"sounded decent" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could write, "The plan sounded decent, so we decided to proceed with it."
Love Spreads from Second Coming sounded decent, their new song All for One serviceable.
We prefer lobster simply steamed, and although we would ordinarily avoid fancy preparations here, the lobstermania sounded decent, and it was.
When the kids first started school in kindergarten, I looked at the school menus and thought they sounded decent and that maybe they would just buy the affordable lunches at school.
"I sounded decent, but you shouldn't ever do something just because you're only decent at it".
The numbers sure sounded decent, but investors were less than thrilled.
Yushaimi Yahya of The Malay Mail, who was critical of the album as a whole, pointed out that Simpson sounded "decent" on the track.
"I just go with something that sounds decent.
YouTube, for instance, is filled with great music, some of which sounds decent enough with the right headphones (Sennheiser makes good ones, like the HD 1, starting at two hundred and fifty dollars).
Is this even going to sound decent?
But most of us just want our music to sound decent.
The site mixes it all together to make it sound decent.
