What is the worst sound you have ever heard?

[henslee]

[Bertha Venation]

1. F-16s crisscrossing the skies over my home on 9/12/01

[Tempest]

2. Ceramic dishes scrapping across a metal dish holder

I had to throw the dish holder out the sound was so bad.

[Misinformed01]

3. a woman screaming after being told her child was dead

in the ER.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. Techno.

The very first time I heard Techno, on a college radio station while on vacation in Pittsburgh, I said to myself, "That is the WORST fucking SHIT I've ever heard." I also said to myself, "It's gonna be huge."


I was right on both counts. I still hate techno, electronica, whatever you call it this month. And it's bigger than ever and getting more popular.

[Commendatori]

6. This post took the words right out of my mouth

and stated them better than I could have. I couldn't agree with this more.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. You can have my autograph.

I think I'll sign it, "good health to you."

I LOVE BOC. Especially the first side of "Tyranny and Mutation...."

[henslee]

9. I feel nothing for techno except when it accidently sounds like music.

[henslee]

10. duplicate... deleted...

[dolo amber]

66. Why I oughtta...

:grr:

If I may quote a very wise man from another thread today...

"We mock what we don't understand."


:P

[RandomKoolzip]

69. Uh oh....

I've angered the technofans!


Hey, I didn't say it was worse than country music, did I? (It isn't.)


HI!!!!

[dolo amber]

72. HI yerself

You techno-disparager. ;)

And no, nothing is worse than (nu)country, with the possible exception of my reply (#60). That is assuredly going to be the music (?) in Hades.

[Teddy_Salad]

A car bomb

Was living in London in 1994.
It's just before 2 in the morning, laying in bed and there's an almighty *thud*, loud as hell, followed by a huge bang.

It was just down the street from where I was living.
Thankfully nobody was killed, a few injured.

Was arab terrorists targetting a Jewish organisation.

That sound scared me shitless! I'll never forget it.

[ACK]

5. Piece of wood across this guy's head

You could hear his skull crack.

Two guys fighting in an empty lot.

My cousin and I were there.

+

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

7. "George W. Bush will be the 43rd President of the United States"

[TX-RAT]

11. Incoming mortar and artillery rounds.

[skippysmom]

12. The sound of * talking (nm)

[tridim]

13. During gymnastics class

I was about 13 or so and a 15 year old teammate of mine was doing "giants" on the high bar. Giants are a basic move, just swinging 360 degrees around the bar. Well, my teammate lost his grip at about 3 o'clock (spinning counter clockwise) and flew about 15 feet, past the safety mat, landing head first onto solid concrete. The noise of his skull cracking was bad enough, but about 3 seconds later he let out this long, moaning yell type noise that still gives me shivers today when I think about it.

He was okay BTW and only ended up with a concussion and lots of stitches. I'm sure he was inches away from a broken neck. Lucky guy.

[Dogmudgeon]

14. A 4-year-old girl being beaten with a belt

"Family Values", don't you know.

--bkl

[Jokerman]

15. Car Crash

Particularly when it came just a few seconds after hearing my wife's car pull out of the driveway.

She had been hit broadside by a jerk who ran the stop sign on the corner.

She was injured, but nothing serious.

[democratreformed]

16. The silence while waiting to hear the ambulance sirens bringing my

mother to the hospital. Then, the sound of the sirens as they exited the interstate. Then, the silence again when they turned off of the main street onto the street coming to the ER.

[bearfan454]

17. A chili dog fart that sounded wet at the end.

Scary, and it wasn't even me that time.

[Teddy_Salad]

39. Ewwwwww!

:puke:

[BootinUp]

18. Military chopper crashin 200 yds from my house

I was probably 11 or 12, riding my bike when one of those transport choppers with two rotors crashed into high power lines in the Santa Ana River bed, Anahiem CA. Pieces of the chopper were shot up in the sky. There were no survivors as I recall.

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. "Hotel California"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

20. Guided By Voices and The Cure back to back all night.

:evilgrin:

(just thought I'd unite Random Koolzip and Loonman against a common enemy)

[RandomKoolzip]

24. You bastard!!!

The only possible common enemy is the Eagles. (Loonman, how 'bout it?)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

25. The Eagles? Yup. Well, that and Phish.

[Whitacre D_WI]

26. I'll top that:

Phish playing Eagles songs.

Forever.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

27. While fronted by Ani DiFranco.

I can't help it, I just can't stand her!

[Whitacre D_WI]

28. You have felled the Sacred Cow!

Let us have burgers!

[RandomKoolzip]

30. She's really, really awful.

No, really. She sucks. Bad.


Okay, so, Phish, fronted by Ani DiFranco, singing Eagles songs. Imagine the ticket sales for THAT one, though.....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

32. Perfect, we can fence the fuckers in! Instant muso-prison camp!

[RandomKoolzip]

29. Wow. I'm vomiting as I type this.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Wait 'til we get round to Phil Collins covering Minutemen songs.

