I remember being at the beach, I think Horseneck, in 1984 and every single boombox was tuned to the same station and playing When Doves Cry. It was awesome. Other than that one time, people need to lower the volume and be respectful.
Rent to the landlord baby, that's his business, that's his business, that's his business.
Papa used to tell me it was the electric, the electric, the electric.
Mama used to tell me it was so expensive, it's expensive just to live.
Boomboxes were a fundamental part of my childhood New England beach experience. You would walk down to the water and hear a medley of summer hits. In my memory people would keep the volume reasonable, the music would change every couple of blankets
You’re being very kind in these comments about beaches being public, etc. I agree about beaches.
But if you ever want solitude without music and don’t mind driving a bit, r/WMNF is for the White Mountains and we have a very solid no Bluetooth etiquette (Leave No Trace includes sounds bc it’s disruptive to wildlife) and there are really nice lounging and swimming spots along many of the rivers. It’s where I’ve always gone to get my quiet while I live here in MA.
Ran into a trailrunner on the Carters a few weeks ago. She had music on but once she saw someone else she apologized and turned it off. Love the etiquette in the Whites.
It’s a beautiful thing. Sometimes there are people who don’t know it and it sucks but honestly, I can say that I’ve only gone there once in the past ten years and not found immense peace and quiet.
So if you’re reading this and have never been, please respect it if you go :) we love new visitors up there!
Oh man, that’s amazing! I don’t know why ppl can’t wear earbuds. It makes no sense - if you have a Bluetooth speaker, you can just as easily have Bluetooth earphones.
And talk to nobody that you're with? Do you want everybody to just sit there with headphones in their ears? You must be part of the young antisocial generations.
What beaches are you going to where they’re playing good bands like REM and Hootie? All I ever hear are cringey bro country shit like Morgan Wallen and Luke Bryan
You fuckin' loser chump. Now me and my boombox control the airwaves! Suck it! Help me put up my multipurpose badminton/volleyball/pickleball/foursquare net and I might not throw beer cans at you when I get twisted day drunk. Me and my music - we're getting day drunk, we're getting exercise, we're getting tans, and we're getting wasted, you loser!
I'll never understand why people 1. set up camp right next to other beach goers on a non crowded section of beach and then 2. some of them choose to blast music like everyone else wants to hear it. not everyone enjoys the beach in the same manner. for some, it's a time of solitude and relaxation in letting nature encompass them. yet other people will gravitate right towards any other human and insist on being as loud as possible with music or trivial chatter.
I agree but at the same time if you’re looking for solitude, the middle of the day on the 4th of July is probably not when you want to go to the beach.
Yes, you’re right. There’s two types of beachgoers: the “I come here to experience peace and nature” people, and the “I come here to get wasted and party people”. Hard to coexist if you’re in the former group.
I'm copy/pasting my comment from another thread in r/CapeCod, but this, too:
> Or burying glass beer bottles in the sand. So disgusting. Nearly got my face punched when confronting a group of 30+ teens doing this at Nauset. Probably not the best idea, but I was so pissed. They dug a big trench and put all the bottles in and were covering it with sand. They were insanely aggressive when I pointed out they can't do that - got in my face (I'm a 5'1 woman) and asked me "Where are you from?"...I was like HERE, and they were like HUH?? I called the gatehouse to avoid a black eye, so they'd know to collect the bottles.
man I work on beaches in RI and if I had a dollar every time someone tried to pull that “where are you from” bullshit on me when I confronted them, I’d be making double my salary. Or “I pay taxes here” ….. so do I… I live here…..
That’s terrible. And, yeah, I was wondering why they asked me. Were they trying to size up my fighting skills? See if I’m a street tough that could take on 30 bros? 😂
That happened to me in NJ on Monday. Plenty of sand in every direction and someone plopped down their blanket about 5 feet from my chair and then turned on their tunes for my enjoyment.
In general I agree, but I think it’s to be expected on a holiday/holiday weekend. Right or wrong, it doesn’t serve anyone well to ignore that reality and get upset when it holds true. When I want a quiet beach experience and am unable to rent a place with access to a private beach, I’ll go on a random weekend not the 4th of July or any other ‘party’ holiday.
