to play my music in my back garden?

[HighwayDragon]

It's warm here, I'm sat outside basking in the sun, listening to 90s classics. I've just heard my neighbour complain loudly about the "bloody noise" to her dh. It's not loud at all. So aibu to ignore them and carry on listening to Shania twain, backstreet boys, bwitched etcetc?

Ah, she made up for it when she bought me a PVC trench coat in my gothy teen years. :o

And I'll have you know, I love Europe!

We have had neighbors that have they're music at full blast in the summer,it's a flaming nightmare.

It's weird were we live,there's a big age gap between us and our neighbors,were the youngest.So I think everyone expects us to be loud.

But we don't have music playing in the garden,no dogs left outside barking,we don't let the children scream out there(and ruin everyone elses enjoyment of they're gardens)don't cut the grass or the hedge till after 9 am(in case any of the neighbors are still asleep)the children don't go into the garden till after 9 am.Don't burn stuff in garden,unlike one of our nightmare neighbors who waits until the sun is out and then burns stuff everyday(God knows what she's burning)for hours on end.

And if were having a BBQ we let the neighbors know so they can get any washing in of they're line.

I wish our neighbors returned the favors!

I was thinking about this thread whilst cooking dinner and playing music with the window open and realised a pattern.

One must mow ones lawn as otherwise one might appear slovenly.
One must do DIY/home improvements (astounded nobody has mentioned this) as ones home must be somewhat attractive.
One's children must make noise as nobody has figured out how to shut the little buggers up.
One might occasionally have to speak in ones garden but loud chatter, especially if involving alcohol is presumably not ideal.

But to make ones neighbours aware of ones presence simply for pleasure with some music or perhaps a BBQ from time to time is a sin.

It's a position of deep joylessness imo. Only be heard if you simply can't help it, and definitely not if it's enjoyable.

I never thought much of Shania Twain but my neighbours are out bbqing, drinking, shouting and listening to the most awful music I have ever heard until late pretty much every night recently.

There's sometimes 15+ of them, standing amongst the broken fridges and furniture, round the bbq turning the meat with garden shears lol. So glad I'm moving in a few weeks can't take another summer of that shit!

Somebody playing a bit of pop music on their tablet of an afternoon would be a welcome change.

Personally can't get that bothered about music - even if not to my taste.

My old neighbours yelling obscenities, screaming constant unfollowed through threats to dcs, and conducting difficult phone calls at top of voice - drove me nuts!

Europe??! Oh dear..your poor thing

What's so wrong with silence!!?? Why do people NEED constant noise? Am I the only one who actually never listens to music? If I find myself in a quiet place, car, garden, bath, I enjoy the peace and quiet and have a good old fashioned think about things. I wonder if people who can't bear to be in silence are a bit dim if they get bored when alone.

Yes Europe.

I wanted to walk down the isle to the opening 'DOO DOO DOOOO DOOOO' of The Final Countdown but DH thought it might be a bad omen.

Ahhh we had this - various (shite imo) music...not exactly blaring but loud enough to be irritating - especially cos they didn't work and rarely went out so were out there EVERY sunny day (bar a week a year they went away - bliss) Their family used to come round too - did feel like suggesting they went to visit occasionally...
And if it wasn't that he also thought he could play the guitar and sing - and he really couldn't. (Notice someone else had that problem too upthread) ...really came close to losing it a couple of times and shouting 'STFU'. (Or starting to howl )
Finally what used to really really drive me insane was when they sat on their decking watching the TV through the patio doors - with the volume right up so they could hear it ...
So YANBU if it is not too loud and it is a one off ...YABU if you want to do it every sunny day (get earphones).

Yabu. Your rights end where they impinge on other people's quiet time. Get a pair of headphones then you can listen as loud as you like without annoying everyone else.

Nunks, no you're not alone... I love quiet time. Love it.

I salute your husband - obviously a man of better musical taste than you!

If it is annoying your neighbour, it is too loud. Why not wear earphones?

He wanted Bonnie Tyler.

YANBU - beautiful day today and i did my gardening to a soundtrack of Celine Dion from one side and rock classics from the other . I dream of moving to a detached house in the middle of nowhere.

I listened to the football on the radio today when doing some gardening. Is that allowed in MN world?

Oh no, this thread has made me nervous about my future. At the mo we live in a nice terrace of squashed together houses and tiny gardens with low adjoining walls. Everyone enjoys their gardens when the sun shines: People talk over the walls to one another, bbq, listen to music, share beers round, kids all play, dp has even been know to get the bongos out . I always thought this was normal!! Have I been wrong all this time??

We're looking to buy soon so will have to move... Statistically seems I am more likely to move next to one of you noise haters!! Gulp...

Get the bongos out is not a euphemism BTW, just realised that sounds a bit weird, even for our fun-loving little terrace.

I withdraw my salute...

What really is the diffence of listening to music inside your home with the windows open and playing it quietly in your garden?

None.

Yes, that must be it nunks people who listen to music are all a bit dim

I don't think there is anything wrong with some music being played in the garden at the level op is describing - even I don't like the music the faint sounds of music on the wind on a summer's day amongst the children running up and down the street playing is nice. Beats hearing the cars going past constantly lol.

However if there is booming bass and I can hear the music in the furthest part of my house as though I was playing it myself in my room than yes it is far too loud and bloody annoying.

YABU people who play music in the garden should be shot. (Neighbour two houses behind us - I'm looking at you!)

movealongnow feel free to move our way, we're a sociable bunch here too.

What really is the diffence of listening to music inside your home with the windows open and playing it quietly in your garden?

When you are listening to it in your house only you can hear it, unless you have it very loud. When you are listening to it in your garden if it is loud then everyone can hear it.