Posted on 04/04/2009 10:34:38 AM PDT by kimmie7
Okay guys, while I applaud the entrepreneurial (sp?) spirit of the young men down the street, while they wash cars for folks they keep their stereos going.
Surprise of all surprises, they never play a lovely concerto or opera. They play ghetto "music". All you can hear is bass and the occasional obscenity.
Because I am an old, um, severely un-tanned woman, I plan to play music as I wash the minivan, weed the flowerbed, walk to the mailbox, whatever...whenever they are playing their music. That's right folks - a regular Battle of the Bands!
Keeping in mind they would love much of the very "music" we hate...I'd like your suggestions to add to my boom box sitting on the front porch. Opera, Polka, what do you suggest? And to keep them interested I'll need a good variety.
Because these concerts will end when they realize they need to turn theirs down (and they will, I think. They don't seem to be bad kids...just kids) the selections will need to be cheap and easily obtained.
Definitely Old Country - Hank Williams, Sr, Faron Young, Porter Waggoner, Flatt and Scruggs, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, etc. Drives the homies insane.
Australian didgeridoo and Finnish folk music. (Try your library - it has a dead reindeer on the cover.) But only if you want your neighbors to commit suicide. The soundtrack from “The Big Chill” will cause mental trauma, too.
I used to play “Loudest Wagner Selections” through the walls at my dorm neighbors, back in the 80s.
a sound effects recording from Star Trek.
The phaser sounds should scare ‘em!!
Instead of being ‘’Passive/Agressive’’, why don’t you go and introduce yourself to them and directly communicate a polite request? Imagine that!
What I usually do when I’m stuck sitting at a light next to somebody blasting rap music, I like to put on some country western as loud as it goes. They often seem quite startled at my audacity. I’ve never gotten any kind of response except for surprised looks and rolled up windows.
Why play something you might find obnoxious as well? How about some very loud Gregorian Chant? It hath powers to soothe the savage beast.
In a gadda deveda long version on repeat mode.
Or the theme from bonnie and clyde.
Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyres" will get attention, especially when played very loudly.
If the direct adult approach thingy fails, and they are punks, then I vote with SnakeDoc and think that his Holst ‘’Mars’’ Suite will work awesomely! (If not, anything from Collective Soul should do the trick!)
“Why play something you might find obnoxious as well? How about some very loud Gregorian Chant? It hath powers to soothe the savage beast.”
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OMG!!! I traveled to the end of this thread to suggest a CD of Gregorian Chants that I have. I play it when I’m working very late at night as background music. Can there really be two of us on earth, not to mention on one forum!?!?!?!
Slim Whitman. Zamfir.
anything by air supply or anything by Slim Whitman.
I’ll help, my roommate and I have this same argument all the time, (however, I am on the ghetto music side... I have a thing for Christian rappers. My roommate states that my music is worse than our alarm in the morning. I think the same thing about her music):
The Cd that she has in the moment that is quite aptly name is called Dreaming of revenge by Kai King, great one. Also the songs I quite hate:
Anything from Andrew Llyod Webber, evanescence (that woman voice makes me cry) Celtic women, and any type of Opera known to man. Classical and rock opera are tolerable, and I think that those guys would enjoy Techno as much I do (more than tolerable)
Also toss in some Disney (I would recommend Aladdin and Beauty and the beast), and some Pokemon and Barney, just for variety. Also toss in some Irish, like Flogging Molly. Hope that helps, just never ever play any of this music near me...
Gregorian Chants should do the trick.
Those monks were the original “rappers.” LOL!
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