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!
How funny is that? So damn above Lynyrd Skynyrd, and can't even understand the friggin' lyrics. Shock and amazement! Rock stars get poontang and get into fights on the road! Oh, the horror!
Baby, it is not only too loud, it is too stupid for anyone with more than a double digit IQ.
The funny thing, most of the stuff you probably like was adolescent music once. You'd be bitching about Sinatra if this were 1940.
Well that was uncalled for. I am not on a crusade here. I am not demanding anything. I acknowledge that I am in a minority and I am the one who has to adjust. I just wish rock and roll would go away. Fat chance! But anyway people are having a good time on this thread it seems.
Baby, it is not only too loud, it is too stupid for anyone with more than a double digit IQ.
I'm just disappointed that the music ~I~ like is now considered elevator music.
I will say this, though. I don't get how social conservatives can support rock and roll. It goes against their whole program. I don't get how so-called social conservatives on the radio can play rock and roll bumper music on their shows. It's hypocritical.
Don't know what trains--I drive. 233rd st.
I love music, but the constant rock jingles on TV do get on my nerves. So I turn it off. Sports make it inescapable, though (especially if you're at the stadium).
You're whining like a spinster on the rag. Who you kidding? You posted a thread to bitch that rock and roll is simplistic and loud? Welcome to the planet earth, genius. And you're supposed to be the smart one? LOL
As I cross the line
Between bad and evil
Nothing can stop me now
True believer.
One of the albums that I would need if I were stranded on a desert island.
For the most part, before the 1940's adults and children all listened to the same music. There were exceptions but everyone hummed the music of the day and also knew a wide variety of different music from church hymns, latin masses, Irish drinking songs, Italian quartet music, Polish polkas...There was depth and breadth to the knowledge.
Whatever. But there is a time and a place for everything. That is good music for a bar or a night club or at home. But in a department store????? Why? Why is such music necessary? There is plenty of fast music (if the point is to make people shop faster) it does not have to be rock and roll. I just don't get it. I think the store is being careless with it's image. Just a few thoughts. No biggie.
Ha! Just when you think you're as edgy as ever, they hit you with a label like "adult contemporary." D'oh! LOL. My thing is that I'm sick of all the classic rock, even stuff I like, just because by the time you're 30, you've heard it a gazillion times. How many times in one lifetime do I need to hear "Who are you" by the Who? It's a good rock tune. I like it. But I don't need it. The new stuff, the "nu metal" and "emo" and "pop punk" is mostly crapola, but that's nothing new. The vast majority of any genre of music is mostly crap at any given time, because that's what ppl like. But there's always some good stuff hiding out there somewhere.
He listed them and when he got to Metallica, the crowd roundly booed.
Cake is like that. System of a Down was good for one song, (Disorder, whatever its title was) and the rest is pretty bad.
Awww man. Now I have "Rainbow in the Dark" stuck in my head.
Why don't you go get yourself a glass of prune juice and listen to some Mantovani:
http://www.hallowquest.com/mantiindex.htm
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