Noise Rock Listener Gifts

Lou Reed

"Guys, can you use your Mommy-doesn't-want-to-know-I-exist voices?"

'I'm going to drag my sled up and down the sidewalk until the noise drives nature crazy and it snows.'

Future garbage truck driver.

"Instead of singing, I'm going to scream offensive things as loud as I can just to get attention..."

A man is living in small box apartment trying to read a book, but is surrounded by people engaging in noisy activities.

Hey, it's true, you really can hear the sea in these shells!

"If you hold a shell to your ear you can hear the ocean..."

Jazz is Invented

"Let's save a few so we can continue to piss off the neighbors for the next few weeks."

"I'll stop when I'm good and ready to."

"We tried 'Baby Mozart,' but he prefers 'Baby John Cage.'"

'... and the winner for 'The Noisiest Picture of the Year' is...'

'You were a band geek?! Maybe Max will play an instrument!'

'Don't forget to take your tranquilizers Daddy, little Jimmy is coming round to play.'

'You haven't heard anything yet!'

Wake the eff up with the official New York City alarm clock. Choose your distress signal: car horns, sirens, barking, heat pipes, mouse feet. Guaranteed to disturb!

Music for car stereos

"You know damn well what noise!"

Leaf-Blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

Car with enormous speakers, "I said, I love the speakers!"

"Threatening to call the Noise Abatement Society isn't being very romantic, Sydney."

'The cannon will go off every 20 minutes just to make sure you're paying attention,'

"It's always so loud during yappy hour."

Library Grand Opening

"I'd know my tinnitus anywhere and this isn't it."

"Turn down the bass."

"Now that's what I call a sound system."

Playing dustbins

"Vuuuuuuuuuuu!"

"Why haven't noise cancelling headphones been invented yet?"

A question you can't ask at a football game - 'Has anyone lost their keys?'

"Singing makes me self-conscious."