Background music, everywhere there's background music

[graduate_owner]

Hi all,
Just having a moan. Why is it that just about everywhere you go there simply has to be music playing? Shops, cafes and restaurants, our doctor's surgery waiting room, and just about every you tube video. I find it is either loud and intrusive or just barely audible and irritating ( and pointless). And that infernal Christmas record that was released about 25 years ago and gets played to death every year, in every shop. Moan, moan.
OK, moan over.

K

 

[NazNomad]

Some places you can't even have a conversation because the music is so loud.

My doctor's surgery has a radio on in the background. Now, bad enough that I can't understand Radio Cymru but when it's only half tuned in and fighting with the white noise... WTF?

 

[graduate_owner]

Our surgery has Radio Cymru playing too, but you can't really listen to it because it is too quiet, just background noise.

K

 

[NickN]

Pineapple McCartney's pesky Christmas song along with a few others is why I enjoy online shopping so much more at this time of year!

 

[dc_ni]

.....And that infernal Christmas record that was released about 25 years ago and gets played to death every year, in every shop. Moan, moan.
OK, moan over.

K

Glad its not just me.....

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Try working in the catering industry where because of firm's Xmas functions you have to tolerate it from the end of November to the end of January, all day every day. That and the God given right everyone has to be abusive after three pints because it's Xmas, no wonder after decades of it I loathed Xmas. Looking back on it I always wonder how I didn't string somebody up.

 

[Jacob]

Drives me effin mad. Worst on the telly - every documentary has a gang of twats bashing away in the back ground - completely pointless and gets in the way of the spoken word, or just distracting and obtrusive.

It's as though a stage event or lecture has been double booked and there's a band practicing in the pit. The band leader makes a token effort to not interrupt the stage event, but without much success.
I have to turn the sound down and subtitles on.
Blue planet particularly bad with sound effects as well. Every worm makes a slithering noise, every fish splashes, and so on.

If I wanted music over a film I could just sit there playing my own banjo!

 

[ColeyS1]

every documentary has a gang of twats bashing away in the back ground

Favourite comment of 2017 !!!! [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]


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[dc_ni]

every documentary has a gang of twats bashing away in the back ground

Favourite comment of 2017 !!!! [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]


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I'll second that, was just about to say the same thing but you beat me to it =D> =D>

 

[Jacob]

Glad I'm not alone!
It would make just as much sense the other way around - to have a music performance with an added sound track of people jabbering away about something completely irrelevant.

 

[AES]

Yup, a definite +1 for all the above comments - and I especially liked the point about a musical performance with added soundtrack of people chattering! Brilliant!

But while we're at it, I also hate things such as news items which are in a foreign language, start off with the original language, then fade the original into the background to replace it with the translation. In fact I find that they do NOT fade the original down anything like far enough, so if it so happens that I can speak both languages, I end up automatically trying to listen to both and actually end up not fully understanding either. This happens to me often on both German/Swiss TV if the original piece was in English, AND on English TV when the original was in German!

VERY VERY annoying (hammer)

But while I agree about background music in public places generally, my pet hate was a few years ago when I was working on a contract in Brazil. There, in even the smallest of restaurants, they would have at least 2 TVs playing (LOUD, natch), both set to different stations (natch), PLUS a background musak machine which at Christams time was set on a loop of "Jingle-bloody-bells" (also VERY LOUD, natch). The Brazilians seemed to love it.

Pure torture for me, especially as I don't speak Portuguese!

AES

 

[thetyreman]

you all need to calm down, some christmas songs aren't that bad, at least it's not jedward or one direction or a 1990s boy band, which for me is hell on earth, worse than death

 

[DrPhill]

I am very entertained when songs from my yooff are playing in morrisons.... you know, the stuff our parents grumbled about and we thought so daring and rebellious. Hendrix fer chrisake.... shopping for ready meals to the sound of 'all along the watchtower' and 'purple haze'.
Yeah, I know All along the watchtower was Dylan - he had a song in the mix 'The times they are a changing'.

They sure are. What has the world come to?

 

[whatknot]

Merry bleddy Christmas you miserable lot ;-)

 

[whatknot]

Jingle bells, Jingle bells, jingle all the bleddy way ;-)

 

[NazNomad]

 

[graduate_owner]

My wife and I went into a nice, quiet pub restaurant a few years back, no-one else there. The waitress came in and turned on the radio, and when I suggested we would prefer it off she said the boss insisted that the radio must be playing when there are customers. Of course I turned it off as soon as she went out and she didn't notice. Nice, quiet meal.

I am not against Christmas, or Christmas parties etc. I just find background music so unnecessary. And as for that overplayed record with Jimmy Osmond and co., well enough said.

Love the T Rex image, Naz.

K

 

[Keith 66]

Our doctors surgery has Heart Fm (other wise known as Shart). It is the most irritating station ever, ten songs played on repeat all day long & the most irritating dj's of all time. Music for dullards.
But yesterday i was listening to Radio Caroline's test transmission on 648mw & it was excellent varied stuff, looking forward to them going on the air properly.

 

[HappyHacker]

Suffering from tinnitus and being hard of hearing (noise induced plus age related) I have find background music very frustrating as it makes it impossible for me to hear any conversation or what is being said on the TV/Radio. As a result I tend to leave bars/resturants where they have loud noise in the background and don't bother watching many TV programs as I either can't hear what is being said due to the loud background music or the actors constantly whisper their lines or in many cases both.

The BBC used to say that they did not have any problem with background music drowning out voice then they said they had a problem and were addressing it, then they said they had addressed it and there was no problem. I had not noticed any difference I still can't hear voices over the music.

I try not to go out too much in the run up to Christmas as I can't stand the crowds and the commercialisation of it. I know, I am just a grumpy old grinch.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

There is no reason why programmes shouldn't be broadcast with the speech on one channel and the music on the other - if you want or the other not both, easy.