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

Steve O

The spars have the same auto-tuned cack in Dublin.

They sound like songs from the x-factor reject compilation album.

Seanbirney

The spar down the road from me has spin 1038 on all the time and they have it so LOUD someone burst in the other day and said this is the spar that plays the great music!" I nearly dropped. What type of idiot would think that.

The Golden Miller

our manager says its a tracklist of unsigned artists so the shops dont pay royalties

Reamer Fanny

El Guapo! wrote: »

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

Yeah wtf is up with that? Why cover versions?

ElChe32

I'd say the poor fúckers working in any of the Carrol's stores must hate the very thought of going into work every day listening to the same fiddley-diddley shíte for their shift. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the odd toe-tappin' Irish jig every now and then..but bugger me backwards having to listen to that all day I'd go mad. MAD I TELLS YE!

Seanbirney

Wow what is up with Brown Thomas and that Finish dishwasher song! Its on like 100 tines a day in there! And then to make it worse the M.A.C counter always has different music on and its always really loud! Brown Thomas thinking thier so posh!

gg2

I used to work in Heatons and there used to be a song that went "he's a lucky guy, a real lucky guy doo doo doo doo doo, do do doo doo, do do do do dooo dooo do do do dum dum, he's a lucky guuuuuuy". Made me want to rip every one of my fingernails out.

Seanbirney

gg2 wrote: »

I used to work in Heatons and there used to be a song that went "he's a lucky guy, a real lucky guy doo doo doo doo doo, do do doo doo, do do do do dooo dooo do do do dum dum, he's a lucky guuuuuuy". Made me want to rip every one of my fingernails out.

Oh god i thought no one would ever mention that song again!! :mad: ahhhhhh in my head now!!!!! Grrrrr:mad:

Seanbirney

I noticed carraig donn switched to the cover artists too. IMRO grrrrr. Where is the music industry going???

Catphish

I prefer to buy meat and veg on the day that I will use them, so I'm in tesco on a daily basis. They have the same loop of songs, and while I put no pass on most of the crap cover versions there will be a be a day I will burn the place down to the ground, and it will be when they play their cover of this song, yet again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekz_aPwtw8

Keep an eye on the news, you'll know I've finally snapped.

paddy147

That stupid Ryanair Europop style song they used to play in the plane before the plane was about to leave the terminal gate.

Fcuking head wrecking music to listen to.

TinyButDeadly

http://www.sendspace.com/file/85vyyn

Kill me

DM_Punk

hahahaha, this one always eluded me, fare play for finding it!!! :L

Ihatecuddles-old

I've never noticed songs playing in any shop, unless It's Christmas. Must try be more observant

I did notice some weird heavy metal music being played in a fancy restaurant last week. Was really loud so you couldn't even have a conversation!

Jammyc

TinyButDeadly wrote: »

http://www.sendspace.com/file/85vyyn

Kill me

I was totally disappointed when this didnt play during my last day in Dunnes.

thebaz

When X Factor is king , is it any wonder mainstream modern music sucks ?

Miss Lockhart

thebaz wrote: »

When X Factor is king , is it any wonder mainstream modern music sucks ?

And how exactly does that relate to unheard of dreadful songs by obscure unsigned bands, horrific covers and muzak?

thebaz

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

And how exactly does that relate to unheard of dreadful songs by obscure unsigned bands, horrific covers and muzak?

if the standard for modern music is set by Simon Cowell and co. - the ripple effect of dirge will feed through

Lollipops23

The Tesco on Baggot St has the worst playlist. Not only are all the songs covers, but the singers are brutal. It makes me want to run out of the shop, surely not the point of in-store music?

OldGoat

thebaz wrote: »

When X Factor is king , is it any wonder mainstream modern music sucks ?

TBH mainstream music was terrible long before Simon Cowell and the onset of XFactor and it's ilk.

krudler

One thing I miss about working for HMV was an infinite playlist at work, we had to play chart crap at lunch or when it was busy to maximise awareness blah blah but when it was quiet or the boss was off it was put on what you like within reason. compare to working someplace where the local radio station was on all day, I used to have to listen to Limerick 95FM all day, anyone from Limerick will attest that it's probably the word radio station in the world, I genuinely think their playlist comes from free cds with the sunday newspapers, they lay Rick Astley with no hint of irony. Listening to muzak would make me want to quit though.

TinyButDeadly

I went and saw some old friends at the Homebase I used to work at and they changed the songs over again. A lot of them now have the most basic choruses and shortest, slowest verses in the world it's just impossible to sit through and tolerate. To give an example one of them was like "baaaaaaby stay with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" x4, and another went "hold me as we make love hold me as we make love" x50

PickledLime

Lollipops23 wrote: »

The Tesco on Baggot St has the worst playlist. Not only are all the songs covers, but the singers are brutal. It makes me want to run out of the shop, surely not the point of in-store music?

I want to kill myself after spending more than 20 minutes in my local Tesco, the music is that bad. If I'm shopping in there without my headphones I'm in and out as quick as possible, essentials only.

I used to work in retail and could within reason put on whatever the hell I wanted - metal, jazz, disco, pop, anything. We never had a visit from IMRO, and the customers always commented on the fact they'd rarely hear the same music (I had a 30 hour playlist that went on when I was opening, my other co-workers would have a similar length playlist, but entirely different content) and that it was actually good.

The only time that went out the window was at Christmas, and we were convinced the same 15 songs on repeat for 6 weeks was borderline torture in the workplace.

IMRO are a parasite. If only everyone in the country could give these leeches the middle finger. Again it comes down to how and why is the minority dictating to the majority what to do?

Seanbirney

D.I.D used to play that horrible unsigned band music but they thankfully have stopped!�� They have the radio on now though�� well i guess it's better than unsigned bands

donegal_road

this is played every few minutes over the intercom in the local Supervalue....

'Supervalue!.. Real food, real people..'

Anyone like to explain what that means?

TinyButDeadly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmKoxcyIAP4

Kenjataimu

donegal_road wrote: »

this is played every few minutes over the intercom in the local Supervalue....

'Supervalue!.. Real food, real people..'

Anyone like to explain what that means?

Soylent green?

Seanbirney

I am only posting this comment to keep this thread going!

Thargor

I used to work in an IMC Cinema and positioned over where we had to stand ripping tickets was a big dirty old CRT tv turned up so loud its speakers were buzzing and distorting blaring out the same trailers over and over again on a loop, it was a special IMC trailer reel aswell with the audio horribly out of sync and worst of all songs playing over the trailers that had nothing to do with the film, someone at IMC head office thought they could do a better job than whoever made the trailer in Hollywood and had overlaid fcuking bewitched and Atomic Kitten etc over the videos! They only got changed every 3 months aswell so a lot of the trailers were obsolete all the time.

It used to drive us fcuking mad, it nearly caused war with management over their refusal to turn it down, turning it down yourself was a written warning, 3 warnings you were sacked, management changed the cameras to focus more on who was touching the tv than people getting in with no tickets. I still hear songs every now and then from that time of my life on the radio and I feel physically sick when they come on.

DM_Punk

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