theplumber Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 So me and the wife popped in to the local Farmfoods for a few bit's and bobs. As these wee jaunts go 5 minutes becomes 15 minutes. The music in the back ground was Sweet Surrender by Wet Wet Wet. After I while I noticed that the song was still playing....then it came on again!! I spoke to the guy on the till and he said,yes it's been that way for over an hour and we can't turn it off. Seems it's a remote playout system somewhere and they could only turn it down! Could have been worse I suppose it could have been in B and M where the music is blasted out at disco levels regardless of what cack they have on a loop.....Bing Crosby anyone?? Anyway yes.....I did surrender and we left the shop (well we had to go home at some point! Anyone else been trapped with not so great music ( muzac) playing? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 In our shop I made the playlist - we're currently at 1600 songs (my Mrs took some off!). And now playing is Requiem off the Killing Joke in Dub album, next up is Brother Jack by Jack McDuff... Eclectic and no Wetwetwet... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franticsmurf Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 20 minutes ago, theplumber said: Anyone else been trapped with not so great music ( muzac) playing? Yeah - I was trapped on stage once with not so great music playing from the backing tracks 😀. It was a dep role for a mate, who had been going out as a 'guitar/guitar/vocal' trio. One of the guitars didn't turn up and at short notice, with no real prep, I said I'd cover for a couple of gigs. The female singer was good but doing modern dance pop mixed with show tunes, and my mate on the guitar was doing the same old stuff we used to do when were in a band together. The set lurched from 'Treasure' to 'Johnny B Good' to 'Penny Arcade' to 'Sweet Caroline' via 'Eye of the Tiger' and 'Abracadabra'. The audience (social club/bingo crowd) didn't know what to make of it. Nothing I could do except stand at the back and endure. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Many years ago, we used to pile out of the pub at closing time and head for the Light Of India. Twas a great curry which was often spoilt by their choice of background music, many times not so background. . . . Country and Western, the Jim Reeves type of C&W!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie C Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 (edited) I worked in a pub in the days of jukeboxes with 45s. If no-one had played anything for a while the machine would automatically play a particular single for free... same one every time. So not one particular track, but whichever free play was selected that week really put me off it, in there all day every day Edited October 8 by Rosie C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basexperience Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 43 minutes ago, theplumber said: So me and the wife popped in to the local Farmfoods for a few bit's and bobs. As these wee jaunts go 5 minutes becomes 15 minutes. The music in the back ground was Sweet Surrender by Wet Wet Wet. After I while I noticed that the song was still playing....then it came on again!! I spoke to the guy on the till and he said,yes it's been that way for over an hour and we can't turn it off. Seems it's a remote playout system somewhere and they could only turn it down! Could have been worse I suppose it could have been in B and M where the music is blasted out at disco levels regardless of what cack they have on a loop.....Bing Crosby anyone?? Anyway yes.....I did surrender and we left the shop (well we had to go home at some point! Anyone else been trapped with not so great music ( muzac) playing? We've got a Macro card, and the music they play in there is a mixture of terrible covers of contemporary pop stuff, but done by what sound like poor tribute acts. Drives me nuts - Dua Lipa sung by what sounds like a bag of angry cats, Tom Jones sounding like his balls haven't dropped, that kind of thing. Awful 😄 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I went to the GP yesterday, and they sent me to a new waiting area way out on its own. I was in there, on my own, just the radio on in the corner. After suffering Elton John, then that Bill Medley/Jennifer thingy song for about 2 minutes, I walked over, stretched up to the high shelf where the radio was……wiggled a few things……and silence! 👍 Instantly felt more relaxed. 😇 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munurmunuh Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I knew someone who, immediately prior to leaving their local, would pop 50p into the jukebox and select 1. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 2. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 3. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 4. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 5. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 6. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 7. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 2 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I’ve heard some pretty decent reggae at my local B&Q, I’m guessing a staff member probably got fed up with Take That and brought their own cds in 😁 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Our health centre has The Crusaders or something very similar as music on hold - I don't dislike it, but it gets boring after ten minutes or so. The majority of the 'customers' are soon to fall off the twig (thanks, Skank) & they absolutely detest it ...... 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I had a wedding gig well over 15 years ago in a more rural part of Wales, no phone signal and this was before wifi was commonplace. The DJ turned up (late) with just his laptop expecting to be able to remotely stream or download his set from his home server over our PA, then started panicking when he realised the hotel had no wifi and you could just about get enough signal to send/receive a text if you stood in a precise area of the car park about 1.5m square. He was asking around for CDs, surprisingly none of the wedding guests had any and our old LDV van still only had a tape deck so he ended up just playing the new (at the time) Madonna album on repeat as that's all he had in his car. Wasn't a cheap do either, they'd paid to put the band up for two nights in the hotel and it was a good money gig to begin with. I'm lazy and complacent but there's levels to this game and this guy was the pound for pound champion. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odysseus Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I remember being in Tesco earlier this year and Kruangbin were being played over the tannoy. I was pleasantly surprised, given the usual dross that is on. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonK Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 (edited) About twenty five years ago myself (on guitar) and a friend who played keyboards were asked to play backing music during the meal of a wedding that the bride and groom were doing as cheaply as possible, along with the first dance which was "Can't buy me Love" by the Beatles. I think we did it in exchange for a room and food (we were students). As it was a bit last minute we had only improvised to random chord sequences during the meal, and then had just that one song rehearsed. But following the first dance suddenly everyone wanted to dance and they had no DJ booked so they asked us to play it again... and then people seemed to think we would play other things but that wasn't what we had agreed, so we played it again... and again... must have gone on for half an hour over and over! Still can't play that song all these years later! Edited October 8 by SimonK 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelDean Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I worked full time at McDonald's for a while after finishing my degree. The music was on a 1.5/2 hour loop, but every few weeks a new song came in and an old one went out of the rotation. There are many songs that I now hate. There is no escape when you're on the overnight and there aren't loads of customers to distract you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I've seen Wet Wet Wet live. They were playing at the Virgin Records store on Oxford Street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 2 hours ago, Reggaebass said: pretty decent reggae at my local B&Q You'd hear some decent reggae at our shop too! Been enjoying this album today 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidder652003 Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 3 hours ago, Munurmunuh said: I knew someone who, immediately prior to leaving their local, would pop 50p into the jukebox and select 1. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 2. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 3. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 4. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 5. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 6. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 7. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion ha ha we used to do the same, except it was hello John Got a new motor? and just when they started playing videos on a screen as well, so mid 80s I guess. The landlord got furious after a few days of this... We got barred for a week in the end! Happy Days! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 28 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: You'd hear some decent reggae at our shop too! Been enjoying this album today You got some great playlists in your shop Leonard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steantval Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Love this, brilliant. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 3 hours ago, basexperience said: Dua Lipa sung by what sounds like a bag of angry cats That would be Dua Lipa. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbandit599 Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 3 hours ago, Munurmunuh said: I knew someone who, immediately prior to leaving their local, would pop 50p into the jukebox and select 1. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 2. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 3. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 4. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 5. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 6. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion 7. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-motion Myself and some friends once called in for a pint in a village pub near us. It was one of those that immediately sapped the energy from all who entered. Total silence, a few punters nursing their beer - none speaking to each other. We pooled some change and put Crazy, Crazy Nights by Kiss on the jukebox and left after the third repeat... it might still be going... Also used to like to put the last track on Nirvana's Nevermind album on when CD jukeboxes came out. The song finished then there's about 10 minutes of silence, suddenly interrupted by a particularly mad and loud song/blast (Endless/Nameless). We used to countdown and then watch the pub jump. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 43 minutes ago, skidder652003 said: The landlord got furious after a few days of this... Didn't the juke box have a behind the bar reject button, or was the Landlord brain dead ( they often are ) ? 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 (edited) I feel sorry for anyone working in a shop in December having to hear the same dozen festive songs on repeat all day every day. I detest all forms of xmas music so I wouldn't be able to do it. Edited October 8 by Jean-Luc Pickguard 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taunton-hobbit Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I used to do a run of Christmas functions for a local pub. The highlight came when some drunk half-wit loomed over my decks as I was playing THAT song by Slade for the 20-something time that year ' cor, wot a f g larf, every nights a party, ennit' . I swallowed some more Lemsip (I had something closely related to 'flu) and smiled benignly. 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Bassy Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 When at uni (Late 70s) I and some mates invested 50p in the union bar jukebox and put "LuckStars" on 10 times in a row, and left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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