your LEAST favourite sound in music

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.

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, 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

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.

I don't mind the oboe as much although it's the same family.

Especially bad when played stacatto

are you talking about crumhorns?
i like the sound of crumhorns/honking instruments
to each their own!

English horn = cor anglais.

It's just a low oboe, really, a loboe in fact.

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

florence welch

like a sheep trapped in a fence

The guy from Dashboard Conventional's voice

*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.

I'm way way way over sped up and slowed down vocals.

ctrl+f steel drums: 3 results

It should be 300

^ I was struggling to think of any sound I dislike more than like, but steel drums is the one

pan flutes

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

The sound of the cd drive skipping as you try to import Into iTunes

Should be zero!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKP31eylTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yhaBsD8Vw

what kind of heathens dont like steel drums.

re whiney, how do you feel about the intro to gin & juice?

That big reverby half marimba half pizzicato string sound that's been on countless hits in the last five years.

<3 marimbas

Heavy Flute

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

here's a weird one. classically trained singers. something about that way of singing makes them all sound like arrogant pricks.

The E-Street Band

any artificial-sounding synthesized horn, esp the 80s versions of them

bass wobble in EDM/dubstep is so corny

that same goddamn "hey!" in the background of 75% of pop songs

^ otm

ukelele

i hate that hawaiian man that ruined somewhere over the rainbow

listen to aunto molly urso's version of "over the rainbow", it'll unruin it for you

note: according to the internet in 2018, there is no such thing as aunto molly urso, all i have is a rip from a 2011 youtube upload

but it is the best

i'd love to hear it, put it back on youtube for the world

All sounds and noises are potentially awesome depending on the context but autotune puts that belief to the test for me. Given how poptimistic ILM tends to be, I'm surprised by the relative consensus on this matter. For what it's worth, I do acknowledge that it's become more sophisticated (read: bearable) over the years.

i don't know how to convert mp3s to youtube files and if i want to learn i am going to have to, like, sober up or something

which sounds kind of lame right now

sorry

could you upload the mp3 somewhere and dm me it

the vacuum-sealed production of a lot of tech house where the sounds have no character and everything just burbles on lifelessly for 5 minutes.

i hate a really squelchy synth sound. there is a sound Animal Collective uses sometimes like there is a slow flange and it is kind of churning and gross. i have heard it in some other electronic songs, it's usually a single note drone pressed over and over. my stomach makes those guy of noises before i throw up so there is a visceral reaction i have.

fwiw i enjoy the band and songs but that sound hahah its just so gross. and i get it, it is very 80s/90s, it makes me think of Gak and Ecto Coolers and the slime stuff that was so big. i think a big part of being a Cold War kid was dealing w normalization of mutants and slime and the real possibilities of nuclear war/apocalyptic imagery that our parents had been raised to live with (hence the retro popularity a lot of the apocalyptic-nostalgic stuff today).

hawaiian uke dude is awesome. he is the real deal. he has a ukulele in hawaii. this is like, a thing people do in the real world. don't blame him, blame the millions of suburban losers buying them at Guitar Centers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la2lbUh4v4

Pomenitul as OTM as ever

well speak of the devil. i had nothing to do with this upload, i still don't know how to upload songs to youtube.

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

https://thepatterning.com/2016/08/20/the-millennial-whoop-a-glorious-obsession-with-the-melodic-alternation-between-the-fifth-and-the-third/

FUCK THIS SHIT

That is amazing. Now that it's been pointed out, ffs please stop the millennial whoop.

holy shit rushomancy that is incredible, also thank you for the dm, i almost never check the email associated with this account and i didn't see your dm until just now. glad to have an mp3 of it, this is absolutely wild. and there's no ukulele - fantastic!

this is an amazing song! wish I could find a decent copy

Lol that article on the whoop

Of course it is ubiquitous precisely because it is so generic and slight that nobody can claim to legally own it so no fear of getting sued, something everyone can freely rip off

Kind of amazing all the new ways copyright law continues to destroy creativity