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An estate agent's nightmare

Vulpes Vulpes's picture

The house next door to mine is currently for sale; if I wanted to make sure it stayed empty, I'd put buyers off with the following selections at seismic volume:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Skinny Fists
King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic
Burial - Untrue
Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
White Noise - Electric Storm

Can anyone suggest any more works that Mr and Mrs Average might find so unsettling they decide to live elsewhere?

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Anything

And I mean anything by Whitehouse, Prurient, Merzbow, Painkiller, Sutcliffe Jugend - Power Electronics will never fail to drive the unwary away..trust me.

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Grant | 2 March 2008 - 7:31pm

Woah!

I only meant to scare them off, not send them screaming over the nearest cliff!

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 March 2008 - 10:50am

Honestly....

How is that anything other than bloody minded noise?

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Liam Hatchet | 3 March 2008 - 6:04pm

Rent your spare room to Motorhead...

...your neighbour's lawn will die.

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Paul Waring | 2 March 2008 - 8:15pm

Maybe not Mr & Mrs Average but...

A friend of my parents once told us how a group of Third Day Adventists would regularly hold their meetings at the house next door to hers, and meetings would frequently involve extended periods of chanting. Eventually, it got too much and she carefully positioned both speakers against the sharing wall, turned the volume up to 11 and put on "Bat Out Of Hell". Apparently they never had a meeting there again.

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Simon Hoyle | 2 March 2008 - 8:43pm

This ought to do the trick

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Seamus | 2 March 2008 - 9:54pm

Heck, I love that album,

but I'm not sure I'd like anyone else who likes it moving in next door...
...sound of "Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish" at ear splitting volume from somewhere next door.... cackling laughter..... someone trys to start up a chainsaw out in next door's garden, grunting obscenely with every pull of the starter... chainsaw roars into life.... sound of splintering wood as chainsaw chops into larchlap fence panels....chainsaw screams at high pitch as remains of fence fall away... more cackling laughter..... chainsaw rattling, idling ding-ga-ding-ga-ding, as it gets closer to the house, waiting for something new to chew... a knock on the back door...

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 March 2008 - 9:56am

Which gives me an excuse to post this...

...clip of Beefheart & The Magic Band live in Belgium in 1969

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Seamus | 3 March 2008 - 10:27pm

Slayer

"Reign in Blood" annoys my neighbours. If they are music lovers,anything by any X factor contestant should do the trick.

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Sour Crout | 2 March 2008 - 11:38pm

Legende/Malicorne

A compilation of the seminal french folk rockers should see 'em off. Marvellous stuff that I have never found anyone else sharing a like of.

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Retropath2 | 3 March 2008 - 8:02am

Foetus

Anything by industrial noise-funster Jim Thirlwell in his "Foetus" guise ought to do the trick. His "Nail" album, by Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel has the distinction of being the only album I own that has twice driven guests to ask me to turn it off. Can't understand it myself - I think it's a splendid racket. The best-of compilation, "Sink", credited to The Foetus All-Nude Revue, should also send any prospective neighbours in search of alternative accomodation.

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Paul Vincent | 3 March 2008 - 9:17am

Fuck Off

.........by Wayne County and the Electric Chairs might do it. "If you don't wanna take a walk with me on my meat rack then you can get the hell off off my bread line"! etc. Delightful.

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Twangothan | 3 March 2008 - 9:18am

That's a good one!

I've got it on a gold vinyl 7 inch somewhere.

"If you don't want a piece of the action, baby, take a walk."

Now if I can only remember how to switch the turntable over to 45 rpm, which involves removing the platter and fiddling about with the drive belt I seem to recall, we're in business.

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Vulpes Vulpes | 3 March 2008 - 9:37am

the first record

that Jools Holland played on.

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Riccardo Gargiulo | 3 March 2008 - 10:43am

true story about Jools and the Electric Chairs...

and the story goes that when he contributed his part the vocal track hadn't yet been added. Couple of weeks later, a copy of the record turns up in the post and Jools, presumably still living at home, seizes it and summons Mum to hear his first waxing on the family Dansette. Imagine their surprise.

Wayne/Jayne County ... is she still around? Anyone read her book? is it any better than the records?

My vote for unlistenable dredge to scare away unwanted neighbours is of course Metal Machine Music.

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PhilC | 7 March 2008 - 4:50pm

That may well have been Squeeze,

..their evocatively titled first outing of 1978. Whilst it may not have, say, the charm of the next 2 or 3 platters, I for one would feel happy to move into a house next door to one that had that wafting thru' the widndows.

