Is Music Addiction Taking Over Our Lives?

[Pengwuino]

Get out of my thread yomamma

I've started to notice that people are absolutely psychotic about music. It's as if its oxygen to them. If someone doesn't listen to music for a few hours, they will become murderous. I would say a good 90% of my friends say music is the most important thing in their lives. Not family, not friends, not their girlfriends/boyfriends... their music there's something seriously wrong with this country and its teens/young adults/children. We want to wake up to music, we want mp3 players in our showers, we want to have portable mp3 players, mp3 players on our cell phones, mp3 players in our cars. It's as if being away from their stupid music will drastically reduce their happiness. Pathetic. I don't see why we haven't whiped ourselves out yet.

 

[JamesU]

shut up pengwuino

 

[Pengwuino]

Did you not read the disclaimer

 

[JamesU]

I did, but I don't care about what it has to say

 

[Pengwuino]

I'm going to feed you to Ivan's deer

 

[Moonbear]

I was out with the some folks last weekend, and we made the same observation. There are people who can't seem to put down the mp3 players. As a group, we concurred that we don't really like having music on non-stop like that, and especially when awareness of surroundings is more important (I like to hear what's going on around me when I'm out walking downtown, or even the long walk to the parking lot from the building I work in...you want to know if there's a car coming up behind you as you're walking through the parking lot, or if someone else is walking behind you).

 

[JamesU]

I'm going to feed you to Ivan's deer

I'm sure the deer would rather have some Pengwuin-o's for breakfast

 

[selfAdjoint]

I'm sitting here listening to WFMT streaming (somebody's string symphony), and wondering when this thread is going to come to any point.

 

[Cyrus]

I'm sitting here listening to WFMT streaming (somebody's string symphony), and wondering when this thread is going to come to any point.

WOOOOOOOO...we have a new contender to hate pengwunio. Welcome to the club sir!

 

[turbo]

I guess I would be one of the people that Penquino is ranting about. Although I cherish periods of silence, listening to the song-birds all around the house, etc, I want to listen to music most of the day. I have several hundred vinyl albums, and hundreds upon hundreds of CDs. Most of them fit in my 400-CD Sony carousel player, and I leave it on shuffle for hours at a time. I just listened to a great T-Bone Walker song, and now the Lovin' Spoonful are on. Next might be Vince Gill, Robben Ford, the Yardbirds, Emmylou Harris, Guy Clark, Elvis Costello, Buddy Guy, AC-DC, Mary Black, Hendrix, John Hiatt, Tony Rice, Aerosmith...who knows? There's some of everything in there except opera and hip-hop, both of which are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

I have been avidly listening to music for over 50 years, and still have albums by the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers that my mom had when I was a tyke. I started playing professionally in the '60's and earned my pocket money in college playing frat parties, and buying and selling and repairing guitars and amps. Life without music would be unthinkable. If the power goes out, I'll grab one of my acoustic guitars and make my own music.

 

[JasonRox]

I was out with the some folks last weekend, and we made the same observation. There are people who can't seem to put down the mp3 players. As a group, we concurred that we don't really like having music on non-stop like that, and especially when awareness of surroundings is more important (I like to hear what's going on around me when I'm out walking downtown, or even the long walk to the parking lot from the building I work in...you want to know if there's a car coming up behind you as you're walking through the parking lot, or if someone else is walking behind you).

Same here. People are being less aware of their surroundings. People don't value being attentive. They are so concerned with being cool, looking busy and showing others how much more they have in their life.

I have an iPod with close to 1000 songs on it, a PocketPC with lots of memory cards that have movies and TV shows, and a bunch of other toys. I rarely use them that often at all. I take the bus the school which is like 40-60 minute ride (depends on the day) and I only take the iPod to school once a week. I take my PocketPC when I take the bus out of town because that's like 90 minutes and so I watch TV. All the other days I'm reading a book on the bus, sitting in the back talk, or just hanging enjoy myself.

With all the opportunities I have to use an MP3 player, I still don't use it because that takes away so much more from you while you don't even know it.

Live life; don't try to escape life.

