I really hate these polls that lists a bunch of songs. I’m one of those that never listens to music, don’t know any of the songs or artists, and don’t care to listen to the samples to see if I like them.
The real problem is that I feel somewhat compelled to answer every survey question so I have to pick something random in the list. Don’t know why I have to answer them all except maybe my OCD kicking in.
Do you dislike music or do you just not feel compelled to listen to it? When you’re in a store that plays music, does it bother you? What about shows that have musical interludes?
@RiotDemon If I’m in a store and they are playing music, it all depends on how loud the music is and what kind. If it’s loud and Country, I walk out. That is the most depressing sounds in the universe. Other Genres may be okay.
They play music at the gym but it’s low volume so it doesn’t bother me. I’m usually playing racquetball and you can’t hear it in those rooms anyway.
I haven’t always been this way. I have a very large CD collection – all originals. I belonged to the BMC club (if any of you remember those days) and bought a ton of CDs.
I wasn’t ever the kind to just listen to music while doing nothing else but if I was mowing the lawn, I would have headphones on while playing something. I would listen to something while driving my car and would have a little radio in my office at work to listen to something while doing my job. Then around 2001 - 2002, I changed and no longer listen to it anywhere. Not in my car, not in my office, and not while mowing the lawn.
I even hate it when they have music in movies. I’m trying to enjoy the movie and trying to hear the dialog but the background music is so loud that I cannot understand what they are saying. I tried turning up the center speaker but that doesn’t work. It’s supposed to be the dialog track but they don’t do that now and the voices come out of the speaker closest to where they are speaking. I end up having to turn on the subtitles on most movies.
Older movies of the 70’s and 80’s don’t do this with the music. Not saying they don’t have music in the film but they either turn it down when people are talking or that’s a musically silent part of the film.
@RiotDemon I’m not the type of person that likes change. I also have severe generalized anxiety.
I got my first real permanent full-time job in 1983 and got a new job in 1990 with a major pay cut. It was my option to take the new job due to stress in the old one. To make sure I liked what I was doing before quitting the old job, I stayed in the old job until 1992 so there was an overlap where I worked for both companies simultaneously.
Then in 2001, after working for my latest company for 11 years, I was being forced into a promotion to a national position. Previously I only supported the 3,000 to 4,000 employees at my local site. The new job came with more pay but also required 20% travel. Travel isn’t my thing with anxiety. I also have dietary restrictions which makes eating at restaurants difficult making the anxiety worse when I travel. I found a loophole in policy that made it so I didn’t have to take that new job. I forced the company to post the job just like any other and to have any interested applicants post for it and they would have to hire the best qualified candidate. Doing this discontinued my old position and if I didn’t get the new one, I was going to be out of a job. I was eventually and expectedly given my 60-day notice and I had to apply for all jobs I was qualified for if I were to get severance. Failure to try getting a new position was grounds for them to not pay severance. So I did have to apply for the national position but during the interview I was very honest and told them I only applied because I had to but didn’t want the job.
So I was eventually out of a job in 2001 after being continuously employed for 18 years. I actually cried as I was leaving the building and I’m a grown man. It obviously had an emotional impact on me. I never just burst out crying for anything.
I did find another job right away. It’s actually a better job, I’m making more money, and the work conditions are better. I’m better off where I am now and because of severance and working a new job just a couple months after leaving the previous one, I almost doubled my income that year (paid by two companies for half the year).
But this new company had a completely different culture. It is huge and has 250,000 employes. It is so large that I was having difficulty understanding all the sub organizations within the company.
I ended up having a couple panic attacks and going to the emergency room thinking those were heart attacks. My doctor prescribed me with Zoloft which is an anti-depressant but has some anti-anxiety capabilities too. I took that for about a year and it didn’t help with the anxiety but made me even more depressed than I was before taking it. I weened myself off the Zoloft and am now taking a daily anxiety medicine that really works. However, the Zoloft did something to me that permanently damaged me. I can pinpoint these changes occurring between 2001 and 2002.
I used to be somewhat antisocial person (almost to the point of being rain man) but extremely focused where I could do complex math in my head and write entire programs in strange languages like Perl and Z80 assembly without ever looking anything up. Now I’m more social, I get out more often instead of just staying home, I’m in a long term relationship with Mrs. cengland0, and I cannot concentrate any more. The other change is that I cannot listen to music as it creates an emotional state in me. It either makes me angry or sad and never happy. For that reason, I avoid listening to it whenever possible.
@f00l There is some music that I find okay and it’s always music without vocals. If I’m watching a movie that is a musical like most Disney animations or Les Miserables, then I’m okay with it. Sounds that I can listen to that do make me feel good are Rain Forest, Thunder Storms, Ocean Waves, and similar things.
Sounds that are in the movies that are embedded in such a way that you don’t notice such as watching a scary movie and they play music just before the monster jumps out at you is okay.
Sometimes I think if I’m listing to 80’s or 90’s music which I previously loved, it makes me remember the good old days when I think I had more enjoyment out of life and that makes me sad. That was the peak period of my life and it’s all downhill from there. Only a guess though.
