OT - Saw a great bumper sticker today

[Ysabel Kid]

It read:

"I'm Not That Old - Your Music Really Does Suck"

Boy, ain't that the truth!!!

Hope that gets by the editors!

[TedH]

I like it!

Drive through town around here and you won't go a mile without some punks "music" rattling your windows.

[Idiot]

The next time you get next to one of those guys crushing gravel in their trunk, turn up your Hank Snow and let 'em have it.

[Basswrangler]

Heck I'm just 19 and I think most new music isn't worth recording!

[HORACE]

Great bumper sticker! And an excellent description -'..crushing gravel'
To actually call this stuff 'music' is a gross abuse of the English language

[rjohns94]

VBG.

[Rusty]

Rap music is to music what an etch a sketch is to art.

[pahunter]

Well, you know why they call it "rap". Because it rhymes with stuff.

[brucew44guns]

Got out an ancient old Patsy Cline tape awhile back, been playing it as I travel around in my ancient 1994 Buick Roadmaster, playing an ancient outdated Tape Player that car was equipped with. I marvel at her talent, her zeal, her zest to make a song live and sound so good. I believe if she was alive today and just starting out, that she would make it all over again. 45 years after her death she still has what it takes, but I'm not so sure about those "gravel crushers", they may see some poor days before they get done.

[RIHMFIRE]

thats a good one...
by the way....rap is not music....
its noise...

[Naphtali]

More than 20 years ago I lived in Santa Clara County, California where I saw what I consider the most humorous bumper sticker I've seen: I brake for hallucinations. It compares favorably with yours.

[gamekeeper]

I just give the Gravel Crushing Punks both barrels of Sandy Nelson's "Let There Be Drums".

Love the "I brake for hallucinations" scary!

[piller]

I'm 43, and I grew up listening to a wide variety of music. Elvis, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Fleetwood Mac, Patsy Cline, and the list goes on. What it means to me is that I caught the middle to the end of an era of really great music by people with talent. What I hear today from my children's radios and their friends radios does not take talent, nor is it something that I can listen to and think, "You must have been inside my mind!" Some of today's country music is still good, and a few singers and groups would have been able to make it back when I was a kid. BUT, too much of today's music does sound like a gravel crusher. So, I really hope that the great art of Bumper Stickers is never lost because it can make you think, laugh, and even get into a discussion with strangers.

[lever-4-life]

As well as classic Leverguns, lures, and chainsaws. I am a fan of classic country, southern rock, and psychedelic rock

Side 1: Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Hank Sr, Hank Jr, Hank III, Charlie Pride, Waylon, Willie, Ralph Stanley, Patsy Cline, Alabama

Flipside: The doors, The stones, Jefferson Airplane, CCR, Hendrix, Claption, deep purple, pink floyd, donovan, bob dylan, Z.Z. top, Sknyard, Allman Brothers, Molly Hatchet, CDB, Marshall Tucker Band.

To sum it all up I am a hillbillish californian that thinks Im a cowboy

[Ysabel Kid]

I'm fortunate - neither of my children are that into music, and when we are in the car, they want to listen to my stuff.

My brother's son and daughter - roughly the same ages as mine (10 and 6) like hip-hop and rap. He complains about it all the time. Then he downloads the garbage for them on their electronic gizmos.

As I told him the other day:

First problem - why do they have these electronic gizmos at their age?
Second problem - why would you let sub-teens choose their own music?

End of problem!

[TCB in TN]

Well I guess I am the odd ball, I am 38 and grew up listening to my parents Jim Croche, Willie and Waylon, Johnny Cash, the whole mo-town bunch, Ray Charles, but also got turned into some late 40's-50's blues, jazz, and classical, and as I got older the whole 80's dance, pop, and rock. I learned to listen a little before judging and while I agree that the vast majority of today music is stuff, there are quite a few folks out there that really have tallent, it is just different style from what I grew up on but some of it is pretty decent and I enjoy it good enough. BTW if you go back and think on the majority music from any and all eras has been stuff, but it has been stuff we got used to.

