Putting music on when you're leaving the room

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I do this all the time. I put on an album, listen to it for 30 seconds, then go out, or go shopping, or hoover upstars, or something. I like the idea of music existing whether or not people are listening to it, Zen-stylee.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 13 September 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a bad habit that i am guilty of. i know exactly what you mean.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 13 September 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I only let it play on if I know that it's going to stop within a relatively short time.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 13 September 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll leave the stereo on when I go to the grocery store or the gas station. I like to be surpised by what's playing when I get home.

― mte, Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

lunacy.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally against this idea. It seems always that I'm wasting good music as there is nobody to enjoy it...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Saturday, 13 September 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

what's worse is when you put on a record and leave (or maybe fall asleep) and wake up and the needle has slipped from the last groove and is rubbing on the paper at 4,000,000 decibles. that shit's no good.

― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 13 September 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I never ever do this. I agree with JP that it's a waste, and I normally put something on when I KNOW I'll have enought time to listen to it properly.

Plus people'll think I'm weird. You bunch of weirdos.

― Nick H, Saturday, 13 September 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I leave the radio on all day, even when I leave. Yeah, like Johnny said, I like the idea that music (or talk or whatever) is constantly filling the space. And yeah, I like coming home to something playing or someone talking.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 13 September 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i worry that my house will explode or something if i leave ANYTHING on when I'm gone

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 13 September 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Not sure this gells with the thread, but I had a friend by the excellent name of Brent Butterworth who strenuously maintained an inexhaustibly hilarious habit of putting "Stairway to Heaven" on the jukebox seven or eight times right before exiting a bar. Petty, vindictive and childish? Yes, but always worth a laugh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a friend that used to do that too, only she called it "Sheryl Crow Terrorism" because the song she'd play repeatedly was "All I Wanna Do".

― Nick Mirov (nick), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

There used to be a bar in Chicago that had VU's White Light/White Heat in its CD jukebox. Every time I went there some goofball would inevitably program "Sister Ray" and everybody would roll their eyes..

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I was once warned at a bar in Westchester (Pleasantville -- home of Ace Frehley -- to be exact), that if I put "Unfinished Sympathy" on the jukebox one more time (this after several beers, and several, several airings of said excellent Massive Attack `choon, courtesy of the soundtrack of the highly missable "Sliver," starring Sharon Stone), I would be asked to leave the establishment with all speed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend Izzy does this all the time . i found it disconcerting to leave from her place with the rekkid player blasting but now im sorta used to it and i have stopped going on to her about risking fire/ flood and fucked up vinyl

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i programmed "european son" to play 5 times in a row at a duckpin bowling alley as i left.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 14 September 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i played revolution number nine from the beatles cd at a bar in pawling new york,,and sat and drank w my friends instead of leaving..noone was more amused then me..but then i was in a bad way to begin with

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oops i forget to add i played it 10x

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I played "Dime Store Mystery" once - and the fucking bartender pulled the plug on the jukebox.

So if you put on "A Forest" and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Not quite the same thing, but I used to have my buddy go into this one pub a few minutes before me and put James Brown's "Papa Don't Take No Mess" on, and would wait until it came on before strutting in, suddenly filled with before-nonexistant self-confidence.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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