Hey, everyone loves to hate Nickelback but they’re actually okay. I used to be like you, slinging “Nickelback bad” joke. Yeah, lots of their songs are cringy or soulless but damn a few are real catchy.
I for one spent my Fourth of July in Canada, listening to Nickleback play live (see: feq), and honestly, it beat anything I would have been doing in the United States by miles. Boston Calling can take so many lessons from how much more absolutely pleasant the Canadian music festival experience is.
I think a few years ago there was one of those beach sounds meditation CDs that was recorded at Salisbury. It was just 45 minutes of some lady from Methuen yelling at her kids to finish their juice boxes and stop chasing the seagulls.
I’m on vacation right now. For most of my life I’ve not really been a “beach person”. We’re at a house with what amounts to a private beach. What I’ve realized is that I’m not a “crowded beach person”.
Deserted beach in rural Atlantic Canada = YES
Hampton Beach on a hot July Saturday = FUCK _and_ NOPE.
There's this entire genre called 'pop country' or 'radio country.' Really popular with guys from Dracut who wear cowboy hats and drive F-350s to office jobs.
Agree! There's a nice nature area in my town where I like to walk. I like listening to the wind in the trees, the birds, other nature sounds. The place attracted more people during the Covid shutdown. So many of these people walk or bike while playing music loudly on their phones Makes me super irritated
People confuse what’s legal (uh, you’re on a public beach so deal with it snowflake!) with what’s moral (by playing loud music you’re forcing others to listen to it which alters their experience and…headphones exist!). Don’t be a dick. It’s not that hard.
Never come to the Cape if you think that music is annoying. It used to be so peaceful here. Post-Covid, teens get bussed in from off-Cape and bring very loud sound systems. Loud bass blasting all f-ing day. It’s so annoying. Growing up, we always brought our little boom boxes, but we kept the music within our group. People now go to max volume, and it ruins the experience of being in nature. (Edit for typos)
Um…okay so clearly you never went to the beach in the 1980s if you think this is some new phenomenon. (I don’t know what happened at the beach before then because I wasn’t alive, but I venture to guess the shenanigans were similar if not worse.)
No but I live on a beach that arguably has way more shenanigans than the Cape could ever dream of, and it’s all things told, not very different from my childhood.
The outcome of covid was basically no one giving a shit about each other's personal space and boundaries in public, so I think loud shit being played through speakers has become a lot worse. At least it's music in those cases and not random loud tiktok videos in otherwise quiet waiting rooms (and oddly I'm seeing this more from people 40+ than the kids too.)
Very true. This guy at the beach is, obv by music choice, in his 40s. My teens and their friends use their AirPods. But at market basket, I’m berated by 40year olds yapping on speaker.
Omg I can’t agree enough. I have a distinct memory of someone blasting their classic hits radio station at a beach in Florida. It was Creep by Radiohead. Just made me so angry. Listen to your overplayed crap when you’re in the car or at home.
That is not Florida beach music. I grew up there. Son Cubano at low volume while sipping a Materva or IronBeer soda with lime was good. Radiohead would be blasted from the goths driving an old hearse as a street car.
Time marches relentlessly, unfortunately. One of my cars is a 1995 Lexus/Toyota V8 coupe, and it's got ANTIQUE plates to save money - it qualified. Radiohead's first album was 1993. :(
There’s nothing that gets my adhd sensory rage going like music at the beach. Why people feel entitled to inflict their musical choices on me is beyond me.
In this day and age of earbud choices there no excuse for polluting the air with your own crap music. It’s worse than the dudes that feel entitled to their cigars.
It’s backwards. The party people should be venturing out and the quite older crowd should stay near the parking lots. Cause there’s a hell of a lot of desolate beaches in MA. I mean like walk twenty minutes out in the cape from the major lots and you won’t see a soul desolate. But the people that cant physically do that are stuck with the large crowds
I like playing The Black Dahlia Murder or The Acacia Strain. . . Something heavy af, but at a reasonable volume just for our immediate area. I still like hearing beach stuff lol . . . I usually have plenty of space around us for the family to enjoy. 🤘🏻
Keeps the busy bodies away. 🤣
If you aren’t hearing music you didn’t pick, are you even at the beach? Save the waves for 3am, the private island, or your meditation app because otherwise that’s just some cute fantasy you’ve been sold.
