schmaltzy RnB ballads, whatever that is. There's one on I Will Always Love You.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
xp acoleuthic: agreed. And unbelievably superior to the "Most Wanted Song".
But operatic sopranos (at least with heavy vibrato), Children's choruses, bagpipes, etc in their usual contexts aren't my cup o'.
― No one can penetrate me. (Sanpaku), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
got 2.49 into sax loop before it got annoying btw
most wanted song has brilliant outro
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
1. quintessential country and western guitar twang2. auto-tune effect on a kesha-style vocal3. scat
― god of tosh (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
2. auto-tune effect on a kesha-style vocal
― van smack, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Why u make Scatman cry
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone overlay Scatman's "be-bop-bu-bop-o-bop" over the top of Eurovision sax guy...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
1) Shredding2) Metal Rhythm guitar playing - the sort of all down- stroke, heavily overdriven churn where you can hear the pointy headstock.
― sonofstan, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
whisperingGlenn Gouldsped-up soul samplesthat synth sound in every trance track
― how girl get dragnet (corey), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Garrison Keillor
hahahaha someone has to make an alterna-Most Unwanted Song based on this thread
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Interesting how this gets framed in some cases as "Person X" and in other cases as "Person who sings like X".
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't heard anyone else who sings like Garisson Keillor, thankfully.
― how girl get dragnet (corey), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
...like, is the *personality* of the named hated singer what is hated (as well as? or because of...) the singing quality.
Because I'd think that certain singing qualities would have more of an effect. But it's being expressed in terms of the person doing the singing. Why?
(Thinking about people named like Bjork, Axl Rose, Ke$ha)
― cymose corymb (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking crying baby sample noises
― janice (surm), Thursday, 2 September 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM those goddamn baby samples in Are You That Somebody are so grating.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes fine but sometimes my least favorite instruments: vibes, xylophone, marimba.
― Brad C., Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the baby sounds in Are You That Somebody don't really bother me so much.
― van smack, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
The Most Unwanted Song sounds like a long lost Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson joint.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:04 (thirteen years ago) link
gun sample in chorus of 'paper planes' is up there for me
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually don't think I have a 'least favourite sound in music'. 'Music', I guess, has this ability to render normatively unpleasant timbres in novel and striking ways. Like I fucking hate bagpipes, say, but my don't they sound so fucking TRIUMPHANT on second-to-last song on In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
In the case of Axl Rose, he sounds like a balloon slowly being deflated while a demented cat is let loose on a chalkboard.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Nonono the guns and cash register on Paper Planes is like popmusiqueconcrete for me.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
proper popmusiqueconcrete doesn't take the most boringly unoriginal samples it can possibly think of
you're right that the untitled track of ITAOTS is awesome though - much better than the indie wibbling on the rest of the album (except Ghost)
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf louis, the guns'cash samples are what MAKE that track!
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
as mentioned upthread, poor synth approximations of natural instruments, especially the synth 'horns' used in reggae, especially live.
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the growl of sub-standard blues singers trying to sound bluesy
― Daniel Giraffe, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
the humming sound of fingers moving thickly over acoustic guitar strings
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
The 'nu-metal' guitar sound.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I like most of these (especially bemused at hating on the guiro! And vibes! These things are awesome).
Would have to go for SMOOTH '80s SAX. Any other type of sax is fine, but bad soul sax is horrendous.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty much all sax sounds like honking goose to me.
― ledge, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a time and a place for honking goose in music.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
e.g. John Martyn's 'Small Hours'
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
that point in Broadway singing when the sprechgesang starts to turn into heavy vibrato belting.
I'd throw votes behind R&B ballad chimes and forced blues rock growls too.
― bendy, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i like most of these sounds
― bernard goony (The Reverend), Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That clean John Popper harmonica sound.
― ellaguru, Thursday, 2 September 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Completely losing it over the combination of sounds in "Most Unwanted Song" here!
I'd have to vote for the trifecta of cookie-monster vocal, blastbeat drumming and 1000 MPH shredding of any post-80s extreme/death/Cannibal Corpse-style metal. Virtually anything else listed upthread I can hang with for a song or two.
― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Is that "woo! yeah" one of the little vocal tics left on the "Think" break, i.e. sampled from Lyn Collins' "Think (About It)"? Cz those are both irritating and sublime, in a way, to me. Sorry, at work, can't see the youtubes.
I can't stand autotune but I guess that is a total "have other ideas please" answer, so I vote for the post-emo male vocal style that has cursed British indie for the past 6 or 7 years
hey, I grew up in the 90s with vocalists who couldn't hold a damn note talk-singing, wd take that over all these singers who can hit 3 notes and do so over and over while enunciating like you are in a public school production of a musical
on the other hand, a thing that was worse in the 90s: at least people have now realised that women faking orgasms over the breakdown does not make a track sexxxy, just embarrassing (can just about give Moroder+Summer a pass here but people should really have been bored of it by 1990 at the latest)
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
all objections to the 'Think' sample are surely based almost entirely on it's over-use/repetition at one time rather than anything inherent about that sample of fabulous music itself.
― god of tosh (blueski), Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I really hate sappy, maudlin "irish"-style pennywhistle melodies, usually played on a MIDI-driven synth preset through tons of reverb.
for example, the theme to the "Battlestar Galactica" remake, or the luv theme to "Titanic". That Riverdance-wannabe-tearjerk thing. Gross!
and lately, I'm really, really, really sick of new bands doing pseudo Animal Collective style vocals- it's painful to hear people try to imitate somebody else's imitation of Brian Wilson with added "child-like innocence" and "whimsy" sprayed on. Hearing people who probably do have a voice of their own trying to squeeze into this deeply artificial posture makes me feel embarrassed for them. I mean, I don't have a problem with people who can pull off a weird, mannered voice (Blossom Dearie! Tiny Tim! David Tibet!) but sometimes I wish that the guy from Slovenly or Chet Baker could be the default source of indie dude vocal mannerism ripoff for a while. Leave poor crazy old Brian Wilson alone dammit.
― the tune is space, Thursday, 2 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that kind of over-the-top mall-punk style of singing that was popularised by bands like Blink182 but people still emulate today, where "myself" become "moy-saalf".
was coming here to post exactly this but I'll just say 'thirded' and also elect slap bass and Kimya Dawson
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Drake auto-tune singing
― funky brewster (San Te), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
and lately, I'm really, really, really sick of new bands doing pseudo Animal Collective style vocals- it's painful to hear people try to imitate somebody else's imitation of Brian Wilson with added "child-like innocence" and "whimsy" sprayed on. Hearing people who probably do have a voice of their own trying to squeeze into this deeply artificial posture makes me feel embarrassed for them.
I agree with this, but it's not the SOUND that I dislike (got mad love for AnCo), it's the lack of variation and imagination. That's a whole other thing.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― I.C.P. Freely (bernard snowy), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It's probably been mentioned already here, but that singing-through-a-shit-eating-grin style of vocalising originated (possibly) by Marti Pellow and subsequently copied by every fucking boy band makes me want to kill.
― the same relation to machines as that which machines have to man (Matt #2), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
overprocessed harmonies. cheapen the impact of them and ruin the aesthetic beauty of them if you double them too many times. give me Beach Boys esque harmonies anyday.
― funky brewster (San Te), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
was coming here to post exactly this but I'll just say 'thirded'
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, September 2, 2010
Also just all out whining by mall-punk targeted emo bands. Its like an overwrought progression from what is said above.
― Evan, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Any harmonica not in an old acoustic blues recording or played by little stevie wonder.
1/2 points if its a folky thing or the Harmonicats
― gg eileen (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god that Tiesto is horrific
― the tune is space, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
can't stand hearing mouth/throat noises when someone is singing a capella. like when the microphone is close and i can hear wetness. reminds me of phlegm. which, sadly, is why i can't listen to bobby bland sing. also really can't stand when people whisper in my ear for this reason. but that's just me. (so siked to hear sinead's 2nd album when it came out and really liked it a lot until she does that long solo vocal thing and i feel like i'm sitting in her mouth when i listen to it which is why i can never listen to it. aaaaaahhhhhh! wanna jump off a bridge. still love her though.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Might be misremembering, but isn't there a Slint song that is basically the sound of someone sipping and swallowing a drink, and it feels like you're sitting inside the actual drinks can and it's just ...icky?
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Thursday, 2 September 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
All-white choirs on soul records. I mean, I love all of Ray Charles’ “Modern Sounds in County ...” stuff, but I still cringe when I hear those backing vocals on “I Can’t Stop Loving You” or “Hang Your Head in Shame.” Compare that to the all-black singers on “You Are My Sunshine.”SNL did a skit once when they had an all-white group perform a Ray Charles cover. Only they sang it as, “What Did I Say.”
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 2 September 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― nakamura, Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:29 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^ this
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ especially when it's on the 2nd and 4th beat: bomp BISH! bomp BISH! bomp BISH! bomp BISH!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
sb; both of you
― bernard goony (The Reverend), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
80's snare sound, especially when coupled with 80's over-processed "Tom Scholz Rockman"-sounding guitar. Tim by the Replacements (for instance) ruined by these production techniques...
― Sanford, Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgpDN-bARwc
are you kidding? this is the shit
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
When I first think of the overblown 80's snare I think of 'In the Air Tonight'. The snare is essential to that song
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
okay maybe that isn't snare drum. i'm no pro
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I Think of 'Born In The USA.' Hate the snare on that.
― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you must embrace the fucking massive snare.
― the banana boat username (crüt), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
80s gated snare is the best
― vessels in distress (r1o natsume), Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to dislike high pitched whiny moog leads but i've cooled out on that now
xpIt's the sound of a boot being smashed in the human face forever.....1984, innit
― sonofstan, Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
― vessels in distress (r1o natsume), Thursday, September 2, 2010 5:03 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ZZ Top's Frank Beard would disagree.
― Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Thursday, 2 September 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
The kalimba tends to really annoy me
― unhealthy stomach into your loins (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― ellaguru, Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Yes, that is the worst.
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like:
Max/MSP generated FM synthesis, i.e. Autechre "Confield"
Digitally recorded crash cymbals
"Good" singing except in opera, R&B and 80s-era hard rock
Sounds below 50 Hz
Cockney accents
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Friday, 3 September 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
That vocal affectation on ballads in recent years in which the vocalist 'croaks' their way into almost every note, presumably to show added feeling.
