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!
sharky, we were discussing classic literature, and you were rebuking me for not recognizing it as such.
now you are saying a scene was classic.
that's entirely different.
I will now crawl out from underneath this heavy rock, which has made my clothes wrinkled. : )
ESPN plays "classics" from the nineties
that's a sports channel.
harumph.
Nics writing note to self: Be more eclectic
BRB I have a request at the canteen.
Now you've hit on something there! I've been reading about rock music and there is no doubt...ask any musicologist or rock "artist" and they will tell you that rock and roll is about sex, drugs and rebellion. So this gets me back to the mystery of why department stores that are located in the Bible Belt and cater to all age groups play loud rock music. It's fine for the Gap and Abercrombie and Fitch and Claire's where they sell ticky tacky jewelry to teenie boppers. But the damn stuff is everywhere!
"Maybe you don't like it because your too conservative for your own good? :)"
Also true. And I am very introverted. Unfortunately introverts are in the minority in the general population. Outnumbered by extroverts 3 to 1. Noise wears me out. And being a conservative I am not about to join or launch yet another crusade to make people cater to my foibles. I hate that kind of thing. There's way too much of it.
I guess that's why God invented ear plugs. Still after all these posts, no one has explained exactly why they love all that noise. It kills me.
And don't even get me going on the crap they play at stores. We don't have a mall in our town and the closest one is nearly 3 hours away, so when I go shopping at a mall, it would be nice if it was at least a tolerable, if not a pleasant, experience. I have many times walked out of a store, even when there was something I was very interested in buying, simply because I couldn't tolerate that God awful, crude, talentless, souless noise blasting throughout the store.
Offensive? Yeah....and then some. I think we should be allowed to treat these cretins with the same level of respect that they bestow on those unfortunate enough to have to deal with them...just slap the crap out of them and leave them wondering why.
okay
In matters of taste, there is no right or wrong.
Meant to ping y'all to #427.
Sick.
Yes true. Crappy speakers and lousy accoustics that are in every blinking store make rock music sound even more like music from hell. Have you ever heard a boom car?? What's up with THAT??
I'm not Alice.
I'm nics.
True. True. And yet..."There is a time and a place for everything." And my favorite right now. "Silence is Golden." ;O>
Hardy har har......
do I hear an *echo*?
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