The worst and best sounds in the world.

[Ħ]

I'll start us off:


worst sounds:
clacking of high-heels
crying babies
noodle slurping
page turning (especially that of newspapers and thin religious books)
the scratching of a mellotron


best sounds:
popcorn popping
a jet taking off
fmaj7 chord on guitar
the hollow years LAB solo
a golfball falling in the hole (got this from somebody else)
echoing sniper rifle firing in Battlefield

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Worst: fork scratching plate

[Ħ]

Worst: fork scratching plate

I think clattering silverware and general dining room sounds can be added to the list as well.

[Adami]

Worst sounds:
Fat people breathing very heavily.
Snoring.
Loud chewing.
Girls from Los Angeles.
French.
Click Tracks (When you play with one every week for hours, you begin to hate it)
Distant music that you can't make out but hear very well.


Best sounds:
KAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

[Sigz]

The crunching sound in Lost and Found by Amon Tobin. It's fucking orgasmic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_jZqk0tq1w&t=1m

[Ħ]

Worst sounds:
Fat people breathing very heavily.
Snoring.
Loud chewing.
Girls from Los Angeles.
French.
Click Tracks (When you play with one every week for hours, you begin to hate it)
Distant music that you can't make out but hear very well.

I agree with all of these, but what do you mean by the last one?

Also, people (especially girls) that talk with a 'crackle' in their voice. They think it's sexy but it's so so annoying.

[senecadawg2]

I definitely have to agree on the silverware.
Bad sounds:
Ticking down timer on a bomb
Cracking bones

I'll add the melodic ring of wind chimes on a slightly breezy summer day (to the best sounds category)
Also, the piano pieces of Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi.
Also, the sound a woman makes when shes going to orgasm (perhaps a little to much info  )
Also, the peaceful sound of waves lapping against sandy shores.
Also, thunderstorms at night and steady rain on a lazy saturday morning.
I could go on all day... These just stick out

[Adami]

Worst sounds:
Fat people breathing very heavily.
Snoring.
Loud chewing.
Girls from Los Angeles.
French.
Click Tracks (When you play with one every week for hours, you begin to hate it)
Distant music that you can't make out but hear very well.

I agree with all of these, but what do you mean by the last one?

Like if you're in an apartment, and your neighbor is listening to loud music. You hear noise, and can tell it's music of some kind, but you can't actually make out anything other than the beat, it's too distant to make out, but loud enough to hear....annoying.

[DebraKadabra]

clacking of high-heels

Agreed, especially since my boss LOVES to wear her high heels and tromp around like she's someone important or something.

the scratching of a mellotron

 

Other worst sounds:
fingernails scratching a chalkboard
car crashes

Other best sounds:
the sizzle bacon makes in the frying pan
rain
the constant chirping of birds in the spring

[lonestar]

One to add to worst- people popping their chewing gum


Best- children laughing(corny, I know, but it makes me smile every time)
         water lapping against the rocks of a mountain lake
         the CRACK of a perfect break in pool

[DebraKadabra]

Best- children laughing(corny, I know, but it makes me smile every time)
 

No, not corny at all--it's hard for me to describe, but hearing kiddos laughing just makes me melt.

Oh, and GOOD CALL on the pool break one.

[lonestar]

Best- children laughing(corny, I know, but it makes me smile every time)
 

No, not corny at all--it's hard for me to describe, but hearing kiddos laughing just makes me melt.

Oh, and GOOD CALL on the pool break one.

It's a feeling and sound like no other, there is minimal force in contact,you just hear the swoosh-CRACK, then the table goes apeshit.  Gives me wood every fucking time.(I play a shit ton of pool)

[DebraKadabra]

Not to hijack the thread or anything, but before my folks divorced Dad had a pool table in the front room of the house I grew up in down in Houston.  I remember falling asleep to him and his work buddies drinking some beers & shooting some pool.  I'd also hide under to scare the shit out of my brother when he would come home from school.    Good times.

[Ħ]

car crashes

I actually really like this sound.

