Richard Littler
Summer. The season that amply illustrates the maxim that people with the shittest taste in music are the very same people who play their music the loudest.
I have noise-cancelling headphones on, and I can still hear & *feel* the 'Dumpf, dumpf, dumpf, dumpf, dumpf' of hackneyed, cheesy eurohouse/pop.
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Show threadRichard LittlerJul 31, 2025
Just once, I'd like to be able to say, 'Wow, is someone playing Bitches Brew / Bartok quartets / The White Album / the Nyman-Greenaway soundtracks / Oneohtrix Point Never / Stravinsky ballets / or whatever at full blast?'
Show threadSusan CalvinJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler uptown girl?
Show threadJoeJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler I once (and this was ten years ago, so what the car symbolized was different than it would now) cycled past someone blasting Simon and Garfunkel out of a Tesla
Show threadRachelJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler Stravinsky never wrote the Rite of Summer, alas. Otherwise it would be good full volume music I’m sure
Show threadJon RoachJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler I'd do Beethoven's 9th from a Ford Fiesta quite a lot in the early 1990s...
Show threadMatthew NewellJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler I did make a mixtape for a drive to South of France with my big brother (in his knackered golf GTi) which had both Concerto for Orchestra and the Firebird on it, and he had numerous Beatles albums on tape so on that trip we definitely played at high volume at least three of your wishlist.
Show threadKid ManiaJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler
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Prospero's Books (opening credits extract)

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Show threadMark HobsonJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler I used to enjoy the confusion caused by playing Rossz Csillag Alatt Született from my Polo through town.
Show threadTaylor JessenAug 1, 2025
@Richard_Littler Apparently you're too far away to hear my speakers. #HelterSkelter #ShesCominDownFast #YesSheIs
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 31, 2025
@Richard_Littler I agree! Not a single time in my life has someone in a car on the street outside my house at 2:00am been playing Steely Dan or Gustav Mahler on high volume.
Show threadSusan CalvinJul 31, 2025
@LillyHerself @Richard_Littler oh, you're so lucky
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 31, 2025

@Susan_calvin What, you've heard Steely Dan or Gustav Mahler booming away on a car stereo in the middle of the night?

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Show threadSusan CalvinJul 31, 2025
@LillyHerself @Richard_Littler I try to avoid Steely Dan in any context.
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 31, 2025

@Susan_calvin Shame on you, Susan!

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Show threadSusan CalvinJul 31, 2025
@LillyHerself @Richard_Littler I talked to professional musicians to get a diagnosis.
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 31, 2025

@Susan_calvin I am a retired professional sound technician. Steely Dan recordings are what we use to test any sound system, to see if it is up to scratch.

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Show threadSusan CalvinJul 31, 2025
@LillyHerself @Richard_Littler I'm sorry that you had to live that way. Weren't any 1980s goth band tracks available to you? Surely you had access to Bela Lugosi's Dead?
Show threadLillyLyle/Count MelancholiaJul 31, 2025
@Susan_calvin You're hilarious
Show threadJamie CatAug 1, 2025
@Richard_Littler you just need to score some ecstasy and that kind of music suddenly seems much better
Show threadtripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪Aug 1, 2025
@Richard_Littler it’s *always* the worst music. Of course, when I was young and had a loud stereo, *I* only played really good music 😬.
Show threadDavid BramianOct 27
@Richard_Littler Stravinsky? Really? you want people to dance or riot?