Why do they call it "Easy Listening" when it is so hard to listen to?

[KitchenWitch]

:banghead:

[qwertyMike]

1. NEVER

Get stuck in an elevator !!!

[KitchenWitch]

4. GAAAAAAAAAH

[qwertyMike]

9. Laurence Welk

playing Dylan

[Initech]

2. Are you talking the Celine Dion / Kenny G bullshit?

Yeah, I cant stand that crap. It puts me to sleep.

I'm listening to some classic Ozzy right now... :headbang:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Yes

[DarkTirade]

5. It doesn't put me to sleep

it keeps me awake at night, shivering in fear. :scared:

[Fox Mulder]

6. For four months I worked overnight at a grocery store...

and the same exact "easy listening" songs played on the loudspeaker EVERY FUCKING NIGHT! :banghead:

[Robeson]

7. Because it induces a coma?....

...:shrug:

[Wapsie B]

8. It's the same with some of these announcers for commercials on radio or TV.

They're the kind with a very bland and generic voice, devoid of all individuality and character, with the tone and inflection just right. Their voice is crafted in such a way to be inoffensive but it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

[MrCoffee]

10. It's gonna be OK, KitchenWitch

I promise

[Dr. Strange]

20. uuIU

fucking fucker

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. Aggghhhhhh.....

People that think Kenny G is jazz.....read the rip that Pat Metheny performed on Kenny G.

Excerpt of Pat Metheny's alleged opinion of Kenny G:
Website: http://www.saxon.com/stephen/pat-story.htm

Quote:
Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track "What a Wonderful World". With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.

This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the preexisting tracks of already dead performers - was weird when Natalie Cole did it with her dad on "Unforgettable" a few years ago, but it was her dad. When Tony Bennett did it with Billie Holiday it was bizarre, but we are talking about two of the greatest singers of the 20th century who were on roughly the same level of artistic accomplishment. When Larry Coryell presumed to overdub himself on top of a Wes Montgomery track, I lost a lot of the respect that I ever had for him - and I have to seriously question the fact that I did have respect for someone who could turn out to have such unbelievably bad taste and be that disrespectful to one of my personal heroes.

But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of. We ignore this, "let it slide", at our own peril.

His callous disregard for the larger issues of what this crass gesture implies is exacerbated by the fact that the only reason he possibly have for doing something this inherently wrong (on both human and musical terms) was for the record sales and the money it would bring. Unquote.


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[KitchenWitch]

12. That is fantastic.

Methany really fleshed out how I feel about Kenny G in only a way that a seasoned musician can.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. I love Pat Metheny.

He stole his licks from Howard Roberts and Wes Montgomery. I saw him when he was jamming with The Gary Burton Quintet.

That said, I really like "We Live Here", "Secret Story", "One Quiet Night" and the soundtrack to "The Map of the World" (excellent movie with Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore).

I don't like Pat's newer stuff that doesn't seem to have any structure to it. It sounds like white nose to me. It sounds like truly random noodling.

[applegrove]

13. Shame on you. My god is lite rock. LOL!

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. OMFG, my doctor's office has 70s "easy listening" piped in....

x( I had my annual checkup on Thursday, and it's all I could do to keep from hurling. :puke: Carpenters, Neil Diamond, "The Pina Colada Song"...:puke: :puke: And I felt fine before I got there too. :P

[gbate]

19. Gasp - Neil Diamond and the Carpenters are never to be mentioned in the same breath with Rupert.

Holmes, that is. Yes, I am a geek and I used to love that song.

Here is my favorite easy listening Rupert Holmes song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9qkcipJdCo

[Hand]

15. Insh'Allah. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I can't hear very well it over the dry heaves it gives me.

"Easy listening" is exactly the wrong name for something that causes you to hork up your gastric system.

[KamaAina]

17. Yeah... kind of like "conservative thinker"

:P

[Thurston Howell III]

18. Because you don't need a mind to listen to it?

More than that it IS hard to listen to!

[KitchenWitch]

23. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Thurston Howell III]

27. Thank you Kitchenwitch!

[WCGreen]

22. That, my dear Kitchen Witch....

is a conundrum for the ages...

[Perry Logan]

24. Lily Tomlin: "I'm afraid the person who thought up Muzak is going to think up something else."

[KitchenWitch]

25. ...

:rofl:

[Karenina]

26. You're not really supposed to "listen" to it

you're supposed to just barely hear it as it melts your brain to mush.

[tigereye]

28. you are right!

:thumbsup: