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
80's drums sound, especialy the overblown snare-horrible.
― 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
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!"
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