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Despicable Me Minion Laugh

Minions laughing, in Minionese. Nonsense syllables that somehow read as delight in any language.

Tokyo

A Tokyo street-style chime: quick digital notes with the rhythm of a Japanese station announcement.

Bathroom Fart Noise

Novelty sound effect with a bit of room echo. Short enough to work as a text alert if…

Power Fart

Novelty sound effect, loud and unsubtle. The kind of thing a phone did in 2010 and occasionally still…

Diarrhea Fart

A joke alert from the 2010 novelty set. Best assigned to one specific contact who deserves it, and…

Ring Ding

A bright two-note ring-ding, the sort of clean electronic chime that cuts through background noise. iPhone format.

Ring Ding

A bright two-note ring-ding, the sort of clean electronic chime that cuts through background noise. Android format.

Paramore Decode Twilight

Paramore's "Decode", written for the first Twilight film. Hayley Williams's vocal over the chorus's guitar hook.

Watchmen Rescue Mission Tyler Bates

Tyler Bates's cue from the Watchmen rescue sequence: slow, heavy, building on strings and drums.

Munsters Original Jack Marshall

Jack Marshall's Munsters theme: a fuzzy surf-rock riff with a walking bass, monstrous only in the friendliest way.

Sex And The City

The Sex and the City title music: strings and a strut, the sound of a Manhattan sidewalk in…

Halloween Movie Theme Ringtone

Carpenter's Halloween piano figure in 5/4, written by the director himself in a few days because the first…

John Williams Olympics

Olympic Fanfare and Theme, written by John Williams for Los Angeles 1984 and used by broadcasters ever since.

The Grudge

Willy Wonka Oompa Loompa

The Oompa Loompa march from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, sung as another badly behaved child is…

One Missed Call Japanese Ringtone

The death ringtone from Takashi Miike's Chakushin Ari: a chiming little melody that means the caller has heard…

Raiders March Ringtone

The Raiders March. Two bars in, and everyone in the room knows a hat and a whip are…

Kill Bill Ironside Excerpt Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones's siren-like cue from the Ironside television series, borrowed by Tarantino for the moment the Bride sees…

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Ringtones

The five-note phrase from Close Encounters of the Third Kind: the tones humans play back to the mothership…

Batman Television Show Theme

Neal Hefti's surf-guitar riff from the 1966 series, twelve bars of brass stabs and the chorus shouting the…

Star Trek Theme

The soaring main title from the original series, Alexander Courage's fanfare followed by the wordless soprano line.

Chariots Of Fire Theme

Vangelis's 1981 theme: that slow synthesizer melody over a steady pulse, the sound of running in slow motion…

Star Trek Communicator

The chirp of the Starfleet communicator being flipped open: two quick rising tones, instantly recognizable, and short enough…

Bird Singing

Birdsong recorded in the open air: a light, chirping alert that sounds like morning outside a window rather…