Also, I've got to agree that wind chimes are amazing.

[DebraKadabra]

Also, I've got to agree that wind chimes are amazing.

Yes, they are.  We only have one of our many wind chimes up--I kind of collect them.

[lateralus88]

Best:
The sound of nice shoes against tiles/linoleum/etc.

For a while this was the sole reason I watched movies on my computer with headphones. Weird, I know. But small details like footsteps are soothing to me.

[Onno]

Best sounds: Dream Theater

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[RobD]

Best sound ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ayT0EZwbks&t=1m32s

Minus R2 bleeping over it.

[Gorille85]

The crunching sound in Lost and Found by Amon Tobin. It's fucking orgasmic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_jZqk0tq1w&t=1m

YES

[Gadough]

Best: The guitar chug sound right before the chorus in Radiohead's Creep.

Worst: Anything that isn't the guitar chug sound right before the chorus in Radiohead's Creep.

[TimelessSymphony]

Worst: fork scratching plate

*shrudders* i second that one i got goosebumps when people do it...

worst sound in the world:
Teachers scratching their fingers on the chalkboard... o.m.g.!!..

[BlobVanDam]

Worst sounds-
hard drive clunk
children
Ray Romano's voice

Best sounds-
The Transformers transform sound CHKCHKCHKCHK

[Sketchy]

Worst sounds:
The noise that your teeth make when you wake up in the middle of the night, just in time for them to crunch/grind against each other in a really horrible way.

Whistling. I hate whistling.

Best sounds:
That bit of the Light Fuse And Get Away keyboard solo where Kevin Moore plays that really high note

The sound of walking on grass when it's a very frosty morning

[TioJorge]

Worst ever: A horny cat whining to the males to come jump on its rump. Seriously. If that stupid fucking animal isn't cut open and whatever evil force is making it do that isn't taken out in the next few days, I will tear that stupid thing open with a hacksaw and do it myself. Then I will burn it.

Best ever: Obviously a very sexy woman making love and right as both (women) are about to climax in a flurry of pure love and joy, she kamehameha's a thick, juicy fart; a blast of wind with a tail-end of slight wetness that sounds like the groaning alien ships from War Of The Worlds (2005).

That is all. Fuck this world and all the cats in it. I haven't slept in two days. The cat is looking more and more like a T-Virus feline while I am looking more and more like the Sith Lord with the mind of a thousand ants.

[Gadough]

Seriously. If that stupid fucking animal isn't cut open and whatever evil force is making it do that isn't taken out in the next few days, I will tear that stupid thing open with a hacksaw and do it myself. Then I will burn it.

Then Cannibal Corpse will write a song about it.

[lateralus88]

Best ever: Obviously a very sexy woman making love and right as both (women) are about to climax in a flurry of pure love and joy, she kamehameha's a thick, juicy fart; a blast of wind with a tail-end of slight wetness that sounds like the groaning alien ships from War Of The Worlds (2005).

WAT

[Rina]

clacking of high-heels

Agreed, especially since my boss LOVES to wear her high heels and tromp around like she's someone important or something.

the scratching of a mellotron

 

Other worst sounds:
fingernails scratching a chalkboard
car crashes

Other best sounds:
the sizzle bacon makes in the frying pan
rain
the constant chirping of birds in the spring

Weirdly I like the sound of heels clacking, lol.

Sizzling = best sound ever. 

[jsem]

I agree about the scratching of a mellotron. So much win.

[Kotowboy]

Screaming babies 

[Adami]

Screaming babies 

I know, it's like music to my ears.

[krands85]

Worst: Whatever sound you use for a wakeup alarm 

[TioJorge]

Worst: Whatever sound you use for a wakeup alarm 

I had this problem until I used the opening menu theme from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as my alarm.

[ddtonfire]

Best:

The satisfying crunch following screeching tires.

[senecadawg2]

Waterfalls. Not the big super loud falls, but the small, peaceful, and secluded waterfalls.

[BlobVanDam]

I will add "rain" to my list of best sounds (the mention of waterfalls reminded me).