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 3 September 2010 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
>are you kidding? this is the shit
physically impossible to not nod yr head to that tune. Never seen the vid before, good work Cap'n.
― Bill A, Friday, 3 September 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Joan Baez (and warbly vibrato-abusing female folk singers in general)
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 3 September 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
mumbly shuffly can't-be-arsed american indie
― i am legernd (history mayne), Friday, 3 September 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
With the caveat that there are good examples of all of these:
FlutesFretless bassSteel drumsOperatic singing
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 3 September 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Fretless bass. Blueergh!
Sub-bass below 50hz is the shit.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 September 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Cello. "Strings" are fine but cello should never appear in a pop context.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, 3 September 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, fretless bass, saxophone, and add rollicking honky-tonk-style piano.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 3 September 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― funky brewster (San Te), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The processed, squealing guitar effect used by the likes of Viv Campbell and Zakk Wylde on late 80s, mid 90s "metal" records. One of the most un-metal sounds by supposedly "metal" guitarists.
― Zeppelin to Howlin Wolf: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
best pop cello intro EVER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo0LMNSKrt4
― scott seward, Friday, 3 September 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
melisma
― do you know sixty (electricsound), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Is this a cello? Because if it is, I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree that it has no place in rock/pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KntdgqByqYM
I'm gonna submit autotuned/vocodered melisma as my least fave.
― spazzercise (staggerlee), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, September 3, 2010 1:03 PM
Surprised at first but I might somewhat agree with you, only because, in the classical context, the cello is the king of all instruments.
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
percussive farts
― funky brewster (San Te), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
piccolo snares (311) and properly tuned toms (rush)
― del griffith, Friday, 3 September 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
also, flutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEgRdZj7LJQ
^ my favourite flutes in rock
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, is that flutes? Or is it ...a mellotron?
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
:(
now less excited to hear future FF releases
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Mellotron!
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Friday, 3 September 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd love to hear mbv incorporating more flutes into their work, it works so so so well w/ this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azXLPL-iuSI
god i hope to christ the new album is a fact
― baddest boy on the internet (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
there is a farty guitar sound used by the Grateful Dead on songs like "Estimated Prophet". bwamp bwwaamp bwaaaamp. phhbblltttthumpth pooty pooty poo.
I'm not sure why they wanted their songs to have that sound.
― DON'T YOU SEE THE WALR (Zachary Taylor), Saturday, 4 September 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lololol i know precisely what you're talking about. its like a soundtrack to duck waddling.
― baddest boy on the internet (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
bass-slapping a la Level 42..
― Bob Six, Saturday, 4 September 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
FlutesFretless bassSteel drums
<3 all this stuff, flutes less so but COME ON if you don't love steel drums and fretless base you don't love life imo
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i really hate that crunchy, overblown digital synth sound that's all over mpp and at least 1/3 of recent indie-electro
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
^ me too
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
faux-sincere vocals - including the embarrassing white people trying to sound like soulful black people thing mentioned upthread, the croaking thing mentioned upthread, faux-outsider singing (a la Joanna Newsom) ... everyone has an "authentic" voice - use your own and don't try to badly ape someone else's
everything else i'm generally annoyed by, i can think of examples of that i like - even the horrible drum sounds used in "In the Air Tonight"
― sarahel, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm ok with Kimya Dawson, ke$ha's non-autotuned voice - but cringe at Joanna Newsom and Cocorosie
― sarahel, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the orchestra hit sound used on songs like Owner of a Lonely Heart
― funky brewster (San Te), Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
also people who dislike fretless bass should be put in camps
sarahel how do you feel about mick jagger??
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
sarahel not a member of the karen dalton fan club i'm guessing.
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Weird, contrived, Pitchfork-friendly faux-puberty yelp voices a la Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Islands/Unicorns, or Dirty P's (even though they rule, DP, I mean).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoNFXBWrd4YBARF!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtj9_q6Zo80&feature=relatedCute, but YOU ARE LIKE 26.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtbVqLLH1TgSometimes affecting, sometimes disgusting.
― coolsundays, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Almost everything mentioned in this thread is crap so well done everybody!
FM synthesis and melisma can be ok.
This is petty grumbling but it's a feature of some good records - I dislike excessively lengthy bursts of unadorned high-pitched feedback, if it's an Incapacitants records and there's loads of other stuff going on that's cool but the not the intro 'The Modern Dance'.
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
*intro ~to~*
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
cant stand the unicorns either. good work!
― baddest boy on the internet (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
FM synthesis is cool if you're John Chowning
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Two for me: soprano saxophone and scat singing.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i generally hate powerful female vocals.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i generally hate women in power. it's a psychological issue.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha yes, scat singing. Sometimes good though!
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It's interesting that some people list "sounds they don't like" and others list "sounds that signify things they don't like"
FWIW Nick was 19 or 20 when they made that Unicorns record
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
rap albums that begin with spoken word. begin with an INTRO track like with one verse over a drone beat or even a skit, but not some dude goin "ay....dis the [Dirty South/East Coast/West Coast/People's Republic of China] bringin' hits to yo ass".
