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Turn it down!
Posted Monday, February 9, 2009, at 2:06 PM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
Warm weather is wonderful, but it brings its hazards. People start driving around with their windows rolled down and their stereos blaring.
I'm never going to criticize anyone for their taste in music. I love cheesy old Neil Diamond as much as I do Mott the Hoople and Jethro Tull, but I'd rather have a root canal without pain killer than listen to rap, hip hop or ABBA. I'm not going to force you to listen to my Jack Johnson or Grateful Dead -- so why are you forcing me to listen to rap or country? Turn the stereos down, please. If it's loud enough to hurt my ears, can you imagine what it's doing to yours? I love the fact that you love your music -- but I'd love it even more if you'd keep it to yourself. Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
Mary Reeves is a staff writer for the Times-Gazette.
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Get their attention and tell them they have a flat tire. At least they will pull over and you won't have to hear them.
I am sorry if my Eminem offended you this morning, it offends me sometimes as well. I do try to be careful when the windows are down and I am in town and around people, but I am guilty of not always paying close attention. I have always liked loud music, if I cannot feel it; I would rather just turn it off.
memyselfi - I'm with you.
I always blare my tunes in the car - of course it's usually Leonard Cohen or George Harrison, so I don't know how offensive they are to others.
Don't these drivers know what the law is regarding loud music? I doubt they will pull up beside an officer bursting their eardrums -- and get away with it.
I agree with you now that I'm 40, but when I was a teenager I was one of those kids with the blaring stero. I can see both sides and I understand the damage they are doing to their ears but I did it too.
I haven't figured out how to listen to my radio in a convertible without the people around me from hearing it ...
Well, as much as it annoys me now that I am a little bit older (30's), I must admit it. Yes, I was also guilty of the same thing about 10 years ago. I had a BIG sounding car stereo system. It was the cool thing to do. All the girls my buddies were all chasing around at that time(none of them over 25 years old)loved the loud booms more than we did. I suppose you could compare a big sounding car stereo to the old muscle cars screaming down Madison Street. The way I hear it told by my folks, many young gear heads of the 60's-70's spent their weekends tightening the bolts on an old Chevy 350 to get the most raw horsepower for weekend drag races down Wartrace Pike. Likewise, teens these days tweak and compare stereos, looking for the best sounding, loudest noise possible. Whichever the case, ego is at stake. For today's generation, show is more popular than go.
I usually only turn it up real loud while going down the highway, it's people that can't drive that get on my last nerve!
Well, i am one of the obnoxious ones, but i get back at the rappers. I have a really good stereo.. and when the rappers pull up beside me and start that MF'N this and that music.. i usually pop in the Who or Metallica or something that would drive the hip hop community to prozac.. AS for my hearing, i used to be a drummer. My hearing blew out a long time ago from the moniters near the kits...So i play music loud.
I am the obnoxious 46 year old next to you playing the Sex Pistols or Zeppelin. LOUD
4fabfelines, I'm with you on that one! I'm the 40 year old with 2 12's bumpin Megadeth when the rappers pull up beside me! Otherwise i try to at least be respectful to others at red lights.
Love using the Sex Pistols! I did once take a trick out of Mars Invades movie and used my mom's Slim Whitman tape.
yeah i know i do it to be obnoxious but i really hate rap.. i tried to listen to it, to give it a chance.. i heard nothing but Kill, disrepect..treat women awful.. so i do not feel bad turning on the Who's Teenage Wastland full blast..
Give me Hank Jr. and all the bad boys of Souther Rock, little bit of ACDC or Kiss mixed in.
Though lately about all I listen to is Gaithers and Southern Gospel
Give Phish, Widespread Panic, or Leftover Salmon a shot. Those are great bands for just cruising.
I can't resist!! I have to respond to this..
I am also an old 80's rockhead. Blaring stereo and all!!
The only point I have to make is this. It's America, true. You have a right to hear what you want, true.
However, don't force your music on someone else, you never know what you'll get in return. ;)
As I told my Kids when they were growing up "music is to be enjoyed, not endured". So keep it down to a decent decibel level so it will not damage your hearing or of those around you.
In my younger days I spent 10 years listening to 4,360 cubic inch displacement engines pulling 65 inches of manifold pressure (how would you fellows like to have one of those under the hood?) driving big 19 foot diameter propellors. That took care of my low frequency hearing. Then I spent 6 years on jets and that took care of my hight frequency hearing. Today I wear two hearing aides and even then miss a lot of what goes on around me.
Even with my bad hearing and without hearing aids installed I can hear some of your THUMP THUMP THUMP from a quarter mile away. What would happen if your house was on fire or your parents were being rushed to the hospital with a heart attack and the emergency vehicle came up behind you with its siren on? You'd never hear it and could very possibly be the cause of someone's house burning to the ground or of someone's death. That's just something you might want to consider before turning the volume up. You may think it's cool but in reality it's more like stupid.