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02-17-2009, 11:24 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | Muzak files for bankruptcy
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02-18-2009, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | Isn't that the true passage into adulthood? Hearing a Muzak version of a song you loved...
What will life be like without Muzak renditions of Creed, Linkin Park, or JayZ???
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02-18-2009, 11:16 AM
| | | | Amen all around. To hell with them. They were the first company to introduce the 'music to the slaves' in the factories, to boost production, and they made damn near a science of the 'constant assault', in addition to producing horrific versions of good songs, musical Velveeta.
Let them die a quick death; unfortunately, they have plenty of competition these days....
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02-18-2009, 11:55 AM
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02-18-2009, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by peabody  Does that mean that Kenny G will be out of a job? | That would be an added bonus! |
02-18-2009, 10:28 PM
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02-18-2009, 10:41 PM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Wow, it *must* be true, the Onion did an "American Voices" article on it  http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo...for_bankruptcy
The local paper said they owed $500 million and had assets of $50 thousand  |
02-18-2009, 10:43 PM
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02-18-2009, 10:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | What is Muzak? |
02-18-2009, 11:10 PM
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02-19-2009, 02:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Cosmic Closet ... they made damn near a science of the 'constant assault' ... | I've saved this bizarre graph, which purports to analyze the impact of certain variables in muzak pertaining to "mood". Can't make any real sense of it, but at least it looks vaguely scientific.
Good riddance. 
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02-19-2009, 04:17 PM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by cdef I've saved this bizarre graph, which purports to analyze the impact of certain variables in muzak pertaining to "mood". Can't make any real sense of it, but at least it looks vaguely scientific.
Good riddance. | I'm sure that is the whole point... it looks vaguely scientific without really meaning anything. |
02-19-2009, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: MD | | | Fun fact, the French composer Erik Satie invented Muzak in the 1890's with his "furniture music". He premiered it with a chamber group at an art show, and when people stopped to listen to the people playing, he shooed them away, trying as hard as he could to get them to not pay attention to the music. Needless to say, he was ahead of his time.
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02-20-2009, 07:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Peoples' Republic Berkeley, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by peabody Does that mean that Kenny G will be out of a job? | I would think that he's the reason their business tanked: they weren't up to the competition.... |
02-20-2009, 08:42 PM
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Applications Engineer, QSC Audio | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Costa Mesa, Calif. | | In the late 70s I worked a couple years at a Caldor store in Connecticut. The piped-in Muzak was excruciatingly bland. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing a severely white-bread version of Long Train Running one night.
Part of the Muzak formula back then was that they did their own arrangements and recordings, and the arrangements were heavy on strings (violins, et al) and used no cymbals--the better to create a "soothing" retail environment that would be conducive to shopping and buying (and for some people, gagging). |
02-20-2009, 09:55 PM
| | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Lee (QSC) In the late 70s I worked a couple years at a Caldor store in Connecticut. The piped-in Muzak was excruciatingly bland. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing a severely white-bread version of Long Train Running one night.
Part of the Muzak formula back then was that they did their own arrangements and recordings, and the arrangements were heavy on strings (violins, et al) and used no cymbals--the better to create a "soothing" retail environment that would be conducive to shopping and buying (and for some people, gagging). | The worst I heard was Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" 
Even somehow attempting to ignore how horribly bad it sounded, who would consider "Welcome to the Jungle" to be soothing? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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