frogza

What do you think of people who turn their car radio way up?

I think it shows a lack of class and respect, like they're trying to compensate for something. Even when I was in high school, which seems to be the predominate maturity level that engages in the booming music thing, I thought it was stupid. What does the TFP think?

kutulu

I like it loud sometimes but at night in a residential area I'll turn it down.

maleficent

Depends on the music that is being played and the time of day that it's being played. I have little tolerance for rap/hip hop/make your ears bleed metal - and that's is what is usually blasted entirely too loud.

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StanT

I've been known to turn it up, I also live in the sticks where no one cares. Have some compassion for your neighbors, if you are driving through a residential neighborhood at night, turn it down.

krwlz

I play my music pretty loud, but when you just paid a grand to put a system in your car, you would kind of like to hear it. I dont listen to rap or hip hop, but I suppose the metal I listen to is probably considered "Make your ears bleed". But the loudest music on the subs I ever played was sublime, and I don't really see that as hip hop or rap.

I try not to play it loud at night in residential places though, as it really is disrespectful. When pulling into my college, I will admit that I do the same thing every other punk kid with a system does... Play it full volume from a mile away from campus till I park my car. Maybe it seems "stupid" but its like everything else, you paid for something, you are going to show it off.

Do you think squealing the tires on a classic big block chevy is stupid to? Personally, it's just reving the engine up, and telling everyone "Hey, look what I got, and Im proud of it". And I don't see this as a bad thing personally. I'm sure almost everyone has something you show off, and while it may not be as loud or obnoxious as a stereo system, or a muscle car, you are showing off none the less.

Oh well, "Differant Strokes for Differant Folks"

la petite moi

Playing your music loudly shows disrespect for everyone around you, whether it's at night or during the day. It's irritating and stupid. Is there any REASON anyone should turn their music up so loud that everyone can hear it?

krwlz, I have a car too, but you will NEVER see me annoying and distracting other drivers by blasting my music that loudly. The only thing doing that is "showing off" is immaturity and idiocy.

Can you tell this issue is one of my pet peeves?

ShaniFaye

There is not much better in life than driving down the road with Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond blaring from the speakers...

(I dont do it in neighborhoods though....or in hospital zones, or if there is a funeral procession)

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maleficent

it's the pounding base that makes my kidneys vibrate that is particularly annoying... I can only imagine what it's like inside the car...

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Grasshopper Green

I hate it. I don't understand the need for it I guess.

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MageB420666

I like being able to feel the music vibrate through my body, especially when the heavy bass comes on, it's not about showing off, it's just another way that I enjoy music. I do agree that there are times and places for it though, it's just not right to be riding through residential areas or dormitory parking lots at 3 am with your stereo blaring loud enough for people in the building to clearly hear what your playing. Driving down an insterstate or on a main roadway(daytime) I've got no problems with it.

Now if only I had the money to get a system that can play bass loud enough for that feeling without losing the quality of the music.

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kurty[B]

I mainly just like a crisp clean sounding car stereo, good mids, and highs, and can feel the bass. But not the bass that makes the trunk rattle and from the outside makes you look like an idiot. Unfortunately my current stereo sounds like a bowl of Rice Krispies with milk recently poored on them.

sixate

Love my music loud. Everywhere I'm at I have music playing, and I could care less who I annoy.

jorgelito

I think it's dangerous: Can't hear emergency vehicles. I also feel sorry for the little kids in the car whose mommy and daddy feel the need to "show off" their soundsystem at the detriment of their kids hearing.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks.

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Siege

Must cause permanent damage to someone inside the car when someone outside the car can feel it.

I'm all for it shortening their life span

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getwonk'd

We live by a factory and it is particularly irritating at 5:30 in the morning when people need to "show off" their systems. At that time, I don't really care if its metal or show tunes, it's just rude.

guthmund

I like my music pretty loud as well. I have to block out my own singing truth be told. That being said, I was sitting at a stop sign today and the guy behind me had the bass thumping so hard that it was rattling my trunk, my seat and was shaking my rear view mirror.

I recognized the song. I like the song, but if I didn't enjoy it ten feet away, how in the world did this guy?

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My old roommate spent like $2000 over two weeks putting a killer sound system in his Grand Am, which wouldn't have been so bad, if he hadn't been barely making his share of the bills as it was.

