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The house next door to me is going up for sale soon and I’d like to delay that process as much as possible. What would be the most annoying music I could play when prospective buyers are next door?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Reggae can be fun, especially to dance to, but when heard through a wall, you mostly hear the bass and all reggae has the same bass track. It's almost comical, like that beat is a requirement of the genre. After hours of reggae you'll wanna smash that stereo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Alright. Y'all ever hear about the shaggs?

A dad was told by a fortune teller that his yet-unborn kids were destined for musical stardom. After that, the dad had no choice but to force his eventual kids into a band.

These kids had no musical training. No sense of rhythm, no sense of pitch.

Their released music is the auditory equivalent of a child's crayon drawing hung on the fridge. It's astoundingly disjointed. It's all wrong. Frank Zappa said they're better than the Beatles. SOMEONE out there likes screamo. Some folks out there like bagpipes. Then what happens? Your neighbor loves blasting screamo. You've played yourself. Unless Frank Zappa is moving in, you'd be hard pressed to find a potential buyer that like the shaggs.

Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

When German people go to hell, or skiing, they are forced into little tents, served shitty overpriced beer, and are subject to repeated blows to their ears by a type of parasitic earworm whispered fearfully only in dark circles as "schlagermusik".

Once exposed to it, it eats into their brain and gets behind their eyeballs, forcing them to wear manic grins, and tap tables to the weak, incoherent, barely thought out beats drumming mercilessly into what's left of their soul.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Years after leaving the German part of Switzerland I still get A!-tem!-los! in my head out of nowhere sometimes :(

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[–] DarkFuture 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] Zahille7 8 points 4 days ago

There's a McDonald's down the block from me that plays nothing but Christian music all the damn time. I honestly feel bad for the employees.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

There's always the risk that people who visit the house next door are into whatever annoying music you're playing and end up moving there and blasting it for the rest of your life

[–] BreadOven 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

What's that dolphin-sounding song someone played during sex in that meme? That.

Alternatively, the brown note (assuming it's real).

Or like hardcore noise stuff. Is "Wall of sound" a type of it?

Edit: How could I forget Ram Ranch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] BreadOven 2 points 3 days ago

Yes! Cbat hahaha. Thanks.

[–] Chocrates 5 points 3 days ago

Clown Core is for those with discerning tastes.

[–] Stovetop 19 points 4 days ago

I'm just going to say Nightcore.

I get that Nightcore has an audience, but what makes it annoying for me is when I am trying to search for an obscure song and think I've found it, only to realize that it's yet another low-effort nightcore remix.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Regeaton and Trap 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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[–] makeshiftreaper 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm not certain about the most annoying, but this song is pretty bad

[–] davidgro 8 points 4 days ago

Exactly what I expected. Saved me from posting it, thank you.

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[–] Today 16 points 4 days ago (4 children)

A low pitched hum that they don't even notice until they leave and appreciate the silence when they're away from it.

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[–] BradleyUffner 6 points 3 days ago

It is, and always will be, children's music, like Baby Shark.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] daggermoon 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Just play loud ass black metal. The music doesn't have to be bad, It just needs to scare normies.

Edit: I thought of the most annoying music ever. Crunkcore! Play some Blood on the Dancefloor and people will fuck off to avoid listening to that shit.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Every Christmas song ever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“Wonderful Christmastime” by Paul McCartney is the worst song of all time and I’m willing to die on this hill

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[–] whaleross 13 points 4 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

They want to dissuade buyers by being a conspicuously noisy and annoying neighbor to the point that the house sits empty for a while.

Which, like, if your first thought is to do this, maybe you actually are an annoying neighbor and you're doing everyone a favor by letting them know.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Hey at least they're open with it. I'd have love to have known that my neighbours were cunts before I'd move in. Sometimes a simple sign short of a burning poop bag is a nice olive branch.

[–] Brkdncr 9 points 4 days ago

They are going to only get neighbors that also suck, and since it has to sell lower it will lower their own home value.

OP is really punching their own nutsack here.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

You need to look up Komar & Melamid. They did market research art, and they commissioned "The Least Favorite Song" after a survey that showed the least favorite features of songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Choice_Music#The_Most_Unwanted_Song

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean honestly through a wall the only annoying music is thumpy bass with a big subwoofer. Unless you're playing it suuuuuuper loud.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is not a judgement of the musical genre and I think it's way more profound and expressive than the average commodified pop music we have. However, I remember making a report about the history of music (for an arts appreciation class in college) and I ended the report with some Japanoise (a genre of noise music) like this one:

https://youtu.be/L7p_C9OlN40

The teacher was really delighted, but my classmates were like "WTF?"


EDIT: Reworded some confusing sentence construction

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Play banana phone on repeat 24/7 at max volume

[–] agent_nycto 3 points 3 days ago

Why try to delay it? Also trying to buy a house in this economy sheesh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I'll raise "Sales Call Abyss", a hold music made for torturing telemarketers if you have access to your work's phone exchange

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If you really want the sale to not happen, put any brazilian funk on max volume. "Proibidão" for the worst of the worst

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Opera singing and high pitched violin

[–] EnderMB 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why annoying?

Based on what kind of people they are, you might be able to get away with something else. Maybe play some Christian music if you think they don't want to live next to a god-botherer. If you're bible-belt, put one of those 24 hour Mecca livestreams on loud, and go do your grocery shopping or something.

If you want just plain annoying, you can't go wrong with Justin Bieber or tween pop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Christian music would definitely backfire where I’m from

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I'd break out the heavy metal or anything else that sounds "demonic"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If it won't get you in trouble, throw some cheap lawn ornaments up as well. Maybe get creative with loose hubcaps.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Baaabyyyyyy SHARK! Dolodolldoo, Baby shark dolldollodoo, baby shark !

[–] Hikermick 3 points 3 days ago

The Cattle Callin album buy Hank III. Every song is "music" played along with cattle auctioneers doing their thing

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