Most of you regulars already know this about me
and it's not exactly a phobia because I don't go all girly and squeal but it is an intense dislike sometimes to the point of nausea.

Music

All and any. Hate it. I even turn down the volume on the telly when a show starts to avoid the title music.
I don't own any music and have never bought any (other than as gifts for other people.)
Music gives me the rage, the more repetitive the worse it is. Expose me to loud music in a situation where I need to think and I'll get apoplectic with rage. Arrgh.
I hate the way the entire world seems to assume that you want music 24/7 and you cannot go anywhere or do anything without some racket being played at you.
Do peole really prefer listening to three bars of jazz over and over again when on hold to having silence?
Are supermarkets/lifts/waiting rooms really improved by some third rate session singer doing a bad cover of some 80s ballad being piped into the place?
( NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:52, 5 replies)

I wasn't aware of this
and I don't mean to be rude or nasty about it

but that is just plain weird

music is pretty much everything to me. I'm fairly particular in what I will listen to regularly, but give me the right stuff, and I would prefer to hear it all day, every day
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 14:57, closed)

agree with Vipros
walkmans, discmans and now MP3 players are my constant companions. You're a mentalist!
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:37, closed)

So no mix tapes for you then?
ok
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 11 Apr 2008, 4:03, closed)

I can't empathise with this at all,
because music is why I get up in the mornings, and my iRiver is my beloved minion and constant companion. (I can understand the annoyance of other people not understanding, though -- it's not easy being an asexual in a sexual world.)

However, I do entirely agree that most 'piped' music is shite. I don't like visiting shopping centres because the whole building is playing shite syrupy classical (I love proper classical, but not that shit), and each individual shop is playing indie pap. And when you go outside there're street performers playing hippy guitar shit. I don't think buskers should be allowed to amplify their music in any way. If I want to listen to music, I'll put my iRiver on.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 17:32, closed)

You. Are. A. Freak
I'm sorry this is very bigoted of me i guess but i cannot empathise in any way. At All.
And i love piped in cheesy music, it reminds me of Day of the Dead.
(electrogirl no one thinks about the implications of a clown su, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 19:27, closed)