your LEAST favourite sound in music

Following on from the 'favourite sound' thread, what sounds really can't you stand?

bjork

For me it's the string/orchestra synths... actually hate most of synth sounds based on organic instruments, like say... synth saxophones or synth guitars.

I hate the sound of those tinkling vertical bells, especially when they introduce the verse bit of a mushy ballad. People who use it seem to think they're being so sophisticated.

80's drums sound, especialy the overblown snare-horrible.

I don't know what makes this sound, but it's the creaky wind-up noise that's all over the rhythm track of "Right On" by Marvin Gaye. Almost ruins the song for me.

It's a guiro (although I always think of it is a fish 'cause that's what the ones in my school looked like)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31CBSV9EPAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiro

Tambourines

Heather Small

Axl Rose on Reading festival TV coverage this weekend. Very unpleasant.

Also, that kind of over-the-top mall-punk style of singing that was popularised by bands like Blink182 but people still emulate today, where "myself" become "moy-saalf".

relative to bjork and mall-punk singing, guiros & tambourines aok

Yamaha DX7 - Classic or Dud?

that strangled gurgle of death metal vocalists

Heavy breathing, except for Serge Gainsbourg's music

that high-pitched "woo! yeah!" sample that was all over shit pop-house in the 90s.

ledge, you hate fun.

xp especially when repeated throughout the song: "woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!"

Also, that kind of over-the-top mall-punk style of singing that was popularised by bands like Blink182 but people still emulate today, where "myself" become "moy-saalf".

― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:24 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

Seconded. Also really not a fan of can't-be-arsed indie vocals.

xp especially when repeated throughout the song: "woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!, woo! yeah!"

Think you're getting confused with this and the other thread about sounds you like.

Need a couple of "Ah Yeah!"'s and you have pure sonic bliss.

dl this is your favourite song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR98gRckjmY

Tambourines

Just to expand on this, I really can't abide tambourines played by singers with no sense of rhythm. You get this particularly on live recordings, I think it's basically something for them to do with their hands. Once you notice them in the mix, they're just poison to your enjoyment.

Saxophones. You can tell badness has come when the saxophone blunders in. There's a few obvious exceptions, but usually, it's all too much.

oh ffs

ledge - i think that was my favourite song when i was, like, 9. Which would explain a few things I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVhPEwXfnk&annotation_id=annotation_90981&feature=iv

That definitely needs some "Woo! Yeah!"s.

The banjo. And most of the sounds in the following piece in isolation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fCtDO7OcRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBRbzf3Fws

^ for Ledge

It's a James Brown sample btw iirc

sanpaku that is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded

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

^ also for Ledge

That chimey keyboard used on loads of 80s and 90s schmaltzy RnB ballads, whatever that is. There's one on I Will Always Love You.

xp acoleuthic: agreed. And unbelievably superior to the "Most Wanted Song".

But operatic sopranos (at least with heavy vibrato), Children's choruses, bagpipes, etc in their usual contexts aren't my cup o'.

got 2.49 into sax loop before it got annoying btw

most wanted song has brilliant outro

1. quintessential country and western guitar twang
2. auto-tune effect on a kesha-style vocal
3. scat

2. auto-tune effect on a kesha-style vocal

Why u make Scatman cry

Someone overlay Scatman's "be-bop-bu-bop-o-bop" over the top of Eurovision sax guy...

1) Shredding
2) Metal Rhythm guitar playing - the sort of all down- stroke, heavily overdriven churn where you can hear the pointy headstock.

whispering
Glenn Gould
sped-up soul samples
that synth sound in every trance track

Garrison Keillor

hahahaha someone has to make an alterna-Most Unwanted Song based on this thread

Interesting how this gets framed in some cases as "Person X" and in other cases as "Person who sings like X".

I haven't heard anyone else who sings like Garisson Keillor, thankfully.

...like, is the *personality* of the named hated singer what is hated (as well as? or because of...) the singing quality.

Because I'd think that certain singing qualities would have more of an effect. But it's being expressed in terms of the person doing the singing. Why?

(Thinking about people named like Bjork, Axl Rose, Ke$ha)

fucking crying baby sample noises

OTM those goddamn baby samples in Are You That Somebody are so grating.

Sometimes fine but sometimes my least favorite instruments: vibes, xylophone, marimba.

the baby sounds in Are You That Somebody don't really bother me so much.

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

Thing related to the millennial whoop: the "kindergarten taunt" melodic line annoys me no end when it turns up in songs I enjoy until its turning up. This mostly happens in modern r&b i think? Or this may just be where the disappointment is greatest when it occurs.

clicktrack  |...:...;...:...|...:...;...:...|
(C major)   G   E A G   E   G   E A G   E   
(scale deg) 5   3 6 5   3   5   3 6 5   3

G

Nah, a G on its own is alright.

Thing related to the millennial whoop: the "kindergarten taunt" melodic line annoys me no end when it turns up in songs I enjoy until its turning up. This mostly happens in modern r&b i think? Or this may just be where the disappointment is greatest when it occurs.

clicktrack |...:...;...:...|...:...;...:...|
(C major) G E A G E G E A G E
(scale deg) 5 3 6 5 3 5 3 6 5 3
― anatol_merklich

didn't sly and the family stone do this

Songs that incorporate the "nan nanny boo boo" melody

omg thanks for link, I had no idea it occurred on the actual 1982 Black Metal album! :-D

(still don't like it tho)

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

Nah it's because they grew up on The Lion King, which is also why we have furries

Nah it's because they grew up on The Lion King, which is also why we have furries

― flamboyant goon tie included

bullshit we have furries because of Disney Afternoon and, I am going to call this show out specifically, Tail Spin

thought we'd decided it went back at least to Robin Hood

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Animalympics.jpg

As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.

Dougal, we've got to lose that saxophone....

Personally I'm more comfortable blaming Sid and Marty Krofft.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/puppet/images/d/d4/Pufnstuf.png/revision/latest?cb=20111227030119

As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.

― how's life, Friday, January 12, 2018 3:17 AM (nine hours ago)

those who forget horribly formed jokes are doomed to repeat them

im pretty sure Zoobilee Zoo is more responsible for furries than anything else

Animalympics fuckin rules, but yah furries love that shit. I think most of them discover it well into furrydom though.

My actual answer to op is whiny Fat Mike/Less Than Jake style pop punk vocals. Why do men sing like that? It's the worst.

A lot of people attribute Disney's Robin Hood as the first time animals made them horny and who can blame em?

R.I.P. the family dog licking yr genitals

Jump to most recent message function feelin p jarring itt rn

Tom Waits’s voice

hell yeah

Is the Millenial Whoop in any way related to this bit in Barbie Girl?

Barbie Girl represents good infectious pop whereas MW is like dragging goodinfectuouspop.wav onto your timeline

nah the millennial whoop is a baby of Arcade Fire "Wake Up" and Sufjan Stevens "Chicago"

I’m getting really sick of rappers that sound like Future. Any rao that is like, depressive and proceeds in terms of these bursts of short phrases.

I used to love gucci mane specifically bc of this same kinda anhedonia but i really don’t like this sound now.

Young Thug is working in the same idiom but he doesn’t count. That guy is a visionary.

whenever I hear a clarinet in a movie score I fly into a rage.

Awww I like the clarinet

sarahell posts itt bring the lols

it's really the 'whimsy' trope.

future is fucking garbage

shirley manson is fucking future