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Ever hear a song that doesn't hit you until there's a couple of notes from a lap steel guitar that do it for you? Or a brief Hammond organ interlude? Or a Fred Durst freestyle?

Is there any specific musical grace note that works better for you than anything else? or maybe specific examples from certain songs.

(I'm sure this has been covered endlessly, but my search function is being an arse this morning)

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

when the turtles go from pleasantly bopping out the verse to freaking out the chorus of "happy together" and "elenore" - those always really struck me sonically, almost in the same vein as the beginning of "only shallow".

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently, an interjection from Lil' Jon. He should make one of those toys where you can press different buttons and hear him say "WHAT?" "OKAY!" "YEAH!" "WATCH OUT!" "HEY" and "LUDA!"

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I like banjoes, harpischords and that balloon rubbing up against jumper noise in Ms. Dynamite's 'Krazy Krush'.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Digital beats and/or pulses.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

FRETLESS

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

- Brett Sparks' sinister/dark vocals
- Sarah Cracknell's rather reassuring vocals
- the horns on any Calexico song
- any g-funk keyboard sound

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

lil' jon soundboard is available -
http://www.collegeslackers.com/index.php?act=home&pg=lil_jon

for me? in "I heard her call may name", when lou reed says and then my mind split open, and then there's a gush of feedback going into the solo

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

CUICA

Also loud trumpets, ringy snare drums, Fender Rhodes, etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

France Gall's vocal hook in Avant La Bagarre. if that hasn't been sampled yet, it sure should be

― common_person (common_person), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

A bass played with a pick, with a slightly gritty tone (entwistle, squire, tons of touch n go rex bands, peter hook, etc etc)...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and of course any Lisa Gerrard vocal from any song.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

MES' "-ah" suffix

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

harp in 'amphibian' from bjork
some kind of plucked mandolin edits in a leafcutter john song
that phaser in the background of the suburbia version of sunday by sy
when about the fourth layer of strings comes in on cantuus in memory of benjamin britten
by arvo part off of tabula rasa (most beautiful record i own, btw)

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

also the tabla/vocal edits in 'hana' by asa-chang & junray

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Flanger pedal and an undiscovered junkie.

― maria b (maria b), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't pay attention to anything I hear unless it has really impossibly deep bass
Layered vocals also a bonus

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

glokenspiel tinkles.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Muffled kick.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I've said this before, but a major-7th chord in any genre of music is usually enough for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The vocal interplay between Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker in many Low tunes.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

briania: You like Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby lp?

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Eski bass.
A rap song being chopped up.

― scg, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yamaha CS series, DX series and E-1010/1005 delay boxes
Roland TR-808
layered sawtooth waves with low reso and medium cutoff
mono square waves with lots of reso and high cutoff
big fat choruses
ascending basslines

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i like creative uses of an 808. (liars' "mr yr on fire mr" and "bombs over baghdad")

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the sound of timpani in almost any pop song makes me melt.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

vibes!

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

thin lizzy lead lines, like the last glorious salvo in the live version of dancing in the moonlight.

― drew, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

#1 = economical but forefront floortom usage

all else:
hyper-distorted lo pass static
itty bitty amps overloaded to the point of tone dissolve
saturated arpeggiation circa 12-15 fret on les paul neck pickup (esp. in early 90s post-hardcore sensibility)
fender jaguar with loose tremolo signalled slightly out of phase with live signal
random echoplex loop-doodling
lo 808 filtration
cheap electronics through heavy ring modulation
melodic javanese gamelan
hardcore bands with >2 drummers

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I really do like the SOUND of Coney Island Baby, but it's not my favorite set of Lou Reed songs. One muffled-kick oldie that thumps my soul is Hot Chocolate's "Emma."

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently, an interjection from Lil' Jon. He should make one of those toys where you can press different buttons and hear him say "WHAT?" "OKAY!" "YEAH!" "WATCH OUT!" "HEY" and "LUDA!"

