What is your ringtone?

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Did a search, and it seems there has never been a thread devoted to this on ILM.

Mine is Sousa's "Liberty March" btw, nowadays most famous for being the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" theme.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Nerf Herder's Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

search again hongy - Does anybody here, or anyone you know, actually download Ringtones?

Alright, who here actually downloads and uses Ringtones on a regular basis?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

brrrring brrrring

― a banana (alanbanana), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Back In Black".

― 'haitch' (haitch), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I despise mobile phones, and will never own one.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jgiesen.de/javascript/HTML/HTML9/sounds/FunkyMac.wav

Is this blue monday?

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the following for different groups of people:

Family: "Run On" - Moby
Friends: "Don't Stop Believing" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Business: "Crazy In Love" - Beyonce & Jay-Z
Random: "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo" - A Tribe Called Quest

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

my ringtone is just an emulated rotary phone.

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Waltzing Matilda", because I can't get real songs, and it reminds me of the Pogues.

― WillSommer, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The theme from Magnum PI.
Only because I couldn't get my hands on "Cars".

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

'Cosmic Bird,' Air & Jean-Jacques Perrey

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

CTU ringtone (24)

― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

As soon as I get that usb cord mine's going to be cycling through mega man 2 tracks like crazy.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I was bored one day, so I programmed in the following tunes, using the inbuilt composer thingy:

"The Red Flag" (my current one)
"Giu la Testa" and "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" by Ennio Morricone
"New World Symphony" by Dvorák (not all of it obviously!)
"The Gnome" by Pink Floyd
The theme music to "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" and "Call My Bluff"
"Neon Lights" by Kraftwerk

What a saddo!

― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Who - baba o'reilly mp3.
oh and the alarm on my phone is david bowie pretty things

― Mr Monket (apn99), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Alter Ego - 'Rocker'

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

If I could program my own ringtones, I would not leave the house for a week.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't have any ringtones on my phone, but i do know that three of my female friends have it set so that its "Toxic" when i call them. i'm kinda proud of that, in a weird sort of way.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if "Soon" could be reproduced in proper muffled fashion.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Vibrate, baby!

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The Upsetters - Return of Django.

Well, it's supposed to be that but it's more a bunch of bleeps.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chewing Gum"

I had "Vacation" by the Go-Go's on my last phone. It was pretty unrecogniseable though.

― Richard C (avoid80), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

mine's on buzz. i keep it next to my NUTS!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"tarzan boy"

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I despise mobile phones, and will never own one.
I loathe them, too, but my mother ventured to buy me one. Yeesh. I'm so unappreciative.

That said, Beethoven's Ninth because there's nothing else I can really stand...but I almost always have it on vibrate when it's not off (and it is most of the time).

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

A discofied version of an Erik Satie piece--it was one of the ones built into my phone.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

oh man i spent too much money recently on a phone that can do mp3s and stuff, and i loaded it up:

standard: the piano break from blame's "music takes you (2 bad mice rmx)" it was "uptown top ranking" for a while.
dad: "spoilt victorian child"
mom: henry cow "nirvana (reprise)"
brother: "photograph"
girl i'm seeing: chromeo, forget which track
txt msg beep: one bar of the amen break

i'm officially annoying, now. love it!

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

It used to be "The Final Countdown" (my little ode to "Arrested Development") but now it's "Whole Lotta Love". The intro makes a great ringtone. I have the MIDI version, though, not the mp3 version. MIDI ringtones are easier to pick out when you're in a loud environment, and if you keep it as your ringtone long enough I guarantee that whenever you hear the song on your ipod or radio you will think your phone is ringing--which sucks!

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

My ringtone is "Firefly".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Green Onions

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

my phone is my sister's old phone, and thus, currently rings with "Milkshake"... not that that is particularly bad, but I can't see myself paying for ringtones on my own accord.

― Quinn (quinn), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

All ringtones suck. Do we really need more intrusive random noise in this world? Use the vibe setting, for fuck's sake.

Also, get off my lawn, you rotten kids.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Now I have that old Delasoul song "Kicked out the House" running through my head.

'put it on vibratePUTITONVIBRAATE pu-pu-pu-pu-put it on vibrate.'

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

I just got a new phone today. Samsung D807. Ned is a genius and therefore I'm going to put an MP3 of "Soon" as my ringtone. Now I just need to figger out if I wanna start the tone at 0:08 into the song or 0:43...

I think the beginning of "Europe Endless" would be great too, as well as the harmonics from "Nosferatu Man".

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 3 September 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

How are you going to put the mp3 on your phone? Does it allow uploads?

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Sunday, 3 September 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

The chorus to "Congratulations" by Silvia Night.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 3 September 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

(Ringtones may be the worst thing ever to have happened to me)
right now-"Interiors", Manic Street Preachers (I was as surprised as you to find that Verizon had Manics ringtones)
"The Rat", the Walkmen, 'cause it cracks me up like a twelve-year-old when the phone says "You've got a nerve to be dialing my number"
"Everywhere You Turn," Longwave. 'Cause I like Longwave.

