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

Robsweezie · 15-02-2015 06:42AM

spare me - it's usually generic R & B ****e from usher and Beyonce wannabes singing about 'heading out with my girls" or some crap I don't care to remember.

the Christmas music was laughably bad and sounded like they were making up the lyrics as they went along. " I love the tinsel on the tree oh oh etc."

Ah-Watch · 15-02-2015 07:03AM

Goo Goo Dolls Iris always reminds me of the pain of working in Super Valu back in the day and Keane Crystal Ball....

I'm working in a bar in New York now and people are always asking what the play list is or what station it is- Pandora you are such a gem! Where were you when I was working in Super Valu and my last place of work. We had Coldplays Viva la Vida album on for 9 months on repeat- no lie- I could sing every word of the album now....

Pandora is my new favourite app on my phone. I'm lazy enough as it is so hate finding and making playlists. Before I started working in this bar I was in drinking one night and asked what playlist it was and all I like the variety of music that much- a change from the norm Beyonce Rihanna and all that muck. I dont think you can get Pandora in Ireland though. I couldn't when I was home last summer anyway

vicwatson · 15-02-2015 11:06AM

Mr Price is THE WORST PLACE EVER for this background "music" !!!

Red Alert · 15-02-2015 02:31PM

I think M&S are now playing covers - didn't sound like Fleetwood Mac singing their stuff last Friday in Dundrum. Pity if they have switched, M&S used to have a good selection.

kerash · 15-02-2015 06:23PM

I have left shops due to bad 'music', Iradio is the worst though, jesus christ why....

SMJSF · 15-02-2015 06:32PM

I've never heard music in supermarkets such as tescos or dunnes. there is too many staff announcements/calls to notice music!

Asdfghjkl987 · 17-03-2015 01:49AM

It seems most of the SuperValu stores are now playing decent music again although the Santry branch still isn't :pac:

BlaasForRafa · 17-03-2015 03:52AM

kerash wrote: »

I have left shops due to bad 'music', Iradio is the worst though, jesus christ why....

I always listen to an ipod when I'm in shops, why anyone would subject themselves to the sort of music they have is beyond me. There's a large bookshop in Waterford that used to pretty much constantly play a vivaldi CD on a loop, it must have driven the staff mad, at least know if I listen to crap music I have only myself to blame

Kevin McCloud · 17-03-2015 03:52AM

I don't shop in super value no more.

Hermy · 17-03-2015 10:21AM

I would quite happily listen the piped muzak they play in Tesco's every day if it meant not hearing the drivel from that excuse for a radio station iRadio that gets played in just about every other shop in the midlands.

SpaceTime · 17-03-2015 04:42PM

Asdfghjkl987 wrote: »

It seems most of the SuperValu stores are now playing decent music again although the Santry branch still isn't :pac:

It very much seems to be down to the store. There is at least one Irish company that provides I store music. You get what you pay for pretty much! A cool and curated playlist costs more and incurs IMRO fees and some of the Supervalu stores seem to use those. I think it makes the entire shopping experience a lot nicer.

If you don't want to spend that kind of money you can use non copyright music and it'll fill the dead noise of a big space but it may sound tacky.

Aldi and Lidl just like the noise of fridges and expect you to listen to your own iPod - they really don't so much to make it any kind of experience other than being cheaper at the till.
They're all about stripping back the costs to an absolute barebones minimum so you save money.

It all comes down to utilitarian shopping or hedonistic shopping where you value the experience of shopping as well as the goods.

Ireland actually rated as quite a hedonistic market compared to Germany. The US and most Enflosh speaking markets as well as France etc all are We expect a lot more than just a low price.

It's all about balance though - chose the store that suits you!

dublinman1990 · 17-03-2015 11:04PM

There are a few bad cover versions of songs that I heard being played in Tesco in Dun Laoghaire the last 2 years or so namely from Take That, Coldplay, Pharrell Williams and Hudson Taylor that would constantly be looped from a CD everytime I would shop there.

