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• 1 Jake // Oct 19, 2007 at 9:27 am

  Puget, probably. Just kidding, of course…

  The most specific thing to come to mind is the baby-like sound from Aaliyah’s hit single, “Are You That Somebody?” It alone puts Timbaland forever on my good side.

  Also, the pluck of a banjo and the stroke of a fiddle.

  Finally, I must note that the fairer sex in general is capable of emitting certain vocal subtleties unequaled in both pleasantness and power.

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• 2 Tiffany! // Oct 19, 2007 at 10:07 am

  Beth and I once said that this old soprano clarinet player, Craig, (from Melt open mic) would be the soundtrack to our lives if we had enough money to pay him to follow us all day…
  but other than that I can experience the most jubilation and the deepest pain at the sound of a fiddle or violin. And I really love that.

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• 3 beth // Oct 19, 2007 at 10:20 am

  Ocean waves against tall cliffs.

  OR

  The sound of clanking, sometimes breaking, bottles being rolled down my street, at 3 am, from one garbage can diver to another(in an effort to conserve energy – it’s a pretty big hill to lug stolen recyclables down.) Innovation is a beautiful thing.

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• 4 Philip Green // Oct 19, 2007 at 12:00 pm

  A train in the distance, accompanied by a whistle or maybe big blast horn that big ships blow when they are leaving.

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• 5 ariel // Oct 19, 2007 at 12:04 pm

  Boiling water.

  I wish I had a CD of it.

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• 6 Nate // Oct 19, 2007 at 1:06 pm

  ocean at night is pretty rad…

  also crickets at night are cool too..

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• 7 Dirty Dan Sin // Oct 19, 2007 at 2:28 pm

  john lurie on the sax.

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• 8 Ryan // Oct 19, 2007 at 2:57 pm

  The lamentation of the women.

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• 9 Joe // Oct 19, 2007 at 3:45 pm

  The sound I like the very best is the sound of the tritone with the blend of harmonics and “soft clipping” you hear from an overdriven tube amp. ie Black Sabbath.

  Other than that, the sound of the rocks clicking together in the waves you can hear up in shelter cove

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• 10 Phoebe // Oct 19, 2007 at 6:30 pm

  I like wind.

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• 11 .air.ick.uhh. // Oct 19, 2007 at 6:48 pm

  you know, the standard… babies crying, fingernails down a chalkboard, car alarms.

  and I also like the sound of rain on the tin awning above my window. too bad it only rains twice a year in san diego.

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• 12 feverishpoptart // Oct 19, 2007 at 9:46 pm

  I like the wind as well, especially when it’s so quiet you can’t hear anything else. I also like the sound of rain and thunder. Other fun sounds : The sound a slot machine makes when you win, the sound a beer bottle makes when you open it, the sound a bottle of wine makes when you open it, and my cat purring.

  Sonia

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• 13 kami // Oct 20, 2007 at 10:06 am

  I like rain.. The ocean is also bitchin. I’m backing Shelter Cove, fucking awesome.

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• 14 one smarmy mama // Oct 20, 2007 at 10:03 pm

  two things
  1) the sounds my kids make when they sleep

  2) the ocean

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• 15 Annie // Oct 21, 2007 at 11:33 am

  Currently, the pond in my backyard.

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• 16 somlou // Oct 21, 2007 at 5:12 pm

  Country critters on a warm summer night in Auburn.

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• 17 hadas // Oct 22, 2007 at 9:26 am

  the silence before the shitty band starts playing and i have to be up close and personal and take photos and listen to shitty noise for 3-15 songs.

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• 18 cyclopsisthenewhobo // Oct 23, 2007 at 6:25 pm

  Braaaaaaaapppppppppppppp

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• 19 Natalie // Oct 24, 2007 at 12:42 am

  My cat likes to lay on my pillow next to my head at night and sometimes when she’s asleep she takes a deep breathe and lets out this long sort of half sigh-half purr that is the most contented sound I’ve ever heard.

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• 20 Tomo // Oct 24, 2007 at 4:25 pm

  clicking from metal. like those old lip balms that come in tins and you have to slide to open it. that makes and awesome clicking sound.

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• 21 Dave // Oct 29, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  babbling brook. It was my favorite sound from the sharper image white noise machine I had before it broke.

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