Music to Piss Off Your Fuckhead Neighbours - Classic or CLASSIC.

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my neighbours play irrirating coffe table techno -you know those records that no one actually listens to thud thud thud goes my floor. (I wouldnt mind it so much but they came and *knocked* on our door because we were walking around our flat one night late at night...WTF...). So the dickheads decide that they can play their coffee table techno at any volumes - and i got fed up - and decided to fight back - usually i turn the vacumn on very loudly (white noise does not bother me - so after an hour or so ... or that - i usually pull out 50 cents and some bogdan - fuck you dj (and if i'm feeling really nasty- i put it on repeat on saturday morning and go for a walk, playing it really loud, obviously)

can anyone think of some music that will really piss off my neighbours??? i mean really piss them off.

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

improvising.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

Right before you leave for work, put on "Moon River" on the turntable, set to repeat ad infinitum, playing at maximum volume with the speakers right up against the wall.

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link

Anne Murray 45s played at 33 1/3.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

Racebannon! I think their music can kill the elderly at just the right volume.

donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

i'm trying to teach them (much like pavlov and his dogs) that their behaviour is not acceptable ... !!!!

i'm playing aphrodite (featuring wildflower) at the moment, drum and with dub bass...

racebannon is going on next. aphrodite made them shut their windows..

wll let you know how racebannon does ...

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

aaah. success - when i went to get the racebannon i turnd on the vacumn and the neighbour went 'WHEN WILL HE STOP VACUMNING!!!!!

OH, they put it back on ... that's o.k. i've got the racebannon now..

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Anne Murray 45s played at 33 1/3.
Aaargh!
He's right. I'd like to revise my previous post
Right before you leave for work, get two turntables...
1) one playing a chipmonks album (33 1/3 speed) and playing it at 72 speed
2) one playing an old old old 72 speed opera record at 33 1/3 speed.
set them both to repeat ad infinitum, playing at maximum volume with the speakers right up against the wall.
There. That might work.

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

Anne Murray 45s played at 33 1/3.

genius. (x-post)

Aaron A., Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

nah, i need something with alot of bass ...

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:18 (twenty years ago) link

Okay replace the opera record with an old old old Dub reggae record.

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

< SERVICE PATCH>...a bad Dub Reggae record.< /SERVICE PATCH>

Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

thank fuck. they stopped.

oh they started again. i put on racebannon now ... in the grips of light. they are fucking LOUD!

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

wow - racebannon is SONIC WAR!

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Stuff I've used in the past:

Prurient
Arab on Radar
the first Lightning Bolt album
Black Dice
Palatka

Ian Johnson, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

metal machine music, full blast, speakers against the wall? or for a change of tactic, how about 99 red balloons on infinite repeat, although that might have some negative effects on yourself. you could just go defecate outside their door, nothing gets the message across like a big smelly poo on your porch

Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

racebannon is so so so disorientating really loud.

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

i feel sort of sick. i've never played racebannon so loud. this must be what schizophrenia feels like.

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Ian didn't mention Sightings! The 7" is amazing for this. The whole thing was recorded with the levels way too high so it sounds totally disgusting. The Black Dice "Semen of the Sun" 7" is good here too. (I have these adjacent on a mix.)

Jon Williams (ex machina), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

wow, i'm going to take a bath. and leave racebannon, on full volume, obviously.

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:34 (twenty years ago) link

why don't you just go downstairs and request they put on racebannon¿

dyson (dyson), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

now i am playing the droyds remix of seventeen by ladytron...

i would knock on their door but i would want to smash their smug faces in. they are typical wankers who think cause i'm a writer, i ain't no good to talk to but i know that *students* left the flat before 'cause the flat is in such decrepit shape. they are the ones who complain because the hedge wasnt cut, saddoes, and the fact they play coffee table techno confirm their wanker sadness (i.e. they play stuff like GREATEST TRIP HOP ALBUM IN THE WORLD, EVAH!, you know, restaurant music)....

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

occassionally when they are going 'mad' they smoke bad weed. shit, dude if you can smell the weed *from* outside, means, it ain't no good.