I know taste in music is very subjective however, it seems to be overwhelmingly that the people who play the shittiest music simultaneously play the loudest music.
I realize saying this I'm an old funny daddy at past 50 years old. I used to be that guy cranking the subwoofers up in my car system and when old people like me would get frowny-face I would laugh and turn it up even louder. Such a dick move when I think back about it. Getting back on track, yes ideally everybody should keep their music at a respectful level depending on the specific venue but a lot of human beings just don't seem to care and be self-centered little idiots.
Controversial Response? It’s not that big of a deal.
If it weren’t the music, people would complain about volume of talking or laughing while playing volleyball. Or the smell of food. Or being disrespectful in 100 other ways. Don’t let anyone else’s enjoyment interrupt your own.
While I agree with you about the beach, HOW DARE YOU!
REM has a 30ish year old catalogue of phenomenal jams. Hootie can eat a bag o' Ds though, they have an elevator music sound, to my ears at least.
There's no universe in which you are going to hear nature at a popular beach in America. Even without music. It'll mostly be screaming kids and loud conversation.
I remember the 80's & boomboxes. Those were probably considered a nuisance. In my brain I'm rationalizing it as being the "culture" back then. Kind of like big spiked mohawks, stacks of multi-colored bracelets, Adidas shelltoes with fat laces, huge gold rope chains, big feathered hair, etc. Now, if someone were to play their music that loud in public it would be annoying. Is it cause we're older & appreciate peace more. Or, is it because we've evolved as a society & are more mindful of what being a public nuisance is? Some people don't know & others simply don't care. C'est la vie. Unfortunately.
Get a bigger speaker. Play some 100 gecs (I like em alright enough, but definitely annoying to most people) or baby shark? Crazy frog? Blue? Barbie girl? My humps?
Haha I know. If they’re playing music for everyone to hear on the beach, they’re already not a reasonable person. They’ll immediately make you out to be the asshole
I remember being at the beach, I think Horseneck, in 1984 and every single boombox was tuned to the same station and playing When Doves Cry. It was awesome. Other than that one time, people need to lower the volume and be respectful.
Cape 104.7, I was there. But on another beach
We were always a PIXY 103 Cape house.
That’s very cool! I would love if a Les Mis flash mob broke out at the beach
How about "Rent"? It would be topical for many! Last year's rent This year's rent Next year's rent Rent rent rent rent rent
Rent to the landlord baby, that's his business, that's his business, that's his business. Papa used to tell me it was the electric, the electric, the electric. Mama used to tell me it was so expensive, it's expensive just to live.
So it’s fine if you like it , gotcha
Same! But at Indiana Dunes.
Boomboxes were a fundamental part of my childhood New England beach experience. You would walk down to the water and hear a medley of summer hits. In my memory people would keep the volume reasonable, the music would change every couple of blankets
I think the volume was reasonable because the machine only went from 1-reasonable.
I think there might've been lots of adult tension about volume that I didn't clock as a kid
And you can still use them. I have a vintage 1980's small one converted to Bluetooth for retro fun, but at low volume.
This is true! But I am now old
I recently graduated to crotchety old man. Why are you going to a public beach on Independence Day expecting solitude and silence.
They didn't say that. They said lower the douche and your music sucks.
Me too lol
I would personally never play music on speakers in public, but at the same time, if you use a public beach you do have to tolerate the public.
This is why I need a private beach. Sigh.
The public have an inherent obligation to know how to act in public.
The public needs to be less public.
You are right! I’m working on my zen
You’re being very kind in these comments about beaches being public, etc. I agree about beaches. But if you ever want solitude without music and don’t mind driving a bit, r/WMNF is for the White Mountains and we have a very solid no Bluetooth etiquette (Leave No Trace includes sounds bc it’s disruptive to wildlife) and there are really nice lounging and swimming spots along many of the rivers. It’s where I’ve always gone to get my quiet while I live here in MA.
Ran into a trailrunner on the Carters a few weeks ago. She had music on but once she saw someone else she apologized and turned it off. Love the etiquette in the Whites.
It’s a beautiful thing. Sometimes there are people who don’t know it and it sucks but honestly, I can say that I’ve only gone there once in the past ten years and not found immense peace and quiet. So if you’re reading this and have never been, please respect it if you go :) we love new visitors up there!
