The music they play in Easons, Argos, Clerys, Tesco, Dunnes stores and probably more?

mrblondecutsear

I work in a clothing retailer and due to budget cutbacks in the last few months they have replaced the music that is normally played in store with a fine selection of some of the worst songs I have ever heard in my entire life. They are all incredibly dull and genuinely slowly starting to destroy my soul after listening to them for hours on end day in day out. I've recently discovered that several other retailers and supermarkets seem to be playing the exact same tracklist in their stores. I even had a discussion about some of the odd song choices with a guy working in argos (one song starts with these opening lyrics "Father John do you remember when I was on my knee's with my eyes closed tight".
Does anyone know where the retailers are getting these songs or know a tracklist of them? I need to know who the songwriters that are sucking the life out of me are. I've managed to track down one song. It's called when I was the man...........it's awful http://www.myspace.com/ericbazilian/music/songs/when-i-was-the-man-56517704

eth0

Subliminal messages to entice you into buying their poor quality Chinese shoite

kfallon

More Iron Maiden required

Praetorian Saighdiuir

"morgue music" is all the rage nowadays.

Due to recent cutbacks............many people cant shop in clothing retailers

Jesus Shaves

I worked in a hardware store before and they replaced all the pop music they played with cover versions so that they didn't have to pay any royalties, the originals were bad enough

El Guapo!

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

I worked in a hardware store before and they replaced all the pop music they played with cover versions so that they didn't have to pay any royalties, the originals were bad enough

I've noticed that they do that in Tesco too.
Does my head in because they're all really bad cover versions.

Thomas828

When I worked in Woolworths in London I had to listen to the music that was piped over the store's PA system. It was all the current top 40 hits, the very dregs of popular music. It made me lose all hope for Britain's youth - it was mostly them who were buying into all this trash.

Assassin saphir

mrblondecutsear wrote: »

I work in a clothing retailer and due to budget cutbacks in the last few months they have replaced the music that is normally played in store with a fine selection of some of the worst songs I have ever heard in my entire life. They are all incredibly dull and genuinely slowly starting to destroy my soul after listening to them for hours on end day in day out. I've recently discovered that several other retailers and supermarkets seem to be playing the exact same tracklist in their stores. I even had a discussion about some of the odd song choices with a guy working in argos (one song starts with these opening lyrics "Father John do you remember when I was on my knee's with my eyes closed tight".
Does anyone know where the retailers are getting these songs or know a tracklist of them? I need to know who the songwriters that are sucking the life out of me are. I've managed to track down one song. It's called when I was the man...........it's awful http://www.myspace.com/ericbazilian/music/songs/when-i-was-the-man-56517704

I have to listen to this too for 10hrs a day. Covers of really bad songs.
If they played some decent music i might feel motivated to work a bit harder. :-)

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I worked in Centra in 2006 and I still hear some of the same music in there when I go in these days. It must destroy the staff's lives.

Claasman

I wouldn't mind paying a little more to hear system of a down in a spar shop

mackg

Worked in Dunnes for 5 years and the music to my mind serves no other function than to torture staff. When I read the OP I realised that I am no longer able to remember any of the songs and that made me smile as I was certain they would be burned into my mind until the day I died.

cade

I worked in a bar years ago that had the same three cd's by The Corrs on constant rotation. Finally someone went and scrathed all of them, management then in their infinite wisdom failed to get the hint and bought replacements for the three.

smash

Why don't they just turn on the radio like most shops?

SEPT 23 1989

smash wrote: »

Why don't they just turn on the radio like most shops?

IMRO and their fees

rebel89

Do you know 'Angel in my pocket'....used to drive me up the walls

Duggy747

Used to hate being brought to Dunnes as a kid solely because of the soul-sucking music.

Usually consisted of terrible music you'd find in an elevator or Phil Collins

Now, some Raining Blood or Angel Of Death would cheer things up.

Mrs Shuttleworth

I thought it was just me. Who is that bloody awful band always playing in Super Valu, the one with the Sharon Corr knockoff as lead singer? Like nails down a blackboard. Who is this woman and how can I stop her ruining my day?

IsThisIt???

Haha LOVE this thread. I worked in Dunnes Stores for a year and a half so know all these songs off by heart

That "when I was a man" song is probably the worst of them, he just lists womens names for 4 minutes :mad: Thankfully I don't work there anymore so I can laugh about it now, or rather laugh at the people still stuck working with it.

I remember one glorious day when I went into work and they were inexplicably playing music that I'd actually heard of and actually liked! I spent the day in a great mood, dancing around the store to the likes of Paolo Nutini and Mumford and Sons. Went in the next day and we were back to normal. Heartbraking and evil!

