More Sounds Of The Department Store

[@TH3PLA1NP1L0T]

POV: It's been 2 hours, your knees are weak, and your mom is still talking to her friend that she bumped into

[@Spongyboi897]

Mom: "Oh hey Ms.Jam-" *The mom's son then loads up a gun and aims it at his mom's friend's head* Son: "Not today."

[@AprilJoi5]

Haha!! Remember that like it was yesterday! 😂

[@pinkiepie2806]

@@Spongyboi897 HELLO?😭

[@14THEPINKPANTHER]

I feel like all of us can realate to this no matter what era it is lol

[@SkeletorJenkins]

Still gotta check out. With coupons. It's 2x coupon day!!

[@vainglorias]

now that i work at a supermarket, i kinda wish they would play songs like this sometimes. listening to the same 50 pop songs makes you go a little insane 😵‍💫

[@emirachelnatalie3397]

YESSSS. I'm in New Zealand and all my supermarket plays is from NZ artists (all the same songs over and over), random weird ones or big artists like Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Adele, Harry Styles etc etc.....lowkey boring but it's alright. Would MUCH rather prefer music like this!

[@husky11191993]

Thank you! Same! I thought I was the only one who would prefer this to the modern pop music that plays

[@CloverPillbug]

Eh, we have the problem of the same country music. Not really the exact same songs but once you heard one country song you heard them all. I'm in the South US though and it's pretty normal here. ☹️

[@pueohoot543]

College radio for the dub at my grocery market! Shout out Kokua Market and KTUH !

[@Mr_Dancy_Pants]

I used to work at one that insisted on playing the old style of Western music that included yodeling.

[@ichigo.42ga3]

Bring this back, the retail workers are sick of the chainsmokers 😭

[@joaqueen]

lol the accuracy though !

[@Syntox]

So are SHOPPERS, believe me.

[@maddiehall5317]

Any Justin Bieber song too!

[@unownnnn]

That is a fate worse than death

[@lqweiii]

also olivia rodrigo

[@pebbleinthecorner]

i think society would be a little better if we collectively brought this back

[@jadapinkett1656]

You can have it.

[@Ranstone]

The choice is yours man. Start your own company. Nothing is stopping you. if you wait for other people to change the world, nothing will happen, and you'll die poor.

[@airplanes7204]

YES ❤

[@oinkooink]

People are too happy with this brave new world. Tradition is out.

[@severusdeath]

You can’t have stores because people will rob you blind. No more decency.

[@craigmatthews4656]

"Attention shoppers...the time is currently 8.50pm....this store will be closing in 10 minutes time....please finalise your shopping and make your way to the checkouts....this store will reopen at 9am tomorrow for your convenience."

[@falling4uslowly]

@@ingridfitz5677THAT IS SO CUTE😭😭😭

[@carltonbanks5470]

Then somebody walk in with a large basket at 8:56

[@mlkennedy67111]

I worked at a Mervyn's in college... 30 years later, I still can recite the closing announcement. Thank God I eventually graduated from college and got a real job. 🙃

[@caironiancanuck482]

​@ingridfitz5677 Haha, that was new for the time. I used to work at London Drugs in Canada during 1st year college and would try to change up my funny announcements on the P.A. system, especially at closing: "...if any customer is locked in by accident, they'll be required to make fresh omelets for all staff in the morning", then the company VP was shopping there one night and told me to make only serious announcements and never to do that again. I guess I wasn't funny either. Miss that music though.

[@someguy4911]

@@mlkennedy67111 LOL I remember Mervyn's. My mom would drag me there for back to school clothes shopping. I was miserable each time but now looking back on it, it's a funny memory.

[@baroque_lad]

I worked at a small town grocery store that played music like this in the 2010's. It really was nice to hear this behind the cart wheel noises and cashier machine's beeps. When the store was empty and it was just the music I'd get super sleepy and try to keep myself awake by reading the newspaper. I worked New Years Eve and it was stressful but pretty magical- we had lines of people with stuffed carts full of holiday food and lots of old looking decorations that our management would put up. I loved working in the mornings because I would be on the first register and around 7am the sunlight would hit the store just right to make my aisle glow. Right before I left for college my manager let us stay and shop after hours and we had a cookout in the parking lot. I still have my name tag nearly ten years later cuz I loved that job so much

[@jet3626]

thats awesome

[@Gingersnaps1978]

What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing it☺️

[@unclvinny]

This is so charming!

[@shanesmith6941]

What a nice memory to share. That made me remember my dad's restaurant back in the 80s. It was a buffet style, and he had a reel-to-reel tape deck playing the "elevator music" while families ate their dinner. What a simpler time that was.

[@mylifesorare]

this was so fun to read, do you remember the name of the store?

[@andrewc.2952]

Why can't we play this in stores now? I'm so serious.

[@iheartericcartman]

right? i'm so tired of hearing the same rap songs over and over again

[@hazeldavis3176]

The depressing answer is that stores use specific bpms to get people to shop faster so they make more money. People tend to subconsciously walk to the beat and faster customers means a higher throughput of shoppers. This music is too slow and would eat away at .000002% of their profits. The use of music speed usually only applies in large chain warehouse stores. Smaller boutiques and age-focused retail (think Claire's or teen-centered Five Below) uses songs to appeal to their specific demo, rather than relying on bpms.

[@orangeziggy348]

@@hazeldavis3176 interesting to know thanks

[@jenniferburchill3658]

@@hazeldavis3176 Way back when, supermarkets would play slow music to keep people in the stores longer(and thereby spend more money).

[@anthonyriche552]

@@jenniferburchill3658 You're right. The change is really a sign of the times. Back then longer strolls along the aisles meant more money. Now the profits are in impulse buying and people want to spend LESS time in stores, not more. So upbeat music keeps them moving (and less likely to think about what they're buying). It's a science now.

[@EmilyTienne]

I wish grocery store chains would experiment by playing this music once again. No one would object …and everyone would stay a little longer browsing the shelves.

[@WilsonPendarvis-tn3wm]

Nothing runs me out of the store quicker than a Guns N’ Roses song. Other music would be welcome

[@onizuka6573]

Where do you shop? I wanna know what gnr songs they play, never happened to me​@@WilsonPendarvis-tn3wm

[@wnrr2696]

Only reason I can think they stopped it was someone kept getting the song stuck in their head making them think about the shop, and said subliminal messaging was being used my the shop having its own theme. Let’s be real it costs to have a radio license to play songs including cds etc not just radio, so my guess is they just thought pop would be more appealing

[@braves9652]

I worked in a grocery store for three years, and I would've objected. Yes, I would much rather listen to The Ramones and Elton John than this.

[@dvidclapperton]

​@@braves9652 I would not have preferred Radio 1 or Radio 2 playing when the test card was showing on BBC1 and BBC2..

[@tomshiba51]

We high school students used to joke about this music back in the early seventies, but now I fondly look back at those wonderful times when I took for granted this very music. Every Christmas season, I find the K-Mart Christmas tape of 1974 and play that. I do hope you provide something as well. Thank you for your channel.

