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Post by crowschmo on May 4, 2009 23:25:45 GMT -5
 Anyone else really fed up with the fact that we, as a society, must CONSTANTLY be force-fed others' ideas of "music" EVERYWHERE we stinkin' GO!? Every store, every restaurant, every movie theater, well, just EVERYWHERE is always playing @*&%$ing CRAP!!! Anyone else just want to scream? Smash their heads through windows? Smash OTHER people's heads through windows?  It doesn't make me want to shop or eat in these establishments, it just makes me want to get the hell OUT as soon as possible. I can't take it anymore. Can't we just shut up once in a damn while? Why must there always be noise, noise, NOISE!! (And it's usually the same friggin' stations that these places play, so you hear the same songs over and over and over and over...) Any thoughts? (If you can hear yourselves think, that is).
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 5, 2009 4:14:02 GMT -5
One persons trash is another persons treasure?
I don't mean too come off like a butthead but...
I don't get overly concerned or upset over what they play while I'm out and about. I would place it as one of those "don't sweat the small stuff" situations. I've got enough 'real' worries in my life without worrying (or wanting to smash stuff) over what music is being played while I'm eating.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on May 5, 2009 8:08:39 GMT -5
After working for years at a store with the same generic "shopping" music played constantly, I feel that I can handle whatever is played in the background during the brief times that I'm shopping or eating out.
I guess you could always go to Wal-mart (at least outside Christmas-time) if you don't want shopping music.
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Post by crowschmo on May 5, 2009 15:58:25 GMT -5
Okay, it's just me who's the raving lunatic, I guess. Some people can tune it out, but music affects my mood, I can't help it, and I don't want to hear it when I don't want to hear it. It grates on my nerves. (They do use it for torture, you know).
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Post by Mr. Atari on May 5, 2009 23:09:43 GMT -5
I always have music on. Always. It's an addiction.
And there's no such thing as background music for me. Even at a low volume in a public place, I hear music like it's coming through my very own headphones.
So the worst thing for me is when I'm in a store with music playing and they interrupt it with, "Housewares, please dial 9. Housewares, dial 9." AARRGGH! Don't interrupt the song in the middle of the chorus. It gives me auditory whiplash. Sheer torture.
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Post by Mighty Jack on May 6, 2009 0:07:51 GMT -5
^What he said.  It seems I have a song in my head 24/7. (sometime it's my own, something I'm working on). In fact if I was Ferris Beuller I'd break out into song in the middle of the street all the time. |
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Post by crowschmo on May 8, 2009 16:12:48 GMT -5
Also, you know, maybe people THINK they can tune it out, but they're really not. It's really a nagging - something - in the backs of their minds. Maybe that's why people are so snotty when they're out in public. It's that damn song they've heard for the 80th time that day.
I also can't get music out of my head, always thinking of a song, whether I'm aware of it or not. Suddenly, there it is. It's like, "Why am I thinking of THAT song? I HATE that song." So I have to deprogram with music I actually like, so, once again, I have to LISTEN TO MUSIC.
It's numbing the masses, so they can't think.
IT'S ARMAGEDDON PEOPLE!!!! DON'T YOU GET IT!!!
Okay, I'm calm. Let me just put on some soothing music.....AAAAAAHHH!!!!!
(I'm kidding with all that last part, of course, but it's still really annoying).
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Post by crowschmo on May 8, 2009 16:22:48 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, I read something a long time ago about someone doing an experiment about the affects of music on plants. Things like The Beatles and Beethoven had positive affects, but some other music didn't. (I think I also read that Beethoven, played next to a pregnant woman's stomach, was good for babies' brainwaves). So, hey, who knows, maybe constant lamoid music DOES affect our moods and actions. (affect, effect, I always get those two words mixed up, no matter how many times I look them up).
P.S. - I think Disco made said plants wither and die.
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Post by MonsterX on May 9, 2009 0:40:50 GMT -5
I think it's important to take a little time each day to just sit in a quiet room without any distractions and just relax for a bit. With the current state of technology We are constantly bombarded with sounds and images more than we every have been. Little cell phone recievers in the ear, blackberrys, iPods, those TV's they have at the check out line at the grocery store and at the gas station pumps. The mind needs some quiet time, imo. When your done however, rock out.
Oh, and please don't be one of those people with the cell phone that plays obnnoxious music while you are on hold. I have to call people from work to set up appointments with our audiologist and the stuff some people put on there makes me want to jab a pencil in my ear.
"Please enjoy the music while you are connected" my ass.
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Post by crowschmo on May 10, 2009 18:17:35 GMT -5
^^^^^ That made me think of Crow, trying to get on the Information Superhighway.  |
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Post by Fred Burroughs on Jul 28, 2009 23:32:46 GMT -5
The only thing that bugs me is when people seem to think you want to hear their music pouring from their car at window rattling sound levels accompanied by thumping bass. Then they stop and open their car door so the music is even louder and sit there for a few minutes. More often than not it's some rap song where the rapper sounds like a doped up version of Charlie Brown's teacher or some crap like that.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jul 29, 2009 0:30:59 GMT -5
The only thing that bugs me is when people seem to think you want to hear their music pouring from their car at window rattling sound levels accompanied by thumping bass. Then they stop and open their car door so the music is even louder and sit there for a few minutes. More often than not it's some rap song where the rapper sounds like a doped up version of Charlie Brown's teacher or some crap like that. My neighbor does this pretty much daily, although he's not listening to rap. It's usually Lynyrd Skynyrd or 38 Special. Hurl. |
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jul 29, 2009 7:49:29 GMT -5
"If it was up to me, those sub-woofers would be illegal..."
Unless I have them, and I'd (of course) be prudent while listening. Only the GOOD songs would get turned up!
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Jul 29, 2009 16:42:59 GMT -5
Whatever satellite station the manager always has on at work plays a lot of the same songs over and over on a loop. Every once in a while, the music is interrupted by the pre-recorded store announcement advertising sales. Without fail, this always happens in the middle of Tom Petty's Free Falling. I hear a lot of good stuff, like Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Hall & Oates. But I hear a lot of crappy stuff too, like Phil Collins, Maroon 5, Chicago-- stuff that makes me want to tear my hair out. And I mean, the same Phil Collins songs. Again. And again. And again. Of course, whether the stuff I just listed is crappy or not is subjective, and that's the problem with being assaulted with music we don't like, isn't it?
But it could be worse. I used to work at a movie theater where we had "movie tunes," which was literally the same seven songs over and over. It was almost always terrible country or showtunes. So I'd hear the same damn song from Wicked like 8 times during my shift. The one time something that I liked appeared on movie tunes-- Billy Idol, I remember it, we literally had one song I liked in the 3 years I worked there-- I almost cried from relief.
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Post by Fred Burroughs on Jul 29, 2009 23:37:51 GMT -5
I know what you mean. I used to work at this department store that played the "Mix" station here in Houston over the speakers. Back then this mix station was the least "mixed" mix station I had ever heard. They played the same 10 - 20 songs over and over and they were almost all light rock and pop stuff. This was around '98 so I was bombarded with Spice Girls, Boy Bands, and other things like that all day.
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