# Some of your favorite sounds **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163 "2015-04-08T22:23:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/21 "2015-04-09T02:29:32Z")
The frogs! Every summer, beginning about July, the frogs in the various swamps and ponds around here start croaking. It’s total background bliss for about two months. So easy to fall asleep to with the windows open and the warm country breeze blowing through the house. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/22 "2015-04-09T03:26:26Z")
The tick-thump of clothes tumbling around inside the dryer. The lurching stops of the mail truck working its way down your street. The calypso clank of riggings on beached catamarans at dusk. The murmured fantastical conversations of kids when they’re playing alone. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/23 "2015-04-09T03:40:04Z")
Thunder from cloud-to-cloud lightning, that seems to roll on for minutes. Another one for that lonesome train whistle (well, horn) in the distance, late at night. And another for steady rain on the roof, also late at night. A Merlin V-12 aircraft engine. Mourning doves. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/24 "2015-04-09T12:12:20Z")
All the sounds of sailing; from the gentle slapping of water on the hull on an early morning, to the creeks and groans of the rigging and lines under way in a hard wind. Deep burble of a V8 exhaust. Pop/snap of a lid from a fresh jar of pickles. Sound of snow falling late on a silent night in the mountains. Delicate sound of thunder. Driving rain against the windows. “You’re were right.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/25 "2015-04-09T12:24:53Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > The frogs! My gf’s favorite sound is the peepers in the evenings. Apparently in our area they’ve just begun recently. Eventually I’ll hear them, but even with my hearing aid they aren’t something we can enjoy together just yet. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/26 "2015-04-09T12:35:39Z")
The earsplitting crackle of fighter planes passing by in full afterburner. A Formula One race car running a hot lap. Not one from the past ten years, with the crappy little V8 engine; I need to hear the 3-liter V10 from the early 2000s, spinning at unholy RPMs. Thunder that shakes your lungs and makes you feel like the earth will split in two. A woman breathing/moaning in ecstasy. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/27 "2015-04-09T12:42:11Z")
One kind of original one…and one really weird one Running water. Particularly from a fountain or over rapids I also enjoy a hard steady rainfall (I had one a couple days ago…my door was open, I heard the rain while playing video games…oh it was just perfect) Here’s the kind of original one: The sound of higher speed trains going over tracks. The rhythmic tchck thchk thchk that it makes as it’s speeding along Here’s the weird one: A brush running through a girls hair. An old college girlfriend of mine used to have really long (almost waist length) hair, and the deep reverberating sound the brush made as it was going through the tangles was so neat to me. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/28 "2015-04-09T12:54:46Z")
That crossover “starting to distort” tone a journeyman guitar player can coax out of a tube that’s just about to give it’s last breath when he’s working into a great blues lead. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/29 "2015-04-09T14:19:41Z")
The sound of a dog getting a drink of water. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/30 "2015-04-09T15:03:09Z")
The clip clop of horse hooves The jangle of a charm bracelet Someone writing on a chalkboard (no nails, please) Golf on tv Fog horns in the distance Car tires on gravel ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/31 "2015-04-09T15:24:58Z")
Mopar starter motor Morse code ---
**Author:** ![Lemmytheseal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lemmytheseal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmytheseal2)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/32 "2015-04-09T15:31:55Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > A woman breathing/moaning in ecstasy. I was wondering how many posts would go by before this, one of my first thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/33 "2015-04-09T16:55:31Z")
Bagpipes. No really. ---
**Author:** ![dflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dflower/32/3270_2.png) [@dflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dflower)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/34 "2015-04-09T17:31:39Z")
The old cartoon sound of a plop in the water. ---
**Author:** ![VanLandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/eb9ed0/32.png) [@VanLandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanLandry)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/35 "2015-04-09T17:48:24Z")
The clacking of poker/casino chips being shuffled(real clay chips and not the plastic ones you find in home games). The jangling of golf clubs in the old style leather golf bags. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/36 "2015-04-09T18:02:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Bagpipes. > No really. Wow, forgot about this one. A band of pipers with well-tuned bagpipes belting out Amazing Grace. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/37 "2015-04-09T18:13:05Z")
I also like French horns, especially when they’re in an orchestra with 5 or more of them. I like the little chirruping sounds cats make. I like the songs of song sparrows. I am also a fan of bagpipes - maybe because I’m 1/4 Scottish? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/38 "2015-04-09T18:43:17Z")
Tight 4 part harmony Kids playing Owls on a dark night ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/39 "2015-04-09T18:45:25Z")
The sound of a large, well-trained choral group singing Ode To Joy from Beethoven’s 9th. Every year in Portland they get every singing group in the city that is willing together to do that concert. It’s stunning. The squeak and crunch when walking on dry snow in extremely cold weather. Well-executed harmony. Oboes, bassoons and clarinets. The thundering of a large waterfall. Exhaust rumble of a high performance engine. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/40 "2015-04-09T18:58:29Z")
I love the [voice of the announcer on the Prague Metro.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIR5qf4sKpk) It just makes me feel all calm and happy. Apparently I’m not the only one who likes it, going by that video. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163.md?page=3)