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!
Well, I think I can go dig up the pop charts from the 20s and prove you wrong, but I'll let you have you way in thinking that nearly 100 years ago, maybe things were different.
Yes it is excellent! Okay I thought of a few more, but they are old songs. I like Pinball Wizard from the rock musical Tommy. I like practically anything by Roy Orbison...love Pretty Woman and Running Scared. But he's so tame by today's standards.
"and Fat Bottomed Girls is good too." Don't know that one.
I love some rock and roll, some not so much. Favorite rock singers: Freddie Mercury (all time favorite), James Hetfield (Metallica), Billy Idol, Roger Daltry, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits). You may not like the music, but some of these bands have musical talent to burn.
Hahahah! Yikes!!!!
There were many foolish songs in the twenties, but they were not vulgar by today's standards and they were known by young and old.
example:
Marsydoats and doeseatoats
and little lambs eat ivy
a kidle eat ivy too
wouldn't you?
This is called Stuck Tune Syndrome. The remedy is to drink five shots of gin in quick succession while simultaneously humming the melody to any song by Christie Lane.
Thankth. Itworked but nowmywords are slurredandtheroom keeps spinning.
Mares eat oats
And goats eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid will eat ivy too
Wouldn't you?
Shear dreck but cute for kids. On a par with Farmer in the Dell.
I saw that documentary, and it is unintentionally hilarious. Didn't you note that the band members got fed up over time with their useless, $40,000-a-month, psychobabbling Dr. Phil? Their management company apparently foisted that dork onto them. He was so very effective that instead of continuing to work with him, James Hetfield took off out of the blue for rehab elsewhere. Having to listen to Dr. Phil probably drove him right over the edge. :)
Today it is, but it was a popular song in the twenties that was sung by all ages.
Ah, another Cake fan!
Primus is another band you either "get" or you don't.
I wonder how many companies let the employees control the volume of the music. It's not a good idea. Plenty of stores are run by young managers without any sense. If loud or inappropriate music only turns away 5 percent of your business that's a LOT of money lost. It just makes so much sense that whatever music you play in a place of business other than a bar or night club it should be truly background music. People are just thoughtless and lacking in business sense if they don't monitor the volume of their music and make it appropriate for the type of store of business they run.
Oh true. I remember my mom singing it.
Gabba Gabba Hey!
They're probably not going to change the music, so maybe you should start getting high on the job. Don't forget the Visine.
ping
the huh???
:-P
I didn't catch the beginning, so I didn't see who hired the Dr Phil guy. I thought the band members did plenty of psychobabblng on their own. I couldn't figure out why they released that documentary at all, unless they are trying to convince every last fan that the men behind the curtain are a bunch of ninnies.
Hahahah! True. Sigh.
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