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'If I hear Wagon Wheel one more time I'm going to break that stereo'

  • 17-05-2016 10:16AM
    #1
    gramar
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    The man in question was obviously pissed and went a bit too far but you have to sympathise at the same time having to put up listening to an ear-bleeding inducing song over and over.

    I remember living in a flat one summer and having to listen to Travis's The Man Who played pretty much on repeat for 3 months.

    What crap have you had to put up with from neighbours and have you ever confronted them about it?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like that song.

    And also I have a craving for some wagon wheels. Nommy chocolate.


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    One of Bob Dylan's better efforts in my opinion


  • #4
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Every summer out at home (dads) there's a neighbour who fires up a diy bbq (campfire and loads of petrol) gets all his crusty friends out and they have a rave. But it's literally the worst music ever. They even played dj rankin at it!


  • #5
    17larsson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭17larsson


    Bob Dylan or Old Crow Medicine Shows versions are very good, unfortunately this guy has completely ruined it


  • #6
    languagenerd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    A group of people who lived up the road from us in 2008 would spend entire summer days lying in the garden listening to Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love" on loop.

    My dad was planning to post CDs in their letterbox so they'd at least have more songs to play...


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus this thread reminds me of these lads who used to live under my mate in some hovel in Ranelagh a few years ago...

    I used to love Kings Of Leon, as their third more "poppy" album came out, more people got into them and cue these lads who lived under my mate, started basically repeating the first 3 album tracks over and over again while they were all mangled/asleep after sessions throughout the night...

    I tried everything, playing the first 2 better albums louder than them etc, nothing would work, then I made a new mix CD one week and one weekend as a peace offering I gave them a copy...

    Little did I know they would ruin my love of KoL and my own DJ mix all in one long bank holiday weekend.... :(

    We used to actually bump into them at same gigs also and say a brief hello but always grumbled something about KOL as we walked away...

    I've despised the Kings Of Leon ever since!


  • #8
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Woman in the apartment next to me used to have Adele's Someone Like You on when she was cleaning, with the windows on to let fresh air in, and she'd be pottering about singing along.


  • #9
    Andre 3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭Andre 3000


    It's been done to death worse than Galway girl. Horrific song.


  • #10
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I had a mad woman living 2 floors above me, emotionally unstable would be a kind way to describe her. She would get into arguments with her partner in the middle of the night around 2 or 3 am, he would walk out, she would blare out Enya full blast, he would come back later and would hold down the door bell, she wouldn't answer, he would start ringing ever doorbell in the apartment complex. Would hate to have been living directly above or below her, was glad to get out of there.


  • #11
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    There should be a crowd funding campaign setup to pay his fine, I'd gladly throw €10 in.


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  • #12
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Vance Joy - Riptide, it on a bank ad and a couple of other ads. It just drives me nuts. I mute the telly or radio when I hear it come on. It reminds of The Thrills, dreary depressing drivel.


  • #13
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    gramar wrote: »
    The man in question was obviously pissed and went a bit too far but you have to sympathise at the same time having to put up listening to an ear-bleeding inducing song over and over.

    I remember living in a flat one summer and having to listen to Travis's The Man Who played pretty much on repeat for 3 months.

    What crap have you had to put up with from neighbours and have you ever confronted them about it?



    Don't smash your laptop :)


  • #14
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    17larsson wrote: »
    Bob Dylan or Old Crow Medicine Shows versions are very good, unfortunately this guy has completely ruined it

    I loved the Old Crow Medicine Show version when I heard it many moons ago and I was quite surprised to start hearing people say how much they loved Wagon Wheel years later. Thinking they were referring to the OCMS version I said how much I liked it as well. Then I heard the Nathan Carter version. Jeesus, it's beyond woeful.


  • #15
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Thankfully, for the sake of my neighbours, I play a wide range of heavy metal.

    Re. the story in the OP, the wrong person was arrested.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #16
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Jeff Buckley's hallelujah seems mandatory among buskers these days.


  • #17
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Neighbour of mine used to play "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "My Heart Will Go On" on repeat during the day with the windows open. This was back at the time when they were first released.

    One of the neighbours on the other side sent their youngfella in to take the CD one day, while they called to the front door, he got it too. They sent a ransom note back, it was all taken in jest, but the continuous play and loud volume it was played at, died off.


  • #18
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    My mother nearly had a breakdown when I was a new baby, we lived in a semi-d beside a house full of nurses, who would come home at all hours and put one Carly Simon and one James Taylor record on repeat for hours at a time. 36 years later and she'd nearly throw the radio out the window if she heard You're so vain on it.


  • #19
    thegreatgonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    languagenerd wrote: »
    A group of people who lived up the road from us in 2008 would spend entire summer days lying in the garden listening to Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love" on loop.

