Why do some people feel the need...

I dislike it greatly when drivers do that. And really it isn't just when they are driving either. My neighbors across the street, the husband goes out and takes like 4 hours to wash their cars. The ENTIRE time he is blasting his music. Which I happen to hate. lol. So I am stuck listening to his music for 4 hours! I think that stinks. And there are people even closer to his house. It seems pretty inconsiderate to do that. That's even worse than just driving up the street because at least those people are good soon, and although they irritate me as well, it's quicker and I get over it faster. And the neighbors behind me blast their music at their parties which I also don't like, and this can last til later than 2am and wakes up my infant. Well I wouldn't appreciate it even if I liked what they were playing. I have never blasted music in my car. How do you even hear it when it's that loud? I don't understand the fascination!

I do like my music loud, when I am home alone. Other than that I don't play it loud as it is annoying to my husband. We live in a rural setting, and I know my music can't be heard by anyone but me. We can hear someone else's booming car music from as far away as a mile, it is really annoying. If those people are deaf now they soon will be.

This is a pet peeve of mine. We have some that will go through with their bass so loud that our windows will vibrate. You can hear the booming from blocks away. Let alone when I'm at a stop light and the car behind me as it that loud. Florida in acted a noise law that if they can hear it 20 yards away that it's in violation but the cops never seem to ticket for it. They should. Now with emergency vehicles I normally have at least one window slightly open so I can hear them over my radio but with how the new cars are now a days it can be hard to hear them if they are in the distance.

I admit, I like my music loud. I usually don't play it loud in the neighborhood, or between around 8pm and 9am... I just like it louder. As far as emergency vehicles and sirens, most cars that are newer than 5 years old are so sound proof now that when driving with your windows up, you can't really hear sirens until our ambulances are pretty close anyway. I was in EMS for 10 years and I couldn't even hear sirens until the ambulance was within a 100 yards from me, even with just talk radio on.

If my windows are down I play it louder, but when I approach any type of stop I turn it down. But in the middle of teh night in fact after 7pm or before 10am I will not play it loud if I am in a neighbor hood out of respect for others. But I only play it loud with windows down on a highway whne it is hard to hear.

OOOOOHHHHH!!! This is one of my major pet peeves, especially when the "music" is vulgar and contains inappropriate language. I do not mind people listening to whatever they like in their vehicles, but once it "crosses" into my listening zone, especially if it is loud enough to shake my vehicle, it is too much. We do have a noise ordinance in the city I live in regarding car stereos, but I don't think they actually enforce it.

i don't have a car. but i do have lots of friends who have cars. they also have these loud music set ups in their cars. i always ask them why the need of blasting out their music. they honestly answer me saying that it's to let people know how their speakers are so good compared to others... it's mostly to get attention from other people. i don't know about others' reasons... but basically, these are what i get from my friends.

Well kids will be kids.LOL Every once in awhile I will turn the radio up in the car when Im driving by myself. I like to play it real loud. Im not hurting anyone because alot of time I have my windows shut. And sometimes I even sing.LOL Its alot of fun to just let yourself go and have alittle fun. Because come on life is so serious. We all need to let go and enjoy ourselves. So try it you just might like it. I dont reccomend singing unless your a good singer.LOL

I understand what you mean. It isn't only the music that is loud. The bass volume is outrageous! Why? I don't have a clue. I turn my music up if a song comes on the radio that really like, but I turn it back down. For some reason the younger generation think the more the car vibrates the better the music is. That is my own opinion.

I guess some people like the 'thump thump" of the subwoofers. I myself find it annoying, distracting, and even dangerous to have the radio blasting like this. Even as a teenager I felt this way. When I was 17 I had gone to see an old friend I had grown up with. We didn't get to visit long and she had offered to give me a ride back to where my mom was visiting an old friend of her's, which I thought nice of her as I could have walked. At one point she mentioned something about subwoofers. Not knowing what the heck she was talking about I didn't know what to expect. So we climbed in her car, buckled up, and she started the SUV. D@mn radio was blasting and the subwoofers, which I believe were 15 inches, were thumping away! My friend laughed at my freaked out expression and said she'd lower the radio. She did, but not all that much, as the subwoofers were still thumping pretty good. I was so glad to get out of her car safe and sound when she dropped me off. Though I didn't tell her so as I didn't want our short visit to turn sour. Whenever I hear a vehicle's radio blasted like that I get annoyed. Like the time I went through the drive thru at KFC when it was crowded. There was a car directly behind me with their subwoofers blaring. It made my truck shake, it was so loud. The person kept it on for a good 10 minutes or so before getting close enough to the intercom when they finally shut it off. By then my hands and feet come back to life as they had just about been numbed by that awful blaring. It sure would be nice if these people showed some consideration when driving. Like say, blasting their radio on a country road with absolutely no cars, houses, or people in sight for 100 miles! :P

I cant stand this either. And it is so dangerous to if someone was to sound a horn they would never hear it. What i would like to know if it is that loud to us in passing just how loud is it in the car. I love my music and i like to turn it up but i could never stand it that loud i wouldnt be able to hear myself think.

Thanks for reminding me of something else I do NOT miss since moving out of the city. I have no idea why you should have my taste in music or me yours? Aren't we all individuals and with that said shouldn't we all have enough common decency and respect for ourselves and each other not to irritate everyone else with our personal tastes?

I had the very same thought the other day. Some idiot driver came ripping through our neighborhood with his radio up loud and my daughter got scared and asked me what was going on outside with the noise. And, I had to explain that it was just some idiot who didn't respect other people's right to live in peace!

I guess they want more to flaunt their expensive car audio than to listen to music.Their music systems migh be the latest one or the most expensive one so they make it a point not to keeop the nice sound to themselves but spread the noise to everyone!

This was one issue even with me as i also used to discuss with my friends circle and it is a nuisance actually to hear to such loud music even if we are interested isn't it? i alway's feel there should be some norms applied everywhere so that everyone lives happily as each one will be having his own privacy isn't it? hope in coming day's, things change...

where i live my favorite station is 92.9 with the oldies rock and roll it is always on in my car and in my home the only time I blast the radio in the car is when I am out in the country I do sometime have it up a little in town when there is a song that I really like...here you are not suppose to have the music lound enough so the person in the car next to you can here it and after 10:00 pm for the loud music I live next to a park and thye park closes at 10:00 but their are people that go to the park after hours and yell and talk really loud with disreguarding the curfew and it is hard to get to sleep so I know where you are coming from sorry I gotr off track it does not ready bother me about the music as much as the bass in the car the boom boom boom after hours

People, who do not care for other's inconvenience, only play music so loudly. If we say also they do not listen. They give a look as though we are strange. Only God should give them good sense. Just now my neighbour's children were playing music so loudly that I got headache. Who will tell them? They are moneyed people. May be they think that the world is for them.

I always roll my eyes at that during the day time because it is almost always a young guy with a certain look out after a certian somehing. I hate that bass boom-boom-boom. Once in awhile we will get it at night but not often. Our noisemakers are usually on foot and trying to hold each other up!

I sometimes turn a good song up, but never that loud. I hate when I pull up beside a car and they have the music blasting like that. You are right about emergency vechiles. No one could hear them with people like that.

some one will never think about others!