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
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 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
The sound of the cd drive skipping as you try to import Into iTunes
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:31 (six years ago) link
Should be zero!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKP31eylTA
― timellison, Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yhaBsD8Vw
― timellison, Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:54 (six years ago) link
what kind of heathens dont like steel drums.
re whiney, how do you feel about the intro to gin & juice?
― Spottie, Thursday, 4 January 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
That big reverby half marimba half pizzicato string sound that's been on countless hits in the last five years.
― nashwan, Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
<3 marimbas
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
Heavy Flute
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
i don't <3 hoary great hard rock voices where the guy sounds like he's going for somewhere between a baritone and a punk/metal shout. The singers from Bad Religion and Neurosis are the example culprits here
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
here's a weird one. classically trained singers. something about that way of singing makes them all sound like arrogant pricks.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
The E-Street Band
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
any artificial-sounding synthesized horn, esp the 80s versions of them
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
bass wobble in EDM/dubstep is so corny
― marcos, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
that same goddamn "hey!" in the background of 75% of pop songs
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
^ otm
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
ukelele
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
i hate that hawaiian man that ruined somewhere over the rainbow