ITT: musical fetishes
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things in music that automatically wins extra points with you.
I'll start.
>Raw, passionate female vocals
Perfect example is Sias Chandelier. Just awful, boring verses but the chorus is so fucking good. This is because she actually sings passionately in the chorus and mumbles the verses.
>>61372706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hig5uLy2fe0
holy shit please be a bait thread and I fell for it
Classical influence in things that aren't classical
i'm not just talking about the bach reference this thing takes pointers from a lot of shit
>Mike Patton on vocals
>>61372889
wow, do you mean like, neoclassical?
>>61372706
So singing fortissimo and above your chest voice range = singing with emotion.
>>61372868
When Sufjan says we can be much more together :3
>>61372950
Do much more not be much more, you don't deserve the Sufcock desu
Bass as a lead instrument
>>61373013
shit Sufjan if you're reading this I'm sorry
I still love you each day
pop music that manages to somehow be extremely passionate and completely emotionally vacant at the same time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-TMIWFiSSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOO4ROO_sPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnd8Byg07xk
>>61372933
OP here, I admit it wasn't really the song that shows that the best but it is a good example of how much more powerful that song becomes when she sings more openly.
Some songs that do it much better are for example:
Deftones - Knife Party
Björk - Joga
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
bands that use feedback in their riffs
China cymbal on the second beat of the bar
>>61372950
that's my favorite part too :'3
>>61372916
>Mustard on the beat
any song that seems like it's about to end but then continues
middle eastern influences
chiptune + hip hop
chip bass
whatever the fuck SOPHIE is
>>61373999
also whatever the fuck you call the last 1:30 of sea birds (sun) by balam acab
>>61372889
Agree.
>>61373120
YES!!
>>61373721
Oddly specific but why not?
>>61373802
Ehh, no thanks
>>61373999
>middle eastern influences
FUCK YES!
cello in any setting
switching between left and right channels
chopped up amen breaks
switching between tonal and atonal melodies
tape music in rock
>the song begins with a dissonant riff that sounds harsh until the rest of the band comes in, and then it fits perfectly
>all the instruments cut out for a quick vocal line, then all come back in in unison
>vocalist sets up an obvious rhyme where you know what the final word/phrase is going to be, then either doesn't say it or changes it to something else
>song has a false ending, then jumps right back into the jam
Basically every aspect of The Heckler by Primus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnAO3xEfPA
>Repetitive drums/bassline while the guitars and other instruments go all over the place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcRNnp6Ao50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0 (about halfway through)
>Fuzzed-out walls of drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPi4c_McowE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0cDjGELNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNu9JuURXL8
>Effects in any instruments besides the electric guitar or bass, like Miles Davis using wah-wah in his trumpet on some of his electric period albums
>When the sound of two instruments are merged into one, like the "gamelan celesta" in Björk's "Virus"
Recommendations for these are welcome.
>>61375434
You just summarized Les Rallizes Dénudés "'77 Live," dude.
snyths :^)
>>61375499
this. and check'd
>>61375634
That's a pretty cool one, but they never did it for me the way Fly Pan Am did. Felt more like jamming than actual songs (which might be more appealing to other people)
>>61375499
Hnnnng, me too
Here's something cool I found in /shugazi/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsSWuTtntdQ
>>61372706
overtone singing
music that is centered and based around rhythms
Harmonized vocals.
>>61375585
Isn't the Harmonica solo in "The Rainbow" by Talk Talk distorted or something
If so, that's a good one.
>>61375585
>>61377132
Rotten Apple by Alice in Chains has a weird effect on a harmonica I think aswell
I have a fetish for big church organs in pretty much any genre.
>>61372706
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sng_CdAAw8M
You'll really like this
Drums getting pummeled.
>>61372889
i feel you dude. i love progressive rock so much, it's all the visceral energy of negro music but with all these complex melodies and progressions and such, it's glorious
Twin acoustic guitars panned to either side.
>>61377422
fyi Rhye is two dudes and the singer is a dude
Karin Dreijer Andersson's voice.
>>61377422
I liked it. The melody was nice but her voice was really the opposite of my fetish lol.. vert reserved.
>>61377660
very*
>layered/harmonised vocals that sound really 'electronic'
>>61372706
bjork is my musical fetish
i really like it when two frequencies sort of get really close to each other and i don't know what the word is, intermodulate? they sort of start to shake because of the way the are out of phase with each other but close. but it melts my mind and warms me
>>61377869
Bjork's my regular fetish
>>61378167
>>61378496
she's really quite a wonderful specimen. i'd like to meet her one day
>Sampled trumpets/saxophones in the middle of the song
Please anybody.
