does anyone ever find themselves falling in love with certain 'sounds' from records?

I anyone wants to start up a genre based solely on the gorgeous, sounds-etched-in-blue-lasers-yet-simultaneously-shuffling-and-hazy vocal timestretching on kid606's "Just Another Kool Kat Looking for a Kitty", go ahead.

That really, really high guitar note that Steve Stevens gets at the end of the solo in Billy Idol's "Worlds Forgotten Boy" that goes all portamento at the end is the best sound ever. Metallica's "Thing That Should Not Be" has something similar.

from age 4 or so have been thoroughly obsessed with the echo-laden guitar twang which surfaces on madness's 'the prince'... as a kid, i'd ponder desperately exactly what could've made such a kewl noise...

Those little reptile croaks Britney Spears makes [especially] on 'Oops... I Did it Again!'. They tickle my insides in a secret, special way.

Ew.

Ew.

this from the guy who expounded at length for his love of hip huggers and their attendant butt cleavage.

Some sorta tambourine/christmas bells-like sound monotonously jangling in the background of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges.
A really elaborate bass riff in the background of P-Funks "One Nation Under a Groove."
The last violin sting at the end of "Rock & Roll Suicide."

the wooshing oceanic synths on Ohaua by Stephin Merrit

That messy echoey guitar sound on early Clean records and the first Aislers Set LP. Swoon.

There is a weird picked guitar figure at 1:25 on the MC Solaar track L'NMIACCd'HTCK72KPDP. It lasts like maybe 3 seconds, on the left channel. Whenever I heard it made me insanely happy for a couple of months way back when.

The spazzy bird-songy pedal steel on "This Moment" on the _Sweet Relief_ album has had the track on repeat mode on many occasions. It's wonderful.

Hunter

Those screatching guitars on No New York. They give me the *horn*. hah!

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Some sorta tambourine/christmas bells-like sound monotonously jangling in the background of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by the Stooges.

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Indeed! Every record should use that sound. :)

Falling in love with certain sounds happens all the time, recent example: those extra rolling bass drums on Daft Punk's 'Alive' (live version).

whooshing oceanic synths sound pretty damn enticing to me.

unless you're talking about oceanic, the early 90s rave pop wonders with their 1991 chartbuster 'insanity', in which case...

does it for me.

The totally gratuitous over-the-top-emotion of the bongo percussion in Kylie Minogue's "Love At First Sight".

That swirling guitar sound present in the 80's - Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Cure, Cocteau Twins....

Guitar & blues harp playing almost the same thing, as in the Stooges' "Loose".

ooh that reminds me, the wonderful title track to kylie's 2000 album 'Light Years'. the track's basically a rewrite of i feel love (and when was that ever a bad thing?) there's that brilliant circular synth motif. Muse use something similar on 'Bliss' although obviously they're not quite as innovate as kylie.

anyway, i really really like that sound. the synth stuff on albums like Tubeway Army's Replicas and Ultravox's Systems of Romance are also, occassionally, lovely, although i never understood why their authors didn't just make those albums completely electronic. Hefner's recent Dead Media also did a nice job of putting analogue synths back into the intelligent pop song.

although perhaps not grasping the buttock-clenching zeitgeist know how of kylie.

anyway, i really really like that sound. the synth stuff on albums like Tubeway Army's Replicas and Ultravox's Systems of Romance are also, occassionally, lovely, although i never understood why their authors didn't just make those albums completely electronic

It was actually a lot easier in those days to get some musicians together (ie add synths to real bass/drums/guitar) than to assemble and master the arcane pre-midi analog sequencing systems a la Human League, Giorgio Moroder etc.

I'm quite obsessed with the 'woo woo' synths on Belle & Sebastian's 'Sleep The Clock Around'.

For a long time i was by obsessed by the guitar screetch in Throbbing Gristles "Persuasion"............................

wohoo, two already taken. The Sleep The Clock Around synthes mad me endlessly giddy for monthes. And a good tambourine is worth a thousand back up guitars. Im not sure I even wanna see BJM anymore now that Joel left. And the tamborine/bells in Just Like Christmas make me do a little dance.
The sound of guitars starting off Teenage Riot also wow me whenever I hear that sound.
Also the distorted sound of some lowfi stuff like the first 3 from The Microphones new album or Behind the Garage and Stove by Eric's Trip. Im not sure how the describe that.

The sound of that first Eric's Trip album is great... it totally reminds me of being 19. That really hissy, dirty distortion. I gotta crack out that LP again..