# Best Sounds in the World **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676 "2016-05-13T14:06:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/41 "2016-05-17T16:27:11Z")
The sound of a good band going [full tilt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0SngmFGdw), using tube amps, drums and vocal cords utilized within an inch of their life. [Top Fuel Dragsters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umNiUIDzN0Q). Nothing your living room will produce gives the sound justice, unless you can feel your home stereo system in your chest. That video almost does the experience justice. And yeah, the airport has amazing sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/42 "2016-05-17T20:12:38Z")
That hush in the air after a big snowstorm. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/43 "2016-05-17T22:29:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > That hush in the air after a big snowstorm. Similarly, that almost anti-sound when it’s 20 below and too cold to snow. The sharp crystal feeling almost has a sound but not really. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/44 "2016-05-18T05:54:45Z")
A nice memory from my childhood: My mother saying, “Go on back to sleep; you don’t have to get up for a while.” For a small child, it was a wonderful sound. Another one extinct for at least fifty years: The sound of a fare box on a bus or trolley sorting out the coins dropped in it: chunketta-chunketta chunk. (You see, exact change was not required on public transportation until the sixties, and as the bus or trolley moved along, the fare box made this soft murmuring sound. Chunketta, chunketta, etc.) The ding-ding-ding of a bell warning of an approaching train at a grade crossing. as the crossing gate came down. Amen to whoever mentioned the thunder of a supercharged fuel dragster. Playing cards being shuffled. The clunkety-thump of an old-fashioned soda pop dispenser dropping a cold bottle of pop down to the person who put a quarter in the machine. The cry of a loon when there is no one around. A woodpecker doing its job. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/45 "2016-05-18T06:53:00Z")
The first chord in A Hard Days Night. The opening guitar riff in When Doves Cry. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/46 "2016-05-18T21:18:46Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > A nice memory from my childhood: My mother saying, “Go on back to sleep; you don’t have to get up for a while.” For a small child, it was a wonderful sound. “And our snow cancellations for today…Saint Mary’s…” YAY!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/47 "2016-05-19T15:17:31Z")
The sound of a freshly opened glass bottle of coke. The sound of an audience applauding you just as your show ends. The sound of your SO screaming in pleasure during an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/48 "2016-05-19T19:05:22Z")
The little grumbly noises Leet the Wonder Dog[sup]TM[/sup] makes when he is getting his nightly brushing and combing. And the _chunkachunkachunkaWHOOOOOSSSHHH_ when the Roto-Rooter guy got my main drain unblocked. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/49 "2016-05-19T21:19:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > And the _chunkachunkachunkaWHOOOOOSSSHHH_ when the Roto-Rooter guy got my main drain unblocked. The generator kicking in after the lights go out. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/50 "2016-05-20T14:47:01Z")
Pipe organ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Nnuq9PXbywA/maxresdefault.jpg "J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnuq9PXbywA) ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/51 "2016-05-20T15:39:24Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > [The full throated belly laugh of a baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4abiHdQpc), who thinks whatever you do is hysterical, even if it’s just ripping up junk mail. This gets my vote. Today started with my 24 month-old climbing into my bed, lying on his back, and using his legs to push me out of the bed, all while belly laughing like it was the funniest thing ever. Best start to a day I could conceive. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676/52 "2016-05-21T05:52:14Z")
The distinctive squeaking sound you get walking on a thin later of snow on a very cold day.(Yeah, I’m from Southern California, and to me this is an exotic sound.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sounds-in-the-world/754676.md?page=2)