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ArishMell · 70-79, M
[i]I'd rather they play [b]no[/b] music at all![/i]
It is[b] not[/b] necessary, indeed more likely irritating than relaxing. No-one should have inflicted on them so much music whether it matches their tastes or drives them up the wall; and all probably selected by some remote compiler not forced to endure it.
It uses to be called "Muzak", the brand-name of the US company that started this nonsense. Later it became called "Lift Music" ( "Elevator ~" in the US), or now, due to its insane ubiquity, "Piped Music".
The Co-Operative, now merely a supermarket chain like Tesco, calls its offerings of run-of-the-mill pop interspersed with ads, "Co-op Radio", but that does not make it any better.
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Britain used to have a roadside cafeteria chain called "The Happy Eater" - probably out-competed by so much of the long-distance traffic now using the motorways instead of the A-class roads where such cafeterias were once common.
Once, one of my three travelling-companions using a Happy Eater asked the rest of us if we had realised what the low-volume, syrupy "angelic-choir" in the ceiling, was singing. We had not.
He replied, "They were all adverts for the cafe!".
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The UK's motorways' equivalents are far worse. The typical service-area is a sprawling, very wasteful collection of a main restaurant surrounded by mainly-American "junk-food" outlets, a needless shop and pointless "amusement" machines; all, like the accompanying filling-station, charging inflated prices. It too plays irritating, non-stop pop-music, all over the building... even in the toilets!
It is[b] not[/b] necessary, indeed more likely irritating than relaxing. No-one should have inflicted on them so much music whether it matches their tastes or drives them up the wall; and all probably selected by some remote compiler not forced to endure it.
It uses to be called "Muzak", the brand-name of the US company that started this nonsense. Later it became called "Lift Music" ( "Elevator ~" in the US), or now, due to its insane ubiquity, "Piped Music".
The Co-Operative, now merely a supermarket chain like Tesco, calls its offerings of run-of-the-mill pop interspersed with ads, "Co-op Radio", but that does not make it any better.
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Britain used to have a roadside cafeteria chain called "The Happy Eater" - probably out-competed by so much of the long-distance traffic now using the motorways instead of the A-class roads where such cafeterias were once common.
Once, one of my three travelling-companions using a Happy Eater asked the rest of us if we had realised what the low-volume, syrupy "angelic-choir" in the ceiling, was singing. We had not.
He replied, "They were all adverts for the cafe!".
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The UK's motorways' equivalents are far worse. The typical service-area is a sprawling, very wasteful collection of a main restaurant surrounded by mainly-American "junk-food" outlets, a needless shop and pointless "amusement" machines; all, like the accompanying filling-station, charging inflated prices. It too plays irritating, non-stop pop-music, all over the building... even in the toilets!
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@ArishMell You know whats worse than that?There was a grocery store I knew that did nothing but play ads for the store all day long.Plus,the store had this annoying little "theme song"that they'd constantly play as well.
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
@ArishMell I worked at a grocery store for a few years. U know the music wasn't irritating at all. When u are busy with the customers u really don't pay attention to the music at all.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@smileylovesgaming I suppose it just becomes part of the background noise when you are working in it - making it even more pointless.
I remember a fish-&-chip shop that had one of those early arcade computer games - [i]Pacman[/i] I think - that when not being used, played an endlessly-repeating, short, simple jingle. I commented on it to the shop assistant, and she replied that you stop noticing it after a while, like the traffic noise from the busy road outside.
I often do things at home with the radio on, but selectively, so if there is nothing to attract me on the several channels readily available at the time, I do without.
I remember a fish-&-chip shop that had one of those early arcade computer games - [i]Pacman[/i] I think - that when not being used, played an endlessly-repeating, short, simple jingle. I commented on it to the shop assistant, and she replied that you stop noticing it after a while, like the traffic noise from the busy road outside.
I often do things at home with the radio on, but selectively, so if there is nothing to attract me on the several channels readily available at the time, I do without.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
More to the point, why don't shops, motorway service-areas, cafeterias, pubs and the like switch all the wretched, pointless, piped-music off completely?
Gangstress · 41-45, F
Yeh i remember those days
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Was called elevator music back then. And for more reasons than that it was often played in elevators. More because it was considered "up lifting". Double pun there. 😊
Reason though is they want you in and out quickly now days. So it's fast paced now.
Reason though is they want you in and out quickly now days. So it's fast paced now.
PhoenixPhail · M
I don't know, but I'm so glad they don't. That shit drove me crazy.
It drove me to create an account on SW.
It drove me to create an account on SW.
smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F
There was longer music back then?
Lulujeans · 26-30, F
@smileylovesgaming lounge music☺️@smileylovesgaming
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@smileylovesgaming all ten minutes and thirty eight seconds of one of the many of them. Some as long as 30 minutes.
[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKVH4TZS_I]
[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKVH4TZS_I]
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@smileylovesgaming one hour and fifty three minutes on this one.
[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_zC4vuqSo]
[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_zC4vuqSo]
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
Ive heard that they've largely switched to gangster rap and death metal........
Jimmy2016 · 61-69, M
🤔.....The store I shop at plays 60's, 70's and 80's music....