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From: goetter@yale.ARPA (Samurai Cat)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Background music pollution
Message-ID: <447@yale.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 20:17:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: yale.447
Posted: Sun Oct 20 20:17:52 1985
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Reply-To: goetter@yale-comix.UUCP (Samurai Cat)
Organization: Yale University CS Dept., New Haven CT
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Keywords: W. A. Mozart, Ronald MacDonald
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Summary: 

In article <5752@tekecs.UUCP> jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>> 
>>      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).

Amen!  Picture, if you will, entering a MacDonald's and ordering dinner, only
to get the Mozart Requiem with your fries and Filet-O-Fish(*).
("Dies irae!" <crunch, smack, slurp> "Dies illa!" <chew, chew, gobble, belch>)

I don't think my brain could take the strain.

>
>When I don't want to listen to music I want *silence*!
>
>MUZAK is a communist plot, anyway...
>
>						Jeff Winslow

Not Communist, Jeff, but Satanist.  Listen to those strings and harps
BACKWARDS some time....

	:- Ben.

(*) Filet-O-Fish is a trademark of whoever owns MacDonald's

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