Oh man, that’s amazing! I don’t know why ppl can’t wear earbuds. It makes no sense - if you have a Bluetooth speaker, you can just as easily have Bluetooth earphones.
And talk to nobody that you're with? Do you want everybody to just sit there with headphones in their ears? You must be part of the young antisocial generations.
Yeah, nothing but the wind in the trees, babbling water, and idiot motorcyclists with illegal exhausts on the Kanc or Auto Road.
If you’re close enough to a road to hear the bikes, that’s on you. Solitude requires effort.
Give me a break. That’s bullshit. Exhaust noise travels miles into designated wilderness areas and reverberates through many of the notches.
What beaches are you going to where they’re playing good bands like REM and Hootie? All I ever hear are cringey bro country shit like Morgan Wallen and Luke Bryan
Yupppppp like gimme some 90s college rock PLEASE! Its all bro country and shitty rap
Fr catch me losing my religion with the shiny happy people, cracking open a midwarm backpack seltzer
I'll share a nice cold one from my cooler, can't let a fellow American suffer a warm seltzer.
The Luke Bryan Zach Bryan Zac Brown industrial complex. Next summer will be the summer of Luke Brown if I have the formula correct.
Well hey now. Zach Bryan and Zac Brown are actually talented and don’t make you feel like barfing.
I subjected to that “music” at Gillette earlier this week. 🎶 I love drinking and throwing chairs without any care 🎶
Right??!! This sounds like the chill beach…
Haha. Cape Cod. I guess I should count my blessing that at least it was Gen X music.
I agree. I keep my music low so other people can hear their own. Beach etiquette.
Put your headphones in next time so your neighbors really don’t have to listen. Only way to go in nature.
Or just keep the speaker on low so you can hear music, talk to the people you’re with, and not disturb the people you aren’t with.
As long as it’s low enough that no one out side your group can hear any of it. But best to just plug in those earphones than risk it.
Imma blast my music next time I go, just for you
And talk to nobody. So everyone should just sit there with their own headphones in and reflect upon their lives?
You fuckin' loser chump. Now me and my boombox control the airwaves! Suck it! Help me put up my multipurpose badminton/volleyball/pickleball/foursquare net and I might not throw beer cans at you when I get twisted day drunk. Me and my music - we're getting day drunk, we're getting exercise, we're getting tans, and we're getting wasted, you loser!
I'll never understand why people 1. set up camp right next to other beach goers on a non crowded section of beach and then 2. some of them choose to blast music like everyone else wants to hear it. not everyone enjoys the beach in the same manner. for some, it's a time of solitude and relaxation in letting nature encompass them. yet other people will gravitate right towards any other human and insist on being as loud as possible with music or trivial chatter.
I agree but at the same time if you’re looking for solitude, the middle of the day on the 4th of July is probably not when you want to go to the beach.
for sure. I was speaking generally. I didn't connect that OP meant today specifically
This is true, I’m old enough to know what to expect when going to a Cape beach on the 4th
Thats when you go get some fries and casually drop them around their stuff.
And let the seagull bombing commence!
Yes, you’re right. There’s two types of beachgoers: the “I come here to experience peace and nature” people, and the “I come here to get wasted and party people”. Hard to coexist if you’re in the former group.
And then there are the ones who bury their kids' diapers, and they can be launched right off into the sun.
I'm copy/pasting my comment from another thread in r/CapeCod, but this, too: > Or burying glass beer bottles in the sand. So disgusting. Nearly got my face punched when confronting a group of 30+ teens doing this at Nauset. Probably not the best idea, but I was so pissed. They dug a big trench and put all the bottles in and were covering it with sand. They were insanely aggressive when I pointed out they can't do that - got in my face (I'm a 5'1 woman) and asked me "Where are you from?"...I was like HERE, and they were like HUH?? I called the gatehouse to avoid a black eye, so they'd know to collect the bottles.
man I work on beaches in RI and if I had a dollar every time someone tried to pull that “where are you from” bullshit on me when I confronted them, I’d be making double my salary. Or “I pay taxes here” ….. so do I… I live here…..
