When playing Your Music in a PUBLIC Place, do you ever get Paranoid about your tastes
10-04-01, 12:16 AM
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When playing Your Music in a PUBLIC Place, do you ever get Paranoid about your tastes
When playing Your Music in a PUBLIC Place, do you ever get Paranoid about your Music Tastes and worry whether everyone else likes it ?
by Public place, an example would be playing your music in your car with the window down or playing music at work.
by Public place, an example would be playing your music in your car with the window down or playing music at work.
10-04-01, 01:44 AM
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Sometimes. I am especially conscious of what I have on the radio in the car if other people are in the car with me. I have turned off things that I might listen to otherwise because I thought they might offend others.
10-04-01, 10:30 AM
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Good question,
Most of the time I don't care what anyone else thinks about my musical tastes, that's the beauty of variety and individuality. However, sometimes when I'm driving I can be self conscious about what I'm listening too in the way that I wonder what the person in the car next to me thinks about it-like some elderly couple who hears the words "ripping apart, severing flesh, gouging eyes, tearing limb from limb" come pouring from my car. But the only time I would be even remotely embarassed or inclined to change what I'm listening to is if it's something that I don't normally like or listen to, and so I don't want to give the "wrong" impression to weary ears, whatever that means... But it's all good I suppose.
Most of the time I don't care what anyone else thinks about my musical tastes, that's the beauty of variety and individuality. However, sometimes when I'm driving I can be self conscious about what I'm listening too in the way that I wonder what the person in the car next to me thinks about it-like some elderly couple who hears the words "ripping apart, severing flesh, gouging eyes, tearing limb from limb" come pouring from my car. But the only time I would be even remotely embarassed or inclined to change what I'm listening to is if it's something that I don't normally like or listen to, and so I don't want to give the "wrong" impression to weary ears, whatever that means... But it's all good I suppose.
10-04-01, 01:47 PM
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No, not usually.
But I've passed cars where, quite honestly, they really should be embarrassed by what they're blasting.
Especially those over-"detailed" rigs with the neon-license plates, the multitude of "Fear This" or "Boy Peeing on [Insert car company logo here" stickers, and the bass speakers that rattle your fillings at 100 yards away. The murky sludge they subject the neighborhood to is just gawd-awful. I'm sorry but that's just pure noise. It's annoying just to be annoying - and for no other reason. No one can even begin to defend that thud-thud thrum as any legitimate form of music.
Of course, I suppose if they stopped playing that sh!t, those little bootleg CDR kiosks at the local mall - advertising "Booty Mix-this" and "Phat Grooves-that" would suddenly go out of business. Why doesn't the music biz go shut down these marginally-legal profiteers instead of nuking Napster?
But I've passed cars where, quite honestly, they really should be embarrassed by what they're blasting.
Especially those over-"detailed" rigs with the neon-license plates, the multitude of "Fear This" or "Boy Peeing on [Insert car company logo here" stickers, and the bass speakers that rattle your fillings at 100 yards away. The murky sludge they subject the neighborhood to is just gawd-awful. I'm sorry but that's just pure noise. It's annoying just to be annoying - and for no other reason. No one can even begin to defend that thud-thud thrum as any legitimate form of music.
Of course, I suppose if they stopped playing that sh!t, those little bootleg CDR kiosks at the local mall - advertising "Booty Mix-this" and "Phat Grooves-that" would suddenly go out of business. Why doesn't the music biz go shut down these marginally-legal profiteers instead of nuking Napster?
10-04-01, 01:50 PM
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I could honestly care less what anyone else thinks about the music I listen to. I don't listen to music just to be trendy like a lot of people do. I listen to music because I can't live without it. Most of what I've been listening to for the past year and a half has been electronic music and the majority of people can't stand it because they don't take the time to listen to it and let it move them. 
10-06-01, 08:54 PM
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it depends on the tunes in the deck at the moment, and who is stopped next to me.
if it's some punk kid, I couldn't care less.
however, i don't want to have Emperor or something similar blasting when I pull up next to grandma. That's just not cool.
...of course, 6 months of the year, it's too cold to have my windows open in the first place...
if it's some punk kid, I couldn't care less.
however, i don't want to have Emperor or something similar blasting when I pull up next to grandma. That's just not cool.
...of course, 6 months of the year, it's too cold to have my windows open in the first place...
10-07-01, 09:02 AM
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I have a friend with extremely limited tastes in music, so I always like to tweak him in the car by playing obscure or non-rock music. Nothing funnier than the look on a classic rock-head when you pop in a Fats Waller CD 
10-09-01, 11:10 PM
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I was thinking about this thread earlier today when I was driving home from school and I realized something. When I'm playing my music in public, I usually turn it up LOUDER so that hopefully some of the people around here will realize that there are other forms of music aside from country and rap. 
