Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 We all like the sound of a well performed strings section or fanfare of triumphant brass and some love nothing more than the glorious vibrations of an electric guitar to a drummers beat, but what distinctive musical sound gets up your nose? What 'instrument' can you not stand to hear? The first 15 seconds of that song features an awful but thankfully rarely used synth sample which I detest no matter how good a song or piece of music might be inspite of it. The crap Doogie Howser theme had a similar version of it Its a sound which screams cheese and tackiness and I hate it.What about you? And before one of the hilarious cleverboys gets their 'choice' in, I'll beat 'em to it: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Hey that's a good theme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 I know it is As tv themes go, its excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Overly amplified piano playing soft, plaintive music. Turn that damn volume down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Poorly intonated strings are the worst. Ugh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Modern movie trailer action music. In general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neimoidian 14 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Modern movie trailer action music. In general.Oh yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 Overly amplified piano playing soft, plaintive music. Turn that damn volume down!Poorly intonated strings are the worst. Ugh....YouTube examples would be good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Axl RoseGeddy Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 Axl RoseEach to his own and all that, but I was only thinking the other day (whilst listening to Sweet Child O'Mine) about his amazingly unique voice and how much it compliments the Guns N' Roses sound. I love that band though.But yeah, you illustrate perfectly my meaning with this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I can't stand metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 I'm not much of a fan either (I don't mind the odd Metallica track), but G N' R are more rock than metal. Soft metal perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Poorly intonated strings are the worst. Ugh....I'm sure you meant to say "poorly intonated horns are the worst", everybody knows it's God's honest truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I didn't mean GNR is metal, I was just saying that's what I can't stand. I only like Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine, and Paradise City. Not a big fan of the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneBuckFilms 321 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Bad Synths and Bagpipes (though there are a couple of notable exceptions). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 You want YouTube.com examples? Alright then.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upR3V4zhqj4&feature=relatedPlease note that it is usually the younger musicians who have this problem, which they cannot really be blamed for because they were never really taught how to improve it.Of course, YouTube.com has a lot of videos of people teaching this delicate art, like this one starring a Jeff Goldblum impersonator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2009 Author Share Posted August 6, 2009 I didn't mean GNR is metal, I was just saying that's what I can't stand. Ah ok. You wasn't specific though, hence my presumption. As for GNR, have you heard Patience? It is a superb song with a nice, quieter melody and a great musical structure. Have a listen if you're ever inclined.You want YouTube.com examples? Alright then.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upR3V4zhqj4&feature=relatedPlease note that it is usually the younger musicians who have this problem, which they cannot really be blamed for because they were never really taught how to improve it.Well, I agree with you of course, but linking very young kids playing the best they can isn't really the most suitable example either and more than a little unfair, regardless of the fact that it obviously not their fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Poorly intonated strings are the worst. Ugh....I'm sure you meant to say "poorly intonated horns are the worst", everybody knows it's God's honest truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maglorfin 196 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Poorly intonated strings are the worst. Ugh....I'm sure you meant to say "poorly intonated horns are the worst", everybody knows it's God's honest truth. Jesus H. Christ, yes. I know this sounds evil, but I'm not sure whether I should die of laughter or of horror ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Brausam 214 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Poorly intonated strings are the worst. Ugh....I'm sure you meant to say "poorly intonated horns are the worst", everybody knows it's God's honest truth. Jesus H. Christ, yes. I know this sounds evil, but I'm not sure whether I should die of laughter or of horror ... Unlikely that there's horns in an elementary ensemble. But yeah...when us horn players are out of tune and playing as a section, it's terrifying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Sounds fine to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Electric cello, James Horner 90's synths, duduk.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I've gotten rather irritated with RCP's stereotypical useage of that blend of electronic and ethnic percussion that they use, but one of the crowning jewels is that sort of clicky thing that was put to obnoxiously gratuitous use in 3:02-5:33 of "The Battle" in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Yes, that too. And choirs with drum loops. It's cheesy as hell in most cases.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien F 1,742 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 I can't stand bad 80's horn synths. It just makes me cry out for the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzOutcast 122 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Blast beats.Fortunately it's not featured too prominently in film scores. In other types of music . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissPadmé 17 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 The dry, emotionless Brass-sound samples Zimmer and his boys love so much...also the fake choir from Angels and Demons.. it sounds so bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Well, I agree with you of course, but linking very young kids playing the best they can isn't really the most suitable example either and more than a little unfair, regardless of the fact that it obviously not their fault.You are absolutely right, of course, but intonation tends to be less of a problem with more experienced and older groups, and I thought it would be much faster were I to search for a younger ensemble, where bad intonation is a commonality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Todays film makers fine emotional brass music to be vulgar.Hans is only feeding the monkey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 One of the crowning jewels is that sort of clicky thing that was put to obnoxiously gratuitous use in 3:02-5:33 of "The Battle" in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."It sounds like something I would hear while playing an NES game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Singers with nervous, overactive vibrato. Almost any popular music that sounds angry. Whatever type of woodwind instrument Horner has used in scores such as Braveheart...again, overactive vibrato. Anything involving the brass and/or percussion sections of the Prague Philharmonic. Saxophones being overused in bands and wind ensembles with little regard for their unique and rather prominent timbre. Re-recordings that opt for completely different and painfully inferior tempi, even if they're being conducted by the composer (e.g. just about any performance of "Theme from Jurassic Park").The Zimmer cliches can be very effective or very annoying, depending on my mood, which score it is, and how much I've heard them in recent times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crichton 4 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Overused generic chorus, like in Superman Returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Overused generic chorus, like in Superman Returns.Awful, awful, awful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Xylophone hits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 also the fake choir from Angels and Demons.. it sounds so badI may be wrong but I'm think it's real. Need to check the CD again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Singers with nervous, overactive vibrato.Truth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted August 6, 2009 Share Posted August 6, 2009 Singers with nervous, overactive vibrato. I'd say that goes for any instrument (especially flutes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Yes, definitely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,193 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 I've never heard woodwinds with a vibrato that sounds like a glissando tremolo though. I have heard singers who sounded like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artyjeffrey 20 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 I don't know if I'm saying the correct instrument, but it's a clavichord? Well, the electric version, which appeared in many funky 1970s songs.Oh, okay, here's an example you might be able to bring up in your mind... it's the keyboard instrument that's very prevalent during Stevie Wonder's "Superstitious." I absolutely cannot stand that sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,044 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Also: any of the various synthesized sounds that loop over and over...and over...and over...and over again in most rap. I don't see anything inherently wrong with repetition in music, but...seriously! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Minimalism is not something I tend to enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Rap is the most unoriginal music. They sample other people's music, make it loop and say random crap over and over.Hmm, let's take this 80s one hit wonder and turn it into hip hop, no one will notice and think we're amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 ^ Beware: Idiotic generalizations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Hey, it's true. The music doesn't vary, and the lyrics are mostly trash. Rap was better in the 90s, but not that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 Minimalism is not something I tend to enjoy.Aren't you a fan of AI and "Call of the Crystal," both of which employ minimalism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 They do have minimalistic traits (A.I. far more so), but they are not extreme to the point where they have practically two measures repeated for twenty minutes. Or I could just say that there was a reason I wrote "tend to", but I like the other answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 They are probably about 0.5% minimalistic. There's really no comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 They do have minimalistic traits (A.I. far more so), but they are not extreme to the point where they have practically two measures repeated for twenty minutes. Or I could just say that there was a reason I wrote "tend to", but I like the other answerFair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted August 7, 2009 Share Posted August 7, 2009 http://www.zshare.net/audio/637440952489b838/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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