A Noise Annoys
A few years ago when I was in uni, my then-girlfriend (who lived on the other side of the country) was in a house with a load of annoying bitches (in her words). They'd be loud, get pissed and sing karaoke in someone's bedroom when they knew she had exams the next day, had loud sex with their menfolk in the next room, and so on until the cows came home.

Being the romantic fellow that I am, I offered to make a lovely tape of my favourite sensitive singer-songwriter types for her, which she duly accepted, with thanks. She also asked for a nice, loud apewail of a tape, full of stuff that'll make her Eiffel 65-loving housemates shit their pants. The 'A Noise to Annoy' compilation was born.

Featuring Atari Teenage Riot (live in Berlin bootleg), Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy, as well as the Surgeon remix of Mogwai's Mogwai Fear Satan (6 minutes of white noise that gradually gets louder and louder) and some Boredoms for good measure, I made the tape and brought it round, the next time I visited.

Sure enough, loud moaning and banging noises started at around 2 am. I got up, put the tape in and Come to Daddy started, with its "I want your soul/I will eat your soul" lyrics and screaming. The banging stopped, and we went to sleep.

Every time her housemates did something annoying to her, my girlfriend would just press play on her tape player, and endure some unlistenable noise until she felt better. Eventually the punishment worked and they stopped doing as many annoying things around the place. Behavioural psychology at its best.
(Fuiru Sting, where is thy death?, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 0:59, 4 replies)

Well,
On Topic? Check.

Amusing? Check.

Whining about how crap this QOTW is? Not a sausage.

Gets a click from me!
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 9:15, closed)

Have a click
for mentioning both ATR and Aphex. *thumbs up*

I did something similar with a guitar & amp....ext doors' kids kicked off, I plugged in, gave it the opening chords from Sabbath's 'Iron Man' for five minutes, they shut up. Not a mixtape but the effect is the same.

Mind you the little bastards got me back by having the menu music from the DVD of Spiderman (the movie) on loop for three hours while they did something else...sods.
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 10:00, closed)

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I need to make one of those... now what exactly is the opposite of irritating fast bpm techno?
Butthole surfers used to work on a previous couple upstairs who were intent on killing each other loudly most of the time.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Fri 8 Feb 2008, 20:34, closed)

Atari Teenage Riot
Did a show at Woonona-Bulli BOWLING CLUB (ffs) in about 1998

6 people showed up.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 9 Feb 2008, 3:03, closed)