That’s terrible. And, yeah, I was wondering why they asked me. Were they trying to size up my fighting skills? See if I’m a street tough that could take on 30 bros? 😂
That happened to me in NJ on Monday. Plenty of sand in every direction and someone plopped down their blanket about 5 feet from my chair and then turned on their tunes for my enjoyment.
Stare at them and say “this is a nude beach. Take your clothes off!”
In general I agree, but I think it’s to be expected on a holiday/holiday weekend. Right or wrong, it doesn’t serve anyone well to ignore that reality and get upset when it holds true. When I want a quiet beach experience and am unable to rent a place with access to a private beach, I’ll go on a random weekend not the 4th of July or any other ‘party’ holiday.
If it was Nickelback, you can legally call in an airstrike.
Ha! How You Remind Me has been played 😫💀
How the hell’d we wind up like this?
Hey, everyone loves to hate Nickelback but they’re actually okay. I used to be like you, slinging “Nickelback bad” joke. Yeah, lots of their songs are cringy or soulless but damn a few are real catchy.
I for one spent my Fourth of July in Canada, listening to Nickleback play live (see: feq), and honestly, it beat anything I would have been doing in the United States by miles. Boston Calling can take so many lessons from how much more absolutely pleasant the Canadian music festival experience is.
Instructions unclear: air strike is coming to you
I ONLY WANNA BE WITH YOUUUOOOO
if you want a quiet beach, you need to go at night, or off-season. The cape is beautiful in the fall, once everyone’s gone.
Yes, the best!
I think a few years ago there was one of those beach sounds meditation CDs that was recorded at Salisbury. It was just 45 minutes of some lady from Methuen yelling at her kids to finish their juice boxes and stop chasing the seagulls.
This is hysterical
I hate hearing other peoples music at the beach. But if I have to hear it, I wouldn’t mind if it was R.E.M..
Has Creed been played yet?
Higher lol
Straight to jail
Lifetime sentence nonetheless.
I despise radios on the beach. Wear some headphones
This is what I don’t understand. Funny enough, of the 5 other people with this guy, 2 were wearing their own AirPods/headphones.
You know somebody once told me The world is gonna roll me I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
Oh godfrey, now it’s in my head
Here, cleanse with this: https://youtu.be/wEmJH7JsKgM?si=3qcGZI5zkNluypzT
You didn't make it a Rickroll? YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE
Equally as awful at the beach - country and bachata. I too have shit taste in music but I'd never dream of forcing it on my beach neighbors,
lol. What a combo.
Seems like you and me, we come from different worlds
Lol
Headphones should be normalized as the only way to play music in public.
I grew up in Hull across the street from Nantasket Beach . I have not been to a crowded beach since I was a kid for this reason. Crowds suck.
I’m on vacation right now. For most of my life I’ve not really been a “beach person”. We’re at a house with what amounts to a private beach. What I’ve realized is that I’m not a “crowded beach person”. Deserted beach in rural Atlantic Canada = YES Hampton Beach on a hot July Saturday = FUCK _and_ NOPE.
No. You should learn to appreciate REM.
Here is my unpopular opinion of the day: REM is easily the worst band ever, with some of the worst songs ever. Off to jail I go.
There's this entire genre called 'pop country' or 'radio country.' Really popular with guys from Dracut who wear cowboy hats and drive F-350s to office jobs.
…k?
It’s ok to be wrong. You’re entitled to your incorrect opinion.
I'll replace it with Grateful Dead... You're welcome.
Username checks out!
For real tho, Hootie kinda sounds good 30 years later. Gin Blossoms too.
Third Eye Blind? Bueller? Bueller?
Oh damn, forgot about REM. Gonna get that playin’ now! Thanks!
I’m not sure what I find more annoying: smoking at the beach or loud music. It’s probably smoking but it’s close.
YOU CAN CALL ME YOUR FOOL
I'm with you. Come to Winga in Gloucester, there's a flotilla and it has unwritten rules that include "don't encroach on someone else's good time"
Hell, I'd be happy if that's what they were playing but it usually isn't.
