The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146131 Message #4011731
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Oct-19 - 12:26 PM
Thread Name: pop music DOES all sound the same
Subject: RE: pop music DOES all sound the same
"What I think is that you don't have to diss it if you don't like it."
No you don't, but it's not helped by the fact that it's becoming impossible to avoid it
My experiences in shops are the same as Richard's - you're left feeling that you have to send scouts ahead to find out how loud the music is on the PA systems (pretty much as you do to find if an unfamiliar folk club actually does folk song)
I walk out once and never go back - doesn't suit me and can't suit the shop - surely
The only thing that makes me angry is the ***** volume - pumped up over the point of distortion, more often than not
We have three traditional sessions in our small town on Saturday night - all catering for a different crowd in regular venues
right in the centre of the town is a disco venue - fine by me, except the volume is so high sometimes that it can be heard in the other three bars - a little 'impossible' for our best solo players
I've given up worrying about the damage being done to they youngsters' hearing - their choice, I'm afraid
'Pump up the volume' merchants should by locked in small, soundproofed cells and overdosed on their own medicine
Jim Carroll