Erstellt am: 12. 10. 2015 - 11:34 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Attention K-Mart Shoppers
The seventies were weird. Bile yellow, pea green, bell bottoms and one of the most bizarre music formats I have ever had to sit through. Bland instrumental arrangements that have been described as easy-listening, beautiful music (I'm serious, that was a branding term), elevator music or the trademarked Muzak.
It was meant to be an inoffensive background for public space, I guess. Some people, like my dad, actually preferred it for private use as well.
For years it was just this weird background sound, that was always there. Until I started expanding my musical horizons, became familiar with more music and suddenly realised those bland notes were actually supposed to be new arrangements of things like Crazy Train. Or Smoke on the Water. Or Purple Haze.
They weren't enjoyable versions, but after realising what was going on, I could at least entertain myself while waiting for the dentist by trying to figure out what the current bit of banality might have once been.
And now I hope to be able to share that with you.
Attention K-Mart Shoppers is a collection of the cassettes used in an american discount chain store. The cassettes are from the late 80's to early 90's, so I suspect some of my favourites might not be there, but some new gems might have been added.
Those of you, who want to kick it really old school, might want to check out a collection of Seeburg 1000 recordings from 1968 to 1971. I haven't even started with those, and I know the audio quality is going to be abysmal, but it still might be entertaining.