Word: muzak
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...shelves in a local supermarket. They displayed four French and four German wines "matched for their price and dryness or sweetness," indicating the origin of each vintage with a French or German flag. For two weeks, from a tape deck on an upper shelf, they played their own homemade Muzak, alternating days of French accordion and German beer-hall music...
...year-old's suspension from school for kissing a classmate. News--or at least lots of verbiage that passes for news--seems to be everywhere. Sometimes it blares at us with banner headlines and sensational TV come-ons. Other times, it just drones, a kind of Muzak for current-events obsessives. News is chewed over by TV pundits, railed about by talk-radio hosts, nibbled at in gossip columns, debated over the Internet--relentless, insistent, inescapable...
...before we take advantage of this man's services, we often have to hear a bizarre mixture of music, Muzak and who-knows-what. (The revolutionary piped music system was first reported in the pages of the summer Crimson.) Some examples from Dartboard's private logs...
...Several minutes of a sort of Asian-inspired country Muzak. Odd electronically-generated instruments sounding vaguely like kotos, but with a definite Nashville twinge. Who could have thought of this music? Time to alert Philip Glass...
...standard baroque trio sonata, we think. Telemann or perhaps one of the Bach sons. But it's over in a flash. Segue to standard piano Muzak, sounds like something familiar. Unbelievable--it's Bryan Adams' "I Do it for You." (Vomiting ensues...