 

[JamesU]

Turbo-1, you need an iPod

 

[Pengwuino]

I guess I would be one of the people that Penquino is ranting about. Although I cherish periods of silence, listening to the song-birds all around the house, etc, I want to listen to music most of the day. I have several hundred vinyl albums, and hundreds upon hundreds of CDs. Most of them fit in my 400-CD Sony carousel player, and I leave it on shuffle for hours at a time. I just listened to a great T-Bone Walker song, and now the Lovin' Spoonful are on. Next might be Vince Gill, Robben Ford, the Yardbirds, Emmylou Harris, Guy Clark, Elvis Costello, Buddy Guy, AC-DC, Mary Black, Hendrix, John Hiatt, Tony Rice, Aerosmith...who knows? There's some of everything in there except opera and hip-hop, both of which are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.

No you don't count. I am talking about people like yomamma who don't know the meaning of money and have ipods.

 

[JamesU]

So because I own an iPod, I am overly psychotic when it comes to music?

 

[Cyrus]

Write the companion matrix Cp for p(t) = 6-5t+t^2, and then find the characteristic polynomial of Cp.

 

[Pengwuino]

So because I own an iPod, I am overly psychotic when it comes to music?

Boy apple made a fortune...

 

[JasonRox]

I was out with the some folks last weekend, and we made the same observation. There are people who can't seem to put down the mp3 players. As a group, we concurred that we don't really like having music on non-stop like that, and especially when awareness of surroundings is more important (I like to hear what's going on around me when I'm out walking downtown, or even the long walk to the parking lot from the building I work in...you want to know if there's a car coming up behind you as you're walking through the parking lot, or if someone else is walking behind you).

Same here. People are being less aware of their surroundings. People don't value being attentive. They are so concerned with being cool, looking busy and showing others how much more they have in their life.

I have an iPod with close to 1000 songs on it, a PocketPC with lots of memory cards that have movies and TV shows, and a bunch of other toys. I rarely use them that often at all. I take the bus the school which is like 40-60 minute ride (depends on the day) and I only take the iPod to school once a week. I take my PocketPC when I take the bus out of town because that's like 90 minutes and so I watch TV. All the other days I'm reading a book on the bus, sitting in the back talk, or just hanging enjoy myself.

With all the opportunities I have to use an MP3 player, I still don't use it because that takes away so much more from you while you don't even know it.

Live life; don't try to escape life.

 

[Pengwuino]

Same here. People are being less aware of their surroundings. People don't value being attentive. They are so concerned with being cool, looking busy and showing others how much more they have in their life.

and to me, it makes me think they have far less in their life.

 

[turbo]

Well, I can be in Nirvana for hours upon hours without listening to music, but that's mainly when I'm cranking the Softail through the mountains, enjoying the twisty-road ride, the smells, and the views. I owned a touring bike for a while (Road King was a bad mistake!) and never ever thought to install a sound system, though it was set up for one. I do not understand people who need to have a radio blaring on a MC or in their little cheap cars with the subwoofers going "THUMP, THUMP, THUMP" down the road. How can that be enjoyable? I remember riding with friends in high-school and we would turn down or shut off the radio so that we could hear each other talk and have understandable conversations.

 

[Evo]

I enjoy music, but only at certain times. I love hearing the sounds around me. I almost always drive with the radio/CD player off. I rarely have anything going (tv, radio, stereo) when I am at home. I just don't like the constant bombardment of noise. If I listen to something, it should have meaning and at a time I can appreciate it, not just constant chatter in the background, how can anyone do that and not go insane?

At night, I love listening to the wind rustling the leaves, frogs croaking, and so many other little sounds, it's so pleasant.

 

[Cyrus]

Same here. People are being less aware of their surroundings. People don't value being attentive. They are so concerned with being cool, looking busy and showing others how much more they have in their life.

I have an iPod with close to 1000 songs on it, a PocketPC with lots of memory cards that have movies and TV shows, and a bunch of other toys. I rarely use them that often at all. I take the bus the school which is like 40-60 minute ride (depends on the day) and I only take the iPod to school once a week. I take my PocketPC when I take the bus out of town because that's like 90 minutes and so I watch TV. All the other days I'm reading a book on the bus, sitting in the back talk, or just hanging enjoy myself.

