Though it can be much more pleasurable having a competition with the neighbours - you crank up your speaker volume, they turn up the TV, so you crank it up some more, so do they, so you turn off all your limitors and put it to full volume, they turn off the TV and go out for a quiet meal instead.
Maybe... but The Libertines are by far the better band. If I was in my right mind, I'd go and make a little topic in the backwaters somewhere naming all the great British bands that people should listen to.