OTMFnM! The other day I had a drunken vision of Lil Jon producing a new AC/DC album and seriously have not been able to shake the audio image from my mind's eye.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

*echoed all to fuck vibraphone
*full-force funk screams (a la james brown, sly stone)
*dirty old horrible ride cymbals being banged HARD
*COWBELL
*squirty 303 bass synths
*string-sample-based Mellotron shit
*distorted screaming MG1 Realistic/Moog R2D2-falling-down-stairs insanity
*vocal tracks so loud in the mix that they drown everything else out (esp. in hip-hop mixtapes)
*reedy harsh cheap organs
*any percussion tracks that feature banging on something that is obviously not an actual instrument
*ridiculously plinky thin single-coil guitar (a la talking heads circa more songs about buildings and food)
*echoed-out melodica
*theremin

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

*when the feedback is pushed on tape echoes until it distorts the signal to unintelligible
*dry bari sax played with a shit ton of lung power
*sine wave basslines so low you don't actually hear them so much as feel them
*dizzee rascal shouting his own name
*girls with deep voices moaning
*crashes/explosions

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

*that shit that bad-ass tabla players do when they vocalize along with their riddims
*ridiculously simple and effective kick drum placement (a la dancehall, grime)
*backwards mixes (basslines all thin and reedy, midrange stuff all beefy, etc.)
*actual backmasked guitar (no digital reverse looped shyawt)
*saw wave synths -> talkbox (a la roger troutman)
*trumpet stabs
*rasta dudes shouting one-liners
*monstrously huge vocal ensembles

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Particular people's easily recognizable voices that will instantly draw me in: Cee-Lo, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the afforementioned Lil Jon.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also very partial to the horrible crackles you get from bad connections being fucked with.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

TREMOLO.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yes! tremolo-ed finger picked minor key jaguar/jazzmaster through a 60s fender champ with the reverb dialed to 7.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

amen! any strat will do in a pinch.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I'm gonna skip the tremolo and go straight to LESLIE CABINET.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Tremolo'd vocals are also one of my favs.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

a tasteful pick-scratch

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard Robert's guitar on Song of Innocence, side 2, track 2

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

drums
specifically lindsey buckingham produced drums, panda bear drums, timbaland space drums, sly (or robbie?) synth drums, and charles burst from the occasion live drums.

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

any early synth solo by eno like 'paw paw negro blowtorch' or 'remake/remodel'

― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

either:
1. shellac / mclusky type bass note grinds
2. a huge smacking clap over an 808 on any techno track
3. No u-turn style reese bass
4. artificial strings
5. David Gedge's voice

― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

* 70s-style electric piano (Rhodes or Wurlitzer)
* Daft-Punk-style resonant-filtering of the whole stereo mix
* Those big clangy snares on old funk or dub reggae albums, especially on intro drum fills
* Chunka-chunka acoustic guitar strumming with lots of palm mutes (see:
Mike Doughty)
* Chunka-chunka ELECTRIC guitar strumming with lots of palm mutes (see: James Brown)
* Rakim (best rapper EVER)
* Peter Hook's bass on any New Order record
* Monstrous, wobbly synth basses as heard in D'n'B, UKG, and its variants
* Live drummers who can convincingly play hip-hop or D'n'B beats

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

* Daft-Punk-style resonant-filtering of the whole stereo mix

Aye, this is the "Digital Love"/"One More Time"/"Music Sounds Better With You" thing that Kylie's producers aped on "Love At First Sight"?

Can somebody give me some recommendations of very similar tracks to these?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I know it's wrong, but double-tracked vocals get me everytime. As a matter of fact, I'd double-track the whole goddamn world, if I could.

― darin, Wednesday, 28 July 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethereal female vocals.

Steve Albini's drum sound.

Drum machines, especially the high hats.

Spiky-sounding hardcore punk guitars.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

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reese bassline. no question. i'll listen to any old techno track as long as it's got BIG HUGE FAT ANTHEMIC MIDBASS.

i'm also partial to chattering 808 and 909 hihats. see david caretta's remix of "moskow reise" for a good recent example.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the sound to which i refer george is literally the first noise you hear on 'unknown pleasures.' it occurs to me that perhaps i misused the term 'gated' - in any case, the snare sound on, say, 'transmission' is what i'm talking about

― jake b. (cerybut), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

steel lap guitar
descending arpeggios on a vibraphone
bass on 70s reggae/dub
gregory isaac's voice

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 July 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

and TOMBOT, if Yamaha CS then why not Korg MS as well ?

