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!
You could always move to a nice Islamic country. America Rocks! Get used to it.
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.
The Stones!!! HAHAHAHA! They play Van Halen and Motley Crue on the classic rock stations now. You're about 20 years out of date.
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.
So being that I just digitized my entire Frank Sinatra collection, does that make me a bad person?? :-)
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.
Don't ask me. I've been listening to the song for 30 years and never figured out what it was supposedly about.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Out of respect, I'm observing five seconds of silence after each of your posts. :)
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.
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. ;)
Two words: Subliminal Taglines
Marry me! Damn the law.
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.
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.
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