Favourite sound in a song?

[Voley]

All the feedback at the beginning of this. Right at the edge of descending into total chaos but he's got it totally under control. I quite often just listen to this bit then don't bother with the rest of the song:

 

[Chick Webb]

I'm sure throughout Maxinquaye you can hear Tricky taking puffs of weed. That's pretty cool.

Lots of cool noises on that album. It comes back to me sometimes now daydreaming in work, and it's years since I've heard it. Usually it's just noises and I think "what the heck was that from.... oh yeah Maxinquaye".

 

[MellySingsDoom]

The analogue synth drone (think it's from a Moog Prodigy synth, if memory serves), from Skullflower's "Procession of Eternity":

 

[ska invita]

king tubby messing with drums is always a good sound

Twisting the never to be imitated Big Knob. Supposedly many people have tried to recreate that band pass filter thing he had on his desk and no one has come close...

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Lots of cool noises on that album. It comes back to me sometimes now daydreaming in work, and it's years since I've heard it. Usually it's just noises and I think "what the heck was that from.... oh yeah Maxinquaye".

I don't revisit it often, but when I do, I'm amazed at how good it is. One of the best albums of the 90s for sure!

 

[ska invita]

First thing that came to mind was the sound that comes up in the big intro of this track, which sounds like a scaffold pipe being struck

Smith Inc - Palomino (0.18 and repeated)

Spoiler

and on a similar theme that also popped into my head straight after, in Voodoo Ray theres a melodic metal pipe type sound that really makes the track
hear it loud and clear here at 0.39

Spoiler

turns out i really like the sound of metal pipes. I didnt know that about myself

Ive found another good track with a "scaffold" pipe hit in it - loads of scaffold action on this


If anyone knows anymore Id like to hear them - something about that sound really does it for me

 

[Dieselpunk2000]

The intro to the album version of 'Universal' by OMD has a large piece of machinery starting up and running. I can't find it on YT but it sounds like a drop-forge/automatic hammer.

 

[chilango]

The guitar at the start of Dinosaur Jr's "Little Furry Things". Utterly perfect.

 

[rubbershoes]

Belgian hoovers

 

[stethoscope]

The rewind and bomb dropping sound on Jonny L. I used to have a Realistic mixer years ago which had that bomb dropping sound as one of the sound FX

 

[moon]

Oh man, so many but more sounds than sound.
The first record to switch me onto synthesizers - by mum bought 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer the b-side of which contained the extended version of the song with amazing synth sounds of Giorgio Moroder
Can be heard from around 8 mins onwards on this version, I used to listen to it with my ear pressed up against the speaker

 

[bi0boy]

The sound of glass smashing all the way through this tune

This is my favourite glass-breaking tune:

 

[moon]

Another record that cemented my love of the synth.. Kids used to sneak ghetto blasters into school and the body poppers/breakdancers would gather in the playground for fun and games.
This was the first 'Electro' record ever played there.. Man Made by Man Parrish

 

[jakethesnake]

I like the gun shot till sounds in this one:

 

[billy_bob]

Gloriously shit 'rain' sound effect in this:

 

[ska invita]

Ive found another good track with a "scaffold" pipe hit in it - loads of scaffold action on this


If anyone knows anymore Id like to hear them - something about that sound really does it for me

ive found another scaffold pipe hit tune! I can go to bed now
Metronome - Voyage to the Bottom of the Bass

 

[Callie]

The slightly out of time from everything else triangle



Ting!

 

[DJWrongspeed]

The slightly out of time from everything else triangle
Leviticus- Burial
Ting!

'94 was a great year for music. It's like UK music has been permanently reworking what was discovered then.

 

[Poi E]

The Fairlight wobble at the opening of Icehouse's "Cross the Border". Fuck it, half the Fairlight tweakery of the 1980s

 

[danski]

ive found another scaffold pipe hit tune! I can go to bed now
Metronome - Voyage to the Bottom of the Bass

The Korg M1 synth had a preset called Pole which was basically just that.
This is as it comes out of the box but there's plenty of scope to edit.

http://www.synthmania.com/Korg M1/Audio/Factory preset examples/Programs/19 Pole.mp3

 

[Callie]

'94 was a great year for music. It's like UK music has been permanently reworking what was discovered then.

Triangles?

 

[ska invita]

The Korg M1 synth had a preset called Pole which was basically just that.
This is as it comes out of the box but there's plenty of scope to edit.

http://www.synthmania.com/Korg M1/Audio/Factory preset examples/Programs/19 Pole.mp3

im very happy to know this

 

[Callie]

There's definitely a track from the 94ish era that has scaffold pole sounds on it but I'm fucked if I can pull it forward enough in my brain to remember it

 

[hash tag]

Seeing the opening post I immediately thought of Animals. Then of course there is Dark Side with cash registers, alarm clocks Etc.

 

[Mattym]

Triangles?

I think it's the noise repeated every 4 bars or so at around 1:39 where the 'oooooooh oooh ohhhh errrrrrrr' voice samples are playing.

 

[Callie]

I think it's the noise repeated every 4 bars or so at around 1:39 where the 'oooooooh oooh ohhhh errrrrrrr' voice samples are playing.

Ting!

 

[hash tag]

How about some bells?


My one time ring tone (I work with people of a certain age )

 

[Dieselpunk2000]

The Tubular Bells(preset 27) patch on the Yamaha DX7-

 

[kittyP]

The noise that sounds like the "bbbrrrring" of a pin ball machine in the chorus of Milk and Honey by Beck.
Makes the hairs on my arms and the back of my neck stand up

 

[stethoscope]

What I can only describe as a sort of whiplash sound through the end of a tunnel Love this tune