certain sounds that are automatic in my book

'Sax Appeal' is as great as you pitched it and dusty describes. his tone is kinda Ex-Lax sax but the setting is top-shelf swankadelic. see, i get off on timbre and there are certain sounds that are automatic in my book - sitar, moog, bongos, fuzztone, exotic percussion, jazz flute, vapor-pop, bossa nova, french chicks. if a record hits a trifecta, SCORE.

― in one word = garg (herb albert), Wednesday, April 7, 2010 6:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is a cool line of thought. what are yours? i dont think mine really go together very well: fripp-y guitar; hancock-y electric piano; backwards guitar solos; albini-recorded drums; plain american 90's indie-rock female vocals.

~banjo~

close harmony crooning

sneaky pete kleinow.

leslie speaker

wurlitzer
rhodes

basically every song on this list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_piano#Playing_technique_and_styles

albini-recorded drums

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

vibrato heavy Cipollina style guitar

xp ian

close harmonies are crucial; i like mine inna shouty raincoats style, too!

basically every song on this list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_piano#Playing_technique_and_styles

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 9:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

so right with you, and add "still crazy after all these years" to the list. that and "just the way you are" are my schlocky electric piano faves.

forgot to add wah-wah, weird/bad singing and dub reggae production (which is why I love that new Gonjasufi record - it's got all 3)

ooooh i like weird bad singing/speaking like tony williams

sneaky pete does it for me too. same with clarence white for that matter

really flammy claps & snaps, dotted eighth notes, fast beats with slow melodies/chord progressions, cut-up vocals, and loud + high trombone playing.

either cheap drum machines or hard live drums. thick analog synths. fuzz guitar. big choral singing. modal key changes. big swirly rhodes. singing in other languages. delay

fast beats with slow melodies/chord progressions

trying to think of a good example of this but can't! what you got?

oh wait fast-strummy jangly clean chiming guitars, a la unrest

... or like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM2kDCBFHTg

this, esp. when it gets going after the 2 min mark with all the glitchy sounds subdividing the beat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIlEfYnr60

XP

shit i might as well just say "anything from New Zealand"

gun shot samples
rave horn

shit i might as well just say "anything from New Zealand"

― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 10:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

right -- totally true, there are lots of other examples (as i take my wedding present 12" from the turntable and put on the new clean LP)

michael morleys guitar tone ftw

this is one of my favorite songs of all time. i love everything about it. every element. i love the sound and production, but i also love every individual sound/element equally. the organ, the guitars, the drums, the vocals, the backing vocals, everything. can't hear the bass that great on youtube, but that too! so, basically, anything even remotely similar is something i would probably like a lot. or even something with one or two of the sounds on this song.

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

falsetto harmonies

feedback

Hand claps

I like it when the bass/keys/guitar all kind of melt together in a lite-funky groove. See ABBA's "Name Of The Game", Belle Epoque's "Miss Broadway", The Cure's "Close To Me".

cut-up live drums

Hand claps

― jaxon, Thursday, April 8, 2010 4:22 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM especially "ever" by flipper

pedal steel

clavinet

motorik beat

dunno if that's a "sound" but I'm way too forgiving of umpteenth generation neu copiers, shit ALWAYS sounds good 2 me

completely agreed, but that thread where people are trying to call beatles songs proto-motorik is textbook ILM wtf-ery.

That Motorik Beat

ps i know i contributed to this thread

major 7th chords

completely agreed, but that thread where people are trying to call beatles songs proto-motorik is textbook ILM wtf-ery.

ha I missed that one

fripp-y guitar; hancock-y electric piano; backwards guitar solos; albini-recorded drums; plain american 90's indie-rock female vocals.

would love to hear this record