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

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Post by cafard »

WalterBright wrote: post #26

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.

Jackie Gleason? A side of him I never heard of. Or this is a different Jackie Gleason?

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

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Post by marcrosoft »

shervinafshar wrote: post #15
jjulius wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Because Eno ain't no elevator music. In keeping with the pedantic nitpicking, I think Eno might actually disagree and say that his music could be elevator music. In the liner notes[0] for 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports', he writes that "Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." But, speaking for myse…

Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.

HN comment threads are becoming like Reddit.

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Post by chris_wot »

shervinafshar wrote: post #15
jjulius wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Because Eno ain't no elevator music. In keeping with the pedantic nitpicking, I think Eno might actually disagree and say that his music could be elevator music. In the liner notes[0] for 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports', he writes that "Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." But, speaking for myse…

Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.

Pedant's point: Eno's music could be played in an elevator. Eno is not elevator music.

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

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Post by justatdotin »

WalterBright wrote: post #25
SubiculumCode wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 jerrysievert »

cafard wrote: post #31
WalterBright wrote: post #26

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.

Jackie Gleason? A side of him I never heard of. Or this is a different Jackie Gleason?

well, there's the alternate history version where he dreamt of space travel and helped launch mankind's quest to go to the moon. at least according to Futurama. so why not easy listening as well?

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

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

Fun that some of the messages in-between the songs are for things like security being called to go to a particular zone of the store. I remember hearing those as a kid and wondering who got busted, never thinking that the announcement might be as fake as the security cameras.
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