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some people just moved in upstairs from me and liz today. they suck. they look like they've just emerged from carisbrook, and they play the offspring and soundgarden at phenomenal volumes, despite the walls being paper thin. how should i deal with this? should i be tolerant for a while, until they settle in, and then maybe they will turn it down? or should i wage sonic war on them with various weapons such as turning my record player on to full or *the big gun* my electric guitar and amplifier?

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh and ps your awful neighbour stories are welcome.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had this situation and it drove me off the cliff of sanity. I put my speaker on a huge "punishment tower" of stacked things so It was adjacent to the ceiling and woudl blare Add N to X. But really the only solution is to move out. Move out immediatly. GO live in a shed.

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

rediscover calvin johnson, and play the rice university marching owlband's AMAZING version of Louie Louie late at night.

― paul barclay, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's worth at least trying a polite request to keep it down a bit. It's not uncommon for this to work. Or not work, come to that, but you never go.

If it comes to war, electric guitar is not the weapon: think what they'll hate, and it ain't that. Try pop music. They'll hate Mmm Bop and Can't Get You Out Of My Head. Or country. Or any kind of black music, likely as not.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my neighbour came shouting at me one night for having played boards of canada (played so low that i had fallen asleep to it and not exactly that bloody loud to start off with) and demanded that i never play music after eleven EVER AGAIN.

our floors are not soundproofed and i can only presume that the sound of my music is amplified through a century of dust and fluff that inhabits the cavity between my floorboards and their ceiling. it's definitely louder outside my bedroom than it is inside the room i'm playing it in. strange things afoot.

― nickie, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Buy ear plugs/ ear muffs Drink yourself more bliss get your self another... Ask then politley turn down the fucken sounds Sleep with them Bash them Move out Not necessarily in that order

― kiwi, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember one time I was playing the Cure at some sort of volume and then the floor started being pounded. The downstairs neighbor objected. This is one reason why I live in a house now.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm country sounds like a good idea, i can't imagine them appreciating uncle hank. but then i can't imagine them appreciating my guitar playing either. but yeah i figure i will wait and see if they settle down a bit first.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sleep with them eww no they wear polar fleece vests = they are unattractive.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've been known to wear a polar fleece vest, and I can now even say I've been to Carisbrook...

Seriously though Di, don't give them any lee way right from the start. Last year we lived downstairs from some really noisy boys who would skateboard around on their wooden floors at three in the morning. Then they had spitting competitions from their balcony to our courtyard.

Even though our landlord was Dave Cull, (who you might remember from such shows as '5:30 with Jude', 'Homefront' and the power crisis save electricity ads) nothing could be done, they were out of control.

Nip the problem in the bud while you still can. kill them.

― rainy, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rainy the Killer! Eep!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've been known to wear a polar fleece vest, and I can now even say I've been to Carisbrook...

yikes! my true identity as a fashion fascist has been revealed! fair rainy, some people are dazzling whatever they wear.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they listen to "creep" by r*diohead.
YES, you are a creep; you throw your used cigarettes out the window. they land in my garden.
they'll probably start a fire, and kill us, and destroy our wonderful stuff*

*today for around one kiwi dollar i bought a jointed plastic ken - it looks exactly like brandon walsh/ jason priestley, but it made in 1968 [hey, when was jason born anyway?]

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

okay this is boring i'm sorry but it is a jason priestley head, from 1991, on a 1968 mattel body.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and jason bradford priestly was born in 1969

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For £500 I will kill them, and then set up a quiet old dodder in the apt.

― Snarky, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm almost at breaking point. it was "creed" yesterday, and it reverberated through the whole house.

― di, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

umm, we don't live in an apartment building, you silly foreigners.
only blechy "rich people" live in those in this country, and there's not many in this city 'cause it's actually under-populated here for the housing that's here, i think. we live in a two-storey mint green stucco house and uhh...hamish or other dunediners can explain better, i have to be doing more schoolwork.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

all the rich people left dunedin and now all the poor people (and all the poor little rich students) live in mansions.

― hamish, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was going to post this to ILM but lets face it, ILM is boring compared to this place......I am afraid some of those new jacks may infect me, kill this lovely vibe I have today.......so here's some albums that can ride just on their treble and sound just fine, they won't annoy your OLD BITCHES of neighbors....believe me nickie I feel your pain......Francoise Hardy - Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp, La Question......Beach Boys - 20 Great Love Songs......damn, that's it....I have too many rap albums......you guys suggest albums that are bass-less for night playing.

― Ramosi, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes if they playd francoise hardy would be very fine, especially instead of elton john live and repeating songs and very loud

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

today they played that elton john song three times. then they played UB40, followed by Dave Dobbyn. my mother has better taste in music than those schmoes. my GRANDMOTHER has better taste in music than them.

