Do you ever turn off the music?

by compound complex 20 Replies latest social humour

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Greetings Fellow Music Lovers:

    Given the numerous "Name Your Favorite Tune" threads that are posted here on JWN, it appears that none of us can live without la belle musique. Often my CD player runs through the night. I turned it off a few minutes ago ... silence. Silence....

    Sometimes - like NOW - I want as near total silence as I can get, not just from the more irritating forms of noise pollution, but even the beautiful "noise."

    You?

    Thanks,

    CoCo

  • highdose
    highdose

    poker face by lady gaga is my fav du jour. mostly becuase i know that the JW's would hate it, and that there will probably be conusel soon from the GB not to listen to her.

    but yes i love classical too. Rachmanivov being a favorite

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    I have tinnitus. Noise masks it. Any noise. I have even taken to walking with one of those ipod thingies. Not always music. Audio books and pre TV radio comedies and stories. I turn it off when I hear birds. I heard one today that is not from around here. Tuis have local dialects. I heard this one about ten miles away from here six months ago. He wouldn't talk to me. Our local one does. I wonder if he will be here tomorrow. I will call both of them in the morning and see what happens.

    Cheers

    Chris

  • stillin
    stillin

    My wife always turns it off. She is afraid that she might not be getting my full attention. I live an almost musicless life, other than in the car going to work.

  • Sad emo
    Sad emo

    Yes dear CoCo, sometimes I have that intense need for silence!

    To the extent that I yelled at a 'rabbiting' work colleague to "shut the F$*k up!!!" three days ago because they were disturbing a very rare quiet period

    Sometimes I have to turn the music of at home, especially if I'm trying to write and the music is good - I am good at multi-tasking but it doesn't extend to singing along and thinking AND typing at the same time!

  • bigwilly
    bigwilly

    I don't really listen to music at home, but that may be due to the lack of sound on my laptop. Otherwise I don't leave the house without my iPod rockin. Between that and my gf's penchant for music in her car (I'm sans coche at the mo), there's rarely a time away from home that doesn't involve audio stimulation. In the past I had a car without a stereo and it drove me absolutely crazy!

  • Finally-Free
    Finally-Free

    Up until I was 30 I had the music going constantly. Then I got married and the ex hated my taste in music, and I didn't care for hers either. Now I'm alone again and never really regained my interest in music. I can take it or leave it. Most of the time I leave it.

    Besides, Rocco makes plenty of sounds to entertain me.

    W

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    Good Morning Coco!..

    The are times when "Silence is Golden"..

    .................

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia
    I have tinnitus. Noise masks it. Any noise.

    Oh a big ME TOO on this one. As a child, I had super-sensitive hearing and would easily get overloaded by sudden noise and I'd hear all sorts of background sound (particularly high-pitched sounds from electrical devices) and my own tinnitus. I finally went to an ear specialist in the '90s to have my tinnitus checked out, as people say that you hear it when you lose your hearing; it turns out that my hearing was superior to average and he said I was probably hearing the electrical activity in my own brain. I always went to bed with the radio on so that I wouldn't hear that hum while trying to sleep. I think it is better now, less tinnitus overall, and I sleep without music (tho my bf's snore helps me sleep), so I think my hearing now is less acute as it used to be.

  • SPAZnik
    SPAZnik

    Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. :)

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