My Neighbors’ Music Is Driving Me Crazy

I'd give it an hour then I'd call the police. I have music producers living next door and I have to call the cops on them every now and then.

Zero hours. Seriously. If they want to listen to thrash metal at a volume that bothers the neighbours, the cunts should go live in a detached house in the country.

Geez, R1. Can't you just reach some kind of happy compromise with the neighbors before bringing the police into it?

OP, you type poor.

Feel for you OP.

I live next to a continually neighbours with TWO continually yapping and barking dogs.

The neighbourhood has sent them letters, but they remain oblivious.

Last night and early this a.m., I was playing scenarios of those dogs in my head as they barked for hours.

Arrrgggghhhh.....

R5, oh...the ones with screaming dogs are always tough calls because you know the animals are being neglected but not as neglected as they’d be if taken away to a kill shelter.

2nd question: how do people wind up deciding Metal is their music of choice? How does anyone fucking like that shit?

You can call animal care and control R5. They will visit them. If they keep doing it they will be fined. It helps if you have audio of the dogs barking.

We have different taste in music R6. There is a lot of music I don't like that would drive me crazy if I had to listen to it for even 5 minutes. There are probably a lot of people that don't like the music I listen to.

I would give them a note saying if I have to listen to your music can you please play: and include a long specific playlist.

My neighbours do this too OP. They're new on the street so I assume they're testing all of us to see what they can get away with.

r3, r1 here. I tried to compromise with mine. Many, many times. I was polite each time and they would turn it down, leave for a few hours, return, and increase the volume late that night. It became necessary to call the police when they play their music late. If it's on for an hour during the day, I let it go usually but I did try.

They're doing it again.

How can anyone possibly actually like this music?

My neighbor has been blasting music since Sunday afternoon.

He opens his windows and cranks the music up and sings along with it. It's all hip hop and rap with thumping bass.

I called our city by-law department but because of the virus many city employees are not working and I was told that an officer most likely won't be out any time soon. All they can do is mail a letter reminding this asshole of our city's noise ordinance.

For the past hour he's been playing the same song, Nelly's song The Fix which is a remix of Sexual Healing. The same fucking song over and over.

I saw him yesterday morning and I started to tell him to turn it down and he just ignored me and went into his house.

I am a metalhead. love it. I am also a polite neighbor.

want to know what MY neighbors did yesterday? mid day I hear cars honking. I run outside with a dog leash because that often means lose dog in traffic. nothing. k.

go back upstairs to work. more honking. and more. and. more. every car that goes by honks. I think it might be fundraising something or another. a few hours later I. can. not. take. any. more.

go stomping down the yard and see the neighbors have been sitting by the road with a huge sign 'you honk, we drink'. it likely was fun for them but 3 hours was sufficient for me.

r13, your patience astounds me.

Part of the problem is that people can get incredible speakers now for under $100. And buildings aren't soundproof. You don't have to be poor to be annoyed by a neighbor.

Just as i said this, a dude who has turned his garage into a woodworking shop (with electric saw) started his one to two hour per day working. the garage opens into an alley which magnifies the sound.

It's the subwoofers that are really the problem. Everything shakes. It doesn't even matter if the volume is low.

r16, in your case, yeah, acoustics.

R15 honestly I'm just biding my time. I'm surrounded by rental properties so I know how to deal with asshole neighbors.

R17 the jackass next door had his music so loud my windows were shaking. Your explanation makes sense.

My neighbor is playing that fucking Nelly song again!

How many times can you listen to the same song?

you should repeatedly call him on a blocked number and play that exact song either on his voicemail or in his ear in the middle of the night. really loudly, like full blast holding a headphone up to your phone speaker

You have my deepest sympathies OP.

I've temporarily relocated to a new city and the house I currently live in is built in a pretty new subdivision and that means zero sound proofing, apparently. I've been having to suffer through the noise of my neighbour's children playing basketball on their DECK, screaming at all hours on their trampoline, jumping on a POGO STICK on their wooden deck, playing with noisy self-balancing scooters, the list goes on. It's terrible. I can't wait until I move back to my old place, which was built in the 1970s, and at least seems to have SOME SORT of sound proofing to block out neighbourhood sounds.

R19 can you play the same song back over and over but even louder at 3am? It has to be the same song though. Without bothering other neighbours if you can.

Nothing's worse than a pumping bass. I once lived in an apartment, where I shared a wall with an electric bass player. He practiced his bass, about an hour a day, sometimes at 10 at night. My windows were shaking. At first, I didn't know where it was coming from since there were neighbors on each side and above and below me. Then I noticed that the shared wall was throbbing.

The neighbor on the other side of me thought that the noise was coming from my apartment. So she she cranked her stereo. Then I had loud music from both ends. And since I was in a studio apartment, I couldn't just go to another room to escape.

