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!
Dad? Is that you?
What would you rather hear? Amy Grant?
"Rock is dead they say...Long Live Rock!"-Pete Townshend of the Who
Does anyone have that bunny with the pancake pic? I can't seem to find it.
I'm probably the wrong person to be replying, since I think Skynyrd epitomizes all that's gone wrong with music and music fans over the past 30 years.
Bunch of talentless hacks churning out the same two songs with marginally different lyrics . . . the next time I hear "Free Bird," I swear, I'm gonna jam my keys into the eyes of whoever played it.
Jeez, do I ever HATE that damn song.
I love rap and hip-hop. I find both far more fresh and innovative than anything Skynyrd ever did.
Shoot your TV. You'll feel better at home at least.
Jeeesh---I'm an oldie and I like rock music----makes me shop faster.
I'm 50 years of age and LOVE rock.......and I'm one of the louder rock guitar players you'll meet. You're probably a nice person but I doubt we'd get along, so.......
"If it's too loud, you're too old."
Lynrd Skynrd, Blondie, Billie Idol, Swiftfoot, ZZ Top
You need to move out of 1980.
lol
I think I heard there was a giant Disco festival in the mid-west last week.
Oh....and Skynyrd's reference to "one of the crew had a go at one of the guests" was referring to a fight, not sex. Ahem.
Perhaps this should be in breaking news and not just news/ activism.
Just for comparison, what music do you prefer? Opera? Country? Rap? Classical? Bluegrass (ugh)?
Do they play any Stones or Zeppelin? They rule!
The Captain & Tennille were on Fox & Friends Sunday.....I carry a 45 and now have one less portable TV......
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