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 sparked up my Heaven and Hell CD when I thought of him.
"Freebird is energetic and that is good enough."
Menudo was energetic, too.
Does that make them good?
We may be wandering off of the intended topic of this thread LOL!!
Im watching Grateful Dead movie, right now. Damn, I miss those guys..
Ppl still know all that different crap. But in the 1940s, the top of the charts was big band music. Loud, boistrous, silly, dance music. Same as it ever was.
Here goes, looks like I’m falling
Call me, Devil May Care
I know it shouldn’t be
But you know me, pal
I‘ll take a dare
Who knows, but this time
I may be lucky
This may be on the square
Here goes, it’s an adventure
Just call me
Devil May Care
I went into a Subway restaurant the other day and Rap was blaring. I turned around and walked out shaking my head. But, R&R I like.
I have thought of that too. I think most people are numb to it now. I think its mostly a gimmick. They play loud rock music to get your attention and that's the only real reason it's played. But the trouble is EVERY commercial enterprise is trying to get your attention and there are millions of them. So it's loud and annoying everywhere! There is no escape from rock and roll unless you want to be a hermit or wear ear plugs. Too bad so sad for me and the pancake bunny.
I think that makes them flaming :)
I think you are probably right. I think it took about 5 posts on this thread before it got off topic. :)
Damn, man. Couldn't you keep it to yourself???
I was gonna say... you'd better love Bohemian Rhapsody... and Fat Bottomed Girls is good too.
Awesome.
That is why I said before the 40s.
When there's lightning
You know it always brings me down
Cause it's free and I see that it's me
Whose lost and never found.
THAT FIGURES!
One time I was hitchhiking from CO to NY and I caught a ride in Iowa with a trucker. He puts in a cassette of Zamfir playing Billy Joel tunes and the tape gets stuck in the player, won't come out. Rode damn near all the way to Chicago listening to that crap.
Now whose bitching and whining?
That's part of it. It also sets the mood. But how can you be a social conservative and play heavy metal like Metallica as theme music? I think the music should reflect the ideology. William F Buckley Jr's theme music on Firing Line was a Brandenburg Concerto by Bach. Then again, his show was on PUBLIC tv, so I guess he was not exactly living his ideals either.
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