Well I was trying to be as particular as possible to avoid pulling a nickalicious of synth patches, you know, my list is kind of a "best of"

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the 909 Kick, open/closed hi-hat, and clap. not as much of a fan of the 909 snare or ride. What really kills me, though is any kind of chord stab (guitar/synth/horn/whatever) with heavy delay and echo fx on it.

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 29 July 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

funny -- scanning this thread for buzzwords, it seems like everyone's favorite music should be dub.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 29 July 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

But there's no lyrics and it's repetitive. /tongue-in-cheek

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 29 July 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

somethings:

my alltime favorite is very fast relatively clean electric guitar stums as best practiced by late period Unrest (runners up, The Velvet Underground songs that do this specifically on Live 1969, early period Wedding Present - some Urinals songs also qualify and have the added bonus of horrible equipment and recording techniques).

also dudes singing inna sissy high/falsetto voice so that I can sing along in a similar fashion also practiced by Unrest (runner up here is Big Star - again some Urinals songs weirdly qualify, sort of).

― artdamages (artdamages), Thursday, 29 July 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Cello.

― Careful with that Almanac Eugene (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 29 July 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a seven-second stretch in "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs after the fourth time the backup singers sing "I wonder wonder wonder wonder whooooo" when faint horns come in. The three guitar notes at the end of that stretch scratch a really good part of my brain. This is especially weird, because I can't stand pretty much anything else in the dude's catalog.

Less specifically: handclaps of any sort.

― Talent Explosion, Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM on fast-strum unrest-style.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty sure I wouldn't love many of the early '60s girl-group classics like "Be My Baby" and "Da Doo Ron Ron" if not for Hal Blaine's explosive drum fills throughout: He was the secret ingredient that rendered Phil Spector's overrated Wall of Sound palatable; great in fact. Without him, I'd still appreciate them somewhat (good songs, good singers), but they simply wouldn't ROCK.

There's plenty of apparent hard-rockers on The Who Sing My Generation that mostly rely on Nicky Hopkins' piano and have virtually zero guitar presence.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

yes! tremolo-ed finger picked minor key jaguar/jazzmaster through a 60s fender champ with the reverb dialed to 7.

Heheheh... I know what you mean, gygax, but I feel the need to be a gearheady guitar player and come forward to point out that Champs don't have reverb.

Best sounds ever for me:

- The blast of clattery noise when an amp with a spring reverb tank gets kicked (search a lot of Ventures & other surf bands, the beginning of Pixies cover of "Cecilia Ann," etc.)

- Nasty overdrive that comes out of nowhere in an otherwise clean guitar sound, not because someone stomped on a switch but because the player's controlled enough to keep his or her touch light until it's time to dig the strings with the amp turned way up.

- Thickass flange on a guitar when it's only there for a couple measures, like the way Eddie uses the MXR in "Mean Streets."

- The Roland Funnycat or Ross Distortion-Phaser when played by someone who can control thickly phased fuzz.

- Simple, incredibly well-controlled, infinitely sustained lead guitar parts. (Or... Joey Santiago on a Les Paul.)

- In ascending order of preference: armies of synth strings, really big real string sections, mellotron(s). (Note I included my affinity for strings because it's true and so everyone doesn't think that I only like testosterone-laden guitar noises.)

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Heheheh... I know what you mean, gygax, but I feel the need to be a gearheady guitar player and come forward to point out that Champs don't have reverb.

haha, why i wrote "champ" when i met "twin" is far beyond my knowledge but probably as my collection of shitty champs throughout my life has scarred their name into my brane.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 July 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha I could go all patch-specific if I got really ridiculous:

*the piano pad patch on the Alesis QS8.1 on the third GM settings bank, run through a Russian reissue Big Muff Pi with the distortion at a quarter turn and the tone all the way to the left

*the 'juicy funk' patch (bank B, patch 8) on the Roland JX3P, with just a little wussy-ass compression (a la Digitech Comp/Sustain geetar pedal), run through a Hartke amp head with the sub frequencies cranked

*etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 July 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sub-bass, especially on mid-nineties jungle tunes.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

why i wrote "champ" when i met "twin" is far beyond my knowledge

Heheheh. I held off making the comment about it having to be a Vibro-Champ to have tremolo too, but the Twin explanation very much clears it up, and I definitely agree with you except that I'd weight the Jaguar waaaaay above the sound of a Jazzmaster in that context. You gotta rock the fat single coils when you are drenching it all in spring reverb, natch.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

you know me too well martin... it's that floating-bridge tremolo which adds that extra special flavor to the sound.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Airy, distant strings and booming, bassy pianos.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Guys in second-wave ska bands going "hut hut hut!", "pickitup pickitup pickitup", "hey! hey! hey!", etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 July 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm...after reading this thread in full, it's apparent that I misunderstood the topic, unless everybody else did and NOT me - unlikely. So for a new answer...