Bad versions of songs like The Flood, Vida La Vida, Happy and Champagne Lifestyle would nearly make you want to keel over and fall off a cliff.

Even more so with Happy. I hear that being played constantly in a pub in Dun Laoghaire every time my mum would go there for a Sunday Lunch. It's will drive you bonkers as it's played over from a CD in around every hour. It is painful listening to it.

Asdfghjkl987 · 21-03-2015 11:37PM

Red Alert wrote: »

I think M&S are now playing covers - didn't sound like Fleetwood Mac singing their stuff last Friday in Dundrum. Pity if they have switched, M&S used to have a good selection.

Seem to be back to original artists now although the songs have been rubbish lately :P

odyssey06 · 19-04-2015 07:55PM

Fleetwood Mac covers... I'm intrigued... is there any way to get this music online \ CD unless you're a shop?

ShaneU · 19-04-2015 08:03PM

There was one in Tesco a few years ago that went something like "BOOM...POW...OOH...WOW.. My heart explodes and you're so wonderful!"

biko · 19-04-2015 08:54PM

Say Your Number · 19-04-2015 08:57PM

Was in Elverys again and heard a cover of Umbrella by Rihanna, there was a fella doing a Jay Z impersonation at the start and it was hilariously bad but the girl was a better singer than Rihanna.

Asdfghjkl987 · 19-04-2015 11:50PM

sound familiar?! :pac:

Ellie Lawson "London Town"

Quite possibly one of the most annoying songs on the playlist after Angel in my pocket

Kwiecien · 20-04-2015 01:00AM

In a restaurant i worked in years ago there was only 1 casette tape played. Over and over, day after day. God i hate fookin Bagatelle!!!

odyssey06 · 20-04-2015 05:38PM

Say Your Number wrote: »

Was in Elverys again and heard a cover of Umbrella by Rihanna, there was a fella doing a Jay Z impersonation at the start and it was hilariously bad but the girl was a better singer than Rihanna.

Who are these mysterious singers? The plain people of Ireland demand answers!

Asdfghjkl987 · 07-07-2015 12:07PM

Both Argos and Eason no longer play this rubbish and surprisingly now play real music.

Hermy · 09-07-2015 12:47AM

Asdfghjkl987 wrote: »

...real music.

Good real music or sh!t real music that's no better than the fake music it replaced?

pappyodaniel · 09-07-2015 03:09AM

That age old question,

"If you had to lose one of your senses and you had the choice between going blind or going deaf, which would you pick?"

If I worked in Centra, not a second thought, I'm going deaf. Their play list is a fu.Cking disgrace.

Asdfghjkl987 · 09-07-2015 11:45AM

Hermy wrote: »

Good real music or sh!t real music that's no better than the fake music it replaced?

From what I heard it was some songs from the charts and some oldies

Agricola · 09-07-2015 12:32PM

8 months in a Supervalu in the late 90's and I still get a shiver down my spine when I hear "You're so vain"

odyssey06 · 09-07-2015 12:38PM

Agricola wrote: »

8 months in a Supervalu in the late 90's and I still get a shiver down my spine when I hear "You're so vain"

Why, did you think the song was about you???

Agricola · 09-07-2015 12:42PM

Oh please no, not the lyrics. its all flooding back.........:(

Asdfghjkl987 · 17-07-2015 11:57PM

Asdfghjkl987 wrote: »

Both Argos and Eason no longer play this rubbish and surprisingly now play real music.

Well, Eason went straight back to playing the royalty free rubbish after a few days:pac:

ToddyDoody · 18-07-2015 12:13AM

The worst I remember was Roches in Waterford. They used to play these instrumental covers of pop songs where the melody of the lyrics were replaced by saxophone. Imagine an instrumental version of Whitney Heuston I will always love you done on the saxophone. Truely Dreadful.

Stephen15 · 18-07-2015 12:16AM

This makes me ask the question whats the actual point on playing music in shops one of the few reasons why i love lidl where i can shop in peace. I just don't get it. In Stillorgan Shopping Centre they actually play music in the jax.

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

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