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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

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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!

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!

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?

The Golden Miller

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

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.

Steve O

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

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

Seanbirney

Omni park have horrible music too. When you walk in you just hear an echo of music but if you go to a quiet bit you hear the worst selection of songs. EVER. The other day when i went in i heard this weird song that just went like, i cry i cry
Icry i cry i cry i cry i cry and then of course phoebe legere amazing love comes blaring on!

Seanbirney

Does anybody know where I could find the song Passion For Fashion? My friend hates that song and i want to annoy him with it! &#55357;&#56838;

entropi

Basq wrote: »

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.

Almost as bad as the original? That's enough grim reading for the night, think I'm set now.

Seanbirney

you spoke, i cried, you turned away
i guess, you tried, to make me stay
but now there's miles between us
miles between today and yesterday
i've got an angel in my pocket an angel in my pocket
i rose, you fell, you dragged me down
you felt like hell, till icame around
but now there's miles between
miles between us
i've got an angel in my pocket an angel in my pocket
to fly me home to you
i've got an angle in my pocket and she knows more than i
that home is home is you
guitat solo
i've got an angel in my pocket an angle in my pocket
to fly me home to you
i've got an angle in my pocket and she knows more than i
that home is home is you
angel home is you

Seanbirney

IKEA has good music but usually every time i'm there i hear the edge of glory by lady gaga and i hate that song but the rest are ok

Seanbirney

B&Q in swords usually always has the cover artists playing and there is always a real dead atmosphere and the staff are obnoxious but when i went a couple of weeks ago they had real singers playing and the atmosphere was a lot brighter and the staff were so helpful. A bit wierd.

Call Me Jimmy

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

My sympathies to anyone who has to listen to this crap in work.

It starts off like a broken ice-cream van.

Not enough wtfs in the world... one more: W T F

Seanbirney

Eurospar in santry plays the most annoying songs. One of them was this girl ranting on about how she left a cardboard box in her hotel room. The poor staff members

Seanbirney

Jervis centre always plays now 84 on repeat until now 85 comes out. Its grand for customers just passing through the centre but the staff working at the kiosks must find it really annoying as it is always really loud

Seanbirney

Oh god if anyone ever says anything about angel in my pocket again i think i will just freeze and then cut my ears off!

mikeyb 123

i have an angel in my pocket.....an angel in my pocket ....., coming from dublin

Lollipops23

I worked in Clerys years ago and they honestly played a song called "There's nothing like a good old fashioned hoe-down..."

Turtyturd

Tesco in Clare Hall played that horrible Ronan Keating version of 'Fairytale of New York' over Christmas.....will be interesting to see how it negatively affected their sales.

DM_Punk

I've been with SuperValu for a LONG time and know some really old ones.

"Someday it'll be me, someday I'll get the chance to be the only girl in the room the someone sees"

"ja ja ja jack be nimble, ja ja ja jack be quick, 'cause i'm running out of time for you to make this stick"

"a million miles" (multiplied by a million times!!!!!)

"I'm too young to know much but Dublin's been there for me"

"Just say goodbye, turn and walk away, walk away right out of my life"

DM_Punk

I've got an angel in my pocket and she knows more than I

Denerick

Dear God... I worked in a supermarket for 9 months and that song 'a million miles' is forever etched into my soul, a fiery darkness of hate and pain.

Revolver ocelot

You mean this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lni2Bwtvbf8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Ulveren

rebel89 wrote: »

'Angel in my pocket'....

...and she knows more than I!!!

Dyr

Salt001 wrote: »

The worsest of the worst award has to go to Boyds Stores on Hill Street in Newry Co,Down.
I have no idea what songs are even on the one and only cd that they play but they have been playing the same one since 1980 :eek::eek::eek::D.

And before it starts, yes I do know there is no such word as worsest .

Yeah, and there's no such thing as a CD in 1980 and all

lilmissprincess

Current job is grand for stuff like this, though we had 7 christmas cds over two months and one of them had such lovely songs as "Will Santy Come to Shanty Town" (That song is following me to hell) and "The Little Boy That Santa Claus forgot" - cheery stuff.

A certain Wexford Supervalu that I worked in played a cd with 7 renditions of Frosty the Snowman, on a loop, for a month. The song plays in nightmares. Also, they did play real versions of songs, but now when I hear those same five songs, at certain points the next words my brain comes up with are "This week in Supervalu, *insert offer here*". Brainwashed I tell you!

Red Alert

M&S in Dundrum usually have a fairly decent playlist. Interesting thing is that the centra & super value franchisees can choose the playlist themselves online, so maybe someone might tell a few of them that there's more than the "Easy Listening" list to choose from.

TinyButDeadly

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

The Christmas collection is the best. Most of them sound like they were made on a Fischer Price 'My First Keyboard'.

They all do to be fair. This ones a fair example, and it should win an award for the most abused use of autotune on the Mood Media playlist. I can't even tell what the lyrics are.

http://soundcloud.com/liamreid123/voice_024#

zcorpian88

Ditzie wrote: »

I work in Centra and reading through this, all that's going through my head is

'What if God was one of us... just a slob like one of usss..

But the evenings aren't bad, metallica came on the other night.

Man I would only have loved some Metallica during a day of work, wouldn't necessarily have to be the early heavy stuff of course, say nothing else matters or even the bluesy sounding stuff on Load or Reload, would give the workers a lift. If shop managers are reading this, let the workers have some input on whats played in the shop!

Only bit of luck I had when I worked for Dunnes was hearing "All Apologies" by Nirvana one day, Honestly thought "Wait a sec.. that's Nirvana feckin sweet!" Somebody put that in just one time and didn't hear anything decent since.

FueledByAisling

When I worked in Urban Outfitters they thankfully changed the CD's every second day to advertise the CD's on sale. I remember this one CD though that was on and it had a 20 minute song with this girl complaining about someone stealing her boyfriend, I have never wanted to kill myself more..