Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive • Hacker News Board

Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

shervinafshar wrote: post #5

mikestew wrote: post #2

Captain 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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Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Post by vonseel » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

rektide wrote: post #14

mikestew wrote: post #2

Captain 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…

At some point I feel like society deserves a vote. Sorry, you have claimed copyright & intellectual property, but we are just going to go to duckduckgo.com and google for whatever we're looking for. Your insistence that this (google, noun) is your word has failed; we all know it, why deny it. Whatever the owners of "Muzak" wanted, whatever they thought of it: the dog is out of the yard. It's free. Your claim may be l…

Which, I suppose, is why they have rebranded to “Mood Media”, and no longer use the word Muzak. As you might have seen if you read the article.

Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Post by unangst » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:38 AM UTC

K-Mart’s only Black Friday Instagram post was a picture of an end-cap featuring Spider-Man, Frozen and BABY YODA masks. https://twitter.com/unangst/status/1332526873130229760?s=21

Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Post by anon73044 » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #2

Captain 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…

I believe most of the large retailers play from the Hitlist or Hot FM playlists. http://muzakwpn.muzak.com/

Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Post by WalterBright » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:50 AM UTC

SubiculumCode wrote: post #19

quickthrower2 wrote: post #6

Not just Muzak - Music! I like the Kmart August 1992 Generic, and listening to that now as I code!

Kmart Week Of 02.02.1992. I'm surprised at how much I like it, and how much I hated this back then. ha im old now.

One nice thing about getting older is not worrying about whether the music you like is cool or not.

Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Post by WalterBright » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:53 AM UTC

I've acquired a lot of 60's and 70's easy listening music from thrift stores. Bert Kampfert, Ray Conniff, Jackie Gleason, etc. I figure it's coming from estate sales.

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Post by Bootwizard » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:57 AM UTC

FINALLY! I've been wanting to remix these kind of songs into hiphop songs for a long time. This is such a weird victory for music producers. These are a gold mine for hip hop sampling.

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Post by Bootwizard » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 1:59 AM UTC

carabiner wrote: post #10

seph-reed wrote: post #3

Just 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.

Yeah that sounds like some good fun. I'd love to do that! What are you on about?

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Post by rchaud » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 2:22 AM UTC

Bootwizard wrote: post #27

FINALLY! I've been wanting to remix these kind of songs into hiphop songs for a long time. This is such a weird victory for music producers. These are a gold mine for hip hop sampling.

Vaporwave producers as well

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Post by tclancy » Wed, Dec 02, 2020, 2:25 AM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #2

Captain 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…

I worked at a restaurant that did have it and they appeared to be magnificent 16 track tapes (or whatever the alpha male of the 8-track family was). They looked like they could fit a full LP.