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

when I had a neighbor who did construction on his garage at all hours of the summer evening (long, LONG story), I used Uncurbed's "Peacelovepunklife" to good effect.

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 14 June 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

they have stopped. i wouldnt mind so much but *their* attitude towards me and my girl just plain sucks. they are yuppie wannabees living in a scummer flat.

they don't know, i used to live above a cokehead who used to blast TOM'S DINNER ALL NIGHT LONG. so, if the middle-class snots want war? bahhahahahaa - i fought music wars against a cokehead and won. i only don't like doing it cause it gets my girl nervous and upset. but when she is gone it is fair game.

doom-e, Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

i can send you a perfect loop of wiseblood's death rape 2000 - just put your mp3 player on through big speakers, play on repeat and leave the house.

frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

come out - steve reich
any 2 live crew
and pan sonic

those usually do the trick for me.. or noisy japanese shit

gs (kissmyfist), Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

Make Mr. Nice dance and let it loop for several hours very loudly.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

The effectiveness of any of these will be improved if you sing along to them.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

I've got it! Sing along James Hetfield-style to "Orinoco Flow"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 June 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

My neighbors across the street blast Eminem, Linkin Park, and tons of other "WE'RE WILD AND CRAZY WHITE TEENS" music, all night long, as they have gigantic bon fires that stretch literally 20 feet into the air, creating a bright light that shines through my window, which doesn't help much if I want to, you know, sleep.

It's insane, they recently built this thing to hold their out-door stereosystem, this thing hold a computer and like 10 gigantic speakers. I think their planning on using it all summer long. And the worst part is, there's a mic attached, so they can karaoke to all of their shitty music at a billion zillion decibles.

One time, I blasted the loudest Sonic Youth song I could find, that had Kim just screaming LOOK MA, NO PANTY LINES over and over, and I felt pretty good. Oh, I also played really cheesy, early electronica from the 70s, like, pre-Kraftwerk.

If this continues, I'm going to call my friend Edwin over, have him set up his amps and instruments, and have his Misfits/Stooges punk band The Bloodsucking Freaks play as loud and obnoxiously as they can until my neighbors heads explode.

David Allen, Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

Should I be motivated, the following work absolute wonders in this department, preferrably put on infinite auto-replay....

- Anything/everything by Missing Foundation
- Hysterie, the Lydia Lunch compilation
- Plague Mass by Diamanda Galas
- No New York
- Lasterday, I was Been Bad by the Happy Flowers
- Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies by GG Allin
- At War with Satan by Venom

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Crowbar rules this. Broken Glass has this great bass-y production with really pronounced vocals--and it's an awesome record.

adam (adam), Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

I've used Big Black's Atomizer against my mouthbreather housemates before. With a properly adjusted EQ, it works well.

"KEROSENE AROUND...set me on FI-YAH!!!!11"

Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 14 June 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

Atari. Teenage. Riot.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 14 June 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

so what constitutes 'coffee table techno' anyway?

stevem (blueski), Saturday, 14 June 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link

i was just playing kerosene very loud, that odd guitar intro is genius too. atomizer shakes my bedroom floor when i play it on vinyl. i love the liner notes on all those atomizer songs too. especially the bit about copyright infringment being "subject to mutilation and murder" and on songs about fucking. all the liner notes are genius. love for racebannon too, scary shit, but good stuff.

Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

"The Watch Song" by Shellac works well here too......and makes me pound big red welts in my thighs from air-drumming and grin manicallay in ways that I can't even describe properly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

The Bollywood mix of Shania Twain's "Up"

Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

I think I'd just put in some earplugs.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 June 2003 21:57 (twenty years ago) link

desperatley tryin' to piss off thy neighbours
-VS-
gleefully going out & getting pissed y'self

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

desperatley tryin' to piss off thy neighbours
-VS-
gleefully going out & getting pissed y'self

I prefer to achieve both goals by slapping one of the discs I cited above on the stereo, and putting it on perpetual re-play (for the neighbors' torment) and then going out to get drunk.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

...only to come back and find the neighoburs have done the exact same things?

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

Well, by that time, the gauntlet has invariably been thrown, so one should expect reciprocal fire, no?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 June 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

have you actually asked them to turn it down?

