Back in the Eighties, I had an old station wagon. In it, I’d mounted an amplifier and an equalizer, and had it all wired to a pair of huge Electrovoice home stereo speakers in the back. I don’t/didn’t like my music loud, but I did like it clear and controllable.
I pulled up at a stoplight on Railroad Avenue in Pittsburg California, one day. Some youngster pulled up at the light, next to me, blaring some kind of noxious crap out of his stereo.
I responded with a full broadside of Bach’s toccata and fugue in d minor, beautifully done on a pipe organ in Ottawa, I think. It was the first and only time I ran that lash-up to it’s full potential. I had a headache after that for about a day and my ears rang for a bit longer.
The look on his face was priceless.
My DDH lived in an apartment complex composed of four apartments-2 up, 2 below. The guy directly below him was a DJ who worked at an “urban” radio station , and he’d play (c)rap music at all hours (he worked nights IIRC). Anyhow, DDH ignored this unless the racket went on past 11PM. Then DDH would take his enormous 1980s-era speakers, set them face down, and blast the 1812 Overture (the section with cannons in it) at the guy. The music below would cease, the 1812 overture would be stopped, and peace would reign. Neither man ever spoke directly to the other. I don’t know whether to call this nonverbal communication at its finest, or pure passive-aggressiveness, but it worked.
GREAT. Too bad you did not have some Emmerson, Lake, and Palmer to shoot at him.
Yes, the Toccata and Fugue is a good answer to anybody’s annoying music played too loudly. Another good answer is bagpipe music.
Similar story. Back when I lived in an apartment, a neighbor was playing his jungle music way too loud. I rapped on the wall a couple of times with no satisfaction. So I moved my speakers as close to our shared wall as possible and played Joan Sutherland's Puritani Act I Sc 2 at full volume. I never had a problem again.
ML/NJ
My fantasy is to have a pickup truck with the speakers that they use to play church bells in the back for just such a purpose.