Hippitty Hop

[MrTrolleyguy]

Can you suggest a song?

A few doors up my driveway some new neighbors are playing some popular current music. That is all well and good. Loud. But not over the top and none of those thumper speakers. Sub woffers?

I am thinking that on the 4th of July, if I could find a good used boom box I might want to set up myself. Just put out a few chairs and a cooler of beer. How many neighbors would come out?

I am way too pompous here, we need to lighten it up. Maybe The Boss? Yeah.

I am thinking about a play list:

1812 Overature
Gary Owen
Taliban Song - Toby Keith
American Soldier
The American - Way Hank Williams Jr.
The Liberty Bell - John Philip Sousa
This land is your land - Woody Guthrie
The Army Goes Rolling On
The Marines' Hymn
Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)
Shenandoah, Blow the Man Down
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Dixie


No rants or flaming please! Try to control yourselves.

 

[Bullet Bob]

"4th of July" by Shooter Jennings?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I would put on my ear protection and crank up the 1812.
When all the dog have departed the neighborhood,
You will know it's working.

 

[pownal55]

My house is at the end of a private road with my closest neighbor at the beginning of my driveway 500 ft away. When he has a loud party I set some targets up, get my 308 out and make some music of my own.

 

[pineappleshooter]

Anchor's Away.

 

[Mike McLellan]

There'e something about Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America"...

 

[old bear]

Ya want to empty out a room or a street in a hurry, just crank up "Don't Worry Be Happy."


By the third time it's played those crazy, drunk, or loaded enough not to have exited the area all ready will be pulling their hair and begging for the pain to stop.

 

[BruceB]

Or Disney's "It's a Small World" . That should drive everyone within 10 miles stark bonkers!

At my first visit to Epcot in the mid 1980s, I stayed for the evening show, and when it was over, they started playing that infernal song over every speaker in the place trying to herd everyone out. After 20 minutes of that, I really never want to hear it again!

 

[rwsmith]

OK, it's a nice little song....

Or Disney's "It's a Small World" . That should drive everyone within 10 miles stark bonkers!

At my first visit to Epcot in the mid 1980s, I stayed for the evening show, and when it was over, they started playing that infernal song over every speaker in the place trying to herd everyone out. After 20 minutes of that, I really never want to hear it again!

Ever since they adopted that theme way back in the 60s that is the biggest complaint I hear from people that visit Disney World. It's a nice little song, but why do they want to drive people crackers with it??

 

[quneur]

Have a barbeque along with your songs. There's nothing that says America like a barbeque. If you hold it in your backyard, it means its private; in the front yard, for everybody.

 

[nicky4968]

Stars and Stripes Forever

Or

Greek National Anthem (all 105 verses).

 

[alwslate]

Best solution to the problem of neighbors who annoy you is to do
what I did, move to the country. You will never defeat obnoxious
neighbors by trying to beat them at their own game. Just my $.02
worth.

 

[timn8er]

Back when I still lived in Tulsa & was still a professional musician, the people that lived across the street from me were always having house parties. They would be in the house, outside the house, & just so that the people outside wouldn't feel left out, they would put stereo speakers in the windows so every one could groove. I had asked them to cool it more than once to no avail. So I opened my front door, rolled an Acoustic 371 speaker cabinet(also known as the "refrigerator", state of the art in the seventies, don't you know!)plugged up my amp, & got the five string bass out. On that guitar the lowest note was an open B. Kind of like a dinosaur fart! I leaned back & slapped that B string as hard as I could, & continued to slap it. Then I started playing along with their stereo, except about two beats behind. Sure enough, here comes the neighbor:"Say man, do you think you could ease up on that?" I replied "Can you?" He said sure & went back to the house & the music came WAY down. Most fun I'd had in a while!

It was mentioned that Disney used "its a Small World" to drive people out of the park at the end of the day. I worked a club in Texas, maybe Wichita Falls? It was called Madison's, I believe. They had a pretty effective method of clearing the house: Right behind the DJ booth there was a full scale enormous air raid siren. After last call, if the customers wouldn't leave fast enough, they would hit the button on it and it would be like a covey of birds being flushed! Except for the hardcore drunks, they would sing along with it...