Why Is Only The Bad Music So Loud?

formula to determine if your taste in music sucks

Does any one know if this is the right formula to figure out the correlation between the volume of the music pouring out of a car and said music’s suckiness? I think this formula is saying that the higher the volume, the worse the song, but I am not what you would call a math whiz.

I was just this morning almost killed by a man at a four way intersection. He was obviously too busy rocking out to “Working For The Weekend” by Loverboy to stop, or even notice that I was preparing to cross the street on foot. He went right on through the intersection, so wrapped up in the song that I don’t think he even realized what he had done. And as I stood and stared daggers at the back of his car as it rolled on down the street, I could not decide which angered me more, his lack of driving skills, or his taste in music.

Then it hit me, whenever I pull up next to a car at a red light, or some doofus speeds through my neighborhood, and there is blaring music coming from the car, it is always bad. In my opinion, of course.

Is it just me or have you noticed this as well?

8 Responses to Why Is Only The Bad Music So Loud?

  1. tojosan 04/02/2009 at 7:42 pm #

    Then it hit me, whenever I pull up next to a car at a red light, or some doofus speeds through my neighborhood, and there is blaring music coming from the car, it is always bad. In my opinion, of course.

    Yes, all blaring is bad if it can not be ignored either aurally or physically by the base shaking you.

  2. Carol @SheLives 04/07/2009 at 4:43 pm #

    I find your calculations to be correct. The worse offenders: rap aficionados. I never hear much blaring Chopin. Probably because I tend to blare Led Zeppelin. Iif that was you I nearly hit the other day, sorry. ;-)

    Thanks for stopping by She Lives!

  3. Rachel 04/08/2009 at 9:50 pm #

    Oh no. I've gone through your neighborhood with my stereo blaring…

    However, I've never rocked out to Loverboy (or Fallout Boy or Boyz 2 Men or any band with the name boy in it).

  4. execbp 04/09/2009 at 7:55 pm #

    Well, let's see how my formula holds up…what exactly were you blaring last time you went through the neighborhood?

    Thanks for the comment Rachel!

    Greg

  5. execbp 04/09/2009 at 7:56 pm #

    You have to blare Led Zeppelin to drown out the bad stuff…you have no choice.

    It's like carbon offsets or something…

  6. Greg Bussmann 04/10/2009 at 1:55 am #

    Well, let's see how my formula holds up…what exactly were you blaring last time you went through the neighborhood?

    Thanks for the comment Rachel!

    Greg

  7. Greg Bussmann 04/10/2009 at 1:56 am #

    You have to blare Led Zeppelin to drown out the bad stuff…you have no choice.

    It's like carbon offsets or something…

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