The Music You Hear at Work

[Forgetitnow344]

If your workplace is anything like mine, it has that odd satellite radio station that never plays any sort of ad to indicate what you're really listening to. It's just a smattering of songs.

If that's the case, what songs have become the theme songs to your work? In ours, there's this stupid song whose music consists solely of string instruments and the chorus is just some woman singing "SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY" over and over again. Whenever we hear it, the whole kitchen sings along. It's rather entertaining despite how terrible the song is.

Does anyone else have something similar?

 

[fd18e3d0-816e-11e4-b4a9-0800200c9a66]

At the moment i'm doing some work for my parents but they work from home so i can play whatever music i want. Tomorrow i go back to working at Sainsburys where no music is played, except at christmas when the same 6 songs are played over and over and over and over again.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

We have a lot of fairly random music at Starbucks, so we go from KD Lang (who I despise) to Rufus Wainwright (who I adore) and everything in between.

 

[Aur0ra145]

I work maintence and stuff at a church (it's pretty damn big) and all us maintence guys have iPods or MP3 players and listen to whatever we care to.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I work in a CD shop and normally we get to play what we like but over Christmas we had to play Susan Boyle's album over and over, and over, and over...

 

[sky14kemea]

Nah, where I volunteer we still get adverts every hour >_> But otherwise there's a lot of Indian music, and Jamaican. (Which I actually kinda like, so I don't mind xD).

Although when people are on air they play English stuff, and they take requests. I may bring in some Meat Loaf >.>

 

[Tallim]

At the moment i'm doing some work for my parents but they work from home so i can play whatever music i want. Tomorrow i go back to working at Sainsburys where no music is played, except at christmas when the same 6 songs are played over and over and over and over again.

I had this when I used to work for Tesco. It's usually because they don't want to lay out any funds for an entertainment lisence.

 

[ldbmikey86]

random mexican radio station I can't understand and noone can hear over the machinery noises anyway, so meh.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I work in a music shop that primarily sells guitars, basses, drumkits and the like.

So we put classic rock on like Led Zep, AC/DC and such.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Well, at my summer job I translate the original Swedish text to a similar but English text on some webpage.
I convinced my employers that I work twice better on my own computer...

Now I am using my own mouse, laptop, ear muffs and songs from my spotify list at work - thus, life is sweet since I got the possibility to listen to whatever whilst I translate.

 

[BonsaiK]

there's this stupid song whose music consists solely of string instruments and the chorus is just some woman singing "SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY SAIL AWAY" over and over again.

That'd be Enya's "Orinoco Flow".


Given that my job involves a lot of sticking on head phones and listening to hundreds of songs every week, I don't really have an equivalent.

I do a bit of guitar teaching part time though to fill up the void in my bank balance, and this, by far, is the highest-in-demand song that people want to learn right now:


Not only do I hear it when I teach it, but I also hear it leaking through the walls when the vocal teachers in the other rooms are teaching it. Strangely, I actually like it, too.

 

[shogunblade]

I don't have a radio at my place of work, so I just end up singing. People (I mean my one co worker) doesn't complain, and as of late, I've been singing a lot of Roy Orbison (and by a lot, I mean "In Dreams", "Crying" and "Only The Lonely") on top of a lot of other things.

But I have a good singing voice, so that's a plus.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Back when I worked at EarthFare (it's like an organic grocery store thing) they would play a bunch of ABBA and the occasional Asia. The usual innofensive 80s/90s radio singles. I worked in the produce section though so I could flee to the VEGGIE SANCTUM (freezer) if it ever got unbearable.

 

[JanatUrlich]

I work at the co-op and we play the same cd everyday. IT PAINS ME and it's even worse when you start singing along to them without realising.

It plays JLS and then all these old songs and then The Saturdays and I just want to kill myself.

You know it's bad when you're actually excited to hear Travis come on. It also has that Te Amo by Rihanna which has certainly grown on me.

 

[The Eggplant]

Jazz and grunge, for the most part. I work at a local news station, though, so what we listen to in the studio is more just a compendium of individual reporters' tastes. Suits me.

 

[DividedUnity]

You know it's bad when you're actually excited to hear Travis come on.

Hahaha. That sucks though

OT: I used to work in a warehouse. They usually played this radio station called Highland raidio which is so god damn awesome. It's like a radio station for farmers and culshies and they have this little jingle that comes up like every 10 minutes that just goes "HIIIIIIGGGHLAAAAND RAAADIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". It plays all the old cheesy songs from the last 40 years. I just started bringing my ipod to work after a while. At that point I didn't care if I got ran over by a forklift.

 

[Soxafloppin]

yea i work in a liesure centre and it plays the local radio station Cool FM, which is horrible.

 

[mrkeebz]

BBC Radio 1 is the only radio station we can clearly pick up and not have ads every 5 minutes so thats what we're stuck with. They'll play a song a like for every 10 they play that I don't.

 

[Gxas]

I work in IT and have to drive to different clients. I have an iPod hookup in my car, so I get my music.

Sadly, I can't listen while at the clients' places.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Where I work, they usually play stupid stuff, current pop hits and the like but on occasion, they play something good such as:

Plush and Interstate Love song by the Stone Temple Pilots

Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns and Roses

Hotel California by the Eagles

Come as You Are by Nirvana

And once I heard Fight the Power by Public Enemy. Pretty sure someone got fired over that one...