(I know you're pissed about your music but still..)

has communication been tried before escalation?

H (Heruy), Saturday, 14 June 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

you need to play something either really bad or really unsettling. but as bad to me usually means anything very "coffee-table", then they might not object too much to horrid MOR-type stuff like Phil Collins' Sussudio or Promise Me by Beverly Craven on repeat play (plus you'd prob have to buy them specially coz you won't already own them if you're anything approaching a right-thinking individual). so I'm opting for Diamanda Galas' Schrei-X (I've used this in music wars before and won hands down - it's horrible!), anything by Merzbow, Persepolis by Iannis Xenakis (there's a good new release of this with some tasty remixes on Asphodel now) or dig out your old thrash metal records - a bit of Carcass should do the trick but Bolt Thrower would be infinitely better...

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Saturday, 14 June 2003 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

How 'bout we compile a list of the most fucked-up, Music War songs and put 'em together on a CD-R? That's a million dollar idea right there. They'll sell like hotcakes in NYC. EVERYBODY has had Music Wars with their neighbors here.

Rog, Saturday, 14 June 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

BTW I did won a music war this morning by playing Reg Varney Sings (an album I picked up at a car boot sale for 10p by the bloke out of On The Buses) at an obscene volume when my opposite neighbours woke me up with nasty Lisa Lashes-style hardhouse at 8am this morning and the good thing about it was that it made my other neighbours laugh, too...

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Saturday, 14 June 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

okay

1) Fuck U Sign - Elephant Man

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 15 June 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

Bust out some absurdly loud sine sweep/bass test samples.. I've shook pictures off the walls with these before.

Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Sunday, 15 June 2003 00:06 (twenty years ago) link

rog, i was thinking the same thing. a "music to anger your neighbours" type album. disturbing sounds and noises – people being hacked by chainsaw over polka or something twisted sounding like that.

when i was staying at a friends place in vancouver her upstairs neighbour would mercylessly crank polka all the time. loud – really loud. i thought it was hilarious, but she hated it and would counter with noise albums. but nothing worked – i never minded tho, it's one thing to be woken up by you neighbours awful music, it's another to wake-up laughing your ass off to your neighbours polka.

dyson (dyson), Sunday, 15 June 2003 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

my old neighbors in Astoria used to play this Greek shit at the crack of dawn. Used to drive me and my roomate insane. Something about music in a foreign language that bugs the shit out of people. It taps into that xenophobic quality in everyone in addition to the obvious volume issues.

So, doom-e, crank out some Puerto Rican shit and you'll do just fine.

Rog, Sunday, 15 June 2003 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

Mrs. Miller. You can't get more annoying at loud volumes than this, but I warn you it will likely turn everyone in a 150ft radius into our mortal enemy.

http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/Exhibit.jsp?AlbumID=77

anon@mous, Sunday, 15 June 2003 01:08 (twenty years ago) link

You could always ask them to turn their music down like a mature adult rather than acting like a spiteful jackass.

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:31 (twenty years ago) link

Matthew Perpetua HATES FUN!

Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Sunday, 15 June 2003 03:38 (twenty years ago) link

They were playing their music insanely loud and smoking so much marijuana that it could be smelled from outside, these people don't deserve to be treated like adults.

David Allen, Sunday, 15 June 2003 06:49 (twenty years ago) link

certain AWK songs on repeat should work.

WE WANNA HAVE FUN AND WE WANNA GET WASTED!!!11!1

[...15 hours pass....]

WEEE WANT FUN NOW WE WANT FUN NOW
DON'T EVER LAY DOWN ON IT

Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 15 June 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

Right before you leave for work, put on "Moon River" on the turntable, set to repeat ad infinitum, playing at maximum volume with the speakers right up against the wall.

make that Morrissey's 10 minute cover of "Moon River," and we've got a winner!

Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 15 June 2003 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

You could always ask them to turn their music down like a mature adult rather than acting like a spiteful jackass.
-- Matthew Perpetua (fluxequalsra...), June 15th, 2003.

Well, Matthew, I have - but see, they don't answer the door because they know it's a neighbour.

