# What is it with music everywhere we go? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696 "2017-08-07T18:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/21 "2017-08-07T21:53:52Z")
I dislike the overly loud players at gas pumps, I have not looked, but next time will to see if there is a mute button. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/22 "2017-08-07T21:58:20Z")
> [@Renegade](#): > > I have never seen them here it must be regionel or the big city’s. None of the gas stations in my neck of the woods have either video screens or music playing. ---
**Author:** ![Triedaq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Triedaq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Triedaq)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/23 "2017-08-07T22:09:15Z")
I like to listen to music, but when I listen to the music, I concentrate on the music and nothing else. I abhor background music of any kind. I don’t like music played through sound systems that have the sound quality of four guys sharing the same sinus. In the musical ensembles I play in, I have to listen to the other musicians to fit in my part. I don’t know why I have to be bombarded with background music from elevators to restaurants. I was in a men’s restroom once and the background music being played was Handel’s “Water Music”. I guess maybe it was appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![BillRussell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/billrussell/32/3179_2.png) [@BillRussell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BillRussell)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/24 "2017-08-07T22:40:25Z")
> [@kurtwm2010](#): > > The right music, at the proper sound level and appropriate for the type of store has been proven to be very effective and lure people to slow down and view more products and hopefully make additional purchases not initially planned Yes, but the ones that come up with those conclusions don’t carry the research far enough, in my opinion. Yes, perhaps the music does cause 70% of the people to look at more products. But it may also cause the other 30% to just walk out and never come back. did they take that statistic into account in their conclusions? I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Purebred](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/purebred/32/46796_2.png) [@Purebred](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Purebred)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/25 "2017-08-07T23:02:06Z")
I was in one restaurant that the acoustics were so bad the waiter got our order wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/26 "2017-08-07T23:32:39Z")
Loud music in eating establishments is not much of an issue around here. The lone exception might be Chilis. The last time I went in there a few months ago I could barely carry on a conversation with my sister who came up to visit and whom I see rarely. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/27 "2017-08-07T23:48:00Z")
Until they get married and buy a house, young folks have enough money to go out all the time. It was that way for me, and it is that way for my children. Except for the oldest, She and hubby are buying a house, ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/28 "2017-08-07T23:49:24Z")
Grandma got run over, not Santa. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/29 "2017-08-08T00:52:32Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > Grandma got run over, not Santa. You’re right… but it doesn’t make that song any less aggravating. > [@jtsanders](#): > > Until they get married and buy a house, young folks have enough money to go out all the time. It was that way for me, and it is that way for my children. Except for the oldest, She and hubby are buying a house, My son had a baby two years ago, bought a station-wagon-type Audi, a house in the San Fernando Valley, they eat all their meals either out or ordered and delivered, and he just sold his San Fernando house and built a new one twice the size in Santa Clarita. And I just found out they expect another baby in January. I had those good financial times at his age too. Right up until my luck went sour. Stuff happens. 😝 ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/30 "2017-08-08T00:57:05Z")
As loong as we are off topic, rental house neighbor, want some basil, tomatoes, and raspberries? as we had excess, no if it don’t come in a box I don’t eat it. She was overweight and diabetic, suppose there is a correlation? ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/31 "2017-08-08T01:20:07Z")
I occasionally eat lunch at a place that always has contemporary country music playing. That’s got to be the most banal, formulaic, and soul-less music anyone has ever come up with. That ain’t country, that’s truck commercial jingles. It’s not that I hate country music, I love listening to old Ray Price, Bobby Bare, and Lefty Frizzell songs, but this new stuff is just…uninspiring…as uninspiring as John Cougar Mellencamp singing “when I fight authority, authority always wins”. It was said so much better by Bobby Fuller “I fought the law and the law won”. The former is just somebody whining and feeling sorry for himself, the latter is full of energy and defiance. ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/32 "2017-08-08T01:29:56Z")
There are not a lot of people that like Bobby Bare, I do, but got no love for the I can sing with a twang and the stupidest lyrics, and play that at the pump while I fill up with gas? NO THANK YOU. Even stayed at a hotel in Southern IL, with an attached restaurant called Fat bottom Girls, and the song was blaring in the parking lot 24/7, , posted in my review this is not necessary Feel my pain, 24/7 give me break! ---
**Author:** ![meanjoe75fan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/meanjoe75fan/32/552_2.png) [@meanjoe75fan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/meanjoe75fan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/33 "2017-08-08T01:38:44Z")
> [@bing](#): > > At one of those restaurants with the bar too, I asked the waitress to turn the music down so at least we could talk. She said the people at the bar liked it that way. I cannot STAND being in a quiet bar. I’ll tell the barmaid to turn on music (ANY music) just so it doesn’t resemble a doctor’s waiting room in there! Or I’ll play a song on the jukebox. A bar never really is “quiet”; you just get to hear stuff like drunken pickup lines, and other “TMI” stuff. (Remember, drunks have a poor sense of what is “fit for public consumption,” and they invariably are talking louder than they think they are.) I’ll get up and leave a bar that is too quiet, or too bright. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/34 "2017-08-08T02:00:57Z")
The only reason I ever go into bars now is to hear the band that’s playing in it. I can get drunk at home for a lot less money. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/35 "2017-08-08T02:13:45Z")
> [@meanjoe75fan](#): > > A bar never really is “quiet”; you just get to hear stuff like drunken pickup lines, and other “TMI” stuff. Here’s your song: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/f/c/fc5cb0a76f2450d9848bb572915e4a6643917ded.jpeg "Amazing Rhythm Aces - Third Rate Romance.wmv") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTT-Jmi1nOc) ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/36 "2017-08-08T02:46:43Z")
And that tune reminds me of this @B.L.E which was popular one summer when I was driving a delivery route and needed to get up early. There were 2 local stations and they both signed off at 10:00pm and the one that signed on at 5:00am to wake me played that tune every morning after the national anthem for months. I didn’t set the alarm, I just left the radio on. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/37 "2017-08-08T02:50:42Z")
I’m not fond of overly loud music at retail stores either, especially auto parts that require clear communication with the staff to insure you get the part you need. I complained to the managers at two stores about this, and in both cases they lowered the volume by my next visit. And it has stayed lowered. So don’t discount the idea of offering up a polite complaint. Might work. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/38 "2017-08-08T03:02:20Z")
Back to Christmas music. Thanks guys. Now I’ll have Jingle Bell Rock going on in my head for the next two days. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/39 "2017-08-08T06:27:26Z")
I believe in Father Christmas by ELP. Nuttin for Christmas by Smash Mouth. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![BillRussell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/billrussell/32/3179_2.png) [@BillRussell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BillRussell)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696/40 "2017-08-08T13:02:46Z")
One thing about music in stores and restaurants… What type of music do you pick, if you are the manager? classical, rock, country, folk, etc, etc… No matter what you pick, you will find most people don’t like that selection. Can’t make everyone happy… PS, only one place I can think of that plays classical… that music I can put up with. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/what-is-it-with-music-everywhere-we-go/106696.md?page=3)