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A few nights ago, while enjoying the extra hour of sleep afforded to us by daylight losings time, the lady and I were awoken at two in the morning by the mind-numbing pulse of a 909 (the synthesized kick drum, not the area code) featured in a solid hour's worth of an entirely shitty mix of trance music blaring from our neighbor's stereo.
As a strident non-fan of styles of music that you'd most likely hear pouring out of the dropped top of some hypermetrosexual dickneck's convertible BMW, or on the off chance that you were drugged and taken to a rave against your will, I lay in bed seething, plotting my revenge*.
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If it's not someone playing something at an unacceptable hour that
sounds like a stuttering robot playing with a broken Speak N Spell
while a Nelly Furtado record skips in the background, it's the guy that
decides that 2 a..m. is the right time to finally hang his extensive
collection of framed paintings, or the overzealous couple that is
practicing making babies and wants everyone to know just how good
they're getting, or the domestic dispute that starts as a shouting match
and ends up sounding like a knife fight at a door slamming and cookware
throwing contest. Regardless of shape or form, the unifying theme here
is that it sucks, and it's an unfortunate reality that we've all either
dealt with or will have to deal with at some point.
the morning after the neighbor's unwarranted audio attack, a friend of
mine tweeted that his neighbors had taken the liberty of playing
Counting Crows at seven that morning, and that he was planning vengeance
by blasting Immortal
at 3 a.m. That got me thinking about what songs I currently have in my
arsenal that could be used in retaliation against my neighbor.
the best I've got (and lest it seem the contrary, I must say that I
love all three of these songs and the bands that wrote them.)
1) Meshuggah, “Bleed”