[Jay Bird]

I saw one today------ Vote Obama, he knows what's good for you...

[Old Ironsights]

I also have an "eclectic" taste in music. I just don't care for Lyrics in general.

However, believe it or not, there really IS some good Rap out there with genuinely decent language and positive messages. It just doesn't sell. (Any Rapper that can include the correct usage of "Stygian Past" and rhyme it with "Self Conciousness" deserves a few Kudos...)

Mostly I listen varius Electronica from what they call "Melodic Trance" or the GOA school of Psytrance - much of which is directly related to classic orchestral themes.

I'm a big fan of Tangerine Dream if that tells you anything.

But for various neurolinguistic reasons, unless the lyrics are rythmic or in another language (and can thereby be linguistcly filtered out), I just can't get into most of the popular music (of any US genere) from 1950 on.

[nralover]

I also have an "eclectic" taste in music. I just don't care for Lyrics in general.

However, believe it or not, there really IS some good Rap out there with genuinely decent language and positive messages. It just doesn't sell. (Any Rapper that can include the correct usage of "Stygian Past" and rhyme it with "Self Conciousness" deserves a few Kudos...)

Mostly I listen varius Electronica from what they call "Melodic Trance" or the GOA school of Psytrance - much of which is directly related to classic orchestral themes.

I'm a big fan of Tangerine Dream if that tells you anything.

But for various neurolinguistic reasons, unless the lyrics are rythmic or in another language (and can thereby be linguistcly filtered out), I just can't get into most of the popular music (of any US genere) from 1950 on.

Tangerine Dream- weren't they the ones that did music for a myriad of 1980's movies?

[shawn_c992001]

Ok guys, I'm 27 and I listen to alot of rock, hard rock, and some metal. I have a very particular taste, in that I like alot of lead electric guitar, if the band has a good guitarist I'll probably like them, or if the band has a good lead singer I'll listen to them. Some of the growling nonunderstandable stuff I can't stand. I also like female lead singers like Amy Lee of Evanescence ("My Imortal", "Bring Me To Life"), Christinia Scabbia of Lacuna Coil ("Closer", "Our Truth"), Tarja Turunen of Nightwish ("Bye Bye Beautiful" Anette Olzon is now the leading lady, "Wish I Had An Angel").

I also like bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, Godsmack, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, and Mudvayne. I also like alot of the older stuff like The Stones, Cream/Clapton, Hendrix, The Nuge, Pink Floyd, Queen, and Steppenwolf. Also, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, and a bunch of others. This is a total of 994 songs in my iTunes, and on my iPod.

[Old Ironsights]

Tangerine Dream- weren't they the ones that did music for a myriad of 1980's movies?

Can't say. I really didn't see many movies in the 80s. Until I graduated from HS in '86 I lived in a town with one movie screen and didn't have much money for films. After that I was briefly at Uni then in the Army in Europe.

I'm really not much of a Movie kind of guy. I do go for ambient sound though.

On my much diminished shelf of music I have everything from the "Standard" classical pieces & the complete Wagner Ring Cycle to Tangerine Dream, Enigma, Patric O'Hearn, Creed, David Brubeck, Martin Denny, Mike Oldfield, Ramstein, Infected Mushroom, Moby, Chuck Mangione, Hugh Masekelea, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, Spyro Gyra, Enya, Civilized Animal, Hiroshima, Akiko Yano, The Beach Boys, The Red Army Choir, Tommy Dorsey, Chet Baker, Hawkwind, The Residents.... well, you get the drift.
(Most of my "Country" singers/albums are doing Christmas... which is a whole 'nother story/collection. (I even have Goth Christmas albums...))

[GANJIRO]

More than 20 years ago I lived in Santa Clara County, California where I saw what I consider the most humorous bumper sticker I've seen: I brake for hallucinations. It compares favorably with yours.

I saw a similar one "I brake for no apparent reason". One of my favorite my kid sis had on her car "You're Ugly and Your Mother Dresses you Funny".