What's your mobile ringtone? — Forum Archive

2 Aug 2006, 09:17

Finally hooked my new phone up to a PC a couple of nights back and stuck some muzak on it.

After years of rigidly sticking to a phone ringtone, which actually sounds like a 'proper' ringtone, I'm experimenting with mp3's instead.

Anyone got any good recommendations? Can't be arsed to slice and dice mp3's so it's gotta be something which grabs you within the first 10secs of the song, if not shorter!

For New Order I've copied over Dreams Never End, and the 7" of Ceremony, cos I think they both open up nicely. Got the Vikings theme too, natch (For a Few Dollars More takes too long to get going!).

Currently using Al Naafyish though, an old electro track by Hashim, as that grabs you by the bollocks from the opening beat. Then there's Egypt Egypt by the Egyptian Lover, similar piece from the same era, which resonates nicely the second it starts.

I'm lost as to what else I could use, mind.

Anyone else?

2 Aug 2006, 09:26

glad you like the old school electro shit Al, Your right that Hasim trk is one of my top 5 tunes ever. btw - my moby tune is Sex Pistols- GSTQ

2 Aug 2006, 09:32

I must be a boring twat. Got a K800i that just goes Beep Beep Beep (and no that isnt fuckin roadrunner!)

2 Aug 2006, 09:34

My latest phone did not come with a ringer that sounded like any type of old phone ringing, which is what I had always preferred...and I hated every frigging tune that came preloaded on the phone, so I've got TPK and BLT as my ringtones...

2 Aug 2006, 09:54

Used to have blue monday, but MP3 ringtones aren't loud enough on my phone. Now I just use regular old programmed ringtone.

2 Aug 2006, 10:04

AOC What an intro.

2 Aug 2006, 10:08

Here to Stay

2 Aug 2006, 10:41

i have the walkmen "the rat"

the bit that goes "you've got a nerve to be calling this number"

2 Aug 2006, 10:44

I use State of the Nation from a midi file.

Shite song, but good opening riff, and loud, almost made for a ringtone.

2 Aug 2006, 10:46

Mine is boring, but anytime I've looked for free ringtones online (I'm a cheap bastard) they don't have any available for LG phones that I've been able to find. The best ring tone I've got is Carmen (Bizet).

2 Aug 2006, 11:11

Numb - Linkin Park (Theme to new Miami Vice movie)

:bag:

2 Aug 2006, 12:41

Shellshocker wrote: Mine is boring, but anytime I've looked for free ringtones online (I'm a cheap bastard) they don't have any available for LG phones that I've been able to find.

You mean you can still get free ringtones online? :eek: I thought that'd all been stopped! Where can you find them?

2 Aug 2006, 13:20

I did mine myself, it is CEREMONY from Brixton 2005, recorded by myself down the front, with the VIKINGS singing " Oh I'll break them all, no mercy shown ...."

Class !

2 Aug 2006, 13:26

Mine beeps once and vibrates

2 Aug 2006, 14:04

Doesn't get much better than Ceremony. Temptation- even through the song to Green Eyes, Blue Eyes, Grey Eyes. . . . . Might also raise the stakes with the openning bars of SPECIAL. or EGG. Re : Order and their Hong Kong Phoey ?!

2 Aug 2006, 14:06

Miss Disco wrote:

Shellshocker wrote: Mine is boring, but anytime I've looked for free ringtones online (I'm a cheap bastard) they don't have any available for LG phones that I've been able to find.

You mean you can still get free ringtones online? I thought that'd all been stopped! Where can you find them?

I don't know. I had looked a couple of years ago, just doing a google search, and found several, but none for my phone. Maybe they were all scams anyway.

2 Aug 2006, 14:08

I did have one of the Krafty mixes as my ringtone last year.But deleted it for some reason :scratch:

Now i cant find the USB cable to connect my phone to my PC to put the track back on :banghead:

Just got the old 1950s telephone noise at the moment as my tone

2 Aug 2006, 14:15

Just a standard one but on my next phone I'll get some New Order ringtones.

2 Aug 2006, 14:22

used to edit midi files into snappy choruses and then put them on to my old phone, but they were a bit quiet and often pony. now I use mp3s - although it seems like cheating for some reason. again, I edit some to make the most of the song dynamics and use bluetooth or a USB cable.

at present I have: do the du (the missus calling)

homemade instrumentals of... subculture (generic ringtone) elegia (the alarm that wakes me every morning)

my text message alert is a vocal grab of charles hawtrey saying "oooh hellooo!" which has been interesting when I've received messages whilst in the gents.

2 Aug 2006, 14:27

A midi version of Krafty.

2 Aug 2006, 14:42

i still have a crappy basic mobile. i have BLT which progammed in myself.

2 Aug 2006, 14:47

call me by blondie for most calls. the theme to the pink panther for my mother. peter gunn for my father. for various friends: round & round, TPK, krafty.

2 Aug 2006, 15:26

Can't set my MP3 tunes as ringtones,but I've got meself "First Of The Gang To Die" by Morrissey as a Real-tone ringtone.

2 Aug 2006, 15:39

Your Silent Face or Kraftwerk - Tour de France etape 2

2 Aug 2006, 15:43

even flow by pearl jam

2 Aug 2006, 15:46

Digital Mike wrote: I did mine myself, it is CEREMONY from Brixton 2005, recorded by myself down the front, with the VIKINGS singing " Oh I'll break them all, no mercy shown ...."

Class !

"Singing"??!!!??!!

Recall that when I stopped over at Al's (following the Allly Pally thing last year) Alex had a neat ringtone: think it was Hooky bellowing summat obnoxious from a stage somewhere. I was even more impressed when it was Andy Rob on the other end of the line.....

2 Aug 2006, 15:46

Haven't really had the time to see how many mp3s are available for Verizon, so I just stuck with a few basics:

Trans-Europe Express (the tone actually sounds a lot like the song) is a general tone for voice mail.

Atmosphere for the alarm clock on my phone.

Handbags And Gladrags (aka theme from The Office) is what I use for work related numbers.

The Oregon fight song plays for the Oregon State scum who call (mostly coworkers), and also for friends and family.

A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow ( the chorus from A Mighty Wind, with Mitch And Micky singing) is for some females.

Anybody who calls me gets to hear As It Is When It Was (part of the actual song) before I answer the phone.

2 Aug 2006, 15:48

FrogChorus wrote: Your Silent Face or Kraftwerk - Tour de France etape 2

now that i have the software to make my own, your silent face is perfect, can't belive i had'nt thought of that one.

right now its blue monday in mp3, its the best cingular had to offer... its got this weird robotic laugh with the opening bass lines, is this some remix or version i missed? :scratch:

2 Aug 2006, 16:59

Run

Answer meWhy won't you answer me

2 Aug 2006, 17:16

Text message: Type 40 TARDIS dematerialization sound

Call: Ceremony

Voicemail: HAL9000 saying "there is a message for you"

Alarm: Joe 90 theme/march of the oysters/TPK into ( after drums solo into, where the voyetra kicks in) depending on my mood.