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Sounds Good Feels Good
Sounds Good Feels Good is the second studio album by Australian pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer (2015, Capitol), produced by John Feldmann; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, UK, and ARIA charts, scoring 67 on Metacritic.
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum
Sounds of a Cowhide Drum is the 1971 first poetry collection by South African poet Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, recording black life under apartheid and winning the Olive Schreiner Prize.
Sounds of Silence
Sounds of Silence is Simon & Garfunkel's second studio album, released by Columbia January 17, 1966. Built around the Tom Wilson-overdubbed electric folk-rock hit single "The Sounds of Silence", a #1 in January 1966.
SOUNDS study
SOUNDS (NCT04661631, Surgery and Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 Infection) was a Colombian diagnostic accuracy study of lung ultrasound screening for SARS-CoV-2 in 203 urgent surgery patients; sensitivity 52.9%, specificity 91% at score >8, judged not useful for screening.
Soundscape
A soundscape is the acoustic environment as perceived and understood by people in context, treating sound as a resource to design rather than noise to reduce.
Soundstorm
Soundstorm, also known as MDLBEAST Soundstorm, is a large annual music festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, held since 2019 and drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors.
SoundStream
SoundStream is a neural audio codec from Google Research, described in 2021, that compresses speech, music, and general audio with one network, outperforming Opus at a quarter of its bitrate.
SoundThinking, Inc.
SoundThinking, Inc., formerly ShotSpotter, is an American public safety technology company founded in 1996, known for its ShotSpotter acoustic gunshot detection system used by police in about 170 cities.
Soundtrack
Soundtrack: the recorded audio of a film, TV show, or game, and the album derived from it; term dates to the talkie era (The Jazz Singer, 1929), spanning photoplay albums, orchestral scoring, and pop-song licensing.
Soundtrack (2019 TV series)
Soundtrack (originally Mixtape) is a 2019 Netflix musical drama created by Joshua Safran, in which Los Angeles characters lip-sync to pop songs; 10 episodes released December 18, 2019, canceled January 31, 2020.
Soundtrack #1 (사운드트랙 #1)
Soundtrack #1 (사운드트랙 #1), also called Why did You Come to My House, is a 2022 four-episode Disney+ Korean romance drama directed by Kim Hee-won, starring Park Hyung-sik and Han So-hee as 20-year friends turned lovers, with OST-driven storytelling and a 2023 sequel, Soundtrack #2.
Soundtrack 2
Soundtrack #2 (사운드트랙 #2) is a 2023 Disney+ Korean romance miniseries, second in the Soundtrack anthology, starring Keum Sae-rok and Noh Sang-hyun as ex-lovers reunited through piano lessons; six episodes aired December 6–20, 2023.
Soundtrack album
Soundtrack album: a commercial album of music from or tied to a film, TV series, or video game; also called OST. Ranges from original score albums to song compilations; Saturday Night Fever sold 30 million copies.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Bande-son pour un coup d'Etat) is Johan Grimonprez's 2024 archival documentary, 150 minutes, on the 1960 Congo Crisis, Patrice Lumumba's 1961 assassination, and jazz used as CIA-backed diplomacy; Sundance Special Jury Award winner and 2025 Oscar nominee.
Soundwave (Australian music festival)
Soundwave (Australian music festival), also called Gravity Soundwave, was AJ Maddah's annual rock, metal and punk touring festival held in Australian capital cities from 2004 to 2015, peaking at $63 million revenue in 2013 before collapsing with A$26 million in debts.
Soundwave (Transformers)
Soundwave is the Decepticon Communications Officer in Transformers, a microcassette-recorder robot voiced by Frank Welker since 1984, who deploys cassette minions such as Laserbeak and Ravage and serves as Megatron's loyal intelligence chief.
Sounion (Attica: settlement and deme)
Sounion (Σούνιον), a coastal deme of tribe Leontis at Attica's southernmost cape, 69 km from Athens; fortified 413/412 BC, cult of Poseidon and Athena, harbor dues, silver-mining territory, Macedonian garrison 295–228 BC.
Sounwave
Sounwave (Mark Anthony Spears) is a Compton-born record producer, TDE in-house producer and Digi+Phonics member, Kendrick Lamar's main collaborator since 2009, a six-time Grammy winner, and 2026 Producer of the Year nominee for GNX.
Souo S2000
The Souo S2000 is a luxury touring motorcycle from Souo Motorcycle, Great Wall Motor's brand, and the first with a flat-eight engine, launched in 2024.
Soup
Soup: a primarily liquid food of meat, vegetables, or grains in stock, juice, or water, served warm or cold. Covers clear and thick types (broth, bisque, chowder, cream, purée), etymology, and the soup origin of the word restaurant.
Soup kitchen
A soup kitchen, also called a meal center, is a charitable or public institution serving free ready-to-eat meals, traditionally soup with bread, to needy people, widespread since the 1700s.
Souphanouvong
Souphanouvong, known as the "Red Prince," was a Lao prince and engineer who led the Pathet Lao and became the first President of Laos in 1975.
Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes
Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes were the two names of an American salad-bar buffet chain founded in San Diego in 1978, which closed all 97 locations in 2020.
Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales (Milton Supman, 1926–2009) was an American comedian famous for live, pie-throwing children's television from Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York, with puppets like White Fang and Pookie, the 1965 wallet-money incident, and later What's My Line? work.
Souq (company)
Souq.com, Arabic for market, was a Dubai-based e-commerce company founded in 2005 that became the Arab world's largest online marketplace before Amazon bought it in 2017.
Sour (album)
Sour is Olivia Rodrigo's debut album, released May 21, 2021 on Geffen Records. Written by Rodrigo and produced by Dan Nigro, it topped charts in 17 countries and won three Grammys.
Sour (cocktail)
Sour (cocktail): a mixed drink of base spirit, citrus juice, and sugar, shaken and served cold; also called the sour family. Classic 2:1:1 ratio; first printed in Jerry Thomas's 1862 guide; includes Whiskey Sour, Daiquiri, Margarita, Pisco Sour, Sidecar.
Sour beer
Sour beer, also known as sour ale, is beer defined by high organic acid content from fermentation with bacteria such as Lactobacillus, giving a distinctly acidic taste.
Sour cream
Sour cream: cultured dairy product made by fermenting pasteurized, homogenized cream (18-20% fat in the US) with lactic acid bacteria to about 0.6% lactic acid; distinct from crème fraîche and German Saure Sahne.
Sour crude
Sour crude is crude oil containing more than 1% sulfur, which gives it a rotten-egg smell and requires special refining compared with low-sulfur sweet crude.