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Ok, so what is the best sound, most inspiring, thrilling, astounding; note, phrase, bit of music (aleatoric or otherwise) you've ever heard? Recorded, live, imagined.
I'll start.
Sonic Youth: Expressway to Yr Skull
after the second (chorus?) droning guitars keep building then begin to fade with the lyric in the title, the guitars and drone die in a beutiful way before the
"to your skull!!" line. To me trancendent and powerful, makes me want to cry and pogo at the same time.
Always makes me want to try something new.
Any sound goes for this thread, your childs laugh, lotto numbers called,
blues riff, whatever.
Not a song, not a style, just a sound, the one that makes your hair stand everytime.

Any blackbird singing, preferably at dawn, before going to bed, in a space that reverbs and a nother blackbird responding in the background.
Beautiful atonality, incredible percussive sounds, velvety phrasings, and a thousand times more catchy and mysterious than the painful efforts of XXth century atonal composers.
What is more hi-tech than nature?

Totally cliché, but I love the sound of thunder.

I guess it would have to be my own voice.

first time I heard a girl moan pleasurably.

What a great great sound. Never gets old.... even when it's fake.

-any sound made by this incredible bass baritone named Greer Grimsley

-the main drum loop from depeche mode's personal jesus

-apparat's saxophones on duplex

-two oscillators playing a really low frequency, slightly out of phase and turned up nice and loud

-kraftwerk's computer voices (particularly in the live show - i don't know how they do it, but the sound is juiced up in some way that makes it sound 3 dimensional and rich in harmonics)

After a full day of writing and mixing, I have to take the approach of John Cage, and say silence.
















Even though there is no such thing!!!

aqua_tek wrote:first time I heard a girl moan pleasurably.

What a great great sound. Never gets old.... even when it's fake.

haha... yes, i second this.

the most unique and often used yet un noticed sound I love is called Silence.
Its when u leave a hole in your song.. a pause.. man nothing can do what that does

shaneblyth wrote:the most unique and often used yet un noticed sound I love is called Silence.
Its when u leave a hole in your song.. a pause.. man nothing can do what that does

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anti-banausic wrote:

shaneblyth wrote:the most unique and often used yet un noticed sound I love is called Silence.
Its when u leave a hole in your song.. a pause.. man nothing can do what that does

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Nice !

Honda RC45 superbike taking gears off into turn five at Laguna-Seca.

Brittany Murphy's voice

Nogi wrote:Honda RC45 superbike taking gears off into turn five at Laguna-Seca.

ooohhh hey what about the sound of a Zonda..

loveless by mbv right before passing out at the end of a 3 day lsd binge.
heavenly.