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Top 50 Worst Sounds In Music

NOT a shitpost. NOT bait. NOT in order because counting to 50 alone is hard enough.

1

Meshuggah
obZen

Djent guitar chugging.

2

Unwound
Repetition

Bingbong guitar noodling.

3

Four Year Strong
Some of You Will Like This, Some of You Won't

Acoustic guitar strumming.

4

Muse
Absolution

Matthew Bellamy inhaling.

5

Baroness
Stone

John Baizley's crooning.

6

Baauer
Harlem Shake

Trap hi-hats.

7

Toshimaru Nakamura
Dance Music

Frequencies in the 16-24khz range that only exist to cause pain.

8

Meshuggah
The Violent Sleep Of Reason

Fredrik Thordendal's guitar solos.

9

Swans
The Glowing Man

That one part on Frankie M. when the sound dips.

10

dredg
Catch Without Arms

Gavin Hayes's croon-oaning

11

Deftones
Saturday Night Wrist

Chino Moreno's obese/asthmatic inflection when he forces awkward stanzas.

12

Black Sabbath
Born Again

The production on Born Again.

13

Sleep Token
Take Me Back to Eden

Vessel.

14

American Authors
American Authors

Stomping and clapping.

15

Kitcaliber
D.FREQ.CRUSH

Raspy synthesizer-generated voices.

16

Hollywood Undead
American Tragedy

Heavily autotuned pack-a-day smokers.

17

Mushroomhead
XIII

Babies laughing/crying/screaming.

18

Slayer
Reign in Blood

Muddy (non-slap) bass.

19

Beyonce
B'Day

Alarms and police sirens.

20

Chat Pile
God's Country

The guy from Chat Pile when he rudely imitates a disabled person (always).

21

Enter Shikari
Tribalism

Roughton Reynolds when he strokes his neckbeard too close to the mic.

22

Emmure
Eternal Enemies

90% of all guitar chugging outside of the context of breakdowns. Unless breakdowns are the entire song. That's bad too.

23

Slayer
Reign in Blood

Kerry King's guitar solos.

24

NOISIA
Collision

Neurofunk, and by extension any fartsynths that're blobby & bloated instead of spiky & serrated.

25

Daft Punk
Discovery

The machine suction sounds at the start of Aerodynamic (refer to #7).

26

Autechre
Exai

Aimless and muddy machine-generated IDM that gets a free pass because muh polyrhythms.

27

Excision
Apex

Riddim synths and that same pattern they're always used in.

28

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

Singers who fake pleasure every 5 seconds as a trademark.

29

Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II

Pitter pattery backing track filler drums.

30

Kaonashi
Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year

The guy in Kaonashi when he sings stupid on purpose (always).

31

Counterparts
A Eulogy for Those Still Here

Generic metalcore vocals that all sit in the same exact range.

32

The Story So Far
Proper Dose

Generic pop punk vocals that all sit in the same exact range.

33

Mr. Bungle
California

Mike Patton when he doesn't sing like on The Real Thing.

34

Bjork
Volta

Vuvuzela

35

Bjork
Volta

Marraccas

36

Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar's voice.

37

Ling Tosite Sigure
Still a Sigure Virgin?

That almost-jazzy sweeping thing they do in every anime opening posthardcore/mathcore band.

38

Lorde
Pure Heroine

R&B-influenced minimalistic pop with a lady singing sadly and faux-moody over some talentless drivel and the vocals are way too high in the mix (you know the kind, fortunately I don't so I'm putting Lorde here as a placeholder).

39

Animal Collective
Painting With

Panda Bear hocketing.

40

Slipknot
Iowa

Blastbeats (unless they're distorted like speedcore, as that's one of the best sounds ever conceived).

41

Korn
Untouchables

Jonathan Davis when he says "MOI".

42

Operation Ivy
Seedy

The entire genre of Ska Punk.

43

Waking The Cadaver
Perverse Recollections Of A Necromangler

Gurgly "harsh" """vocals""".

44

Lil B
Mm...Christmas

Anyone except Soulja Boy saying the word "swag".

45

Soulja Boy
iSouljaBoyTellEm

Anyone except Lil B saying the word "based".

46

Death
The Sound of Perseverance

Short bus drums.

47

Joji
Nectar

George Miller doing this instead of making Filthy Frank videos.

48

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Unlimited Love

Anthony Kiedis being Californian.

49

Incubus (USA-CA)
Morning View

Brandon Boyd being Californian.

50

Local H
Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?

Anyone singing about California.

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