― funky brewster (San Te), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
It is I says meAnd all who agree are more than we cause we're three (BIIIIIIIOOOOOOTCH!!)
-- Stranded on Death Row, Dr. Dre; the only intro I've ever really enjoyed.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - i've never heard Karen Dalton, and my feelings about Mick Jagger vary based on the song.
― sarahel, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
roscoe dash
― creatively bankrupt ILXors whose display names are just '00s ephemera (crüt), Monday, 25 October 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Self-conscious clapping. Like when a song is just going along and then out of nowhere CLAP-CLAP! CLAP!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 25 October 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
The weak, wobbly, or bullhorn vocal style of pretty much every male fronted indie band of the the 00s.
― daavid, Monday, 25 October 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^ eg, guy from Arcade Fire.
― daavid, Monday, 25 October 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 25 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, I see Curti5 already posted the same thing.
the sound of people complaining about indie vocals for the 1000000th time
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Monday, 25 October 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
100+ songs that used the DX7 bass
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 25 October 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
dynamic range compression
oh and shiny slick stadium rock drums, fuck that
― jumpskins, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 25 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree w/ the clapping, so annoying
― teledyldonix, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
tinnitus
― UndoneTone, Monday, 25 October 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I have yet to hear a sampled saxophone that hasn't sounded horrible.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWooMru3-U
(i like the most wanted song except for the smooth sax part. can't find the full song on yourtub)
― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
whistling.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Monday, October 25, 2010 5:23 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark
I'll stop when they (shitty indie vocalists) stop.
― daavid, Monday, 25 October 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a lot of (pop) indie, but the typical indie vocal, particularly the Wayne Coyne/Jonathan Donahue type of singer who has been dominating an otherwise excellent genre for the past 10-15 years or so.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Well... It has become a bit wearing, I mean.
the '90s snare drum sound (examples: "Beautiful Disaster" by 311, "Two Princes" by Spin Doctors)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
- that sweaty 80s blues-revival sound of the Stevie Ray Vaughn variety. This extends to stuff like Tom Jones, the Blues Brothers, the Commitments, JJ Cale and stuff like that. - I don't like that liquidy pad sound you get in loads of 90s drum'n'bass. It makes me feel like I'm at a spa or something. Don't know why it's so ubiquitous - despite liking noise and electronic music, I don't get the appeal of things like Fennesz, Fuck Buttons and Tim Hecker. It's ugly and unsatisfying music - too much compression, zero low-end. You can't chill out to it, space out to it or dance to it, so what is it for?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 25 August 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
- attitude
― blafe and sand (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
saxophone
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Calvin cloned chorus chords.
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
self-conscious laughter
― dc, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9DHhy6ynxw
― blafe and sand (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Roy Thomas Baker stacked/compressed vocals.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Most instances of harpsichord use in '60s music.
― An Automatic Response To Things That Are Bullshit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Every sound has its place and use, but probably my most consistent least favorite over time has been the splash cymbal.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
In terms of contemporary music, it's probably the use of soaring and 'inspirational' "WHOOOOAAAAA-OOOOOHHHH-OOOOHHHH" background choruses in pop songs and commercials, as presumably popularized by the band fun.
― An Automatic Response To Things That Are Bullshit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
those goddamn Jordanaires
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
that high pitched synth sound at the beginning of pink floyd's echoes actually makes my ear hurt at a relatively normal volume, which is weird
i'm generally sensitive to really bright sounds though
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
I've probably talked about this in cringe threads, but I really hate the close-up sounds of like soda commercials where its like DRIBBLY POURING GUK GUK GUK GUK AHHHH and now every "lean" influenced rap album is like a fucking soda ad with all these terrible sloshing noises
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
i really hate soda commercials on the radio or TV where you hear the sound effectsof
*PSSSSSH* --guk guk guk guk-- *AHHHHHHHHH*
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:51 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
ukulele by a long shot
― flappy bird, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link
Arrested Development and Bob's Burgers conditioned me to not hate ukelele as much as I used to
― Vinnie, Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
lots of hip hop foley work out there
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 August 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
i'm not a fan of flute playing where you can hear the player inhaling
― brimstead, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
definitely something that's turned me off from Jethro Trull. Anderson sounds like he's slobbering all over the poor thing.
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Despite 'There is a Light That Never Goes Out' I cannot stand the sound of synthesized pan flute.
― Austin, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
The line "No huggee, no kissee" in Georgia Satellite's Keep Your Hands To Yourself.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
There's this water drip sound you hear on a lot of country songs from the late 70s/early 80s. Kenny Rogers used it. Garth Brooks too.
And it just taps a cold shiver right up my spine when I hear it.
― pplains, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
And whatever the synthesizer being used on this song is:https://youtu.be/rvlI5DO_IK0
― Austin, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
"heavy flute"
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
throaty hard rock vocals eg acdcshrieky hard rock vocals eg guns n roses
― marcos, Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Whispered panning vocals when I'm wearing headphones. I literally shit myself every time.
