Torture method #80: 80's music for 12 hours a day
I know how compassionate and caring you all are, so I figured that you'd like to feel my pain.
Appropriately enough, 'King of Pain' by the Police, which isn't too bad, is playing at the moment.
...got interrupted while posting this, and now 'Drives me Crazy' FYC is on.
I begin to wonder if I'm being watched.....
...did you see 'Stranger than Fiction?' or 'the Truman show'?
must be all this belly fat, cuz i'm feeling demented at this point.
I'll keep you posted
Is the music piped in from a corporate control center? Do you have a volume knob, or some way to place a physical sound barrier between you and the speaker, or are you subject to the overhead sound system that plays throughout the whole place? Have you considered earplugs?
I graduated HS in '83, college in '87. I am a true 80's child. But I gotta say, they can take most of the music and the fashion from that time and put it in a capsule and open it up again in, say, the year 2587.
There are some good songs. I still like Hall & Oates, and Sheena Easton ;)
i could turn my itunes on and drown it out. i could close my door. i could sneak up and change the channel. I could do all of theses things. or i could suffer with it and amuse you with my whitty commentary. what can i say. i'm a giver.
Uptown Girl......Billy Joel is a Tool
You're the kind of guy who puts chip-clips on your nutsack, aren't you?
Reeowr! Don't get snippy with me now, Nancy.
Do people spend more money when the 80's music is piped in? Is it the Musak of our generation?
Do people spend more money when the 80's music is piped in? Is it the Musak of our generation?
lumberjim spins them right round, baby right round, like a record baby, right round round round.
Because their friends don't buy cars, and if they don't buy cars, then they're no friends of mine.
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Actually, I was wondering the same thing Glatt.
Like how they pipe in upbeat techno type music into high end fashion clothes stores...
That reminds me. When I was wandering around LA a few years ago I went into a pretty scary CVS and on their Musak they were playing "Stars" by Simply Red. I hadn't heard that in years, and always loved that song. Now I notice it's piped in a number of places, and I hear it all the time. So, perhaps you're right glatt.
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My first tape was Madonna's Like A Virgin!!
I have every song memorized word for word....
She is still one of my very favorite artists.
I think my first tape was Ratt - Out of the Cellar.
I knew right from the beginning
That you would end up winnin'
I knew right from the start
You'd put an arrow through my heart
Round and round
With love we'll find a way just give it time
Round and round
What comes around goes around
I'll tell you why
My first record was the 45 single
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco
eek, my first 45 was
Bobby Sherman "Easy Come Easy Go." My mom would buy me "cool" music. I also remember
Gary Lewis and the Playboys "You Don't Have To Paint Me a Picture."
Girls Girls Girls. Motley Crue
I'm rockin.
oo......there WERE a couple bright spots in the 80's we just forget them....
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what (type of music) would you rather be bombarded with?
XM CAFE BUSINESS CHANNEL
which is what i changed it to right after a song that just repeated " I might like you better if we slept together" came on.
i had a picture of the chick from fight club in my head.
LMAO
I always hated that one.
Me, I like some 80s pop, mostly Euro, "alternative" stuff. Prolly called "emo" nowadays.
OMFG.
my boss just walked into my office, "Mr Helm."
yes?
"Please leave my radio alone. I can't have guitar riffs in my showroom."
OK..EAD> but 80's? its killing me.
He's going on report.
"I can't have guitar riffs in my showroom."
why teh fcuk not?
"Please leave my radio alone. I can't have guitar riffs in my showroom."
That's just common sense. I edit my playlists (for work) to remove all evidence of screechy guitar gibberish.
pah...it was a 12 bar blues version of walking after midnight.
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He's going on report.
I LOL'd and just got a look from MY boss as he walked by.
*snicker*
I graduated HS in '83, college in '87. I am a true 80's child. But I gotta say, they can take most of the music and the fashion from that time and put it in a capsule and open it up again in, say, the year 2587.
There are some good songs. I still like Hall & Oates, and Sheena Easton ;)
I couldn't disagree more. I graduated high school in 1987 and my formative years were all spent listening to 80's music. I remember and love that music and consider myself to be pretty much an expert on 80's one hit wonders. I bounce around the radio dial when driving and I either listen to talk radio or news (80) of the time or 80's music the rest of the time.
heh...I put my boss on Report today. :) I guess I should go to the corresponding thread and let it be known...
btw...case has been refusing to do rebel yell at karaoke for me. Someone should say something before she goes on report again...