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Mo Money Mo Problems"

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Theme from "Curb your enthusiasm"

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

mclusky's "To Hell With Good Intentions"

― onimo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

a hilarious farting noise i paid £2.99 for.

― max r, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

plus 45p processing charge?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Mine's a J.S.Bach prelude. Was in the phone already. But I do like it nevertheless.

One of the weirdest - the most embarras-fukk-singly, pathetically feeble-thin-sheepish-sounding tones I've ever heard - was the bleep-bleep-bleep versh of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water"! :)

― t**t, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

seriously tho, i've never had one, it's always on silent.

― max r, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I have the built-in tone that most resembles a traditional phone ring.

― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

ditto.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Mine is set to vibrate. And so is my mobile.

― snoball, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

which one do you answer first?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I let both go to voicemail.

― snoball, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

"who let the dogs out"

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

ti / wyclef 'u know what it is' instro currently. bit out of date now tho.

i had three 6 'who run it' for a while but it tended to startle me :(

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

B-I-G
P-O-P-P-A

NO INFO
FOR THE
D-E-A

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

I still don't own a cell phone, but when I do it'll be the opening riff of "Glockenpop" by Spiderbait. Sounds almost like a ring, anyway, and it's cheery enough.

― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

sonic youth - 'schizophrenia'

― 6335, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

B-I-G
P-O-P-P-A

NO INFO
FOR THE
D-E-A

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:47 PM (56 minutes ago)

now you're just baiting the HOOSjokes

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

lol BIG HOOS zing culture

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

I wanted the Curb theme, but have settled for Milkshake

― Dr. Superman, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Cupid Shuffle

― Jordan, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

New mobile phone, allowing sampled sounds, means I am now using my own song "Eggs & Bacon". :)
http://www.uhort.no/artist/Hongroe/sang/18160

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

three 6- stay fly

― Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

That massive "Mighty Girl" piano.

― willem, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

intro to "Like A Hurricane"

― milo z, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

Who will make me a really good non-musical ringtone (actually two - one for calls and one for text messages)?

― Alba, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

the beginning of stereolab's sudden stars. getting tired of it.

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

i have jim gaffigan saying "hot pocket"

― chaki, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

Bob James - Nautilus

― Dan I., Thursday, 11 October 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

it's the rings you hear through the phone receiver when you're calling someone else

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 October 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

My g-friend's dad found a Razr in a men's room @ the Hong Kong airport, and gave it too me when mine crapped out.

It has a cheezy Chinese pop-song the previous owner downloaded, for a ringtone.

I can't bear to part with it even though I'm sometimes really self-concious about it when it rings in public places.

i have a friend who has "Giant Steps".

― factcheckr, Thursday, 11 October 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

my ringtone is now TI's "whatever you like"

― surm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 01:39 (sixteen years ago)

Bach Toccata and Fugue, which sums up how i feel when the phone rings

― iago g., Thursday, 25 June 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

bahahaha

― surm, Thursday, 25 June 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

I'm using a pretty old phone only because it has a built-in ringtone composer (note by note)... apparently the new models don't have one because of some legal bullshit (bastards!). Right now it's playing "Funky Town"

― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Thursday, 25 June 2009 02:51 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQv3dCkY2Tk

― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 June 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)

no joke.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 June 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)

the guitar solo from Waits' "Hoist That Rag"

― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:15 (sixteen years ago)

I turned my ringtone into the "Protect and Survive" synth-burble sound effect from the 1980s nuclear war PSAs, as heard at about 1:22 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPOo9mRQbTQ&feature=PlayList&p=3A9FA2384C5401E5&index=0&playnext=1

Nerdy, I know, but it's a cool sound!

― Metro Video Centers, Thursday, 25 June 2009 11:38 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFYU73m_z08

― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

Sex Machine -- JB

― m coleman, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:22 (sixteen years ago)

Boards of Canada "Music is Math" - which I can basically never hear.

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

ANOTHER THE LETTER (wire)
for the win

― Snop Snitchin, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:02 (sixteen years ago)

Endless Endless from Trans-Europe Express

― calumerio, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

i have "telephone thing"

i'm sure mark wouldn't be very proud of me

― tissp, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

Endless Endless from Trans-Europe Express

Yeah thinking of switching to this. I had the intro of "Man Machine" for a while. Kraftwerk makes for awesome and FUNCTIONING ringtones.

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:54 (sixteen years ago)

I wouldn't, but if I did: "Ruckzeug"

― Mark G, Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:58 (sixteen years ago)

The thing I discovered about ringtones is that they have to be a little annoying. For a while I tried Blue Monday, then I tried Isaac Haye's version of Walk on By, and they'd start and I'd just think, oh, there's some music somewhere, how nice. I think Endless Endless would feel the same for me, but I'm sure some of their stuff would work.

But the iconic intro to Jupiter Jazz, as posted above? That sounds like an alarm.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 June 2009 15:04 (sixteen years ago)

Kraftwerk makes for awesome and FUNCTIONING ringtones.

In a similar vein, mine is currently Dino by Harmonia.

― ¥€$ (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 25 June 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

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