Pretty extensive stuff as he had to take out the back seat (It sat in the front room until he moved out) just to fit the damn box in his car. He used it exclusively for cruising around on Friday night and impressing his co-workers when he pulled in to work. I had to ride with him for about a week, while my truck was in the shop and, swear to god, he actually halted a conversation we were having mid-sentence to turn on his radio because we were about a mile away from work.

The most ridiculous? He had a remote control to the stereo. Mounted on his dash that he used exclusively to dick with the radio, which was less than a foot away. So, he would have to reach up right above the radio face to grab the remote, drop his arm back to the armrest, dick with the stereo, reach back up and put the remote back.

Knobs are sooooo ghetto....

I made fun him mercilessly for a long....long time.

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Jinn

Love my music loud, and I -- like krwlz -- will crank my radio specifically for driving through campus. Unfortunately, I have a hatchback that would rattle like an 90 year old woman, so I've just got some alipines w/ tweeters.. and its enough..

I'm actually surprised by the results of the poll, it seems to have a bias towards loud music being bad...

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eMOTIONal20

I think it's funny when people have piece of shit cars and blast their music loud... like they're all cool or something...

I am definitely one of those people.

Loud music with the windows rolled down is one of my favorite parts about driving.

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Biscuit Buns

I like it loud if I'm REALLY in the mood, but at stop lights, residential areas, and anywhere a person might hear me, I turn it back down. I think it's tacky.

I'm one of those people who will rock out with my bad self, windows up on a hot, sunny day, letting everyone SEE me sing, but not hear.

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Siege

You know you're in trouble when the sound system is worth more than the car

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n0nsensical

I can understand wanting to play music loud. But doing it such that people in their residences are subjected to it is plain disrespectful and anyone who wilfully does it shouldn't be so shameless. You want to blast it on the freeway, fine, in a non-residential area, fine too (although if I happen to be in the same area I'll probably still think you're trashy and have bad taste in music). But don't park your ass on an otherwise quiet street with your windows down and blast it. Yes, wow, your system is so loud and your subs so expansive, you must have a penis of similarly epic size. There's a time and a place...it's not outside my window at 2 AM.

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Rdr4evr

I couldn't care less how loud you wish to blast your system, but it pisses me off when some disrespectful cunt fuck blasts his/her shit 3 in the fucking morning when I have to wake up in 2 hours for school. Not only that, but they are in a residential area in park blasting their crap with no regard for anyone else. What's even worse is when the dumb morons are drunk of their asses and yell and scream like the failures that they are.

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blahblah454

I love music, I live for music... I like my music loud. I only listen to my music loud when it is not bother other people. I turn it down at night, near my house, when there are older people/ people with small children walking in a residential zone... basicly I turn it down when it is going to distract or annoy anyone. I blast all types of music though: metal, country, rap, techno, blues, rock, folk... anything and everything!!

blahblah454

And for those of you making fun of cars with better sterios than the car itself... I have one of those such vehicles. As I said before, I love music. A car to me is something to get me from point A to point B... music is something I thrive on. So for me I would rather have a POS with a nice sterio than a decent car with a shit box sterio. And when I say nice I dont mean the bass up to 11 so you can hear nothing but the subs. I am talking about midrange baby!! And some highs are okay too. But nothing beats a nice set of kick ass midrange speakers!

Ella

I love having the music loud...I need to be in the mood and the music needs to be very cool. And I usually need to be by myself. But I've been playing the new White Stripes CD in the car VERY LOUD of late....

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Daniel_

A couple of years ago I got a car that had the stereo hooked up to the onboard computer (dunno how) and allowed you to select speed dependent volume.

That's way cool!

the faster you drive the louder it rocks, and then when you slow down to park it gets soft to allow you to concentrate.

I'm on my second car with that now, and I rather like it.

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eMOTIONal20

I wasn't making fun. I have a POS myself and I have a decent stereo in it. hehe... I just find the logic of it rather amusing.

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Redlemon

Actually, the best thing about a system like that is that it doesn't blow you out the back window first thing in the morning, when you forgot to turn the volume down the night before. I don't have that. I doubt it is connected to the odometer or the computer; I'd probably drop a mic near the engine, and adjust the sound accordingly.

On topic, I sometimes listen loud, but not that loud. I hate when the music from the car next to mine affects my music.

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splck

I like loud music as much as anybody else, but I don't like listening to someone else's shitty hip-hop music from two blocks away.
Listening to loud music for yourself is one thing, cranking it up just to show off your system (look at me, look how much money I sunk into my system, look at me). One day that type of person will grow up and realize how stupid they look, but then again maybe not.

