As I was getting a haircut just now, I was subjected to a Muzak version of Sting’s “Fields of Gold.”
Did someone really stop and say “You know, ‘Fields of Gold’ would be a perfect song to play to people getting a haircut, except that it’s just a bit too noisy. Can we tone it down and make it less intrusive?”
“Fields of Gold” is already played coast to coast in elevators everywhere. Making a Muzak version of it is like putting Heidi Klum on a diet plan.
I’d like to make a Muzak version of a Muzak version of a Sting song. It would sound like a low, barely discernible hum. You could do a bunch of them and release them as an album: “Sting Proudly Presents: Inside the Mind of a Coma Patient.”
you’d better hurry. i think Muzak is going out of business.
I just instinctively don’t like Sting in any musical format.
Back in ‘79 in Quadrophenia he really seemed like a “sting” - edgy and pointed. Now the name seems more ironic than anything else. He should find a new name that conforms more to the new style. Maybe “Snooze” or “Lint,” something more evocative of an airplane pillow.
LMAO!!!
I was absent-mindedly humming along to the piped-in music in the grocery store recently and suddenly realized it was “Come on Feel the Noyze” by Quiet Riot. What brainstorming meeting at Muzak brought that about?
A coma is what happens to me the minute i hear Muzak.
One time I was in a chinese restaurant and they were playing a Muzak version of Orinoco Flow by Enya. Muzak Enya. I don’t even know how you’d go about doing that. Or why, unless it’s to torment your customers with more than bad service.