The only recorded music I can comfortably listen to, as a captive audience, is classical and semi-classical. I do not want seasonal instrumentals, I do not want lyrics, I do not want singers, whether hot or not.

This is true in offices and on the telephone. I swear two-thirds of the music that one cannot escape on 'hold', their staff has never been subjected to.

I could also do with less of "Your call is very important to us..."

In airports a weather channel is about as much as I can handle.