I Know it's Only Rock and Roll but I Hate it.

11/27/2005 | Hound of the Baskervilles

[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!

[Mr. Blonde]

It isn't noise to a lot of us. But then Rock is a pretty big word to paint a lot of music with. After all there is a lot of difference between say "Turn the Page" by Bob Seger and "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. Sometimes you may want to relax and listen to one and sometimes you have to get the Led out. It all depends. And the fact that it is so diverse is why so many people like it. Ask any rock fan and they will tell you any number of rock bands they hate. But because there are so many variations it can speak to a lot of people where rap can only really speak to a limited section of people.

And I'm not really sure why where you work plays rock other than although it still kind of speaks to some people's need to feel like they are rebelling it has become respectable. And it is so prevalent it is like it is a part of the collective unconscious.

[EsmeraldaA]

I like stores with loud music.

They are NOT neutral, you see? ;-))

[null and void]

Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel...

[Lakeshark]

And her I thought you was a laidy.......

[Lakeshark]

Headbanger.

[nicmarlo]

I like stores with loud music.

Oh my....can I send you in those stores with my daughters?

[nicmarlo]

typo

[null and void]

Ummmm, 5 minutes of silence has been copyrighted...

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"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. "

Well there ya go. See several people have posted the same remarks. But no one has yet to say they have walked out of a store because there was no music or because the music was too slow, too soft or was not rock music. So dammit...I'm right. Stores are losing money when they play loud or inappropriate music. Dumb bunnies.

[EsmeraldaA]

Absolutely! I love to shop for/with girls!

[Lakeshark]

Dumb bunnies.

*Looking around*
Now where is that pancake?

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

"I like stores with loud music. They are NOT neutral, you see? ;-))"

Hmmm. There's a thought.

[Dan from Michigan]

Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution
Rock 'n' roll ain't gonna die
Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution
Rock 'n' roll it will survive

[EsmeraldaA]

Do you like country music.....very much?....

[Lakeshark]

Poetic license.......

He can be taught!

[sweetliberty]

"Stores are losing money when they play loud or inappropriate music."

Well, that's my thinking also, but then you have to consider that most of these stores cater to these little brain dead, tatooed zombies that have had one too many things pierced and their remaining intelligence all leaked out the holes. I think they're programmed by that "music," and these idiots will keep spending daddy's money no matter what.

[nicmarlo]

they would probably have great fun shopping with you there, in my stead (I'm still trying to remember the name of that store) and they'll probably continue saying I'm getting old/no fun (as I'm not a shopper anyways, but very loud music definitely puts the kabosh on any shopping inclination)

[Lakeshark]

Some......

[Dan from Michigan]

"Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"

Beat me to it.

[nicmarlo]

so he says