Things I like include:

Univibe pedals, like Hendrix used @ Woodstock & elsewhere in '69.
Bagpipes - can't get enough of 'em! The shenai (or whatever it is the Master Musicians of Joujouka play) is equally strident & pleasant
Double Drumming - Just mention that a band has two sets of traps & I'm instantly curious (tho I've never completely warmed to the Dead or the Doobies)
Random electronic/synth noise, like Eno/DikMik/Ping Romany used to play. Theremin, oscillators and all that sorta junk that I wouldn't have a clue how to operate, other than the ON/OFF switch.
There's no such thing as "too much wah-wah"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Shitty pre-war recordings of blues slide guitar

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraftwerk's wah-wah, reverbed flute in their early LPs.

Terry Riley's (Rhodes?) keyboard sound.

Tamboura drones, anywhere, any time.

Moog bleeps, bloops, gurgles.

Larry Young's organ sound in Love Cry Want.

Miles' electrified muted trumpet.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The sound of the Ondes-Martenot.

Dissonance.

Alice Coltrane's harp.

Birdsong, either sampled or notated a la Messiaen's Catalogue d' Oiseaux.

The harpsichord. Listen to Ligeti's "Continuum."

Autechre's high-pitched tones.

Minor keys, esp. in the piano.

The Asian Pentatonic Scale.

Vocal choirs. Talk Talk's "I Believe In You," Nono's "Prometheo," Phillip Glass's "Knee 3."

The banjo.

Thom Yorke's voice.

The textures in Radiohead's Amnesiac.

Eerieness. A la Penderecki.

Pastoral folk. Vashti Bunyan.

And I could go on and on.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

harmonica: not bluesy but warm, melonchollic sounds

― Mil (Mil), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Any and all Neil Young/Crazy Horse workouts. For pure response to sound, nothing beats that for me. Especially Everybody Knows ... and Zuma ...

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pedal Steel = Untouchable Melancholy Genius, whatever the song sounds like.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 29 July 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ridiculously sped-up vocal samples.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 29 July 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

More, more...

Electronically processed vocals a la Diamanda Galas and Britney Spears.

Tamboura drones (seconded, *knowing winks at Dave Segal*), listen to Alice Coltrane's use of them.

Hrvatski's exquisite programming choices.

Violin drones a la improv. Takehisa Kosugi / microtonal / indian Tony Conrad (hear: Four Violins)

Henry Flynt's drones. (You're My Everlovin')

The Books, the whole organic folk / field recordings pastiche.

The sound of swirling violins. Hear Messiaen's Turangalila Symphonie.

VIOLENCE a la Les Rallizes Denudes and Koenji Hyakkei.

Evocative electronics or field recordings interrupting folk songs, a la Extradition's Hush record, Linda Perhacs' demo version of "Chimacum Rain."

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Every single soundbyte in Richard Devine's "Captract" and "Anthracite T. Vari."

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the winstons - "amen, my brother"

― jess, Friday, 30 July 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Glissandi. Anywhere.

Subtle melody changes, like 3:09 to 3:10 in Autechre's "Rae"... And 1:28-1:32 in "Like Spinning Plates" by Radiohead.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it's 3:10-3:11 in "Rae"

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Can's jams! Damo Suzuki's voice!

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The Faust groove in Tony Conrad's "Outside the Dream Syndicate" record.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Personal taste is an odd thing. Suzuki's voice is one of my least favorite sounds in music.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

*sings, in his most forceful baritone, just because* "Hey you! You're losing, you're losing, you're losing, you're losing your BEETAMEEN C! your BEETAMEEN C!"

