One day last September I was enjoying my breakfast when the kitchen was rocked by two noisy blasts from the nearby cloakroom.
The team cited the protective deafening as a potential way to help sea mammals cope with noisy blasts from naval sonars, civilian air guns and other equipment.
"If a neighborhood is intolerable at night, it's as bad as having a noisy neighbor blasting music above you.
(It's as noisy as a blast torch, I was told).
The Panasonic was the quietest at its lowest setting but one of the noisiest at full blast.
The band's first two self-released singles, Motorcity and Bible of the Beats, were noisy, slogan-heavy blasts of post-punk with an insistent snare drum snap on every downbeat, intuitively capturing and embodying the bandmates' shared love of Sonic Youth and Glenn Branca on the one hand, and the industrial soul of Motown on the other.
Audra McDonald, the four-time Tony-winning actress, has taken to Twitter to blast a noisy audience member at a recent performance of "The Gershwins' 'Porgy and 'Bess' " at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York.
There is a fair amount of silliness abroad on Wildflower, not least on cartoonish tracks like The Noisy Eater, fronted by blast-from-the-past Biz Markie.
After their dynamic comeback in 2007 (they split up in 1995), they released Heavy Liquid, a crafted mix of intense, raw rock 'n' roll songs, blurred melodies, addictive fuzz guitar riffs and almost primitive drums that unites disparate musical elements into blasts of noisy cohesion and howling passion.
In an effort to scare off the unwelcome newcomers, a married couple blasts a noisy air canon.
