Crap background music in towns? (Des Moines, Cedar Rapids: insurance, houses, living in)

[il_blguy87]

Does anyone living in any town of Iowa has to deal with listening to old fashioned bell music on streets after u leave work at 5 pm?

Dubuque does that in downtown district. Its very annoying. Not much appealing for majority young under 50 age people who prefer to listen to rock, jazz, rap or metal instead to some lame town's folklore music that makes you feel old and think you are 300 years back in time. They think they play beautiful classical music? Not close.

I like to make own choices what I want to listen to after work. Or that I wanna have calm nice conversation over the phone.

Does that situation happen in Davenport, Cedar Rapids or even Des Moines?

[DMRyan]

Yes, it's long been tradition for nearly every town in Iowa to have wonderful bell music, delightfully gay songs from the Music Man musical, or even Lawrence Welk standards played on loud speakers mounted on the town squares, courthouses, grain elevators, and that one tall building in Des Moines.

While in Cedar Rapids last week, I couldn't even hear myself play Angry Birds on the IPad because Simon Estes' version of "Old Man River" was being blasted so dadgumm loudly!

In Peoria, they would never do such a thing.

[il_blguy87]

Originally Posted by DMRyan

Yes, it's long been tradition for nearly every town in Iowa to have wonderful bell music, delightfully gay songs from the Music Man musical, or even Lawrence Welk standards played on loud speakers mounted on the town squares, courthouses, grain elevators, and that one tall building in Des Moines.

Are you very old or what? Its not kind of word to pick up unless you meant to bash homosexuals. Today use of gay as adjective means something is not good.

Originally Posted by DMRyan

While in Cedar Rapids last week, I couldn't even hear myself play Angry Birds on the IPad because Simon Estes' version of "Old Man River" was being blasted so dadgumm loudly!

In Peoria, they would never do such a thing.

Peoria beats any town in Iowa hands down. The new civic center built there is great! There is a lot of concerts, performing arts, host talk shows, and many other forms of entertainment. What Iowa got? I-Wireless is in Moline, Illinois side. Des Moines civic center building is ugly and reminds one of those Stalin communist architecture buildings from Eastern Europe. I don't see how a large grey block can be attractive.

So Iowans to compensate for lack of culture and fashion in state agricultural wasteland, have city wide megafon music from 19th century as to remind what music was back then better than it is today??? Despite tech advances in 20th and 21st century that brought new sounds, rhythms, beats, keys, new flow, delivery, chants, etc. The world has moved on for a reason to bring new experience and form of entertainment. Let put that old music where its place, in cathedrals, churches, museums, etc. Play it in entertainment venues where targeted audience will come and listen to it with joy. But don't force it on whole population that lives in downtown. That is very socialistic and anti- individual freedom.

Despite Iowa City being a cultural center, it is too small to have statewide and nationwide impact. Cultural events there are not as big as in Des Moines or Quad Cities. It does not draw many bands and actors that travel from state to state across the country.

Btw the examples you gave, are from 20th century.

[il_blguy87]

those "historic" music traditions prove that Iowa is twilight zone.

[DMRyan]

You really need to take a night and go spend some of that hard earned IBM money letting off steam at one of East Dubuque's finer gentleman's establishments.

Maybe you'll be a little more cheery and loosened up when you come back over the river and back into God's country.

[il_blguy87]

Originally Posted by DMRyan

You really need to take a night and go spend some of that hard earned IBM money letting off steam at one of East Dubuque's finer gentleman's establishments.

Maybe you'll be a little more cheery and loosened up when you come back over the river and back into God's country.

They're closed.

Downtown at East Dubuque after sunset looks like a ghost town.

Dubuque sleeps during peaceful harmonic crap played from building of local bank institution. I bet one grand that the whole town would turn to uproar about Antichrist and unholy dark forces if a fine heavy metal band decided to play outside by Town Clock district or even inside Five Flags.

[il_blguy87]

Btw just because somebody works in DBQ downtown does not necessarily mean he or she is IBMer. There is insurance company Cottingham&Butler, Prudential Financial, McKesson Corp and others.

[QuadCityImages]

Was this possibly... a church bell tower?

[DMRyan]

Does this really warrant it's own thread? Aren't there other Dubuque threads with the same level of whining and complaining already going on that you could've latched this onto?

I'm glad I could make a mockery of this thread so quickly, because in the grand scheme of all the things to complain about in Dubuque, I would imagine this would be off the radar to nearly everybody but you.

Perhaps you need to get out of Dubuque and see more of Iowa when you get a day or two off from IBM.

[econboy]

Originally Posted by il_blguy87

Does anyone living in any town of Iowa has to deal with listening to old fashioned bell music on streets after u leave work at 5 pm?

Dubuque does that in downtown district. Its very annoying. Not much appealing for majority young under 50 age people who prefer to listen to rock, jazz, rap or metal instead to some lame town's folklore music that makes you feel old and think you are 300 years back in time. They think they play beautiful classical music? Not close.

I like to make own choices what I want to listen to after work. Or that I wanna have calm nice conversation over the phone.

Does that situation happen in Davenport, Cedar Rapids or even Des Moines?

What is your problem? Wow! I was going to reply with a sarcastic comment to this as well but decided your responses are just too pathetic to even give it that dignity.

Really? And then you launched into how Peoria Illinois is better than any city in Iowa because ........etc. etc.

How old are you? 15?