OT - Music Addiction

[StoneCold]

If it exists, I'm probably addicted.

I have to have music on almost ALL the time, especially working.

Any other symptoms? List at will.

[Moon Beam]

You Lot have no clue how my sickness in this area peeves my males.
I cannot function without music.

I do well when folks that ain't monster music lovers come over for an afternoon or evening.
Any great length of time though requires tunage for me.

[artist4perry]

I would rather listen to music than watch TV. Music all day.

[escapefan]

I would rather listen to music than watch TV. Music all day.

Same here Ginger






Gina

[larryfromnextdoor]

I would rather listen to music than watch TV. Music all day.

uhhh.. do you not get NickatNight???

[Since 78]

People who don't care about music freak me out!

[StoneCold]

People who don't care about music freak me out!

Like that uptight kid in the commercials for the National Endowment for the Arts?

I always got a kick out of those.

[texafana]

You know you're a music addict, when it matters how many mp3 files you have on your hard drive.

[Since 78]

People who don't care about music freak me out!

Like that uptight kid in the commercials for the National Endowment for the Arts?

I always got a kick out of those.

I don't think Ive seen it.

[cyndy!]

option 1 for me.

to the person who chose option 3:
i was the bitch that told you to STFU during the maroon 5 concert tonight. good thing you left early, because i was planning to beat the crap out of you after the show.

[mikemarrs]

listen to music,stay on the internet,read a book,etc.

you could ban television and it wouldn't bother me one bit.i got rid of cable three years ago because its 300 channels of nothing.i might catch a football game but other than that i never watch television.

[Arianddu]

Yeah, well, I figured this one out when I was sixteen. My english teacher asked the class to keep a log of quotes from what ever source we liked - books, TV, music, whatever - at least one a day, but really as many as appealed to us, for one month. She got three notebooks handed in from me at the end of the month, and pointed out that a) I read a book a day and had at least 10 quotes from each book and b) 85% of my quotations were still from songs.

And I'm STILL hopping mad that someone stole the majority of my music collection from my storage unit while I was travelling around the world. Irreplacable stuff!

[StoneCold]

You know you're a music addict, when it matters how many mp3 files you have on your hard drive.

Worked at a Tower Records when cds were just starting to get big and the employee discount came in handy. I remember CD longboxes and $18.00 price tags on some stuff.

mp3's are cool for portability but how do you pass on your collection to the kids? Here son, this hard drive is yours (until it dies).

[4everkop]

When I'm walking with my ipod, I usually walk in the tempo of the music, and if I'm not walking in tempo without realizing I will then force myself to. On the downbeat...

[Rhiannon]

option 1 for me.

to the person who chose option 3:
i was the bitch that told you to STFU during the maroon 5 concert tonight. good thing you left early, because i was planning to beat the crap out of you after the show.

Feisty! Mmm... Adam Levine. "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" is a good album too. Missed them when they were in Chicago last month.



Oh and... option 1. Does that make MR group therapy then?

[Deb]

option 1 for me.

to the person who chose option 3:
i was the bitch that told you to STFU during the maroon 5 concert tonight. good thing you left early, because i was planning to beat the crap out of you after the show.

Yep, option 1. The way I see it, there is a lot worse things to be addicted to.

Note to self: Next JSS show, don't talk to Cyndy.

[Just Mindy]

Oh yeah, option 1. I have a cd player in nearly every room of the house, and one outside near the hot tub. My kids yell at me because often I'll have one disc playing in the bedroom and another in the livingroom...different music of course. Got about 50 or so cd's in the car with me, tunes must be on while driving, at all times.

[artist4perry]

option 1 for me.

to the person who chose option 3:
i was the bitch that told you to STFU during the maroon 5 concert tonight. good thing you left early, because i was planning to beat the crap out of you after the show.

Cyndy, getting physical! You go girl! We just had a gripe section about people wanting to sit quiet and demure and yell at people for standing and having fun at a rock concert. So are you a sit down watch the concert like you are watching the Boston Pops, kind of person. Or a stand up support your band kind of person? Just curious!
I do understand people talking through the concert should be put before a firing squad. They get a blindfold and a cigarette.

[brywool]

I am a COMPLETE music addict. I always have to have it on. I work 8 hours a day with headphones on and I remember songs better than I remember many details of my own life. It's actually kind of a drag at times.
In the car, at work, at home, in the shower, wherever. I must have music on.

[Deb]

Oh yeah, option 1. I have a cd player in nearly every room of the house, and one outside near the hot tub. My kids yell at me because often I'll have one disc playing in the bedroom and another in the livingroom...different music of course. Got about 50 or so cd's in the car with me, tunes must be on while driving, at all times.

LOL true, I don't even know if I could reverse out of the garage without tunes.....it's like a start function of my car.

My daughter loves music too. And get this, Beautiful Mess has been in the car for almost a week now and when I picked my daughter up from work yesterday I had changed the cd to, yep, a Mr. Big one and she gets in and says.....can we listen to Jeff's new one again. She wanted to hear 21st Century, cuz she'd checked out the video yesterday ..............and I wasn't even anywhere around to push it. Such a proud moment.