[Whitacre D_WI]

33. I was about to mention Phil.

Don't get Koolzip started on inappropriate covers of Minutemen songs.

Although they do have one I'd like to hear Michael Jackson do. ;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. As for me, I'm waiting for that LaToya / MC5 match-up.

[Whitacre D_WI]

Well, they do need a new singer...

...and she has Tyner's hairdo.

[RandomKoolzip]

37. I must look like a dork.

Sheena Easton fronting Killing Joke: whaddya say?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

40. Hmm. Bjork fronting Kraftwerk.

That's my decades-long dream.

[RandomKoolzip]

43. Josh Groban and the Boredoms.

Whew! That'd rule.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

46. Not as much as Barbra Streisand / Aphex Twin's Iggy Pop tribute disc.

[Whitacre D_WI]

51. I love the way she segued right from "Evergreen" to "The Passenger"

in concert.

[RandomKoolzip]

55. Then Bob Weir came out from stage right....

and launched them all into "Dark Star," seguewaying into "I Got a Right." Then "Enough is Enough" was the encore!

I got a third gen board of that show, dude, it's some kind nugs.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

56. And the way Aphex took apart a bank of old Commodore 64's

to make that truly bowel-wretching sound.

[RandomKoolzip]

53. On a side note....

Isn't it great how you me and Whitacre (and Dolo Amber !) can just hop into a thread, hotwire it, and take it for a punk rock joyride like this, no matter WHAT the thread is about?

[Whitacre D_WI]

54. On to the Gungeon!

[RandomKoolzip]

57. I/P on your head!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

58. We should do this in the I/P forum sometime.

No, hang on, I like having fingers.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

59. Wooh! It's like we all had the group mind, there!

[Whitacre D_WI]

64. I've got an interesting 7" EP of Israeli hardcore...

Featuring the classic "(I Fucked) Bat-Sheva." Sung in HEBREW!

Some things you see in the record store, and you simply cannot pass up.

[Whitacre D_WI]

41. How about Tom Scholz with Burning Spear?

[RandomKoolzip]

42. Little Richard and Tangerine Dream?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

44. I want that Christina Aguilera / Husker Du match up, and I want it now!

but I'll settle for a Mariah Carey / Neu! collaboration.

[RandomKoolzip]

50. Mandy Moore and Cluster would be nice, too.

Or howzabout Don Johnson singing for Guru Guru? Or Don Johnson singing at all?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

61. That supergroup formed by the remaining members of INXS and Napalm Death

sounds pretty interesting. Mmmm! Cod-funk speed-thrash!

[RandomKoolzip]

62. No, you're thinking of the fabled Icehouse/Dream Theater matchup.

Synthpop/progmetal.

[Whitacre D_WI]

65. *shudder*

Don't even mention Dream Theater.

Really. :puke:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

67. Well, that Rush / Ministry / Pet Shop Boys three-way worked pretty well

[RandomKoolzip]

70. No, that was Liza Minelli and Suicide.

And that fucking ruled, mamajama.

[dolo amber]

68. Speaking of..

Has anyone seen my Ann Murray/Motorhead cd?

[Whitacre D_WI]

71. Yes. I have it.

I snuck in while you were away and stole it.

[dolo amber]

74. Dude..

There's no need to resort to thievery...I know it's irresistible and all, but I'd gladly have burned you a copy...

Although in fairness, the duet between Ann and Lemmy on "You Needed Me" is enough to make anyone take leave of their better judgement for a moment, so it's all good. ;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

75. Give me back my Rammstein / Ace of Base Live disc, D!

You've had it for months. I'm aching to hear their rendition of Jet featuring long forgotten Jamaican homophobe Shabba Ranks.

[Whitacre D_WI]

78. Do you still have my "Rap Fever with Deepak Chopra" record?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

79. Sure, it's beside the 2 Live Crew's Christian Family Favourites box set.

I'll just go get it.

[Whitacre D_WI]

81. They do a most righteous "A Mighty Fortress Is My God."

[dolo amber]

80. Uh-oh...

I think I may have traded that for a Squarepusher/Enya bootleg. :(

[Screaming Lord Byron]

82. Dammit! Now the Circle isn't Unbroken!

By and By Lord. By and By.
Enya and Squarepusher? Psshaw! Everyone knows it's Shane McGowan and Outkast as has the goods these days.

[RandomKoolzip]

73. Yeah, it's next to my Phil Ochs/Cannibal Corpse 7".....

On the "totally sucky" shelf.

[RandomKoolzip]

35. Now THAT I'd like to see.

Right after we get Loudon Wainright III to cover the entire first album by the Swans.