― An Automatic Response To Things That Are Bullshit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Accordion
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
Keytar
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
Jane's Addiction
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
Anthony Kiedis
― imago, Thursday, 25 August 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
the oleaginous vocals of this dead-eyed weasel
http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/images/201302/photo-credit-warwick-saint-extralarge_1361301956669.jpg
― i can pee through time (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
There are a number of contender 80s synth sounds but one that comes to mind in particular is sort of a synth Asian wood flute sound.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
I mentioned scat singing and the soprano saxophone upthread, and would like to add the cuica (a horrible Brazilian instrument that sounds like a rat trapped in a tennis ball can; Airto Moreira polluted several early 70s Miles Davis albums with this thing) and the sound of fingers scraping acoustic guitar strings.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
lol I love the cuica, but that's a great description
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
speaking of scraped acoustic strings, I think the sound of an Ovation guitar might actually be my hands down winner.
The sound of that Passenger guy's voice. I don't know anyone can actually like that.
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 25 August 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
That snare sound in modern rap/trap that's literally just a pathetic little "click"
― punksishippies, Thursday, 25 August 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
or hi-hat, whatever
― punksishippies, Thursday, 25 August 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
any use whatsoever of traffic sounds as a 'sound effect' (car horns, screeching tires, and especially fucking sirens omg why why WHY)
― Wimmels, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
you must hate public enemy
― Spottie, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
there goes Shook Ones Pt II
― Neanderthal, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
and "War Pigs", though that's air raid sirens as opposed to like ambulance/police/fire sirens
xp The Bomb Squad stuff rarely bothers me because those sounds are usually integrated into the beats. I'm thinking more of songs that feature those sounds as an actual sound effect used to suggest...well, I'm not quite sure. But Ice-T skits are pretty rough on me.
"War Pigs: is ok because I'd never confuse an air raid siren with, like, the highway patrol. I don't even remember sirens on "Shook Ones"
also Dylan's harmonica on like his first seven albums
― Wimmels, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
sorry for all the 'like,' I'm tired
― Wimmels, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
children choir
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 26 August 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
someone hasn't heard 'Pissjoy' by The Wildhearts
― imago, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
xp you monster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46782000/gif/_46782005_win_slide1.gif
― soref, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
Oh and what's that otherwise dope Mike Oldfield song where there's this sudden terrible ringing phone and then what sounds like an insane giant answering it angrily? That's the vibe killer to end all vibe killers
maybe 'vibe-annihilating moments in otherwise awesome songs' should be its own thread
― Wimmels, Friday, 26 August 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
xylophone, vibraphone, glockenspiel
― Brad C., Friday, 26 August 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
I used to think p much anyone who enjoyed soprano saxophone had to be an asshole. I've sort of warmed to it though, and to being an asshole.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
Too much Coltrane on soprano that kicks butt for me to write it off.
― Austin, Friday, 26 August 2016 04:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah I don't even count that, I'm talking like Wayne Shorter on Native Dancer soprano sax.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
terry riley's gonna beat your ass!!
― brimstead, Friday, 26 August 2016 04:25 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't have a problem putting a timeline on when soprano sax becomes unacceptable.
Like, say, post-1973.
― Austin, Friday, 26 August 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
Vibraphone's like the greatest instrument ever. Slight exagg.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, 26 August 2016 06:44 (seven years ago) link
i FP'd him for that tbh
― blafe and sand (Noodle Vague), Friday, 26 August 2016 06:47 (seven years ago) link
harpsichord mention otm
― Spottie, Friday, 26 August 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
Centuries ago they at least accounted for its lack of dynamics, in a lot of Bach stuff I've heard the very deliberate use of the instrument takes on this shimmering hypnotic feel. Harpsichord can be pretty awesome I think
― punksishippies, Friday, 26 August 2016 07:43 (seven years ago) link
Metal Rhythm guitar playing - the sort of all down- stroke, heavily overdriven churn where you can hear the pointy headstock.
This is an incredible sound BTW. Though I don't know what pointy headstock is.
― chap, Friday, 26 August 2016 09:39 (seven years ago) link
Oh and what's that otherwise dope Mike Oldfield song where there's this sudden terrible ringing phone and then what sounds like an insane giant answering it angrily? That's the vibe killer to end all vibe killersmaybe 'vibe-annihilating moments in otherwise awesome songs' should be its own thread― Wimmels, Friday, August 26, 2016 1:21 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Wimmels, Friday, August 26, 2016 1:21 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This sounds amazing??
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 26 August 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
never understood accordion hate. one of my favourite sounds.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, August 26, 2016 6:08 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it isn't (1:54)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9eaOWiB8wk
― Wimmels, Friday, 26 August 2016 10:45 (seven years ago) link
haha, that's pretty great actually.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 26 August 2016 10:53 (seven years ago) link
Hmm. I don't actually think I dislike the natural sound of any instrument, really. It's usually the way the sound of the instruments get treated in the studio (engineering/production/mix) where I find myself saying "ah, I don't really like the sound of that"
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Friday, 26 August 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
haha, wimmels, and that's on THE BEST of Mike Oldfield.
