And mine are “Take It Off” by the Donnas, “I Touch Myself” by the Divinyls, and “Canned Heat” by Jamiroquai. But they’re the real songs, not the instrumental versions.
vibrate is my favorite, then you can say ‘excuse me my as is buzzing’ and answer it.
thankfully the big swinging corporate VP that runs my global team finds any ringtone outbursts in a meeting to be a career decision. first couple of times it’s a $20 donation to a charity. keep it up & you’ll be off the team and/or out of a job. that’s one sign of a good vp.
Hey! I have “I Touch Myself” too! And mine are the actual music as well.
I knew someone who had “Where Is My Mind?” as his ringtone. I think the guitar intro to that would actually make a really good one. The thing is though, I don’t know if I’d want a song I liked as my ringtone because I’d get tired of it and when I heard the song normally I’d keep thinking it was my phone.
I have Fur Elise on my phone. I keep my phone turned off 99.9% of the time though, so I’ve only actually ever heard it ring three times in the year and a half I’ve owned it.
This (warning: MP3) is my default ringtone. Most people who call me regularly get their own so I know who it is without looking, but unknown or less-frequent callers get this. Everyone I know thinks it’s kinda funny.
In the words of Homer Simpson, “wow.”
Are you objecting to “rings” that are voices saying stupid things? I have not actually encountered those, yet.
If you are complaining about odd tunes: stuff it.
When I was using a cell phone last year inspecting construction sites, I was using (a really horrid recording of) Tocatta and Fugue in D, but it had a purpose. In cold weather it takes too long to get through the clothes to get to the phone before it goes to voice mail, so vibrate is not an option. On the other hand, with a foreman, and supervisor, other inspectors, and even the laborers carrying around cell phones, every time one rang, all work stopped while everyone grabbed their phones. (And since there are several “back-up” beeps on heavy machinery that sound similar to some phone rings, that could cause confusion, as well.)
One loud, obnoxious chirp of badly recorded Bach let me know immediately that I was the one who needed to answer my phone and that the phone was actually ringing.
So your Bach wasn’t worse than your plight?
I was just getting Bach to basics–I wanted to hear the phone when it rang without fugueing around.
And fancied some In D music?
Which begs the question (to me, anyway):
Does anyone know of any place where one could download actual “sound bites” (for lack of a better term) instead of songs? I would love to hear Homer Simpson say “I’m a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are,” every time my phone rings.
My friend has this! I dont watch the show, but its still a pretty cool idea;
A tone that is instantly recognisable to like-minded people.
So, if your phone goes off in a crowd, you get smiles from all the 24 fans, a great way to meet new friends, which is an idea that appeals to me.
As such, previous tones I have had (which will say a lot about my interests over the years);
: theme tune to Metal Gear Solid 2
: Stone Cold Steve Austin entance music (breaking glass and all)
: Springtime for Hitler
These, and others, say a lot about your personal interests, and will ignite conversation in crowded areas (Oh, so you’re a Mel Brooks fan?)…
What conversation will your poorly imitated French-accent-telling-you-your-phone-is-ringing tone ignite? I’m sure it will include the words “Fuck”, "off’ and “Wanker”.
So, before this thread rumbles on I feel I should come clean and confess my current ringtone. It sticks to my criteria:
: It’s fairly quiet, and inconspicous.
: It’s homemade, so no profit made by Jamster/ similar.
: It means a lot to me, personally (It always makes me smile).
: It’s 100% unique… No-one on this planet has the same one.
It is…
A recording of my girlfriend doing her spot-on impression of Beaker from the Muppets.
“me-me-me-me-me-me-meeee”
Gentlemen… flame on.
I once heard a cop’s cell phone start playing “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
Somehow using the National Anthem as a ring tone doesn’t strike me as an exhibit of true patriotism.
I dunno why not. Not all patriotism needs to be solemn and dignified. The right of a real American is the right to spectacular oblivious jackholery.
Dons flak jacket, asbestos undies and helmet
I´m the one that makes those annoying ringtones…
OK, I´ve made just two so far and they aren´t out in the mainstream yet, but it´s part of my job to animate cell phone ringtones. The two I´ve done so far are quite nice, as objectively speaking as I can, and most people like them.
On the other hand you just don´t want to know (and thinking about it I can´t tell you, contractual thing…) what other things are brewing at the animation studio; to be honest I´d have to hold my nose while animating some of the stuff and I would never, ever put them on my non-existant cell phone.
The only novelty ringtone I’ve heard that I thought was clever was Steve Buscemi saying, “Phone’s ringing, Dude”, from the movie The Big Lebowski.
Made me smile.
I don’t even own a cellphone, so no one can complain about my ringtones. And if I did, I’d always set it to vibrate. Not necessarily out of common courtesy, but mainly because I’m deaf and I might not notice the ring.
Here in Brooklyn the kidz now use their phones like wee boomboxes to play mp3’s at a blistering trebel whine.
s’reelnice yo…
:dubious:
I have ‘Brown-Eyed Girl,’ ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ and ‘Pachelbel’s Canon.’ They’re nice versions, too - they sound good.
I nearly always keep it on vibrate, though.
A friend of my daughter’s was going through all her ringtones the other day - horrible-sounding snippets of popular songs. They were just screechy and grating. You could hardly tell what song each one was supposed to be.
I guess it makes a difference where you get them.
Best one I’ve heard was years ago, on a bus in Dublin: “Tubular Bells.” How cool is that?