People Who Don't Listen To Music.

I appreciate silence more now than I have ever in the past. Mostly, I'd prefer silence over music these days.

 

there are two times when i listen to music:
one is when i really want to actually LISTEN to it. (i do NOT feel like i have to have constant sound. i LIKE being alone.
not from disliking people but for being able to focus on what i actually enjoy)
the other, which is far too often, is to not have to hear a bunch of retarded alky idiots yammering at each other and their crap.

there are so many other wonderful sounds to listen to and enjoy when you're not being robbed of doing so, by other people's thoughtlessness and infantile demands for attention.

now if you're actually practicing a musical instrument, that's fine, that's different. that's creating something yourself.

but if you're just forcing your crap on everything else, because that somehow makes you feel like that makes you some kind of big special deal that you can (generic "you" for those who choose it to apply to), will like i say, aggressiveness and evil are one and the same and what filth is.

i'm very happy NOT to have to have some kind of human manufactured background music going all the time, as so many people incomprehensibly seem to.

i really really miss the sound i would otherwise hear, when inconsiderate people feel like they have to force whatever it is, whether i might otherwise like it or not, on everyone else.

once upon a time there were laws against doing so, and i thought they were very very good laws and still do and wish they could still be enforced.

 

I don't understand how some people are soooo against country music. I say you probably haven't really listened to it, not real country anyway. How can you not like bluegrass? Straight away wants me to start slapping my knees and have a beer. Then there's the story telling stuff. I mean what you see on the country music channel isn't what I'd call country at all. And everything I do call country is never aired on those channels.

 

Like 25 million or billion other people, I really like Adele.

I like Pink a lot. What a voice and talent.

I like Audioslave and Nickleback. Chris Cornell makes me sweat. His voice is fine too. lol

Lately the music I've enjoyed the most is what I play on the piano everyday. It varies as to what. I like old gospels, and just basic hymns, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Adele (yes, her music plays really well), old Carly Simon songs and the whole "opera" Jesus Christ Superstar. Those are my top picks but not the only thing I'm subject to pick up and play.

 

the very name itself is a lie. the music of urban bar rooms is not the music of wilderness nor of people who live there. most of it is intentionally unpleasant sounding. along with most of its cousin, rap, it romanticizes the most harmful and destructive force, aggressiveness, in all of existence. what's to not understand?

(i will agree with you that there are exceptional examples to be found in every genre though)

the biggest problem is with ANY sound one person is forced to listen to by another and not by their own choice.
this is a theft of a person's time, thoughts, beliefs, a very rape of their soul.

 

I don't see how country music is aggressive.. The stuff I listen to usually only portrays broken down marriages and broken hearts. They speak of the country though, many times and a lot of the lyrical content has to do with the mountains, the rivers and streams.. So you're going to have to dig a lot farther to convince me the name "country" is a lie to the genre.

 

[SIZE=10pt]I’ll give you credit for Dueling Banjos but that’s about it, and of course CB savage [/SIZE]


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I agree. I treasure my silence these days. I remember a time when music was the only way I could cope, but now I've become the opposite. I struggle with anxiety/panic attacks. With my current hectic lifestyle, music contributes to sensory overload. I cannot handle it. Silence is calming. On bad days, even the sound of the wind in trees is loud enough to add to my discomfort. Music is in my soul, but for now it must be muted.

 

If you don't like the music, then you're too old!

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I'm German and people in my country listen to really shit music. Schlager, Volksmusik and Bavarian Folk Music are just three examples of shit music, and I mean REALLY shit music. It is painful to the ears. I escaped to England for a while and wallowed in the great stuff being produced there. Anyone who doesn't like music is on the weird scale to me and best kept as a distant acquaintance.

And one other thing about Germans that really annoys me is, why do they all have to clap along when they go to gig? Aarghhh! STOP CLAPPING!!! It makes you all look like you're at a kindergarten singalong.

Puh.

 

The only people I dislike more than people who do not listen to music are music geeks.

 

I'm also German, and I don't agree with anything you just said. What you are describing is our simple folk and cultural tunes, you are completely ignoring the genres that you deem appropriate in England. And what are those genres? I bet they're produced world wide.

 

Rubbish, listen to German radio. It is shite compared to British radio. And as a German, how can you possibly say there isn't a huge amount of people who listen to Schlager and Volksmusik, and actually think it is great. When was the last time you got out to a party or some event where there was a DJ playing (let's exclude top Berlin and Hamburg type clubs).

And don't even go there with disagreeing with the clapping. We're known throughout Europe to be clapping seals.

 

klaus shultze practically invented one of the two genre i most often listen to when i do choose to.
has britain or america invented anything better? i think its all in the ears and heads of the listners.
britain has celtic, but the real celtic was before britain was called britain.
(and i don't count christian celtic as celtic celtic either)

 

I'll give you Klaus Schultze just for Tangerine Dream

The British Invasion is enough to settle the argument (in my personal opinion).

 

I don't listen to the radio. And everywhere I have been in the world has the exact same songs on the radio anyway so I still don't agree with you. And where do you live in Germany anyway? Because we are quite proud of our traditional hymns and music in deep Bavaria.

There are DJs just about in all nightclubs so I don't know what you're going on about there and secondly, I'm a rock chick, so I don't do parties and nightclubs, I see live music and gigs.

If you're serious about music and your only outlet seems to be free radio services, you're doing music wrong.

 

You said you were German...

 

Honey, I lived in London for many years and have probably seen more gigs and live music (from the obscure to the biggest) than you'll see in a lifetime, and my CD and vinyl collection probably wouldn't fit in your lounge if I unpacked it all.

 

I live in the north of Germany, by way of London, and a few other places.

 

I think you underestimate the size of my lounge room. But way to toot that horn.