Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy

Subject: MUZAK HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
From: kendall
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 07:13 PM

Hoo Ray! there is a God!

Subject: RE: MUZAK HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
From: kendall
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 07:14 PM

I thought I put this in the BS section. It sure as hell aint music.

Subject: RE: MUZAK HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 07:56 PM

It belongs in both sections.

Subject: RE: MUZAK HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
From: pdq
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 08:05 PM

I would rather listen to 20-year-old Muzak tapes while I shop in the local supermarket than have to listen to the squealing Urban Sink Noise we have now. Hate the huge tumping bass most of all.

Subject: RE: MUZAK HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 08:13 PM

and what will I listen to now, when I haveta go to the dentist?

Subject: RE: MUZAK HAS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 08:22 PM

Music in shops is a kind of pollution. Even good music.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 10:43 PM

Right, McG. It ranks right up there with the announcements that say things like

TIRES! CUSTOMER HELP IS NEEDED IN TIRES!

Some stores are using radios, though. They can still cut out the music, though -- including in restaurants.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 04:22 AM

I didn't think Musak was that bad compared with the stuff that is playing in some shops today. Perhaps that's because I seem to be older than the cumulative age of the entire staff.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Peter T.
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 06:45 AM

Real bankruptcy hits musical bankruptcy!!

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Jack Campin
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:14 AM

Possibly the modern stuff people here object to so much *is* Muzak. They moved with the times and provided a huge range of tailored options for different kinds of customer.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: kendall
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 07:31 AM

When it gets to me I just seek out the manager and demand that they turn it down. One of them told me that most people enjoy the "music" which was the wrong thing to say to me! I told him that it has the opposite effect on me, and that it makes me want to break things and hurt someone." He said, "Well, we don't want that" and he turned it almost off.
I don't go to a store to be entertained, and I highly resent being forced to listen to someone else's poor taste in music. That crap they play now sounds like a hog caught in a barbed wire fence. Caterwalling is the word.It makes my nerves bleed.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 08:49 AM

I think I first realized what Muzak was when I heard The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" done as a strings instrumental obviously designed to promote buying more stuff.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 09:09 AM

I had a doctor that allowed his employees to play a CD of their choice over the PA system. So the first time I walked in his office there was Van Morrisons Astral Weeks playing. Greg - the doctor - maintained a veto power however. He said he was trying to keep his office a Yanni free zone.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: kendall
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 09:52 AM

My ex dentist had a good selection of my kind of music. I often chose Schooner Fare.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 09:59 AM

My first experience with Muzak was a job in the early 70s. We started the day with "Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work We Go. Lunch was followed by the Can Can from Orpheus In The Underworld. The music was "designed" to motivate us...all day loooooonnnnggggggg.
I almost lost my mind.
DEATH TO MUZAK!

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:21 AM

methinks twill go largely un-noticed.

Plus ça Change.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Wesley S
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:26 AM

I think people will start humming in elevators now.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: pdq
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 11:40 AM

Somebody once said...

"Donald Trump is so rich, he has the real Kenny G playing in his elevator"

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: robomatic
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 12:16 PM

When I read the thread title my initial reaction was word for word the same as Kendall's.
My first job in Alaska was in an office with piped in music. I noticed that they played the theme song for "St. Elsewhere" on Thursdays when the show aired (good show but why try to do a Pavlov on me?) Anyhow, I stayed up late with a screwdriver and killed the speaker over my work station one night.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 12:22 PM

I had some dental work done in Cincinnati and the oral surgeon asked me what I wanted to listen to while he was whittling. He didn't have Schooner Fare, but he did have Sibelius.

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: olddude
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 12:40 PM

who is muzak?

signed
clueless in buffalo

Subject: RE: Muzak has filed for Bankruptcy
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 13 Feb 09 - 09:22 AM

Oh, is there a real Kenny G., Pdq?