I'm going to rant about music again. This time not in the disgusting self-pity of my lat entry, but in a militant "what-the-hell-are-they-playing" fashion.
As I've mentioned before, I occasionally like to go out an play some pool. I'm not very good at it, I've mentioned as well, but damn it, I like it!
We meet at a place not far from here, on the roof a large mall. It's a nice sized club with lots of people and large projected TV's all around so you can check out the current game on Eurosports, or maybe the latest in the fashion on FTV (depending on the mood of who=ever is in charge).
Now, as some may know, pool halls should have certain kind of music playing in them. Namely Rock. Rock and Roll. Punk Rock. Garage Punk...Anything with guitars and drums. It can be hard or heavy, melodic or bouncing, indie or progressive (no emo, please!), but it should fall into the category of "Rock Music".
Hip Hop, not to mention Rap, have no real space in a pool hall, but I can see how they would work.
Dance is right out!
That stupid banging and repetitive beats with dumb-ass words and three repeating bars of distinguishable music.
And that's kinda what they play at the place we go to.
If it weren't for the awful music they play it would be perfect.
I swear my play time is cut short because long before I get tired of playing, the music just pisses me off! It does, indeed, save me money, but I'm not sure that it's the manager's intentions.
Every once in a while they have a good evening with kick ass music, but it's usually only for an hour or so, and then they return to the regularly schedule crap. We've spoken to them once, and the guy at the desk (running the music computer) says the music is mandated by the owners over the entire chain, and they can't do anything about it.
Tonight, for example, I've heard five Eminem songs in the course of the hour and a half we were there. That is too much, even if I am in the mood! Which I wasn't.
I apologize to all the Eminem fans out there, but "Cleanin Out My Closet" is not a pool-playing background-music song!
Makes me wanna stick a cue through my brain!
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