[@apathy3399]

The 1974 K mart tape makes me very merry at Christmas. I'm grateful to whoever bothered to preserve it.

[@6dogs729]

That why i try not to poke fun at stuff can come back to get you in the worst ways like memory

[@Yantryman]

Its called - Muzak 😉

[@randymulder9105]

I liked the car cassette tapes too for the Oldsmobile Cutless Supreme. It had the Oldsmobile jingle too. I have the tapes and the car sales pamphlets. Those pamphlets are beautiful. Hand drawn car artwork and designs, and amazing photography and graphic design.

[@pepsi_man4962]

@MR Smothers also don’t forget that retail like this is literally becoming a thing of the past. It’s so sad to think about. When you listen to something like this you realize just how much the country has gone dystopian.

[@grumblekin]

It's 1985 and I am in a store that still has avocado-colored carpet and brown walls. Mom is checking out clothes and I am sitting in the middle of a round clothes rack so I can be hidden from everyone in my teepee of solitude. We are going to Chick-Fil-A soon and I will get a new book from Waldenbooks today. School starts soon and I can't wait to see all the new kids and make new friends and learn new things. My cat is at home, waiting for me, and we will play with her favorite feather toy. I will sleep deeply and dream vividly. My entire life is ahead of me and I can't wait to see what it brings. I will never forget. And these songs will help me remember. Thank you for these memories!

[@radiofreealbemuth]

Ah, I really enjoyed reading this post. Thanks 🤗

[@vacafuega]

Thank you for sharing your lovely memories.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Me too though I was 35 in 1985. The store manager didn’t appreciate my clothes rack teepee.

[@Myrddin_x]

crying rn.

[@JakobMakesStuff]

How evocative! 😊

[@okeoi]

I love the comment sections in uploads like this one. No arguing, no hostility, just people vibing together and sharing stories.

[@FLAMESNSKULLZGAMING]

same here me too :)

[@takeoats]

Lets fight

[@takeoats]

I disagree

[@ramencurry6672]

Back then in the early 70s a common debate in the mainstream was the women’s lib movement

[@okeoi]

@@takeoats Why would I fight someone with a classic Kitty Cat Dance pfp? How about a dance off instead, dancing kitty cat?

[@kentnoble3693]

This music gives off great vibes of togetherness and promising times. I can remember my younger brother pushing the cart and me on the front inside the grocery store while my mother picked stuff for my older brother pass. This was in the latter of the 60s and early 70,'s 1970'. Thinking back the store had this music and it seemed all shoppers were at peace strolling the isles. What a time it was then we had no cell phones..internet..but had 8 track players..for this music.

[@jonahsebalius5012]

I honestly think relaxing music like this would make people stay in stores longer.

[@lfrey2001]

That's exactly what it was designed to do.

[@FriedEggSarnie]

They don't always want people to stay in the stores for a long time. It's more about making people make quick decisions, or feel excited so they forget to stick to their budget 😄

[@jonahsebalius5012]

@@FriedEggSarnie Good point, I remember reading somewhere that some fast food restaurants have uncomfortable chairs so you don't stay long lol

[@TayWoode]

@@FriedEggSarnie certainly quick decisions in places like Chicago, grab as much as possible then run

[@Hankvdb]

But more upbeat music is designed so people buy more in less time. This is exceptionally handy for popular stores that are naturally more busy to manage multiple flows at the same time. I agree though, slower music is a bit more user friendly for the customer.

[@sum1has2]

I was grocery shopping at Kroger and “Welcome To The Jungle” by Guns-n-Roses was one of the songs playing. There’s something to be said for this ambient music instead of “baby, you’re gonna die!” being screamed at you while you put the Cap’n Crunch in your cart…

[@hill3016]

Heard welcome to the jungle at an airport coffee shop. A bunch of elderly people were there and that " your going to di!" really hit home.

[@TopFix]

​@@hill3016 damn

[@birdbangbobarui]

@@TopFix double damn

[@ivan_valerian]

@@birdbangbobarui triple damn

[@birdbangbobarui]

@@ivan_valerian probably four damn

[@RetroRamune]

Every day I have to play this playlist on loop in a dark room for my chickens so that they will calm down. No other music stops their cries like this one, but it has come to the point where this is the only playlist of department store music they'll ever listen to. Thank you (edit): The dark room in question is just my bedroom. I do this when it's getting dark out and/or the weather is too cold or hot. My chickens, which are just 2 hens, aren't being stripped of their outdoor freedom. They roam around my backyard almost everyday and are spoiled with treats and air conditioning. They sleep in the house.

[@ryantandy307]

"Dark Room for My Chickens", I think that's what track 3 is called

[@dvidclapperton]

There are 7 tracks that were played om British TV accompanied by the test card. One of them was on Channel 4 test card tape And I Love Her in 1982. The other 6 were on BBC Tapes. The first of those was the second track on BBC1 test card tape Songs of Life from 1985 to 1987. The remaining 5 all came from BBC1 tape Sunflower from 1982 to 1985 including Sunflower.

[@dustystrawman3716]

Try playing cannibal corpse they love that

[@ThundercoltPictures]

how tf did you come to have your chickens listen to this

[@dudeseriously79]

​@@ThundercoltPictures Chickens prefer calming and soothing things. When they're really small i picked one that I was super nice to and I hugged it and kissed it so now that it's 2, it isn't scared of me and the others follow it to me.

[@jacquebixby1670]

This used to be called ‘Elevator Music.’ I love it! ❤

[@danedearmond4905]

I believe the genre term for this kind of music is: "Muzak".

[@jayonnaj18]

@@danedearmond4905 Yes, maybe NOW, but this music was first called elevator music! I was there back in the day, and I remember!

[@danedearmond4905]

​@@jayonnaj18 - I don't know what people call it now (as most places don't use it), but "Muzak" was the term coined for it in 1934 when the inventor / patent holder of it (G. Squier) combined the word "Music" with his love of the trademark name "Kodak" and formed the company that pushed retailers use that instead of Radio music. Yes, when we were younger most everyone called it "elevator music" (since that is where you'd often find it), overseas some called it "piped music".

[@vaethia8908]

Im unfortunately too young to have ever had heard music like this playing in stores, yet it still feels so blissful. Stuff like this provide a really unique sense of serenity that I rarely feel.

[@RailfanParadise]

I agree.

[@tanyawingfield9981]

Try bossa Nova 😊

[@dswilliams2686]

This is what people heard when they went shopping. What did they see? Ladies dressed in dresses, men wearing suits, children with clean faces, cheerful and helpful store clerks. Many stores had a popcorn machine in the lobby for the kids (if you behave in the store I'll buy you popcorn on the way out).

[@ripidentity]

Yep, these days department stores just play random songs you've never heard of, or you've heard multiple times before and are now tired of it.

