I now work in a place where I am subjected to either Radio 2, Heart 90s/80s and Absolute Radio.
All of them are f***""g dreadful.
I just cannot understand why people are so unadventurous and want to listen to the same few 'safe' bands that were on the radio 30 odd years ago.
At least Radio 2 doesn't have adverts. Folk have got to be brain dead if they don't notice and get wound up by the repetitive, awful, vacuous adverts that gently gnaw away at your intelligence. I will never understand it Never. 😂
Unfortunately I can't really get away with wearing headphones.
I'd speak up OP, but at least it's not commercial radio. You can at least be glad of that.
Our office has also started playing music and I cannot stand it. I'm not the only person either, it has really divided opinion. I suggest you mention it, even if you're seen as a misery, then at least it's noted that not everyone likes it.
If people want music, then they should wear headphones. There seems to be a bit of a new cultural thing of having to put up with other peoples noise, because people are too cool to wear headphones.
I just cannot understand why people are so unadventurous and want to listen to the same few 'safe' bands that were on the radio 30 odd years ago.
Because they're not 'into' music, they just like the songs they like, maybe from an era that has fond memories for them? What's wrong with that?
{Goes off to write 'music snobs' in the Things That Make You Disproportionately Cross thread...}
Radio 2 is purpose-designed as uncontroversial safe-choice workplace listening, isn't it?
Used to listen to it on job sites with my dad back in the 1990s and it seems to have the same brief now, but for millennial and gen x listeners.
Quite nice when you're painting walls or lugging bags of plaster around, but I struggle to do writing/editing/planning (most of my work) with the radio on.
I used to work in an office that intermittently had the radio on, or a CD that someone had brought in from home, at any time if you ever left the office and came back to any kind of music it was absolutely mandatory to shout 'WHO PUT THIS S@#T ON!?' at the top of your voice when returning through the door
I don't understand 'background music'. If I want to listen to music, I listen to music. Not listen to music and work at the same time. Likewise, if I'm working, that's what I do.
Anyway, don't care now 'cos I'm retired.
Background music for work has to be a sweet spot between something slightly stimulating but also very familiar so as not to take your thoughts away to the subject of the song.
Thus, I listen to house or lofi when working. And something new and interesting when I am pretending to be working
Wouldn't be an issue if it was Classic FM. 😉
Radio 2 is purpose-designed as uncontroversial safe-choice workplace listening, isn't it?
Sort of piped music my dentist always has on. Problem is, he always finds it difficult to check my occlusals when I'm grinding my teeth.
{Goes off to write 'music snobs' in the Things That Make You Disproportionately Cross thread...}
Goes off to write 'people who don't care about music' in the Things That Make You Disproportionately Cross thread... 😛
Because they're not 'into' music, they just like the songs they like, maybe from an era that has fond memories for them? What's wrong with that?
Nothing 'wrong ' with it. It's just quite difficult to live with day in day out for those of us who are not like that.
NME1 has annoying ads but a good variety of music.
I don't understand 'background music'. If I want to listen to music, I listen to music. Not listen to music and work at the same time. Likewise, if I'm working, that's what I do.
This. And if I wanted to listen to music while I was working, it would be music that I chose, not what was decided for me by the manager or some group of employees.
Anyway, don't care now 'cos I'm retired.
Likewise. Thank god.
I can't imagine it. I've never worked in any office anywhere which had music (or heard it in other offices that I've visited). Wouldn't want it, not conducive to any work environment I've been exposed to.
Do I speak up and make myself look like the miserable bastard that I am, or put up with it?
Speak up - but do it by phoning in to Jeremy Vine and moaning to him about it.
Every day
I can't imagine it. I've never worked in any office anywhere which had music (or heard it in other offices that I've visited). Wouldn't want it, not conducive to any work environment I've been exposed to.
You’ve never worked in a graphic design studio then?
We’re required by law to have 6 music on all day, while compiling Apple Music playlists of the really obscure stuff, otherwise we get struck off
A bit of Algerian hip hop or Belgium techno, mid-morning, helps with the creativity, maaan. 😃
while compiling Apple Music playlists of the really obscure stuff, otherwise we get struck off
Sounds a lot like a STW “music recommendation” thread.
Do you work in 1996?
Takes me back to switching over to Mark and Lard in the afternoon whenever the gatekeepers of sonic beige had their backs turned. It usually lasted until Fat Harry White started up and one of the old girls went scarlet.
I ****ing hate the radio too. Last work place had it on. Geezer who controlled it thought he was giving us a right treat by asking if we wanted capital, heart, km, or kisstory, the ****. I got noise cancelling earbuds. **** that shit.
Actually that's s bit unfair 😄 they didn't play it loud so I didn't need to play my music loud enough to hurt my ears to drown it out. They knew I hatred it, i made that clear.
I think this sums up how the radio makes me feel:
Who needs thermostat wars... Open a bigger better war on a second front with radio stations!
Oh god… don’t get me started on thermostats. I work in an office with another couple of blokes and 30 women. It’s like an oven most of the time. an oven with Heart FM on.
No BBC stations last long because "there's too much talking." Yet the lengthy commercial breaks and the same adverts over and over again are perfectly fine.
Yeah, funny how that works; people even moan about 6Music and the chatter between songs! I often find that ‘chatter’ actually informative, as it’s usually from intelligent people.
My direct response to the OP’s comment would be, yes, I’m fine with it, with the proviso that I wear headphones or in-ear monitors all day. No headphones, no radio.