I don’t understand some of this new Rap and music with so much noise that you cannot understand the words and would have to look up the lyrics to understand what they are saying. It’s not pleasant when you have to concentrate that hard on something that should come naturally. Maybe creating good music is a lost art as I haven’t found anything they play at the gym (assuming it’s what’s new) that I like.
I still think if these Sunday playlists are going to be a thing, the poll should at least have an option for “None”. I already don’t like the playlists and this one you managed to do an entire one for a band I absolutely cannot stand. Give me my “None” option!
I did (write-in answer) “The KKK Took My Baby Away” at a karaoke night once in Brooklyn. I don’t do karaoke a ton, but I’d never seen that song in another singalong track list before, and I haven’t seen it in one since.
interesting.
this thread seems to feature responses by people who
a) don’t like music
b) don’t like the Ramones
oddly, I love both, so put me in w/ @sammydog01
I’d also like to thank @JasonToon for giving thee Ramones this tip of the cap, and perhaps some exposure to the youngins who weren’t around back then and just don’t get what the “big deal” was with this band that never really became a “big deal” to the masses.
in order to “get” the Ramones, you have to appreciate
a) the contrast between them and everything else that was playing when they started
b) the “can do” attitude where 4 guys who were not “really” musicians (at the start) wrote songs, wrote music and played live. constantly.
c) the willingness to soldier on in the face of failure (or the lack of resounding succcess), apathy, and in band personel problems that are now legend.
I love being a fan of this band. the fact that 40 years later, most people still don’t get it, just adds to the fun.
I never really got into the softer, poppier Ramones… Glad @JasonToon forced me to give some of these a go. Still voted for something off s/t, but I’m thinking it’s worth revisiting the later stuff. Keep up the good playlists!
I really hate these polls that lists a bunch of songs. I’m one of those that never listens to music, don’t know any of the songs or artists, and don’t care to listen to the samples to see if I like them.
The real problem is that I feel somewhat compelled to answer every survey question so I have to pick something random in the list. Don’t know why I have to answer them all except maybe my OCD kicking in.
@cengland0
Someone else on this planet besides me doesn’t listen to music?
@cengland0 @PlacidPenguin this has always fascinated me since music is so important to me.
Do you dislike music or do you just not feel compelled to listen to it? When you’re in a store that plays music, does it bother you? What about shows that have musical interludes?
@RiotDemon If I’m in a store and they are playing music, it all depends on how loud the music is and what kind. If it’s loud and Country, I walk out. That is the most depressing sounds in the universe. Other Genres may be okay.
They play music at the gym but it’s low volume so it doesn’t bother me. I’m usually playing racquetball and you can’t hear it in those rooms anyway.
I haven’t always been this way. I have a very large CD collection – all originals. I belonged to the BMC club (if any of you remember those days) and bought a ton of CDs.
I wasn’t ever the kind to just listen to music while doing nothing else but if I was mowing the lawn, I would have headphones on while playing something. I would listen to something while driving my car and would have a little radio in my office at work to listen to something while doing my job. Then around 2001 - 2002, I changed and no longer listen to it anywhere. Not in my car, not in my office, and not while mowing the lawn.
I even hate it when they have music in movies. I’m trying to enjoy the movie and trying to hear the dialog but the background music is so loud that I cannot understand what they are saying. I tried turning up the center speaker but that doesn’t work. It’s supposed to be the dialog track but they don’t do that now and the voices come out of the speaker closest to where they are speaking. I end up having to turn on the subtitles on most movies.
Older movies of the 70’s and 80’s don’t do this with the music. Not saying they don’t have music in the film but they either turn it down when people are talking or that’s a musically silent part of the film.
@cengland0 thanks for the answer. If you don’t mind, a follow up question.
Was there something that happened in 2001-02 that made you dislike music, or was it just a gradual thing?
@RiotDemon I’m not the type of person that likes change. I also have severe generalized anxiety.
I got my first real permanent full-time job in 1983 and got a new job in 1990 with a major pay cut. It was my option to take the new job due to stress in the old one. To make sure I liked what I was doing before quitting the old job, I stayed in the old job until 1992 so there was an overlap where I worked for both companies simultaneously.
Then in 2001, after working for my latest company for 11 years, I was being forced into a promotion to a national position. Previously I only supported the 3,000 to 4,000 employees at my local site. The new job came with more pay but also required 20% travel. Travel isn’t my thing with anxiety. I also have dietary restrictions which makes eating at restaurants difficult making the anxiety worse when I travel. I found a loophole in policy that made it so I didn’t have to take that new job. I forced the company to post the job just like any other and to have any interested applicants post for it and they would have to hire the best qualified candidate. Doing this discontinued my old position and if I didn’t get the new one, I was going to be out of a job. I was eventually and expectedly given my 60-day notice and I had to apply for all jobs I was qualified for if I were to get severance. Failure to try getting a new position was grounds for them to not pay severance. So I did have to apply for the national position but during the interview I was very honest and told them I only applied because I had to but didn’t want the job.
So I was eventually out of a job in 2001 after being continuously employed for 18 years. I actually cried as I was leaving the building and I’m a grown man. It obviously had an emotional impact on me. I never just burst out crying for anything.