    My dad was planning to post CDs in their letterbox so they'd at least have more songs to play...

    :eek:

    I don't know how people listen to any song over and over anyway. No matter how much I like a song, I'm not going to want to ruin it for myself by playing it on repeat.


  • #20
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I worked in Dunnes Stores around the time Maniac 2000 was in the charts. In the shop they had a tape with some songs on it for the clientèle to listen to, but over the years they had recorded the weekly promotions over the songs. They kept using the same tape and kept recording over the old promotions, so to make it sound "OK", every new promotion had to be slightly longer than the last. The result was that by the time I worked there, there was approximately 20 seconds of Culture Club' "Do you really want to hurt me", then a gap of silence for a few seconds, then about 40 seconds of Albatross by Fleetwood Mac, the a gap then a promotion then another gap then about 40 seconds of "Red Red wine by UB40". And the it would loop back to the start.

    In their entirety, those are three decent songs but in an 8 hour shift I would hear that same segment of "Do you really want to hurt me?" approximately 50 times(5 to 6 times an hour).

    It really was a form of torture.


  • #21
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    razorblunt wrote: »
    Neighbour of mine used to play "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "My Heart Will Go On" on repeat during the day with the windows open. This was back at the time when they were first released.

    One of the neighbours on the other side sent their youngfella in to take the CD one day, while they called to the front door, he got it too. They sent a ransom note back, it was all taken in jest, but the continuous play and loud volume it was played at, died off.

    Doubt it:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Cry_for_Me_Argentina


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  • #22
    Broken Hearted Road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    Big fan of Nathan Carter here and I never tire of Wagon Wheel but Christ, I wouldn't play it over and over. He has a nice a new album out which I still didn't get but I'm looking forward to it whenever I get my ass in gear and my funds in order to buy it.

    Love these new songs:





    Regarding the OP, once worked in a place that had a Johnny Cash album on repeat all day. It was awful. Tried switching over to the radio a few times but it was switched back to CD.


  • #23
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »
    Big fan of Nathan Carter here and I never tire of Wagon Wheel but Christ, I wouldn't play it over and over. He has a nice a new album out which I still didn't get but I'm looking forward to it whenever I get my ass in gear and my funds in order to buy it.

    Love these new songs:

    http://https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=ej--wSVBTsM


    http://https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=GoFtdD32Z1U


    Regarding the OP, once worked in a place that had a Johnny Cash album on repeat all day. It was awful. Tried switching over to the radio a few times but it was switched back to CD. y


    Get out of here.


  • #24
    bystarlight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭bystarlight


    My neighbours listen to great music....whether they want to or not!


  • #25
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    I've never heard this Wagon Wheel song. I also never heard an Ed Sheeran song although I know exactly what he looks like. Where do people hear these songs? I don't listen to the radio much, only Newstalk. I'm also old.


  • #26
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    I worked 12 hour Saturday shift in a General Operative warehouse during college in 1998.

    It was around the time "Sweetest Thing" by U2 was released for their compilation album.
    It was being played every hour on the radio station.
    To this day almost 20 years later, the opening bars induce a rage within me.


  • #27
    Andre 3000
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    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I've never heard this Wagon Wheel song. I also never heard an Ed Sheeran song although I know exactly what he looks like. Where do people hear these songs? I don't listen to the radio much, only Newstalk. I'm also old.

    You must be living under a rock if you have never heard Wagon Wheel. It's bloody everywhere and played/sung by everyone from school kids to auld bats.


  • #28
    Malari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    Dr Crayfish wrote: »
    I've never heard this Wagon Wheel song. I also never heard an Ed Sheeran song although I know exactly what he looks like. Where do people hear these songs? I don't listen to the radio much, only Newstalk. I'm also old.
    Andre 3000 wrote: »
    You must be living under a rock if you have never heard Wagon Wheel. It's bloody everywhere and played/sung by everyone from school kids to auld bats.

    I've never heard it either :D I don't listen to radio either or live under a rock.

    Feeling quite smug, judging by the reactions here :pac:


  • #29
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Andre 3000 wrote: »
    You must be living under a rock if you have never heard Wagon Wheel. It's bloody everywhere and played/sung by everyone from school kids to auld bats.

    When was it out? I was abroad for years until about 1.5 years ago. I also don't really go to discos or pop concerts.


  • #30
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If you play any song loud and on repeat you deserve what's coming.

    Your "great choone" is quite likely someone else's "piece of crap".


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    Absolutely class song but the original by Old Crow Medicine Show is light years ahead of the Nathan Carter version. I like Nathan in general and have gone to see him live (and will go again) but prefer the proper version of Wagon wheel.


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