I remember sitting on the shitter in a Denny's while Bette Midler belted at me something about god watching me from a distance. Hope he enjoyed the show!

It's hard to describe, but that douchebag music. You know the songs where the artists try very hard to let you know they're not trying too hard? "Drops of Jupiter" and "Delilah" are two prime examples.

I lived in Japan for a few years and they would play elevator versions of American folk songs in stores...like yankie doodle dandy, oh Susanna, bicycle built for 2, teddy bear picnic... it made me feel like I was in some sort of different planet

Christmas music. All of it. I work in a supermarket. I would rather hear kittens crushed under the wheels of a big rig, and I really love kittens.

most of them but they don't really play them here any more

@silvereyes I personally love eating lemons too. I can peel 'em and eat them like oranges, but most people will react to the visual it conjures up. However, the other two actually make me cringe. Can't say them without my lips curling and getting goosebumps!

I don't like to hear any music in stores, restaurants, etc. I especially despise Christmas music. Don't get me wrong; I'm a music lover. However, I don't want distractions and I don't like being "lulled" into my purchase.

On a similar note, I do not like televisions playing in places of business, especially if Faux is on.

I still haven't found what I'm looking for by U2. Go find it, then, and don't sing about it anymore!

Sweet Home Alabama, a racist anthem masquerading as a rock song. One point about rap music, I'm 73 and I love Tupac, listen to Dear Mama or Keep Your Head Up. I doubt if any of his material would be playing in the mall.

I started high school the same year MTV started.

Back then there weren't too many portable ways to escape 80's music awfulness.
There was the Boombox or a Walkman (not sure when those came out). Otherwise, you were stuck with the radio.

Not all of it was bad, but if I never hear some of it again it will be too soon.
Madonna comes to mind.

Pro Tip: I wake up most days with a song already running in my brain for some reason. Sometimes a very bad song. I think of a song I like and use it to drown out the garbage. It might stick in my head, but at least I like it.

Don't you live in country, country?

Anything playing at Hobby Lobby.

Most all of it.

I was interested in what Piece2YourPuzzle said about some employers allowing staff to create their own mix playlists and bring them into work. In the UK, this would be illegal without a Performing Rights Society (PRS) licence, which all public premises (be they open to the public or just employees) must purchase in order to play any copyrighted music (PRS really do go after premises that play music without a licence, too - they've even sought injunctions against police stations for allowing staff to listen to the radio at work).

To get one, companies have to pay a one-off fee of £100 with the annual subscription worked out according to how many people are likely to hear the music - for most, it's a few hundred pounds a year. Not a huge amount, but there are some companies that feel it's excessive and instead buy a cheaper licence from a company that provides CD-ROMs of adverts, non-copyrighted music and cover versions, along with some software to tell the computer the CD is uploaded to which older songs should be deleted and replaced by new ones. I used to work for a company that received one of these CDs every month.

Now, to prevent evil, nasty people such as myself from stealing one of these CDs and altering it to add any sort of music they feel like, they're protected by a password. However, I happen to have a friend who's a seriously talented programmer, and getting around the password took him literally seconds. The doctored CD was then placed into the same padded envelope it came in, and mailed to the company where it was duelly uploaded to the computer.

I just wish I could have got hold of the CCTV footage of our manager's face the first time Nasenbluten's "Fuck Off, Cuntface" came on.

I don't really mind what is playing but I have hyperacusis - sensitivity to loud noise and as long as its quietish I don't really mind what is playing - I am old enough to remember most music and had wide ranging taste - wouldnt mind if it were religious either as long as it wasnt cutting the ears off me.

Anything by acdc or bon jovi

I just tune out as I can... I tried to shop in a specific, mission oriented way. Getting some pants and that's it. A shirt for the pants and let's go. Don't do wandering around on stores anymore. End up costing money for something I really didn't needed. At the worse, break out the digital music in the phone with the headphones and Isolate myself.

A lot of stores let their sales employees make cds to play in the store. Whatever their tastes are is usually what's playing, and it's usually top 40 current pop. There is some "safe stock music" that managers play though because they're scared the employees don't have the best taste in terms of not offending people lol