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
maybe '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
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
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, August 25, 2016 6:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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, 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
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, 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
bjork
― 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