NCAAbbs

Going thru your groceries, Targets, what not, and hearing the sh!tty music playing heres my description of a day, if I were muzak programmer, here's my list for a typical day. Say the store's open from 8 am to 10 pm. That's 14 or so hours of music, no? So I figure that's 840 minutes, if the songs at least 4 minutes long. 840 divided by four equals 210. That's approx. the (four minutes) maximum. Sure, you'll have your 60's and prior tunes that were a required two and half max. So equate that in. Actually don't. Disregard everything I've said, and make your Muzak mix from 8-10. Actually parameters do matter. So go by two hour blocks, four minutes, that equals 30 bands per two hour segmant. Radio friendly (i.e. nothing obscene or too weird- by that i mean nothing of an acquired taste).

Here's mine, just list the artists, we can get into specific songs if this becomes something worht talking bout:

First Round: 8-10 AM

1 Divine Comedy- Light of Day
2 the National- Looking for Astronauts
3 Talking Heads- Nothing but Flowers
4 Kate Bush- Running Up That Hill
5 the Smiths- This Charming Man
6 the Decemberists- Engine Driver
7 Drive By Truckers- My Sweet Annette
8 Xavier Rudd- Let Me Be
9 Ben Harper- Waiting On an Angel
10 Ryan Adams- Let it Ride
11 U2- Where the Streets Have No Names
12 REM- You Are the Everything
13 Sigur Ros- Hoppipola
14 Elliot Smith- Everything Reminds Me of Her
15 My Bloody Valentine- When You Sleep
16 Beth Orton- Don't Need a Reason
17 Stars- Heart
18 Sam Cooke- What a Wonderful World
19 Sufjan Stevens- Decatur
20 Feist- Past in Present
21 Wilco- Wishful Thinking
22 Otis Redding- I've Got Dreams to Remember
23 Camera Obscura- Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
24 Belle & Sebastian- I'm Waking Up to Us
25 The Boy Least Likely To- Warm Panda Cola
26 The Polyphonic Spree- It's the Sun
27 Arcade Fire- Keep the Car Running
28 Regina Spektor- Sampson
29 Marvin Gaye- Wherever I Leave My Hat (that's my home)
30 Smokey Robinson- Tracks of My Tears

edit: to add song titles, and omit some artists.

I'm just going to go ahead and pick 30 songs, because I think that will be easier....

The rules I put on myself...
a. Song couldn't rock too much.
b. Either song or artist should be recognizable enough or catchy enough to not distract shopper.

1. The Stills - Love & Death
2. Ambulance LTD. - Anecdote
3. Colbie Callat - Realize
4. Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
5. Sufjan Stevens - Holland
6. The Thrills - Not For All The Love In The World
7. Blur - Coffee & T.V.
8. George Michael - Cowboys & Angels
9. The Alternate Routes - Time Is A Runaway
10. Blind Melon - Mouthful of Cavities
11. Cat Power - The Greatest
12. Band Of Horses - The Funeral
13. David Gray - Slow Motion
14. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
15. Etta James - A Sunday Kind Of Love
16. The Sundays - Summertime
17. Lenny Kravitz - A Long And Sad Goodbye
18. JET - Look What You've Done
19. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
20. Ben Folds - The Luckiest
21. Fall Out Boy - I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off
22. Madeleine Peyroux - Don't Wait Too Long
23. A New Found Glory - I Don't Wanna Know
24. The Fray - Look After You
25. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
26. Augustana - Boston
27. Ryan Adams - This House Is Not For Sale
28. Billie Holiday - The Very Thought Of You
29. Under The Influence Of Giants - Stay Illogical
30. Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning

I'm going to break the rules and skip the idea of being a Muzak programmer for a moment.

If I were in charge of a store, I'd like to think I'd come up with some cool mixes, but there's something about the album format that I wouldn't get completely away from...which album depends on the type of store. If I had a random store, I'd run with Johnny Cash records. Everyone from grandmothers to punk rockers, from sinners to saints love Johnny Cash. Plus, I love Johnny Cash. You can't go wrong with JC. However, if I owned a sandwich/lunch/resturaunt/deli/bar & grill joint, I'd have Jimmy Reed's Greatest Hits spinning through the lunch hour. It's the perfect style blues for lunching over a good sanwhich, some homemade style chips and a dill pickle. Seriously, give it a listen http://www.amazon.com/Best-Jimmy-Reed/dp...06&sr=8-11
This has been on my mind since the summer of 1997 when my coworkers took me out to lunch on the last day of my internship. We went to a resturaunt/bar/grill type place that had the best blues playing. It was such a perfect fit. Anyway, Hound Dog Taylor and Junior Wells are a nice fit as well.

Tomorrow I'll play along with the Muzak idea.

10-12

1- Bob Dylan- Girl From the North Country Fair
2- the Decemberists- Here I Dreamt I was an Architect
3- Beirut- Scenic World
4- Laura Viers- Galaxies
5- Simon & Garfunkel- the Boxer
6- Maria Taylor- A Clean Getaway
7- Al Green- Here I am Baby
8- Beck- Lost Cause
9- Afghan Wigs- 66
10- Jens Lekman- Black Cab
11- Guided By Voices- I am a Scientist
12- Peter Tosh- Till Your Well Runs Dry
13- the Mills Brothers- Lazy River
14- Jackie Wilson- Your Love (Keeps Lifting Me Higher)
15- the Pixies- Monkey Gone to Heaven
16- New Pornographers- Failsafe
17- Lucero- That Much Further West
18- Azure Ray- Rise
19- Dandy Warhols- You We're the Last High
20- VNV Nation- Perpetual
21- Athlete- Tokyo
22- Kevin Drew- Lucky Ones
23- Postal Service- Nothing Better
24- Bob Marley- You Can't Blame the Youth
25- Orenda Fink- Dirty South
26- Architecture in Helsinki- Wishbone
27- Built to Spill- Car
28- Bishop Allen- Empire City
29- Bat For Lashes- Prescilla
30- Vashti Bunyan- Wayward Hum