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Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.
Pedant's point: Eno's music could be played in an elevator. Eno is not elevator music.
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#65I'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.
henry mancini, burt bacharach, piero piccioni, herb alpert (lol), ...
Why the lol for Alpert? (I have all of Alpert's records!)
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pedant's point: Eno's music could be played in an elevator. Eno is not elevator music.
What elevators are you guys getting on that have music?
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#67Captain 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.
Eric Satie invented the form, composing music to leave the theatre to. He's said to have got very angry when people refused to leave.
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#68Fun 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.
"All warfare is based on deception."
- Sun Tzu, 5th century BC
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#69In case anyone is looking, here is a Christmas tape to get you in the mood. It even includes the ads!
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henry mancini, burt bacharach, piero piccioni, herb alpert (lol), ...
Why the lol for Alpert? (I have all of Alpert's records!)
I love Herb Alpert, but the 'Whipped Cream and other delight' vinyl in thrift stores is a running jokes among specific vinyl collector.
I do love Herb Alpert self composed songs too like you smile, the song begins and fox hunt.
Read this article, and the comments for even more fun (the person who made the album cover even commented there!) https://dangerousminds.net/comments/every_crate_diggers_nigh...