8 September 2008

The most annoying car park music in Canberra?

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In the Canberra Centre this morning the car park was enhanced by a truly objectionable hammond organ recording.

Shopping centres for a few years now have played music in their hinterlands intended to drive away scruffy teenagers without being too objectionable to grown-ups with money.

So what are the stand outs for you in the different shopping precincts of Canberra?

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Some carparks used to do a lot of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, but then ‘Mack the Knife’ would come on and it all get rather messy.

If they played the Strauss’ I would probably not leave the carpark. That would bugger their plan right u.

do they play music in car parks??

I thought they parked cars….

strange to say, that is what I do. then wrestle with 2 little boys who love to squirm whilst i bolt them in their stroller, strap on the child leash for my daughter and get in the mall post haste.

don’t really listen to music….

AngryHenry: I reckon a good dose of Barry Manilow or Nana Mouskouri will give the Hammond Organ a run for its money as far as “Teen Pest Control” goes.

I’m waiting for the Beethoven music to attract types looking for the ol’ ultraviolence…

Aw c’mon I was having fun with this one.

JB it’s no slant on you or the stuff you bring to RiotACT, indeed without you I’d probably be looking at a blank page right now and you should probably get a bit more recognition for that.

It’s a funny story mate. I picture you standing in the middle of the car-park amidst all the parking straining to hear a tune. That’s funny, if I had seen you doing it I probably would have come up and asked if you were okay or alerted security…

If you live your life inert to your surroundings and are upset by discussion of them then feel free to scan down the page to the next thing.

Whatsup said :

AngryHenry: And you have just spent time on the internet commenting on people that hang around car-parks critiquing muzak. What was your point again ?

Haha! I was waiting for that…

I’m doing the same thing as you mate, reading, commenting, occaisonally feeding my mind, sometimes having it crapped on (like right here)but I’m certainly not standing around in a car-park listening to tunes!!!

So what’s YOUR point? You’re gonna have to spell it out for me.

Are you a car park muzak critic writing in defense of your colleagues? If so I would love to hear your opinion on the Hammond Organ version of MC Hammer’s ‘U Can’t Touch This’.

Hammond organ recordings have ways of making you hear ….

AngryHenry: And you have just spent time on the internet commenting on people that hang around car-parks critiquing muzak. What was your point again ?

Hanging out in car-parks listening to muzak is one thing but writing and posting an article?

C’mon man!

I know not every posting can’t be a bona-fide hit with the masses but jeez!

This is your life, it’s ending one-minute at a time and you’re hanging around car-parks critiquing muzak… What a waste!

la mente torbida11:23 am 09 Sep 08

I’m sure it was a mistake, but I remember Woden Plaza eons ago, were playing Frank Zappa over the music system…had to laugh at the line booming out “Don’t F@ck around with Billy the Mountain”.

Today I was serenaded with the joyous sounds of jazz in Woden Interchange on my way to work. Makes it all the more magical when you have a bus roaring past every few minutes.

I think that’s quite a nice idea, playing weird, quirky music. they could rent pensioners to sit and play their casio organs (or Hammonds, if they were rich). They coud do “when the saints go marching in” and “roll out the barrel” and all kinds of great stuff.

Barry Manilow will get the young ‘uns running for cover !

i always get 80’s pop in woden underground, which makes me inexplicably happy…
a few weeks ago in woolies coolamon court they were playing all this nostalgic 30’s style crooning….which was bizarre, then i realised that it was pension day!

Or Steve Irwin:

“Crikey! What have we here?”

“Looks like a job for the crack Riot 501st!”

Or David Attenborough.

In plum English accent and safari suit: “We’ve ventured deep, deep into the Tuggeranong Delta, emerging from the murky wetlands, amidst the shopping trolleys and assorted smoking parapehrnalia discarded from the nearby shores, and make our way further into the impenetrable heart, towards the Hyperdome wastelands. On the air comes the unmistakable sound of the mating call of ‘Homospien Deep Soutius’: Barry White’s classic hits, as interpreted by the 101 Strings Orchestra, rearranged and remixed especially for ‘Muze-blech’ (TM, registered)…. and we know at last, our journey is nearing its end.”

Or something.

Looks like a job for the crack Riot 501st!

I use carparks to park my car and dodge nearsighted women driving 4WDs, and don’t spend enough time loitering in them to be able to review their music.

Can’t say i’ve ever noticed the music in the canberra centre car park. i’m more concerned with not getting run over by people looking for parking spaces than where they are going

Last time I was in the underground car park at Woden Plaza I thought to myself that such a thing as car park music should never have been invented.

It’s all part of a general slide into hardly ever encountering an environment devoid of “entertainment” (aka advertising opportunities)…

tuggeranong bus interchange keeps on playing classical music, during the day, if its to keep hoodlims out, they failed. epically..

And the car park in woden keeps on playing kelly clarkson, whenever i’m there..which is kinda weird.

(oh, and dont get me started about music in supermarkets..i work in one, and have heard enough spice girls, aqua, hanson, and hilary duff, to re-live my childhood..)

The Woden bus interchange went through a phase of playing country music in the evenings. Not the good alt.country style, but vile old redneck stuff.

Recently I heard a Spice Girls double-play while in Civic Supabarn – it got me so pumped that I bought an extra set of scrunchies.

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