Why dont people play good music loud?

[ericjarvis]

Something else to consider is that some people are more concerned that the music is loud than whether or not it's any good. Some play music loud in order to immerse themselves in music they love, but other are simply concerned with being noticed. In which case it doesn't matter to them what it sounds like.

There was a guy I was at College with in the late seventies. He had two thousand pounds worth of stereo...and three albums.

 

[Clint Iguana]

other are simply concerned with being noticed. In which case it doesn't matter to them what it sounds like.

if i wanted people to notice me, i would want people to think i liked cool music, or at least liked interesting music, and therefore would care.

Luckily i dont want people to notice me

 

[geminisnake]

I play loud music in my car because I CAN No neighbours or hubby to complain As dessiato said it depends on what you call good music.
Sometimes I am blasting out Slipknot, or Bill Haley or 60s stuff, it just depends. I think people don't always appreciate the Slipknot

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Was in a record shop in west wales yesterday, they were not playing any music because the flat upstairs had the music so loud if they tried to compete with it your ears would bleed. The trouble was, it was really shit music, cheesy r'n'b (no, not doctor feelgood, the modern crappy stuff they call r'n'b).

Also, a lot of people take out the back seats of the car so they can fit in sub woofers the size of ballistic missiles ... all well and good, but you never hear them blasting out anything decent. Its usually happy harcore or more cheesy r'n'b.

I have no problem with people listening to loud music and have no problem with people having different tastes to me, but why is it you NEVER here decent noise pollution. I have a wide range of tastes, you would think statistically someone out there with taste must have a big stereo and don't give a fuck about the neighbours attitude ... but NO.

This was one good thing about growing up in Clapton in a house which backed onto a very afrocaribbean street. Loud reggae everywhere you walked.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've just dug out* Now 39 so I'm treating my end of the terrace to some Lighthouse Family and Janet Jackson at masonry-endagnering volume. And yes, I know that's shit music but I'm in a world record foul mood and I'm taking everyone else down with me if its the last thing I do





*ordered off Ebay that is, moment of 2am madness.

 

[isitme]

why do people play shit music loud?

because they want to!
because they want to!

 

[Clint Iguana]

why do people play shit music loud?

because they want to!
because they want to!

YES.... but why dont people who like good music play it loud as well. Clearly from the posts some do, but not where i bloody live

 

[Doctor Carrot]

YES.... but why dont people who like good music play it loud as well. Clearly from the posts some do, but not where i bloody live

I sometimes play good music loud. If you're ever on New Malden high street and some christians are musically preaching to Saturday afternoon shoppers, you will hear a selection of old ska, drum n bass, breakcore (to really piss 'em off) and ragtime blaring out the speakers i've aimed at them from my top floor window

Watching a pissed bloke having a good old jig to the skatalites made it all worthwhile.

 

[Paul Russell]

Because people who play music at a really anti social volume are idiots, and idiots like shit music?

Fair point.

The most surprising thing I've heard blaring at a huge volume from a car sound system was last week and the bloke was playing...

This Old House by Shakin' Stevens!

At *massive* volume.

He was, I guess in his mid-thirties or early forties and bopping around in his seat. I heard a middle-aged pedestrian near me say "I've got that on vinyl"

 

[jontz01]

One of the perks of being a Stokie is that people still drive round playing proper early 90's rave...
If you're into that sort of thing obv, otherwise I can imagine it'd be pretty annoying...

 

[albionism]

This was one good thing about growing up in Clapton in a house which backed onto a very afrocaribbean street. Loud reggae everywhere you walked.

Same here. Grew up near the Broadway market. When i was about 7 or 8, punk and dub and great reggae all over the place.

 

[albionism]

I once had a job which consisted of rolling spliffs
for some bloke while he drove around Hackney
in a gold Merc pumping out the most awful R'nB
at maximum volume. We'd often drive past people
i knew on Mare street or Amhurst road and i'd have
to duck down in shame .

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I used to play brilliant music really loud when I was at uni, it was never appreciated tho

'What the fuck are you doing? it's 1am and I have to be in at 9 tomorrow'
'yeah, but check out this scratch i've just learned'

I'm pretty sure you listen to really shit music though.

 

[jusali]

i'm playing my music loud in honpour of this thread

just had this track
http://www.kitsunemimi.com/media/Karakuri.mp3

praps it will be deemed ok

That is distinctly disturbing

 

[jusali]

One of the perks of being a Stokie is that people still drive round playing proper early 90's rave...
If you're into that sort of thing obv, otherwise I can imagine it'd be pretty annoying...

I'd love that!

 

[Sootysoots]

I used to play brilliant music really loud when I was at uni, it was never appreciated tho

'What the fuck are you doing? it's 1am and I have to be in at 9 tomorrow'
'yeah, but check out this scratch i've just learned'

I would have killed you to death.

 

[seeformiles]

There seems to be more shit rap music from cars in the sunshine at the moment. I mean - do any of the blokes involved (and it does seem to be mainly single blokes) really expect to get a leg-over from doing that?
I've contemplated fitting an almighty sound system to my motor, blasting out Yorkshire Brass Band music and paying lots of scantily clad women to gyrate suggestively around my vehicle to suggest that other music might just hit the spot instead

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

That is distinctly disturbing

in a good way i hope

 

[Teddy Picker]

I don't generally play my music loud unless I'm by myself or with other people who I know like my music. Because I'm conscientious, so my teacher said when I was a younger-un.

I like, Joy Division, The Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, The Wombats, Tears for Fears, Spandau Ballet, Bloc Party, Athlete, Turin Breaks, The Living End, Smashmouth, Lisa Mitchell, James Morisson, The Fratellis, Depeche Mode, MGMT, Panic at the Disco, The Beatles, Motion City Soundtrack, and the list goes on.
Would the OP call this shit music to have playing loud? I suppose it isn't the kind you normally hear pumping through the stereo system. It doesn't go boom tsh boom tsh boom tsh, boom clap, boom boom cap, dush dush dush dush dush dush dush dush constantly.

 

[isvicthere?]

Is Dr Feelgood R 'n' B

I think of them as a pub rock band.

They were a pub rock band..... who played R'n'B.

 

[May Kasahara]

Also, a lot of people take out the back seats of the car so they can fit in sub woofers the size of ballistic missiles ... all well and good, but you never hear them blasting out anything decent. Its usually happy harcore or more cheesy r'n'b.

I thought this exact thing earlier today as I walked past a guy who had his windows down, volume up, blasting out a pumping cover of...She's Like The Wind by Patrick Swayze.

 

[blairsh]

I've not read this thread as i've been listening to this at excessive volume and getting drunk after a long day

 

[Clint Iguana]

I don't generally play my music loud unless I'm by myself or with other people who I know like my music. Because I'm conscientious, so my teacher said when I was a younger-un.

I like, Joy Division, The Editors, Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, The Wombats, Tears for Fears, Spandau Ballet, Bloc Party, Athlete, Turin Breaks, The Living End, Smashmouth, Lisa Mitchell, James Morisson, The Fratellis, Depeche Mode, MGMT, Panic at the Disco, The Beatles, Motion City Soundtrack, and the list goes on.
Would the OP call this shit music to have playing loud? I suppose it isn't the kind you normally hear pumping through the stereo system. It doesn't go boom tsh boom tsh boom tsh, boom clap, boom boom cap, dush dush dush dush dush dush dush dush constantly.

Well, bit of a mixed bag there, if i had to sum up the whole, i dont think i would call it shit. One or two there that would not be allowed in my house but but nothing I would be offended by it if i heard it from a car window.