Gyalist

I happen to know the guy who owns the company that provides the piped music that is played in most of the Irish multiples. Whatever you think about the quality of the music, I think that it was a great business idea - all brought about by the aggressive way that IMRO worked.

smash wrote: »

Why don't they just turn on the radio like most shops?

Clearly, you haven't had the pleasure of a visit from IMRO. Playing music becomes a significant cost to a business as the royalties are based on the size/capacity of the premises. For large multiples like Dunnes, etc, the cost is significant.

Basq

Dean09 wrote: »

Does my head in because they're all really bad cover versions.

Heard a horrendous version of Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' in my local Tesco..

.. just when you think Chris Martin's voice couldn't get any worse.

biko

Kev_2012

The worst part about working in retail was the Xmas music! Grand for about a day and then its on for about 2 months

I used work in an electrical retailer and used have my own ipod on, happy days! (although Slayer wasnt allowed )

ejmaztec

All shops should have a resident air guitarist.

Biggins

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

I worked in a hardware store before and they replaced all the pop music they played with cover versions so that they didn't have to pay any royalties, the originals were bad enough

Cover versions of a songs are not excluded from the payment of royalties/duties to IMRO.

Ectoplasm

This was the one true benefit of working in a music store; not having to listen to muzak! Worse though was the cinema - for a full year the same 15 or so songs were played in the corridors/empty screens. All songs from movies and it got to the point where I actually started to hate the movies associated with them.

dannyboymed

While there's a lot of shops that play terrible music, the only shop I can think of that plays good music is Marks and Spencer in Liffey Valley. I've heard some Simply Red, some Hall & Oates and some Earth, Wind & Fire in there before. No idea how big the playlist is though.

kfallon

dannyboymed wrote: »

While there's a lot of shops that play terrible music, the only shop I can think of that plays good music is Marks and Spencer in Liffey Valley. I've heard some Simply Red, some Hall & Oates and some Earth, Wind & Fire in there before. No idea how big the playlist is though.

Ilyana

Where I work, the piped music is rather middle-of-the-road stuff, like Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Paul Simon, that kind of thing. It's all downloaded from CDs onto a database (I did much of it myself). I quite like it, it's pleasant.

Then one evening, I heard this...

pookiesboo

mrblondecutsear wrote: »

I work in a clothing retailer and due to budget cutbacks in the last few months they have replaced the music that is normally played in store with a fine selection of some of the worst songs I have ever heard in my entire life. They are all incredibly dull and genuinely slowly starting to destroy my soul after listening to them for hours on end day in day out. I've recently discovered that several other retailers and supermarkets seem to be playing the exact same tracklist in their stores. I even had a discussion about some of the odd song choices with a guy working in argos (one song starts with these opening lyrics "Father John do you remember when I was on my knee's with my eyes closed tight".
Does anyone know where the retailers are getting these songs or know a tracklist of them? I need to know who the songwriters that are sucking the life out of me are. I've managed to track down one song. It's called when I was the man...........it's awful http://www.myspace.com/ericbazilian/music/songs/when-i-was-the-man-56517704

Cant stop laughing at this bit!

starbelgrade

Dean09 wrote: »

I've noticed that they do that in Tesco too.
Does my head in because they're all really bad cover versions.

Ah here - there's nothing better than the sound of someone singing a Keane or Maroon 5 song slightly out of key over a band that sounds like it was put together in a Casio factory.

darragh o meara

I worked in superquinn for a few years in my youth and they had the Lighthouse family cd on repeat 24/7. Would drive us demented especially as nobody could change it..

Goro

I left a job in Tesco's 10 years ago after working there for 2 months, The reason? The music.

Supervalu is the worst offender here if you ask me.

The music they play sounds like dodgy Australian pugwall type unsigned shyte.

mrblondecutsear

rebel89 wrote: »

Do you know 'Angel in my pocket'....used to drive me up the walls

Yes that song is one of the main offenders! Awful awful song.
I can't stress enough that I'm not talking about cover songs or anything like that. I'm talking about a specific list of about 50 songs that are being played in the majority of shops at the moment. They sound like cheap knock offs of real music. I think I overheard one of the managers saying that it's provided by a company called mood media. I emailed them looking for the tracklist of songs but they never got back to me

Lord of the Bongs

Christmas songs all year round is the way to go *cuts own throat*

Gyalist

mrblondecutsear wrote: »

They sound like cheap knock offs of real music. I think I overheard one of the managers saying that it's provided by a company called mood media. I emailed them looking for the tracklist of songs but they never got back to me

Yes. Mood Media acquired Heatley Tector Ltd who previously had a near-monopoly on the in-store music and advertising business in Ireland.

saralou2011

i will crush you like a tiny fly! is another bad one!