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Friday, 30 July 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

- "yr bad sister/hank" hiccoughs
- lyrics about love as a metaphor for capitalist/linguistic theory delivered in put-on finishing school english accent
- highlife guitar
- mumbled, cream-of-wheat-out-the-corner-of-their-mouths delivery (cf. j.mascis, mike's verse on the "fit but you know it" remix)
- decayed 808 handclaps
- bongo loops inserted at odd angles against more straight drum patterns
- 16th note bass
- drums made from "real life" sounds (i.e. snippets of human voice, "noise", cutlery, etc.)
- rapping in a southern accent
- "dodgy euro-rapping"
- tablas
- dancehall kick/snare patterns
- WILEY BASS
- mentasm noise, the nastier, more corroded and toxic the better
- floortoms in screamo
- doom metal guitar
- 60's sunshine pop songs with scrapyard feedback on top
- reggae vocalizing with an amen break under it
- "Just Blaze!"
- the drum roll that drives home the final chorus in pop punk songs
- arpeggiated guitars
- the moment just after the moment any time james brown shouts "clyde!"
- cavernous, reverbed production (cf. clikitat ikatowi live record, cold rush-style gabba, etc.)
- cowbell
- acid house bass in non-acid house context
- fake reggae/dancehall
- black ark saturation four track sound
- 2-step garage triplets
- robert plant's voice at the beginning of "immigrant song"
- clicky-poppy house drums over very deep bass with overdone echo on top
- jump-up wobbler bass
- nile rodgers guitar
- bernard edwards bass
- PHIL COLLINS DRUMS (cf. duh "in the air tonight")
- handclaps (especially sampled and distributed in ways that don't make sense)
- italo house piano
- italo house piano played on REAL piano
- grainy, 4-bit 80s synth production with soulful r&b vox overtop
- mannie fresh's guitar
- ska/reggae brass
- muted trumpet
- typewriter noises
- "tribal" drums (especially in unlikely contexts)
- kids singing the choruses of rap songs
- chipmunk soul
- trevor horn-style huge, intrusive sampled orchestral stabs
- that overpriced fairlight sound in general
- ditto mutt lange robo-production
- disco snares
- vocal cut-ups (the more intricate the better)
- nate dogg
- pop-punk vocalists trying to sound british
- heavy echo
- feedback duels
- goth keyboards (cheesier the better) dropped into odd situations (cf. the vss, magazine's "definitive gaze")
- arthur russell's voice
- green gartside's voice
- simple breakbeat patterns with shifting synth/noise overtop (cf. my bloody valentine's "instrumental b", boards of canada)
- edge-style ascending, chiming guitar
- stadium house
- huge, narcotic synth sweeps
- polyrhythms
- digital claves, congas, timbales

― jess, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike Van Portfleet

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Has that early-Disney, shimmering type of soft female choired vocals occurring at sunrises and applications of magick been properly used in more recent pop, I wonder?

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

put all of those in one song, jess, and I think we could have that be the last song ever made.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Arpeggiated FM synth bass a la italodisco (sampled and looped into bangin techn tunes, natch)

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Overdriven tremeloed bar-chord change.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(from a Jaguar or Jazzmaster)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

A Rhodesman Rhodes piano! GOOD LORD YOU GOT TO HEAR ONE OF THESE!

― Marc roy steinstien, Monday, 22 May 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH!!! A RHODESMAN RHODES! Have ya'll heard one of these?

― Russo P Jewitt, Monday, 22 May 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

i like high pitched magical sounding synths

― janice (surm), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 04:35 (fifteen years ago)

Whenever a guitar snarls like a cougar/jaguar/whatever. Fucking badass, i love it.

You here it a lot in between verses in this song from MBV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVj-fc1M_D0

― oohhh weennnddddyyy weennnddyy what went wrrrooonnnnggg (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:07 (fifteen years ago)

also i just really dig sensual female voices that don't belt, but soothe. on that contrary, i hate all female vocalists who are known for their voices soley (amy winehouse, duffy, etc, etc, etc)

something very arousing to me about sleepy girls who just mumble things... here's another example!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ZSyGadDcc

or i guess i just really dig shoegaze. doesnt take too much thinking to realize i don't dig ride/chapterhouse/male-dominated shoegaze bands at all.

― oohhh weennnddddyyy weennnddyy what went wrrrooonnnnggg (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:10 (fifteen years ago)

handclaps of any sort.

― Talent Explosion, Thursday, July 29, 2004 3:31 PM

otm

― 156, Wednesday, 1 September 2010 05:28 (fifteen years ago)

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