[@lichh64]

whats unfortunate with being young, cherish your life

[@TomChabassiere]

00:14 Plucking the Strings - David Snell (c) UK 1983 01:34 Day Away - James Clarke (c) UK 1978 03:28 Going Home - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 06:25 Prairie Farm - David Snell (c) UK 1983 08:25 Rural Green - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 10:29 Strolling Around - Irving Martin (c) UK 1980 13:25 Island of Dreams - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 15:20 Manhattan Transfer - Steve Gray (c) UK 1981 18:19 Tattile - Oscar Rocchi/Franco Godi (c) Italia 1972 20:57 Sublime Country - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 22:47 Magic Moments - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 25:46 Spending Spree - David Snell (c) UK 1983 26:57 Flirtation - Peter Morris (c) UK 1978 29:19 ??? 32:03 Lucky One - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 34:45 Such Sweet Sorrow - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 37:31 Sales Appeal - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 39:37 Blowing in the Wind - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 41:35 Mountain Rose - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 43:32 ??? 47:06 Sentimental Journey - David Snell (c) UK 1981 50:06 Like Summer - David Gold/Gordon Rees (c) UK 1973 53:10 Happy Country - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 55:56 Over The Hedge Rows - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 59:09 Picture Gala - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1979 1:01:01 Just Passing Through - Valentino (c) ??? 1:03:20 Autumn Gold - Keith Mansfield (c) UK 1978 1:06:00 When I'm With You - Laurie Robertson Murphy (c) USA 1978 1:09:17 The Swallow - John A Coleman (c) UK 1978 1:11:20 Fun Loving - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 1:13:07 Odyssey - Ron Roker (c) ??? 1:15:08 Halcyon Days - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 1:17:28 ??? 1:20:44 Far Horizons - David Snell (c) UK 1978 1:23:43 Breezing Along - Laurie Robertson Murphy (c) USA 1979

[@lymarie1974]

Thank you so very much

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

A great service you just performed, my good citizen.

[@frazzleface753]

You are a legend for doing this.

[@napajniedam535]

you dont know how much ive needed this bro thank you so much

[@pacocarrion7869]

respect😎

[@michaelmcenery7515]

Back in the day when going to the mall on a Saturday with Mom & Dad was fun & exciting I really miss those days !

[@pataleno]

I was born in 1969 and one of my ever first memories of life was in a department store with my Mum. I must have been about 3 or 4 so around 1973. Fortunately my mum is still Alive. Love you Mum X

[@deegeethree]

very cool, thanks for sharing ...

[@MotherCow71]

I'd preferred to have this in stores, idk about anyone else but shopping is lowkey stressful, having soothing music to help me remember what I need would actually be amazing ❤️

[@nyxx7813]

ah yes grocery shopping with music with words so stressful your essentially a victim. You should sue. What do you want to do when you like grow up? i hope you arent into anything stem related. YOu better be some kinda esthetcian or something that like barely exists right. No, wait. Eye brows are intense actually um. Do you like watch seaseme street because avengers is too loud? sesame street might actually be to chaotic. Do you watch paint dry?

[@nyxx7813]

let me guess the beep when a phone call ends makes you jump a bit.

[@nyxx7813]

If a fire work goes off do you act like a dog with ptsd and run to the nearest thing you can crawl under? i bet you have the cutest sound canceling things for the 4th if your in the states. How did you make it to whatever age you are taking yourself seriously?

[@DrWoofOfficial]

@@nyxx7813 go away bozo

[@noavocado]

@@nyxx7813 Jesus dude get some help. Your self hatred is really loud in your needlessly cruel comments

[@lauradewein2042]

We definitely need this. Imagine how good people would feel in the stores. So much hate and anger now. It used to play in the air everywhere. No words needed just the peaceful uplifting melodies.

[@Jwdude123]

Trump 2024!

[@oranberry]

@@Jwdude123 i hope you can recover from this mental illness

[@mrshitfacemcgee]

@@Jwdude123 Monkey brain moment. You are sheeple. Copy paste comments everywhere like a small child.

[@scottm2998]

@@Jwdude123 sigh

[@Sweetumskitty1789]

@@scottm2998 Right?

[@BeautifulSpirit-kf5ld]

This is cute . I worked for Sears thru the 1980s. It was all Muzak and the best people I've ever worked with. We had a blast . I sold video game systems (Atari. ColecoVision) and tractors . Back then , you got a free game, with every game system. (PacMan. Donkey Kong. Cosmic Ark). We had a wonderful boss, and great sales numbers. Won awards for sales. Great job, lovely people.

[@ebunky]

I remember begging my dad to get us a Colelcovision for Xmas. I loved Donkey Kong. That was the only game system I had at that time. My friend had Atari and others! I miss Sears - They just shut down the last store in my state of CT I heard.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I had ColecoVision! It was the best resolution for the time. I played Dig Dug and Donkey Kong Jr. Lady Bug. Might still have it.

[@Blippity_Bloop64]

I remember Sears had an Atari machine with their own brand on it. I think it was, like $20 cheaper than the real deal, but was really the same daggone thing. That's the one we bought. I think it was $119 or so.

[@cthis905]

Times were much more simple back then

[@YowzaBowzaWowza]

Back in the day when you could support a family doing that kind of work.

[@Alexadrawsstories]

If I ever owned a store I would have music like this play. Nice and relaxing

[@Relaxliveyourlife2829]

I thought so too it would so relaxing

[@sushipop7658]

As someone who was born in 2003, this playlist of music seems so foreign to me. Whenever my parents and grandparents would talk about the magic of department stores during the holiday season, it was something I could never really wrap my head around. You mean sears and K-Mart were the place to be back in the day? This playlist, somehow, manages to contextualize that. I can imagine these songs playing in a bustling store. I can see why these department store memories are so fondly remembered. Thank you for putting together this little playlist. Its crazy how things like this can bridge the gap between generations!

[@Eli_B3000]

I was born in 78, so I got all the interesting decades of store shopping. I remember at first it was this light pop music until 1/3 into the 80s, then big pop music but in this fashion, and then it was easy listening / adult contemporary by the original artists, and many times now it's just straight pop music by the original artists. For a while you could go into 3-4 different stores and hear all of them at various stages, plus jazz and whatever else. Check out mallwave on KZbin, especially mixes of different artists. It's like a mash of the feelings it feels like in my memory. Also check out Hallmark 87 and the Caretaker for a more dreamy sound, and the Kmart tapes someone unearthed are also on here, people used those to make full albums ( Power PCME).

[@Eli_B3000]

PowerPC ME : Kmart 1989-1992 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXPbnZ5ue6d5eLs

[@llunaeldas8055]

I miss K-mart. Blue light special!

[@Randoplants]

I grew up in the 90s, and by then Walmart was the place to be - so I remember seeing all the Kmarts and other stores slowly becoming decrepit. And by then, Muzak and the like were being replaced with radio beaming into the store’s intercom.

[@mascara1777]

yes department stores were pure magic during the holidays!!!

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

In the 60s, visiting a good department store was like entering a soft, quiet, plush world that smelled good and felt safe. I always headed straight to the TV section with the banks of screens and cabinet stereo systems.

[@leylandlynxvlog]

I feel like that when I go to Harrods in London. Reminds me of going to House of Fraser and occasionally Jenners in Edinburgh with my mum. Though in a way House of Fraser was laid out more like Selfridges.