>>61377132
>>61377195
>Isn't the Harmonica solo in "The Rainbow" by Talk Talk distorted or something
It's actually an electric guitar emulating a harmonica, thx for the rec tho. Will check the other song.
>ambient music warm and minimal enough to sleep to but so good that you don't want to sleep
>>61378690
it's like warm honey running through my brain
>>61373999
>middle eastern influences
A good thing only in metal music, since many scales popular in metal are kinda middle eastern.
A spirited reprise that sort of suggests the groove is still playing in your head when the song is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSniBxXjK_8
Multiple harmonized voices, are guaranteed to grab my attention. They just sound so artistic and beautiful.
>>61378690
agreed
Flutes in anything, especially pan flutes. Instant boner.
ghost notes and shit in drumming. good drumming in general, makes me want to play again.
>>61378783
are you into this kind of stuff, man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kwsbzWHoiw
it's like communing with god
>>61378744
Listen to Secret Chiefs 3
>bombastic percussion
I don't even know what bombastic means but its the only way that I can describe it
Stuff that is evocative of 70's-era sci-fi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFmi14OkW0
>>61378834
I dig it although I was specifically referring to modern uses of multiple voices.
>>61378825
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBvZ8f44Et0
I love flutes too, got any recs? Won't bother linking any Tull cause I figure you've listened to them.
>>61378922
>high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated
i don't think that's what you mean. you mean like, energetic like and.. i don't want to say spunky. but uh i can't think of other words. but i'm thinking like a black guy who is smiling and really just beating out a fun rhythm, kind of bouncy. if you've ever seen pink floyd Pulse, there's this guy who is standing up doing percussion and jumping around hitting his drums, and that's what I think of when you say bombastic percussion, even though it doesn't really match the definition of the word
>>61378969
you like dirty projectors?
basically anything trip hop
it's such a simple formula that's conducive to some amazing results, which astounds me when people manage to fuck it up
>>61379007
man that's impressive
actually never listened to Tull, guess I'll go do that. My favorite flute moment is usually in black metal, especially Nokturnal Mortums latest album
>>61379115
you probably know it, but the king crimson song "I Talk to the Wind" has really wonderful flute (I'm pretty sure) arrangements
i was going to post it but it's not on youtube because robert fripp is a grumpy old man who won't let any of his stuff go around on the internet
>when Joanna Newsom's voice breaks at the emotional peak of the song
>>61379026
>dirty projectors
ooooooh they sound interesting, never heard of them before.
>>61379115
Hmmm I usually stay out of those folksy black metal bands but Negura Bunget has some solid flute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRaxZ3Jj5Zw
And you're in for a treat with Tull, Anderson is great.
>chopped and stuttered vocals
>minimal piano lines slowly coming in over diminishing noisy elements
>beats that sound "vacuumy" e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5FSlD8U1o or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstsQTNRL48
>Computer generated voices e.g. https://youtu.be/0PR0VKi8pDM?t=264
>when rappers have both the first verse and "bonus" extra verse at the end of a song with a lot of guest verses
>long, complicated ad-libs e.g. E-40
>>61379250
they did an album with bjork that's really nice, check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OquMlYFtnE
>a tasteful reprise
>flutes that aren't airy-fairy
>wordless vocal choirs
>>61378825
>>61379007
>Flutes
Have some Northern Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz6etlLN-tQ
>I love flutes too, got any recs?
Check out Herbie Mann, probably the most well-known flutist in jazz.
>>61379348
Forgot to quote >>61379007
>background samples of women screaming
>>61379348
holy crap, this is smooth AF, thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE0qBOhVsiM
>>61379250
just downloaded two Tull albums, listening to Aqualung now I'm ready for some good flutes
>>61379314
>flutes
Also a lot of S.O.U.L has nice flutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-j70y7cZ1k
And their rendition of Burning Spear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB0tzvS-790
>songs referenced by later songs, but you liked the later song first
For example, I heard Billy Bragg 'A New England' a decade before I heard Simon and Garfunkel 'Leaves that Are Green', so I never realised Bragg was referencing the Paul Simon lyrics.
>>61379477
I say listen to Aqualung, Thick as a Brick and Minstrel in the Gallery. Those 3 are my faves from what I've heard of them.
drums with flanger
>>61372706
>Electronic
>Dance music
>From the 90s
>Not Big beat
>Not made by rich, wanky hipsters with more money than talent.
Tick one or two of these boxes, and I might just enjoy myself.
