Posted on 11/28/2005 3:51:41 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles
I'm posting this in hopes of getting opinions and advice about my growing annoyance of being bombarded with loud hard rock music everywhere I go. It's in grocery stores, department stores, even dentists offices, and it's ALWAYS on TV, in practically every single commercial.
What's worse, I got a job at a major chain department store that caters to mid-America. It's not Penny'S but it is on a par with Penny's/ The sotre plays mostly rock and roll all day long. At night it's nothing but hard rock. The Killers, Lynrd Skynrd, Blondie, Billie Idol, Swiftfoot, ZZ Top, and on and on and on. The music is loud too. (It's loud in most stores.) Not only that, in the store where I work the lyrics of some of the songs are raunchy. Aerosmiths Walk this Way is about oral and group sex. Billy Idol's Rebel Yell is about, well I can't print the words. Even the song, What's Your Name Little Girl, (don't know the artists) is about picking up a woman at a hotel and staying the night with her, plus a band member "having a go" with one of the guests.
This is just my opinion please you rock fans don't take offense. I hate rock music. It's worse than animals growling and screaming. The electric guitar is the most annoying instrument known to man. I am wearing earplugs to work and night and in most stores. Still I can hear it. Help me someone to understand why this music is the most popular form of music in the world. If you like it tell me why so I can try to understand and learn to live with it because there is no escaping it. If you don't like it please give me some sympathy!
It's actually Rob Halford that sucks.
But, it's hard to beat the "Defenders of the Faith" album.
Ever hear of Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine? They do metal tunes as a lounge singer. Hilarious stuff.
Gaze upon the dark one, if you dare...
http://www.yanni.com/
depends...
Metallica has turned into tasteless corporate noise.
Disturbed first big album was pretty good. Korn was good to the Children of the Korn album, then it got bad....
There isn't anything out there right now worth anything that it new either.
I don't think we will be hearing Pantera in the stores anytime soon. Or MetalChurch or anything like that....
negative LOL
What the hell is a jingle horse?
"I'm still waiting for Miles to rise from the grave with Charlie Parker..."
I see Miles' grave all the time. Nothing doing there--very quiet.
I often think it ironic that the dust that lived a life so loud, tumultous and frenetic could really be there in that quiet little bit of Woodlawn.
He's buried in Woodlawn? I didn't know that. I should go see him.
The exception proves the rule I guess.
Just as an example. Not that I like the Nickel crew at all. Although I may pick up their most recent album because Dimebag makes a guest appearance.
Bruce Hornsby sitting in with Grateful Dead..
Just saw them live last month. Saw them with Ripper on the Demolition tour as well.
Dunno... but this is one guess:
Yeah, in the Bronx. His stone is at the edge of a section, visible from the road.
People either "get" Motorhead or they don't. I, for example, don't "get" System of A Down. The guy can't sing and they make a lot of unintelligible racket.
Metal Church's first few were classics. They were supposed to get back together, but their singer was killed in a car crash in May.
I'm gonna go. It's been awhile since I've been up there -- #4,5,6 right?
Wow!!
Someone else has heard of them LOL!!
We played a game called "Catch Freddie" in football in Pennsylvania, and our team was named Metal Church because the senior that picked us had that shirt on :)
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