Move over…here’s another person who doesn’t like windchimes. My husband loves them, however, and we have several on the back porch. They grate my nerves.
I also don’t care a fig for music. Sure, I used to love rock concerts and all that, but I have never bought a CD of music for myself, and I never listen to music on the radio. (I am huge talk radio freak, though.) Every so often I’ll get in the mood to hear some old stuff and I’ll sing along, but that’s pretty rare.
Also, I can not stand to hear a radio on (playing music, I mean) in my house. I can somewhat tolerate it in the car if my kids want to hear it, but I will not have it on inside. It drives me nuts. Hell, if I lived alone, I wouldn’t ever have the radio OR the television on ever again. I get silence so rarely, that when I do have it, it’s simply heaven.
Interesting. In the years since the onset of my tinnitus I developed an interest in golden age radio and currently have a collection of several thousand programs.
You’re not the only one. I’m continually throwing away and deleting music that I’m tired of. In fact, I used to own hundreds of CDs. Now I own a dozen, maybe.
First, and perhaps most important, to the wind-chime hating people: you are not alone! I mentioned on the boards once that I thought I was the only person in the world who hated wind-chimes, and several people spoke up and agreed that wind-chimes are awful. So wind-chime haters of the world, unite!
I also don’t listen to much music. I’m quite tone deaf, and I don’t get much out of it even when I do listen to it. There are some songs and albums and bands that I like, but it’s mostly out of nostalgia – I liked songs and albums and bands when I was a teenager because my friends liked them, and I feel very fondly about them now, but it’s more of a memory thing than actually having any feelings toward the music itself.
At home, it seldom occurs to me to put on music, and in the car, I like to enjoy the silence and the opportunity to think my thoughts in peace. I do listen to music when I exercise, because it’s good for timing things. I have some friends who are professional musicians, and I go see them play, but again, it’s more about my friends and being supportive, and not so much about the music.
Pretty much everyone I know likes to have music playing all the time, and I don’t mind hearing it, but by myself, I don’t seek it out.
I’m 43. In previous lives I’ve played guitar in a small band, and enjoyed quite a bit of music. However, of late I’ve found that:
I’ve burned out on all of the music I’ve previously enjoyed, and find no point in listening to my ‘classic’ tastes. All the music I liked was 10 years old when I liked it 20 years ago. I’m dreadfully tired of it. I need new stuff!
I’ve tried very hard to find new music I like as well as the old stuff. I’ve found some stuff that is pleasurable, but it really hasn’t stuck with me. I honestly can’t keep up the effort to find music I like.
I currently live in an area with zero FM reception, so it’s difficult to find new music choices while at home. I also tend to find music while driving, so a limited amount of FM choices is limiting. My spouse has an XM receiver for her car; I’d get one, but bristle at the monthly fee (x2 because the spouse also wants one).
My listening habits were mostly confined to listening to music while driving. I’ve never liked listening to music while I work at my desk, I prefer silence. And for the past five years, I’ve worked from my house, so there’s little time when I’d listen to music.
Mostly, I’ve fallen out of the habit. I looove music, but just don’t keep up lately.
I know what each word means individually, but oddly enough, I can’t fathom what it means when put into a sentence like that. What means this “throwing away and deleting music”?
But yeah, I don’t like windchimes either. I’ve seen enough scary movies to know that they are trouble.
[I’m glad to hear that someone else does not like music.
I only listen in my car, and then only if stuck in traffic.
But I never have music on when I host a dinner, etc. and it drives some of my guests crazy. I say I have no radio or stereo in the house and they don’t believe it, and say “well you should have told me and I’d have brought a boom box or something.” Can’t believe I don’t like competing with music while I talk and listen to others.
Put me on the list. Actually i was thinking of starting a thread just like this.
The music I tend to like is more obscure in nature. When i was in college, I had enough friends who were into every kind of music that I could listen to thiers and pick and choose what I liked.
Now, I have no input for unusal music, I don’t like much mainstream stuff and I’m sick of the stuff I used to listen so.
So I rarely listen to music and when i do, it’s usually my wife’s country or R&B or my stepson’s rap.
When I’m doing chores, i usually have the TV on for background noise and I listen to books on tape in my car.