Lately I've been putting an album on in the morning. I use AirPlay to play it through the Apple TV connected to the living room stereo and an Airport Express connected to the stereo in the bedroom (which is the previous living room stereo). I could use a sub-woofer for the bedroom system.
I haven't awakened to an alarm or radio since the early '80s. Even back in the days of clunky boomboxes, I bought one and hooked it up to a kitchen timer so that every night I could drop in a cassette and press Play.
I don't hit the snooze button. I listen to the three minute news-on-the-hour and then turn off the radio and get ready for work. Sometimes there is a song finishing before the news starts. I listen to MP3s when I am cleaning the house and when I am working on art. I really dislike how ubiquitous music has become, my life doesn't really need a soundtrack. I live in a close-packed, busy neighborhood, so there's always music coming from someone's house or the car they are working on. I sit at work in the middle of three people listening to different radio stations. Every store has it piped in. I can't escape it and some days it just drives me nuts. I hide in the bathroom at work to get a few minutes of blessed quiet.
@moondrake This is such a weird attitude to me. I love music and it's such a big part of my life. I love that I can listen to it pretty much anywhere at any time, and I often do (with headphones if I’m in public). I would be very sad if I had to live a life without music. It’s hard to understand because listening to music can be such a deeply affecting and wonderful experience for me that it’s weird to think it doesn’t do the same thing for everyone.
@JonTListening to music can be a very affecting experience for me as well. The right music can make me sad or happy or both at once. But that's different than three or four radios equidistant playing different stations for 10 hours while I am trying to work, or the Mexican rap and oompah music my neighbors tend to prefer, or whatever pablum the store pipes in. To me there is a big difference between music and noise, and being bombarded with someone else's playlist every waking minute definitely qualifies as noise. I know that makes me different from most folks these days. I've always marched to the beat of a different drummer, and sometimes that means I'd prefer no drumming at all.
@moondrake That makes more sense to me, around the office usually @ChadP or I will take on DJ duties and play our music for our entire office area (sometimes @Moose throws in a couple plays of this). If anybody told me to stop or said they hated it I would just throw headphones on, but I like listening to music and also being able to have the crazy conversations we have around here daily. When given the choice of no music or music that might not be my usual taste, I'd choose music almost every time.
@JonT That's not true. Plenty of people have protested you playing Sam Cooke's Chain Gang every day but you still do (for the record, I'm not one of the protesters)
@moondrake I follow your logic. Music has a lasting affect on my mood and state of mind. Being surrounded by music that makes my brain happy is good, but being bombarded with music that irritated me would really mess with my day. I, too, never learned to appreciate the salsa + heavy bass that some people love at the highest possible volume.
@Thumperchick I wish it was salsa. This is traditional Mexican music with accordians and "ay-yi-yi". The kind of stuff mariachis play. Which is perfectly okay in the right setting, but not when I am trying to read a book or enjoy the birdsong in my yard. At work they listen to music I like, but with every desk playing it's own station it's all babble and when I can make it out part of my mind is singing along and trying to remember lyrics and it impairs my concentration on complex tasks.
I had roommates who would always listen to Massive Attack's "Teardrop" when they were doing-it, not any other time. (Before 'House' was on TV) Now that song is synonymous with "gross roommate sex". No, I don't watch House.
The only times I listen to music in my bedroom is when I'm putting away laundry or when the missus and I are gettin busy ;)
Those two events are usually mutually exclusive, btw.
I don't allow the sounds of frivolity anywhere in my house.
@chr So you listen to music without the frivolity?
@chr What a frivolous statement - my inner Spock loves it.
Lately I've been putting an album on in the morning. I use AirPlay to play it through the Apple TV connected to the living room stereo and an Airport Express connected to the stereo in the bedroom (which is the previous living room stereo). I could use a sub-woofer for the bedroom system.
A little Barry White, to set the mood...
@PocketBrain Bow-chicka-wow-wow.
@PocketBrain best Barry White line? "girl, i don't wanna see no panties".
I didn't think this was a serious question, I thought a lot of people did this.
I haven't awakened to an alarm or radio since the early '80s. Even back in the days of clunky boomboxes, I bought one and hooked it up to a kitchen timer so that every night I could drop in a cassette and press Play.
I don't hit the snooze button. I listen to the three minute news-on-the-hour and then turn off the radio and get ready for work. Sometimes there is a song finishing before the news starts. I listen to MP3s when I am cleaning the house and when I am working on art. I really dislike how ubiquitous music has become, my life doesn't really need a soundtrack. I live in a close-packed, busy neighborhood, so there's always music coming from someone's house or the car they are working on. I sit at work in the middle of three people listening to different radio stations. Every store has it piped in. I can't escape it and some days it just drives me nuts. I hide in the bathroom at work to get a few minutes of blessed quiet.
@moondrake This is such a weird attitude to me. I love music and it's such a big part of my life. I love that I can listen to it pretty much anywhere at any time, and I often do (with headphones if I’m in public). I would be very sad if I had to live a life without music. It’s hard to understand because listening to music can be such a deeply affecting and wonderful experience for me that it’s weird to think it doesn’t do the same thing for everyone.
@JonT Listening to music can be a very affecting experience for me as well. The right music can make me sad or happy or both at once. But that's different than three or four radios equidistant playing different stations for 10 hours while I am trying to work, or the Mexican rap and oompah music my neighbors tend to prefer, or whatever pablum the store pipes in. To me there is a big difference between music and noise, and being bombarded with someone else's playlist every waking minute definitely qualifies as noise. I know that makes me different from most folks these days. I've always marched to the beat of a different drummer, and sometimes that means I'd prefer no drumming at all.
@moondrake That makes more sense to me, around the office usually @ChadP or I will take on DJ duties and play our music for our entire office area (sometimes @Moose throws in a couple plays of this). If anybody told me to stop or said they hated it I would just throw headphones on, but I like listening to music and also being able to have the crazy conversations we have around here daily. When given the choice of no music or music that might not be my usual taste, I'd choose music almost every time.
@JonT That's not true. Plenty of people have protested you playing Sam Cooke's Chain Gang every day but you still do (for the record, I'm not one of the protesters)
@moondrake you get a serious Bonk Bonk on the head
@moondrake I follow your logic. Music has a lasting affect on my mood and state of mind. Being surrounded by music that makes my brain happy is good, but being bombarded with music that irritated me would really mess with my day. I, too, never learned to appreciate the salsa + heavy bass that some people love at the highest possible volume.
@Thumperchick I wish it was salsa. This is traditional Mexican music with accordians and "ay-yi-yi". The kind of stuff mariachis play. Which is perfectly okay in the right setting, but not when I am trying to read a book or enjoy the birdsong in my yard. At work they listen to music I like, but with every desk playing it's own station it's all babble and when I can make it out part of my mind is singing along and trying to remember lyrics and it impairs my concentration on complex tasks.
I used to just lie down with headphones and zone out to a CD to relax, but then battery acid killed my player. : /
I listen to music anywhere I can
I listen to SiriusXM BPM, love the sound on my Bluetooth tower streaming from my phone.
Actually I listen to Sirius at work on the internet, in my car from satellite, at home & sometimes on headphones from my phone.
I had roommates who would always listen to Massive Attack's "Teardrop" when they were doing-it, not any other time. (Before 'House' was on TV)
Now that song is synonymous with "gross roommate sex".
No, I don't watch House.
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@The_Baron unfortunately for @darksaber99999 and whoever your roommates were wooing, that song is only 5 minutes long.
@JonT
No, but I listen to music in other people's bedrooms.
5 minutes might not be long enough, but it's 5:31 on Spotify so I'm good.