You're at a party / club / social gathering. Everyone's enjoying themselves but the music's crap... Do you...

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Nothing. Who cares?

Depends on how drunk I am

How loud is it? And are the people enjoying themselves all my friends, or strangers? Possibly deeply frightening strangers (that is, humans)?

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I'm not repeating the story from the other thread, but the answer was..

nothing.

I guess the loudness question is similar to my other query - is the music the primary motivation for being at this event? Like, a "party" to me is usually being at my friend's house where everyone is drinking and talking and maybe playing some stuff at each other; but there's also the possibility that you mean warehouse party or something else where you don't necessarily know everyone but turned up to get hammered and dance, right?

So: can I escape the music? Do I know people there? Am I unhappy about an organised large-scale event or are you picturing me being exceptionally rude to a gathering of six friends who just happened to put their favourite ukulele cover on youtube?

In a club, I'd probably either get bored and decide to leave or get drunk and end up enjoying it anyway.

At a house party, who really cares? Just enjoy it and ignore the music. Parties where everyone chops and changes on the stereo and songs get cut off midway through for something totally different are the worst though.

Matt DC otm about terrible house parties--a corny vibe is better than no vibe, hands off my YouTube playlist!

I voted "complain" because it's always been a good way to meet people in the past, & my girlfriend just dumped me D:

I'm going to let you guys decide on the actual scenario here.

Parties where everyone chops and changes on the stereo and songs get cut off midway through for something totally different are the worst though.

― Matt DC

This is every single party that doesn't have decks set up, in my experience.

Anyway, I'd get involved anyway, but I'd be doing a bit of a sarcastic dance while constantly keeping my eye out for a kindred spirit to complain to.

bit pissed off with the managers at the weekend, who had the gall to charge my other half's parents to hire out an upstairs pub room (which you can go to for free at any other time) for her brother's 30th and wouldn't even let us choose our own music, even if it was played through a portable stereo.

they claimed it was a grade-a listed building and therefore loud basslines and dancing would annoy the neighbours and jeopardise the building. however, the music they did play was reasonably loud chart pop and dance music anyway. it's not like we were going to be playing nosebleed gabba - it was a family gathering.

See, my preferred tactic would be "complain to a small bunch of likeminded friends" but that isn't an option. So fuck it, I'm leaving this shitty party.

at a club? presumably i had some idea of what the music would be beforehand. depends who i'm with and my mood more generally - stick it out and get drunk or bail early or persuade friends to leave and go elsewhere are all options

at a house party i might make a sarky comment to a like-minded friend but i would just go into another room. no one likes the whinger in the corner at a party. i don't have ready-made party playlists and would only put my ipod on if invited or pushed by friends

at a pub-type venue i'm probably there for eg someone else's bday, so i would just stick it out, it's not my party

at an afterparty i'm probably good enough friends with most ppl present to object if it's really bad but this isn't often the case bc afterparties tend to be for people of like-minded taste

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I have been invited / pushed by friends to put music on before at house parties. But if not asked, I don't like to take it upon myself to change the music, even if it's crap. There's nothing worse than a douchebro at a party trying to force his music on other people as if his is the only taste that matters.

If I really don't like the music I will express that in a way that's hopefully not too obnoxious to someone I think will agree with me. Or I might just leave the dancefloor and go to the loo or something.

at a club? presumably i had some idea of what the music would be beforehand. depends who i'm with and my mood more generally - stick it out and get drunk or bail early or persuade friends to leave and go elsewhere are all options

at a house party i might make a sarky comment to a like-minded friend but i would just go into another room. no one likes the whinger in the corner at a party. i don't have ready-made party playlists and would only put my ipod on if invited or pushed by friends

at a pub-type venue i'm probably there for eg someone else's bday, so i would just stick it out, it's not my party

at an afterparty i'm probably good enough friends with most ppl present to object if it's really bad but this isn't often the case bc afterparties tend to be for people of like-minded taste

― lex pretend, Monday, October 20, 2014 7:04 AM (1 week ago)

agree with pretty much all of this

Club: Either leave if thats consensus or stick it out if its about the afters anyway. Doesnt usually happen but have seen some unexpectedly bad sets on occasion

House party: If its bad probably knew it was going to be bad beforehand so tune it out

Pub: If randomly bad probably dont even notice the music, if its prepared or themed and bad probably comment to friend on it but suck it up

Afters: An afters with decks is where all the best music comes out!

Ah, how it was..

How it is now? Well..

I was asked about some music for a house party for wife's father who was having a load if ex-service friends around. I didn't have anything that would have suited in the car so left whatever was playing on the cassette player in the hi-fi on auto-rotate.

Anyway, when it was all over, I went to see what had been giving some atmosphere underneath all the hubbub and chatter. Yep, you guessed it, it was Shabba Ranks.

Last house party I was at everyone took turns DJ'ing off of their phones. Worked out pretty well too.

Its good when people take turns on the decks because you have to show respect for the record playing before, especially if you want to do a good transition. At a regular party when people are in a hurry to get 'their' track on it can be really horrible

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