Chicks 'n MusicFollow

I used to do that, when I was a kid. Listen to music just to listen to it. But I haven't done that in a long time. I guess I just feel like I have so many other things I want to do, or have to do, and I really want to listen to music, so I'll just do them both at the same time.

I listened to music often just to listen to it. Often I'd sit for hours listening to the same album, learning the lyrics, singing along. Nowadays the only time I get to listen to music of my choice is in the car (I taught my kids to like my music) or when I'm gaming. Usually then though, I've got other things going on so I can't concentrate as fully on the music as I used to.

I once read one of the producers of Dark Side of the Moon talking about why it spent fourteen years on the Billboard charts and people would wear down their vinyl, forcing them to buy new copies.

He said it was great music to fuck to.

I was a teen. "Yakkity Sax" was great music to fuck to.

I can confirm this (& and the drug usage), I did not attain my geek status until much much later in life. I some times sit in my car and listen to my music. My car has a really great system and I can lock everyone out! When I was younger, I'd lie on my parent's bed and listen to Ozzy among other things and rock out. There were 2 five foot speakers, one on each side of the bed, and I'd crank those suckers, lie there and scream to the music. Yes, I said scream, and I still like screamo!

I didn't "get into" music until I was about 14. I figure I didn't miss out on much since all that was flying around before then seemed to be boy bands and ******* spice girls.

But that all changed when you first heard The Weather Girls on an oldies station and just knew there was an answer to those funny feelings you had in the locker room before P.E.?

I love how you get me.

My wife is a good friend of India Waters. Rogers daughter.

True story.

Wow, that's all I did in Grade 11!

I haven't listened to an album start to finish for a long time but yeah, back in the day, I spent a lot more time chillin' out, doing drugs and listening to tunes. Nowadays, I live vicariously through those random shufflings on my iPod.

From the late sixties to the early eighties, my father was an executive with various major electronics companies (Sony, Harmon-Kardon), so we always had extraordinary sound systems in the house. As such, our's was the place to hang out to listen to music. As teens my brother and I were really not into stuff like Pink Floyd, we had the albums, we listened to them, but we were much more into things like Television, Talking Heads, The Ramones and The Clash. We had lots of chicks come to the house just to hang out and listen to the music.

On a side note, I've worked at Roger Waters' house in the Hamptons. Provided you don't try to talk to him about his music, he's a very nice fellow.

When I was a little girl, I'd wake up every Saturday morning with my little tape-deck boom-box and headphones and manually dial through the radio stations, recording songs on blank tapes that I really liked. Most of it was Casey Kasem top 40 songs, and we're talking early 90's here. My mom always ******* about how she'd wake up super early on Saturday mornings with me wandering around the house singing, "Lalalalala~" when I was a very wee girl.

In middle school and into high school nearly every night I'd fall asleep to a different CD, often trying to stay awake until the end, as a way to unwind during the day. I had some angst so there was definitely time spent laying in bed, crying to some sappy **** that pierced right to my emo-quick.

In early adulthood, I specifically remember spending a large portion of my free time while living in my grandma's basement after moving home from Minnesota laying in my bedroom, listening to my iPod, staring at the ceiling. Then my iPod and laptop got stolen and I lost all of my music (at that point, after many moves and selling my CDs for cash, all of my music was stored digitally.) Music was a huge pastime for most of my life, I started going to see live bands at age 15 and did several times a week for many, many years, but I had a very hard divorce when I lost my entire music collection that had been accumulating on my computers since about age 12 (I believe that was pre-Lars vs. Napster), and it was quite substantial.

So in short, no, Jophiel, I don't think music solely as a pastime is strictly a male thing. But I wouldn't doubt if I was one of the few exceptions to the rule.

I've always been a multitasker, so I would listen to music while I cooked, read, painted, or danced or exercised.

The only times I can remember listening to music and doing nothing else are times when I was sad.