your LEAST favourite sound in music

dl this is your favourite song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR98gRckjmY

Tambourines

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.

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.

oh ffs

ledge - i think that was my favourite song when i was, like, 9. Which would explain a few things I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVhPEwXfnk&annotation_id=annotation_90981&feature=iv

That definitely needs some "Woo! Yeah!"s.

The banjo. And most of the sounds in the following piece in isolation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCtDO7OcRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBRbzf3Fws

^ for Ledge

It's a James Brown sample btw iirc

sanpaku that is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded

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

^ also for Ledge

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.

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'.

got 2.49 into sax loop before it got annoying btw

most wanted song has brilliant outro

1. quintessential country and western guitar twang
2. auto-tune effect on a kesha-style vocal
3. scat

2. auto-tune effect on a kesha-style vocal

Why u make Scatman cry

Someone overlay Scatman's "be-bop-bu-bop-o-bop" over the top of Eurovision sax guy...

1) Shredding
2) Metal Rhythm guitar playing - the sort of all down- stroke, heavily overdriven churn where you can hear the pointy headstock.

whispering
Glenn Gould
sped-up soul samples
that synth sound in every trance track

Garrison Keillor

hahahaha someone has to make an alterna-Most Unwanted Song based on this thread

Interesting how this gets framed in some cases as "Person X" and in other cases as "Person who sings like X".

I haven't heard anyone else who sings like Garisson Keillor, thankfully.

...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)

fucking crying baby sample noises

OTM those goddamn baby samples in Are You That Somebody are so grating.

Sometimes fine but sometimes my least favorite instruments: vibes, xylophone, marimba.

the baby sounds in Are You That Somebody don't really bother me so much.

The Most Unwanted Song sounds like a long lost Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson joint.

gun sample in chorus of 'paper planes' is up there for me

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.

In the case of Axl Rose, he sounds like a balloon slowly being deflated while a demented cat is let loose on a chalkboard.

Nonono the guns and cash register on Paper Planes is like popmusiqueconcrete for me.

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)

wtf louis, the guns'cash samples are what MAKE that track!

as mentioned upthread, poor synth approximations of natural instruments, especially the synth 'horns' used in reggae, especially live.

the growl of sub-standard blues singers trying to sound bluesy

the humming sound of fingers moving thickly over acoustic guitar strings

The 'nu-metal' guitar sound.

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.

pretty much all sax sounds like honking goose to me.

There's a time and a place for honking goose in music.

e.g. John Martyn's 'Small Hours'

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.

i like most of these sounds

That clean John Popper harmonica sound.

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.

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)

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

didn't sly and the family stone do this

Songs that incorporate the "nan nanny boo boo" melody

omg thanks for link, I had no idea it occurred on the actual 1982 Black Metal album! :-D

(still don't like it tho)

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

Nah it's because they grew up on The Lion King, which is also why we have furries

Nah it's because they grew up on The Lion King, which is also why we have furries

― flamboyant goon tie included

bullshit we have furries because of Disney Afternoon and, I am going to call this show out specifically, Tail Spin

thought we'd decided it went back at least to Robin Hood

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Animalympics.jpg

As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.

Dougal, we've got to lose that saxophone....

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

As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.

― how's life, Friday, January 12, 2018 3:17 AM (nine hours ago)

those who forget horribly formed jokes are doomed to repeat them

im pretty sure Zoobilee Zoo is more responsible for furries than anything else

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.

A lot of people attribute Disney's Robin Hood as the first time animals made them horny and who can blame em?

R.I.P. the family dog licking yr genitals

Jump to most recent message function feelin p jarring itt rn

Tom Waits’s voice

hell yeah

Is the Millenial Whoop in any way related to this bit in Barbie Girl?

Barbie Girl represents good infectious pop whereas MW is like dragging goodinfectuouspop.wav onto your timeline

nah the millennial whoop is a baby of Arcade Fire "Wake Up" and Sufjan Stevens "Chicago"

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.

I used to love gucci mane specifically bc of this same kinda anhedonia but i really don’t like this sound now.

Young Thug is working in the same idiom but he doesn’t count. That guy is a visionary.

whenever I hear a clarinet in a movie score I fly into a rage.

Awww I like the clarinet

sarahell posts itt bring the lols

it's really the 'whimsy' trope.

future is fucking garbage

shirley manson is fucking future