# Elevator Music
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 30, 1999, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363 "1999-12-30T16:17:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 30, 1999, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/1 "1999-12-30T16:17:00Z")
A sure sign of the apocalypse: As I was shopping in Safeway last night, I heard “Livin’ La Vida Loca” as elevator music!
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Everybody got to elevate from the norm - Rush
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### Author:  [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/2 "1999-12-31T06:02:00Z")
Don’t let it bother you. I thought the same thing when I heard a Devo song in a Ralph’s in San Diego in the early eighties.
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They don’t call me the colonel because I’m some dumb ass army guy.
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/3 "1999-12-31T06:07:00Z")
I was shopping in a grocery store once and the in stor radio was playing Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
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She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/4 "1999-12-31T06:08:00Z")
Way back in the early 80’s I knew something was terribly wrong when I heard **Revolution** by _The Beatles_ on Muzak in a high-dollar department store…
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/5 "1999-12-31T06:09:00Z")
I was deeply disturbed when AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” popped up in a doctor’s office one time.
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Well, shut my mouth. It’s also illegal to put squirrels down your pants for the purposes of gambling.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/6 "1999-12-31T02:05:00Z")
I’m in a supermarket doing my groceries. The stereo suddenly starts playing a Musac version of “Stairway to Heaven”.
I leave my full shopping cart where it is and dash for the entrance. Never visited the store since.
## Bastards.
Coldfire
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“You know how complex women are”
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)
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### Author:  [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)
#### Post date: [December 31, 1999, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/7 "1999-12-31T02:34:00Z")
When they can perform a Muzak version of Tubular Bells I’ll sign on.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elevator-music/12363/9 "2015-01-27T22:07:56Z")
Reported.