What are you listening to?

[Sweetdeath]

Not surprised.  Once would drive me to distraction.  Musical tastes are such a personal thing, I can't understand why supermarkets and other public places play it.  They please nobody.

Major corporations actually do studies and research to determine what is the best music to play so as to encourage folks to buy and spend more.
Some stores for example tend to play slow music to get you to linger inside and form emotional attachments with brands.
One Asian mall saw an uptick in purchases by pregnant women after it "started playing soothing music from the era when these women were born," marketing expert Martin Lindstrom wrote in his book Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy. And, according to Lindstrom, the women said the mall's music continued to have a calming effect on their children even after they were born.

Another study in Scotland found that diners at a restaurant spent more money when slow music was playing, as opposed to fast music. This might be why Starbucks plays jazz and grocery stores play that slow elevator music that OldGit seems to enjoy so much.

I prefer to work with absolutely no music so i can read on my slow time. I have two coworkers who can't work without music, but when I am behind the counter, i don't turn on the radio and no one but my Sunday crew complains about it being 'too quiet.'

Radios often play songs in a loop. Even if it's music i don't mind listening to, when you hear Bon Jovi for the 3rd time in 2 hours, you wanna kick a deer. I'd rather just have silence and everyone can be happy. Fuck music in stores, because it pleases no one.

Years ago when I first started working here I was out in one of the open spaces working in a cubicle, and I had co-workers who worked next to me, there were four of us grouped together in this sort of box. (Now I have an office and I've turned the overhead office-speaker off, and I listen to my own music)

Anyway during the holidays they would play a constant loop of Christmas music starting in early November, most of us hated it. I despised it, to hear those same songs over and over again for weeks at a time was akin to fucking torture.

One of the ladies sitting in our group loved, I mean fucking loved that totally ridiculous song about the hippopotamus, I'm sure you all know the one I'm referring to.

It would play about 4-5 times a day, and each time it came on she would proclaim for all the world to hear, "OMG, I just love this song" (Try to imagine the most annoying, sing-song voice you can imagine, that was her)

Then she would proceed to sing along with the song. After a couple days of this nonsense the remaining three of us in the group were ready to kill her, so we elected one of us to go and speak to her and ask her politely to stop singing along with the song.
Probably was a good thing it wasn't me elected to speak because I would have been less than polite.

She was a little put-off by our request, but a few angry stares made her see the point.

i hate that fucking song to this day.

I feel so bad for workers who are forced to listen to xmas music. We just have a general radio and keep it on the rock and oldies stations, so it even if it's on, i control the volume, so it doesn't bother me and we don't have to talk over the customers. Being forced to listen to shitty music on a loop with no volume control should be considered a form of torture. That's awful.

[Essie Mae]

Agreed. 

Maybe the effects on sales happen when the customer isn't conscious of the music.  Sometimes you can suddenly become aware of music that has been playing all along.  I like to think I am immune to this sort of influence, but the figures seem to suggest otherwise.  Does it make any difference if you know about these psychological tricks I wonder?

[OldGit]

Allegri's 'Miserere', sung by The Sixteen.  Utter pure beauty.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Y_ztEW1NE

[Pasta Chick]

Do You Wanna Build A Meth Lab?

[Tom62]

Sparks' Tits

[Tom62]

Watch Fire, Sand, and Electricity Become Mesmerizing Music Visualizers, Nigel Stanford Cymatics: Science vs Music

[Magdalena]

^ ^
Wow! Tom62, that is so cool! 

[Magdalena]

Do You Wanna Build A Meth Lab?

That was interesting.
The man has a horrible singing voice. 

[Biggus Dickus]

I brought in a couple of my "Mazzy Star" CD's to the office today to listen whilst I work, here's "Halah".

[Davin]

1940 (Amplive Remix) by The Submarines

[Biggus Dickus]

1940 (Amplive Remix) by The Submarines

I like that Davin, thanks.

And back at you with "Sea of Love", by Cat Power.

[Magdalena]

Kissing a Fool - George Michael

[Magdalena]

Bailamos?
Oscar D´Leon - LLoraras

[Biggus Dickus]

Took me almost an hour to get from the front door of our building to my office, because a couple co-workers stopped me with computer issues they are having, sigh.

So I had to put some "Iggy" on to get me motivated.

LUST FOR LIFE

[xSilverPhinx]

Jaymes Young - Moondust