Muzak for the Business Phone System How Ruined My Favorite Songs

When someone calls my office, there’s a excellent chance they will be place on hold. We don’t want to place anyone on hold; it’s just a necessity that arises from being busy. When broadcast who call are place on hold, they are greeted with a small message telltale them how much we regret having to make them wait, followed by the soothing sounds of Vivaldi, Wagner, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven and others.

Yes, we offer classical music on our phone system. Some broadcast like classical, others don’t. I can appreciate anyone’s musical taste, but regardless of whether or not you like classical, the recordings are of well-known symphonies performing well known compositions, they are not Muzak versions with synthesized orchestras. Why do I mention this? The other day, I called upon a company we do business with and was place on hold myself. They have some form of Muzak, which many businesses now use. Don’t get me incorrect, I am used to hearing nearly everything on Muzak, from James Taylor to Classics of the 50’s and 60’s.

While on hold this time, but, I found myself humming along to none other than Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen”. At first, I though it couldn’t possibly be, but sure enough, it was. Was I that ancient? Was this masterpiece of raw, rootsy rock and roll so ancient that even it deserved the Musak behavior. I hung up the phone in disgust. Apparently, nothing is sacred anymore. You see, Mississippi Queen was meant to be heard in it’s first form, not condensed into a midi file and played back as though it had been originally written by the inventor of the Casio Tonebank. I had never felt so ancient in my life. Not only that, I was disgusted that the soundtrack to my youth had been Lawrence Welk-a-sized into fluffy, lightweight hold music. Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll has officially died.

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