Why do old people complain about loud music?

[Critters2]

There's a big band, umm, band playing as part of this damn Lincoln celebration (Lincoln loved to jitterbug, ya know!), a block from my house. My damn windows are shaking like it's a tropical storm!! Please don't tell me there was no loud music before the Stones!!

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Abe Simpson summed it up...

"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what i'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me."

[elshiva]

9. McCain agrees with that, I am sure.

[Iggo]

2. As I grow older (46 and counting)...

...I notice it's not as often the type or even the volume of the music as it is the time and place kids choose to play it. When the confrontation between the old and the young goes off, it's usually because of a lack of consideration from the youngsters. (Notice I said "usually.") The oldies think the kids are punk-asses for it. The youngsters are damn proud of it. It's a standoff, and I don't have a lot of faith that it's ever going to change.

The again, maybe it will. I'm an aging metal-head who plays his stereo loud and his guitar louder. My nexdoor neighbors have a high-school age kid who often has his friends over. When I see all their cars pulling up, I turn down my stereo and turn off my amp and wave to the kids to let them know I'm leaving them in peace so they don't have to shout at each other just to be heard. They're just human animals after all, who learn by example. Probably just an isolated case. But maybe there's hope.

Let us prey...

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. What?

:hi:

Speak up please. Uncle Salmon had the Dorsey records on a bit too loud....

;)

[Bennyboy]

4. If it's too loud......

You're too old......

[kwassa]

5. the church organ was the original power instrument

think of those Bach organ fugues.

put the fear of God in everyone! Loudest acoustically amplified music without electronics.

[tigereye]

22. good point!

a really powerful organ can rattle a few bones... ;)

[krispos42]

6. Because...

...it keeps the youngsters from hearing them shout "get off my lawn!"

[grasswire]

7. I don't think it's because it's loud (unless it's at night)

I think it's because it's not their kind of music. People who love big band aren't going to like metal or acid or rap but they certainly would like swing played loud. Etc.

The reverse is also true.

Would youngsters or hipsters like it if someone was playing Lawrence Welk very loud?

[lizerdbits]

14. Yes, unless it's at night

In the morning/evening I can drown my neighbors bass out with my own music or TV. But when I'm trying to go to sleep or at 2:00am when the bass wakes me up that's not OK. If they played something I liked at 2:00am I'd still be knocking on their door if it wakes me up.

[johnfunk]

8. 'Cause it's LOUD and it SUCKS! Now GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!

[loveable liberal]

10. Its not too loud, its country music.

Country gives me the heebie jeebies.

[Left Is Write]

11. Because if it's too loud, it hurts my ears. Even if it's music I like.

[NJmaverick]

12. I think it's an issue with music you don't like always seems louder

[av8rdave]

13. I love loud music if I'm dedicating all of my attention to it...

Otherwise, it bothers me...not because of what's being played (unless it's rap of Michael Bolton), but because as I get older I have a harder and harder time with lots of competing sounds. I've always had poor hearing since my military days, and it seems worse if there is a lot of noise in the background.

[old mark]

15. Don't care if it's loud, but if it's loud and it sucks, shut it off.

mark

[kaiden]

16. If the music's too loud, I can't see.

[EFerrari]

17. I only love my loud music. Your loud music sucks.

:grr:

[LanternWaste]

18. Because I have to work in the morning....

"Please don't tell me there was no loud music before the Stones!! "

I think that speakers have gone through a few evolutions, allowing them blast at even louder decibels than was possible 40 years ago.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. I have a bitch about the bass being loud enough to collaspe a lung

[Rambis]

23. bass is the worst offender

a bar across a large park and up the street was playing bass so loud.... How loud was it? Loud enough it woke my 2 year old who had just gotten out of hospital with pneumonia and RSV and he had not slept in 3 days because of all the albuterol. The glasses in the kitchen were clanking and moving on the shelves.

[DBoon]

20. there is a generation that grew up with electronic amplification

and a much older generation that didn't

Big band music got its force and volume from a mass of wind instruments

By the early 1960's electronic amplification had advanced to the point where a single guitar could overpower an entire wind ensemble

People who grew up before amplified music do not find it familiar

[MJW]

21. because we can!

bah humbug

[LeftinOH]

24. If I can hear it from inside my house -even with the windows shut- its TOO LOUD...n/t