"They don't have huge excitement in their lives but like to think that they do. I doubt you'd find a firefighter or ambulance driver with a ring tone like that."
(via Techdirt)
Thank heavens we have psychologists to tell us these things. Next they'll discover that the way people dress and act towards others tells you a lot about their personality.
QUite a few people I know seem to prefer pluging their own tunes (or tunes from obscure indie bands) into the phone. That could mean anything...
What's it mean when your girlfriend has one of your own songs as her phone ring?
who pays the piper calls the tune? no, wait.
hey have you seen the feature that some phones have that let you record 'anything' as your ring tone?
cliche: the motorhead who has the sound of the engine revving on his own car, or on his dream car. good work duuude.
urbane: the friend who has his own voice saying "kevin! phone!". (O_o)
Given the crappy sound quality of phones, the whole idea sounds a bit poxy. I'm not sure I'd want a muffled, underwater rendition of a riff from a song recorded by holding a phone to the speaker.
Now if you could upload WAV files or MP3s to the phones, having recorded them on proper gear, i'd be a different matter.
So if girls do action A then it means they're just fitting in, if, however, boys do action B then it clearly can't be for the same reason as girls, oh no... Reminds me why I so dislike psychologists.
Typical social behaviours among (neurologically typical) adolescent boys and girls differ, because of some combination of nature and nurture. (And adolescents are under the most pressure to conform to typical behaviours.)
hah, that's great. i find it more telling who *recognizes* my ringtone (rotates between galaga, super mario brothers, or pac man). so far, i've had only one person come up to me and go "hey! is that super mario brothers??" and that was girl in a bead shop. :D
I had the same experience when I had the City of Lost Children theme (the organ-grinder's melody) as my ringtone. Only about two people recognised it (one of them was a musician friend of mine who corrected some mistakes I made with it).
Currently it rotates between TCoLC, Ninetynine's _Polar Angle_, The Smiths' _There Is A Light That Never Goes Out_ and the piano bit from Radiohead's _Fitter Happier_.
City of Lost Children theme? Christ, you'd be dreading every time the phone rings!
That's the only piece of music creepier than Shostakovic's Waltz No 2 and Liszt's Danse Macabre combined...
I was hoping this wouldn't degenerate into an 'i've got this' discussion ... heh.
My crowning achievement was the raucous theme to 'Rhubarb and Custard' from the ABC/BBC. Needs a coarse tone though.
The time signature and syncopation in Super Mario Brothers made it too hard for me to compose. I dips me lid!
That'd be all those chromatic notes, Mark. Though I don't think it's that creepy.
I used to have Kraftwerk's "The Telephone Call" before I got the TCoLC song from acb. Friends at uni became so accustomed to it that they'd often sing it, even though they'd never even heard of Kraftwerk!
A friend of mine has "We Are The Robots". He got it from the free credit he got with the phone, and his unit can't send tones. (Must be a new DRM measure to keep the Ringtone Industry Association of Wherever happy or something.)
I tried plugging in one of the themes from Amelie until I realised I was killing it. Right now I've got the main hook from Antlerland's Wronghead.
Hmm.. I have FourPlay's Meshugganah as well, though it's set only to ring for a few select callers.
It fails to mention people who set their phone to vibrate instead of ring