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!
Girl interrupted.......
no country? aw, esme.....not even George Strait, Brooks and Dunn, Alabama, Johnnie Cash, or Waylon Jennings? : )
Yeah that's way before Nirvana
You've noticed it too? I'm not the only one? And I used to be a huge rock & roll fan and was even in a rock band for a few years. It pervades everything we do and the messages of the songs are usually immoral in some way.
Actually I'm watching football.
Very eclectic.........
BR is a very good song, but "We Will Rock You" is perhaps the most annoying song in world history. .....partly because it's played in nearly every sports venue in the country about 50x/game.
Ohhh well....pretty much.
I will gladly hear any song in the world, except "Free Bird" or "Stairway to Heaven."
If you're gonna play one of those, best to disarm me first. ;)
The lyrics are terrible but it is one of the coolest riffs ever.
'splain how watching football is eclectic.
okay, sharky, methinks you're right.
to the dungeons with her!! ; )
When the Stones, LedZep, ZZTop, and others are licensing their rock songs to corporations, it's not so cool anymore.
I wonder if creativity in America is on the wane - same rock songs rehashed, same sitcoms rehashed, same movies remade over and over. Everyone is afraid to try something new and refreshing.
How about Green Grass and High Tide? :-)
"The electric guitar is the most annoying instrument known to man."
He probobly would have booed Bob Dylan in the mid-60's Shea Stadium concert when he switched to electric for the second half of the concert. LOL! I will agree that electric guitar played BADLY is annoying though.
like, you know, Hank?
Wimmin!
LOL!!!
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