Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for September 26, 2021

It was about 40 years ago when I heard the Beatles in an elevator….and dumbed down to Mantovani style. >sigh<

I once worked in an office with muzak. Iwas in my early 30’s when I heard the Beatles and other songs I liked much more on that thing.

And that was Sympathy for the devil, by the new christy minstrel….

I think it’s a riot that the songs I grew up with are now considered “The Golden Age of Rock.” Just spent the day revisiting Jimmie Rogers (Kisses Sweeter than Wine; Tucumcari; Are You Really, Really Mine, Honeycomb. . .") I had forgotten how popular he was. . .

I liked it better when stores were quiet with no music.

No, old is when you don’t even recognize the “artists” in the Muzak. Example: hip-hop at Target.

Our grocery store plays all kinds of stuff, and none of it’s muzak. It’s some kind of grocery radio.

Not true; I recall hearing muzak versions of songs that were only a couple of years old, if that.

Oh goody. Yet another cartoonist uses this now very stale gag.

It’s not Muzak® unless you spell it right.

I was in a department store this past summer and “Princess Leia’s Theme” was playing on the Muzak. Star Wars on Muzak???? Something weird: Antonio Carlos Jobim made an instrumental album of some of his musics expressly for use in Muzak. Gets his estate more royalties and introduces Bossa Nova to the great unwashed.

You heard some of that Jobim Muzak on the elevator ride at the end of Blues Brothers.

Aerosmith is used in commercials, another sign, lol

She should have come to that moment long before what her age appears to be.

I work for a grocery store and we have all noticed that the musical Playlist has changed lately

There are songs that are currently playing on the radio, and then there are songs I remember from when I was in elementary school and I’m almost 60

Happened about thirty years ago for me.

Last time grocery shopping they were playing Born To Be Wild and Led Zeppelin’s Black Dog! I had to look around me to make sure where I was . . . . :)

AC/DC Hells Bells just doesn’t translate well to Muzak.

I have to smirk when the 50 year-olds downstairs are shocked that ‘80s music is being played on oldies stations. At least it’s played. I rarely hear anything from the ’60s over the air and the ’50s? Forget it.