Music. Is it just me?

[LastRailway]

It?s not that I don?t like music. I enjoy various kinds of music, even played some myself when I was younger, but?
I think I just don?t get it. The very few times I ?ll been in mood to listening to music, it will be while I am alone, veeeeeery relaxed and with the volume just as high as to be able to hear. Never ever even though about use mp3playeres while I am walking/working/driving/in the metro/in the plane/whatever else.
At work, I mostly pass all day in the same room alone, but occasionally other people will come to work there, and the first think they will do is to turn on the radio. In the highest volume possible. In all the other spaces except mine (and my boss?, who I think hates music too), music is constantly on, loudly and not even a type they do enjoy, just whatever plays on the radio.
Anybody else believes that too much music is nothing but a noise? And that

[AMDG]

My INTP daughter is the same. She's autistic though... it's a common thing with Asperger's.

She has one CD, Other voices from other rooms by Nanci Griffith, and she listens to that over and over. Says it helps her sleep - but she just puts it on very quietly and leaves it on repeat every night.

[Ferrus]

Yeah, I don't listen to music unless I have my full attention on it. I need to become immersed it in or else it is no more than an audial gadfly.

[Madrigal]

Thank God I left the office. I don't understand why people need music to activate some kind of thinking function. They seriously suffer without it, too. It's annoying as hell. And working while some dumbass radio DJ is talking about the lives of people you couldn't care less about. Drives me crazy.

[Pooja]

I hate music. ANd music hates me. Though I have an uncanny ablity for memorizing lyrics. OK, jk. THe only song I know is happy birthday. Barely.

[AMDG]

Thank God I left the office. I don't understand why people need music to activate some kind of thinking function. They seriously suffer without it, too. It's annoying as hell. And working while some dumbass radio DJ is talking about the lives of people you couldn't care less about. Drives me crazy.

God yeah, me too. I've written in another thread somewhere around, how I can't see any attraction in personal stereos. A friend of mine listens to the radio constantly, like from the minute he wakes up. When I first wake up, I want silence for the first hour, ideally. After that I don't mind talking to real people, but I still don't want music or TV or that sorta thing.

[Petroleum Prole]

I actually listen to music quite often. I just use it as a way to shut out the outside world, though.
I can't really think clearly with music playing. It clogs up my thoughts.

[LastRailway]

God yeah, me too. I've written in another thread
... but I still don't want music or TV or that sorta thing.
Oh, yes, the TV, another big pain in my life. My roommates have it always open, they take breakfast with the TV open, they lunch and dine with the TV open, they invite their friends and the TV is still open... they don't even watch it, just like to have it open. What a hell

[Petroleum Prole]

Also, aside from music and TV being a bother...
Speaker phones. :banghead:
I don't want to hear your conversations.

[LastRailway]

Also, aside from music and TV being a bother...
Speaker phones. :banghead:
I don't want to hear your conversations.
And all other kind of phones. Especially cell phones in public transport. We DON'T care what problems you have with your husband neither does the whole metro care where will you go clubbing or such

[Lateralus]

I actually listen to music quite often. I just use it as a way to shut out the outside world, though.
I can't really think clearly with music playing. It clogs up my thoughts.
Same here, except I would say that I can think pretty clearly with some good instrumental music in the background.

[mr. treat]

i could not survive without music, but at the same time there are certain instances where i can't listen to it or it fucks up my thought process. reading, for example, or trying to focus on mathematics. but there are times when it's a necessary thing (driving, drinking, drinking and driving).

i find it rude when somebody's cellphone rings in class, or if they're talking on them in public at all. in fact i despise them period. whatever happened to being disconnected from everything? is that so bad?

[Artlessfuture]

I love having music on. But I hate just having the radio on in the background.

I don't like it when its just background noise at work or something. Most people's music taste drives me absoloutely nuts.

The worst thing ever is the TV being on in the background! ARRGHH

[bluebell]

Loud music fills up my head and I can't THINK. Drives me nuts. Specially loud bass or drum beats. *shudder* I can sometimes cope with music on at home, but it can't be too loud or jazz (which is like having fingernails scratching on the blackboard of my mind). I don't mind the background noise at work of people talking etc as long as it's not LOUD. Did I mention how much I hate loud noise? :banghead:

[garak]

I listen to music constantly while on the computer. Too much silence is ... unnerving.

[dubbeltop]

Music. Is it just me?

Do you like your job?

[PiccoloNamek]

Oh, yes, the TV, another big pain in my life. My roommates have it always open, they take breakfast with the TV open, they lunch and dine with the TV open, they invite their friends and the TV is still open... they don't even watch it, just like to have it open. What a hell

It must be a lot of trouble opening up the TV all the time.

;)

[Autumn]

I love music - though not during work. TV on the other hand bothers me very much. I hate to unintentionally focus my attention to stupid soap operas and even more stupid ads. Unfortunately my wife needs to have the TV going as background. (That's why my computer is in the other room :))

[LastRailway]

i find it rude when somebody's cellphone rings in class, or if they're talking on them in public at all.
Yeah, it's really rude. I have a cell phone but it is switched off most of the time, or put in silence. I don't want to be localisable in any minute.


Music. Is it just me?

Do you like your job?

I like my job. I simply don't like noise.


It must be a lot of trouble opening up the TV all the time.

;)
:) :P


I love music - though not during work. TV on the other hand bothers me very much. I hate to unintentionally focus my attention to stupid soap operas and even more stupid ads. Unfortunately my wife needs to have the TV going as background. (That's why my computer is in the other room :))
That's why I never EVER sit in the living-room. My roommates at the beginning were finding me very rude (and I think they still do), but I just cannot come back home to relax a bit and have to take my dinner with the stupid TV playing I don't know what. I don't know how they deal with it, it's a pure annoyance

[Anonymous]

I like music, but very selectively. Basically, I only listen to it while driving or occasionally when I have nothing to do and am on the computer. All other times, I'd rather not be listening to it.