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Post by WalterBright »

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?

Jackie Gleason arranged and produced a number of easy listening albums. Yes, the How Sweet It Is guy! This one is my favorite:

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Lovers-Jackie-Gleason-2012-07-3...

but really, all of his work is good. You're in for a treat if you've never heard his music before.

P.S. The CD sounds wrong, I suspect some monkey business went on in the remastering studio. Get the vinyl version. Besides, these tunes just sound better with the needle drop, rumble and crackle of the old vinyl.

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Post by seph-reed »

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.

You really shouldn't judge what you don't understand. I don't want to go into details, suffice to say: whatever you're imagining, it's completely mistaken.

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Post by rektide »

vonseel wrote: post #22
rektide wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This post is currently underwater & doesn't deserve to be. I don't fully entirely agree with the shortness. But: upvoting. :)

Having read a little further now, I would say though, whatever the company brands itself as today does not strongly imply that they are permitting "muzak" to be a free term. Smart move to decouple yourself some, especially from a term that is synonymous with bland indistinct elevator music or on hold music, and it's probably hopefully all good these days, but there's still plenty of room for this company to perhaps be trying to push trademarks or harass other folk who use the word "muzak".

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Post by seph-reed »

Bootwizard wrote: post #28
carabiner wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It was a blast. Between my partner and I, we've got about 30 burns below our belts and have led two different 3-story burnable structures centered on community, play, and curiosity. Doing a comedy piece was new territory, but a lot of work went into making the most guady, out-of-place, consumerist looking strip-mall pawn shop we could. So much detail, and all of it just a bit off. It took people off guard, which for the older burners was a very welcome change, and for the newer ones it just seemed to confuse them.

My favorite memory was two satanist girls who were on a lot of acid and who knows what else absolutely losing their shit. I think, in the end, we were all laughing at how depressing poorly regulated capitalism can be sometimes. I still laugh whenever I see pay-day loan stores.

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