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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: Background music pollution
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 10:43:46 EDT
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> 
>    Tolerating other people's annoying faults is what public means...
>                                                  Fran Liebowitz (sp)?
> 
>      Why work up such a stink about popular music. Instead, put your energy
>into hating the musical equivalent of velvet Elvis posters...background music!

Right on!

>      WHY DON'T BACKGROUND MUSIC VENDORS USE RECORDINGS OF THE GREAT CLASSICAL
> REPERTOIE or, for that matter, jazz and the original rock 'n roll/country/soul
> songs which they rip off anyway? 

NO, NO, NO! ALL background music is evil! As much as I love, say, Mahler's
6th symphony, I'd probably get indigestion if I tried to listen (I mean
LISTEN) to it at dinner. Music is for listening! Dinner is for eating, and
never the twain should meet (says I).

When I don't want to listen to music I want *silence*!

MUZAK is a communist plot, anyway...

						Jeff Winslow