― pplains, Friday, 26 August 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
never understood accordion hate. one of my favourite sounds.Agreed. Whenever I see a band I don't know take the stage with an accordion (or upright bass), I get excited immediately.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 26 August 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
upright bass too - my favourite instrument that I've always wanted to play. I dislike gypsy-swing music though.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 26 August 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 25, 2016 6:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 25, 2016 6:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
THIS FOREVER N EVER^^^
― andrew m., Friday, 26 August 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, September 3, 2010 12:30 AM (five years ago)
I apparently loathed this at the time, but now I don't even remember what it sounds like. I think I've warmed somewhat to Joanna Newsom and Karen Dalton style vocals, and they are now on the same tier as flutes and Phil Collins' gated drums -- mostly but not always cringe-inducing.
Thanks for reading my opinions about music.
― The Flash API from the officially deprecated "youtube" site (sarahell), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
wide open hi-hat on a mid-tempo rock or funk beat
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
Not a fan of Agharta or Pangaea?
(the open hi-hat on those was disappointing to me initially, but I've grown to dig it -- but only on Miles records)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Often followed by a kind of breathy sigh-singing through the same note. Like any affect it can have its uses, but as a default it just becomes canned insta-emotion.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
examples, please! I hated it once, I will probably hate it again!
― sarahell, Friday, 26 August 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Tony Williams and Al Foster get the exception. In general '70s open hi-hat >>> '90s & '00s open hi-hat.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Ok I just went through some random Spotify lists and I feel like Charlotte OC is a good generic example of the throaty/croaky/breathy formula:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihgLAm5i9pM
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
I think it may be a generational thing but I cannot stand the aound of autotuned vocals. It's like nails on a chalkboard. This makes it difficult for me to enjoy about 99% of popular music.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Pretty much all big budget music is autotuned at least a little now, right? Because I feel like the perfection of pitch in the average singer can't have risen as much as it seems to have in the last couple decades. And yes there is something just a little bit grating and tiring to my ear about it.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
Yea autotune has become fairly commonplace on any album, not just pop. It's mostly a "well we have it, would be a crime not to use it". Like you all, I just dislike it (as a singer myself) just because it creates a robotic smoothing that makes singing sound plastic. The "authenticity" argument though can go fuck itself,studio trickery to improve vocal mediocrity has existed since almost the advent of recorded music.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:35 (seven years ago) link
Autotune of the T-Pain variety i generally am ok with though.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's less of an "authenticity" thing for me and more of a sameyness thing, where it feels like studio engineering has actually gotten its formula down so perfectly, has gotten so good at what it does, that there aren't as many surprises because no one wants to deviate from that formula where you let the low notes waver just a little bit (yet stay perfectly in tune) and have the high notes bell-clear. Autotune usage has definitely become more sophisticated and subtle in recent years, it used to produce much more of a noticeable robo-voice effect (I don't even mean T-Pain I just mean regular badly masked autotune) and now it just produces a kind of uber-human effect. But there's still something unplaceably bad about it in most cases.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 26 August 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
I don't mean subtle uses to correct pitch, I'm talking about the Kanye West, T-Pain effect.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 26 August 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, August 25, 2016 2:46 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
1:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-WWT6IwPA
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
That squidgy synth in Donald Fagen's 'IGY'. Like it seriously makes me feel vaguely ill.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
how did Michael Chion get a recording of me reading ILX
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
studies music theory for decades --> makes musical diarrhea
― clouds, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
I think it may be a generational thing but I cannot stand the aound of autotuned vocals. It's like nails on a chalkboard.
luckily my ears are shot so I have a hard time spotting autotune if it's relatively subtle but obviously-autotuned stuff is the worst of all sounds for sure
― Simon H., Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
i really, really hate the part two thirds of the way through every single action movie trailer when the music reaches a frenzied shepard-tone climax, then everything cuts out to dead silence for half a second, then the SUBSONIC boom that is so completely fucking predictable, followed by the frenzied music quickly fading back in and resuming pace.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
and that's why I don't go to the movies anymore.
― clouds, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
KM otm
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
I think the first sound in every trailer for a film that's not a comedy is the same muffled boom, it sounds like a distant depth charge. Or it's a single sinister mid-high note.
― omar little, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 11:48 AM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah.
Usually: dead silence -> line of dialogue -> a clip of any character reacting/getting punched (often not actually part of the scene in question) -> SUBSONIC boom (low bass drop?) -> follow up dialogue/punchline -> normal music resumes
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
I realized during the WKCR bach festival that I really, really hate the english horn and similar instruments, they have this awful, guttural, goose-like sound that also reminds me a little bit of milk being whipped with a utencil.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
I don't mind the oboe as much although it's the same family.
Especially bad when played stacatto
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
are you talking about crumhorns? i like the sound of crumhorns/honking instrumentsto each their own!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
English horn = cor anglais.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
It's just a low oboe, really, a loboe in fact.
― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
there's one busdriver song where he raps fast against a flute doing a similar melody to his cadence, and that makes me physically ill...not sure that's a "sound" as much as doubling down on annoying fast-paced rap with an even more annoying flute
― kolakube (Ross), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
florence welchlike a sheep trapped in a fence
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
The guy from Dashboard Conventional's voice
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
*Confessional
Crumhorns, English horns and oboes are among my favorite sounds in the universe. I love quacking reed instruments that are hard to keep in tune.