After a few days, I became blind with rage, and I'm usually a passive, non-reactive type person. I don't get how people can be so oblivious--or dismissive--about disturbing other people.

What has DL become? A dumping septic tank for obese, geriatric, disgruntled cunts?

Go cunting at people who wrong you, cunts. I have no time to scroll past your shitty threads now that there are too fucking many to ignore.

R20 sadly I don't know his number otherwise I'd call him ad blow a whistle into the phone.

R22 he sleeps during the day and stays up all night. I've thought about playing Dean Martin, or Sinatra starting at 7AM and let it play all day.

As a kid, my family lived next door to a couple of alcoholic boomers who would blast the worst music of the 70s all night long. We lived in the country, so only our house would hear it. It was awful.

Has anyone ever known a normal metalhead?

R13, he probably couldn't hear you. I'm not being sarcastic, he very likely has permanent hearing damage.

[quote]We lived in the country, so only our house would hear it. It was awful.

And here I was thinking that I bet living in the country would give a person peace and quiet. Guess I’ll forget that idea then.

I used to live in an isolated cabin on the coast normally so quiet you could hear the waves at night. However that just intensified people noise if it occured, like some idiots living nearby in a house who had a band.

It was really funny for the first six or so months I lived here. I swore that I’d met the husband, that he he was blonde and had a different name. And then this dark haired guy, with a different face & name kept waving and smiling at me and I’d just stare at him blankly, thinking, “Who the fuck is that?” And finally I clued in that somehow he was the guy next door even though he did not resemble the guy I was sure lived there at all.

R29 My family owned a double lot with our house in the middle and we could still hear them because they would put their speakers on their porch because that's where they drank.

I guess I am very lucky...my current neighbor plays classical piano. Before the lockdown you can hear the piano during lunch hours and in the evening. Now, it's mainly evening hours nothing after 10pm. In the past I lived above a hip hop DJ...I have lots of stories about that previous neighbor. I am very sensitive to noise disturbances, so I really feel sorry for the OP.

r27 :(!

The answer to this problem is always...

OPERA.

Full blast.

Aida or Ride of the Valkyries.

Metalheads HATE it. Kids on trampolines will flee.

Also invest in noise cancelling headphones.

I hate opera, too.

With previous bad neighbors in other living situations I’ve used Yoko Ono, Edith Piaf and Janis Joplin. the latter of whom 20 something straight bros absolutely loathe and respond to like they’re hearing some kind of brain pulverizing signal.

My neighbor had been blasting music for days. Then on Sunday I noticed something odd.

It was a nice day so neighbors were out doing things in their yards. Every time a neighbor was outside I noticed the music got much lower. Neighbors outside, music quiet. Neighbors go inside music starts blasting again. Kids outside playing, music goes quiet. Kids go inside music pounding again.

I decided to test my theory and waited for the street to be empty and went outside when the music was loud. I noticed it got louder. I looked at the guy's house and I could see him watching me through his curtains.

I had called a neighbor and asked her to go outside at a certain time. Sure enough the music got quiet when she went out.

When the music was quiet I went over to his side of the house and waited for my neighbor to go inside. The music went loud and I could feel the side of his house vibrating like he had speakers up against the wall.

R37, so you think he’s targeting you for torment?

How would u like to have to listen to only Prince music playlists and a Sheena Easton playlist. That my upstairs neighbor. No variety,

[quote]The answer to this problem is always... OPERA. Full blast. Aida or Ride of the Valkyries. Metalheads HATE it.

Not necessarily. I like metal AND opera- both are bombastic. Although I'm not a huge Wagner fan, I'm immune to his Ring Cycle because my dad used to blast it when we shared a condo. Neighbors called the cops on him several times. I was mortified.

The best way to listen to loud music is through earbuds, which blocks out background noise as well as just being a basic courtesy. My roommates and neighbors never knew I was a metal head because I didn't subject them to it.

I'd be willing to trade with you, OP, so long as you take my insipid pop music neighbor AND the Ranchero blasting neighbor in exchange.

R 39 I could deal with that, I think.

R38 it does seem that way.

R42, has he done other creepy stuff? Have you had other encounters with him?

R43 he moved in a couple years back and frankly we've had very few interactions. I haven't done anything to hassle him or bother him. We've pretty much ignored each other and I've been happy with that. Why he started this shit with the music I have no idea.

R44, do you share a wall with him or are you all in separate houses? Are you plotting relatiation or hoping he gets just bored with this game?

Detached houses R45 but sadly too close together. I'm trying my best to ignore him. He's been quiet for two days now so I'm hoping he's found something shiny and new to distract him for the time being.