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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
mumbly shuffly can't-be-arsed american indie
― i am legernd (history mayne), Friday, 3 September 2010 11:28 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Fretless bass. Blueergh!
Sub-bass below 50hz is the shit.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 3 September 2010 12:22 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, fretless bass, saxophone, and add rollicking honky-tonk-style piano.
― nerve_pylon, Friday, 3 September 2010 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Good" singing except in opera, R&B and 80s-era hard rock
― funky brewster (San Te), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:16 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
best pop cello intro EVER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo0LMNSKrt4
― scott seward, Friday, 3 September 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
melisma
― do you know sixty (electricsound), Friday, 3 September 2010 14:38 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
percussive farts
― funky brewster (San Te), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
piccolo snares (311) and properly tuned toms (rush)
― del griffith, Friday, 3 September 2010 22:13 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, is that flutes? Or is it ...a mellotron?
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like:
Max/MSP generated FM synthesis, i.e. Autechre "Confield"
Sounds below 50 Hz
:(
now less excited to hear future FF releases
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Friday, 3 September 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Mellotron!
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Friday, 3 September 2010 23:47 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
bass-slapping a la Level 42..
― Bob Six, Saturday, 4 September 2010 11:32 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
^ me too
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:39 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
sarahel not a member of the karen dalton fan club i'm guessing.
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:47 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:03 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
*intro ~to~*
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
cant stand the unicorns either. good work!
― baddest boy on the internet (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
FM synthesis is cool if you're John Chowning
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:29 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
i generally hate powerful female vocals.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i generally hate women in power. it's a psychological issue.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha yes, scat singing. Sometimes good though!
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:44 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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