With all the opportunities I have to use an MP3 player, I still don't use it because that takes away so much more from you while you don't even know it.

Live life; don't try to escape life.

You just posted the same thing twice now

 

[turbo]

I enjoy music, but only at certain times. I love hearing the sounds around me. I almost always drive with the radio/CD player off. I rarely have anything going (tv, radio, stereo) when I am at home. I just don't like the constant bombardment of noise. If I listen to something, it should have meaning and at a time I can appreciate it, not just constant chatter in the background, how can anyone do that and not go insane?

When I'm at home working on a project, I've just got to have music going. It just lifts me up when I hear Bonnie Raitt singing "Let's Give the Something to Talk About" or Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of "Little Wing" or any of the thousands of songs I have in my library. By the way, If you don't have any CDs by Mary Black, go get a couple right now. She is Irish, and she is perhaps the most beautiflul singer in the Engish language. First, get "Babes in the Woods" and then buy "No Frontiers". You will be hooked - what a talent.

 

[Evo]

When I'm at home working on a project, I've just got to have music going. It just lifts me up when I hear Bonnie Raitt singing "Let's Give the Something to Talk About" or Stevie Ray Vaughan's version of "Little Wing" or any of the thousands of songs I have in my library. By the way, If you don't have any CDs by Mary Black, go get a couple right now. She is Irish, and she is perhaps the most beautiflul singer in the Engish language. First, get "Babes in the Woods" and then buy "No Frontiers". You will be hooked - what a talent.

Nope, I can't stand having music going when I'm trying to do something.

 

[Moonbear]

Same here. People are being less aware of their surroundings. People don't value being attentive. They are so concerned with being cool, looking busy and showing others how much more they have in their life.

Yep...they do the same with cell phones. It just gives off the message that they aren't interested in the people around them, but instead want to isolate themselves, even when in public. I like music when I'm working, or just sitting home by myself on a rainy day (if it's a nice day, I'd rather listen to the birds), but when someone else comes along, I turn it off. And if I'm using headphones or earbuds, I take them off so they know I'm listening to them. That really annoys me when someone holds a conversation with their earbuds still in...I have no idea if they're actually listening to me or to their music, and I tend to take it to mean they have no interest in conversing with me, so I'll just keep it short and walk away if they do that. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old and cranky, but it just seems it's all indicative of a generation that has not been taught anything about manners and common courtesy.

 

[Moonbear]

Nope, I can't stand having music going when I'm trying to do something.

Yeah, we have a bit of a conflict in the lab right now between people who like to work in silence and people who like to work with music on. That's where the iPods come in useful. Otherwise, I've always gone by the general rule that if there's a difference of opinion of music vs. no music in the work place, no music wins. But, since the people who want silence are the first to leave for the day, we crank up the speakers on the computer the moment they walk out the door. It keeps everyone happy at least part of the day.

 

[turbo]

I enjoy music, but only at certain times. I love hearing the sounds around me. I almost always drive with the radio/CD player off. I rarely have anything going (tv, radio, stereo) when I am at home. I just don't like the constant bombardment of noise. If I listen to something, it should have meaning and at a time I can appreciate it, not just constant chatter in the background, how can anyone do that and not go insane?

At night, I love listening to the wind rustling the leaves, frogs croaking, and so many other little sounds, it's so pleasant.

Ah, but its noise only if it is sound without content. If it's Aretha demanding "respect" or Willie singing "Crazy" I can listen all day. I do love the sounds of the birds and the tree frogs, and will seek out that solitude, but I LOVE music.

 

[Cyrus]

How can you love music but hate rap Turbo? I think you have not heard any quality rap, it's like poetry.

 

[JamesU]

I love music but I really don't like rap...I realize that some rap is well done and takes talent, but it's not something I'd listen to...

 

[Pengwuino]

How can you love music but hate rap Turbo? I think you have not heard any quality rap, it's like poetry.

Good rap is so rare this day that it should be declared its own genre to get away from the crap that floods the markets

 

[Cyrus]

Most of the stuff made lately is for the club, that's why.