Yeah, funny how that works; people even moan about 6Music and the chatter between songs! I often find that ‘chatter’ actually informative, as it’s usually from intelligent people.
Yeah, I used to love being able to listen to that when self employed. So many interesting interviews with interesting people, opening up more and more music and wonderful things in life to explore.
Now? F*****g McDonalds whistle, and 'Darling hold my hand!' Jet2 brain frying shit every half an hour.
Hey, but I don't let it affect me 😂
It's not about being a music snob. I've been working at the hospital since 1996. In those days I was in the laundry and the local station was on, all day every day. The playlists of the likes of heart and absolute have hardly changed. It's the same songs, day in day out.
Even some of the adverts are the same if we ever get a local station on now.....
The Fleetwood car centre.... The fylde coasts number one.
Don't stop me now by queen... It's a classic isn't it, it's a great song. I don't ever need to hear it ever again. I've had my fair share of it.
As I mentioned up there.... Return of the Mack! I mean who the bloody hell likes that. I guarantee I will hear that today. If not that, I'll definitely hear breakfast at Tiffany's. Depends whether it's day A playlist or day B. Because there's only 2 days worth of songs. In the entire history of music. Boiled down to 2 days worth.
The Fleetwood car centre.... The fylde coasts number one.
The playlists of the likes of heart and absolute have hardly changed. It's the same songs, day in day out.
It absolutely mystifies me why anyone wants it.
Heart FM is basically like being stuck in an eternal wedding disco. Absolute 80’’s? How many times does anyone need to hear Gold by Spandau Ballet? XFM is the same, just for people who are into dreary pub rock. Oh, it’s Kasabian again for the third time in 2 hours. Let me guess… Stereophonics up next?
I don’t want you to have a bad day but……………Christmas song hell awaits you.
I gone and turned it down. This will probably make me the office villain for a day or two, but I couldn't deal with another day of it.
The "fun department" will have a moan, but sod 'em.
I think you're a karateka, from previous posts? Gedan borai, as you saunter past, sending it out of an open window?
The "fun department" will have a moan, but sod 'em.
Don't worry about it,they are too busy getting excited about their M&S Xmas shopping list,the office party ,and what pair of grey shoes they should wear to the next Tribute band concert. 😉 🤣
I think you're a karateka, from previous posts? Gedan borai, as you saunter past, sending it out of an open window?
Ippon Ken through the speaker grill perhaps...
Chuck Norris would approve 👍
It absolutely mystifies me why anyone wants it.
Heart FM is basically like being stuck in an eternal wedding disco. Absolute 80’’s? How many times does anyone need to hear Gold by Spandau Ballet? XFM is the same, just for people who are into dreary pub rock. Oh, it’s Kasabian again for the third time in 2 hours. Let me guess… Stereophonics up next?
Well, true, but the same goes for the bleeding edge tunes beloved by the STW cognoscenti. Who imagines that everyone likes them, and even if they do, do they want to listen to them all day every day, especially when they're supposed to be working?
Lucky all my working life was in institutions which didn’t allow for music being played in the workplace. I couldn’t have coped with that.
Well, true, but the same goes for the bleeding edge tunes beloved by the STW cognoscenti. Who imagines that everyone likes them, and even if they do, do they want to listen to them all day every day, especially when they're supposed to be working?
Listening to music while working can hardly be classified as multitasking. Well… not if you colour things in for a living
and I do actually like listening to Mongolian Death Jazz or Acid Harp while I do it.
Mrs Binners is on the same wavelength as you though Dr J. She wanders in while I’m ‘working’, looks at me with a mix of pity and contempt and says ‘what the **** are you listening to?’ 😃
Well, true, but the same goes for the bleeding edge tunes beloved by the STW cognoscenti. Who imagines that everyone likes them, and even if they do, do they want to listen to them all day every day, especially when they're supposed to be working?
I used to think I was a bit of a music snob, and the music I listened to was better than other music, but eventually had to admit that early 90s rave music isn't exactly known for it's quality, and some of my favourite tracks from that period lack any quality whatsoever (but not all).
More a case of not wanting to listen to the same music day in day out. Hearing the same music day in day out is extremely monotonous in my experience. I listen to some music some people might consider snobby music because I've made the effort to find music I enjoy listening to. However, there's a lot of music I listen to which I have to be in the right mood for. The radio station doesn't account for variability in people's mood, it treats everyone as a flat homogenous being.
Or something.
Its more the constant repetition than being snobbish for me, on a once a year frequency I don't mind hearing Six pence non the richer but not every bloody day against my will
I never get covers bands who, in the whole history of 50 years of pop music choose to play Maroon 5 or Bruno Mars....'its what people want!' is it? Is it really? I'm sure they'd not mind Raspberry Beret, any Motown track (except superstitious) or Lola, anything! Worlds your lobster!!
Thanks for the warning.
‘what the **** are you listening to?’ 😃
It’s not so much what are you listening to. It’s more why are you listening to ANYTHING.
Ghostbuster by Ray Parker Jnr currently pumping out. I fear that I may not survive the day.
Absolute 80s apparently. Absolute ***ts more like.
Ghostbuster by Ray Parker Jnr currently pumping out. I fear that I may not survive the day.
Absolute 80s apparently. Absolute ***ts more like.
I ain't afraid of no goats. 😆
Look at what the kids do. Wear headphones, airpods etc
