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Elevator Music
« on: July 28, 2022, 07:05:31 am »
Post your preferred or most annoying elevator music. This should include the type of thing you would hear when on call waiting.
I find this tune quite soothing in such situations, so it gets preferred status.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy_NKN75Jhw


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2022, 11:43:44 am »
These Kiwi cops do a good job!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtvQXwcNRQ


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2022, 01:55:39 am »
I try never to use elevators, a known cause of heart attacks.


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2022, 02:23:37 am »
I try never to use elevators, a known cause of heart attacks.

That is true. Taking the stairs saves lives.
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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2022, 03:19:14 am »
It's ok now that I'm back home and seldom have to traverse more than about 5 levels but that would have been a challenge in some of my old digs in Korea. Scaling 22 floors  more than twice a day carrying shopping might also cause heart problems for the elderly and uninitiated. That said the notion of elevator music was intended as a type of metaphor in this thread in the way it was used in the lyric to this song.

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So it's Tuesday Morning and my Centrelink hasn't come through
So I pick up the phone because I've got some abusing to do
But all I get is elevator music
Waiting on the line
On hold all the time
All I get is elevator music
Waiting on the line
'Til I get a reply

I'm on Smoko, so leave me alone
I'm on Smoko, so leave me alone


www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2022, 03:45:21 am »
Post your preferred or most annoying elevator music. This should include the type of thing you would hear when on call waiting.
Quote from: Adel
That said the notion of elevator music was intended as a type of metaphor in this thread...
How does one square that circle?

(Note: no elevator i've been in has had music for over three years, since pre-COVID; i avoid cities, take the stairs instead if 4th floor or less.)
« Last Edit: July 30, 2022, 03:52:27 am by VanIslander »
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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2022, 03:55:07 am »
How does one square that circle?


Did you read the lyrics from the song?

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o it's Tuesday Morning and my Centrelink hasn't come through
So I pick up the phone because I've got some abusing to do
But all I get is elevator music
Waiting on the line
On hold all the time
All I get is elevator music
Waiting on the line
'Til I get a reply

I'm on Smoko, so leave me alone
I'm on Smoko, so leave me alone

It's the way the term elevator music is sometimes used in a much broader sense to describe that type of music that one sometimes listens too when in a situation where they are waiting, be it in an elevator, or waiting on the end of a telephone line.

My late father used it to describe a type of music that he considered bland and inoffensive. Then again, by my tastes I considered most of what he enjoyed to be a type of elevator music:laugh:


« Last Edit: July 30, 2022, 03:57:03 am by Adel »


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2022, 04:03:54 am »
Quote
My late father used it to describe a type of music that he considered bland and inoffensive. Then again, by my tastes I considered most of what he enjoyed to be a type of elevator music:laugh:
My late dad did too.
I fond it "rich" (as in overdone) given he was all jazz and classical, and sometimes a Liszt or, he actually liked, Norah Jones.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2022, 04:06:43 am by VanIslander »
Help others, especially animals. Say what you think, be considerate of others. Appreciate more than deprecate. Teach well, jump on teachable moments. Enjoy Korea as it is, without changing it. Dwell! Yet, at times, change your life for the better. "The most important [thing] is to have a good day."


Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2022, 11:10:02 am »
My late dad did too.
I fond it "rich" (as in overdone) given he was all jazz and classical, and sometimes a Liszt or, he actually liked, Norah Jones.


As Meatloaf said, two out three ain't bad.


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2022, 03:29:41 pm »

As Meatloaf said, two out three ain't bad.

Vaccine shots?


Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2022, 11:13:30 pm »
Vaccine shots?

....LOL!  That's a good one.  I don't care who you are ,that's funny.


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2022, 11:44:52 am »
Ahh Geez, now you've done it Savant. You've gone and got yourself added to the ignore list'. Might even get yourself a personal message telling you that your post was "cowardly". Pretty soon he'll only be posting to himself  :laugh:

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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2022, 04:15:17 pm »
Maybe someone should open up another thread titled what non elevator music are you listening to now.  :laugh:


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2022, 06:38:39 am »
Maybe someone should open up another thread titled what non elevator music are you listening to now.  :laugh:
Escalator music?
https://youtu.be/g0g6K0lYXOk


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2022, 09:16:18 am »
Escalator music?
https://youtu.be/g0g6K0lYXOk

Yeah, Nah. Doesn't qualify. Not bland enough.


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2022, 09:22:08 am »
Blocked: Billy Herrington, Van Darkholme, The Cat's Meow, Sock Puppet


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Re: Elevator Music
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2022, 09:42:29 am »
https://youtu.be/sC0cvwnG0Ik

That would be the winner so far under the annoying/irritating category.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2022, 09:50:13 am by Adel »