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Redjake

amen brother. /salute


I like good, rich bass but nothing beats a good set of midrange and tweeter speakers. I love music and will play my own music as loud as my car will go without blowing cones. it's not like you have to sit next to it for 8 hours. we're at a stop light.

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MikeyChalupa

I listen to lots of loud rap and hip hop... at every stop light.

No Redjake, I don't have to sit next to YOUR stereo for 8 hours. But at the next light, there's going to be another asshat who needs to blast his crap (why does it always have to be the obnoxious, profane garbage) while I have my kids in the car. Meanwhile, you're at another light subjecting somebody ELSE to your music. Your bass or midrange or whatthefuckever should not be overpowering my own stereo or any conversation I'm trying to have with people in my car, WITH MY WINDOWS UP.

It's a matter of respect for those around you. Fortunately, on military installations playing your music loud enough to be heard from 50 feet away is illegal and will cost you your on-base driving privileges. Out in town with the sillies though, apparently there are no standards or they are not enforced at all.

I already know you have a cool car because it has stickers on it, shiny bits and flashing lights and whatnot, but I don't need to hear for myself how cool it is. I'll take your word for it. I'm with you, frogza. This is one of my biggest peeves. It's juvenile and a sign of immaturity. Sorry if this offends you, but again, tell me you expect to be 50 one day and still driving around blaring your crap all over town. You're going to outgrow it someday, hopefully it's sooner than later.

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streak_56

I listen to rock so it's not really the best for loud car steros. So I chose, cool for them but not for me. They don't bother me that much, you can hear them coming, hear them going, my favourite part is them going away.

kutulu

I like the responses from people saying that they don't mind... unless it's music THEY don't like. Whatever.

As far as emergency vehicles go, you can barely hear them anyways with the radio at a light volume. Cars are built to keep noise out these days.

asshopo

I like my music loud. I have had a set of subs since the day I was driving. Ive had shit cars and nice cars, currently a nice one.

Red lights? Deal with it.

Neighborhoods I always respect, but subs are turned down, if not off. Period.

My kids (as someone pointed out) rather like the subs at a moderate volume on songs they like. Never to loud, if they ask me to turn it up, I do, if they ask me to turn it down, I do, its always at a volume that they are comfy with.

Listening to someone elses car? I don't care, unless of course, its 3am.

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Cynthetiq

aahh I used to do that to combat the hiphop mini trucks in the 80s. Nothing says,"Let ME force you to listen to my music..." When I turned up Disney's Main Street Electrical Parade.

i never did it in residential areas, as it was not just disrespectful but also advertising to wouldbe theives.

I don't really listen to music so much anymore like I used to.

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RoadRage

The loud music doesn't bother me as much as knowing that these children will eventually become old and varying degrees of deaf, and will expect the government (via Medicaid/Medicare) or insurance to cover the expenses for their youthful stupidity.

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laconic1

The stereo in my car is bone stock and fifteen years old to boot so I don't listen to it loud at all. I don't mind loud music too much, except when the system is installed in a piece of shit car that rattles and vibrates louder than the stereo.

krwlz

Alright, Wow, I havn't read this in a while. Think what you will about the showing off aspect of it, thats something that, for me anyhow, usually only happens around my campus. Outside that, I do play my music loud, whether its the grateful dead, led zeppelin, mudvayne, or sublime. I enjoy it that way.

I also however live in the sticks where no one cares. I'm sorry my taste offends any of you, but I guess I don't see how it's distracting to other drivers.

la petite moi

First sentence: I lived in the sticks too, and I can guarantee you that when someone drove by with their music blaring, I thought they were absolute idiots. I am sure others shared my sentiments.

Second sentence: The distraction is the music itself. It is nearly impossible to hear an oncoming emergency vehicle when a driver next to you is blaring their music.

FallenAvatar

I tolerate loud music considering it isn't too loud. Those blasting bass are not playing it to loud. When the music is set so you cannot hear certain tones it is not being played correctly. I like my music loud but I can still hear ever low, mid, and high. I however do not play it loud enough for everyone to hear it.

So I would say loud is fine to an extent, but too loud to where one cannot hear the actually music is retarded. And it's also disrespectful to play it loud enough that people cannot hear their own music from inside their own car.