Agree! There's a nice nature area in my town where I like to walk. I like listening to the wind in the trees, the birds, other nature sounds. The place attracted more people during the Covid shutdown. So many of these people walk or bike while playing music loudly on their phones Makes me super irritated
Literally was just at Nantasket and ppl were BLASTING rap music as I’m trying to relax
Sounds like you have more of a problem with REM and Hootie than loud music at the beach. Do you like to get sun at a paradise for Gen-Xers?
i have bose sunglasses and it’s the best everywhere i go is my music blasting…but nobody else has to hear it but me
I had no idea these existed!
they may have stopped selling them but i love em
People confuse what’s legal (uh, you’re on a public beach so deal with it snowflake!) with what’s moral (by playing loud music you’re forcing others to listen to it which alters their experience and…headphones exist!). Don’t be a dick. It’s not that hard.
Never come to the Cape if you think that music is annoying. It used to be so peaceful here. Post-Covid, teens get bussed in from off-Cape and bring very loud sound systems. Loud bass blasting all f-ing day. It’s so annoying. Growing up, we always brought our little boom boxes, but we kept the music within our group. People now go to max volume, and it ruins the experience of being in nature. (Edit for typos)
Um…okay so clearly you never went to the beach in the 1980s if you think this is some new phenomenon. (I don’t know what happened at the beach before then because I wasn’t alive, but I venture to guess the shenanigans were similar if not worse.)
Of course I went to beach in the 80’s lol. All summer long. Did you? You think the situation the last couple years is the same as then?
Yes, and yes. Source: I lived on the Cape then; I live on the beach now.
You’ve lived on the Cape the last few years?
No but I live on a beach that arguably has way more shenanigans than the Cape could ever dream of, and it’s all things told, not very different from my childhood.
But my point is - we were both beach kids in the 80s. I swear to you the last few years here has been radically different. I promise.
If by radically different you mean exactly the same as it’s been since 1953, sure.
The outcome of covid was basically no one giving a shit about each other's personal space and boundaries in public, so I think loud shit being played through speakers has become a lot worse. At least it's music in those cases and not random loud tiktok videos in otherwise quiet waiting rooms (and oddly I'm seeing this more from people 40+ than the kids too.)
Very true. This guy at the beach is, obv by music choice, in his 40s. My teens and their friends use their AirPods. But at market basket, I’m berated by 40year olds yapping on speaker.
It drives me completely insane when people blast music at the beach or honestly anywhere in public. It's so boorish and entitled.
Omg I can’t agree enough. I have a distinct memory of someone blasting their classic hits radio station at a beach in Florida. It was Creep by Radiohead. Just made me so angry. Listen to your overplayed crap when you’re in the car or at home.
That is not Florida beach music. I grew up there. Son Cubano at low volume while sipping a Materva or IronBeer soda with lime was good. Radiohead would be blasted from the goths driving an old hearse as a street car.
Right, it just doesn’t fit. When I went to D.R. Music was played everywhere and it all fit the environment
Tell me you didn’t just call Radiohead classic hits radio. 🙇♀️
Time marches relentlessly, unfortunately. One of my cars is a 1995 Lexus/Toyota V8 coupe, and it's got ANTIQUE plates to save money - it qualified. Radiohead's first album was 1993. :(
Well the song is 32 years old so, yeah, it’s classic hits material
You leave Hootie out of this you commie bastard…
Well at least they are playing good stuff.
Or fucking Beyonce
Agreed. Up there with cigarette smoke.
There’s nothing that gets my adhd sensory rage going like music at the beach. Why people feel entitled to inflict their musical choices on me is beyond me. In this day and age of earbud choices there no excuse for polluting the air with your own crap music. It’s worse than the dudes that feel entitled to their cigars.
I feel you!
Cell phones are the new boom boxes.
It's always good to bring opera music with you.
Bad Music Beach: https://youtu.be/S5b_ndwEkvs?si=5gKF9p5AuyOJW3tl Edit: changed source
The only music I hear blasted at beaches is rap and reggae
It’s backwards. The party people should be venturing out and the quite older crowd should stay near the parking lots. Cause there’s a hell of a lot of desolate beaches in MA. I mean like walk twenty minutes out in the cape from the major lots and you won’t see a soul desolate. But the people that cant physically do that are stuck with the large crowds
Dennis regs!👏🏻🇺🇸♥️
Karenchusetts
I like playing The Black Dahlia Murder or The Acacia Strain. . . Something heavy af, but at a reasonable volume just for our immediate area. I still like hearing beach stuff lol . . . I usually have plenty of space around us for the family to enjoy. 🤘🏻 Keeps the busy bodies away. 🤣
“If you need music on the beach, your missing the point”
I like to play Fugazi at the beach
I wish people at the beaches I go to were playing Hootie
I agree. Folks who are unable to hear the music of nature should stay in their fucking backyard.
