I learned to hate 737s while I was flying 727s, mainly because they were so slow. We had a regular run from the LA Basin to PHX once a week normally on Thursday's afternoon. PHX was also a normal RON couple with a late morning departure on Friday, if we didn't break down, which happened often. Not the 727's fault, we just had horrible lowest bidder maintenance.
Anyway, we'd blast out of the LA area, either from LAX, LGB or the old Los Alamitos Navy Base and head to PHX. As we were burning Government fuel and ready to party, as soon as we left 10,000 we'd climb at 350 kts IAS and then at what ever final altitude we received we'd ride the barber pole.
For about ten minutes, then inevitably Center would ask, in a high pitched voice, "Say Mach." We would reply .86 or higher, I was always tempted to respond, "What does the flight plan call for?", but I didn't. Then center would again inevitably say, "Slow to .78, you're following a 737 and overtaking them by over 80 knots." Every once in a while we'd get a sharp controller that would let us drop down to FL 250 and let us go as fast as we wanted. Now that was fun.
It was also fun to pass 737s at cruise while climbing at 2,000 feet per minute when we had a fairly light load.
Like I said earlier, I really miss flying the 727. But, I have to admit, on descent riding the barber pole it was real noisy in the cockpit.
But if you really want noise, put the gear down at 270 kts IAS, then lower the nose and speed up to 320 kts IAS, now we're talking noise.