Crap background music in towns? (Des Moines, Dubuque: city hall, school, casino)

[il_blguy87]

That's not a hang out place - people work there. Duhhhh!

[duster1979]

Originally Posted by il_blguy87

no not a joke. Come to dubuque to town clock section at 12pm or 5pm and u will hear it for 10 minutes. It's so loud u can hear it in the whole downtown!

10 whole minutes????!!!???? You have got to be kidding me!!!!!!! How dare they flood the air with their obnoxious patter for 10 entire minutes twice a day!!!!!!!!!! Call the ACLU!!!!!!! And the Dos Equis man!!!!!!!

[todd00]

Have you asked your fellow workers about the "crap background music"? As in where its coming from and why its being played? Perhaps they can point you to the direct offender and you can complain in person regarding this blatant violation to your senses. You could organize a petition to stop the crap music twice daily in the downtown area. Contact the City Manager and the Police Chief and detail just how violated you feel for those two 10 minute periods a day. Certainly they would be interested in the riveting story of just how much you have suffered.

Or you could just buy a pair of quality headphones and listen to whatever you choose during that time. If all else fails and you are still hearing the crap background music for some unknown reason, purchase a one way bus ticket to Illinois's jewel, Peeoria. Then you can smile and think no more crap background music ever again. Hallelujah brother!

[Chicago60614]

Is this like churchbells music? I've head that all over Chicago as well at many churches. The one across from me BLARES silly songs on bells at 8am, noon and 6pm every day for 6-8 minutes each time. I don't really mind it I guess. My bedroom is in the back so I don't wake up.

[Stavemaster]

Has Waterloo stopped blaring ABBA's "Waterloo" every hour on the hour, all over town? Man, I hated that.

[ElleTea]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

I'm pretty sure this is all just a joke

I lived in Iowa for 22 years and traveled everywhere and never once heard any random music playing in towns.

I've lived in Iowa longer and have also travelled all over Iowa, including Dubuque, and have never heard such a thing.

But so what if I did?

[NYisontop]

Don't complain, just move on. Put on earphones, or appreciate that your town is a bit different. It's ten minutes of your day where the local community hall or civic board or radio station on auto-play elects to carry on a tradition of playing contemporary music of yesteryear. Once upon a time entire towns received multiple factory whistles to warn them of changing shifts, or bell tolls on the hour and chimes at six, noon and six. Decades ago many smaller towns elected to play this music on their Main Street or shopping district a few minutes of each day. Many smaller towns in Eastern Europe do this too, playing traditional music and songs on public speakers a few minute each day.

It's a piece in a larger fabric of what makes a place like Dubuque or Davenport or other small towns so appealing to those not from there, or so nostalgic for those who are or who've left only to return. I'm from New York, we don't play nostalgic music in any downtowns in surrounding communities on Long Island, CT or New Jersey - we're noisy enough I guess. But when I travel through the Midwest and come into some small downtown with a few people leaving work and that music playing, it completely makes you stop and reflect. I was just in a small town near Bemidji, Minnesota in January, completely void of any people, with such music playing. Just made me smile and completely fascinated me. Something so little and irrelevant. A bit Twilight Zone-ish, we could all disappear but the contemporary music would still kick in like clockwork decades after we've left.

Maybe you despise it, but get out and about more. Leave town for a few years and come back, you'll have a new take on it. Not everyone under 50 listens to rap, rock or metal. And even if they did, could it hurt to broaden their horizon by one more genre for that brisk walk through Main Street?

[Craziaskowboi]

I think the parks in Des Moines should play Slipknot after 5PM.

[il_blguy87]

Originally Posted by NYisontop

Maybe you despise it, but get out and about more. Leave town for a few years and come back, you'll have a new take on it. Not everyone under 50 listens to rap, rock or metal. And even if they did, could it hurt to broaden their horizon by one more genre for that brisk walk through Main Street?

Nostalgic?

Do u nostalgically think about a girlfriend with who you broke 10 years ago? Move on.... :lol:

DBQ is a dump. It is economically depressed town that becomes ghost town after 5pm, it went downhill since 80's when factories closed and people moved out. Only since early they started to revitalize it, by focusing on tourism, building casinos (with tight slots), etc. There are still many closed factory buildings in downtown by the river that are an eyesore.

NYC without music? Blind on African Americans who play jazz on streets and subways? Even that is a lot lot better than creepy churchbell melodies that should stay in museums or tourist places; but shouldn't be nowhere near work. Sometimes u want to talk on cell phone or with your coworker after work, and you can't because u have that crazy town imposing on their music preferences made up solely by decision of a government board of some town, probably not even having anything to do with citizens. That is communist, socialist diaspora. Just let the people make their own decisions and listen to their preferred music in earbuds.

Btw music that comes from those times are from those times when there was slavery, racist, white people power. I guess many people are so "nostalgic" to music from those old times because it reminds "old white social order"

I am not even black or hispanic, I am white.

[il_blguy87]

Originally Posted by ElleTea

I've lived in Iowa longer and have also travelled all over Iowa, including Dubuque, and have never heard such a thing.

But so what if I did?

U got a bank owning headquarters in a high building, putting some high ugly neon tower with eagle and speakers on top, to play crap music and get from you attention "hey look we have the highest building in town".

Thats not some historic cathedral with churchbell u can ACTUALLY tolerate and appreciate!