Can be from any genre. Mine is when an acoustic guitar comes in towards the end of a song and totally changes or reframes the mood/energy (see “Money” by Widowspeak)

  • j_roby@slrpnk.net
    38·
    1 year ago

    I’m a sucker for a good buildup and drop in EDM. As much as I complain about tracks whose sole purpose is the drop, if I’m feeling the song and there’s a good drop, you’ll likely see this 40yr old’s bass face.

    In hip hop production, at the start of a new bar, silencing the drums and bass for the first quarter note - a technique J Dilla popularized. If your nodding your head along to beat, and the 1 is silenced like that it, it really just hits harder.

    In jam/improv based music, the tension and release theory. Where the lead instrument solos in a certain key without ever hitting the root note of that key. It builds up a sense of tension since we expect to hear that note but aren’t. The solo continues and the tension increases. Eventually the lead instrument hits that note, and if the band is good, the rest of the their parts increase in intensity simultaneously. The result is a sense of release from the tension and even euphoria.

  • AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    1 year ago

    I love when the track goes completely silent for a single rest after some buildup and then punches back into the full chorus. If that “gap” in noise is part of the melody itself it’s even cooler. It makes the following sound so much more impactful, even if the actual volume hasn’t increased by much.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
    231·
    1 year ago

    I like it when the vocalist announces what’s coming next, like yelling “GUITAR!” right before a guitar solo or “bring back the horns” right before the brass section kicks in or “sing it, girls” right before the female backups echo the refrain.

    • funktion@lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      I really like this one for certain genres like Funk or RnB that are generally more energetic and spontaneous when performed live. Helps the recorded material feel a little more alive.

    • everett@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      Even better when the singer “requests” it from their bandmate by name. (e.g. Honey Don’t by The Beatles)

  • Bye@lemmy.world
    232·
    1 year ago

    Siren noises and airhorns and generally post-ironic soundboard noises. Like remember DJs in the early 2000s? When the radio sounded like

    (Tires screeching) Husky overly excited voice: you’re listening (Siren blaring) To the one and only (Red tailed hawk screech) (Machine gun noises) 97.4 (Dog barking) (mgm lion roar) KZRL “Krazy” FM (Choir sings hallelujah) Your one-stop-shop for hits from the 70s and 80s (Chorus from “don’t you forget about me” plays) (Guitar solo from Panama)

    All those stupid noises are great when they get shoved into mid 2010s dubstep music, and when they are put into SoundCloud mashups.

  • Mojo@ttrpg.network
    16·
    1 year ago

    I love that train track or horse gallop chugging rhythm some songs have.
    Gives me feelings of movement forward, travel or progression.
    Great car songs!

    Muse - Knights of Cydonia, Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night is probably a good examples of this.

  • alokir@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    Mixing metal with other genres or introducing instruments or elements that you otherwise wouldn’t expect in metal.

    By now most of these are considered to be subgenres of metal but for me it blew my mind when I first encountered them.

    Bands like Ayreon, Avantasia, Subscribe, Therion, Haggard, Nightwish, Ostura, just to name a few.

  • Knusper@feddit.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    I quite enjoy it when songs sneakily build up, starting out with a mellow rhythm and after a few minutes, you find yourself in the middle of an epic solo on top of this thick carpet of rhythm, and it’s all very much over the top, but it works, because of that slow build-up.

    • alp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      1 year ago

      I used to get annoyed by pink floyd songs being so slow. I now realize it’s so much more powerful and overwhelming because it started slow

      • Schaedelbach@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know you or your general taste in music but if you ever want something a bit more modern yet als doing the ‘start slow until you made a wall of sound out of it’ thing, I highly recommend you check out the band Motorpsycho! Pretty much every album they made in the 90s and early 2000s have always at least one great song which will build and build and build up to a great crescendo. Their other stuff is absolutely great too! Their song Vortex Surfer got played for 24 hours on new years eve (I think it was 99 to 2000) on a Norwegian radio station.

  • EliteCaster@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    Not sure if this is a trope per se, but I love when sounds don’t sound “perfect” - the producer kept in a little vocal waver, or the snare isn’t hit with the exact same intensity every time. The little imperfections make it feel/sound like real humans are playing the music!

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think that can be said about pretty much any creative work. Those little imperfections are what make it real, and I love it.
      Hollywood using old vintage lenses for their design flaws, CG artists deliberately putting scratches and dust spots on their models, and so many more examples.

      To come back to music, I believe no robot will ever be able to play Clair de Lune with the gentle delicacy and softness that a human who just lets themselves flow with the sound can produce.

      That’s what it’s all about.

    • anti@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Check out Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. The kick drum pedal squeaks all the way through, and they left it in.

    • Scrollone
      1·
      1 year ago

      So you should like “Golden Lady” by Stevie Wonder. Its key changes many many times from start to finish

  • Dandroid@dandroid.app
    11·
    1 year ago

    My favorite is when a high energy song does a soft version of the chorus towards the end of the song, and the singer sings more mellow, or sometimes even an octave down. Then the singer goes back into full energy and original octave for one line before all the instruments come back in at full volume.

  • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    Music that is REALLY stereo. I recently-ish got a pair of open back planar magnetic headphones, which sound bloody brilliant. So wide, so open, so crisp! It’s almost like VR for your ears with certain tracks and albums.

    So ye! Songs that really lean hard on having fun with stereo, or just really well engineered music in general. I was FLOORED when I listened to Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral for the first time with those things, so much fine detail and incredible audio engineering in that album. I’d honestly consider it one of the best engineered albums I’ve ever listened to, and I’m saying this as a huge Steely Dan fan.

    Another go to for me is Pond’s Man, It Really Feels Like Space Again. Psychedelic music just hits so incredibly well when I use those headphones, and this album in particular just really takes me through a friggen journey when listening to it.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      All Along The Watchtower blew my mind when I listened to it through headphones for the first time. I’d heard it hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years, but either in pubs and clubs, or through fairly crappy equipment where you couldn’t hear the effect.

      I got myself a pair of half decent headphones, and decided to try something different to the usual fairly modern punk and rock that I like, and it just happened to be in the playlist.

      I had no idea that it sounded that good :)

    • stoicshrubbery@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Lucid Dreams by Frans Ferdinand was one song that stood out to me, at least it was the first one that did after I got my first pairs of nice headphones. It’s the 7:55 minute version, and the part starts to build around 4:38