Is there anything more awful that next door's constant music playing on outdoors speakers?

[Sooty20235]

Why do people subject to their neighbours to this? Even with the doors closed all we can hear is boom boom boom. It's quiet music but lots of bass that rings through the house and makes sitting outside awful.
Have tried to ask them to turn down bass at least but quietness lasted a few days then went back on.

If you frequently play music outside how do you justify it to yourself?

As long as it’s not regular and very predictable in duration and intensity… I don’t mind this stuff so much. it’s part and parcel of urban or suburban life.

I want to be comfy being myself at home and that means occasionally playing music in the garden, having a BBQ, and about once every six weeks firing up the pizza oven. I’m sure that’s annoying if every day you are counting on quiet, listening only to radio 2 on your Alexa (😂) or are drying your washing at the time but you do stuff that’s annoying to me, too, even though you might not realise.

live and let live. It’s a much nicer way to exist providing no-one takes the absolute piss.

I had a noisy fucker neighbour who used to play his music really loud. He was so noisy, we could hear our own TV in the same room as us. It was drowned out by the noise he made through the wall.

The times I fantasised about going away for a week, borrowing some fuck off speakers and playing the Barney song on repeat just to piss him off and give him an earworm he'd never forget.

The previous tenants warned us on the day we moved in and said their requests to quieten.it down fell.on deaf ears. We asked nicely after an hour of thumping music so loud, the walls shook but he just didn't give a shit.

Didn't feel bad when he got seriously ill and had to go into care (he wasn't old). We just relished the silence.

Incidentally, we never heard the neighbours on the other side. 3 different neighbours came a d went and we never heard them. That's how bad this guy was! Inconsiderate prick!

It’s all subjective though. I often enjoy the gentle thrum of distant music and also love the sound of kids playing by the pool or on the beach. I like hearing people enjoying themselves. Obviously not if it’s relentlessly pounding shit euro pop for 24 hours a day but in moderation …. Different strokes and all that.

Also, there are places you can go if you want silence on holiday. Mainstream resorts in popular destinations aren’t it. If you know you really want to switch off completely pick somewhere very remote or very posh where there isn’t communal music or people broadcasting YouTube. I’m poor so second isn’t an option but first always is and is often much, much cheaper then more popular places.

Yes, the neighbour screaming aggressively at his children while playing Savage Garden. Social services have been informed numerous times and don't give a shit (about the children, not his shit taste in music).

One of the downsides of nice weather.. music, loud talking, chavs, inconsiderate people. Cold weather brings peace

Boom boom
Boom boom
Boom, boom, boom.
Boom boom, boom boom
Boom, boom, boom.
Sorry, couldn't resist!

I hate hate hate it. We had one particularly noisy neighbour who played music in his garden constantly. I wanted to commit murder during covid. Then he moved out and a lovely couple moved in who were very quiet. They moved last summer and you guessed it, the new people play music in their garden constantly.
It makes sitting out impossible.
I would love to live in the middle of my own 5 acres but sadly I can’t afford it. I’ll keep playing the lottery.

If she needs constant music does she wear headphones so her neighbours aren't subjected to it too?

I have got that today from neighbours on both sides 🫣🤣😱 That’s how they express their happiness. It happens roughly 8-10 days out of 365. And they are too thick to exercise self control so we don’t even attempt to talk to them.

Suspect I'm only one of a few who knows what you're talking about;)

My neighbour used to play the exact same album on repeat really loudly every time the sun came out, it used to drive me mad. Thankfully they've moved now but you have my sympathy.

Are you in fact Julia in Motherland and is your friend called Meg?

Yes. Next door neighbours fucking insane King Charles cavalier spaniel which barks dementedly and endlessly and which they make no attempt to control.

actually, it’s the neighbours not the dog which is the issue same as you. I really do sympathise. The selfish fuckers.

Music is particularly antisocial because it's so intrusive and tastes vary so much and modern sound systems mean that from a distance all you can hear is a thumping base. I wouldn't mind a bit of tinny radio coming from next door but I can't stand the thump thump thump. It's deeply antisocial to play music outside imo. Every now and then maybe if you're having a party and you warn your neighbours, ok.

The absolute worst,

there is absolutely no excuse for playing music outside unless you’re wearing headphones.

I agree it's very selfish to play loud music outside.

I only light a fire in my garden if the wind is blowing away from neighbours. The reality is that if you live around other people, you can't really just be 'comfy' and do whatever you want.

I have no issue with listening to kids playing but 4 or 5 different audio inputs, simply because people don't think of anyone but themselves is too much.

In the same boat at the moment though, can't afford a hugely upmarket place so just plugging my earphones in and ignoring as much as possible

Hmmm, the thwack thwack thwack of a football against a fence (not my fence )
Or the constant yap yap yap of the dog NDN has decided not to train

My previous NDN son used to play the the most godawful music till 3am. I punished the fucker by putting the vacuum cleaner on against the wall which a-joined his bedroom and closing the door .

Ah,the joys of warm weather! Just what is it that seems to bring out the cunty behaviour of a certain percentage of the population the moment the thermometer goes above 24 degrees?

Tenant at the back of my house moved out mid-March, the landlord is selling up. When she moved in with her daughter's and her partner it was fine, and they had a third child, a boy. Less than a year later her and the partner split and he moved out. She spent hours in the garden chain smoking, and talking loudly on hands free on her mobile. No exaggeration, hours. Her son had one volume level - shouting, probably because it was the only way he could get her attention as she's permanently glued to her phone. Her hands free calls were usually about the most recent crisis in her life, the ex partner, new partner, her sex life (all in graphic details) etc. It was almost as if she thought that somehow because she was in her garden, she has some invisible force field around her, that prevented sound travelling! All the neighbours who's gardens face in the same direction as hers, could hear every single word she said, and whoever she was talking too as well!! Literally zero self awareness, didn't care if it was 6.30 am or 1 am either!! Wintertime was slightly better, as it is darker in the evenings, colder and raining, but then she'd just stand in the conservatory with the doors wide open!! Honestly, since she's moved it's been bliss!! We're hoping the property sells and someone nice moves in.

Yes, living in a house where someone plays crap music all day.

I text my dad just yesterday about my scummy neigbbours and their chav music blasting out!

I expect neighbours want to feel “comfy being themselves” in their gardens too but feel tense and uncomfy because of intrusive music. Headphones ( for the pp) is the way to go. No one wants to hear other people’s music