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

Mickey H · 23-12-2013 08:46PM

kfallon wrote: »

More Iron Maiden required

Or Nightwish.

MRnotlob606 · 23-12-2013 08:51PM

http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=4139&mediaID=15397 this is gold.

Asdfghjkl987 · 28-05-2014 03:27PM

Was in tesco the other day and this absolutely tragic song was on I heard before in the same tesco it starts off really bland and then the chorus just says "I could be uuunder" X1000!! :P

mayobumblebee · 29-05-2014 07:52AM

Any one else hear my name is lola the song about domestic violence
I work in a chain store and it's always on I don't know why it's played

CINCLANTFLT · 29-05-2014 07:56AM

mayobumblebee wrote: »

Any one else hear my name is lola the song about domestic violence
I work in a chain store and it's always on I don't know why it's played

"It only plays, until you buy. After that they don't why"

playedalive · 29-05-2014 08:00AM

Ugh. Don't get me started on crappy generic they play in retail chains. I work here in one in Dublin and they keep playing these songs on a loop. One of the songs goes like this: ""Give me STAAAAACCCIIIEEE, down on my head, down on my knees."

. It's always played every few hours. The person who wrote that song was in a funny mood that day.

I preferred the song of the Bob the Builder machine outside my last job. It used to come out spontaneously at regular intervals 'Can we fix it' and flash its car lights. It was for kids.

mrsbyrne · 29-05-2014 08:37AM

mayobumblebee wrote: »

Any one else hear my name is lola the song about domestic violence
I work in a chain store and it's always on I don't know why it's played

If you've been brainwashed into humming along you might as well have the right name. Its Luka. ".....I live upstairs from you, I guess you think you've seen me before....."

mrsbyrne · 29-05-2014 08:37AM

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

"It only plays, until you buy. After that they don't why"

Ah that's very good. !

mrsbyrne · 29-05-2014 08:39AM

Asdfghjkl987 wrote: »

Was in tesco the other day and this absolutely tragic song was on I heard before in the same tesco it starts off really bland and then the chorus just says "I could be uuunder" X1000!! :P

I thought it was only our Tesco, the managers niece or something.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 29-05-2014 08:47AM

Whatever about tesco playing cover versions but Jesus you'd think that'd they'd get some decent singers for them. All the tracks sound like a bag of cats being beaten to death off a wall.

Asdfghjkl987 · 29-05-2014 05:50PM

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Whatever about tesco playing cover versions but Jesus you'd think that'd they'd get some decent singers for them. All the tracks sound like a bag of cats being beaten to death off a wall.

They've stopped playing cover versions all together now in tesco everywhere they went for the even more affordable option! Fake songs altogether!!

Asdfghjkl987 · 29-05-2014 05:50PM

mrsbyrne wrote: »

I thought it was only our Tesco, the managers niece or something.

Haha unless we both go to the same Tesco

Asdfghjkl987 · 29-05-2014 05:55PM

I wish the manager of Tesco would actually read this thread! Paying customers are refusing to spend money there because the music is so bad!! >:(

hoodwinked · 29-05-2014 06:50PM

Asdfghjkl987 wrote: »

I wish the manager of Tesco would actually read this thread! Paying customers are refusing to spend money there because the music is so bad!! >:(

i think tescos douglas already know that, everytime i'm in there the tv's upstairs are on full volume, and downstairs they have a little portable cd player blasting out various cds over the music played throughout the store.

neamhspleachi · 29-05-2014 07:04PM

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

This is the correct answer

If stores play original recordings, they are liable to pay royalties to IMRO

Fred Swanson · 29-05-2014 07:12PM

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jimmythedivil · 01-06-2014 12:57AM

I love music, but I can't understand why it has to intrude into every apsect of ones life.

Tail Docker · 01-06-2014 01:40AM

B&Q have good music. But then I'm only in there for a few minutes usually. If you are stuck there all day, maybe not so much.

the_syco · 01-06-2014 02:36AM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

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.

Honestly? You ignore it after a while.

KungPao · 01-06-2014 11:26AM

Worked in Smyths years ago but luckily they were authorised to play the radio...sadly 98fm was the choice of management

Some 'great' tunes on this thread, gave me a laugh. That When I was the Man song is fantastically terrible :pac: And Father John, good god! Cant imagine how painful it would be to work while listening to that rubbish.

Thanks for the laughs!

Wompa1 · 01-06-2014 05:43PM

KungPao wrote: »

Worked in Smyths years ago but luckily they were authorised to play the radio...sadly 98fm was the choice of management

Some 'great' tunes on this thread, gave me a laugh. That When I was the Man song is fantastically terrible :pac: And Father John, good god! Cant imagine how painful it would be to work while listening to that rubbish.

Thanks for the laughs!

Worked in the one in Galway for a year. It was usually TodayFM...Irish radio is fairly ****e too but I worked in a Centra with the canned music....JAYSUS!!

Red Alert · 01-06-2014 06:10PM

Strangely enough the shopping centres themselves seem to stick with the real music. You'd think the management of Dunnes' in particular would just turn off the junk music and ask the mall outside to turn up theirs!

rxan90 · 01-06-2014 06:45PM

Don't know if they play it in any other Tesco stores, but EVERY SINGLE TIME I am in Clarehall I hear "What if God was one of us". Argh!

porsche959 · 01-06-2014 06:54PM

mayobumblebee wrote: »

Any one else hear my name is lola the song about domestic violence
I work in a chain store and it's always on I don't know why it's played

I assume you mean Luka by Suzanne Vega.

It's actually a good song but anything would be irritating if you had to listen to it non-stop.

mayobumblebee · 02-06-2014 12:41PM

porsche959 wrote: »

I assume you mean Luka by Suzanne Vega.

It's actually a good song but anything would be irritating if you had to listen to it non-stop.

I hear it about twice a day quite depressing really I could never catch her name it was a song that I would not really have liked to start with. It's funny it's currently the only song I know I hear all the time the rest I seem to have shut off for you do forget them thankfully. I do think they play some songs more often than others.

fillefatale · 02-06-2014 01:30PM

I've noticed those woeful cover songs in Tesco, I pity the staff. I'd rather no music than that! Almost makes me grateful that the bookshop I worked in over a few summers played 'soothing' whale music rather than that dire rubbish.

Asdfghjkl987 · 02-06-2014 04:28PM

Red Alert wrote: »

Strangely enough the shopping centres themselves seem to stick with the real music. You'd think the management of Dunnes' in particular would just turn off the junk music and ask the mall outside to turn up theirs!

Dunnes in Pavilions turned the music in the food hall right down which is a good step in the right direction but the electronic dance crap that is usually piped around the centre is not very nice to listen to :P They have it so loud as well you can hear it right to the back of Dunnes!

Asdfghjkl987 · 02-06-2014 04:29PM

rxan90 wrote: »

Don't know if they play it in any other Tesco stores, but EVERY SINGLE TIME I am in Clarehall I hear "What if God was one of us". Argh!

I feel your pain! I always hear it too! "Just a slob like one of us..."

Asdfghjkl987 · 02-06-2014 04:31PM

Tail Docker wrote: »

B&Q have good music. But then I'm only in there for a few minutes usually. If you are stuck there all day, maybe not so much.

May I ask what B&Q you visit?!? It's usually just rubbish cover versions absolutely blaring through the crappy PA system!!

Kaycee2 · 02-06-2014 06:57PM

When me and the other half are doing the shopping in Tescos we always expect to see that its a member of staff singing the crappy songs being played, Ann on customer services belting out a bit of Sugababes then Fred in the bakery taking over with a bit of Michael Buble

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

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