what kind of music does your job play?

[AirHostess]

On the plane they play boarding music-the airline's take on jazz or classical music but it's awful and just repeats in a loop!

[Luckymom]

My last job - Gospel music until I had the radio removed form the back office (worked in a pediatric clinic) I went on a tirade of how they were forcing their religion on me.

Wal-Mart radio and I think at Arby's it was some Arby's sattelite feed or something.

[Becks]

XM 23 (The Heart). Bleh. At Christmas time, it's Holly (whatever station number THAT is). I really wish I could take in my CD player. All MetallicA, all the time.

[Barista_Babe]

It depends...anything from the Kenny G muzak of soft-rock hits crap to Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday (which makes me uber happy), classical stuff, Sting, and John Mayer.

[DarthRetard]

Whatever we want to listen to on the SIRIUS Satellite Radio.....w00t for commercial free non stop music.

[staticradio]

"I'll Be" beating myself about the head with a garden rake...

it would be nice if I piped in XM and played either folk, jazz, alt-country, ambient, AAA, soul, et al. instead of the hit AC usually played.

[digilight]

Front office (I have 3 offices laid out so the first one that customers come into connects to the main back office where all the production takes place, and the back side office where I do the bookkeeping.) I have a CD player/radio and usually just toss in semi appropriate CD's, Right now I have Jamarique (sp?) traveling without walking, before that it was the Cure - All mixed up. and pretty much run it along those lines.

In the back I play either the local country station, Jack FM, or CDs. And CDs tend to be metal, ranging from rage against the machine, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, Slayer, Etc, and others. It all depends on my mood.

[MadMike]

At the supermarket, nothing.

At the home improvements store, it was that Muzak crap. Actually, I learned to tune it out after awhile, so it wasn't all that bad.

At my current job, I listen to whatever I want (metal, metal, and more metal) with my headphones at my desk.

[XCashier]

At my last job, my boss tuned the radio to the local "smooth jazz" station. Not real jazz, which would have been great, but "smooth jazz", aka "lite rock", aka "adult contemporary", aka "slow boring crap that people over 30 are supposed to listen to". I've ranted about it before on these boards.

[Reyneth]

XM Radio "WaterColors"
AKA soft jazz type muzak. Including remade versions of songs like "Baby Baby" and "Happy Day" etc. UGH. Luckily I'm able to block it out most of the time.

When I was at the Discovery Channel Store, we had to listen to Lou Bega (Mambo Number 5) waaaaay too often.

[DrugstoreJulie]

There´s no music at our store at all No POS radio, no annoying annoucements, no pages.

At the larger chain supermarket, we had POS radio, but usually that was turned down except for some info on current promos.
Most of the time, the head of electronics department picked something out of the current charts. Not too bad: he didn´t like Christmas carols at all, so he would not play them ALL day, ALL through December, only once in a while

At the diskothek/bar: whatever the DJ in charge was rocking that night. I really really miss the black metal and goth nights

[NightAngel]

Music from movies of course. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad.

If I hear that flipping Beck song with those damnable dancing 70's reject puppets again I may go homicidal on the DVD player! AAARRRGGGG!!!!

[tollbaby]

At my last job, my boss tuned the radio to the local "smooth jazz" station. Not real jazz, which would have been great, but "smooth jazz", aka "lite rock", aka "adult contemporary", aka "slow boring crap that people over 30 are supposed to listen to". I've ranted about it before on these boards.

ouch. I've always described it as music that people over 50 listen to, because my parents love it, but I can't stand it. I'm 31. :P

[lizstar]

I work in books & music store, our music is whatever corporate chooses from recently released CD's. There are always a few in rotation. Right now we have a special CD for African American History month, which is basically a lot of old R&B/jazz stuff. Not my kind of music AT ALL. I am so glad the month is almost over.

Though I have to say, it's not much worse than the KT Tunstall CD we were listening to last month, or the Corinne Bailey Rae CD we have now.

At Christmas time we had Sarah McLachlan's "Wintersong" which was really nice.

[Rubystars]

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The Wal-Mart I work at now mostly plays ok music, sometimes it's not on at all, when it is on it's usually benign enough that I can either listen if I like the song or tune it out. They play a mix of all kinds of music, from oldies to newer songs to instrumentalized MUZAK. There is one song that I really can't stand though, it's some awful country song where this guy keeps singing about how his brain can't trust his tongue, and one of the more idiotic verses is "If I died right now I'd live to regret it." This is always preceded or followed by a short commercial of how this song is 'exclusive' to Wal-Mart. Other than that I don't really mind the Wal-Mart music.

At the job I had at Famous Footwear, there used to be 15 or so songs that would play over and over, ok, maybe there were more, but it seemed like that many. Some of them were ok, some of them were kind of annoying, but there was one song that gave me a headache. It was some song called "Lovely Day" and the guy's voice singing would say "A lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" and the day part would sound like a long, drawn out "AAAAAAHHHHH", and would be sung several times. That part would give me headaches if I didn't plug my ears. I joked that I'd have a lovely day if that song wouldn't come on.

At my first job, at Kroger, the manager liked country music, and he would play it a lot, but it would make the customers pissy and of course I hated most country music anyway so I surely didn't want to listen to it. The worst song of all played around Christmas, it was some awful song about Santa Claus coming on a "Boogey Woogie choo choo train." It made me feel like puking when it came on!