# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/61 "2015-04-11T18:21:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I love the “pop!” when a bottle of champagne is opened. This is a good one! 🙂 My cat snoring when he’s sound asleep. A well-played bass guitar. The robins singing early in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/62 "2015-04-11T18:48:53Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > :::: snip ::::: > > Also, the sound of sudden silence - when there’s been some kind of repetitive noise (clicking fan, dishwasher, vacuum etc) and then it stops and this beautiful sense of nothingness fills your ears. I flew too long in small planes to intrinsically like the sound of sudden silence. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/63 "2015-04-12T00:48:24Z")
The sound of skates on ice and baseball cleats (metal ones) on cement. Yep, I’m weird. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/64 "2015-04-12T05:41:21Z")
The sound of a horse being saddled; Cards being shuffled; The thump, thump of the bread machine A knife chopping up vegetables ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/65 "2015-04-12T13:15:38Z")
Mourning doves. Chickadees. The loons over the lake. The rhythmic tick tick of my kitchen clock in the complete stillness in the middle of the night. The Hallelujah Chorus The low rumbly thunder, as you watch the storms roll in I miss the morning futzing by my dad at the cabin- kitchen cupboards opening, coffee being made, the clink of his leg brace as he tried to be quiet, his morning ‘talk’ to the various wildlife. Little kid giggles My cats chittering at each other ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/66 "2015-04-12T22:05:34Z")
This ones a bit situational. Hot summer afternoon in Australia, out on a farm: hearing a crow in the middle-distance. That _aaarrrk…aaarrk…maaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrk_ brings back a lot of good memories. The sound of your boots crunching through frosty grass on an early morning walk through the sheep paddocks Two car related ones - the doppler sound of an old VW Beetle approaching or departing, reminds me of my dad going to and from work. The sound of a mid-1990’s model diesel Toyota Hi-Lux starting and going into idle. ---
**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 13, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/67 "2015-04-13T12:59:41Z")
> [@Cugel](#): > > A strong wind through pine trees, particularly on a sunny, but cool day. I’ll take a mellow breeze through pine trees on an otherwise silent day. Brings back memories of hiking/backpacking on family summer vacations to various national parks in the western US. ---
**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 13, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/68 "2015-04-13T13:48:23Z")
> [@Teach-me-not](#): > > The [_tadak-tadak_](https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100127193137AAvO5mf) of a train. I can never tire of _this_ sound. > > Involuntary humming when I am trying to focus on work, or I am restless. Not sure whether to call it a favourite, since it’s less about pleasure and more about taking the edge off. Thank you for writing “tadak-tadak” because that’s the sound I love and was trying to describe in my post too. Interesting that you mention humming because, by some miracle, I was the only one getting my haircut at the Great Clips, so it was really quiet other than the radio that was on. My hairdresser started lightly humming along with the music (in tune) and I found it very pleasant and relaxing. > [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > The sound of skates on ice and baseball cleats (metal ones) on cement. Yep, I’m weird. LOVE the sound cleats make when waking on pavement! Add to my train the sound of planes flying overhead. My work is a stone’s throw from Charlotte International so whenever I am outside walking/eating/whatever I can hear the planes going overhead and it’s such a nice sound to me. If it’s really still I can even hear them idling, which is just as nice to me. Between the trains and the planes I might as well just say “my favorite sounds are commerce” ---
**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/69 "2015-04-14T01:58:59Z")
When racquet meets tennis ball. When wooden bat meets baseball. And that sudden silence mentioned above–especially when neighbor is done leaf blowing! Sneakers squeaking on the basketball court. My cats crunching on their dry food. The intro to Gimme Shelter, or Brown Sugar, knowing that in a matter of seconds, I’ll be rockin ana rollin. And all the beautiful sounds mentioned above! ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/70 "2015-04-14T02:51:00Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > No love for cicadas? > > I want to like crickets, but one somehow found its way under my bed and wouldn’t shut up til it died and that kinda killed it for me. I was going to say! Cicadas in the heat of summer at dusk is one of my favorites. The absolute best is when it’s raining really hard, and I pull into the garage… the sound of the raindrops slowly fades out… great feeling. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/71 "2015-04-14T03:36:46Z")
One from my childhood, the sound of a rain on the roof of our cabin. This is really weird. Patricia Neal’s voice. Her voice was similar to my late mothers. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/72 "2015-04-14T04:29:42Z")
rain on a microphone or a tarp the crackle of the needle on a record the crunch and pop of tires on gravel the chuckle of dove wings spring peepers ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163/73 "2015-04-15T17:26:12Z")
> [@funky\_little\_lee](#): > > Hearing a prop plane pass overhead always gives me a feeling of deep inner peace. I don’t know why that is, but I love that sound… Especially DC-3s, for me. There used to be a cargo company at the airport that had them. I loved the deep, mellow, puttering sound as they rose into the air. It always made me think they were heading off for an Indiana Jones-style adventure. Haven’t heard one in years now. More’s the pity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-of-your-favorite-sounds/717163.md?page=3)