― di, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the last time we got back from a gig - around midnight, we found our power had been shut off by our downstairs neighbors because our answering machine was beeping and it annoyed them. bastards. they moved out a week later anyway.

― marianna, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We've got 3 new people in our house a couple of days ago - they were evicted from their own one and split up after party went way awry (they made no secret of this). Anyway now the whole place already stinks of weed, and eminating from upstairs right now: "She's a Waterfall" and Emmerdale. Aaaaaaaaa.

― Graham, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

last night they had a party. they played that elton john song AGAIN, then lots of UB40. the only option was to go out and watch the chills gig, which was as boring as "7th Heaven", so i went home. the upstairs party was over. so i fell asleep but they woke me up at 5am, playing that FUCKIN elton john song, they played it 3 times in a row, and then they played MORE UB40. finally i hit the ceiling and went upstairs to ask them to turn the music down, in my pyjamas at 5am in the wintery dunedin cold. they were all like "i'm sorry, okay, we'll turn it down", and they did, silence was mine, but i quietly wondered how anyone could be so dumb as to think that we wouldn't get woken up by them. by 5:30am, some people turned up at their place and they all started yelling and woke me up again. these people need to be seriously PUT DOWN. they are complete retards.

― di, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you probably didn't have to listen to them fucking. In their defence i'll say that in any other city there would be some sort of soundproofing between the floors.

― hamish, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They've stolen my CHEEZWIZ!

(I mean CHEESE, obviously)

― Graham, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THANK gOD i AM looking to move into a house. Noise form other's stereos ...oh God...I'd rather eat human shit I think. By the way , Franciose Hardy is a Godess

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

I experienced similar fury with a promiscuous girl who shared a wall with me. She blasted her music all night every night until I hated songs I once loved. My solution: retaliate by banging on the shared surface with a pot. It has astounding resonance and she'll get the picture. You'll feel better, too! My noisy neighbor moved out within one month's time.

― Hedli, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm afraid I am the noisy neighbor. I'm amazed I've only gotten two noise complaints. I do however only play it loud early in the evening; by 10:00 it's usually off.

― Sean, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

I had a psycho neighbour a few years back. She would play that Whitney Houston track "i will always love you" over and over. She had the crappy diva on repeat every day, even at 4/5 in the morning. So i went round and asked her for some sugar, when i was there i stole her mug and slipped her a copied Nirvana CD. he he

― Richie, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i called noise control on them the other night. i mean, i don't have a problem with people partying on the weekend, but i think a little consideration for people on the weeknights wouldn't go amiss.

― di, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good Di. You did the correct thing. Its far better than throwing cups of urine on their patio. Not that I ever did that.

― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This reminds me of what I did after there was a very loud party in a high-rise near me. I could hear the bass in my bedroom. Anyway, the land-lord's number is posted on the building, so the next day I put up posters within a one block area, listing the land-lord's number and telling people to call if they were disturbed by the party. I also wrote an indignant letter.

Noise in apartments drives me crazy. I really need to buy a house. I'm afraid I am going to have to move once more to a new apartment in order to make it easier to save money.

― DeRayMi, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Upstairs dudes w/piano: You don't play the damned thing. You just bang onnit when you drunk. C'mon, sell the fucker.

― oilyrages (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:45 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Dear Landlady/Upstairs Neighbor,

Right now I really fucking hate you and your shitty taste in easy listening music that you insist on blasting ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I am trying to take a v necessary nap and you're making it impossible. As far as landlords go you're actually pretty alright but PLEASE turn that shit down. I didn't think it was possible to hate Billy Joel even more than I already did.

Respectfully,

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 28 March 2009 18:28 (seventeen years ago)

last night our upstairs neighbours had a drunken crying sweary fight on our doorstep. moments later we heard laughter and some dude playing some kind of irishy music on a violin.

― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:16 (seventeen years ago)

Our upstairs neighbors watched TV too loud and it was annoying and then one day, I invited the dude who owns the place (his partner is freeloading) over for cookies and coffee. We shot the shit for about 20 min and then when it was about time for him to go, I said, oh, one thing. Might you perhaps lower the volume a bit on the TV? We'd appreciate it much. Since then, I haven't heard the TV at all. (Just the piano, which is only banged on when some non-pianist gets drunk, but I don't mind that.)

― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ not a passive-aggressive note btw

― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

OK, looking at my post a couple up, I guess I did mind it at least once. Heh.

― I seldom pass on tea now. (libcrypt), Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

LOL!
I think polite request spiked with cookies is a good call, bravo!

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Saturday, 28 March 2009 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

hey,

whenever both of you are gone your small, useless dog barks for hours without stopping. i think that dog is stupid but not as stupid as you are.

― harbl, Sunday, 6 December 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

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