College - Loud music at late hours is a necessity, kids.

[shbaz]

Arrgh. I went to bed late last night because of this, and I woke up at 7:30 AM this morning for.. YAY!! Engineering CAD. I'm so tired and I can't sleep because the guy next door to me is playing Right Thur, Korn, and stupid Limp Bizkit songs over and over. All I can think of is how much I wish I had my PA system in my room so I could play this four times louder than they can possibly play their crap. Why do people think everyone wants to listen to their crappy music? It's so loud and it doesn't even SOUND like music.

Those Princeton people are right.

[remixor]

Tell me about it.  I have my own single, but there's an adjoining double inhabited by one particular asshole who plays his shitty, shitty, shitty music at full blast.  He even leaves it on when he's not in the room.  Obviously I go and turn it off when this happens, but it usually takes a while for me to realize he's not there.  I'm a music major too, so it's hard as hell to focus on writing or studying music for my classes when all this shit is being pumped into my eardrums all the time.

[TheYak]

I'm not a person who can claim a vast knowledge of music but hearing the same horrid popular tune over and over again can be irritating.  The fact that the song "Who let the dogs out?" was ever popular proves that the common person is ... well... (searching for a polite term here)... a fucking moron.  

Basically, I like what I do for my own reasons but because I don't like most of what I hear on the radio, I realize that most people probably don't like my stuff.  So, I listen with headphones most of the time.  If I want ambient music while doing laundry or whatever, I keep the stereo at a level where I can hear all the instruments/vocals clearly but not loud enough that others are tortured by it.  I'm currently in a house with a bit of buffer-space around it.  I really can't imagine how you people in dorms and apartments can retain your sanity when connected to inconsiderate asses.

[MillsJROSS]

My roomate last year always needed to have something playing while he was going bed. I, personally, don't like any noise. But I managed to get a goodnight sleep most of the time, except for the one night my roomate decided to play rap (which he listened to in the day time), at night. And that kept me up all night, so I made him promise never to play it again at night. Which he abided by, as I was compromising, by even allowing him to play music. Still, those strong beats and rythms can just drive you mad. The roomate before that used to have like 20 songs he'd play over and over again, which even if they were good songs (which they weren't), it would still get annoying.

Still, I don't know about you guys, but our dorms had a rule about noise after 10 or 11 pm, I'm sure there must be similar rules. I would knock on their door and ask if they'd turn it down, first. If they didn't I'd get someone with a bit more power.

Headsets, though, indeed are the greatest invention. Wish I still had mine.

-MillsJROSS

[Nacho]

I have some south american neighbours in the below storey who like to play loud "bachata" music all the time. Bachata is specially annoying if you don´t like it, because, as some music that you don´t like can´t "hurt" you, this melodies are fu*ing repeatitive and use a lot of strill sounds made by steel instruments (and I´m not talking of the mild and lovely steel drum used by jamaican musician, no...)

But the problem is not how crappy the music is, because it is a matter of anyone taste, I mean, they can hear me listening my beatles and think "How crap is the music that boy hears..." The problem is the volume.

There´s no need to put it loud... If you want to feel like in the opera, use headphones, for the God Shake! It is a matter of education, specially at late hours...

Jack... I feel like you...  :'(

[Femme Stab Mode >:D]

FACT:Wearing a headset or earphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear by 700 times each hour.

I play my music without a headset or earphones, but I keep it at a low volume, so it can't be heard in the next room. The main reason I do that is because the rest of my family hates my music.

Our old neighbours, who sold their house now and moved out, used to have very loud parties at small hours of the day. So I get on teh phone and call the local police.

me: hello, police?
policeperson: Oh hello Alex. Neighbours again?
me: Yup.
policeperson: We can fix that.

Usually 5 minutes or so later the police cars would  roll in very quetly and catch them.   I think they did them in for underage drinking and pot smocking too, I just hope it didn't have to be like that. It wasn't just the music, it was the drunk and stoned people running through our front yard that pissed us off. They peed on our fence too.

[Nacho]

That´s my point Shasha... If you don´t like headphones, at least don´t put it loud.

About parties... In Spain (I suppose everywhere) drinks prices are becoming abussive (maybe 6 euros, or dollars...) So people buys alcohol and do parties in the middle of the street. Which is a problem...

People starts to scream, to piss in the corners, to puke... I´ve enjoyed going out and go mad, but I´ve been quite silent during my crazy nights... As I said, it is a matter of education and empathy.

[AGA]

Heh, I know exactly how remixor and jackhammer feel. Not a single person on my corridor has a good taste in music, it's all repetitive dance music and r&b. The girl across the corridor from me loves to leave her door wide open and play the same song over and over at top whack. Fortunately I listen to music whilst sitting at my PC, and my speakers are right next to my head, so I can drown out their music without turning it up really loud.