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:32 (six years ago) link
I'm way way way over sped up and slowed down vocals.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:34 (six years ago) link
ctrl+f steel drums: 3 results
It should be 300
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 4 January 2018 03:44 (six years ago) link
^ I was struggling to think of any sound I dislike more than like, but steel drums is the one
― Vinnie, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
pan flutes
― henry s, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 3:16 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i came here to post this
― flappy bird, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
The sound of the cd drive skipping as you try to import Into iTunes
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link
Should be zero!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKP31eylTA
― timellison, Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yhaBsD8Vw
― timellison, Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:54 (six years ago) link
what kind of heathens dont like steel drums.
re whiney, how do you feel about the intro to gin & juice?
― Spottie, Thursday, 4 January 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
That big reverby half marimba half pizzicato string sound that's been on countless hits in the last five years.
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
<3 marimbas
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
Heavy Flute
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
i don't <3 hoary great hard rock voices where the guy sounds like he's going for somewhere between a baritone and a punk/metal shout. The singers from Bad Religion and Neurosis are the example culprits here
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
here's a weird one. classically trained singers. something about that way of singing makes them all sound like arrogant pricks.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
The E-Street Band
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
any artificial-sounding synthesized horn, esp the 80s versions of them
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
bass wobble in EDM/dubstep is so corny
― marcos, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
that same goddamn "hey!" in the background of 75% of pop songs
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
^ otm
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
ukelele
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
i hate that hawaiian man that ruined somewhere over the rainbow
listen to aunto molly urso's version of "over the rainbow", it'll unruin it for you
note: according to the internet in 2018, there is no such thing as aunto molly urso, all i have is a rip from a 2011 youtube upload
but it is the best
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
i'd love to hear it, put it back on youtube for the world
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
All sounds and noises are potentially awesome depending on the context but autotune puts that belief to the test for me. Given how poptimistic ILM tends to be, I'm surprised by the relative consensus on this matter. For what it's worth, I do acknowledge that it's become more sophisticated (read: bearable) over the years.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
i don't know how to convert mp3s to youtube files and if i want to learn i am going to have to, like, sober up or something
which sounds kind of lame right now
sorry
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
could you upload the mp3 somewhere and dm me it
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
the vacuum-sealed production of a lot of tech house where the sounds have no character and everything just burbles on lifelessly for 5 minutes.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
i hate a really squelchy synth sound. there is a sound Animal Collective uses sometimes like there is a slow flange and it is kind of churning and gross. i have heard it in some other electronic songs, it's usually a single note drone pressed over and over. my stomach makes those guy of noises before i throw up so there is a visceral reaction i have.
fwiw i enjoy the band and songs but that sound hahah its just so gross. and i get it, it is very 80s/90s, it makes me think of Gak and Ecto Coolers and the slime stuff that was so big. i think a big part of being a Cold War kid was dealing w normalization of mutants and slime and the real possibilities of nuclear war/apocalyptic imagery that our parents had been raised to live with (hence the retro popularity a lot of the apocalyptic-nostalgic stuff today).
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
hawaiian uke dude is awesome. he is the real deal. he has a ukulele in hawaii. this is like, a thing people do in the real world. don't blame him, blame the millions of suburban losers buying them at Guitar Centers
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la2lbUh4v4
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
Pomenitul as OTM as ever
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
well speak of the devil. i had nothing to do with this upload, i still don't know how to upload songs to youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgWooxDAOY
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
https://thepatterning.com/2016/08/20/the-millennial-whoop-a-glorious-obsession-with-the-melodic-alternation-between-the-fifth-and-the-third/
FUCK THIS SHIT
― davey, Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
That is amazing. Now that it's been pointed out, ffs please stop the millennial whoop.
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 January 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
holy shit rushomancy that is incredible, also thank you for the dm, i almost never check the email associated with this account and i didn't see your dm until just now. glad to have an mp3 of it, this is absolutely wild. and there's no ukulele - fantastic!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 06:13 (six years ago) link
this is an amazing song! wish I could find a decent copy
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 11 January 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
Lol that article on the whoop
Of course it is ubiquitous precisely because it is so generic and slight that nobody can claim to legally own it so no fear of getting sued, something everyone can freely rip off
Kind of amazing all the new ways copyright law continues to destroy creativity
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
wait, is this just going back and forth from the 3 to the 5 on a major scale, because that's just what you end up playing after having taken piano lessons and have to write a simple melody or accompaniment.
I dunno if this related to the keyboard vs. guitar generational shift thing in pop/rock music -- that could be more interesting?
That 3-5-3-5 is a keyboard instrument default, whereas with a guitar, the default patterns are different due to the design of the instrument itself.
(Unless I missed tons of articles about it).
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
I think a lot of it had to due with ubiquitous syncs of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” in the past 10+ years
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
well, it's only so ubiquitous -- I have no idea what you are referring to!
