*knock knock* Anyone out there? Yooo hooooooo!

Anyway....my question has to do with store ambiance, do you have any ideas for music that you would like to hear playing in the background besides elevator music? Or the local radio station playing golden oldies?

-- Anonymous, March 15, 2002

Answers

I tend to prefer Clasical.

May seem boring to some but it isn't a distraction and is easily recognized by about anyone that ever took a music class in school or grew up watching Looney Tunes.

I have walked out of stores leaving a cartful of merchandise due to the IRRITATING music that was being played at near concert volume. If Whitney Houston comes on squeeling and squalling about her broken heart.... I'm gone, quick.

It really depends on the store and the items carried:

Teen miss clothing... Brittny Spears good / Black Oak Arkansas bad

Fine furniture and Pfaltzgraff (sp?) china....Motzart good / Beasty Boys bad

Bongs and roach clips.... Greatful Dead good / Flatt and Scruggs bad

-- Anonymous, March 17, 2002

Thanks.

The only thing is that classical puts us to sleep. We have found it makes for nice twinkly background music but litterally makes us drag by the end of the day.

We are experimenting with different music.

We sell an emotionally purchased product. A retail store dealing with high ticketed items that are not neccessary to the function of life but are purchased at celebratory or emotional times.

The only music we have hit a "VIOLA!" with is Celine Dion, but there are only so many times you can play the CD over and over with out wanting to rip your hair out. So perhaps romantic music is in order.

So any romantic music ideas? A friend told me Tony Braxton and Kenny G so am going to get those next. We are desperate to hit the right "mood" :-)

thanks for your help!

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2002

Hey, We are revived!!! For those, um, intimate, bonding moments, well OK lately it's just pure raw lust, but I wish and digress--an ex- boyfriend turned me on to a beautiful CD called Piano Solos produced by Narada-Lotus. The id code is ND-61031.

I try to make sure I get *something* out of a(nother) failed relationship.

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

Hmmmmm, checked it out, they have sample tracks on their site/sounds like the proper "mood" music to put people in the right "mood" Heh. thanks!

I also brought my 'serenity' CD's in and they are working too. Its hard to find the proper mix of music. For us and 'them' :-)

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

For "mood" music be sure to check out ENIGMA some of their cuts seem a little strange but overall very powerful.

Might I suggest that you get an MP3 player to use instead of regular cd's..... That way you can "mix and burn" your own disks and not get sick of hearing the same thing over and over. We have a portable version similar to a disc man that costs about $130.00 We can put about 200 songs on 1 cd in MP3 format which is much better than carrying 20 different cd's around.

Plus by making your own cd's that open up the whole backwards masking / subliminal message thing......(buy now.... buy more....spend spend spend) :o)

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

LOL "the whole backwards sublimanal message thing" sounds intriging. Heh.

That is a good suggestion about the MP3 player/burner thingy. It sounds like a much better idea than changing CD's every 3 Cd's!!

I also just discovered at Target their mood music section and bought "Romantic Evening" and its light jazzy romantic music is very nice.

I will go search for "ENIGMA" and see what that is about, I'm willing to try anything.

-- Anonymous, March 22, 2002

Just in case anyone was just dying with wonder with the music selections we have chosen finally, it is jazz.

Romantic jazz or sometimes it is classed as 'smooth' jazz. No vocals. That is the music that has been chosen as "working" in the store. ;-) Just thought I'd update everyone after all the options that you took time to give us. And we have tried just about everything.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2002

I recommend the old jazz divas: Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan. Or a new one, Diana Krall.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2002