[AngryAmish]

77. Phish playing Eagles on a bus

with no air conditioning driving down Western Avenue all day long. Stopping at every stop.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

84. AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

[VelmaD]

21. The sound of the drywall in my parents' attic giving way...

I was sitting on a support beam handing boxes down to my mom. I reached way back for something, slid off the beam, and went through the drywall. Fell 10 feet to the concrete floor of the driveway. I'm sure the sound when I hit the floor was worse but I thankfully do not remember it. But I'll never forget the sound of that drywall giving way...everything happened in slow motion and I knew I was gonna fall and couldn't do a damn thing about it.

[asjr]

22. During WW2 hearing planes

overhead at night. I was very young but I thought they were German planes coming to bomb us. My mother had to explain they were planes being ferried overseas. I will never forget that feeling. Today when I hear a propeller plane tinges of that feeling come back.

[candy]

36. The Air Raid Sirens during WWII

They were just drills,but for me they were terrifying with the house darkened and the shades all down.

[asjr]

52. Yes, I remember the black window shades and the

Air Raid wardens coming around.

[Tom_Foolery]

23. A Tornado Coming Toward My House...

Fortunately, it missed my house; but it tore the hell out of my town.

[jus_the_facts]

38. the sound of children screamin'/cryin' is the worst sound.....

.....animals in pain as well. :(

[phillybri]

48. Children crying @ movies, restaurant, church, etc...

:grr:

[drumwolf]

45. Worst sounds I've ever heard:

Musical: William Hung. Beyond his music and singing being merely bad, I find it absolutely sickening to listen to or see him, especially as a fellow Asian-American.

Non-musical: A few years ago I had a co-worker drop dead of a heart condition at the age of 27 and we all went to her wake. The loud uncontrollable sobbing of that co-worker's younger sister is a sound that I will never forget. To make things even worse, I'd developed somewhat of a crush on the woman who died.

[bif]

47. Abby Lincoln

Her voice makes me cringe. Awful.

[MadHound]

49. Having been a fireman

Being in a building, and hearing the sound of fire weakened wood collapse, and realizing that your last safe exit just vanished.

That, and the sound of either a tornado or hurricane coming your way.

[dolo amber]

60. Diamanda Galas

No contest.

[soleft]

63. Plane hitting the second WTC Tower

[ProfessorGAC]

76. A Car Bomb Going Off

When i was 14, a local developer was the target of a hit. I was outside playing basketball when his car, wired with 8 (Yes, 8!) sticks of dynamite went off. We were a bit more than 2 block away. The basketball hoop (on a 4 inch steel poll) shook back and forth and wobbled for about a full minute.

I could actually feel the change in the air pressure, even from that far away. (Probably only a mm of mercury, but you could literally feel it!) Then, sirens and sirens and sirens.

The guy survived! He had a habit of getting in the car, starting it, then putting his belt on, then closing the door. The blast blew him about 120 feet from the car. He lost his leg, hearing in one ear and sight in one eye, but he lived. NOTHING left of the car that looked like it belonged to a car. Just shrapnel.

His estranged wife contracted the hit. She went to the big house, as did the guy who set the device.

Since then, i've always been in high respect for the power of explosives. I can only imagine what a one ton bomb would be like going off.
The Professor

[sadiesworld]

83. Clinton's zipper.

Oops, must have been channeling a puke there.

:o

[LuLu550]

85. the sound of the towers collapsing

n/t

[geniph]

86. Agonal breathing

while in the ICU waiting while my mother-in-law was dying. The sound is horrible and unmistakable.

A close second is the sound of screeching brakes followed by breaking glass and crunching metal with kids screaming in the back seat.

[jmowreader]

87. A beam giving way

When racking is up for long enough with a big enough load on it, the holes that keep the shelves up can give way.

One day I was filling a bay with pallets of concrete. I decided to fill the shelves, then the floor. I put the first pallet on the salesfloor shelf, then turned the reach truck to pick up the second pallet, when the front beam tore out the holes in the upright...and about 3500 lbs of concrete hit the floor. Tore up every bag.

You can hear this all over the store when it happens, so the first thing I know there's about twenty associates, including three managers, in the aisle. "What happened? Are you okay? Did you get injured?" No, I just put some concrete on the shelf and it decided it didn't want to be on that shelf any more.

[MrSlayer]

88. Country Music.

Cannot tolerate it.

[Mrs. Venation]

89. A Jet Airliner Crashing Into The Pentagon

I was walking from my office (18th Street, NW) to Bertha's office (25th Street, NW) when the aircraft crashed into the Pentagon. The blast was so loud I thought it had hit the State Department building (23rd Street, NW). I know people who worked in the Pentagon and were in the building that day, and I was very frightened and worried about their safety.

My office building was evacuated almost immediately after the second tower was hit. We had heard there was a fire in the Old Executive Office Building (now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building), which, of course, was incorrect. We also heard a rumor that there had been a car bombing at the State Department, and that there were more aircraft heading toward Washington, DC.

I called my mom from Bertha's office to let her know I was okay, and she was crying hysterically. That day was awful; I'll remember it just like I remember the day John F. Kennedy was killed.