it because it was just so... muzak-y. At one point the hygienist took
her hands out of my mouth and I took that opportunity to glance at the screen, it was Believer by Imagine Dragons!

I find the commercial path of that song to be amazing.

It's a song that sing-shouts "pain!", and it gets used in multiple advertisements, where, through complete coincidence, that part of the lyrics
is entirely left out.

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On 02 Sep 2021 at 07:39a, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

haha now thats too funny.

Yeah I could tell myself 'yeah right, priority caller heh'

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Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.

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On 31 Aug 2021 at 05:05p, MATT MUNSON pondered and said...

Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.

said no one ever right?

Yeah being on hold barks...

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Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

On 31 Aug 2021 at 05:05p, MATT MUNSON pondered and said...

Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.

said no one ever right?

Yeah being on hold barks...

I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.



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Hi MATT,

I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.

How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)

Best, Paul.

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Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

Hi MATT,

I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.

How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)

It was one song with 2-3 messages rotated like please don't hang up.


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On 01 Sep 2021 at 06:18p, MATT MUNSON pondered and said...

It was one song with 2-3 messages rotated like please don't hang up.

Even worse.

I recall once I did a voicework job for a Taxi company, I had to say those 'please hold for a operator' style messages etc and then played some pre-recorded phone ringing sounds.. etc.

Jump forward about a month later, I was out late, had been drinking and
needed a Taxi home. I called the number only to hear myself saying 'please
wait etc.' ring ring, ring ring... :)

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Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.

ugh ya i know what is like. sorry man i feel your pain. dont worry though, things will start looking up eventually.

Thanks
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I recall once I did a voicework job for a Taxi company, I had to say
those 'please hold for a operator' style messages etc and then played
some pre-recorded phone ringing sounds.. etc.
Jump forward about a month later, I was out late, had been drinking and needed a Taxi home. I called the number only to hear myself saying
'please wait etc.' ring ring, ring ring... :)

haha now thats too funny.

Thanks
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Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.

How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)

I once worked in telecom, and we used a discman for our music on hold. Realized that after a power outage it'd gotten bumped and the "repeat"
button was pressed. It played the same song over and over again for about 3 weeks.

Another friend of mine worked in IT and used to find great odd CDs for music on hold. One that I loved was Devo's "Easy Listening Disc". It was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You could still recognize the
twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard time connecting the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or "Whip It".


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MATT MUNSON wrote to Avon <=-

How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)

It was one song with 2-3 messages rotated like please don't hang up.

The Dirty Dark Secret of Telecom was that a lot of ACD (Automated Call Distribution) systems, when you left the MOH (music on hold) route for the
RAN (Recorded Announcement) route, you lost your place in line - but so did everyone else...

So, it was like shuffling the queue order every 90 seconds.




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Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

I recall once I did a voicework job for a Taxi company, I had to say
those 'please hold for a operator' style messages etc and then played
some pre-recorded phone ringing sounds.. etc.

Back in 1994, my company bought an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system
for customer service and tech support. The call trees either ended on
recorded messages explaining how to resolve issues or a faxback system.

My boss spent the weekend recording the thing, and you'd hear one of the prompts he'd recorded on Saturday morning, followed by a prompt recorded on Sunday afternoon, after he'd recorded hundreds of prompts.

The difference in his voice between prompts recorded at the beginning and
the end was striking.

We bought him a little jar of cough drops for his desk. :)


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On 02 Sep 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You could still recognize the twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard time connecting the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or "Whip It".

That was me at the dentist this morning. They have a TV mounted in every room and usually they have it on the news or some morning type show. But this time they just had it on one of those cable TV music stations.

I was in the chair getting my teeth cleaned and this muzak/elevator music type song is playing. My mind knew the song, but I couldn't place it because it was just so... muzak-y. At one point the hygienist took her hands out of my mouth and I took that opportunity to glance at the screen, it was Believer by Imagine Dragons!

A few others played after that, some were easy to get (wind beneath my wings) while others I didn't know the song or didn't care to look at the title. But Imagine Dragons was probably the strangest one to play while I was in the chair.


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it because it was just so... muzak-y. At one point the hygienist took
her hands out of my mouth and I took that opportunity to glance at the screen, it was Believer by Imagine Dragons!

I find the commercial path of that song to be amazing.

It's a song that sing-shouts "pain!", and it gets used in multiple advertisements, where, through complete coincidence, that part of the lyrics
is entirely left out.

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On 02 Sep 2021 at 07:39a, gcubebuddy pondered and said...

haha now thats too funny.

Yeah I could tell myself 'yeah right, priority caller heh'

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On 02 Sep 2021 at 06:49a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

I once worked in telecom, and we used a discman for our music on hold. Realized that after a power outage it'd gotten bumped and the "repeat" button was pressed. It played the same song over and over again for
about 3 weeks.

Lordy I'd be a basket case if I had only the one tune to listen too.

Reminds me of a time I was listening to the radio during breakfast and the DJ played U2 Desire... and played it all morning and only, even putting callers
to air asking for him to stop and only for him to say thanks for calling and here's U2 and Desire...

It was his last day on air that day. I think he had had a beef with
management and boy did it show that morning :)

Another friend of mine worked in IT and used to find great odd CDs for music on hold. One that I loved was Devo's "Easy Listening Disc". It was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You could still recognize the twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard time connecting
the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or "Whip It".

To think there was/is such a thing :) I'd say it would fetch a pretty penny
at some retro auction now :)

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On 02 Sep 2021 at 07:01a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

My boss spent the weekend recording the thing, and you'd hear one of the prompts he'd recorded on Saturday morning, followed by a prompt recorded on Sunday afternoon, after he'd recorded hundreds of prompts.

The difference in his voice between prompts recorded at the beginning
and the end was striking.

We bought him a little jar of cough drops for his desk. :)

This I know all to well from first hand experience. While working as a radio announcer in the 1990s I was approached to do part time work for a company called Talking Technologies that offered businesses early forms of computer assisted voice mail boxes for their telephone lines.

I became the guy recording all the prompts and the custom stuff that the
firms wanted to play to incoming customers.. It was an interesting sideline
but I am glad I stuck to my day er... night time announcing job :)

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Hey Avon;

Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Reminds me of a time I was listening to the radio during breakfast and
the DJ played U2 Desire... and played it all morning and only, even putting callers to air asking for him to stop and only for him to say thanks for calling and here's U2 and Desire...

It was his last day on air that day. I think he had had a beef with management and boy did it show that morning :)

That sounds like what Howard Stern did here in Hartford at WCCC back in
the 1960s when he wanted out of his contract <G> A segment of that event
made it into his movie... if you ever saw it.

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Avon wrote (2021-09-04):

Another friend of mine worked in IT and used to find great odd CDs
for music on hold. One that I loved was Devo's "Easy Listening
Disc". It was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You
could still recognize the twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard
time connecting the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or
"Whip It".

To think there was/is such a thing :) I'd say it would fetch a pretty
penny at some retro auction now :)

It was re-released in 2016:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Z_Listening_Disc

Even more retro: "E-Z Listening Muzak Cassettes" Volume 1 and 2 (same songs - different format).

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