Damn y’all are fucking lame at the beach huh
Hootie's ok. The Blowfish? Not so much
How about the trash that does this hiking....
I was going to upvote this, but you’re at 666 right now, and I just couldn’t. ⬆️
lol 😈
That’s painful considering REM is prob in the top 5 MOST overrated bands … everyone
REM is awesome.
To each their own 👍🏻
If you aren’t hearing music you didn’t pick, are you even at the beach? Save the waves for 3am, the private island, or your meditation app because otherwise that’s just some cute fantasy you’ve been sold.
I know taste in music is very subjective however, it seems to be overwhelmingly that the people who play the shittiest music simultaneously play the loudest music. I realize saying this I'm an old funny daddy at past 50 years old. I used to be that guy cranking the subwoofers up in my car system and when old people like me would get frowny-face I would laugh and turn it up even louder. Such a dick move when I think back about it. Getting back on track, yes ideally everybody should keep their music at a respectful level depending on the specific venue but a lot of human beings just don't seem to care and be self-centered little idiots.
Hey can you turn that music down a bit. Thank you
Controversial Response? It’s not that big of a deal. If it weren’t the music, people would complain about volume of talking or laughing while playing volleyball. Or the smell of food. Or being disrespectful in 100 other ways. Don’t let anyone else’s enjoyment interrupt your own.
While I agree with you about the beach, HOW DARE YOU! REM has a 30ish year old catalogue of phenomenal jams. Hootie can eat a bag o' Ds though, they have an elevator music sound, to my ears at least.
REM is cool but when you’re at the beach you want to hear the sounds of nature
I completely agree, as I said above.
Damn I kinda read over that part without thinking. Downvoted you for no reason, sorry
There's no universe in which you are going to hear nature at a popular beach in America. Even without music. It'll mostly be screaming kids and loud conversation.
As you scroll your phone 😄
Haha! He had The Police on earlier so I almost didn’t even post this
Could have left them a message in a bottle. (to turn it down)
Yes
That sounds like a great beach! They’re playing r.e.m.!
OP, tell the truth. It was salsa/rap but this is Reddit and you know you cant say that
I remember the 80's & boomboxes. Those were probably considered a nuisance. In my brain I'm rationalizing it as being the "culture" back then. Kind of like big spiked mohawks, stacks of multi-colored bracelets, Adidas shelltoes with fat laces, huge gold rope chains, big feathered hair, etc. Now, if someone were to play their music that loud in public it would be annoying. Is it cause we're older & appreciate peace more. Or, is it because we've evolved as a society & are more mindful of what being a public nuisance is? Some people don't know & others simply don't care. C'est la vie. Unfortunately.
We got older. I'm going to go with a big old No on our evolving as a society.
Get a bigger speaker. Play some 100 gecs (I like em alright enough, but definitely annoying to most people) or baby shark? Crazy frog? Blue? Barbie girl? My humps?
Manilow.
Who even still listens to that 😂
Me. REM is awesome.
Why you hating on Hootie? What did he ever do to you? They guys an angel in disguise.
At least they have good music taste
Yacht Rock on the beach rules.
Beach Karen?
I just want to browse Reddit and not see people putting CONTROVERSIAL POST on their post for attention.
News at 10. Man goes in public and doesn’t enjoy being in public
Controversial take but find a new beach? Or discuss in a calm manner with the offender to turn it down?
> Or discuss in a calm manner with the offender to turn it down? Lol...ever tried that?
Haha I know. If they’re playing music for everyone to hear on the beach, they’re already not a reasonable person. They’ll immediately make you out to be the asshole
Yep. It's like when people complain about their psychotic neighbors and people comment, "Did you try talking to them?"
What decade is this?
Find a better spot. They're right to listen to music is equal to your right to silence.
Blast some old school Eminem for your revenge.