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!
I paid homage to Gustav Mahler's grave once. In a quiet cemetary in Grinzing, a Vienna suburb. A simple marker, too, unlike his ornate and massive symphonies. And noticably distant from the other big Vienna guys, who are in the Zentralfriedhof (other than Haydn and Brucker, that is--they went for the church thing).
Here's a great website for finding famous folks' graves. It's kind of grim, but I enjoy visiting them.
http://www.findagrave.com/
I swear to you on my dog's grave you would have to scrape me off the floor if I went to that place and listened to that music for however many hours rock concerts last. It would be pure unadulterated hell for me. Right now I am sitting in total silence. No TV, no radio, no nothing. Just the sound of dogs barking in the distance. I love that sound, especially in winter.
I thought it was a heart problem. Maybe that was Paul Baloff that I am thinking of. I was at a Slayer show when Araya announced that Baloff had died.
The last time I saw Rob Halford on stage requires a ride in the wayback machine to the mid 80s during the Screaming for Vengance tour.
Oh thank you for saying this! I am a boomer and I AM SICK OF ROCK AND ROLL!!! I have had 35 years of it and it is alll boring and repetitive. There is nothing more dull than a rock and roll drumbeat. There is a large library of Western music from the 12th century up...will someone get smart and use it. Heck...I'd be happy with early and mid 20th century music.
I leave stores these days becasue the music is sssooooooo boring and repetitive.
I have their new one in my CD player right now. Blitz can still wail.
Thanks! Great site...this is what they had on Miles...
Davis, Miles b. May 25, 1926 d. September 28, 1991
Jazz Musician. The son of a middle-class dentist from Alton, Illinois, he won a scholarship to Julliard in 1944, but there is no evidence that he ever attended the institution. Rather, upon his arrival in New York, he joined up with the modern jazz leader Charlie Parker, joining his "All-Star" quintet on trumpet. Quickly learning that he would never be able to match Parker's technical virtuousity, Davis adopted a cooler, more laid back approach to his solos, playing very few notes and...[Read More] (Bio by: Stuthehistoryguy)
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Maybe if you screech and whine like a female dog a little bit louder than you're doing now, it'll drown out the noise.
He can still hit the notes. He did "Riding on the Wind" flawlessly.
The classifications are not mutually exclusive. A band (or song) can be both "pop rock" and also "new wave." Nor will all authorities agree on the classifications in all cases. Worse, the consensus of opinion on the classifications changes over time!
Personally, I thing the classification game has become rather obsessive. You go into a record store and can't find what you're looking for, because that store classifies what you think is a metal band as 'progressive rock.' The balkanization of musical genres into ever finer distinctions is getting rather ridiculous.
Sinatra's unimpeachable, of course.
Oh my gosh! Hooray a kindred spirit. Yes it is boring. A lot of it is just drek! And I think I know why it gets louder and louder....it's because the people who listen to it get deafer and deafer. Hearing loss is rampant these days. I am serious...the people of the world are getting deafer and deafer. Soon there will be no public place where a person can have peace and quiet.
Yesterday I was on hold for my local utility and listening to that song about hustlers and crossdressing transvestites that was popular many years ago...you know, Uh, uh,uh uh uh, uh...
When customer service came on the phone, I said, do you know I have been listening to the music you pump through for your customers to listen to on hold and I have been listening to music about transvestites and oral sex.
The customer service rep was surprised and said she would talk to her manager.
My old buddy you're movin'....much to sloooooooow!
Best Thrash band ever IHMO!
Ronnie Dio is another who has an amazing voice. He can go from a bottom floor garvely grown to a Mariah Carey squeal. It's an amazing range for a male.
That's Lynard Skynard and a 'go with one of the guests' was about an argument/fight.
Baloff died 3 years ago, forget what of but he was fairly young.
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