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!
LOL! [running and dodging thrown objects]
Somehow I just KNEW that'd get your goat. Next time don't let on where you've left it tied.
So, whaddya play? Six strings? Four? Pound the cans?
My kids think I'm cool because I have cd's or songs of and like Metallica, ACDC, Ozzie, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, The Black Crowes, Velvet Revolver, No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, among others. Of course, they don't like my Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, and Elton John selections much......and I was just thinking the other day, how nice it is not to have to listen to the elevator music I had to endure as a child while shopping with my mother. : )
You do that too? I thought I was the only one who dissed poor Billie Joe like that!
Do I know you?
Totally hip mom!
LOL....I've always liked him.
My kids don't, but they sure don't hate him like they do Neil Young....they absolutely cannot abide him one second (imagine the torture rituals I put them through!!).
:-)
I absolutely adore him...when, almost.
He's been one of my favorite singers since....well, since I was in elementary school....back with the Red Red Wine and so many others....he's one of the best, imo.
Do I know you?
:-)
I left out one: Depeche Mode.
My oldest recently asked me to burn that CD I have for her (which I did)...she loves it; I used to play it all the time when she was little.
Just kidding.......
the better question is....do I know YOU
: )
I got rocks....did you want me to share some with you??????????
BQ scores!!!
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