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What do you prefer, muzak or silence?

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by jared2, May 19, 2006.

  1. jared2

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    Like it, or not? Personally, I could not work all day in an environment where muzak was pervasive. I like music too much to tolerate muzak.
     
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    I prefer to be able to choose my own music. Therefore, I would have to select an environment with no music and then provide my own. That's my current situation and I like it.

    I knew I was in Muzak Hell one evening, many years ago, standing in line at Taco Bell listening to "Light My Fire" performed in Muzak with a Latin Swing. I am haunted to this day.
     
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    9 hours a day, five days a week of about 15 songs i can't stand. yeah, that's my life with muzak. i would love to have silence instead, but the people i work with can't stand the silence. so here i am stuck with it until i have some free money for an mp3 player.

    only good thing is i can usually just zone out and work for a couple hours without noticing anything. and i mean anything, even the work. the couple hours can seem like only minutes sometimes.
     
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    Being a sufferer of tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) total silence for me is maddening. I need some type of pleasant background noise.
     
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    I'd much rather listen to some good classical music all day (which I do at work) than put up with either silence or muzak.
     
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    I knew I was in Muzak Hell one evening, many years ago, standing in line at Taco Bell listening to "Light My Fire" performed in Muzak with a Latin Swing. I am haunted to this day.

    I also experienced a similar moment of "Muzak Hell", but in a supermarket. Hearing "Stairway to Heaven" done with easy-listening instrumentals made me realize that I was now one or maybe two generations removed from the current musical scene. Ack!

    Should there be a law against using "rock and roll" in an advertisements? I can't take my beloved LedZepplin being used to sell a Cadill-ack!