My first record was the 45 single Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco
Mine was the 45 single for the Steve Miller Band doing "Abracadabra"
Appropriately enough, 'King of Pain' by the Police, which isn't too bad, is playing at the moment.
The Police rock. White man's reggae to the max. I loathe most 80's sound waves, but I do like them...
Madonna just ain't enough for me. The weak, reedy voice just doesn't command respect or attention.
For the opposite story, try me on Andrea Bocelli.
The wife and I are back onto rehearsing for Beethoven's Ninth. Drat; can't find our CD so will probably have to get another.
My first album *ahem* was Simon and Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
My sister is 8 years older than I and I was blessed to be able to listen to all of her 45's: Green Tambourine; Sugar, Sugar; Tracey; and all things Monkees! COOL.
lumberjim spins them right round, baby right round, like a record baby, right round round round.
Pete Burns (from Dead or Alive) was on Celebrity Big Brother the other year. Man is either a genius or just a mean bully, can't make my mind up. He's a one off though.
NSFW Pete Burns picHe's got a lot of baggage there.
Motorin.........what's your price for flight?
i think?
anyway....sister Christian would know.
He's got a lot of baggage there.
:lol2:
Wait a sec... is that a turd???
Looks to me like his plastic surgery was on the advice of somebody who doesn't like Pete Burns.
Not a turd, but a cleanshaven scrote, Jinxie. Evidently it was nice and warm onstage too.
I thought it was a turd too, Jinx (on the floor UG, not hanging down)
But I can't believe I could have missed the media fallout of "Pete Burns Shits Live on Stage" furore if it really was.
Whereas a picture of his meat n two veg is pretty much par for the course.
His hair looks better than mine. That's endlessly disturbing to me.
:(
This thread feels like a psychotic episode.
My first record was the Nu Shooz - "I can't wait" 45. They still sold 45s, then...I think it was 1986? My first tape was Madonna - "True Blue." I loved the Jets..."You got me over him, honey it's true...there's just you..." I was 9, though.
I swear I was being followed around by disco music everywhere I went last week. Now that's torture!
I don't believe it!~ Here she comes again!
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE!!
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i gotta admit .....my toe is a tappin.
I can't remember the first 45 I bought. My first album - Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord. Vinyl, of course.
I don't think anyone can hate the Gap Band?
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE!!
[Fox Mulder, with his delivery at its Steven Wrightiest] Diet.
Gee. I was just at my local Chevrolet dealer and they WERE playing 80's music as I signed my paychecks away for the next six years!
Maybe it's a trend?
Crack that Whip!!!
Whip it Good!
duh nuh nuh nuh nuh
Gee. I was just at my local Chevrolet dealer and they WERE playing 80's music as I signed my paychecks away for the next six years!
Maybe it's a trend?
Yep. My generation has become retro. :(
Didn't there used to be a longer turnaround time for these things?
Yep. My generation has become retro. :(
Didn't there used to be a longer turnaround time for these things?
I suspect the absolute value of the turnaround time is approximately the same, but as we get older that period represents an increasingly smaller proportion of our life experience, and therefore feels shorter.
I remember when I was a kid, Christmas took *forever* to come around (yes, Virginia, they had Christmas back when I was a kid. :eyebrow: ). As I grew older, the torture of the endless waiting was replaced by the aggravation of not having caught my breath from the last holiday before I have to break out my wallet again. Come to think about it, this example isn't perfect. I am certain the buying season *does* start earlier every damn year. But you get my drift.
SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE!!
Updated version...I suspect the absolute value of the turnaround time is approximately the same, but as we get older that period represents an increasingly smaller proportion of our life experience, and therefore feels shorter.
I remember when I was a kid, Christmas took *forever* to come around (yes, Virginia, they had Christmas back when I was a kid. :eyebrow: ). As I grew older, the torture of the endless waiting was replaced by the aggravation of not having caught my breath from the last holiday before I have to break out my wallet again. Come to think about it, this example isn't perfect. I am certain the buying season *does* start earlier every damn year. But you get my drift.
