musical complaints

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I have to say that there is very little more annoying than a muzak version of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head."

[Jelly_Belly]

I was in Wal-mart the other day and we were walking past a display with CDs and they had a version of sk8ter boy (Avril Lavigne) except it was some wacked out, badly sung version by a group of girls. I couldn't imagine anyone would buy it. It was horrible. What's up with that?

[Fellfrosch]

It was probably Kid Pop, or whatever unholy kid-version crap they advertise on the Disney Channel all the time. Personally, I can't imagine anyone buying Avril Lavigne at all, no matter who's singing it.

[House of Mustard]

It's too bad that Fell beat me to it, but I'll second the motion:  any version of Sk8ter Boi, including the original, is whacked out and badly sung.  That's not a song you can ruin, because it's already as bad as it can get.

[Jelly_Belly]

Trust me, there's bad and then there's worse and this was definitely worse.

[Tage]

I own both Avril albums.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

which says so much about you.

On top of that, I had another muzak experience: Muzak version of "The Wind Cried Mary."

*shudder*

[JP Dogberry]

and Double yoo Tee Aitch (for "Heck") is "Muzak"?

[Entsuropi]

The music that pipes away in malls, elevators, the brains of middle managers.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

yeah, where they do toned down keyboard and fake string, sometimes flute, versions of songs to make them easily digestible for the plebian audience in grocery stores. Often used for hold music.

[Spriggan]

You have never suffered until you've gone 8 months straight with the only song you hear being the Titanic Theme song by Celine Dion.  When I lived in Japan every store would play versions of it, muzak, origianl, many differenet dance mixes, for over 8 months! 8 months!  I couldn't go into a supermarket without hearing that song, you may think I'm exagerateing but I;m not, Titanic was in Japanese movie theaters for almost a year.

[House of Mustard]

There's nothing foreigners like better than to watch rich Americans die.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I like Foreigner. Pretty cool. And I say that Tage and Avril can hang out with me anytime.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I think liking Foreigner belongs in the "shameful music listening" thread.

[Fellfrosch]

So far we've talked about Muzak, Avril Lavigne, Foreigner, and "My Heart Will Go On." This is the shameful music listening thread.