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!
but, if you have to listen to either Neils.....how do you FEEEEEEEELLLLLL.
Ah! A bagpipe man...
She was a riot; she was a school teacher. Her first class was a one room school house in Pennsylvania.
She liked the naughty boys the best. They'd make her laugh inside and warm her heart right up. And it's no surprise, she became their favorite and would listen to her, and learn.
Must have been one of those Kodak moments.
It is a 'she', you know??? lol!
I got mad at my brother, in fact, because he kept turning the volume WAY up, and I'd turn it back down, as my half-siblings (toddlers) were taking a nap...so we go into a fight. My brother was a naughty boy, so gramma got mad at me of course.
Eclectic is good. Polka. Handel. Guns and Roses.
Ummmmm, bagpipe WOMAN...
Younger brother?
You like Guns n Roses sharky????
I'm shocked!
Older brother.
Younger brother was just a pest.
A tattle tale.
: )
Hey. Sumpin wrong with bagipes?
:-)
No.
It is indeed - it's on a flatbed, which is towed behind a giant White big rig. You haven't lived until you're following the bells down the highway at breakneck speed, all of 'em clanging and chiming their driving song!
And yes, it's very physical and very therapeutic. The one I'm learning on, which is a stationary one in a tower, is the equivalent of a brand-new stick-shift . . . it's easy to get the bells to produce notes without much effort. The Cast in Bronze bells - the old stick-shift with the hard clutch - are (as Frank the guy in black has it) a "more manly instrument," requiring lots more pressure and power from me (unexpected when Frank put me on the spot to play at one of his late shows).
I try to go after work every day - it's on my way home - but the Festival sorely cut into that.
Someday I'll tell the story of how Frank got me to play in front of my first audience, and what ensued.
esme, do you like salsa music?
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