Music we hate

What are these awful shops you frequent, Elegran?
I can't remember the last time I was aware of any intrusive music in a store (apart from at Christmas, of course!).

If it was only for a week or so once a year, I could survive it, but for a couple of months every year the shops are full of - well it is NOT Christmas music. It is badly written, badly played and sung, badly recorded and played too loud.

Fior the rest of the year we are bombarded with stuff specially written (badly) so that there will be no royalties to pay to real song-writers or musicians. It is sung (badly) by female "singers" who shout, sob and scream their way through shapeless ballads about how suicidal they feel.

Then it is claimed that music in shops make people spend more. If that is true it is only because they are stunned into being incapable of rational thought.

I meant ^ I ^ might be dead, for the avoidance of doubt !

Well I am NOT Mrs mop !!
As I said to Feetle lighten up it only comes once a year, may well be dead for the next one, so won"t have to worry about it then!!

<,LE SIGH>

I'm with feetle on this one. Especially when the Christmas jingles are played from September onwards! Drives me mad! So phoney!
Go to a carol service in a cathedral if you want to hear some proper Christmas music. And shopping in peace would be wonderful.

Well me and mine have fun Feetle, as do lots of others , lighten up

A organisation called Pipedown has been campaigning for freedom from piped music. Www.pipedown.info
I hate being forced to listen to music against my will. In stores the staff say they don't have access to the controls, so I say OK I will shop elsewhere.
I wear powerful hearing aids which amplify the noise even more so it really is intolerable. I want conversation in a restaurant and if I want to listen to music I go to a concert.
In pubs, restaurants, shops, hairdressers, shopping centres, it's everywhere, and nobody is listening to it. It's a PAIN.

'Disco' carols, feetle? When the Round Table come round before Christmas with their Santa and sleigh, this 'music' assaults my ears. I have told them what I think of it, but they just think I'm a fussy old bat. Maybe they're right.

Our Sainsbury's plays music in December - bloody terrible music, of the 'Jinglebell Rock' persuasion, and that ghastly Slade thing - 'Ev'rybody's havin' fun!' Lying swine...

I dislike the yuk they play at weddings,(at the "do" afterwards) when the bride and groom have to have the first dance.
What I absolutely hate is "shopping music"! Piped music in shops,and practically everywhere else these days! In a couple of weeks, I have organised a "bag pack" in a supermarket, to raise funds for our local theatre.I suddenly realized; Ime going to have to forcibly listen to piped music most of that day ! URGHHHHHH!!!!!
Lets have a petition to stop all this awful noise wherever we go.

On a more positive note - ding! - I love opera of the Rossini. Mozart, Offenbach, Bizet kind - not so fond of Puccini, Verdi and so on. I like baroque music, jazz from its beginnings up till about 1965, I sometimes enjoy Indian music, both classical and Bollywood, Elgar, Sullivan (with Gilbert) and Vaughan Williams - then there's Irish music - sessions. Modern Brass Bands are pretty good too.

I dislike (hate is too strong a word) Dylan, Leonard Cohen, punk (doesn't deserve a capital letter), anything that makes conversation impossible during a social event.

Heaven can be a good lady vocalist with a jazz-oriented small group - Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Holiday... to quote from my own web-site biog. "He believes that nothing of any real interest has occurred in popular music since the arrival of the Bossa-Nova." That was written tongue in cheek - but it isn't far short of the truth!

I hate rap, jazz and musak. Our Woolworths in South Africa - same as your Marks and Sparks - play the worst 'mood' music I have ever heard. Enough to drive you barmy. Not fond of yodelling either!

I dislike opera, most classical, jazz, C&W, most 'music' after 1980s and pretty much everything pre-1960s; very limited taste in music.

DH loves modern jazz

Jazz to me is either so laid-back it puts you to sleep (like rockgran), or so frenetic it makes your hair stand on end! I dislike both, but that's just personal taste.

NAh - Rock is just what people do who aren't good enough to play jazz! That's where the excitement is...

@yogagran - Oh the Bill Withers is OK - the worst must be My Way, whoever sings the damn thing...

You can probably tell from my username what music I really like especially 70s american rock (Tom Petty very cool).

But the only music I really can't stand is Jazz absolutely sends me to sleep.

I really detest Lovely Day sung by Bill Withers, must be the worst song ever

Scat?

Aka

I won't disagree with you. I wouldn't dare.

I did say it would be boring if we all enjoyed the same music.

POGS if you've never stood on a battlement in the dark and listened to a lone piper playing a sad lament you've never lived!

I dislike jazz and rap too.

Bagpipes, violins and piano music are hardly favourites either.

How boring though if we all enjoyed the same music, food, t.v etc.

A lot of the modern stuff I just wouldn't call music - repetitive discordant etc.
I like most classical music apart from some opera - never got the hang of it.
And I love Blues - David Freeman's Blues and Boogie on Jazz FM Sunday evening is my favourite radio programme.

Can't stand endless doobie doobie doo type jazz like Cleo Lane used to sing!