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Mon Mar 15 09:32:06 1982
Re: Disco neighbors
<FLAME ON>
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

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