[@SirenTheSecond]

Major Original Sims vibes. So nostalgic and comforting, perfect for this morning in a hectic week.

[@joethecounselor]

If I ever own a store I must have this on repeat the whole time.

[@DrMcMoist]

What kinda store would you own, my dude?

[@tijankusacic8079]

@@DrMcMoistfashion clothes store

[@PopularesVox]

@@tijankusacic8079 Retro fashions perhaps, you could have a section given over to 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's stuff. Go for it, I think with themed music it would work.😃😅Modern retail shopping is so boring and uncompetitive with online, no wonder it's failing.

[@light-and-thunder]

As a bass player, I always found the bass part of this music very well done!

[@blacklikethesun]

Same

[@ChaseThePinballWizard]

Same

[@DoomKid]

Long time musician here, and yeah, as someone who primarily plays rock and metal music, the importance of "bass melodies" is often really, really understated in those genres, with some exceptions of course. Generally, people from jazz, blues and classical backgrounds write far more interesting basslines

[@floppy12k]

The whole musician lineup of the Bruton music label (where most of these tracks come from) was top notch. Check out Alan hawkshaw for example.

[@SergeantExtreme]

Don't you have equipment to unload? Why don't you go fetch the rest of the band some drinks?

[@82dorrin]

All the pics of 1970s stores are wonderful. I was born after those days (Early 80s), so I have no memory of hearing these particular songs while out shopping. A different time. Not necessarily simpler or better. We had problems then and we have problems now. That world is gone, but it lives on in memories and pictures like these. Mundane, everyday, yet beautiful moments frozen in time. These people probably had no idea we'd be seeing them 50 years later. Experiencing just a little taste of what their lives were like. There's something rather beautiful about videos like this. A little trip back in time.

[@trudywretched]

Well put!

[@blackman5867]

Back when tiktok did not exist

[@marjoriemorris5849]

I have very vague memories of hearing music like this in stores. We had a store called Ben Franklin, what my mom called a “dime store.” I heard music like this in there, in the mid-to-late ‘80s. I distinctly recall hearing flute and guitar instrumentals and I was in the frame department. I just don’t know what the specific songs were, or the artists, or if I would recognize specific melodies.

[@Wesleym134]

@@marjoriemorris5849 I think I remember having a Ben Franklin store in my hometown of Issaquah back when I was a kid in the early 1990's too. I remember getting parts for my little pinewood car that won 1st place in a pinewood car derby for Boy Scouts there!

[@aliciashanks5239]

Well said! When people say that it was a simpler time it's because they were a child (or young and naive), not because there wasn't strife and conflict. "The good ol' days" comments are terribly skewed. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. 😅

[@DigDug513]

I'm about to turn 50 and this is the shopping music from my childhood. Thanks so very much 😊 ☺️

[@PHlophe]

Little Dougie in flare pants at the mall.

[@edwardgiovannelli5191]

weird thing is, I'm 53 and I remember hating this stuff back then, it was the worst part of going to the stores with my mom. Now that I'm hearing it again all these years later... I still hate it

[@nothing89103]

@@edwardgiovannelli5191 why

[@edwardgiovannelli5191]

@@nothing89103 I dunno, it always grated on my nerves, even as a little kid, I remember asking my mom once why we couldnt shop somewhere with better music. She probably just told me to shut up and kept looking at mushroom themed flour/coffee/sugar containers and napkin holders or something.

[@cheesedood5313]

Id say maybe cause this genre of music was very common and thus in modern times the music i find annoying is a total different kind of music from what we used to have.

[@alexandraward5323]

My mother worked in malls her whole life and couldn't afford child care, but the clothing racks and hiding behind the service counters are free! I loved it, I miss all the malls I grew up playing in. Watching them go under and get dozed still stings. Who else was a mall baby??

[@superemesean5907]

Mom having you hide behind clothing racks and service counters?!!! Ma’m that is definitely child negligence. Lucky you didn’t get CPS called on you, your life would’ve ended up a lot different.

[@alexandraward5323]

@@superemesean5907 a two sentence summary could never accurately protray a life worth of experiences

[@caseywamack6789]

Played hide and seek in a JC Penney. Must have been 30 min. to closing. I chose a circular rack full of pants. While hiding in the middle a random couple came to browse. I laid low until they were done then decided maybe not such a good idea. Could have given them quite a scare. Good times. Love the Mall

[@JanBee1122]

@@superemesean5907 It's odd how you seem to think you and CPS would have had to "do something" about her hanging out at the mall with her mom.and then telling her how much worse that would have been.

[@BrandinHutto]

​@@JanBee1122*facepalm*

[@phillipcolumbus4909]

Boy.... this takes me back. This was definitely the public sound of the 70's. Oh how well I do remember. LOVE IT!

[@Imachowderhead]

I was born in 74 and can remember this music and when stores were this organized and clean. What a flashback!

[@maddymud]

I remember how annoyed my parents were the first time a place of business that normally had canned music like this - had that demon rock n’ roll on. And it was like - one popular rock song, a mild one at that (nothing heavy) - and they were offended. Not too long ago, I was in the big chain grocery store and I was surprised when a hip-hop song came on. And I was like “Ohhh - this is how my parents must have felt.”

[@XXX_xxxxxxxx]

Hip hop has killed rock...but why??? Did the elites think rock music leads to a more rebellious mindset, so it had to go?

[@billb6029]

Haha, yeah..

[@RobertKramer17]

😂 I can relate.

[@wetbadger2174]

No, joke this is why they are disappearing. This music was carefully designed to make you feel glamorous. To feel like buying things. That break up song from a band in 2002 is going to make me forget what I came for and walk out.

[@uncertaintytoworldpeace3650]

@@wetbadger2174 pop music just sounds like totalitarian dystopia music when I’m in the supermarket bro. Totally weird!

[@jainipatel8376]

Its always those Little movements we wants to experience again 🤌🏻

[@dabhidhm4093]

Always cracks me up to see some movie or TV show that's set in the 60's or 70's and stores are playing The Doors or Jefferson Airplane. Sorry, that's not what you heard! You heard THIS! MUZAK, baby! And yeah. we hated it as kids but now we love it because it's a glimpse into a world that vanished into the mists of time, never to return.

[@Sashazur]

I love all the “get off my lawn!” comments! But seriously, this music is so pleasant and relaxing. Thanks for making this compilation.

[@ranivacar]

you know it's serious when half of the top comments have two spaces after their periods

[@INeverWanted2010]

@@ranivacar Hahahaha omg

[@PriestessofGenbu]

Right? proper grammer is for boomers! :^)

[@TheQuaadFather]

One dude I cant even tell what he's trying to say because he stuck nonsense hyphens in weird places

[@0oo00]

Get off my comments

[@Heywhatshouldmynamebelol]

Born 1989, never heard music like this in a store. It reminds me of Sims 1 buy mode. Now I know the inspiration!

