music just out there in life

[North Star]

Music needs silence.  The assumption that it is unthinkable to be without some music tinkling in the background, lest you'll be left to the horror of your own thoughts, is a problem.

Absolutely, but does this have anything to do with the thread (just curious)?

[springrite]

Absolutely, but does this have anything to do with the thread (just curious)?

He's voting for 4:33

[Scarpia]

Absolutely, but does this have anything to do with the thread (just curious)?

The thread is about ambient music.  I am commenting that I do not like pervasive ambient  music.

[coffee]

The thread is about ambient music.  I am commenting that I do not like pervasive ambient  music.

I didn't mean for the thread to be about ambient music, but about music that you'd hear in your daily life when you weren't trying to listen to music. Ringtones, TV commercials, and so on. Ambient music, in the sense of background music, is a good example, but whether background music ought to exist or not is off-topic.

[zamyrabyrd]

Albinoni's "Adagio" could be added to the list.
There has been a two week saturation of the Vangelis "Chariots of Fire" during the Olympics, only snippets, though. In fact, most of ambient music seems to be truncated or abbreviated.

ZB

[Radioman]

An excerpt from Carmina Burana was used quite extensively in a commercial for Old Spice after-shave.

But the one that was (I think) unintentionally hilarious was the laxative commercial in which, as the sun rose and breezes blew, the happy user rose up to the glorious strains of the Hallelujah Chorus. I broke into uncontrollable laughter when that came on.

[Octo_Russ]

The one that i hear a lot when a phone starts to ring is Bach's very first prelude from the WTC, though i think it's cool, it's a wonderful piece of music.

[Karl Henning]

The one that i hear a lot when a phone starts to ring is Bach's very first prelude from the WTC, though i think it's cool, it's a wonderful piece of music.

A co-worker employs it as a ring-tone. It's just not a struggle worth the undertaking.

[eyeresist]

I didn't mean for the thread to be about ambient music, but about music that you'd hear in your daily life when you weren't trying to listen to music. Ringtones, TV commercials, and so on. Ambient music, in the sense of background music, is a good example, but whether background music ought to exist or not is off-topic.

Ja, mein fuhrer!

[coffee]

Ja, mein fuhrer!

Why don't you make a thread on it rather than call me Hitler?

[Concord]

Beethoven: Fur Elise. Heard it just yesterday on something on TV. The music stayed with me. The commercial did not.