“Oh, god, Rachel, that feels GOOD…”
What? Why are you looking at me like that? 
An Alaskan Malamute or a wolf howling.
The sound of crickets
The high pitch call of coquíes.(frogs)
The jingling noise of mom’s keys
My favorite sound is kinda hard to describe… but I’ll try!
Get a piece of posterboard or maybe a laminated sheet of paper (it has to be the right stiffness or 'twon’t work, as with so many other things in life… heavy sigh). Grasp it by the top edge and shake it vigorously.
If it is of the right stiffness, it will make a delightful “wobba-wobba-wobba” sound! Makes me laugh every time! (hey! I’m easily amused, OK?)
I’m pretty sure that I’ve heard this noise used as a sound effect in cartoons before…
My wife’s laughter.
Rain pattering on the roof and on windows.
The various sounds of cooking (whirring, sizzling, bubbling, popping, etc.)
My cats thumping around.
Warcraft II sound effects. Dabu! Zug Zug!!
mmmmmm, especially on a wet and rainy night.
We used to live in a rain forest it would rain almost every day and we had an aluminum roof. So that sounds of rain on the roof makes me feel so safe and sound, especially when I’m in a nice clean bed with a good thick comforter that I can pull over my head and curl up. This is what I’ll need in heaven to be happy forever, sigh.
And a cat’s purr. When little Delilah Underfoot is snuggled up against my back and going like a motorboat.
Put together all three and I’ll be out like a light in heavenly, blissful sleep.
… dawn, at anchor… You can hear the water slapping against the hull, or you might hear fish jumping. There might be the sound of watermen in the distance heading out for their morning catch. If you’re really lucky, you might hear sea birds.
Nothing sounds as wonderful as the early day when you’re anchored in a quiet cove… <sigh>
First, I thought this was about “noses”. It was right above the “smells” thread. I got a little confused, but I’m much better now.
You should pitch you tent a little farther from the fire, Pessor. While conflagrating zippers make such a delightful sound, it just ain’t safe.
I like the sound Katcha makes when I tickle his tummy, then his leg, than his armpit. It’s more than a laugh. It’s that little-kid total-body laugh.
I like the whoooosh noise of the gas furnace kicking on. Especially today. (Stupid pilot light.)
-Rue.
From a survey I did in my LiveJournal:
7. FAVORITE SOUND? That little gasp women make at the moment of penetration.
I know, it doesn’t remotely qualify as “something others would call noise”, but neither do many others in this thread, so neener.
These first two will definitely identify me as an aviation geek…
Jet Noise - the kind you can only get with afterburners lit.
The roar of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine as a classic P-51 Mustang fies by.
The sound of hard rain on a tin roof.
I don’t know if “most” people consider it noise but…BAGPIPES!
Australian artist, cartoonist and digeridoo player Rolf Harris uses a big sheet of board as a musical instrument. He calls it a ‘wobble board’.
Ah, good old Rolf Harris…
Me, I like the sound that a big garden fork makes as you plunge it into the earth.
I love the sound of gently breaking waves.
I like the happy gurgling sound my hard drive makes when its working at pulling up a big ArcView project…
I like the sound of gratuitous "oh!"s in Anime…
You mean… you’re not normally like that? :eek:
For me, it’s the sound of popcorn popping.
Pages being turned, like in a magazine or book. One of the most blissful things was when I was in school and everyone worked out of their textbooks, and no one was talking. It’s those little things that makes life while.
My cat’s meows.
It’s hard to really explain this, but the quiet sounds that you can’t hear in real life but are picked up by microphones and such in movies, when the movie is real quiet. Stanley Kubrick movies are cool for this, his movies are real quiet at times; hardly any soundtrack, like 2001 or The Shining. My VCR allows for headphones to be plugged in, and I do this just for those moments. OK, so I’m a freak.
Rue, you mentioned the gas furnace sound. My grandmother’s house (cottage on a lake) had a the furnace right outside the bedroom door. There was nothing like waking up in a cold room with lots of quilts on and hear that furnace “woosh” on and the fan begin to blow. The house was usually dead quiet and that sound was just comforting.
[ul]
[li]thunder storms[/li][li]waves on one of the Great Lakes[/li][li]my cat purring in my ear as he lays on my pillow[/li][li]a good, noisy box fan[/li][li]the wind during a snow storm when I’m taking a nap on the couch and no one is home[/li][li]birds at sunrise[/li]peepers (tree frogs) in the trees on wet summer nights [/ul]
Thunder
Rain falling (but not with wind-I’m afraid my crappy roof will leak)
Little kids (especially babies)laughing hysterically
Train whistles at night from a long way off
Water:
- rain
- waterfalls
- waves
- rivers
- airbubbles in a fishtank
Wind (NOT galeforce, not wind noise in my car)
my boyfriend: - sleepy
- horny
- moaning
- happy
animals - my cats meowing and purring
- doggy going ‘umf’ when he lays down
- songbirds
- crickets, peepers
- horses whickering
- cows mooing from a distance
- coyotes from a GREAT distance. (when they get too close I have to go find the cats)
- sound of air whistling thru a bird’s feathers on takeoff
machines - my computer (can’t sleep without it on!)
- coffeemaker
- furnace
Fireplaces, bonfires, furnace fires.
Absolutely NOTHING at all after a long day. Lay there and think about nothing and hear nothing and be warm and comfy.
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The “beep…beep…BEEEEEEEEEEP” sound my microwave makes when it’s done cooking something
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The exhaust note of my Corvette as I floor it
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Cicadas
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Frogs at night
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The droning of my fish tank filters
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An open “A” chord, played on a Brian Moore C-90 guitar with the bridge pickup active, as heard through a Marshall TSL-122 combo amp, cranked up to 11.
Engines. Not little rice-burner 4-bangers, but big Ford, AMC, and Chevy V8s, and the Merlin V12, but especially the Wright Cyclone R-3350 (it’s the background “music” on this page). Nothing in the world has quite the same impact as a big radial…
Tie me kangaroo down, sport! (I love that “wobble board” sound, too).
I’m a very sound-oriented person, yet it took me for-freakin’-ever to come up with a sound I liked, even though I know there are countless sounds I absolutely love. So here it is: the sound of the venerable old Seagate ST-225 20-megabyte hard drive seeking. I think the ST-238R made the same sound. There’s no other sound like it in the world, and I love it to this day.