[@meganrobinson5701]

I was gonna say it sounds like the sims build/buy music

[@ate-ē-ate]

This music was usually played in the 70s, doubt it playing in the 90s

[@mhmorris2018]

My daughter was born in 92 and the Sims was the first thing she mentioned when I sent her this. She loves this genre though. She listens to it when working

[@ibkristykat]

yeah i don't recall this either and i was born in '81. if it was still around when i was THAT little i OBVIOUSLY don't recall it lol

[@Hypatiaization]

yep you were late. It all changed after 1980.

[@TruthHurtsSoGetAHelmet]

This is on a whole different level and I love it. Elevator up.

[@LarryFain-y9w]

I'm 64 years old and as a child I really enjoy this music. I remember when they started changing it. I did not like it and when I spoke up, no one would ever listen. SO REFRESHING READING YOUR COMMENTS

[@farmhouse78]

Crazy to think without things like KZbin, this music would probably have faded out of existence. It's nice to see people still have appreciation for it. REAL people playing REAL instruments here!

[@emeeul]

And to think, there’s some young music producer out there mining this for their next break to sample. Even as an interlude. Lots of gems on here.

[@1Thunderfire]

As opposed to fake ones?

[@LordsofMedia]

@@1Thunderfire yes.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@1Thunderfire Yes, someone playing a real guitar and someone playing a real piano, and someone playing a real harp, etc. As opposed to someone sitting at a console and pressing buttons that say "guitar," "piano," "harp," etc.

[@Seapuppp]

Odds are there are a lot of electronic instruments in these tracks. Which, like all instruments ever, were designed and played by REAL humans, from scores also composed by real people. Do you really think there’s a big box that just spits out music in whatever style you want at the push of a button?

[@bringmebackthe90s]

Born in '83, far from the USA, and somehow those old movies or tv shows from the 70s & 80s that I grew up watching are like a lost treasure that I'd love to experience again, now I live here in the USA and I wonder what happened. Those days are long gone.

[@dwagman8422]

15:36. That image makes me weep happy nostalgic tears. I could wrap myself up in the obligatory brown/orange/yellow crochet blanket, found on the back of nearly EVERY family room couch of the era, and drift away in the innocent bliss of my 8th year, laying on the couch sleeping and watching one of these TVs on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon......and never want to leave.

[@kiaraganesha]

Your words make me remember that episode from Roseanne titled "Home is where the afghan is" (I think...), even when they changed new furnitures etc, was the old sofa blanket that made the house feel as their Home 😊

[@stiannobelisto573]

I want this played at my funeral.. While people shop

[@AFJojo]

LOL

[@nightboattrax3125]

Me too

[@chrisbean247]

😄😄

[@sock_investment]

are they buying your ashes or something

[@dwagman8422]

You are my hero!

[@chrisallen7911]

Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, every restaurant, department store, and mall played this easy listening music. It was so relaxing and life was so much easier. You were not stressed out everywhere you go because people didn't have to be entertained with TVs and LOUD OPPRESSIVE Music like is played everywhere you go today.

[@loreleilazuli8874]

Ok boomer

[@EmmanuellaUdofia]

whats oppressive??

[@loreleilazuli8874]

People were still depressed stressed out back then. You're just looking at the past with rose colored glasses.

[@jessicabibbles]

@@EmmanuellaUdofia the music that is disrespectful and does things like refer to woman as pussy.

[@jessicabibbles]

@@loreleilazuli8874 depression has increased by a lot especially the last couple years

[@Westville34]

Listen this playlist as Japanese born and bred in Japan, feels really good like J-city pop boom in this recent years. It’s so relax, and feels enough. If I listen this music in supermarket or department store now, I’m gonna go to ask clerks, “Who decided to play this music?? Keep playing this! This is really good!”

[@itamargilat4814]

I was just thinking how the song that starts at 15:20 sounds like Casiopea!

[@professorbland]

heavy chord progression focus very similar to city pop yes

[@Westville34]

@@professorbland glad to know that. I’m just a person listening to music:p

[@eri7-11]

Hey you, I'm hafu born in the 70s in NY, but now 50 and living near Mount Fuji in Japan!

[@miauw8762]

yes sounds like city pop

[@tijankusacic8079]

36:45 Thank you Fardemark for making this compilation. And thank you to all the artists who created this beautiful music. Half a year ago, I was laying in a hospital due to heart failure, and I was there for 3 months straight because I had to go for a surgery and later, recovery in the hospital. It was a very hard and tough period in my life, and this video helped me fall asleep during nights in hospital beds. Difficult times for me, but this made it a bit easier to handle, especially since my family friends couldn't come visit me often because hospital was 300 kilometers away from where we lived, and also because of work, so I didn't get that much visitors and to see my family often, this softened the pain and cryings sometimes. Thank you, Fardemark.

[@Puddycat00]

Im a loner and prefer no visitors, except for my husband so he can bring me stuff and leave. I hate lots of ppl coming to visit. I also don’t go visit ppl in hospital. Like what can I do, you’re stuck in a bed and I have to stand there looking at u. No thanks, I’ll wait til you’re out. Hospitals are where ppl go die.

[@bobcyn2]

I was a kid in the sixties and this was the music you heard. How I long for those days again, music and all!

[@t.8936]

Disco and muscial type music. Makes you want to click your heels together and dance around like "Dancing in the Rain!" Impossible to be unhappy while listening to this! Negative thoughts just cannot find a place to invade!!

[@TudorOwen50s]

😆 When I was young I laughed at this type of music and sometimes adults would tell me that I would appreciate the small things in life when I get older. Well, "the snow is on the mountain" and I do appreciate things like this. Thank you for this video. Memories: Wash over me.☺️☺️

[@guineapiglady2841]

Yeah, when I was younger, it used to annoy or slightly irritate me but just ignore it. I wish they are back.

[@sorairino1643]

I laugh at this music now just something about it haha

[@guineapiglady2841]

@@sorairino1643 you need help

[@TheWutangclan1995]

That's how I feel about ad infomercials. Never paid attention to the subtleties just watched it to kill time. Looking back, I can't help but laugh when the screen goes black and white and it's shows some screw up they did that makes no sense but is funny to watch lol.

[@guineapiglady2841]

@@TheWutangclan1995 You're weird.

[@brichwoke2355]

Ohhhh...how the 80's were the good Ole days. Summer time running around with your friends on the block and the ice cream trucks and Bodega wow all night on the steps until the street lights went out we had the best times I wouldn't change that feeling for the world 😊

[@kevinjambor]

I've put this mix on in my classroom in the background during group or silent work when the students tell me they're sleepy or tired (I teach at a university). They're never as into it as me, and are too "cool" to admit it made them feel better, but it doesn't matter because I can tell from how engaged and focused they are the whole time it's on that they feel the magic deep down.

[@CarShopping101]

Nice

[@mayhair]

man, imagine. all the students benefiting from this music but at the same time, they are afraid to admit it to each other. a quirky situation indeed.

[@overtheworl]

or maybe ... they focus on the work to get distracted from the music ...

[@mayhair]

@@overtheworl good hypothesis. (anyway it does help them)

[@Bonserak23]

it is pretty good study music, not to distracting but not to dull.

[@heatherrogers548]

God this hits the spot. I feel that secure and easy breezy feeling I had when I was little ( I was born in 74). Seriously this is really relaxing.

