Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 24, 2013

Must be missing something here: which Journey song is she referring to?

Now, don’t get me wrong. I was 17 in 1968. I played my records ALL the time….LOUD…But today a lot of my friends have music playing all the time everywhere, in the house, in the car, in the back yard…….Even when they go up north…Why not listen to the birdies? Sting said something that rings true to me…He said he doesn’t listed to music or a song for entertainment exactly, he listens to it to study it as a work of art…To learn why he enjoys them so much…That’s the way I listen to my favorite songs…I pay attention to them, they don’t just fly by…I love them, I will not consign them to being wall paper….So sayeth The Varnes Of Ackley!

My first backpacking trip in the high Rockies (1973) was a revelation to me, as pristine, lovely, and peaceful as our remote wilderness-area campsite was. Within a few years, we quit going, as people were bringing guitars, tape players, and other noisemakers that effectively changed the place from wilderness to a suburb. Peaceful no more!

“Don’t Stop Believing”, the infamous tune that closed out “The Sopranos” series.

I use my music for two purposes:

1. It’s a good pacing tool, along with a timing mechanism for intervals.

2. I don’t have to listen to my asthmatic wheezing.

When I’m at the gym, I’m usually listening to an audiobook while I work out…except, for some reason, when I’m on the elliptical. For that, I need music.

WHAT’S THAT! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!TALK LOUDER!

I don’t listen to classic rock stations, but do like classic rock music in general. There are certain groups that I will change the station if they come up. Led Zepplin and Aerosmith are the main two, but Guns and Roses do that to me too. I will listen to any Journey though.

@emjaycee – ALL of them.

I don’t like listening to anything while I’m hiking, so that I can enjoy nature. But while I’m jogging (or attempting to), I like listening to music for exactly the reasons that *texasl * stated…

Perhaps it’s the line “born and raised in South Detroit” that gets under their skin. There isn’t such a place!

I can’t say I hate EVERY Journey song, mostly because I haven’t HEARD every Journey song. But “Don’t Stop Believing” is the one that seems best to fit the “either you love it or you hate it” mold.

Music is inspirational. In the service you learn cadence. Fast tempo music makes me run faster. And running over 50 minutes while listening to cars and my feat slapping the pavement is very boring.

N: I always thought south Detroit was called Windsor, ON.

I guess you should communicate with a different sense. I recommend investing in a Nerf Maverick..And lots of extra darts.

Silence may be golden, but the quiet sounds of nature are beyond measure.

I always get the urge to play air guitar when “Sweet Child of Mine” comes on :-)

Those places aren’t ‘South Detroit’, though they are south of Detroit.

When people say they’re from South Boston, does that mean there’s a municipal entity called “South Boston” (as the city of South San Francisco is not a part of the city of San Francisco), or do they simply mean they’re from the South SIDE of Boston? In that sense, there MUST be a South Detroit.

Don’t stop believin

A touch overly self righteous, aren’t we, Frazz? I bicycle without music but don’t sneer at those who do!

For me it’s “Wheel in the Sky”. Na-na-na-NA-na-na.

They must have just run past Bub from Betty. ;)

Possibly “Running Alone” from 1984,

I love to listen to books and music, it’s the only alone time I have to listen, without interuptions to what I like. Why does it sound like its a bad thing? I can still hear people coming up behind me, cars blowing by me, airplanes overhead and the occasional bird chirping.

I listen to loud music when I exercise so that I don’t have to hear my hard breathing, so that I don’t know how hard I’m working, so that I can keep exercising.

Oh… I’m guessing THAT Journey song… you know, THAT one…