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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: Hound of the Baskervilles

You could always move to a nice Islamic country. America Rocks! Get used to it.


541 posted on 11/29/2005 12:32:59 AM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Xenalyte

You know, I think I understand how you feel. I can't listen to almost any classic rock anymore. It's not that it's bad, but I've heard it all about a gazillion times. I've been listening to a whole lotta Nine Inch Nails lately, which at least sounds fresh to me.


542 posted on 11/29/2005 12:35:07 AM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: rcocean

The Stones!!! HAHAHAHA! They play Van Halen and Motley Crue on the classic rock stations now. You're about 20 years out of date.


543 posted on 11/29/2005 12:40:07 AM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
No I can't agree. The Killers, Blondie and Idol are punk rockers or new wave. (I looked it up).

Lol, 20 years ago, Idol, Blondie etc might have been punk/pop. New Wave hasn't been a term in use for at least as long. It's pop, not rock, and not even remotely hard rock.

544 posted on 11/29/2005 12:47:01 AM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Melas

So being that I just digitized my entire Frank Sinatra collection, does that make me a bad person?? :-)


545 posted on 11/29/2005 12:47:58 AM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
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.

Oh no. Want to run me out of a store? Play MUZAK, or Yani, or heaven forbid John Tesh. I'll run like a straight man from the backstage of the Ice Capades. The only thing that might possibly drive me out of the store faster would be country music.

546 posted on 11/29/2005 12:52:19 AM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Now I ask you...is this appropriate music for a department store?

Don't ask me. I've been listening to the song for 30 years and never figured out what it was supposedly about.

547 posted on 11/29/2005 2:14:23 AM PST by SamAdams76 (What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
I'm sorry you seem to have no connection with your physical/sexual side. That is what rock is meant to tap into. It does so naturally without effort for most of us. Cerebral music like symphonic music has it's place but listening to it exclusively is like looking at Japanese watercolors all day and missing a Grucci fireworks display.

BTW, The Electric guitar in the hands of someone like Eric Clapton, Eric Johnson or Stevie Ray Vaughn is a thing of immense beauty and raw-refinement if that terms makes sense to you.

548 posted on 11/29/2005 2:28:40 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Can't people be content with their own thoughts at least for a little while?

Exactly, it's just noise pollution plain and simple. Anymore, you have to go somewhere to get away from music, not go somewhere to listen to music.

549 posted on 11/29/2005 6:16:50 AM PST by Casloy
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To: Tribune7

Nope - exact same reason: that fiance made me observe the five seconds after "Stairway" as well.

Perfectly good song he messed up for me. Ptui.


550 posted on 11/29/2005 6:39:39 AM PST by Xenalyte ("Every day should be the best day ever!" -Frank DellaPenna, Cast in Bronze)
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To: Melas

Have you heard Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt"? Word has it Trent Reznor was moved to tears when he saw Cash's video. WOW.


551 posted on 11/29/2005 6:41:23 AM PST by Xenalyte ("Every day should be the best day ever!" -Frank DellaPenna, Cast in Bronze)
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To: Xenalyte

Out of respect, I'm observing five seconds of silence after each of your posts. :)


552 posted on 11/29/2005 6:41:26 AM PST by beezdotcom (I'm usually either right or wrong...)
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To: beezdotcom

Now, see, if you're doing it out of respect on your own, that's one thing, and perfectly understandable. I am, after all, the source of much that is good and right on FR. ;)

If you're doing it because I or someone else insist that you do, that's another story.


553 posted on 11/29/2005 6:43:59 AM PST by Xenalyte ("Every day should be the best day ever!" -Frank DellaPenna, Cast in Bronze)
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To: Xenalyte
If you're doing it because I or someone else insist that you do, that's another story.

How about if I campaign for (but not force) others to do it?
554 posted on 11/29/2005 6:49:55 AM PST by beezdotcom (Xenalyte has posted! Please observe five seconds of respectful silence.)
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To: beezdotcom

If you wish to lobby and to use your superior powers of persuasion, I say go for it! And do let me know how that crusade turns out. ;)


555 posted on 11/29/2005 6:52:56 AM PST by Xenalyte ("Every day should be the best day ever!" -Frank DellaPenna, Cast in Bronze)
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To: Xenalyte

Two words: Subliminal Taglines


556 posted on 11/29/2005 6:54:58 AM PST by beezdotcom (Xenalyte has posted! Please observe five seconds of respectful silence.)
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To: beezdotcom

Marry me! Damn the law.


557 posted on 11/29/2005 7:09:39 AM PST by Xenalyte ("Every day should be the best day ever!" -Frank DellaPenna, Cast in Bronze)
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To: Xenalyte
Marry me! Damn the law.

WOW! Just what ARE they putting in the taglines these days?
558 posted on 11/29/2005 7:14:14 AM PST by beezdotcom (Xenalyte has posted^H^H^H^H^Hroposed! Please observe five seconds of respectful silence.....)
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To: muir_redwoods
"I'm sorry you seem to have no connection with your physical/sexual side."

I beg to differ. I really do. I have so much connection with it, I don't need people helping me connect to it by playing rock music in every bleeding store or place of business or on every TV commercial. I am sorry that you need so many crutches and reminders to get in touch with your sexual side.

559 posted on 11/29/2005 7:45:42 AM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles (Liberals are unfit for citizenship in a country that values freedom and courage.)
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To: muir_redwoods
"Cerebral music like symphonic music has it's place but listening to it exclusively is like looking at Japanese watercolors all day and missing a Grucci fireworks display."

Wait a minute wait a minute. Ever heard the 1812 Overture? The cannons going off, the bells ringing...that sort of thing? That's fire works without question. Try Charge of the Light Brigade by Suppe. Plenty of classical music has fireworks. And yet I don't want to hear those loud songs in a department store either. So why do we have to hear loud rock or loud anything?

Why should anyone have to listen to someone else's choice of music in order to shop for food or clothing and the necessities of life? Really when you think about it its not fair. But as I said, I am not about to launch a crusade against store music. I am not that type and their are already too many crusades anyway.

I am just saying...think about it.....why does there have to be music every where you go? And why is it always rock music? What's wrong with the thoughts inside your own head? I can go for days without background music or TV.

560 posted on 11/29/2005 7:59:24 AM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles (Liberals are unfit for citizenship in a country that values freedom and courage.)
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