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Muzak
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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That one plays on my favorite station now, which is not AC.oldies76 said:
I have heard only that the store gets its music from Muzak, but at one time it was a custom program, not FM-1. That may have changed.
Last Saturday I heard "Everybody Plays the Fool" (not sure which version, but I don't think it was The Main Ingredient, which my station played a few minutes ago) followed immediately by "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne. Later I heard "You Make Lovin' Fun" by Fleetwood Mac. There were four or five other songs, two of which I heard lyrics from, but then I forgot them. Most of them seemed newer.
vchimpanzee said:
I immediately miss inclusion of all the titles you mention, in my own airlplay list and want them in there, NOW!
Even though they are all orthagonal to my normal tastes.
Hmmm, what IS orthag-onal?
Orthagonal is that which permits a useful alternative perspective from a different perspective, angle, etc .
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Darth_vader
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The trouble with this logic is that it's nearly impossible to guess the format name just based on a few songs like these. Almost all the songs you guys mentioned in the last few posts get wide play on several of Muzak's formats (and DMX's, and MC's, and Truesonic's, and.......)
Point is, they're not limited to *just* being used exclusively on Foreground Music One. In fact, the store playing any of these songs at any given time may not even be *on* Muzak to begin with. So.....aren't you glad Muzak came up with a playlist engine so you can see just what's playing on the Foreground 1 satellite feed at any given time?~
http://12.19.54.83/wpn/030.html
(All the others are on http://12.19.54.83/index.html [uses Javascript.] You shoppers with the network-enabled PDAs and cell f0n3z will love this. ;o)
@oldies76--
I seem to notice almost the opposite of what you observe on Foreground 1. They're actually adding more currents and keeping the level of oldies more or less the same. Better than having it become stale. (Yet they still seem to be beating Bic Runga's "Sway" cut to death!)
Point is, they're not limited to *just* being used exclusively on Foreground Music One. In fact, the store playing any of these songs at any given time may not even be *on* Muzak to begin with. So.....aren't you glad Muzak came up with a playlist engine so you can see just what's playing on the Foreground 1 satellite feed at any given time?~
http://12.19.54.83/wpn/030.html
(All the others are on http://12.19.54.83/index.html [uses Javascript.] You shoppers with the network-enabled PDAs and cell f0n3z will love this. ;o)
@oldies76--
I seem to notice almost the opposite of what you observe on Foreground 1. They're actually adding more currents and keeping the level of oldies more or less the same. Better than having it become stale. (Yet they still seem to be beating Bic Runga's "Sway" cut to death!)
Here's what I heard last weekend. Four of the songs I didn't know so I didn't list them. Three of those seemed more contemporary than the others and one had a folk style that wasn't the usual AC.
"Somebody's Baby" by Jackson Browne
"Solid", but not the Ashford and Simspon version
"Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
"He's So Shy" by the Pointer Sisters
And, while I was checking out, it was bad enough hearing the song but the girl bagging the groceries just had to sing along with "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow. :
"Somebody's Baby" by Jackson Browne
"Solid", but not the Ashford and Simspon version
"Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
"He's So Shy" by the Pointer Sisters
And, while I was checking out, it was bad enough hearing the song but the girl bagging the groceries just had to sing along with "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow. :
In my grocery store on Saturday:
"You Belong to Me' by Carly Simon, immediately followed by "I Don't Want to Wait" by Sarah McLachlan. I used to think that song would work on a station that was truly "Lite" but there are parts of it that really sound weird.
There was one song which I seem to recall was about breaking up and had "so" in what seemed to be the title, though "so" seemed unnecessary. I'll report back if I hear it again.
Another newer song (or at least not really old) had the lyrics "A little bit of this, a little bit of that".
"You Belong to Me' by Carly Simon, immediately followed by "I Don't Want to Wait" by Sarah McLachlan. I used to think that song would work on a station that was truly "Lite" but there are parts of it that really sound weird.
There was one song which I seem to recall was about breaking up and had "so" in what seemed to be the title, though "so" seemed unnecessary. I'll report back if I hear it again.
Another newer song (or at least not really old) had the lyrics "A little bit of this, a little bit of that".
"a little bit of this" would be Michelle Branch's hit with Carlos Santana "Game of Love"
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Darth_vader
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.....Another song "The 'M'" seem to have beaten to death on FM1.........
vchimpanzee said:
"I Don't Want to Wait" is by Paula Cole.
I can recognize a place using FM1 very quickly after entering based on the same obscure songs that are only played by them
Santana would do something that cutesy?borderblaster said:
I KNEW I should have looked that up. I've been seeing a lot of those animal cruelty ads lately.new_friends_gr said:
And it was on again last Saturday. I have a list of other songs I heard somewhere.
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flashback
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a few years back i heard hearts "barracuda" in a grocery store.that seemed out of place.
actually when the rock songs that mean something to me from years back are in muzak and comercials it is so wrong to me.to me that cheapens the music.
actually when the rock songs that mean something to me from years back are in muzak and comercials it is so wrong to me.to me that cheapens the music.
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Darth_vader
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"When the rock songs from years back that meant something to me are on Muzak and commercials, it is so wrong; to me, it cheapens the music."
How so? How does hearing it via Muzak lower its value any more than if you heard it via commercial radio? Is it the name "Muzak" that somehow does it? What if you heard it via DMX?
Please enlighten us (but remember to use correct spelling, capitalisation, punctuation and spacing when doing so.)
How so? How does hearing it via Muzak lower its value any more than if you heard it via commercial radio? Is it the name "Muzak" that somehow does it? What if you heard it via DMX?
Please enlighten us (but remember to use correct spelling, capitalisation, punctuation and spacing when doing so.)
Okay, I never did look up the ones I wasn't familiar with but here goes.
"I Don't Want to Wait" by PAULA COlE
"Up on the Roof" by James Taylor
Something with the lyrics "Never gonna let you down"
"Back in the High Life" by Steve Winwood
And some depressed female vocalist who is constanly singing the word "Tired".
Last Saturday, "Higher and Higher" by Rita Coolidge, "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal and something I didn't know which had the guitar style of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". And some others I didn't know.
"I Don't Want to Wait" by PAULA COlE
"Up on the Roof" by James Taylor
Something with the lyrics "Never gonna let you down"
"Back in the High Life" by Steve Winwood
And some depressed female vocalist who is constanly singing the word "Tired".
Last Saturday, "Higher and Higher" by Rita Coolidge, "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal and something I didn't know which had the guitar style of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". And some others I didn't know.
Probably "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astleyvchimpanzee said:
I know that song and like it, and no, that wasn't it.firepoint525 said:
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Darth_vader
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Did you try the "What's Playing Now" page I linked to a while back?
"And some depressed female vocalist who is constanly singing the word 'Tired'."
Could be that "Adele" gal. That's why I don't listen to her, if I can avoid doing so.
"And some depressed female vocalist who is constanly singing the word 'Tired'."
Could be that "Adele" gal. That's why I don't listen to her, if I can avoid doing so.
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