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

Goro · 25-07-2012 11:51AM

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 · 25-07-2012 01:24PM

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 · 25-07-2012 01:26PM

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

Gyalist · 25-07-2012 01:37PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:24PM

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

PseudoFamous · 25-07-2012 06:28PM

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

Wattle · 25-07-2012 06:31PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:32PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:40PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:43PM

My lovely horse? Played anywhere?

kfallon · 25-07-2012 06:45PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:50PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:52PM

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 · 25-07-2012 06:55PM

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 · 25-07-2012 07:13PM

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 · 25-07-2012 07:23PM

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 · 25-07-2012 08:00PM

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 · 25-07-2012 11:05PM

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 · 25-07-2012 11:14PM

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 · 25-07-2012 11:22PM

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.

saa · 25-07-2012 11:25PM

I got temp work in Debenhams, they played clips of the same songs, there was one disco one and a crap Girls Aloud one that didn't bother me so much but the next time I heard them I broke out in a cold sweat.

Supercell · 25-07-2012 11:36PM

Wait a couple of months until the Christmas songs start.....:D

wmpdd3 · 25-07-2012 11:44PM

Over 3 days last year we counted 35 songs looped. So one of the lads worked out how many time we've heard the same song, based on 250 days by 10 hours by how many years each of us worked there. It was soul destroying. Its torture.
Now i hate imro even more.

The Snipe · 25-07-2012 11:46PM

I worked in Maplin, all our music was sent from head office. But we got to listen to I got a brand new combine harvester about 20 times a day, but I still loved it more and more each time!

gilmour · 26-07-2012 01:24AM

worked in Dunnes in the late 90s/early 00's and they used to have a fine selection of 80s music, used to quite enjoy it

Although in saying that one day the system broke and it played Cyndi Laupers Time After Time for 3 solid days on loop, to this day if i hear that song i start swinging punches

Where To · 26-07-2012 01:30AM

So many people complaining about listening to music. . . and getting paid for it!

In my first job we had to whistle our own tunes.

csi vegas · 26-07-2012 06:10AM

mrblondecutsear wrote: »

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

Bastárds.

OR maybe, just maybe they are ashamed of themselves and what they do...

csi vegas · 26-07-2012 06:16AM

Jammyc wrote: »

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.

Yes, unfortunately so and with little birds flapping frantically alongside the bells outside my throbbing head, cartoon style...

Brokentime · 26-07-2012 06:19AM

Used to work in Roches Stores back in the day; 12 tracks looped over again and again. If I ever hear the Sugababes 'Freak like me' again, I'll keel over

csi vegas · 26-07-2012 06:23AM

cocoshovel wrote: »

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.

That's fun! Where was the Mc D and how long ago?

Me - I would have treated them to a spot of Marilyn Manson

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

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