Playing electronic concept orchestra works as well..

doom-e, Sunday, 15 June 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

maturity is boring. i find bitterness and anger kinda exciting, theres a brutal honesty to it. hence keep playing the music, and fucking loud too

Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

Schrei X sure is a powerful weapon, Dave S 's right about that.

...and it's the weapon I may have to use m'self one day, for the recently-moved-in shitheads next door are occasionally too fond of blasting their Korn and Linkin Park regardless of the hour.

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:43 (twenty years ago) link

It's a music war smart bomb and lays waste to allcomers! The great thing about it, if you have good speakers (if not, don't play it too loud, it'll blow your tweeters), is that it's got no bass at all but cuts through any other sound. Put the speakers on the window ledge facing outward, open the window, crank your amp, press play and you're away: ear-bursting, blood-curdling screaming that's quite enough to have most people begging for mercy within minutes...

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Sunday, 15 June 2003 13:59 (twenty years ago) link

Shaggs, Shaggs and more Shaggs.

Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 15 June 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

Well, Matthew, I have - but see, they don't answer the door because they know it's a neighbour.

Well, then. That's understandable!

But what about your *other* neighbors? Why punish them for the crimes of this jackass?

Ethics and fun aren't mutually exclusive!

Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 15 June 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

Masonna - Eat Maggot

I haven't managed to get through to the end of this track yet.

dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 15 June 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

why don't you just break in when they're gone and "liberate" the sterio¿

dyson (dyson), Monday, 16 June 2003 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

Trout Mask Replica

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 June 2003 08:38 (twenty years ago) link

the new Mindflayer
the first Xiu Xiu LP
Men's Recovery Project

Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:46 (twenty years ago) link

whitehouse, preferably one of the screamy ones. "you don't have to say please" would be bound to go down a treat.

electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

Musical wars with neighbours = MASSIVE DUD = no one wins.

The only policy which works is to try and talk to them, and establish guidelines of hours during which neither of you will play loud music. Make sure you notify them in writing, and keep a copy. If they violate this agreement, call the police.

kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

My neighbors HATED "My New House" by the Fall. (So you can see what twats they were.) So that was often the record of choice.

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

Oh you can win... the police never do anything either

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, I've had a neighbour kicked out of the flat for violating noise agreements, so don't knock it till you've tried it. (That was more because the landlord was so scared of me calling the police.)

kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

Really!? That would be great - it's one of the main resons I'm moving right now: my neighbours are total bumhammers kate... you have no idea...

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

"Oh you can win..."

Darned right!

Irritating neighbour with weedy little domestic stereo playing Nevermind on repeat at 7:00AM every Sunday morning for 3 or 4 weeks in a row, despite me asking him not to extremely nicely (well, I was nice the first time!) vs. me eventually retaliating with 500W PA system = neighbour very rapidly getting the point and never doing it again!

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

The joy of having a large record collection is that, no matter how antisocial/unpleasant the noise meted out by neighbours, I usually have something far, far more repellent...

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:14 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't say that you can't win, I said it was a No Win Situation. You've proved you're the bigger asshat, but you've also destroyed yer relations with yer neighbour, you've made it into an adversarial contest and you pave the way for future confrontations and escalations over future problems. It is better to open a dialogue right at the beginning.

But hey, whatever, I understand it's much more FUN to talk about blasting yer neighbours with Metal Machine Music.

kate (kate), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

  • Igor/Talking About God (Oops, There Goes The Gain Mix)!!!
  • Clinic/CQ!!!!!
  • Jesus & Mary Chain/Never Understand!!!!!!
  • DJ Skull/Abudction Exp.!!!!
  • Bratwurst Orange/Punk Rock Song America!!!!
  • Aphex Twin/Ventolin!!!!! (or any of the really long repetitivetracks off SAW2)
  • Offwright Radiator/Sent Fishing By Your Neighbour!!!!
  • Anything by Elva Miller!!!
  • Social Overdose/I Gave My Cow AIDS!!!!!
  • Avril Lavinge!!!!!
Well, the above lot will probably get you arrested for crimes against humanity, but it'll make an interesting compilation....

Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

Old Boredoms

Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 June 2003 11:54 (twenty years ago) link


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