It's true. Happy Days came out in the 70's, and got a generation interested in the 50's. But, can it possibly have been that long since the 80's? My perception is that it was just yesterday. :3eye:
I was born in 1988 :)
Argh!Yeah. I graduated in 88.
20
fucking
years
ago
1980 here so quit your moaning
I was born in 1988 :)
I graduated high school in 1988.
:feeling old:
"I have shirts older than you."
I graduated high school in 1988.
:feeling old:
And @ lumberjim: I graduated in 1975. Shirt collar points had just begun to shrink. [I always liked that look but now it does look horribly dated. Well, give it another twenty years to acquire the romantic glow of distant times.]
It's all 80s all morning here at Fred Beans Nissan while I wait for service. "Whip It", "Personal Jesus", "Only the Lonely", "Freedom", good god.
But in 1994 I worked for a supermarket chain... in their central offices, which didn't rescue one from 24-hour musak music. THAT was torture. I remember thinking that the Cranberries' "Linger" and K.D. Lang "Constant Craving" were the ONLY two songs of ANY worth in their endless pap rotation.
Muzac in a CVS in LA reminded me how much I loved this song, which I think is a sweet jazzy poppy dance tune. However, Mr Red really didn't need to dance like that!
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It's all 80s all morning here at Fred Beans Nissan while I wait for service. "Whip It", "Personal Jesus", "Only the Lonely", "Freedom", good god.
But in 1994 I worked for a supermarket chain... in their central offices, which didn't rescue one from 24-hour musak music. THAT was torture. I remember thinking that the Cranberries' "Linger" and K.D. Lang "Constant Craving" were the ONLY two songs of ANY worth in their endless pap rotation.
A kid at the club who born about '93 was going on about how good '80s music was. He just doesn't get how much carp was weeded out in the 20 years intervening.
I had a night stock job in college where they felt the need to play musuck and advertisements for the store after hours.
It's all 80s all morning here at Fred Beans Nissan while I wait for service. "Whip It", "Personal Jesus", "Only the Lonely", "Freedom", good god.
But in 1994 I worked for a supermarket chain... in their central offices, which didn't rescue one from 24-hour musak music. THAT was torture. I remember thinking that the Cranberries' "Linger" and K.D. Lang "Constant Craving" were the ONLY two songs of ANY worth in their endless pap rotation.
what the? what's wrong already?
One of the very first things I did with my new vehicle was to shear off the driver's side mirror pulling out of the garage. Shear it right off, car's one week old. Oh yeah!
When you're used to a truck, a little car drives differently!
And you know, it turns out they won't give you a state inspection sticker without a driver's side mirror.
And you know, I have 24-hour epoxy to fix this situation, but I don't have 24 hours.
Yeahhh.... I remember when I had my shit together. It was a wonderful thing.
Awesome!! :) Do you feel as Romantic as I do?
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lol! oh...oh jeez...
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UM, there are some good 80's songs.
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granted
also, I have to give tony his props for being right about what he said about liking what we hear a lot and get used to. I'm not nearly as offended by this shit at this point.....it's been like 2 years now of 80's music all damn day.....
Ooooh! Whitesnake is on!
blech.
It's appropriate to play an 80s mix if your average customer is 30-45 and more affluent. The problem is that it will feel inappropriate for customers over 55 and younger than 30. Grampa doesn't want to hear Missing Persons, even though the band was made up of some of the finest musicians of any era.
True about Grandpa, but don't you know that it is now "cool"...or something...(do they still say "cool?")...for under 30s to listen to music from the 80's as long as you only think its coolness is directly proportionate to its dorkiness. In this case, I think 80's music "dorkiness" is inversely proportionate to age, so the younger, the "cooler" 80's music is...
I think 80's music "dorkiness" is inversely proportionate to age, so the younger, the "cooler" 80's music is...
...and bell bottom jeans are coming back
any day now!
I mean, heck, Clapton even made them the title of a song...;)
Rich, they are past bell bottom jeans again, and now back to "skinny" jeans (which incidentally make me look anything but skinny...that might be how they know I am over 30.)
Why can't the GoGos have babies?
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is she doing the rick roll dance?
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