[Adamski]

Our flat also has an awful taste in music, however I also get to put up with a million drunk students collecting outside my window between 1 and 5 am and being LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS. I may invest in industrial-stength earplugs very soon.

[Goldmund]

I think that it's a common phenomenon that when a person enjoys some kind of music he/she thinks others should also be given a chance to bask in its beauty. Thus ridiculous volume settings. It's quite a blow to the person's Weltanschauung when they realise that others don't enjoy.

edit: DS, do you check your IM box?

[n00bie]

I remember when Sisqo's 'Thong Song' came out. Everyday in Summer, the same house in my street played that song NON-STOP.

[shbaz]

Earplugs don't work, they're worse than headphones for the bacteria issue and they're extremely uncomfortable. I worked in a factory where we were required to wear them at all times and at one point I was accustomed to it but it still sucked. They drown out the noise fine, but that constant pressure in my ears while I'm trying to sleep drives me mad. I actually tried that last night.

Oh, and our quiet hours are between 1-10am. I couldn't have done anything but ask them to turn it down, and these people are asses, so they probably wouldn't have. My friend the next door down actually started playing rock music louder (his speakers are bigger), I guess to communicate a point. They turned it off after that.. I think it was 12am.

[Rincewind]

Fortunately, I haven't experienced people playing loud music in the middle of the night, but I do feel that some people have the need to  express their taste in music very loudly sometimes... As for example, in our class, most of the people only listen to what's popular/on the radio for the moment (And if it's good music they either turn it off or they don't know what it is...)- And of course, they have to crank the latest Radio Hit up to eleven and tell everyone how great it is... Sigh.

Me and a friend sometimes try to provoke some reactions from these people by putting Slayer or some other heavy music in the cd-player, just for fun...  I love too see the reactions when "Angel of Death" kicks in, and they ask me "What's that shit you're listneing to?"
...Ah... I love being the underdog sometimes...  

[veryweirdguy]

I have my own single,

Yikes! Talking about music, & then I saw that sentance........well, you can probably guess what I thought until I read the rest......

[Adamski]

Goldmund: Yes, although I haven't had chance to write a coherant response yet
(Although I'm home for the weekend so it'll be responded to shortly)

[shbaz]

Haha, Slayer. Once when a die-hard Christian girl in my Math class found out I was an atheist, she insisted I go to her church with her to be saved. I kept saying no, and finally just bluntly said, "There's no reason for you to badger me about it, I'm not changing my mind." She replied, "I'm sorry, but Atheists are devil worshippers and if I can get one more off of the face of the Earth then god will love me that much more."

I was really irritated at her blatant ignorance. The next day I brought real devil worshipping music. Reign in Blood, I think.

[Ghostmaker]

Nice one Jackhammer

Im sick the majority of people thinking that those of us who enjoy the metal side of music, are all satainests and all we ever do is worship the devil or growl, and then everyone blames us and our music for all the evil in the world (the arabics have taken a bit of the heat off us in recent times), and everyone thinks all that is needed to make metal is to growl and play loudly.
If you can't apreciate the finer points in metal music and culture, you have no bloody right to put it down.

P.S. i would rather be woken up but shitty music then the sound of some ones house being renovated at 7 am

[Rincewind]

Jackhammer:
Heh, that's unfortunately the bad side of any religion, when people turn into fanatics and refuse to see things in any other way than their own...  
And "Reign in Blood" was a fine choice, btw... Be sure to play "Jesus Saves" for that person the next time...
(Although saying Slayer are Devil-worshipers is wrong - Tom Araya has said himself that they are just storytellers of of how horrible life really is...)

And being into metal music is as Ghost says, a thing which most will hold against you, accusing you of being a devil-worshipper or whatnot...
In fact, the only kind of metal where being a satanist is required is in Black Metal - The rest of the sub-genres are most of the time very non-religous on the whole.  
That said, I'll just say that I'm not a religous person, but I have nothing against either christians or satanist, and I can understand both views.

[shbaz]

(Although saying Slayer are Devil-worshipers is wrong - Tom Araya has said himself that they are just storytellers of of how horrible life really is...)

Heh, yeah I knew that. My friend told me he was just a normal guy really big into body building nowadays. I still thought it was funny, because you can't tell that by the lyrics.

[Rincewind]

Hehe, true - Songs like "The Antichrist", "Hell Awaits" or "Evil Has No Boundaries" doesn't really make up for a fun-lovin' christian gospel outfit, does it?
Oh well, they are a great band, none the less.