^ me too
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
faux-sincere vocals - including the embarrassing white people trying to sound like soulful black people thing mentioned upthread, the croaking thing mentioned upthread, faux-outsider singing (a la Joanna Newsom) ... everyone has an "authentic" voice - use your own and don't try to badly ape someone else's
everything else i'm generally annoyed by, i can think of examples of that i like - even the horrible drum sounds used in "In the Air Tonight"
― sarahel, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm ok with Kimya Dawson, ke$ha's non-autotuned voice - but cringe at Joanna Newsom and Cocorosie
― sarahel, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the orchestra hit sound used on songs like Owner of a Lonely Heart
― funky brewster (San Te), Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
also people who dislike fretless bass should be put in camps
sarahel how do you feel about mick jagger??
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
sarahel not a member of the karen dalton fan club i'm guessing.
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Weird, contrived, Pitchfork-friendly faux-puberty yelp voices a la Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Islands/Unicorns, or Dirty P's (even though they rule, DP, I mean).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoNFXBWrd4YBARF!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtj9_q6Zo80&feature=relatedCute, but YOU ARE LIKE 26.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtbVqLLH1TgSometimes affecting, sometimes disgusting.
― coolsundays, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Almost everything mentioned in this thread is crap so well done everybody!
FM synthesis and melisma can be ok.
This is petty grumbling but it's a feature of some good records - I dislike excessively lengthy bursts of unadorned high-pitched feedback, if it's an Incapacitants records and there's loads of other stuff going on that's cool but the not the intro 'The Modern Dance'.
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
*intro ~to~*
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
cant stand the unicorns either. good work!
― baddest boy on the internet (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
FM synthesis is cool if you're John Chowning
― twice boiled cabbage is death, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Two for me: soprano saxophone and scat singing.
― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i generally hate powerful female vocals.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i generally hate women in power. it's a psychological issue.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha yes, scat singing. Sometimes good though!
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It's interesting that some people list "sounds they don't like" and others list "sounds that signify things they don't like"
FWIW Nick was 19 or 20 when they made that Unicorns record
― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
rap albums that begin with spoken word. begin with an INTRO track like with one verse over a drone beat or even a skit, but not some dude goin "ay....dis the [Dirty South/East Coast/West Coast/People's Republic of China] bringin' hits to yo ass".
― funky brewster (San Te), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
It is I says meAnd all who agree are more than we cause we're three (BIIIIIIIOOOOOOTCH!!)
-- Stranded on Death Row, Dr. Dre; the only intro I've ever really enjoyed.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - i've never heard Karen Dalton, and my feelings about Mick Jagger vary based on the song.
― sarahel, Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
roscoe dash
― creatively bankrupt ILXors whose display names are just '00s ephemera (crüt), Monday, 25 October 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Self-conscious clapping. Like when a song is just going along and then out of nowhere CLAP-CLAP! CLAP!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 25 October 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
The weak, wobbly, or bullhorn vocal style of pretty much every male fronted indie band of the the 00s.
― daavid, Monday, 25 October 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
^ eg, guy from Arcade Fire.
― daavid, Monday, 25 October 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like:
Max/MSP generated FM synthesis, i.e. Autechre "Confield"
:(
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 25 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, I see Curti5 already posted the same thing.
the sound of people complaining about indie vocals for the 1000000th time
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Monday, 25 October 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
100+ songs that used the DX7 bass
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 25 October 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
dynamic range compression
oh and shiny slick stadium rock drums, fuck that
― jumpskins, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Monday, 25 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree w/ the clapping, so annoying
― teledyldonix, Monday, 25 October 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
tinnitus
― UndoneTone, Monday, 25 October 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I have yet to hear a sampled saxophone that hasn't sounded horrible.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWooMru3-U
(i like the most wanted song except for the smooth sax part. can't find the full song on yourtub)
― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
whistling.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Monday, October 25, 2010 5:23 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark
I'll stop when they (shitty indie vocalists) stop.
― daavid, Monday, 25 October 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I like a lot of (pop) indie, but the typical indie vocal, particularly the Wayne Coyne/Jonathan Donahue type of singer who has been dominating an otherwise excellent genre for the past 10-15 years or so.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 25 October 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Well... It has become a bit wearing, I mean.
the '90s snare drum sound (examples: "Beautiful Disaster" by 311, "Two Princes" by Spin Doctors)
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
- that sweaty 80s blues-revival sound of the Stevie Ray Vaughn variety. This extends to stuff like Tom Jones, the Blues Brothers, the Commitments, JJ Cale and stuff like that. - I don't like that liquidy pad sound you get in loads of 90s drum'n'bass. It makes me feel like I'm at a spa or something. Don't know why it's so ubiquitous - despite liking noise and electronic music, I don't get the appeal of things like Fennesz, Fuck Buttons and Tim Hecker. It's ugly and unsatisfying music - too much compression, zero low-end. You can't chill out to it, space out to it or dance to it, so what is it for?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Thursday, 25 August 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
- attitude
― blafe and sand (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
saxophone
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Calvin cloned chorus chords.
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
self-conscious laughter
― dc, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9DHhy6ynxw
― blafe and sand (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Roy Thomas Baker stacked/compressed vocals.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
Most instances of harpsichord use in '60s music.
― An Automatic Response To Things That Are Bullshit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Every sound has its place and use, but probably my most consistent least favorite over time has been the splash cymbal.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
In terms of contemporary music, it's probably the use of soaring and 'inspirational' "WHOOOOAAAAA-OOOOOHHHH-OOOOHHHH" background choruses in pop songs and commercials, as presumably popularized by the band fun.
― An Automatic Response To Things That Are Bullshit (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link