PseudoFamous

They don't play music in my tesco, so I don't get to complain in this thread

Wattle

I used to go to an internet cafe in Aungier St that blasted FM104 day and night. What a selection of sh1te. I couldn't stand it anymore so I stopped going there.

saralou2011

PseudoFamous wrote: »

They don't play music in my tesco, so I don't get to complain in this thread

What store do you work in? i let head office know! only fair you have to suffer like the rest of us;)

Corruptedmorals

Ooo oo oo In London town, where the sun is shining down../He's got a plan that when he turns 21 he's going to drive to London, He's gonna learn the names of everyone there..oo oo (This is off an old playlist..)

I've got an angel in my pocket, angel in my pocket..

I'll crush you like a tiny flllyyyyyy...fly aWAY..

Father John, are you still with me? The way that we were, so long ago..Father Jo-oh-ohn..

There's one with some cringey girl rapping at the start who definitely says the n word, shocking! I worked while this awful music played for well over 2 years..the current playlist you can hear in Dunnes, Tesco and easons and the previous two..every playlist has several songs which are so bland you don't pay attention but there's always 3 or 4 that are so awful they stick in your head. I can't remember the really bad ones off the old playlists, but London Town was NOT the worst!

pacelut

My lovely horse? Played anywhere?

kfallon

Goro wrote: »

I left a job in Tesco's 10 years ago after working there for 2 months, The reason? The music.

Supervalu is the worst offender here if you ask me.

The music they play sounds like dodgy Australian pugwall type unsigned shyte.

I was in Supervalu in Talbot St earlier and I can't honestly say I noticed if there was any music on at all

csi vegas

I was shopping (hiding in Superquinn from pervs - see Do You Ever Perv On People thread) the other day and no word of a lie "I am no angel" song came on and I was only MORTIFIED I swear to God!

"I like it when you do that stuff to me! Dirty way you talk, talk! Ahh ah ah! Ahh ah ah!" Facking beetroot I was! Imagining the security guys on their cameras! And the male staff giving me the sly eye...shivers....AND a couple doing their shop - I felt like I was in a fúking threesome!
I should have complained but the manager would only love that!
A man he is - I saw his mug on a big poster outside the store.

It was a Now CD as far as I can tell - my OH has it (and well got a bóllocking for having it too) because I was familiar with a few 'tunes', unfortuneately.

csi vegas

mackg wrote: »

Worked in Dunnes for 5 years and the music to my mind serves no other function than to torture staff. When I read the OP I realised that I am no longer able to remember any of the songs and that made me smile as I was certain they would be burned into my mind until the day I died.

"I got an angel in my pocket...and she knows more than I"
SOUND FAMILIAR???

csi vegas

rebel89 wrote: »

Do you know 'Angel in my pocket'....used to drive me up the walls

Just seen this now AAAAGGGHHH! A second after I posted the same to mackg.

cocoshovel

Eh, to be honest Ive actually never once paid attention to the music playing in shops, although a few places Ive worked have had the radio on all day and that drives me crazy. The songs people have listed in here dont sound as bad as I expected them to.

I remember in one of the McDonalds around here they had a jukebox that was connected up to the internet, so it had a HUGE library of music on it was free to chose songs.

Queue everybody running in and turning on cannibal corpse, chased through the woods by a rapist, and all the worst most horrible grindcore songs you could imagine. Yeah, the manager removed it after a while but it was funny to see the looks on customers faces.

PseudoFamous

saralou2011 wrote: »

What store do you work in? i let head office know! only fair you have to suffer like the rest of us;)

work? what is this word?

Corruptedmorals

I worked with the background music being chart music, and that was fine. It's these playlists they have now are absolutely depressing. If you think chart music and the radio are bad, you NEED to spend an 8-hour shift in Dunnes/Tesco.

Goro

kfallon wrote: »

I was in Supervalu in Talbot St earlier and I can't honestly say I noticed if there was any music on at all

Well the ones in Killester and Balbriggan are definitely guilty!

cashback

csi vegas wrote: »

"I got an angel in my pocket...and she knows more than I"
SOUND FAMILIAR???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lni2Bwtvbf8

Jammyc

I used to work in Dunnes. This 'music' was the worst part of it. Especially when you had a day off and found yourself humming a tune thinking "What song is this song and how do - FFFFUUUUUUUUU"


Some of my 'favourites' have been (In no particular order):

A million miles
Goodbye my Friend
She's everybody's girl
Gemini Yo-yo
You move me
The one that begins "She's a sunflower girl.."
Passion for Fashion
I still believe in you.

Hopefully these ring some bells.