Freakin' Out The Neighbours: The Thread For Really Loud Music

Cafe Society
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I don’t do it so much anymore, being respectably married with a kid and all now, but sometimes I hearken back to my student flatting days, when stereos were large and old, beer was plentiful, sofas were on the front lawn, music was loud, and neighbours were for pissing off. In that vein, what is {or was} your favourite music for Freakin’ Out The Neighbours?

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, especially Holiday In Cambodia
Minor Threat: anything, the earlier the better
The Stooges: Funhouse {although some prefer Raw Power}, especially LA Blues
Lard: The Last Remptation Of Reid, especially Drug Raid At 4 am
Ministry: Psalm 69, especially the 12" of Jesus Built My Hotrod
Sucking Chest Wound: anything
The Birthday Party: Junkyard, especially Release The Bats
Husker Du: Zen Arcade, especially Reoccurring Dreams
The Warners, Hit And Run, especially Peggy Suicide

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In college, my freinds and i would drive around campus in the summer with the windows down headbanging to classical music…

music like Ride of the Valkyries, Tocata Fugue, Beetoven’s Symphony #5, the opening instrumental to Phantom of the Opera…

never figured out why we got such strange looks… :wink:

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The Ramones. Very, very loudly. Any Ramones song, pick one.

Ozzy’s Mr. Tinkertrain, No More Tears, Thunder Underground, Bark at the Moon. Uh, this is another “any song” scenario, now that I think about it.

Almost any DMX song, but especially Party Up. You must bark, “Woo!” and “Ugh!” along with him in relevant spots, of course.

Green Day - Longview, Basketcase, Welcome to Paradise.

Manson, of course. The Fight Song and the Disposable Teens are particularly good for pissing off people, though I hate them both.

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Anything from Angel Dust, by Faith No More

Kool Thing by Sonic Youth. Or maybe 100%
Damned for All Time by Corrosion of Conformity. And Dance of the Dead, and White Noise.

But Geez, I agree with the Dead Kennedys and Minor Threat. Add Black Flag (Nervous Breakdown or Fix Me) to that and we’ve got a party!

Hmm… also, Any song from Broken, by Nine Inch Nails especially Happiness in Slavery. My fave was Wish, however.

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Rammstein! Especially Heirate Mich, or Du Hast.

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

After all, they were first to put on their liner notes: “This album was made to be played loud.”

(Later, that instruction was a sure sign the music sucked.)

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When I was in high school a friend and I spent one Christmas holiday annoying pedestrians. We would get drunk each day and hide the stereo speakers out in the garden bushes. When our target of choice walked by we would drop the tone arm on Joe Cocker’s scream from A Little Help From My Friends …aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrarrrggghghghghghgh

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In my teens, any Iron Maiden (except the middle part of Rime Of The Ancient Mariner…a little slow for these purposes).

Later in life, nothing pissed off the neighbors like NIN’s March Of The Pigs.

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Bauhaus “Stigmata Martyr” (Latin screamed backwards is always disturbing.)
Primus “Intruder”
Bob Mould “Whichever way the wind blows”

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Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician. The whole album from beginning to end.

Any number of Jim Thirwell’s Foetus incarnations.

Immediately followed by Dreams Reoccurring…

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Motorhead’s No Sleep Til Hammersmith* earned a visit from the cops once.

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This Is the New Shit by Manson also works extremly well. I played that for a telemarketer once. They never called back.

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This is the right answer.

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I had a Roland JC120 guitar amp set up in my dorm room. One day I got the brilliant idea to plug my stereo’s phone jack into the thing, using the mode that also allowd play through the main speakers. My roomate then handed me a CD, we cranked everything up to 11, and selected “Hot For Teacher”. The drum intro, once a pounding joyride, became a terrifying force of nature. Windows shook. Mugs and plates rattled off of desktops and tables and crashed to the floor. Pictures leapt off the walls. Then came that blistering guitar intro. Holy crap. I had never been that close to that much noise in my life, and my roomie and I kept glancing at each other like “Dude, we may need to stop this before something explodes!” Time felt grossly dialated by sheer nerves; in what seemed like minutes, but was probably only seconds, two girls from downstairs were pounding on our door in anger. Apparently things were crashing off of shelves in their room too. When we opened the door, a small crowd had gathered outside, mostly guys with a “what the fuh??” look on their faces. Pretty soon, we had a collaborator: Another guy with a mixer jacked in both his amp and mine, and we put “Pour Some Sugar On Me” in the disk player. We then followed up with “Back in Black”, and “Welcome to the Jungle”. Man, oh mans, we had an earbleed party going in our room before long, with all the obnoxious hair metal we could find. By now, disgruntled dorm mates had called campus security, who finally came shut us down. But it was so fun. The only time I played music in my own space that was loud enough to break things.

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Mad Capsule Markets?

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Anything by the Sex Pistols. Or the Clash (though some of London Calling is kinda mellow, IMO). Or The Ramones. Pretty much any other classic punk.

The heating vents in the dorms are excellent at carrying sound. I occasionally have music wars with the guy in the room beneath mine. He turns on some sort of classical really, really loud. I’ll counter it with the most ‘obnoxious’ music I’ve got (Rob Zombie, NIN, Metallica…). Keep switching songs until one of our other neighbors (or my roommate!) comes and tells us to shut up already.

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I’m more of the person who would blast music that would make them think “what in the holy hell is THAT?”

In these cases, only two songs will do …

Skinny Puppy “Choralone (live)”
Skinny Puppy “Spasmolytic”

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Orff’s Carmina Burana. I once got complaints from my neighbor because “O, Fortuna” was too loud, plus she couldn’t figure out where she’d heard it besides a car commercial.

I’m weird. I play Broadway tunes quite loudly on the weekends as I’m cleaning. The hubby’s used to it by this point, but the neighbors seem to think it’s odd. I can’t wait to buy a house.

Ava

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I have a folder containing Songs-That-Sound-Good-Loud to play for those times when the wife and kid are gone and I can crank the stereo to 11 here’s a few:

Beastie Boys-Sabatoge
FNM-Be Aggressive
Bad Brains-Rise
Foetus-Lust For Death
Andy Prieboy-That Was The Voice and Tomorrow Wendy
Einstruerzende Neubauten-Haus Der Luege
Lydia Lunch and Sonic Youth-Death Valley 69
Sheavy-Sea Of Tomorrow
Black Flag-Slip It In/Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (From the Whose Got The 10 1/2 Record

and a bunch of Social Distortion and Sloppy Seconds songs.

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Sepultura: Especially Arise, but their cover of the Dead Kennedys song “Drug me” is amazing as well. The live version of “Inner Self”

Agreed with the Dead Kennedys. I think Rage Against the Machine also works well.

Ministry: Live version of “thieves”