Music that pisses off your housemates?

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There's talk in the Difficult Music thread re: music that pisses off your housemates. Mine hate A Handful of Dust and related projects with a particularly driving passion.

What about yours?

― Oliver, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am very keen on the Moldy Peaches but one of my housemates isn't. He is however very keen on Carter. I am not.

― Sarah, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no housemates, but once I had some guests over and was playing John Oswald's _Plunderphonics 69/96_ in the background. One of my friends, in reference to the music, asked me "Do you hate us?"

So I run and grab _Metal Machine Music_ and put it on.

"Yes."

― Ernest Paik, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I don't have any housemates, but I do have a wife who cannot abide by many a musical selection I'm likely to throw on ye olde soundsystem. I think the last thing I played that garnered the most ferocity from her was the hyper-hiccuppy strains of the first XTC album, WHITE MUSIC.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my housemates is big into classical. One is big into the 80s, and jazz fusion. One likes punk and guitar virtuosos (but in a dorky way) I like a mix of those things, so we get along fine. except for when I play something twee that everyone hates. But everyone seems to like MMM and Merzbow.

― A Nairn, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The best experience with this sort of thing was when me, Single White Female, and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde all lived in one tiny apartment. No matter what was on the stereo, the other two people would be annoyed. He'd shove in some fucking horrible grindcore or bloody Aphex Twin, and we'd sit there like YOU KNOCK IT OFF. She'd put on the fucking DOORS and I mean that's enough to make you want to kill yourself. Then I'd put on Jay-Z and they'd both make frowny faces and pretend to like it.

― Ally, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to play the My Bloody Valentine Arkestra mix of If They Move Kill 'Em by Primal Scream at the kind of volume that causes small children to defecate on a semi-regular basis during my second year at uni, and my housemate wasn't keen on noise-as-art-bollocks at all. In halls though, the bastards I lived with for the first term thought EVERYTHING I played was weird. Tragedy by Steps was their favourite dancing tune of that term. They're probably in marketting now.

― Nick Southall, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have a friend who is stuck living with someone that listens, constantaly, to top gun at "jet engine like volumes".

― dyson, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My flatmate, who also graces this board, doesn't like rock music except led zep and thin lizzy. Can you guess who it is yet?

He also doesn't like Eastenders, the Sopranos or 24 - the man is a fool!

― Robin, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the guy in the room above me in halls threatened to break my knee caps for playing Stereo Total last week. it was 3.30 in the morning...

― Wyndham Earl, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was playing the Streets the other day at work. My dad said he quite liked it. Shockah.

― nathalie, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"someone that listens, constantaly, to top gun at 'jet engine like volumes'" This guy is awesome! He knows Harold Faltermeyer is the Godfather of 80s movie themes.

― A Nairn, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my sister is none to impressed with any form of electronic music that i listen to...dunno about my parents,they like some of the classical music i listen to,but probably not the rest...my dad walked in the other day when there was a kid 606 track on,and goes "so what's this,ambient techno then?" which was fairly wierd...

― robin, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I complained to the super about the coarse, ignorant Ukranian dickhead that keeps pounding on the wall every time I put a mellow Neil Young record on, at ONE on the volume knob. After my complaint, he can't bang anymore, so he puts on really loud techno music to fight me with sound... I'm trying to have him deported.

― Andy, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew L and his flatmate are old friends of mine. When Andrew L was playing his Cluster I was prompting the other party to put his Daphne & Celeste on. Disappointingly, no arguments ensued. They seem to be remarkably tolerant of one another.

My lodger only really likes gospel music, and he seems to make no distinction between the blandest crap and the great stuff. Presumably, it's about meaning for him rather than the music in itself. Since he's my lodger, I rule. He doesn't hang around long when I'm playing Atari Teenage Riot.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

while going through my psilocybin and miles davis phase i learned that to the untrained ear of my flatmate, bitches brew sounds like 12 people all playing solos at once. that album was a genuine source of irritation to the man, being that he preferred music that directly or indirectly extolled the virtues of snowboarding.
er ... to my trained ear bitches brew still sounds like 12 people playing all playing solos at once. i guess that's the point.

― fields of salmon, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the boredoms and all of their side projects. I was blasting DJ Pica Pica one day and my roommate barged in yelling turn down that schitzo rambling.

― Brock K., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My roommate really can't stand Cocteau Twins, who he's taken to calling "the crapteau twins" whenever I put them on. I would retaliate, but I can't come up with any good rips on the Goo Goo Dolls or Eagles, who he's been playing a lot of. Oh well... I'm not often in our living room, where his stereo is.

― lyra, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kind of volume that causes small children to defecate on a semi- regular basis

Impressive!

It never fails to surprise me how many house guests despise the Cocteau Twins. A friend of mine who normally enjoys everything I play when he's around DESPISES the Cocteaus, quite unreasonably I feel.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In my shared-flat days I had the (mis)fortune to share with a couple of hippy students, who used to love inviting friends over for little 'smoke and trance music' sessions...... I'd give them about 30 minutes to settle down, before retailiating by playing Great White Death by Whitehouse at full volume and stomping around the flat in a crazed fashion.

Highly amusing (for me anyway)

― Baxter Wingnut, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wayhey! everything i listen to, practically! that is in liz's case; dean doesn't complain about anything really. liz doesn't like: patti smith, any riot grrrl, king loser, or anything that might be played in a gay club. lucky that isn't the only music i listen to, it might be a flat made in hell.

― di, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents hate it when I listen to Peter Brotzmann and Evan Parker and John Zorn really loud. Well any high noise Free Jazz and Rock really.

― Geoffrey Balasoglou, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have not played any Carter since moving in! My new flatmates have not played anything too dreadful yet though I drew the line at loud Lloyd Cole at half four in the morning - it turned out that this was the work of our guests, two regular posters here who will go nameless on this occasion.

― Tom, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend who's partial to Tony Christie's 'avenues and alleyways'... that pisses everyone off, it's just ugly!

― JameZ, Thursday, 16 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One housemate was learning to play 'Achy Breaky Heart' on guitar for a talent show (w/much irony on top) & I retreated to my room & put on 3rd & final report of Throbbing Gristle at full blast, that got the point across. I don't think they liked Flying Luttenbachers much either.

― daria gray, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got picked up the other day by my floormates for playing the Dsico bootleg of "Don't Call Me Baby" vs "Song 2". One wanted to know how the hell I could desecrate "Don't Call Me Baby", and the other wanted to know how I could mess around with "Song 2". The fuckwits.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Pogues and They Might be Giants

― Lord Custos 2.0 beta, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too many to mention! But especially Dub Reggae and anything close to Drill'n'bass. My flatmate will only tolerate horrible funk, tarantino soundtracks, very shit jazz cafe styles and that sort of thing. Although i can see why drill gets irritating, I don't get the beef with Dub. He says that he hates the crap echo effects they use (which i absolutely revel in). They can't bear Horace Andy, saying that his (gorgeous) voice is too high pitched and girly.
My flatmates hate any kind of rock/metal etc as well, writing off anything with an electric guitar in it as "juvenile whiny pointless angry crap". Fair enough, if applied to Limp Bizkit etc, but I wouldn't dare say that about, say Electric Wizard, Opeth or Earth. Still, I guess it all sounds the same to the untrained ear.
so what do i do in retaliation? Cus my flatmate's music of course. I revel in showing self-induced ignorance to Phil's 13-cd wide collection of funk-lite, noodly jazz piano and film soundtracks as "gay disco shite", even though he does own the odd thing i will tolerate. It's all a lot of fun and games in our pad, as you can imagine.

― dog latin, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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