When I slowly swivel my desk-chair just so, it stranglely emits a sound that mimicks the subtle opening trumpet from "the Rainbow" that is the first note of Talk Talk's Spirt of Eden

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Just thought I'd mention it. It's driving me somewhat crazy, as everytime it happens, my ears seem to anticipate the strings that usually follow it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Slow night on the newsdesk, eh Alex?

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Our CityLink tag is broken, so when we drive under a gantry thingo it beeps at the same pitch and speed as the start of Neon Shuffle by XTC.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i love it when this happens. there was a thread about this sort of thing recently but i can't remember what it was called.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

my dishwasher cycle sounds like the opening chug-chug-chug-chug-chug of the walkmen's "they're winning." i've mentioned that before but i hear the sound so often it's always in the front of my mind.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 June 2004 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

there was a thread about this sort of thing recently but i can't remember what it was called.

Started off the other way around, but:

My doorbell, phone, fax machine

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet you could get beaucoup bucks on eBay for that chair, Alex.

― woly boly (woly boly), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess this was the better one, with stockholm cindy's dishwasher and all:

Favourite Accidental Musical Allusions....

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 June 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This IS a bizarre coincidence. The freight train that goes past my back garden occassionally omits a distorted horn sound not a million miles away from the harmonica bit in "Rainbow", the first track on Spirit of Eden.

Perhaps other readers might have noticed ambient sounds that match bits of "Inheritance", or even "I Believe In You". Surely someone's washing machine sounds like the clattering dums of "Desire"?

We could then put all these sample together and recreate the entire album. (Isn't this in fact how they recorded the thing in the first place?)

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 June 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in denmark once and realised that before the train doors open there is a ringing sound which is exactly the same sound as the start of the batman track from u2.
And every single time i heard it my brain went "boom boom boom du do du, boom boom boom do du du.."

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird that you didn't hum the Batmn track by U2, innit.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 June 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course everytime i hear a chainsaw start up i think immediately of that track on Vauxhall and I from Morrissey.
Vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The sounds from the factory floor in my workplace occasionally coalesce together into a halting rhythm that forces me to drop everything and lapse into a surrealistic song sequence, a la "Dancer in the Dark." So embarrassing.

― briania (briania), Friday, 18 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This is also somewhat relevant:
Ambient Office Noises

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My virtuosic door hinge emits a long, ascending whine that without fail reminds me of the opening clarinet from "Rhapsody in Blue."

― C W (C W), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so pleased that this thread didn't die the quiet, lonely death I expected it would.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of ATM machines, when printing your receipt, make a sound similar to the fanfare used in a lot of cheerleading, the one that goes da-da-da-DAAA-da-DAAAA! (charge!)

― Comment dits-on...eh... le NA? (Nick A.), Friday, 18 June 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Every few months I walk past a certain building and am convinced that someone is blasting Good Vibrations out of an upstairs window, but it's an air conditioner that does a startling mimic of a theremin.

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 18 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

On a not-so-related note, one ILMer pointed out to me about 10 years ago that on the first track on the Rain Tree Crow album (Japan), lurking in the background is a sample of Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek IV saying "Give a damn..." It's pretty hilarious, because honestly: you'd never, ever notice it.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm-a hafta check that out. I adore the Rain Tree Crow album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pocketful of Change" is incredible.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The way "Black Crow Hits Shoe Shine City" builds and then descends again is fucking majesty.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

There's even a bluesy lick in there that sounds like John Scofield or something at the song's climax.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Gonna have to dig that out now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, about two seconds before the vocal kicks in...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The french-fry machine at McDonald's plays "Oye Coma Va".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 18 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Imbedded in the intro to Fishbone's Fight The Youth is the sound of my old flatmate calling my name from the floor below mine in our old 3 storey shared house in Highgate. How the fuck did they manage that?

― mzui, Friday, 18 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

my dishwasher sounds a little bit like discordance axis

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A coworker of mine made a sound effects CD as a project for a college course. He got it released, and later on MTV he heard them use his own actual scream that he had put on the CD, over an image of Steven Tyler screaming.

One of his classmates made a similar CD that included "five real farts", and one was used on Beavis & Butthead.

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

my filofax sort of sings like mark hollis, do you find that odd?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 18 June 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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