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..."

Jazz is Invented

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..."

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

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

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

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

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

'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!'

"You know damn well what noise!"

Music for car stereos

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!

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

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

"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,'

'Look, honey, the baby's got your mouth.'

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

Library Grand Opening

"In this one, I can hear the sound of traffic."

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

"Vuuuuuuuuuuu!"

Playing dustbins

"Singing makes me self-conscious."

Adam Levine

"Turn down the bass."

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

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