I did find another job right away. It’s actually a better job, I’m making more money, and the work conditions are better. I’m better off where I am now and because of severance and working a new job just a couple months after leaving the previous one, I almost doubled my income that year (paid by two companies for half the year).
But this new company had a completely different culture. It is huge and has 250,000 employes. It is so large that I was having difficulty understanding all the sub organizations within the company.
I ended up having a couple panic attacks and going to the emergency room thinking those were heart attacks. My doctor prescribed me with Zoloft which is an anti-depressant but has some anti-anxiety capabilities too. I took that for about a year and it didn’t help with the anxiety but made me even more depressed than I was before taking it. I weened myself off the Zoloft and am now taking a daily anxiety medicine that really works. However, the Zoloft did something to me that permanently damaged me. I can pinpoint these changes occurring between 2001 and 2002.
I used to be somewhat antisocial person (almost to the point of being rain man) but extremely focused where I could do complex math in my head and write entire programs in strange languages like Perl and Z80 assembly without ever looking anything up. Now I’m more social, I get out more often instead of just staying home, I’m in a long term relationship with Mrs. cengland0, and I cannot concentrate any more. The other change is that I cannot listen to music as it creates an emotional state in me. It either makes me angry or sad and never happy. For that reason, I avoid listening to it whenever possible.
Sorry if this is TLDR but you did ask.
@cengland0 thank you. I never understood anyone’s explanation for why they didn’t listen to music, except for yours. Very interesting story.
@cengland0
Interesting.
I am wondering if music that functions well as low level background or ambient music - doesn’t pull focus - also doesn’t work for you.
@f00l There is some music that I find okay and it’s always music without vocals. If I’m watching a movie that is a musical like most Disney animations or Les Miserables, then I’m okay with it. Sounds that I can listen to that do make me feel good are Rain Forest, Thunder Storms, Ocean Waves, and similar things.
Sounds that are in the movies that are embedded in such a way that you don’t notice such as watching a scary movie and they play music just before the monster jumps out at you is okay.
Sometimes I think if I’m listing to 80’s or 90’s music which I previously loved, it makes me remember the good old days when I think I had more enjoyment out of life and that makes me sad. That was the peak period of my life and it’s all downhill from there. Only a guess though.
I don’t understand some of this new Rap and music with so much noise that you cannot understand the words and would have to look up the lyrics to understand what they are saying. It’s not pleasant when you have to concentrate that hard on something that should come naturally. Maybe creating good music is a lost art as I haven’t found anything they play at the gym (assuming it’s what’s new) that I like.
@cengland0 @RiotDemon
In one of the boxes set aside for the next mehxchange, I have a noise machine which somebody gave me.
While it has numerous sounds, I enjoy listening to the sea, rain, and a babbling brook.
I dunno. Rain and storms calm me.
@PlacidPenguin Exactly same with me. I like the sounds of rain storms and ocean waves. Basically anything nature related including birds chirping.
@cengland0 see music affects me to like when stained comes on I get super depressed and it takes a while to get that feeling to go away
I love the Ramones! They played at my college. It’s hard to pick just one.
I still think if these Sunday playlists are going to be a thing, the poll should at least have an option for “None”. I already don’t like the playlists and this one you managed to do an entire one for a band I absolutely cannot stand. Give me my “None” option!
@Mehsturbator yep. I love Jason’s write ups, but I hate the Sunday playlist thing. I don’t have time to listen to 14 crappy songs to pick one.
Maybe there should be an option, “I don’t have time for this shit.”
@RiotDemon
I did (write-in answer) “The KKK Took My Baby Away” at a karaoke night once in Brooklyn. I don’t do karaoke a ton, but I’d never seen that song in another singalong track list before, and I haven’t seen it in one since.
Trick question. None of them are underrated, they all suck shit.
interesting.
this thread seems to feature responses by people who
a) don’t like music
b) don’t like the Ramones
oddly, I love both, so put me in w/ @sammydog01
I’d also like to thank @JasonToon for giving thee Ramones this tip of the cap, and perhaps some exposure to the youngins who weren’t around back then and just don’t get what the “big deal” was with this band that never really became a “big deal” to the masses.
in order to “get” the Ramones, you have to appreciate
a) the contrast between them and everything else that was playing when they started
b) the “can do” attitude where 4 guys who were not “really” musicians (at the start) wrote songs, wrote music and played live. constantly.
c) the willingness to soldier on in the face of failure (or the lack of resounding succcess), apathy, and in band personel problems that are now legend.
I love being a fan of this band. the fact that 40 years later, most people still don’t get it, just adds to the fun.
I can only do this sort of poll about the Ramones when I am properly sedated.
Of those listed, I went with “Danny Says”. My favorite, however, is “Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love)” from Too Tough To Die.
I never really got into the softer, poppier Ramones… Glad @JasonToon forced me to give some of these a go. Still voted for something off s/t, but I’m thinking it’s worth revisiting the later stuff. Keep up the good playlists!
/youtube Ramones Spiderman
I don’t think choice two
Is an underrated song.
I voted for it.