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DH told neighbours off for playing Phil Collins

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AtotheZ · 09/06/2021 13:51

Both DH and I are working at home. Terraced house. Next door neighbours are fairly noisy. We are both very stressed at the moment as our autistic child has a serious ongoing health crisis and we're waiting for some important news.

I've thought for a long time now that DH is also on the Autistic Spectrum (as well as his child, his sibling and nieces are diagnosed with ASD). He has sensory issues to do with noise, and he is very, very particular about music. Music snob level. He gets visibly very disturbed if music he hates is played.

This lunchtime our neighbours were playing Phil Collins very, very loudly. It went on for a long time. We could hear it very clearly and loudly even with our back door closed. DH popped his head out of the back door and shouted: "whoever is playing Phil Collins, turn it OFF. And get some musical taste".

I am mortified. Phil Collins ceased immediately, but there was then some very loud and angry sounding discussion between the Syrian couple next door in Arabic or Farsi.

DH has never done anything like that before, but has had a go at the same neighbours because their kids were repeatedly throwing balls into our garden and back off our house.

DH said that people who play Phil Collins don't deserve respect. I was thinking of asking him later to apologise, or apologising myself. Advice please?

OP posts:
Badoukas · 09/06/2021 22:33

We had this and my husband wanted to storm round and protest. I said easy lover, let's give it one more night and against all odds it miraculously stopped.

3luckystars · 09/06/2021 22:44

In the hot weather like this, with annoying noisy neighbours outside, I just wish it would rain down.

Regarding Phil Collins, if you like him, he seems to have an invisible touch, he reaches in and grabs control of your heart.

Team Phil.Smile

AtotheZ · 09/06/2021 22:53

Update: no, DH does not like Green Day.

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UnnecessaryFennel · 09/06/2021 22:58

Good to know, OP Grin

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 09/06/2021 23:17

@AtotheZ

Update: no, DH does not like Green Day.
thanks. I love him a bit less now. I'm sure he'll be devastated 🤣
WithANameLikeDaniCalifornia · 09/06/2021 23:23

I can hear the song in my head right now. Oh god, why do I want Cadbury’s chocolate all of a sudden?

AtotheZ · 09/06/2021 23:23
Grin
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Gottalovesummer · 09/06/2021 23:38

Just remembered another good Phil song

"Separate lives"

So that makes 2 good ones then

CasaBonita · 10/06/2021 09:34

I like a bit of Phil personally

JeanClaudeVanDammit · 10/06/2021 10:18

I’m playing a bit of Phil today. At an appropriate volume of course.

Bluesheep8 · 10/06/2021 10:35

Fine to object to the noise level and point it out. Not so much to comment on other people's musical taste.
And as for Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel has a lot to answer for Grin

Lipz · 10/06/2021 10:41

Will your dh please come over to mine and have a word with my dick for brains neighbour who constantly plays James Blunt and Boyzone!! We're on the 6th time off goodbye my lover!!

BogRollBOGOF · 10/06/2021 12:59

Complaining about volume, fine.
Complaining about taste particularly for something fairly mainstream, unreasonable.

I'm not convinced that OP and her DH have a groovy kind of love. Grin

I was relieved when the Sunday afternoon Barry Manilow fan moved a couple of years after we moved in.

My halls experience was mired by being sandwiched between two Mariah Carey fans. She'd just released a very popular song that involved singing in 14 parts thar was relentlessly played everywhere. They played it on either side of my wall at different points of the song so Mariah was wailing in 28 parts out of synch with herself. That's a sensory assault!

KatherineJaneway · 10/06/2021 21:42

Will your dh please come over to mine and have a word with my dick for brains neighbour who constantly plays James Blunt and Boyzone!!

Phil Collins is in another league compared to those guys

BluTangClan · 10/06/2021 22:12

Surely no one can hate Easy Lover?! That bass line!

BluTangClan · 10/06/2021 22:29

Does he like Huey Lewis & The News?

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