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Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm).

Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm). Because Eno ain't no elevator music.

polka_haunts_us 6y ago
It's funny. My favorite band, Devo, released Muzak mixes of their songs several times in the 80s. However, you would never hear such a thing piped in a store in 2020. Plain vanilla "Whip It" though? Absolutely. Said another way, Eno (and Devo and many others) are essentially the Muzak of the modern day.
- shervinafshar 6y ago
  Devo was a bunch of brilliant, genre-defying creatives. In my point of view they have been as influential as Kraftwerk, but don't get as much love and respect.
jjulius 6y ago
>Because Eno ain't no elevator music. In keeping with the pedantic nitpicking, I think Eno might actually disagree and say that his music could be elevator music. In the liner notes[0] for 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports', he writes that "Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." But, speaking for myself, I wouldn't relegate Eno's music to the elevator. :) [0]https://audioweb.sitehost.iu.edu/T369/eno-ambient.pdf https://audioweb.sitehost.iu.edu/T369/eno-ambient.pdf
- shervinafshar 6y ago
  Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.
  - marcrosoft 6y ago
    HN comment threads are becoming like Reddit.
    - dang 6y ago
      Please follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note the very last one. HN has been "becoming like Reddit" since before it was HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
  - chris_wot 6y ago
    Pedant's point: Eno's music could be played in an elevator. Eno is not elevator music.
    - SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
      What elevators are you guys getting on that have music?
      - jacobolus 6y ago
        https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-elevator-music https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-elevator-mu...
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    - wumms 6y ago
      Rene Magritte duck typing
- larrywright 6y ago
  Completely off topic: Music for Airports is a great album.
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ggm 6y ago
Eric Satie invented the form, composing music to leave the theatre to. He's said to have got very angry when people refused to leave.

Thank you Captain Pedantic. HN threads won't be the same without nitpicking and pedantry. I think by "ambient" you mean piped music, elevator music, Muzak(tm). Because Eno ain't no elevator music.

polka_haunts_us 6y ago

It's funny. My favorite band, Devo, released Muzak mixes of their songs several times in the 80s. However, you would never hear such a thing piped in a store in 2020. Plain vanilla "Whip It" though? Absolutely. Said another way, Eno (and Devo and many others) are essentially the Muzak of the modern day.

shervinafshar 6y ago
Devo was a bunch of brilliant, genre-defying creatives. In my point of view they have been as influential as Kraftwerk, but don't get as much love and respect.

jjulius 6y ago

>Because Eno ain't no elevator music. In keeping with the pedantic nitpicking, I think Eno might actually disagree and say that his music could be elevator music. In the liner notes[0] for 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports', he writes that "Ambient Music must be able to accomodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." But, speaking for myself, I wouldn't relegate Eno's music to the elevator. :) [0]https://audioweb.sitehost.iu.edu/T369/eno-ambient.pdf https://audioweb.sitehost.iu.edu/T369/eno-ambient.pdf

shervinafshar 6y ago
Touché. Eno could be elevator music then.
- marcrosoft 6y ago
  HN comment threads are becoming like Reddit.
  - dang 6y ago
    Please follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note the very last one. HN has been "becoming like Reddit" since before it was HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
- chris_wot 6y ago
  Pedant's point: Eno's music could be played in an elevator. Eno is not elevator music.
  - SulfurHexaFluri 6y ago
    What elevators are you guys getting on that have music?
    - jacobolus 6y ago
      https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-elevator-music https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-elevator-mu...
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  - wumms 6y ago
    Rene Magritte duck typing
larrywright 6y ago
Completely off topic: Music for Airports is a great album.

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ggm 6y ago

Eric Satie invented the form, composing music to leave the theatre to. He's said to have got very angry when people refused to leave.