ur neighbors' music

something that sounds like sheena easton

what's playing near you?

"head over feet"--alanis

ha

our upstairs neighbour was playing some weird, droney electro music a couple of weeks - right above our bed, at extremely high volume, the same song, on repeat, ALL NIGHT (not kidding - he must have passed out or left the music on and gone out, but we tried ringing his bell and banging on the ceiling to no avail; eventually had to go sleep in the living to avoid the worst of it)

I never hear anyone else's music but a while back the dude upstairs had an LP left with us that he'd ordered from one of the Eat Skull guys' record shop in Portland (I posted about this in the rolling vinyl thread I think) - going on their online catalogue it was probly something fairly interesting

Our one neighbour seems to be on a Sheryl Crowe kick lately. When we first moved in she played Lily Allen every day.

When I was a kid I had a neighbour who used to keep me awake playing I've Had the Time of My Life really loudly on repeat. Worst offender now plays mainly reggae and only in the day or at weekends, so that's fine.

A cover version of "Wonderful Tonight".
My neighbour only puts music on when they get into the jacuzzi.

It would be really funny to open this thread and have the last post be what I'm listening to right now.

A Michael Jackson comp - Ben, Say Say Say, and now something that I can't quite hear because, blessedly, our AC kicked on.

The neighbor basically listens to nothing but 80s music, at high volume, all the time when he is home.

i dunno what it's called - mexican jams w/ plonky basslines and lots of horns. mariachi?

ooh yeah we get a lot of that too

My upstairs neighbor, Looch, plays horrible dance music from about 9:00 am until 3:00 pm pretty much every day. It is awful.

If his mom is home she plays Pure Moodz type jams that I am about 50x more ok with tbh.

a lot of it sounds the same to me but i can dig it. cheerful jams xpost

yeah!

ugh pure moods sounds so good right now

my neighbor is a quiet freaky guy who only ever comes out the house in his hoodie (in 109 degree weather) to smoke a cigarette

actually i think i'm the loud neighbor

i live next door to a fairly popular twee band of many members

so i get to hear their rehearsals quite regularly

there's a teenage garage band that practices around the corner from my house. they're not so good. could be a lot worse though.

xp arch in hels? they fuck with brass and kettle drums iirc? must be loud?

haha i haven't heard much of their percussion, mostly gtr keys and regular drums

We have opera singers 2 doors down. Thankfully they're actually skilled.

If anything I feel more sorry for my neigbs when R is writing drone metal.

across the street they get a chorus together and they sing hymns and 60s songs in the front yard

Downstairs occaisonally play fashion-mag approved indie / dance, but not often. Next door sometimes has Oasis or the like on, but the annoying thing is when he has Singstar parties till 3am. Luckily that's only happened about 3 times in 2 years. As above, I suspect i'm the loud neighbour.

jergins do you live across the street from a hippie mennonite-run refugee camp

we live next to a fairly small assisted living home and there's always ppl out on the porch playing pop radio loud as hell so i nap to the sounds of flo rida and jordin sparks quite regularly

also visitors chill in the parking lot (which is literally like 8 feet from my bedroom) and play whatever shit is in their car

Neighbors out the front window: stuff I like. Earlier today it was Django. I've also heard Sade, Hall and Oates, Coltrane, and Massive Attack at various times.

Neighbors most proximal to me out the back windows: nothing but Tejano music. Nothing ever but Tejano music. Loud Tejano music. It's a nightmare. I thought I'd left that back in Texas. The only thing more horrifying that could move in next door would be my grandmother.

wait j0rdan an "assisted living home" like for the elderly? I thought it'd be at least 50 more years before Flo Rida starts getting played at nursing homes

i think it's just for anyone who can't care for themselves, be it because of age or other circumstance s

i think the people who play flo rida are workers and not residents

hed kandi.

Feist, which is alright because I like Feist and it's not very imposing 9am music.

lol at flo rida

The only time I hear the neighbours' music is when this one young guy carries his speakers outside and turns it up loud so that he can listen to stuff WHILE HE MOWS THE LAWN. It's mostly bonkers Turkish dance pop though, and it's way too merry to get seriously annoyed by.

turkish dance pop sounds fun.

in my last apartment i had neighbors in the building across the courtyard who would assemble every thursday night and sing what i believe was armenian religious music. they were not that tuneful and they went on for quite a while, so it was a little unpleasant to listen to.

guy behind us has XM or sirius or something and spent a couple of months CRANKING THAT SHIT, like the classic rock stations and soul stations. and he'd sing along, tunelessly and drunk, at top volume. it was kinda funny until 2 in the morning.

last time i heard them (when the parents went away):
2 4 6 8 motorway on repeat for 30 mins
then some chaka dimas and pliers / shabba ranks compilation

with windows open, as loud as.

i went to the park.

they're like 30 something.

Only music I ever hear from my neighbours upstairs is the dude playing acoustic guitar really badly. He's only just started learning it I think, he has someone come over and give him lessons. I wouldn't mind except he tends to bash away on it at midnight/8am. At least when I play my guitar I use the electric and don't plug it in!

One side, diva soul (usually while she's drunk and singing along). Nothing from the other side in ages since the guy learning the accordian moved out.

all i ever hear is power ballads, John Farnham and weird stuff they sing on Singstar, and that's not very often. pretty sure i'm the worst musical neighbor in the building.

Nothing at all. I think we might be the only people in the street who listen to music.

I lie, I did hear the first Stone Roses album emanating from someone's window on Saturday night, post-barbecue

Ben Harper from the dude upstairs.

Revive!

I was thinking about this the other day, wondering if my neighbors can hear my music. I try to keep it at a moderate level, but it's hard to tell. I never hear anything from any of my neighbors except for an occasional sneeze coming from upstairs (I think).

Dude upstairs regularly plays o_O tunes like "I Will Always Love You" (the Whitney Houston version, of course) and "The Little Drummer Boy".

On repeat.

Sometimes, he does this at 3 in the morning.

There is a lot of house music and Mexican banda/norte too.

The house and Whitney makes me think he's gay.

terrible, gay, homo, awful, house, music?

I never hear anything music-wise from my neighbours, but I've begun idly wondering if they can hear me blasting out Spiritualized or John Martyn or Richard Youngs and singing along...

My downstairs neighbors are total frat and sorority yuppies and occasionally they play some really funny stuff that sounds like Mexican Resort Techno. Anyways on the top of their playlist at the moment is some remix of "Kids" by MGMT.

On a nice day I have a neighbor who lives in a giant house with a brilliant car who blasts Curtis Mayfield. It can make your day. God is great.

my upstairs neighbor's really into "born to die" (the song) and "video games" lately.

Dude down the block (who is really nice guy and who barbecues even in winter) is playing some seriously good funk music outside - the late 70s club stuff that I like best!