[@heatherrogers548]

@Charles White I can smell that donuts

[@svenresner6012]

Born ’74???? Honestly, you look MUCH younger than that!!!

[@heatherrogers548]

@@svenresner6012 thank you! You made my day :)

[@MSJ_raptor]

I imagine a day where Elon Musk has some global speaker in space, playing this once a week lol. Heard world wide.

[@heatherrogers548]

@@MSJ_raptor atmospheric music

[@Sambakid17]

People would be a lot happier if they played music like this at stores nowadays.

[@DarknessFalls29]

I don't know why YT put this in my feed, but I'm using it as my study music and going back in time with all of the nostalgic comments on how things used to be in the grocery stores back in the days. 😂❤

[@LillianGraceFullofficial]

For anyone wondering what this genre this would fit into, it’s in general 1950s~1970s jazz. other words would be lounge, Muzak, airline music, elevator music, oldies, bossa nova,

[@dianadoos1944]

I love elevator music and soft tempo

[@tedspence-f7i]

Love elevator music ... it's so good on so many levels ...

[@LillianGraceFullofficial]

@@dianadoos1944 Vielen dank dianadoos

[@Melchizedeki]

@@tedspence-f7i I'm going to use this one enxt time someone calls my Steely Dan "elevator music"

[@jerbear97]

fun fact: it's actually pop music at the time

[@steelpython6634]

Rough timestamps. A few I can't identify. If you can identify a song, please let me know in a reply. Thank you so much to the people that've helped out so far! 00:00 Plucking the Strings (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 01:34 Day Away (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 03:26 Going Home (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 06:20 Prairie Farm (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 08:21 Rural Green (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 10:25 Irving Martin - Strolling Around 13:23 Island of Dreams (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 15:14 Family Ties Theme 18:14 Tattile (Pop-Paraphrenia, Rochi - Godi) 20:53 Sublime Country (All Creatures, Johnny Pearson) 22:44 Magic Moments (Country Bound, Bruton Music) 25:41 Spending Spree (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 26:54 Flirtation (Contemporary Orchestral, Bruton Music) 29:19 (Unidentified) 31:58 Lucky One (Country Bound, Bruton Music) 34:39 Such Sweet Sorrow (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 37:28 Sales Appeal (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 39:33 Blowing in the Wind (Happiness, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 41:31 (Unidentified) 43:32 (Unidentified) 47:05 (Unidentified) 50:04 Like Summer (KPM 1000 Happy Rainbows, Gordon Rees) 53:04 Happy Country (Happiness, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 55:53 Over The Hedge Rows (All Creatures, Johnny Pearson) 59:05 Picture Gala (Bright Orchestra/Bright Woodwind, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 1:01:00 Just Passing Through - Valentino 1:03:19 Autumn Gold (Fragrance, Bruton Music, Kieth Mansfield) 1:06:00 (Unidentified) 1:09:16 (Unidentified) 1:11:18 Fun Loving (Happiness, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 1:13:04 Odyssey (Ron Roker) 1:15:06 (Unidentified) 1:17:28 (Unidentified) 1:20:43 Far Horizons (Golden Plains, Bruton Music, David Snell) 1:23:43 Breezing Along (Walter Murphy)

[@SanjanaRanasingha]

Thank you for your cervix

[@steelpython6634]

You're welcome, I grew it myself

[@mirandamrozek5939]

Do you think that you could include the names of the artists, please? Otherwise it can be pretty difficult to find the separate tracks.

[@steelpython6634]

No problem at all. Give me a moment.

[@mirandamrozek5939]

@@steelpython6634 Cool! Thank you!

[@PaladinLarec]

I actually keep a spotify playlist of all the old songs my department store I worked in from 94-2006 played over the PA system. It's soothing and brings back good memories.

[@saltee7]

BRO YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THAT AND *NOT* DROP THE PLAYLIST LINK

[@huntrrams]

Drop the link I want to listen ❤

[@eidrag]

link pls

[@karamiddleton2920]

Link please!

[@allyson--]

? Say more

[@iamnotinteresting1]

I use to hate this music as a kid because I’d have to sit and be patient while my mom talked to her church friends in the bread aisle. But now that grocery stores only play shitty top 40s I need this music back.

[@kerry7932]

I listen to this while shopping online. Sometimes I'll wander around my house pretending to look for customer service.

[@Marauder1981]

Underrated comment.

[@ChrisSerrani]

You need company.

[@indientis6003]

@kerry7932 A man of culture. Hell Yeah!

[@martinPatsy]

😂😂😂

[@danedearmond4905]

...and I bet the level of customer service you find is about the same level as you'd get in just about any retail outlet these days...

[@DbeeM]

Oh man! As a child I remember these tunes as I shopped with mom . Seemed like everybody was in a good mood, no wonder.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Not the Valium on tap, huh?

[@innercityprepper]

they were in a good mood because you could buy a house with a minimum wage job and no college education.

[@BenjaminBox]

Ignorance is bliss

[@Nativecary]

I miss my elders so much. They were silent generation and they loved this muzak.😅😢

[@DavidCesarVera]

This is more comforting to my soul than I can put into words

[@andward1285]

YES FINALLY, I LOVE KZbin, I LOVE THIS, CHANNEL, I LOVE THIS VIDEO AND I LOVE YOU WHO'S READING THIS

[@2cool2bhot89]

Such a lovely playlist! So many good vibes ♡♡♡ love from a 20 year old in ohio~

[@sayedalazam4228]

Ohio stinks!

[@edwardsprout]

me toO THATS WHACK H

[@M084MM3D]

ohio 💀

[@edwardsprout]

@@M084MM3D everything will be ohio soon enough

[@M084MM3D]

@@edwardsprout ohio

[@leyahruizdeloreto6420]

I just downloaded this so I can play it while riding my bike along the beach ⛱️🏖️ thanks!

[@prometheanevent]

Worthy of laughter and tears.

[@SunshineClementine]

If listening to this awesome department store mix can bring back my mom, so be it. x

[@NicholasShade-eq1ts]

This music is really nice. I love it.🤎

[@joanodom2104]

I couldn't agree more. I just lost my mother and I feel lost.

[@NicholasShade-eq1ts]

@@joanodom2104 I lost my father 2 years ago.† I lost my grandfather last April.† Joanodom you will be in my prayers tonight, and so will your family.🙏🤎 And Sunshine Clementine, you will be in my prayers, as well.🙏🩷

[@NicholasShade-eq1ts]

It removed my comment, so I'm going to write it again. ✍️ I lost my father 2 years ago.† I lost my grandfather last April.† Joanodom & Sunshine, my friends, you will be in my prayers tonight.🙏🌌🌠 Your families and friends will also be in my prayers.🙏🤎

[@SunshineClementine]

@@NicholasShade-eq1ts Please do not hex me...Err, pray for me. What's done is done. My mom is dead. That is the end. She's either in Heaven or Hell, but do not ever pray for those that never ask. It's something you need to understand, so-as I don't think your post is disingenuous. Remove me from your prayers. Thank you.

