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has anyone been in a position where they were forced to listen to awful music and couldn't do a fucking thing about it? this happened to me a couple of weeks ago; my drama teacher locked us in the theatre for 2+ hours while she went to clean up her office, and someone thought it would be funny to piss me off and play a Kelly Clarkson album full-fucking-blast over the loud speakers. FOR TWO HOURS--> made worse by half the class singing to it. i never wanted to commit mass murder so badly.

― candice (divifold), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

Wait, which album?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Yes, unfortunately these things do happen. Maybe ten years ago I spent Christmas eve at my brother's house and his lovely wife left Kenny G. on repeat for most of the evening. Thanks for the reminder!

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:34 (twenty years ago)

i read a news story years back about a guy who flipped his car and landed upside down in a ditch with george michael's faith on constant repeat in the cassette deck. he was physically fine but trapped in the car and couldn't reach the tape deck had to listen to the album for 8 hours or something. he said he was probably not going to listen to it again.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I work in a record store. Stop the complaining. I think mine equals about 30 hours.

that does suck though.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

Ned, i don't know which album, but i'm guessing it was a newer one of hers. like it matters. what was that guy in the car doing listening to George Michael in the first place? serves him right if his car flips over. although i do like "father figure".

― candice (divifold), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Kelly Clarkson and George Michael both rule.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

of course they do but not if you're in some kind of confined captivity. i can't think of any album that i'd like to listen to for 8 hours straight while trapped upside down in a car. (ok possibly vocalcity.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

if it was, say, nickelback or three doors down or james blunt, then yes, you'd have reason to kill them all. no judge would convict you.

― Emily B (Emily B), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah if you put it that way...

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)

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(Insert appropriate caption here.)

― Myonga Von Beethoven (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to The Cure all right.

― A Study In Redd Scharlach (Ken L), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:47 (twenty years ago)

"This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it."
x-post

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

---"I work in a record store. Stop the complaining. I think mine equals about 30 hours"

Ditto. I think I'm gonna hit something v hard next time I hear that fuckin Teddy Thompson album

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Nothing worse than having to listen to 200 bland indie-pop CDs, though at least I could get blizzy while doing that.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to The Cure all right.

I both love you and hate you for that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 05:11 (twenty years ago)

When I did my military service almost ten years ago, I shared room with, among others, a guy who was unable to sleep without listening to the "Brothers in arms"-album. Urhh..

― danjel (danjel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

I used to live with a guy who would alternately blast Metallica's Load and Reload along with the first Papa Roach single ("CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES/THIS IS MY LAST RESORT" etc., over and over). The best CD he had was Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's E.1999 Eternal but the only songs he would play off it were "1st of tha Month" and "Mo' Murda" FIRST THING EVERY MORNING.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 05:51 (twenty years ago)

Some party, they had "Brothers in Arms" and played it in full/switchover mode.

Each time it finished I was "Shall we put something else on?" and they all were "No, who needs anything else? It's Brothers in Arms!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:52 (twenty years ago)

someone thought it would be funny to piss me off and play a Kelly Clarkson album full-fucking-blast over the loud speakers.

I thought you said BAD music. Kelly rules big time.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 07:57 (twenty years ago)

this happens all the time when you have kids, the saving grace is seeing your child derive intense pleasure from what you perceive as "bad music" actually makes it hard to hate the offending racket. that said, ashlee simpson still tries my patience: sloppy singing.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

i worked at Limited Too (clothing store for fashion-conscious preteen girls) during the holiday season in 2001. the music was a 45-minute loop of teen-pop christmas songs. this 45-minute loop played all day long, every day from thanksgiving to mid-January.

so there.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

Glad to know that they eventually let you out of the asylum, Killy. That kind of experience would've pushed me over the edge.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

"i worked at Limited Too (clothing store for fashion-conscious preteen girls) during the holiday season in 2001. the music was a 45-minute loop of teen-pop christmas songs. this 45-minute loop played all day long, every day from thanksgiving to mid-January"

sounds like my idea of hell

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Due to working at a CD store problem, I heard Keane's first album just about everyday for almost a year straight. My balls started to gradually shrivel up.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

None of this is as bad as working in the service industry around the holidays and having to listen to nothing but Christmas music for 2 months straight.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

"bad music situation" immediately brings to mind any class I've ever taken at the gym. Trying to breathe through a yoga class, wanting to replace the cringe of the shallow New Age music with Dead Can Dance, or I dunno, something, or the step classes where they're blaring La Bouche and that 90s house song with the piano chord intro--Madonna at best--and you just want to plug in your ipod with that great playlist you just created of all sorts of good mixes.
one of my least favorite situations, anyhow.
that, and taking my little sister to avril's mall tour. a sea 12 year old fashion punks. eugh-shudder.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Eppy on the fucking MONEY.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Oops I missed Killy's. All-teenpop sounds better, 45-minute loop sounds way worse. Ours was at least like a 3 hour loop or something. Still, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year," and that's all I have to say about that.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Every year for three years I went up to Scotland for new years eve in a car with one of my friend from university, with only midi versions of Abba songs and one early Carpenters album for company. 7 hours each way. ARGH.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

I WAS A TEENAGE MALL SANTA (no reallY)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

that, and taking my little sister to avril's mall tour. a sea 12 year old fashion punks.

ahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhhhahahaha!!!!

a mall tour?!?!?!? now I've heard EVERYTHING!

― marbles (marbles), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh how quickly people forget Tiffany.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

No. This has never happened to me. Thanks anyway.

― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

This perhaps isn't the audience for this one, but I'll never forget a country weekend with a bunch of music buff friends of friends, who had decided to make it a celebration of eighties ''perfect pop". I mean they'd spent a LONG time making up mixtapes. They'd known each other from school, I was a guest and didn't know them well.

Hot dog. Jumping frog. Albuquerque. For forty-eight hours plus. Not my thing at all.
Miles from anywhere, and I didn't have my own transport. Hell is other people.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm with you. The reason I partook of the Hip-Hop was because THE 80'S SUCKED GODDMANED DONKY DONG.

― PappaWheelie 2 (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

"When I did my military service almost ten years ago, I shared room with, among others, a guy who was unable to sleep without listening to the "Brothers in arms"-album. Urhh.."

I hear ya'

When I was in the service I was trapped in a small room for eight months with a group of guys that took turns playing Godsmack and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones...

Friendly fire anyone?

― silence dogood (catcher), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

this really doesn't compare to much of what's already been said, and actually is just wide of the mark in terms of the thread topic, but the first thing that came to mind was a particularly scary seven-hour car-trip with some friends. Within minutes of setting out, the cd player jammed up (I had, of course, put together enough mixed cd's to fill the seven hours several times over, to the unanimous indifference of my friends). Naturally, I presumed we would fix this problem somehow, perhaps by getting a different car, as the notion of a semi-major roadtrip without music ws quite literally unthinkable to me (as in my brain actually refused my attempts to imagine it).

I've pretty much forgotten or blocked out the trip itself, but my initial reaction was a skin-crawling panic akin to what one might feel when an elevator seems to stop between floors while on two hits of acid.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

> has anyone been in a position where they were forced to listen to awful music and couldn't do a fucking thing about it?

As I have mentioned before, I share an office with the staff of Relix magazine. Thus, it's pretty much Phish Phish Phish Phish Phish Bob Marley Bob Marley Bob Marley Bob Marley the Dead the Dead the Dead the Dead the Dead Arcade Fire Arcade Fire Bob Marley Bob Marley Disco Biscuits Disco Biscuits Disco Biscuits Disco Biscuits all motherfucking day. I put on Fishscale one day and everyone popped their heads above their cubicle dividers like prairie dogs, staring at me like I'd grown two extra heads that were tongue-kissing each other.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

yeesh, reading everybody elses stories is starting to make me think i got it easy.

― candice (divifold), Thursday, 22 June 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

My housemate in university went away for the weekend and locked his bedroom door without turning his CD player alarm off, which was 'Lady In Red' by Chris De Burgh at hefty volume. The CD then elected to stick on the line "THERE'S BEAUTY BY MY SIDE", which repeated for 20 minutes or so until we broke the door down

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

i have a casual retail job in a shopping centre, which likes to pump out "easy listening" music over the main sound system. apparently "easy listening" music constitutes a lot of coldplay's talk. urk. if i have to hear "oh brother, i can't believe it's true ..." one more time i shall commit mass hysterics.

― salexandra (salexander), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:33 (twenty years ago)

i worked in a very left-leaning liberal office environment. tolerant of everyone to a fault. the new secretary who was there full time as opposed to us in-n-out part timers played Xtian lite-rock allllll dayyyy everyday. talk about songs in heavy rotation. same jabber every hour with the most pleasant sounding android announcers.

i had to repeat "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not kill" over and over.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Thursday, 22 June 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Many years ago I had a terrible roommate who was trying to drive me out of the house - he'd get up early in the morning, blast pop music as loud as possible, lock his bedroom door, and go to work. After a couple days of this, he got up one morning, fired up his stereo, and I punched a hole in the wall straight through to his side. No more music. Score one for our side.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

music as weapon: dud
fist as weapon: classic

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

When I worked in record stores I used to play shit like Enya so I could have the back room to myself while I sorted records.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Did you reach thru and turn it off, or was he there and scared that you were gonna punch a hole thru his noggin next? Personally, I would have worked on the door if'n he'd left already and it was a modern hollow fibreboard dealie.

So, er, who wound up paying to plaster up the wall? Did anyone move out right quick?

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Thursday, 22 June 2006 12:45 (twenty years ago)

"There and scared" was more like it, though reaching in and turning off the stereo would've been pretty funny. Working on the door would have a) taken planning and b) been kinda sneaky. I was more the impulsive/confrontational type in my youth (not a morning person either - don't aggravate the tired and cranky).

He fixed his side and I fixed mine, and that represented a weird kind of ceasefire. I left a couple months later, I heard he was evicted eventually after he pulled some more psycho shit with the next tenant and the landlord figured out he was a passive-aggressive maniac. Moved back in with his mother, bless her heart.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 22 June 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I am at work right now...co-worker has had these songs playing on a mix thus far:

Journey-Open Arms
that terrible song with "Ah'll beee.." whiny guy voice, forget who by
and now I think I'm listening to Yellowcard? Jeezus i'm dying

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 24 June 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

one night on the way home from a party in the middle back seat of a subaru navigating windy vermont back roads trapped as the other four occupants of the car sing along at the top of their lungs to the cranberries' zombie then decide to take an encore.

not as painful as some of the more prolonged examples - but i like to think, more pointed.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Are you kidding me? Kelly Clarkson's new album is terrific. Let's not equate having to listen to Breakaway with Kenny G. Light years, people, light years.

― musically (musically), Saturday, 24 June 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

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