What's something that gets you every time? Like a genre trope? A well-timed amen break? Hi-gain on drums in post-punk/new wave? Wow and flutter in a lofi sample in a Current Joys or Teen Suicide type lofi song?

For me it would be acoustic guitar accompanied by a piano melody below, like: https://youtu.be/9FCF2Y4lIWk And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuIMcmNZnU

Never can quite tell if it's actually playing the same/accompanying chords in the bass clef or if it's just EQ frequency cuts to give the guitar space to breathe, and never could figure out how to make it myself, trying to put guitar and piano together just ends up with mush whenever I try it, but nonetheless as a listener it always really underscores any drama so well, I love it, no matter how tired or how often I hear it, it never doesn't work.

Close second would be really stripped down instrumental electronic or synthwave songs that are just arpeggios in a few chords with no percussion, really gives me that feeling of refreshment and a new dawn at the end of some story, or perhaps a deserved break.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLP1pB7xBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obW0GNyYbU

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[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Everyone sampling the Amen drum break. From Slipknot and every breakcore artist, to the Powerpuff Girls and Futurama theme songs, everyone is sampling the Amen drum break.

https://youtu.be/9zmEDzsMkqE

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A key shift upward at the end of a song, like.. Man in the mirror by MJ around 2:50

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I came here to say "anything but changing key up one note" but to each their own I guess!

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Key changes in general

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

I like two strong vocal leads playing off each other. I'm thinking Alice in Chains, B-52s, the Beths. I have more, but have to close the app and do some real work.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Cinematic drums and it's sibling, the loud Hans Zimmer "whaaaaaa". So cliche, but I love it.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pick scrapes let me know we're here to party

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ceR4TDuqE5A

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

TIL. Need to learn this so bad!

[–] poppichew@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Nice, feel good music. Is that a trope? Cause if it's so, it's one I dig.

Labi Siffre - Bless the Telephone
Warwick & Crew - That's What Friends are For
Kimya Dawson - You Love Me (It's a soft sweet.)
Ella Fitzgerald - Get Ready

I also like despondent music, which I guess is the other side of the coin.

Nina Simone - You'd be So Nice to Come Home To (Sounds like a funeral march)
Mitski - Nobody
Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had a Heart
Liam Finn & Eliza Jane - On Your Side

#1 thing is can you sing it though. Idk if any of this is right.

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Soft, reverby female vocals on dirty or lofi instrumentals

You'll Never Get to Heaven - Caught in Time, So Far Away

Troller - Tiger

Mercy Necromancy - Cruel

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I listen to music a lot, but honestly I've never really thought about tropes in it...

Though I guess I have made fun of some things like the way the dude from Disturbed makes all those random noises or how Lars from Metallica ends like every line. Are those tropes if it's just something peculiar to a specific artist? 🤔

Or would it be more like how some songs will start off with just 1 instrument lightly building to crescendo and then the rest of the band kicks in all at once? I like that one. Or "the drop" in dubstep?

I absolutely love the sound of two guitars going at once like the last little bit of Hotel California or some of Bat Country.

[–] porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

Noice! The first thing is definitely just artistry or musical signature. Like the way SRV played guitar or "fills" Chad Smith might play that are similar. It's their unique relationship with their instrument.

The second/others is/are accurate. They're definitely what OP is talkin' 'bout!

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I like it when the beat is supported with clapping (double clapping and single clapping alternately). I like it with real hand claps or when the snare drum does it. Gets me every time.

[–] sodalite@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

the drums. the drums make all the difference.

[–] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

For me, it's a bridge that totally lurches sideways - it fits, but goes walkies a bit before settling back into the song. R.E.M. mastered it I think :)

R.E.M. "Pilgrimage" (3:42 for the bridge)

R.E.M. "Ignoreland" (2:49 for the bridge)

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I never get tired of ska bands yelling "pick it up"