Fun with the overhead music

[telecom_goddess]

Also one song has this girl singing and then making unnecessarily high pitched...squeals...is the best way i can describe them. For like 2 minutes straight.

Would that be Lovin' You by Minnie Riperton? I always hated that song and that is a great way to describe it.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Would that be Lovin' You by Minnie Riperton? I always hated that song and that is a great way to describe it.

Now there's a song to blow up a cow to. Cookies for the reference.

Some times, for whatever reason, it's like an alternate feed of music will play over our PA, different songs than the ones I normally hear. One of these alternate songs is "Truckin'" by the Grateful Dead. I find it monumentally hilarious whenever it plays.

[LillFilly]

To me, sadly, a lot of that music sounds great! Sometimes we get a mix, but geeze, there's a couple old, really annoying elevator songs that drive me batty!

[Summerfly413]

Would that be Lovin' You by Minnie Riperton? I always hated that song and that is a great way to describe it.

no...the song that i'm thinking of is more of a "dance mix" kind of song. i'll keep an ear out for it so i can get some words out of it

[DGoddessChardonnay]

There are so many songs that I hear at work that drive me crazy. Right now this one makes me want to punch the first person I see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2jKVJ93Dro

Join the club . . . I'd like to not only hunt down and beat the living crap out of him, but also the person who wrote it.

Pass the Pepto-Bismol, please. I fell sick . . .

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Thanks for the lemonade....

At first I thought that was a Counting Crows song. I detest it.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Thanks for the lemonade....

At first I thought that was a Counting Crows song. I detest it.

And here I thought you loved me, Irv . . .

*throws rotten tomatoes and radishes*

Next person who sings that song gets a trim . . . and I don't mean their hair.

[XCashier]

The last permanent job I had, the store owner set the radio on KYOT in Phoenix, and they played the same songs at the same time every single day. You could set your watch by it.

They called their music "smooth jazz"* but the closest thing to a real jazz song on the playlist was Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World", which played at 4:35 every afternoon (and, BTW, was the only song by a genuine jazz musician that played on that station). The brainiacs who set the playlist in concrete figured if a song has a saxophone somewhere on it, it qualified as jazz.

Seriously. Hall and Oates is pop, not jazz. Kenny G is New Age, not jazz. I don't know what the hell Michael Bolton's music is, but it's NOT JAZZ!!!

*"Smooth Jazz" being the then-current term for "Lite Rock", which replaced "Adult Contemporary", which is another term for "slow boring crap that people over 30 are supposed to listen to".

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I don't know what the hell Michael Bolton's music is, but it's NOT JAZZ!!!

It's garbage.

[TruthHurts]

My work has a radio station playing over the loudpeakers. For the most part it's pretty decent (lots of '80s music on the weekends.) However on the weekdays it's Top 40

For some reason Daniel Powter's Bad Day is played every hour on the hour. Not a song I care to listen to at work.

[Geek King]

*"Smooth Jazz" being the then-current term for "Lite Rock", which replaced "Adult Contemporary", which is another term for "slow boring crap that people over 30 are supposed to listen to".

Horse pucky! I'm well over thirty, and I've got DragonForce on rotation at this exact moment. Smooth Jazz is for people who can't handle flavoured wheat germ.

[XCashier]

Horse pucky! I'm well over thirty, and I've got DragonForce on rotation at this exact moment. Smooth Jazz is for people who can't handle flavoured wheat germ.

That's why I said "supposed to listen to", not "actually listen to". I'm more than a bit over thirty myself, listen to rock, jazz (real jazz!) and blues. Just because I've reached a certain age doesn't mean I'm going to chop off my long hair and listen to Celine Dion!

[bean]

I'm 31 and mostly listen to metal.

... I do regret chopping off my hair though, it was about 1/3 down my back. Now I rock with short hair.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I still can't listen to KT Tunstall (particularly the song Black Horse), and it's been a good 3 years at least since she was in-store play (and since I've even been in the store). Now I get to listen to whatever I want on my iPod

[Iris Kojiro]

Ack. In-store music has ruined at least a couple of Heart songs for me.

Same thing with Fleetwood Mac as well. It's like MTV all over again, though this time I don't have the choice to change the channel.