[@sapphirerain70]

I used to call this music “ elevator music”. Love it..soothing ❤

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Smooth Jazz.

[@theminecraftchido90]

elevator music is Bossanova

[@jack2breeze]

@@theminecraftchido90 Elvis has a song called Bossanova Baby

[@AshleyKristyen]

Yessss I get laughed at because this is my preference for when i'm at the office. But it's just so easy to get into a work flow with music like this!

[@froglet72]

I am taken straight back to Nottingham John Lewis's 1979, with my mother looking at endless brown sofas and rugs and vases and other things we aren't actually even going to ever buy, for interminably long and agonising hours which felt like days. I think it taught me patience- you don't get that by going to wacky warehouses, oh kids of today. Some of these tunes are very familiar and sound pretty dang funky. Love it thank you ❤

[@ProudToBeGreek]

I love this music and while i am not from America, but Australia we had similar tunes played in Australian shopping centers. I am almost 51 and remember this sort of thing very well. Here in Australia {Myself being from Sydney} we had the colossal Westfield Mall in the city of Parramatta which opened in 1975 and was then the 3rd largest shopping center in the world. Would go there often holding my mommy's hand lol while she shopped!

[@jandasalovich6469]

My mom used to drop me off at Korner Plaza in Richfield MN when I was 6 years old in 1976. I would stay in the toy section for up to 2 hours sometimes while she drove across the way to go grocery shopping. She’d do this to at Dayton’s at Southdale Mall in Edina MN. While she shopped. I could just keep busy by looking at all the toys and reading the boxes. Glory years.

[@kyleandzrejmadarieta2997]

This is the literally the definition of lofi music, mystical and calm. Combination of 80s funk and 40s classic.

[@annaoneal4709]

This music is so magical it's timeless, it knows no class, no race , no age, it's just beautiful ! I remember shopping with my parents in department stores or grocery stores in malls , then in high school with pals, going to the movies or just hanging out in the food court no violence or loud voices but smiles , feeling carefree happy breezy safe. Now it's gone we've lost brick and mortar in exchange for internet and isolating people from one another , and the few places left aren't very inviting . This music needs to come back intl what few stores we have left psychologically I believe shoppers etc would feel relaxed and it might drive away negative influences . It could bring us together again

[@MzLockSteady]

My labmate and I have been listening to this all morning and we've been the calmest we've been in a while lol! It's been a very nostalgic morning! Orange Julius, Auntie Anne's, Sam Goody, Sears.... simpler times!

[@amberalexandrabayleycooke212]

Oh, my!! That Scotch cassette is old just like me! ☺️ 1973!!! What a coincidence ... Thank you so much for this wonderful music, once again, my friend. I do adore it. Those vintage pictures bring me back in time, when I was a little girl, going to the Italian supermarket called "Standa" and spending most of my time there,in front of the make up counter, 🤩✨◀️ like this... admiring all the expensive cosmetics. My parents: "for the red lipstick and dark eyeshadow, it's a no no. But a shiny gloss and a light pink nail polish... well, it's ok!" (Old good rules...) Nowadays on KZbin,we can see 11/12 years old girls putting on their faces a "drag queen" make up...🙈 Old times... better times? Probably,in my humble opinion. Anyway... let's enjoy the music! ✌🏻🙂🇮🇹💚🎶🎵🎶💚

[@RS-of1om]

'67 here But 25 for Life

[@allisonabrams850]

This makes me feel equally sad, nostalgic, and relaxed. My cat is next to me falling asleep to this. 🥰

[@WhiteWolfBlackStar]

It’s frightening how relaxing this is ✨. I could shop all day! Just load that cart up in a daze 😎

[@anybodyoutthere3208]

That’s what I thought So so relaxing Just amazingly wonderful

[@Hypatiaization]

That was the whole point!! And it worked! Christmas shopping was a joy!

[@t.8936]

Fun, uplifting, relaxing music! No wonder everyone is so depressed today.

[@_PrimetimePranks]

Our childhood malls had cafeterias, toy stores and arcades. Oh how I miss those days!

[@Relaxliveyourlife2829]

Same ):

[@mayorb3366]

Sears and Walgreens both had in-store short order restaurants. My mall had a Piccadilly Cafeteria, It was a very popular spot for families dinners. It also had 3 arcades (one was in the spot that Sears restaurant formerly occupied). Golden days!

[@germanwarrior6463]

Love this music! I remember this as a kid. I'll be 50 in December!

[@MistressGlowWorm]

Every Gen Xer right now 🥺🥺

[@jet3626]

yep gen xer her too and i turn 50 next summer. this music takes me back to standing in elevators and hanging in bookstores with my mom.

[@germanwarrior6463]

@@jet3626 I wish I could go back in time.

[@thenachothief]

dang, how's it feel to be a gen x'er

[@Frank-Discussion]

Same here!

[@dswilliams2686]

This music calms and soothes which puts you in a good mood which makes you willing to spend money. Now they have obscene rap songs screaming profanity through the loudspeakers. I've left so many stores without spending a dime because of it.

[@lynneurbanik8703]

I agree, nothing worse than that garbage torturing your ears,If I had it all my way I would ban that crap in all public venues and stores, our culture is going down a sewer pipe, when will that shit ever die out, when O when.

[@dianadoos1944]

I couldn't agree with you more.

[@jenniferknowles7219]

Yes, and this would be so much better in restaurants. It would be relaxing to eat to. We all need some peace nowadays ❤

[@lamonthamilton667]

Yes I too have

[@lamonthamilton667]

Yes I too have

[@rogertemple7193]

The only music that you hear coming from Wal Mart is the current music artists maybe some classic 60's, 70's, 80's rock and pop music but mainly the current stuff that you don't wanna hear at all but this brings back memories Thank You very much for this.🎵🎶🎼📻💞📻🎼🎶🎵

[@eduardo_corrochio]

There's something so good about antique audio equipment like this unit here. The switches, dials, levers, and such. Takes me back to my youth, and using my Dad's awesome receiver and turntable and cassette deck in the '70s. The receiver was a solid thing of quality, with a nifty glowing emerald green tuner window. Flipping its _On_ switch was practically a Doctor Frankenstein experience. I can't remember the brand but this machine could've probably caught some kind of audio signal from Saturn if you tried, LOL. Ah, the good old days. Nice to see this kind of equipment being appreciated and used today.

[@peggyd7085]

What wonderful memories - thank you for sharing! My dad had a reel to reel tape recorder and taped my piano playing - you reminded me of something so special! Thank you!!

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@peggyd7085 That's wonderful. My Dad had a reel to reel too. :)

[@lopiklop]

It's analog

[@lopiklop]

It is like a flowing river of electricity

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@lopiklop Good metaphor!

[@ruckanitepreacher5618]

There's got to be a reason this music has largely been abandoned in grocery & dept. stores and wherever. This music was proven to keep people peaceful and in a good mood while they worked and shopped. Various experiments by industrial phycologists used music , lighting and various other phenomena/factors to determine the best possible work and shopping and learning environment back in the 40&50's and it worked. Now it's the heavy beat and driving beat in our music that I notice in stores and wonder if we are poisoning ourselves or rather our minds and increasing crime, anger, anxiety etc. There's probably something to it.