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
lots of these millennial whoops remind me of TARZAN BOY
― omar little, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
^ a redeeming quality imo
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
Arcade Fire definitely a big part of the whoop but I think it's also a variant of the whoa-oh-oh's you'd hear in some pop-punk/emo songs in the early '00s
there's even a hint of it in Killing Joke's 2003 album! (1 minute in)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5WxIUFziw
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
imo focusing on the specific interval is maybe missing the bigger pattern of wordless oh-ohs - like "til the world ends," "some nights" and "pompeii" are what i would reach for as examples of this sound and its intentions. or do those all fit the motivic bill also?
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
Wasn't the whoop an Italo Disco thing? Not just "Tarzan Boy" but also this 1987 track (the chorus at 2:26):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtpp6H559NQ
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
yea but it became ubiquitous in indie rock/pop in the mid-late 00s, another big one that got a lot of syncs and was super popular was 'chicago' by sufjan stevens, which doesn't feature legit whoops but it's one of the templates of 'epiphany-core' which is what i call this phenomenon. xylophones and ukuleles.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
longing for community (singalong), longing for low-tech 'authenticity' experiences that are nonetheless potentially instagrammable (campfire, washboard type instruments etc.), overlaid on more familiar youth problems like longing for meaning and to have big huge emotional turns, catharses and yes epiphanies. the ineffable but deeply felt desire to feel something big and transformative right as the waves crash onto the rocks and everyone lifts their torches and goes "ohhhhh OH! oh-ooh-ooohh OH!"
or maybe they all just heard the "survivor" theme music in the womb or something idk
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
man that Shy Rose track is great thanks for sharing
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
DC otm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
i do love the millennial whoop here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jKtjgRZQY
― omar little, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
Thing related to the millennial whoop: the "kindergarten taunt" melodic line annoys me no end when it turns up in songs I enjoy until its turning up. This mostly happens in modern r&b i think? Or this may just be where the disappointment is greatest when it occurs.
clicktrack |...:...;...:...|...:...;...:...|(C major) G E A G E G E A G E (scale deg) 5 3 6 5 3 5 3 6 5 3
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
G
― Jeff, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
Nah, a G on its own is alright.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
clicktrack |...:...;...:...|...:...;...:...|(C major) G E A G E G E A G E (scale deg) 5 3 6 5 3 5 3 6 5 3― anatol_merklich
didn't sly and the family stone do this
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Friday, 12 January 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
Songs that incorporate the "nan nanny boo boo" melody
― how's life, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
omg thanks for link, I had no idea it occurred on the actual 1982 Black Metal album! :-D
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
(still don't like it tho)
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
Nah it's because they grew up on The Lion King, which is also why we have furries
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
― flamboyant goon tie included
bullshit we have furries because of Disney Afternoon and, I am going to call this show out specifically, Tail Spin
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
thought we'd decided it went back at least to Robin Hood
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Animalympics.jpg
As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.
― how's life, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
Dougal, we've got to lose that saxophone....
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link
Personally I'm more comfortable blaming Sid and Marty Krofft.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/puppet/images/d/d4/Pufnstuf.png/revision/latest?cb=20111227030119
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.― how's life, Friday, January 12, 2018 3:17 AM (nine hours ago)
― how's life, Friday, January 12, 2018 3:17 AM (nine hours ago)
those who forget horribly formed jokes are doomed to repeat them
― sarahell, Friday, 12 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
im pretty sure Zoobilee Zoo is more responsible for furries than anything else
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
Animalympics fuckin rules, but yah furries love that shit. I think most of them discover it well into furrydom though.
My actual answer to op is whiny Fat Mike/Less Than Jake style pop punk vocals. Why do men sing like that? It's the worst.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 12 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
A lot of people attribute Disney's Robin Hood as the first time animals made them horny and who can blame em?
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 12 January 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
R.I.P. the family dog licking yr genitals
― sarahell, Friday, 12 January 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
Jump to most recent message function feelin p jarring itt rn
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Friday, 12 January 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
Tom Waits’s voice
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
hell yeah
― flappy bird, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
Is the Millenial Whoop in any way related to this bit in Barbie Girl?
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Barbie Girl represents good infectious pop whereas MW is like dragging goodinfectuouspop.wav onto your timeline
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
nah the millennial whoop is a baby of Arcade Fire "Wake Up" and Sufjan Stevens "Chicago"
― flappy bird, Friday, 19 January 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
I’m getting really sick of rappers that sound like Future. Any rao that is like, depressive and proceeds in terms of these bursts of short phrases.
― treeship 2, Friday, 19 January 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
I used to love gucci mane specifically bc of this same kinda anhedonia but i really don’t like this sound now.
― treeship 2, Friday, 19 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
Young Thug is working in the same idiom but he doesn’t count. That guy is a visionary.
― treeship 2, Friday, 19 January 2018 03:08 (six years ago) link
whenever I hear a clarinet in a movie score I fly into a rage.
― campreverb, Friday, 19 January 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Awww I like the clarinet
― treeship 2, Friday, 19 January 2018 04:02 (six years ago) link
sarahell posts itt bring the lols
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 19 January 2018 05:07 (six years ago) link
it's really the 'whimsy' trope.
― campreverb, Friday, 19 January 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
future is fucking garbage
― clouds, Sunday, 21 January 2018 04:37 (six years ago) link
shirley manson is fucking future
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Sunday, 21 January 2018 04:40 (six years ago) link