# The Elevator Thread (a/k/a Really Bad Music)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 11, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090 "2000-12-11T21:48:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/1 "2000-12-11T21:48:45Z")
“There’s a ship lies rigged and ready in the ha-arboorrr. Tomorrow for old Enngland she sails . . .”
“Up up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful ba-LOON . . .”
“Long and tall and dark and lovely the girl from Ipenema goes walking and when she passes he smiles but she doesn’t see.”
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### Author:  [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/2 "2000-12-11T21:50:51Z")
The disco arrangement of the Main Title of Star Wars.
Period.
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### Author:  [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/3 "2000-12-11T21:53:21Z")
String orchestra and a trumpet playing Olivia Newton-John’s “(Let’s Get) Physical”
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### Author:  [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/4 "2000-12-11T22:24:58Z")
Gooooooodddyyy,Goody,Goooooooodddy,Goody,Gooooooodddy,Goody Two shoes…
Adam Ant was/is evil incarnate.
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/5 "2000-12-11T22:50:13Z")
Thriller in the 500 strings arrangement.
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### Author:  [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/6 "2000-12-11T23:32:08Z")
Smooth jazz. All of it.
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### Author:  [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/7 "2000-12-11T23:36:33Z")
The Muzak™ version of Devo’s _I’m Through Bein’ Cool_. Wait a minute, Devo did that one.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/8 "2000-12-12T01:51:54Z")
Once I heard a full orchestra (with real orchestral instruments) do the music from the end of Return of the Jedi. You know, the part where the Ewoks are partying?
It so did NOT work…
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/9 "2000-12-12T02:05:29Z")
The Beatles in an elevator still gives me pause.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/10 "2000-12-12T02:08:42Z")
Falco’s Puttin’ On The Ritz. In an elevator. Why?
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/11 "2000-12-12T08:14:48Z")
That was Taco. Falco was Rock Me Amadeus.
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### Author:  [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/12 "2000-12-12T08:44:22Z")
Hang on a minute, I LIKE elevator music…I love Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66’ …maybe I’m just weird, though.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/13 "2000-12-12T09:17:20Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Jodi \*
> \*\*“Long and tall and dark and lovely the girl from Ipenema goes walking and when she passes he smiles but she doesn’t see.” \*\*
That’s **iampunha** , not Ipanema.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/14 "2000-12-12T11:33:52Z")
I once left a full cart in a supermarket and walked out in disgust.
The reason?
The stereo system stated playing a muzak version of _Stairway to Heaven_, cheesy violins and [Richard Claydermann](http://music.live-e.com/english/artist/richard/pic/richardclay_circle.gif)-piano included.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/15 "2000-12-12T15:18:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*
> \*\*That was Taco. Falco was Rock Me Amadeus. \*\*
Why? Why did you have to add that song to the annoying soundtrack playing in my mind? Couldn’t you have left me alone in my ignorance? Does fighting ignorance have to be so painful?
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### Author:  [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/16 "2000-12-12T15:45:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*
> \*\*That was Taco. Falco was Rock Me Amadeus. \*\*
[hijack] Was it Taco or Falco that was recently killed? I remember when I heard about it, I’ll always remember where I was. Too bad I can’t remember which one it was.[/hijack]
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### Author:  [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/17 "2000-12-12T15:49:54Z")
It was Falco…god, I miss him!
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### Author:  [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/18 "2000-12-12T16:06:08Z")
I once heard a _lite_, orchestral version of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” while shopping in a supermarket. I lost my apetite and bought less food as a result.🙂
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-elevator-thread-a-k-a-really-bad-music/45090/19 "2000-12-12T16:34:12Z")
Oddly enough i was in a chain grocey store the other week and they were playing Joy Division’s “Love will tear us apart” i shop there a lot more often now.