# Bad Muzak
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 26, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646 "2000-09-26T19:18:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646/1 "2000-09-26T19:18:52Z")
Okay, I know that sounds redundant, but…
I keep a mental checklist of the most ridiculous songs I’ve heard “Muzak”-ed. Up until today, the silliest example I had heard was the Moody Blues song “Legend of a Mind” (i.e. “Timothy Leary’s Dead”), in an airport bathroom. Yeah, it’s a nice melody, and kind of a pretty song, but who on earth had the bright idea of turning [a song about tripping on acid](http://gunther.simplenet.com/v/data/legendof.htm) into elevator music?
That was until today. I was in an elevator (of course), and the overhead tune seemed familiar. I frowned, wondering… could it be? No, I thought, it couldn’t possibly. I actually skipped my destination floor so I could stay on the elevator and keep listening to make sure.
And yes, when the song reached the bridge, I had confirmation, and my jaw fell open. It was a Muzak version of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb.”
Oh, the horror…
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### Author:  [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646/2 "2000-09-26T19:38:10Z")
Recently, I was buying groceries at a big, yuppiefied supermarket, when I heard the Doors “Break on Through to the Other Side” set to muzak. Damn, I feel old when that happens…
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646/3 "2000-09-26T19:45:59Z")
I once heard “Bye Bye Love” done as a **polka.** Ewwwww.
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646/4 "2000-09-26T22:21:02Z")
String orchestra and a trumpet playing Olivia Newton-John’s “(Let’s Get) Physical”
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### Author:  [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-muzak/34646/5 "2000-09-26T23:34:10Z")
Beat this:
When I worked at the May Company several years ago, I often heard a Muzakified (?) version of the Dick Van Dyke Show theme…the same short melody repeated over and over, utilizing different featured instruments (first a trumpet, then a clarinet, then oboe, etc,).
Not the blasphemous offense of homogenizing Floyd, the Moodies, et al., but imagine how awful this was to listen to (and what cretin thought it was a good idea to begin with???).