Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive
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#2Captain Pedantic checking in to remind our viewers that at a quick glance this does not appear to be Muzak (EDIT: no, that is definitely not Muzak), but rather ambient music played in K-Mart stores. Muzak is a specific brand of ambient music, which appears to suffer the same fate as Kleenex and Xerox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak
That page is worth a read, if only for the means of distribution used over the years. But do I ever digress...
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#3Just a story: My friends and I built a beer-loan agency for a burning-man event. We had people fill out forms to get a beer loan, told them their credit was too low, sent them on a quest, then gave them a beer on return.
This music is what we used for our fully fabricated waiting-room office. At one point a guy with a legal degree from Yale came to question our paper-work, and proceeded to litigate from the bar down the road we'd sold our failing business to.
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#4I remember when this remix first dropped on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/2mello/kmart-october-1989
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#5Captain Pedantic checking in to remind our viewers that at a quick glance this does not appear to be Muzak (EDIT: no, that is definitely not Muzak), but rather ambient music played in K-Mart stores. Muzak is a specific brand of ambient music, which appears to suffer the same fate as Kleenex and Xerox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak That page is worth a read, if only for the means of distribution used over the ye…
Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm). Because Eno ain't no elevator music.
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#6Not just Muzak - Music! I like the Kmart August 1992 Generic, and listening to that now as I code!
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#7Not just Muzak - Music! I like the Kmart August 1992 Generic, and listening to that now as I code!
Corrected.
Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive
#8Captain Pedantic checking in to remind our viewers that at a quick glance this does not appear to be Muzak (EDIT: no, that is definitely not Muzak), but rather ambient music played in K-Mart stores. Muzak is a specific brand of ambient music, which appears to suffer the same fate as Kleenex and Xerox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzak That page is worth a read, if only for the means of distribution used over the ye…
Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm). Because Eno ain't no elevator music.
It's funny. My favorite band, Devo, released Muzak mixes of their songs several times in the 80s. However, you would never hear such a thing piped in a store in 2020. Plain vanilla "Whip It" though? Absolutely.
Said another way, Eno (and Devo and many others) are essentially the Muzak of the modern day.
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#10Just a story: My friends and I built a beer-loan agency for a burning-man event. We had people fill out forms to get a beer loan, told them their credit was too low, sent them on a quest, then gave them a beer on return. This music is what we used for our fully fabricated waiting-room office. At one point a guy with a legal degree from Yale came to question our paper-work, and proceeded to litigate from the bar down…
Jesus. White collar types have ruined BM. That sounds insufferable.