Good sounds:
The awesome moaning and groaning a woman makes when she’s enjoying sex. Don’t know what you guys are doing with your voices, but it DRIVES ME CRAZY!!! 
A great guitar solo
The DJ on the radio saying “it’s just a few minutes before 5:00 (p.m.)”
Bad sounds:
Mariah Carry showing that she can hit 37 different notes within four seconds.
A woman crying
The wails of an animal in pain
Good:
AMC 360 cid V8 on dual glasspacks
Bad:
BWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAA**POW!***PING!*chugchugchugchugchugchug (sparkplug going thru the hood of a maxed-out Plymouth 383 “police interceptor” V8)
Good sounds: driving slowly down a gravel road, waterfalls, my 2 y/o nephew saying the ABCs, same nephew laughing, basically anything that comes out of that kid’s mouth.
Bad sounds: a busy signal, modem connections (glad I don’t deal with that anymore) people who chew very loudly.
Good sounds:
a quiet modem successfully connecting,
John Rocker tied up with his mouth taped shut,
“Clair da Lune” played right,
Bad sounds:
Telemarketers on a Sunday morning,
TV Canned laughter from a non-joke,
A sizzling sound when you are not cooking anything.
Good:
rain on a tin roof, with faraway thunder
a soft, ecstatic moan
happy laughter
a heartbeat
a low note from a bamboo flute
Bad:
sobbing–anyone, it doesn’t matter, it hurts me
the <bump-screech> of a wheel going its own way at 60mph
the twanging snap of a guy wire breaking
the “too high to hear” keening of old “ultrasonic” remotes
a violin out of tune
Great Jehosephat, man! That’s the first written sentence in a long time to make me physically cringe and inhale hissingly. Good prose!
But back to the topic…
Good:
Bad:
Kellibelli wrote
Jumped up jesus…I hate that.
Great Sounds:
Blorn
Goop
Flam
Zorn
Terrible Sounds:
nrolb
poog
malf
nroz
Flibishly yours, Graeme
Good:
Ave Maria
Tush (by ZZ Top)
Lips kissing
Awful:
Any song by Lenny Kravitz
Any noise uttered by Rosanne Barr
Good sounds:
Deep, fluttering sigh from sleeping niece
Demented giggling from same niece, now awake
Monks chanting (or any song that samples them)
Sirens on a hot, quiet summer night
The sound a man with sensitive nipples makes when you lick them
Ocean waves
A Cajun, mild Southern, Irish, Scottish, British, or Australian accent (I also like Russian and Serbo-Croatian) on a confident man with a low, thoroughly masculine voice
Thunder and pouring rain drumming on the roof
The silence after the last song on a great CD
Wild applause
The theme song from the Dukes of Hazzard (now that’s a great voice!)
Water lapping against the side of a boat
Pages turning
Wind chimes
Any song with a good, rhythmic base line (Number 1 Crush by Garbage comes to mind)
Women with haunting voices singing Celtic songs
Bad sounds:
Fork scraping teeth
Slurping soup
SNORING!
roommate/neighbor’s arguing/fighting
Cats making love (although it makes me laugh, it’s not a good way to wake up)
Phone ringing between 10 pm and 6 am
Air horn (Aghhhhhhhhhhhh!)
Any kind of alarm, car, house, etc.
Big-dog growling (coming from behind me . . .)
Hotel air conditioners/planes taking off (hard to tell the difference)
The sometimes too-long silence in between breaths of an sleeping asthmatic
Ebonics
Good sound:
Oooooh…OOooOO yea, yes, YES! your gonna make me *** harder faster…oh god…that’s it! &%@ me OOOOOO.&%*&@^*##&!!!
Bad sound:
The phone ringing.
Oh baby… I’ll be there in an hour…
Oh shit! I’ll have to leave before I fall asleep…
I’m not sure if this is a bad sound, how about awkward?
In my house, we call them “queebs”
It doesn’t happen very often, but when it does, I giggle like a school girl.
Flaaaaapawwwwwapaa
“Did you say something?”
“Um…no…”
Flaaapawa
“There it is again…did you hear it?”
(wife runs out of the room) “Nope”
Good:
The humming noise Mr. Baby makes while nursing
The way my daughter laughs when she says something that makes me laugh
A choir singing Christmas Carols
Bad:
Mr. Baby screaming in his crib at 6:30 in the morning
The sound of shoes scraping the floor
Someone slurping anything out of a spoon
Anything that comes out of Mariah Careys mouth
One of the greatest lines I ever heard was our morning DJ who said when Mariah Carey got food poisioning was “now she knows how I feel when I have to listen to her sing”
Darby
Ozone -
That’s okay, if you’re too loud, (at either time), I’ll just smother you with the pillow . . . 