i don't <3 hoary great hard rock voices where the guy sounds like he's going for somewhere between a baritone and a punk/metal shout. The singers from Bad Religion and Neurosis are the example culprits here
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
here's a weird one. classically trained singers. something about that way of singing makes them all sound like arrogant pricks.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
The E-Street Band
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 4 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
any artificial-sounding synthesized horn, esp the 80s versions of them
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
bass wobble in EDM/dubstep is so corny
― marcos, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
that same goddamn "hey!" in the background of 75% of pop songs
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
^ otm
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 5 January 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
ukelele
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
i hate that hawaiian man that ruined somewhere over the rainbow
listen to aunto molly urso's version of "over the rainbow", it'll unruin it for you
note: according to the internet in 2018, there is no such thing as aunto molly urso, all i have is a rip from a 2011 youtube upload
but it is the best
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:51 (six years ago) link
i'd love to hear it, put it back on youtube for the world
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
All sounds and noises are potentially awesome depending on the context but autotune puts that belief to the test for me. Given how poptimistic ILM tends to be, I'm surprised by the relative consensus on this matter. For what it's worth, I do acknowledge that it's become more sophisticated (read: bearable) over the years.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:02 (six years ago) link
i don't know how to convert mp3s to youtube files and if i want to learn i am going to have to, like, sober up or something
which sounds kind of lame right now
sorry
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
could you upload the mp3 somewhere and dm me it
― flappy bird, Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
the vacuum-sealed production of a lot of tech house where the sounds have no character and everything just burbles on lifelessly for 5 minutes.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
i hate a really squelchy synth sound. there is a sound Animal Collective uses sometimes like there is a slow flange and it is kind of churning and gross. i have heard it in some other electronic songs, it's usually a single note drone pressed over and over. my stomach makes those guy of noises before i throw up so there is a visceral reaction i have.
fwiw i enjoy the band and songs but that sound hahah its just so gross. and i get it, it is very 80s/90s, it makes me think of Gak and Ecto Coolers and the slime stuff that was so big. i think a big part of being a Cold War kid was dealing w normalization of mutants and slime and the real possibilities of nuclear war/apocalyptic imagery that our parents had been raised to live with (hence the retro popularity a lot of the apocalyptic-nostalgic stuff today).
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
hawaiian uke dude is awesome. he is the real deal. he has a ukulele in hawaii. this is like, a thing people do in the real world. don't blame him, blame the millions of suburban losers buying them at Guitar Centers
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la2lbUh4v4
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:41 (six years ago) link
Pomenitul as OTM as ever
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 6 January 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
well speak of the devil. i had nothing to do with this upload, i still don't know how to upload songs to youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFgWooxDAOY
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 January 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
https://thepatterning.com/2016/08/20/the-millennial-whoop-a-glorious-obsession-with-the-melodic-alternation-between-the-fifth-and-the-third/
FUCK THIS SHIT
― davey, Thursday, 11 January 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
That is amazing. Now that it's been pointed out, ffs please stop the millennial whoop.
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 January 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
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!
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 06:13 (six years ago) link
this is an amazing song! wish I could find a decent copy
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 11 January 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
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).
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
I think a lot of it had to due with ubiquitous syncs of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” in the past 10+ years
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
well, it's only so ubiquitous -- I have no idea what you are referring to!
― sarahell, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:36 (six years ago) link
lots of these millennial whoops remind me of TARZAN BOY
― omar little, Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
^ a redeeming quality imo
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
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
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
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?
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
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
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
man that Shy Rose track is great thanks for sharing
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
DC otm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
i do love the millennial whoop here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jKtjgRZQY
― omar little, Thursday, 11 January 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
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, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
G
― Jeff, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
Nah, a G on its own is alright.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:48 (six years ago) link
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
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Friday, 12 January 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
Songs that incorporate the "nan nanny boo boo" melody
― how's life, Friday, 12 January 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
omg thanks for link, I had no idea it occurred on the actual 1982 Black Metal album! :-D
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:12 (six years ago) link
(still don't like it tho)
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
Nah it's because they grew up on The Lion King, which is also why we have furries
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
― flamboyant goon tie included
bullshit we have furries because of Disney Afternoon and, I am going to call this show out specifically, Tail Spin
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:52 (six years ago) link
thought we'd decided it went back at least to Robin Hood
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Animalympics.jpg
As Whiney described it, the Rocky Horror of Furry Fandom.
― how's life, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:17 (six years ago) link
Dougal, we've got to lose that saxophone....
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:20 (six years ago) link