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!
Their guitarist? Heck, IIRC they had three. Anyway Yes.
Now, be honest. When did you start hating Freebird & Stairway -- the first time you heard them or the 500th time you heard them?
Are here.
*First warning*
lol!
nope....just seen pictures of it....and it ain't pretty down there.
"they" play music there..........
Okie Dokie!
Truth be told, I don't recall hating on Skynyrd until my dumbass first fiance made me observe the respectful five seconds of silence at the end of "Free Bird."
Before then, I was a normal redneck girl whose musical education included Skynyrd. After that, I became a rabid anti-Skynyrdite.
is that what that shrieking sound is called? music? : )
Wikipedia
Walk This Way
"Walk This Way" is the name of a song by the American rock group Aerosmith from their album Toys in the Attic (1975). It was one of their biggest hits, and was a hit again when redone with rappers Run DMC on their Raising Hell (1986) album. The song title was inspired from a line in the movie Young Frankenstein when the character Igor spoke the line. The lyrics, written by Steven Tyler are about a high schooler having sexual intercourse for the first time and engaging in group sex.
Now I ask you...is this appropriate music for a department store?
I can make it ....pretty.....no problem.
Where is Darks when you need him?
LOL! esme, I do believe you could!
getting a blood transfusion? : )
For someone who claims to neither like nor know much about rock, you came up with a pretty inventive thread title (riffing off the 1974 Rolling Stones hit).
Yeah I think that's the idea behind playing the rock music. However studies show that if you play slow music people stay in the store longer. If you play classical music it makes people feel smarter and more sophisticated so they stay in the store longer and buy more expensive things.
My guess is if you are waiting in the check out line for a long time and you want the line to go faster because the rock music is speeding you up internally, then the rock music is irritating.
Did the Rolling Stones sing that? Would have never known if you had not said so.
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