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I Know it's Only Rock and Roll but I Hate it.
11/27/2005 | Hound of the Baskervilles

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!


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: depends; hardrock; lyrics; music; rockmusic; stopwhining; workplace
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To: EsmeraldaA

no, esme, you're not too loud. : )


501 posted on 11/28/2005 9:29:17 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Lakeshark
That has another name all together.....

It is a grand thing that I can't recognize lyrics....some anyway....hehe
502 posted on 11/28/2005 9:29:23 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
She's just pretending........
503 posted on 11/28/2005 9:29:41 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark
neither?
504 posted on 11/28/2005 9:29:46 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Lakeshark

hush!


505 posted on 11/28/2005 9:30:17 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Lakeshark

Blah blah who?


506 posted on 11/28/2005 9:31:00 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: nicmarlo

:o>


507 posted on 11/28/2005 9:31:41 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles (Liberals are unfit for citizenship in a country that values freedom and courage.)
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To: nicmarlo

I'm not whispering......so..;-))


508 posted on 11/28/2005 9:32:37 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles; Lakeshark; EsmeraldaA

Speaking of quiet....perhaps you'd like this song, Hound:

Depeche Mode

Enjoy The Silence

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can’t you understand
Oh my little girl

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Enjoy the silence


509 posted on 11/28/2005 9:33:24 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: EsmeraldaA

Hi, Esmeralda:

Yes, Dentist Office Music. More commonly known as Ray Conniff Murders Music As We Know It.

The only thing worse than sitting helplessly through the drilling, grinding, constant measuring and smell of a Root Canal is doing all of the above while enduring an Orchestration of tunes by Heart, Queen, The Band, Billy Joel and Eric Clapton.

Jack.


510 posted on 11/28/2005 9:33:41 PM PST by Jack Deth (Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
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To: nicmarlo

*Shark swooning*


511 posted on 11/28/2005 9:35:43 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: EsmeraldaA

but, you're not shouting, either.


512 posted on 11/28/2005 9:35:52 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo

:-)


513 posted on 11/28/2005 9:36:04 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark

sharks can swoon?

I thought they only do other things, like attack....you know, "shark attack." : )


514 posted on 11/28/2005 9:37:03 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Jack Deth
HI Jack.

I don't know what 'Band' is that.

But Eric Clapton?!? Jack! I am wounded and all that.
He is one of my favorites!
*sigh*
You really hate him Jack? I am shocked!
515 posted on 11/28/2005 9:38:47 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: nicmarlo; Hound of the Baskervilles; Lakeshark

I there was a reason for it.....now I know.


516 posted on 11/28/2005 9:40:40 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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To: nicmarlo
Well.....

They can do nice things too............like nibble........

517 posted on 11/28/2005 9:41:51 PM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: EsmeraldaA; Hound of the Baskervilles; Lakeshark

now you know a reason for silence?


518 posted on 11/28/2005 9:41:52 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: Lakeshark

my, but what big fangs you have!

: )


519 posted on 11/28/2005 9:42:12 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: EsmeraldaA

Where are my words? FR ate them....again...


520 posted on 11/28/2005 9:42:14 PM PST by EsmeraldaA
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