your LEAST favourite sound in music

sarahel how do you feel about mick jagger??

sarahel not a member of the karen dalton fan club i'm guessing.

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=eoNFXBWrd4Y
BARF!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtj9_q6Zo80&feature=related
Cute, but YOU ARE LIKE 26.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtbVqLLH1Tg
Sometimes affecting, sometimes disgusting.

otm

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'.

*intro ~to~*

cant stand the unicorns either. good work!

FM synthesis is cool if you're John Chowning

Two for me: soprano saxophone and scat singing.

i generally hate powerful female vocals.

i generally hate women in power. it's a psychological issue.

Ha yes, scat singing. Sometimes good though!

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

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".

It is I says me
And 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.

xp - i've never heard Karen Dalton, and my feelings about Mick Jagger vary based on the song.

roscoe dash

Self-conscious clapping. Like when a song is just going along and then out of nowhere CLAP-CLAP! CLAP!

The weak, wobbly, or bullhorn vocal style of pretty much every male fronted indie band of the the 00s.

^ eg, guy from Arcade Fire.

I don't like:

Max/MSP generated FM synthesis, i.e. Autechre "Confield"

:(

Ha, I see Curti5 already posted the same thing.

the sound of people complaining about indie vocals for the 1000000th time

100+ songs that used the DX7 bass

dynamic range compression

oh and shiny slick stadium rock drums, fuck that

Self-conscious clapping. Like when a song is just going along and then out of nowhere CLAP-CLAP! CLAP!

:(

i agree w/ the clapping, so annoying

tinnitus

I have yet to hear a sampled saxophone that hasn't sounded horrible.

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)

whistling.

the sound of people complaining about indie vocals for the 1000000th time

― candid gamera (s1ocki), Monday, October 25, 2010 5:23 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark

I'll stop when they (shitty indie vocalists) stop.

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.

Well... It has become a bit wearing, I mean.

the '90s snare drum sound (examples: "Beautiful Disaster" by 311, "Two Princes" by Spin Doctors)

- 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?

- attitude

saxophone

Calvin cloned chorus chords.

self-conscious laughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9DHhy6ynxw

Roy Thomas Baker stacked/compressed vocals.

Most instances of harpsichord use in '60s music.

Every sound has its place and use, but probably my most consistent least favorite over time has been the splash cymbal.

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.

those goddamn Jordanaires

that high pitched synth sound at the beginning of pink floyd's echoes actually makes my ear hurt at a relatively normal volume, which is weird

i'm generally sensitive to really bright sounds though

I've probably talked about this in cringe threads, but I really hate the close-up sounds of like soda commercials where its like DRIBBLY POURING GUK GUK GUK GUK AHHHH and now every "lean" influenced rap album is like a fucking soda ad with all these terrible sloshing noises

i really hate soda commercials on the radio or TV where you hear the sound effects
of

*PSSSSSH* --guk guk guk guk-- *AHHHHHHHHH*

― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:51 PM (four years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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