12 Nov 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 26 Comments. Tagged music
earsore
There’s only one thing I don’t like about the 50 minutes I spend at the gym four days a week… the music. It is utterly, unbelievably and completely awful and they play the same sequences over and over and over. This week for the 7:50 – 8:40 timeslot, we seem to be stuck on a Billy Joel and Elton John medly with pump beat accompaniment and occasional vocoding thrown in to the mix for good measure. Oh, and its not Sir Elton and Billy singing either. Other horrors include pump Eagles, pump Abba, pump Kenny Rogers if you can even imagine such a thing and Cher, unpumped as she seems to be self-pumping and vocoding. When I started at that gym a year ago, there was far better variety of music on offer. What the hell happened to those latino dance Cds?
26 Comments
November 11, 2008 10:28 pm
brockulfsen
I have an aweful feeling
I suspect your gym has been stood over by one of the Music Rights groups, and has signed for the cheapest class of music, bad dance mixes.
I’ve heard some disturbing rumours about the gouging of places like hairdressers and gyms.
November 11 2008 22:30 pm
Cat @
Re: I have an aweful feeling
its a chain gym -- but there is no excuse for music that bad. I'm told at least one person quit cos she couldn't bear the music.
November 11, 2008 10:31 pm
fearofemeralds
See, now that’s what iPods are for.
I’m a recent convert. To the Cult of the iPod, not the gym. Obviously.
November 11 2008 22:33 pm
Cat @
I loves my poddy. But it would be kinda rude to plug in at this gym. Cos we all chat while we bounce around.
November 11, 2008 10:37 pm
kateorman
Wot no iPod?
November 11 2008 22:41 pm
Cat @
check my previous comment
November 11, 2008 11:04 pm
ashamel
My gym attendance isn’t going very well, but I must admit the music is a lot better than you get.
November 11 2008 23:07 pm
Cat @
Dude, me singing would be better than that Billy Joel CD...
November 11, 2008 11:22 pm
murasaki_1966
Okay, you don’t want to use a ipod, but its the only thing that works for me. The fellow people at our gym are not chatty, especially at 6.00am (when we go). The music is either bad, or they are playing TripleM. The MP3 player allows me to listen to the music I like or listen to podcasts (thank you Radio National).
However, sometimes the background music is so loud I can’t hear my player. I think I need noise cancelling earbuds….
November 11 2008 23:23 pm
Cat @
you get to the gym at 6am!!! Woah! That's an awesome effort, folks.
November 12, 2008 1:53 am
king_espresso
Take your ipod with big-arsed speakers attached and blast Billy Joel out of the gym with Perez Prado’s “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” while you and your friends communicate by sign language until the gym Nazis give in.
November 12 2008 02:12 am
Cat @
what a brilliant plan!
November 12, 2008 5:33 am
paulhaines
Jesus fucking Christ!
November 12 2008 05:35 am
Cat @
and there's worse... But I've lobotomised myself with a screwdriver to block out the pump Christian rock.
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