Richard LittlerJul 31, 2025
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.
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?

@Richard_Littler

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 Calvin
@LillyHerself @Richard_Littler I talked to professional musicians to get a diagnosis.
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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