[Ehwmatt]

Addicted. Always on. I also really drive people nuts with the different music I listen to if they're aroujnd me. People just can't wrap their heads around the fact that I can have "Glass Prison" by Dream Theater, "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)" by the Four Tops, "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, "Mrs. Rita" by the Gin Blossoms, "I'll Be Allright Without You" by Journey... you get the idea, in the same playlist. It confuses them.

[Just Mindy]

Oh yeah, option 1. I have a cd player in nearly every room of the house, and one outside near the hot tub. My kids yell at me because often I'll have one disc playing in the bedroom and another in the livingroom...different music of course. Got about 50 or so cd's in the car with me, tunes must be on while driving, at all times.

LOL true, I don't even know if I could reverse out of the garage without tunes.....it's like a start function of my car.

My daughter loves music too. And get this, Beautiful Mess has been in the car for almost a week now and when I picked my daughter up from work yesterday I had changed the cd to, yep, a Mr. Big one and she gets in and says.....can we listen to Jeff's new one again. She wanted to hear 21st Century, cuz she'd checked out the video yesterday ..............and I wasn't even anywhere around to push it. Such a proud moment.

Excellent job raising her, Deb.

[StoneCold]

Addicted. Always on. I also really drive people nuts with the different music I listen to if they're aroujnd me. People just can't wrap their heads around the fact that I can have "Glass Prison" by Dream Theater, "Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)" by the Four Tops, "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, "Mrs. Rita" by the Gin Blossoms, "I'll Be Allright Without You" by Journey... you get the idea, in the same playlist. It confuses them.

Playlists with a good variety are the best. Too much of the same and I check out and start clicking next.

[alesson]

can't sleep without music..and i sleep better if it is a rockin sound!

[cyndy!]

Cyndy, getting physical! You go girl! We just had a gripe section about people wanting to sit quiet and demure and yell at people for standing and having fun at a rock concert. So are you a sit down watch the concert like you are watching the Boston Pops, kind of person. Or a stand up support your band kind of person? Just curious!
I do understand people talking through the concert should be put before a firing squad. They get a blindfold and a cigarette.

i'm totally cool with people standing, dancing, cheering & discussing the show. last night, 2 guys were yapping about OT stuff throughout the set. i lost it when i was trying to enjoy a delicate a capella moment & they were talking so loud, i couldn't even identify the song being sung. i'm guessing they weren't there for the music, but were just trying to impress the chicks they were with.

[bluejeangirl76]

option 1 for me.

to the person who chose option 3:
i was the bitch that told you to STFU during the maroon 5 concert tonight. good thing you left early, because i was planning to beat the crap out of you after the show.

Feisty!

LOL! Kickin' ass and takin' names. But she's right. Its fine to want to talk to people but if you're going to do that, don't fucking buy concert tickets. Go to a book club meeting. I would have told them to STFU also. I alwys get these people at movie theaters. I've told many an asshole to STFU.

I picked option 1 also. Not that I don't enjoy talking to people but I can do both, and people aren't always around. If I'm driving and by myself, or whatever, either the radio or the iPod is going. Can't not have music.

[The Sushi Hunter]

There's a time and place for everything. I can only listen to music when I am doing nothing else. Because when the music is playing, I tend to start visualizing the notes being played or get too wrapped up in the vocals and this prevents me from putting my all into what I am doing at the time. If I'm doing something that has nothing to do with music like working at my job, working on my car, writing on paper or on a computer, etc. I have to have the music off. If not, my focus turns to the music being played and my work suffers. The only exceptions however are while I am driving my car or during romantic times with my wife. She loves soft love songs playing while we are in our romantic element together. Making her happy is my number one priority, so I let the music play in that situation.

So I would consider myself to be a music addict. Because if I wasn't, I could have music playing all the time around me and still be able to not allow my mind to focus exclusively on the music being played. This condition stems from the years in my life when I was singing full time for a career.

[Rhiannon]

Not that I don't enjoy talking to people but I can do both, and people aren't always around. If I'm driving and by myself, or whatever, either the radio or the iPod is going. Can't not have music.

Just not when you're driving on the tollway.

[ProgRocker53]

Complete and total music addict.

I listen to my jams nonstop whenever I'm at work, in my vehicle, or on the computer.... which all adds up to, basically, every waking moment of my life.

And, when I'm NOT at work/in car/on comp... chances are I'm writing songs or playing the bass.... or having a life. Well, not really the latter, but I can dream right?

My friends all make fun of me because I obsess so much over such "trivial" things as audio quality, proper mixing, having the actual album, etc.

[Arianddu]

My friends all make fun of me because I obsess so much over such "trivial" things as audio quality, proper mixing, having the actual album, etc.

Trivial??? TRIVIAL????? Lose the friends, keep the obsession! Hell, move to Australia and I'll set you up with some friends who get it!!