your LEAST favourite sound in music

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

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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

wait, is this just going back and forth from the 3 to the 5 on a major scale, because that's just what you end up playing after having taken piano lessons and have to write a simple melody or accompaniment.

I dunno if this related to the keyboard vs. guitar generational shift thing in pop/rock music -- that could be more interesting?

That 3-5-3-5 is a keyboard instrument default, whereas with a guitar, the default patterns are different due to the design of the instrument itself.

(Unless I missed tons of articles about it).

I think a lot of it had to due with ubiquitous syncs of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” in the past 10+ years

well, it's only so ubiquitous -- I have no idea what you are referring to!

lots of these millennial whoops remind me of TARZAN BOY

^ a redeeming quality imo

Arcade Fire definitely a big part of the whoop but I think it's also a variant of the whoa-oh-oh's you'd hear in some pop-punk/emo songs in the early '00s

there's even a hint of it in Killing Joke's 2003 album! (1 minute in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb5WxIUFziw

imo focusing on the specific interval is maybe missing the bigger pattern of wordless oh-ohs - like "til the world ends," "some nights" and "pompeii" are what i would reach for as examples of this sound and its intentions. or do those all fit the motivic bill also?

Wasn't the whoop an Italo Disco thing? Not just "Tarzan Boy" but also this 1987 track (the chorus at 2:26):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtpp6H559NQ

yea but it became ubiquitous in indie rock/pop in the mid-late 00s, another big one that got a lot of syncs and was super popular was 'chicago' by sufjan stevens, which doesn't feature legit whoops but it's one of the templates of 'epiphany-core' which is what i call this phenomenon. xylophones and ukuleles.

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

man that Shy Rose track is great thanks for sharing

DC otm

i do love the millennial whoop here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jKtjgRZQY