Electronic rhythms that slightly change every measure and aren't just looped
That is why jungle and drill n bass are some of my favorite genres, the drums obviously took a whole lot of attention and that alone can make the track interesting
>>61379617
yfw autechre
>>61379386
Panda Bear - Bros
>>61379633
And Aphex twin
>>61379386
>>61379386
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKnJ6IuXNdg
>>61379633
>>61379684
Those for sure, but if yall share my fetish check out Jacob's Optical Stairway too, best traditional d'n'b drums ever
>>61379696
That's actually the one I was thinking of, but couldn't recall. Seems like lots of industrial artists like to do this.
>>61379669
>Panda Bear - Bros
Thanks, but not rapey enough.
>>61379741
lol just something special about women screaming in terror
>the chorus is the title of the song repeated over and over
vibraphone
If it has less than 100 listeners on Last.fm I will like it out of principle.
>>61379805
This triggers my autism
>>61379814
mmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkrKBmnZtB0
>>61378690
Like this?
>>61379886
dextromethorphan
god that's my favorite album i can't even stand listening to it and refinement of the decline because they just make me want to dissolve
>female vocalist
>sings like an evil witch or some kind of psychopath
>hard mode: it actually fits the music
>nightmare mode: it sounds somewhat like singing
>added bonus: is in japanese
>>61379805
iron maiden and motörhead are your pals
>Song pauses, then it hits hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8LvHT_zcQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8LvHT_zcQ
(or like a lot of deftones's songs)
>Ratchet and raspy rapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GceUUcXP7yE
>>61379926
I've only listened fully through it once, and I can barely remember the second half.
I'm planning on listening to it again, because it truly is one of the best ambient albums ever made.
>feelsy acoustic arpeggios
>guitar plays a fast chugging riff making use of rests
>singer sings cleanly and smoothly over
>rapping over a ska riff
>>61379929
>Yoko Ono
>>61379973
that album has actually made me cry. it's like i'm just in this vast field of warm love and beauty, like god is just cradling me like i'm an infant. it's tremendous
embarrassing lyrics
>>61380114
embarrassing in what way? like they're really personal, or just terrible
>>61380128
either is fine as long as it's cute
>layered guitar parts that blend together perfectly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2IZbnsdzOk
>reoccurring lyrics, motifs, or themes in an album
>vocal processing/slight autotuning/voccoder
>lyrics in the hook/bridge change slightly
>pop songs longer than six minutes
>>61379853
oh babyyy
>>61380292
that whole album has prime vibraphone on it, check it out. it's mainly guitar centric but it's just a damn fine jazz album any way you swing it
>>61380325
i already have it
>>61377610
this is the worst post ive ever seen on mu
Nasty synth guitar solos.
See: The Weeknd- "Shameless"
Instrumentals that suddenly have a lot of "space" to them, like here at 5 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zK2voChLtc
>>61380421
how's that
>>61372706
Hammond organ or electric piano
Synthesizers. Especially the kind that sound "elastic" and very 80s like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khtqLSXDjK0
Noisy or weird sounds that somehow fit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wveDOqWaM
(Although that thing is becoming less and less special, you can hear it in TV ad music now.)
Loops and repetitiveness, especially in rock music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Ydxg-gB-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT26L1vtgkE
When the beginning sounds muffled then gets suddenly clear and loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCnBrrnOefs
Also, it's the plebbiest thing ever but it's just satisfying to hear the title of the track or album dropped casually in the lyrics.
>>61373999
>any song that seems like it's about to end but then continues
Good one. Rain When I Die by Alice in Chains, Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz by Mr Bungle or — one of my favourite songs ever — I Got The by Labi Siffre.
>>61372706
Sia fucking sux
>>61380450
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZBqsqvfj0Y
>>61380569
Tbh I love The Flaming Lips. Thanks Anon.
>>61378496
>fucking televisions, how do they work?
>>61378690
I recommend Heathered Pearls
instrumental hip hop. all of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIWnCtjqnA
Noisy feed backing guitars, blast beats, jazzy stop-start instrumentation in non jazz music, dissonance, loud/soft dynamics, weird time signatures, etc...
Basically the album Heat Death Of The Universe by Off Minor is my wet dream.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooGFcNCcG00
do any of you guys know if there's a name for the type of fucking GORGEOUS guitar part at 6:32? do I just call it "tremolo high notes on a guitar"? I hear it time and time again on different songs and it always turns out so unbearably good. also, please recommend me music of this kind
>>61380172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGUumnHg4Y