[@mattpears2472]

As a psychologist i would say its now more induced axiery towards time pressured decision makings and feel of loss if you dont buy, and reward when buying, this old music is calming, so you dont need to feel rushed, and if you dont feel rushed tou have better decision making abilities

[@rainkloud]

@@mattpears2472 I think that's part of it but another is that in our tech heavy culture there is an emphasis on modernity. Each generation wants some detachment from the prior. No business owner wants to risk looking dated and middle aged customers feel comfortable when they hear music from their generation because it takes them back to the best time of their lives and because they had to listen to older music growing up so they feel like it's their turn to have their songs played. And so the cycle continues...

[@mattpears2472]

@rainkloud masayoshi takanaka brazillain skies...come back and tell me its not timeless.

[@rainkloud]

@@mattpears2472 I love it and think everyone would benefit from exposure to it although I would hesitate to call it timeless. I think it is very much rooted to a bygone era. That's not a bad thing per se. Music like this is a gateway in to times and places one would not otherwise be aware of and that's a beautiful thing in my opinion.

[@mattpears2472]

@rainkloud its 2066 and youre in apple store and keith jarret konl concert part 1 comes on. What you buying?? Timeless

[@cdjxman]

This music just sets your mind at ease

[@CelltheGREAT]

Big facts.

[@cdjxman]

@@CelltheGREAT 🤩👍

[@edwardgiovannelli5191]

there's a difference between being 'set at ease' and being numbed out of consciousness

[@yahuchanonyakov]

I remember those times...they have passed into history, for the most part.

[@iesha3703]

This is nastalgic for me because I was raised by my grandparents and my grandfather would play oldies and play songs like these in the car when we'd go for weekend car rides or go to flea markets together. I ttruly miss those amazing moments we shared together but they will always be with me. I came across this today and I can't stop listening bring me peace 😊

[@dvidclapperton]

Basically the sort of music you would hear when watching BBC1 or BBC2 during the day for several hours. Loved just one programme on BBC2 all day, and just 1hr 15 minutes of programmes at lunchtime on BBC1 but nothing apart from that until about 3.15pm. It's so much better than watching the ghastly daytime programmes on BBC1 and BBC2 today.

[@warrenny]

All I need is this on loop for the rest of my life.

[@Omoroseangel]

This is groovy as sh*t! I can listen to this all day, and feel completely satisfied. Peaceful and jivin! Love this thank you. 😊✌️

[@johnn.1186]

Grooving hard!

[@PaulKruskamp]

I'm blissed out bros..

[@jansencaprimusicproduction3164]

When I was a kid I remember listening to 50’s and 60’s music in the stores. Now it’s 80’s and 90’s lol I’m the old one now!

[@lamonthamilton667]

WOW!!! Talk about NOSTAGIA. I am all but in tears for the By-Gone days of Sears Montgomery Wards the Five & Dimes where this Beautiful Music was played Daily. I am subscribed and THANK you Fardemark for this Pleasure trip down memory lane.

[@paulbrighton3303]

Ahh the sounds of hiding in the circular clothing rack with my brothers as my mom yelled for us. Luckily, we were shielded by housecoats and a wall of polyester.

[@hklinker]

Oh, that’s very relatable!

[@cornjobb]

ha! i did that all the time, except i liked to grab stranger's ankles too. yay screaming!

[@deepsleep7822]

My brother and I did the same shenanigans. RIP bro.

[@ruckanitepreacher5618]

I guess we all must'a done that! Born in 64.

[@bonniebertucci1404]

I love the stores like piggly wiggly that never changed! I wish we could go back in time to a simpler life but, we can’t. Fortunately we can when we walk into a store unchanged by history. Makes all my troubles feel small like time they go away.

[@RidingwithStymie]

I worked in a 10-story office building as a young man in the mid-80s (Community Federal Savings and Loan). They played this Muzak stuff, which people used to refer to as "elevator music" and "piped in music." I hated it back then, but now it's nostalgic.

[@equesfuscus]

I now play this quietly in my office, right down low, except when I'm doing high-cognitive load work or meetings. This is now part of the daily soundtrack in my office. Really helps me calm down and focus. I also play it at home when I'm washing up after dinner and my wife has gone back to her home office. This is gold.

[@motifity3416]

I wish more music like this was still being produced. It tickles my brain.

[@viralfoodie5223]

There are. It's just not mainstreamed.

[@oopsibrokethecow]

So thankful that I am Gen X and got to be the tail end of experiencing department stores, and malls. It is truly lost, and seems worlds away now. Everyone lives on Amazon, or orders Instacart for groceries now. Our world ironically, has become less social, the more connected we've gotten on the internet. This is why people found relationships and friends easier as well. You went out, got to know people, talk to others, were familiar with the cashiers, and managers. You wouldn't just grab what you needed and rush out, there was actual shopping and comparing to do, trying stuff on. Browsing, and "window shopping." Christmas was a huge thing! In fact, every holiday was and it was certain the stores would roll out decorations. It got you in the mood and spirit, and most stores had Santa there, and the Easter Bunny. Many of the malls had a haunted house around Halloween. They were very engaging places to be at, and it was a hobby and place to go relax in and of itself really. I met many friends and people just standing around talking, and you'd go hang-out afterwards, or talk to someone who worked there, and then they'd tell you when they got off and you'd go hang-out together, and become friends, or start dating. It was easier for people to connect then, and you got what you see. No catfishing or lying about your location, age, height, weight, where you lived or worked, when you had to be face-to-face with others. I feel like that is why the younger generations, like the Millennials and Gen Z, deal with this slue of mental illness now. Anxiety, depression, awkwardness, being extreme introverts. Living on social media, despite the name , is NOT healthy social human interaction and isn't genuine.

[@mollygarden9535]

Also a lot of these stores had little coffee shops diners or mini restaurants and you could sit in there and relax, talk to each other, look over your purchases, about the only comparable thing today is that some chain stores have a Starbucks or Mickey D's - oh, isn't it delightful.

[@---cx1ly]

yea i am 33 but i hate facebook its not very good for socializing. Its good for making you feel like sh*t about yourself for zero reason and thats about it.

[@billypilgrim1]

Do you realize that as Millennials we grew up in the same environment, right? The same things you described, we grew up with. Social Media wasn't a thing until our late teens. Also, if you go to one of the big cities like New York and Chicago, I'm pretty sure teens have a more enriching social interactions than in the late capitalism suburban universe you seem to be really into.

[@maddieb.4282]

@@billypilgrim1 I’m a millennial too and I agree with her actually.

[@thenachothief]

sounds like it would have been a nice time to live.

[@bigbubbles473]

i'd literally open a store just 4 this kind of music 2 play

[@JoeZUGOOLA]

Literally open it up?

[@RossoNero1987]

​@@JoeZUGOOLAis that a guy from Syphon Filter on your avatar?

[@spingleboygle]

get ready to get hit with a billion copyrights, taxes, etc etc etc.