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Retropath2 | 3 March 2008 - 10:48am

Primal Screams

Exterminator. I liked their earlier stuff - I bought this and can't listen to it. You could also consider putting Joanna Newsom on continual repeat - you would get rid of the whole street with that or put them into a coma.

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Steve Turner | 3 March 2008 - 12:20pm

This ought to do it...


Crystal Castles: A reverberant Toronto based two-piece who use itchy bleeps generated by a Gameboy soundchip and a head-raging drum beat that evokes a maniacal migraine which disrupts the core. Like the a living, breathing incarnation of pain goose stepping with a pixelated elephant, whos trying to collect Polo's

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Liam Hatchet | 3 March 2008 - 6:10pm

Diamanta Galas......

.....anyone. You could also get Mrs Vulpes to mime it, naked at an upstairs window, covered in blood. If they still move in after that, be VERY worried.....

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Retropath2 | 3 March 2008 - 6:10pm

Or you could just dangle

Or you could just dangle your tackle out the window and give the neighbours a big wave n grin when they get to there new driveway.

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Liam Hatchet | 3 March 2008 - 9:55pm

Thanks, Liam

You've just helped me remember GG Allin, whose music I have never heard, but I expect I could review it, given his, um, reputation.... Now deceased, probably unsurprisingly, his stage show was much as you describe, albeit with the added value of coprophagia. Eat my shit or what!!

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Retropath2 | 4 March 2008 - 9:29am

For Gawd's sake, Ret

Don't get Liam started on that again. I'm trying to eat toast and Marmite here.

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Archie Valparaiso | 4 March 2008 - 9:51am

(said sarcastically)

I love my new reputation as 'He who talks shit (literally)''.

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Liam Hatchet | 4 March 2008 - 11:59am

I think Coprophasia.....

...would be talking shit. GG Allin ate it.
I suspect you needn't go that extra mile.

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Retropath2 | 4 March 2008 - 12:15pm

well...David Cameron seems

well...David Cameron seems to have taken it upon himself to 'go that extra mile''.

(Raises clenched fist) Satire.

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Liam Hatchet | 4 March 2008 - 12:37pm

Jesus And Mary Chain

Psychocandy; full volume feedback and distortion should do the job. Also, Stooges, Birthday Party (especially their live cover of Fun House) and the like. Make it loud, they will leave.

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TJ Dizzle | 4 March 2008 - 10:57am

Everybody needs good Neighbours

Why don't you want anyone to move in? I like having neighbours. Even the one who's taken up the guitar as part of his mid-life-crisis programme and attempts to play Stairway To Heaven all the time. If that‘s what you want though a teenage boy learning to play the drums would put off a prosepective buyer more than subsidence and copious asbestos.

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Richard Lowe | 4 March 2008 - 11:51am

Drummers next door

I knew the time for my mid life crisis had come when I moved in next door to a member of the Shadow Cabinet (the politically entitiy, not a band of that name) a couple of years ago.

Went straight out a bought the drum kit I had always wanted. So far, no reaction....but perhaps I should lose the dampening pads

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gunnerboy | 5 March 2008 - 7:09am

Shadow Cabinet

now THATS a great name for a band

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Riccardo Gargiulo | 7 March 2008 - 1:49pm

Neighbours

Many years ago, I had a visit from my neighbour who politely asked if I would turn the stereo down a bit. Since it was quite late and he had small children I thought this was a reasonable request and duly turned the volume down. A week or so later, around 11pm, I was treated to the sound of the same neighbour playing the Eastenders theme on his Bontempi home organ at what sounded like, maximum volume. Whether he was making a point or not I've no idea. He moved soon after.
Around the same time, I attended a party which had a visit from the police, asking the volume be turned down. This was done without the host's knowledge. On learning what had happened, he was most put out, began muttering about his killjoy neighbours and put on a Leonard Cohen album at maximum volume and sais 'That'll show 'em'. I'm still not sure exactly what he thought it would show them.

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Seamus | 4 March 2008 - 12:26pm

You could always try Sky Yen

Pete Shelley's early solo offering will do the trick if you can find an old vinyl copy and a deck.

Years ago a neighbour asked what religious music I had been playing the night before. Much head scratching ensued until the penny dropped. I think he must have heard the first PIL album thru' the party wall. Still easy mistake to make.

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Fiction Romantic | 4 March 2008 - 1:12pm

Take a page out his book...


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Liam Hatchet | 4 March 2008 - 1:27pm

Surely, surely

Metal Machine Music (all sides) turned up to 11, followed by a blast of Neil Young's Arc...

You'll have the local dogs howling for hours!

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Six Dog | 6 March 2008 - 12:39pm

Why not try

the torture playlist. It appears to work down Bagram way.

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Fraser Lewry | 6 March 2008 - 8:08pm
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