Apyuxjj.112 net.music utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!pyuxjj!rlr Mon Mar 15 09:32:06 1982 Re: Disco neighbors My current housemates, when they lived at Princeton faculty housing, had their own problems with loud music coming from their neighbors' apartment. Every Sunday morning at 6 am (!!!!!!) this turkey would tune in a classical music radio station and play his stereo at FULL BLAST!!!! Now, my friends have rather diverse and eclectic taste; they listen to Stravinsky about as often as they listen to Throbbing Gristle. But SIX AM ON SUNDAY MORNING!!!?? They tried asking nicely. They tried asking firmly. They tried asking with a lacrosse stick. They tried pointing their speakers at his wall (a moment of sheer desperation) and played the Sex Pistols. They even tried jamming his radio signal.... What's the point? The point is that, yes, authorities are more accepting of loud classical music than loud popular music. Why?????? I call this discriminating on the basis of musical taste. Whether one plays Ludwig van or Roll Over or (God forbid!) A Fifth of (Beethoven, that is), LOUD is LOUD! The fact that more cases of this loudness involve popular music is probably assical listeners. So all you classical retaliators, come down off your high horse (I've always wanted to use that phrase!). I wouldn't mind hearing Le Sacre du Printemps at 100 dB, but there are those who like Stravinsky about as much as you like the Rolling Stones. To each his/her own. Let he/she who is without guilt blast the frist (that's first) tone. --rich ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.