Most annoying songs to have a neighbor, room/flatmate, whatever play with the bass turned up

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Living in a college dorm with thin walls, I usually just hear the bass but if i listen closely enough I can hear the music. Though bass only is certainly annoying as hell on its own, hearing the song faintly is almost just as bad (if I like the song) because it's a tease.
In any event, list songs that you'd hate to be played by a neighbor, the guy upstairs, your flatmate or ANYONE as long as they're listening to the song in a different room and all you can hear is the bass.
I guess any song is annoying when you can hear it playing in a different room especially when you're trying to concentrate, rest, or study, but keep it to the especially irritating songs.
Sorry for the poor wording, it's finals time and to be honest my brain and I have had quite enough. Bleahh.

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

my upstairs neighbor went through a phase of playing "Seven Nations Army" every damn day a while back, and also "A Salty Salute" pretty often, now it's something I don't recognize, and it's driving me nuts more to not know it is than to have to hear it so often, I'm considering going upstairs and listening outside his door to figure out what it is.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

My old neighbor would regularly play "Bia Bia" on repeat at a volume that would knock pictures off my walls. Now, every time I hear that song, I want to punch someone, but I suppose that was its original intent.

― Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

About 1989, my wife and I had some nice girls as upstairs neighbors who liked to blast Rick Springfield's "Jesse's Girl" and the Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed" over and over, apparently their standard warm-up for a big night out.

― Brad C. (Brad C.), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

anything by rage against the machine, especially the first album. this happened to me once with a friend's teenage brother in albany. excruciatingly repetitive.

― drew lichtenberg, Thursday, 11 May 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

any song with a lot of bass

― Some Guy, Thursday, 11 May 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

My GF has no hearing in one ear and for some reason this has made her super-sensitive to low frequencies; if this is happening in an adjacent room, she can't fall asleep without earplugs in. When we lived in a loft, this was a particular problem, but you don't want to be the old fogies going next door asking the people to turn the music down, especially as a previous neighbor had once compained about me playing Bartok, saying it was "rattling the pictureframes." One night our neighbors were having a dance party, a quite loud one, and we tried to be cool, but around 4:30 she was on the couch, weeping, and I went over to ask them to turn it down. I don't feel too bad about this.

The worst is generally someone actually playing the bass next door--trust me on that one.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

A next door neighbor in 2002 played Eminem's "Without Me" about 30 times in a row, until about 2am. Nuff said, and I liked that song.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 May 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

the thought of my upstairs neighbors still playing "hey ya" day and night has gotten me to spew vitriol in Stephin Merritt-like proportion over my now hatred for the song.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 11 May 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

milkshake

I am so fucking glad that song didn't turn out to be a CLASSIC!

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Eppy's gf is Miccio??

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 May 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to teach 'em a lesson, Milli Vanilli "Girl You Know It's True" will drive anyone mad.

― JB Young (JB Young), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you Daddy Yankee, and fuck "Gasolina"

That song sounds like an ugly horse running into an uglier Puerto Rican

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 12 May 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Surely "Macarena" would be worse?
x-post

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 12 May 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Oizo - "Flat Beat"

god that was an awful song

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 12 May 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost The truth comes out.

There are also a few reggaeton songs I would nominate too, now that I think about it.

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 12 May 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Here are some songs to get your neighbours pitching themselves out of their 10 storey windows:

BILLY RAY CYRUS: Achy Breaky Heart
FCB: Excalibur '95
BROS: I Owe You Nothing
EMINEM: Without Me
ROLF HARRIS: Stairway To Heaven
BAY CITY ROLLERS/KING KURT: Bye Bye Baby
TERRY JACKS: Seasons In The Sun
MR. OIZO: Flat Beat
CRAZY FROG: Axel F

― Dario Western, Friday, 12 May 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Had a neighbor -- I still don't know who, or where exactly -- who would, for something like two months, listen to nothing but the folk song "The Water Is Wide".

In multiple versions.

I must have heard at least ten versions of that song -- folk, country both trad- and pop-, adult-contemporary, men singing, women singing, at least one version by a chorus... I don't know. And I'm not exaggerating -- if he (or she) listened to any other song aloud between February and March of that year, I wasn't home. And I'll give him this -- he actually had pretty wide-ranging tastes in music. He'd give anything a try -- as long as it was "The Water Is Wide".

And, you know, it's not that annoying a song. It's just the circumstances...!

Well, the circumstances plus the fact that for the first month I didn't know what song it was.

― Pessimist (Pessimist), Friday, 12 May 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

That is awesome.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 12 May 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Woke up 9am this morning to the downstairs neighbors blasting what sounded like a hip hop/club version of Dust In the Wind. The other song they always play is a remix of "Kids" by MGMT.

― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 10 December 2009 17:06 (sixteen years ago)

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