Remember 'elevator music' that you would hear when you went shopping? I miss that syrupy,inoffensive music. Shopping in many stores is an ordeal because of the horrendous music they play. NOw, I actually like loud guitar based music. I like Korn! In fact, I'd rather they played that sometimes!

Clothing stores aren't all bad, but some of them around here play rap music really loud, which gives me a splitting headache. Or they play some really bad radio station at high volume, and it's not only music.Sometimes they'll torture you with those idiotic drive-home shows where the deejays guffaw and yell at each other, make goofy noises, etc- you know the types.

But worst of all: My local grocery store and local pharmacies,all part of chains. The grocery store plays absolutely the worst music on the planet, much of it local talents. For those of you not familiar with many quebec talents,there are some good ones, but there are many who seem to think you have to herniate yourself by screaming every note, or you're not really singing. SOme can't sing, but croak instead, sounding as if they just swallowed a few gargleblasters. Once in a while they'll play a good song, but mostly it's bad local music, shrieking divas and the worst of the 80s- especially sappy ballads from movie soundtracks or hair metal. At the drugstore, it's all that and Sarah Brightman, andrea bocelli and more bad local 'talent'. WHere do they find this horrible music? Nowhere I know. I'd probably never hear this **** if I never bought food or drugs! Sometimes, I'll forget what I was looking for because the notes of some screeching diva drive it out of my head.

Anyone have bad music horror stories?

Last time I listened to SEA FM or any other "mainstream" radio station. Thank God for Triple J.

One thing about cycling on the streets. You get to listen to everyone's music blasting out their open windows....The public tastes. Discouraging...Enough to make you put a boom box on your bike..To counter the bad taste of the motoring public.
But then, there are so few decent public radio stations to listen from anyway.

Anyone have bad music horror stories?

I'm not sure if this is off-topic or not but a friend of mine once had just got done talking to me on his mobile phone. A few minutes after I hung up with him, my phone rang again. Upon answering it, I heard his muffled voice singing, "I got two turntables and a microphone..." Apparently he had stuck the phone back in his pocket without locking the keypad and must have accidently hit the call button which on his (and many mobile) phones will simply redial the last number.

It's so true, have you ever heard anyone's music blasting out of their car and think, "Hey. I like that song!" Once in a while,maybe. ONe day some guy was playing Stevie Ray Vaughn. And another time, I stopped at a light and a guy was listening to "Killer QUeen", an old song by Queen. I remember I liked that song and started singing along. The guy obviously heard me and smiled in approval. But usually everyone blasts really bad music.

I've just decided at 24 I'm too old for popular music. ;)

I've just decided at 24 I'm too old for popular music. ;)

Is it really popular music if no one likes it? Cause I don't....

Is it really popular music if no one likes it? Cause I don't....

Correction, nobody over 16 likes it. Guess who makes up the majority of the CD buying public?

well,im 15 and I like the same stuff my dad listens too. Classic/oldies rock like The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, Led Zepplin etc.

If it gives you guys any hope for the new generation alot of my friends like older music. Where people aren't trying to give themselves hernias ;)

BTW rap gives me a headache. The nasty pounding kind.

I do not think older music is the only listening choice..So much present day music requires no songwriter. What is the matter with lyrics..Music can be more than just bad rhythm..
Plenty of great modern pop day music..To name a few Match Box 20, Five for Fighting, Del Amitri, (love the New Who, tired of old Who), Sarah McLaughlin, Torri Amos, Johnny Lang.
Actually,I do not listen to oldies..Sick of Oldies. They are what they are Oldies. Been there done that.
IF I hear oldies, I want a certain genre of oldies..Alternative music with a message and lively sound.

I'm actually encouraged when young people listen to the music of their own generation. Music from the 60s and 70s is fine, but it's so overplayed. Thanks to baby boomers, that music is EVERYWHERE.

I'm actually encouraged when young people listen to the music of their own generation. Music from the 60s and 70s is fine, but it's so overplayed. Thanks to baby boomers, that music is EVERYWHERE.

But some music of the current generation is better than other music of the current generation.

My terrible music horror story is my roomate. He sits in the room from the time he wakes up(approx 11:00 am) until about 5:30pm. The whole f***ing time he listens to the most god awful pop radio station. I swear they only have 10 songs that they play on the station. All-day, all I hear is his crappy, overplayed, wussie pop music. IT DRIVES ME NUTS!!! At least he's not a crackhead, right MERT? ;)

But some music of the current generation is better than other music of the current generation.

Yeah. The Wiggles are much better than The Hooley Dooleys.

Chris, you can say that about every generation! Plenty of crap and plenty of good stuff in every generation.

I remember in one apartment building I lived in, there was a woman who lived in one of the upstairs flats who listened endlessly to "I will always love you." In warm weather when I'd go to the laundry room, I'd hear it echoing through the courtyard. I hate that putrid song and Whitney houston! But she insisted on blasting it with the windows open. I guess it was 'her' song for her boyfriend.

This is what 7,000 MP3s and an iPod are for. Bad music is death.

Yeah. The Wiggles are much better than The Hooley Dooleys.

Ever tried stage diving at a Wiggles concert?

why do i keep hearing about some slut that is soaking wet and then hear people call that keeping it real? and why is all the rock music nowadays so whiney? they need to play more electronica and rush and pink floyd and nin and korn and rammstein.... anyway... yay! :D

I'm sorry, but paying $13.00 to hear some inbred tell me to "shake it like a salt shaker" or that you can "find him in the club" just isn't too appealing. that song Hey Ya sucks balls too.

It's not necessarily true that every generation's music is equal in quality. Consider the late 50's with sappy pop music and producer pre-fabbed "rock and roll". It took the British invasion to revitalize popular music. Again, in the mid seventies rock began to decline and it took the punk movement to revitalize it. Currently we are in a severe period of decline in popular music, characterized particularly by teenage divas and rap artists performing to pre-recorded tape collage. The only interesting music I hear now is on college radio stations or "Americana" format country music stations.