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I have the window open and am listening to the curlews, the blackbirds and in the distance a cuckoo. Just occassionally a couple of geese will fly overhear honking away. As I write this a wood pigeon is "singing" from the holly bushes behind the garage.

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I have the window open and am listening to the curlews, the blackbirds and in the distance a cuckoo. Just occassionally a couple of geese will fly overhear honking away. As I write this a wood pigeon is "singing" from the holly bushes behind the garage.
Music to my ears. :D
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I am like catgate in that I will happily have the sounds of nature audible in the background but the whole idea of "music" droning on and on incessantly without actually listening to it approaches my idea of purgatory.

I don't see why people feel they must have this man-made noise background to fill their lives. What is wrong with a bit of quiet occasionally? I often get near to despair when I see all these youngsters with these noise generating devices (Ipods and suchlike) clamped to their ears - or worse being played through a loudspeaker to contaminate the surroundings.

OK, these may well be the ramblings of an old man but, don't forget that your hearing is precious - something to be looked after and nurtured, not subject to constant assault by a barrage of pop (or should that be pap?). Sounds are things to be listened to and appreciated, not some constant drip, drip, drip which after a time gets totally ignored.

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I much prefer music on the radio or in a concert hall. I do very occasionally however have Classic FM playing on the computer. I too get annoyed at the tinny noise emanating from earole plug in devices, and absolutely loath the junk played over shop PA systems. Another annoyance today is the over loud, totally out of context rubbish played on far too many T V programmes. :(

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:D This will no doubt horrify some but i like Trance / Techno / Hard Dance, and thats what i dance to when i go clubbing, but we all have our own tastes, i have a large file of this music in a folder within my computer :) Love it !!!

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:D This will no doubt horrify some but i like Trance / Techno / Hard Dance, and thats what i dance to when i go clubbing, but we all have our own tastes, i have a large file of this music in a folder within my computer :) Love it !!!

I really don't have a clue what any of these mean. :D

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I am like catgate in that I will happily have the sounds of nature audible in the background but the whole idea of "music" droning on and on incessantly without actually listening to it approaches my idea of purgatory.

I don't see why people feel they must have this man-made noise background to fill their lives. What is wrong with a bit of quiet occasionally? I often get near to despair when I see all these youngsters with these noise generating devices (Ipods and suchlike) clamped to their ears - or worse being played through a loudspeaker to contaminate the surroundings.

Well sales of iPods have exceeded 100 million so a lot of people do like them!

don't forget that your hearing is precious - something to be looked after and nurtured

I always use the 'volume limit' function to avoid such problems.

I love listening to my iPod and think it's a fantastic gadget to own.

However, it can be dangerous in some cases like there was a recent news story where a youngster was listening to his iPod on a railway station platform and he didn't hear a train coming and was in contact with the train as it went past him.

He was killed instantly so I would say that you should only use iPods if it's safe to do so.

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but we all have our own tastes

I agree.

Theres music that I can't stand like jazz, classical and opera but I don't comment about them as I just carry on listening to the music that I do like.

i have a large file of this music in a folder within my computer :) Love it !!!

Same here.

I often listen to music whilst being at the PC as I find it relaxing, besides music makes the world go round :rolleyes:

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:D This will no doubt horrify some but i like Trance / Techno / Hard Dance, and thats what i dance to when i go clubbing, but we all have our own tastes, i have a large file of this music in a folder within my computer :) Love it !!!

Nothing wrong at all where the sounds have a function - in this case to dance to - my gripe is with so called background music.

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Well sales of iPods have exceeded 100 million so a lot of people do like them!

However, it can be dangerous in some cases like there was a recent news story where a youngster was listening to his iPod on a railway station platform and he didn't hear a train coming and was in contact with the train as it went past him.

He was killed instantly so I would say that you should only use iPods if it's safe to do so.

I still don't understand the need for this constant noise pollution whether sales are 1 or 100million, people are being influenced by the "must have" attitude so prevalent these days.

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:D This will no doubt horrify some but i like Trance / Techno / Hard Dance, and thats what i dance to when i go clubbing, but we all have our own tastes, i have a large file of this music in a folder within my computer :) Love it !!!

I really don't have a clue what any of these mean. :D

Just for you andsome DJ HERCIO > Eternal Trance Free Radio enjoy hun :D

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Sorry, I tried, but I just can't stand the incessant thump thump thump. Sometimes when we are the bottom of our back garden, a car will pass by in the road outside the front of the house, and we can here such thumping. We don't hear the car, just the thump. This is what pops is alluding to. There is going to be an awful lot of problems with peoples hearing in a few years time. Carry on listening for a few years by all means, before you go deaf. :D

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i love Drum And Bass [DNB]:

Pendulum, Ed Rush & The Optical

some great other bands:

Gorillaz [rules!!!!]

Jamiroquai

Jack Johnson

Lupe Fiasco

Lady Sovereign

Chamillionaire

The Prodigy

i listen to several different styles [including very much different artists], but only to music which sounds good ;)

internet radios are great to [wanna know some?, i will tell later {ive got the links at home, im at school now}]

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Sorry, I tried, but I just can't stand the incessant thump thump thump. Sometimes when we are the bottom of our back garden, a car will pass by in the road outside the front of the house, and we can here such thumping. We don't hear the car, just the thump. This is what pops is alluding to. There is going to be an awful lot of problems with peoples hearing in a few years time. Carry on listening for a few years by all means, before you go deaf. :D

This is what my parents told me when I was younger (allot), I don't think it did my hearing allot if any harm.

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What are you doing posting on here when you're at school!

lol, instead doing nothing usefull, I decided to check out the forums ;)

my favorite DNB internet radio stations:

Bassdrive

gHoST riDEr DNB

Jungletrain DNB

UKBassRadio

btw: some other great artists are:

The Kooks

The Infadels

Muse [though i only like a few of their numbers]

Weezer [rocks!!!]

Calibre [DNB]

Twista [only know a few songs]

btw: to be honest I like hardstyle, hardcore and jumstyle at some moments [you probably dont know these music styles. The hardcore i am talking about isnt something like metal.] Examples of hardcore/hardstyle artists are Neophyte or Angerfist. [i dont know much more artists]

i also like the trance / dance / techno at its time...

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Well sales of iPods have exceeded 100 million so a lot of people do like them!

However, it can be dangerous in some cases like there was a recent news story where a youngster was listening to his iPod on a railway station platform and he didn't hear a train coming and was in contact with the train as it went past him.

He was killed instantly so I would say that you should only use iPods if it's safe to do so.

I still don't understand the need for this constant noise pollution whether sales are 1 or 100million, people are being influenced by the "must have" attitude so prevalent these days.

It's probably only 'noise' because it isn't your type of music B)

I agree with your view about music blaring out of people's cars whilst people are driving through towns with the windows down in summer but listening to an iPod (or any other MP3 player) doesn't affect anyone else as only the iPod user can hear the music.

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I have often pondered on the business of musical tastes. I have also wondered where all the musical instruments have gone and where all the cacophones have come from.

When I was growing up in the 40s there were live dance bands all over. We could go out every Saturday night to at least 4 dance halls in central Bradford where there were good resident live bands composed of excellent musicians. There were also numerous local peripatetic bands all over the area operating both Friday nights and Saturday nights at many church halls, schools etc. This was true not only of Bradford but of most of the country. Up in the dales there was always a band or two to be found in village halls every Saturday night.

What happens these days? Surely it can not be all mayhem and blood letting.

It seems as though the "music" of the day is a reflection of the society of the day, but which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

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