Music you are exposed to involuntarily.

[luka]

the builder i worked for over here used to only listen to heart or magic, despite being in his late 20s. those stations have a lot of music to choose from, they give themselves a time frame of about 30 years to choose from and yet still play the same 5 songs on a loop. there are slight readjustments to the 5 songs every month or so. that was fairly harrowing. the djsare all failed childrens television presenters, fallen from fame, toby anstis, pat sharpe etc.

when i worked in pret a manger i used to have to listen to eurohouse remixes of boney m, there was a spanish boy who loved tracey chapman too. on the plus side the algerian mob used to play that rai stuff, thats alright as it goes.

now i impose my horrible music on my workmates (90.oo fm) all night long. revengi!

 

[mms]

the builder i worked for over here used to only listen to heart or magic, despite being in his late 20s. those stations have a lot of music to choose from, they give themselves a time frame of about 30 years to choose from and yet still play the same 5 songs on a loop. there are slight readjustments to the 5 songs every month or so. that was fairly harrowing. the djsare all failed childrens television presenters, fallen from fame, toby anstis, pat sharpe etc.

when i worked in pret a manger i used to have to listen to eurohouse remixes of boney m, there was a spanish boy who loved tracey chapman too. on the plus side the algerian mob used to play that rai stuff, thats alright as it goes.

now i impose my horrible music on my workmates (90.oo fm) all night long. revengi!

my girlfriends mum always plays heart, i think pamela anderson has a prearranged show on it now or that might be virgin, they always play that freaky song "dance with my father" by luther vandross.

i worked in kfc for 3 years as a student, they have these weird demographic mood cds that rotate for 3 hours in special players , you buy them from catalogues where you can chose your required outlet, and specify your audience, they always glitch.

 

[Kuma]

working professionally in radio means that for as much I'm able to toss in some faves here and there..there's also alot of shit I wouldn't be caught dead listening to otherwise..

Not a bad thing though, I will admit it has broadened my horizions..

 

[MolexRoots]

She gave me one of those teenage signals of disgust that's halfway between a sigh and a sneeze

^ This kept me laughing for about 40 seconds straight, nicely.

I've yet to turn on the radio but I bet the moment I step into HMV, I'll be wanting to leave after bring pounded with loud Idon'tcare music. Does anyone actually buy pop?! >.>

 

[LRJP!]

last time i was in HMV they were playing Bring The Noise...

 

[Pearsall]

Reggaeton from Latin guys driving by playing it so loud it makes the couch shake (I live on the third floor).

 

[gff]

semi-involuntary: i do most of my work in a coffeeshop in my old neighborhood in mpls near the art school. they have about 6 records and that's IT, it's like a timewarp into 1997: dj shadow, palace, blonde redhead, one of those johnny cash/rick rubin deals, etc. at this point i don't think i could be productive with anything else, there are no surprises and it's very calming.

 

[nick.K]

I can't speak for anyone else but I'm mostly involuntarily exposed to music in my head. Once I get a song stuck, that's it, it's on the playlist with the sound of emails arriving, the boiler droning, the neighbours, Extractor Fans, car alarms, stolen scooters, the fridge, the hoodies playing basketball outside my window.

 

[nomos]

I can't speak for anyone else but I'm mostly involuntarily exposed to music in my head.

Don't get me started. Do you get the one where you realise that you've had the same loop stuck in your head all day - possibly since before waking? And then you notice another one. And maybe snippets of conversation? Then you explain it to people they look at you like yr.., nevermind.

 

[fldsfslmn]

Twice weekly I am the "music section guy" in a big-box book store (like a Barnes & Noble or a Borders). All the music played in the store is corporately playlisted by a deaf marmoset in Toronto, so I suffer the indignity of being the proxy/effigy for the ire of anyone with remotely decent taste who comes into the store. (The marmoset, it seems, has developed an ambiguous and open-ended friendship with Josh bloody Groban. How do marmosets express love, anyway?)

 

[jenks]

Music you are exposed to involuntarily

courtesy of my kids - the tweenies christmas album. truly the devil's work

 

[Woebot]

the fucking bees LP over and over and over and over and over and over again

 

[egg]

fuggin kaiser chiefs. what's the point?

 

[version]

I'm assuming lockdown's cut this right down, but I guess people still get stuck on hold or live with people who play irritating music.

 

[version]

when i worked in pret a manger i used to have to listen to eurohouse remixes of boney m,

 

[luka]

Forgot about that. Grim.

 

[woops]

i must of missed this thread the fisrt tirme round but i used to know this girl who'd worked in a noisy factory where you had to wear head phones to protect your ears for the whole shift that played their choice of cheese pop radio station pure torture.

also i had a media monitoring job years ago where i had to log what songs were played on cheese pop radio fast forwarding through hours of recordings to ID the shit songs. once i got assigned to do some dance station but they'd set up the antenna wrong and i went through hours of badly tuned radio static listening through it to try and figure out what shit dance record was being played. not many experimental noise fans cans ay that

 

[Leo]

Forgot about that. Grim.

the music or the job?

 

[luka]

Both

 

[muser]

I'm assuming lockdown's cut this right down, but I guess people still get stuck on hold or live with people who play irritating music.

My housemates play very bad music a lot either its this really abrasive kind of euro digi-reggae or spanish rock. The reggae is much worse because its a sickly anemic version of something i might like . Luckily i figured out how to tap my phone into the TV and surreptitiously throw in classic dancehall and such to try and slowly shift their tastes.