Urgent help ! I need a muzak version of any Rolling Stones

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 12:58 am

Can anyone help me ? I desperately need two minutes worth of Rolling Stones muzak - any of the really famous tunes would do.

I need this for a web multimedia show I'm doing on contract - they want it in 6 hours time and don't have any non-copyright Rolling Stones music.... (nor do I have any GM midi unit)

Does someone have a muzak (or any) version they could send to me here, or post (non-copyright) ?

I'd be pathetically grateful

email me here:

webmaster@hq13.com

thanks

AudioIrony · Post by **AudioIrony** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:07 am

http://www.angelfire.com/md/mipaha/stones.html

Seems to be a good selection of midi files - will this help?
If you can play them via QuickTime (QuickTime Instruments), you might be able to export them out as audio files.

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Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:09 am

I'd don;t have a GM module to play it back - that's the real problem. I suppose I could dummy something up, but I don't want it to sound too awful

But it might come to that . . . thanks for the link.

Micha · Post by **Micha** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 4:54 am

There is a pretty good GM module in the net. Have a google for timidity. The best library for timidity is eawpats.
And the best: you can use it as a separate program, no quirks into and with the midi settings in the system!

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 8:56 am

OK, I just went for a voiceover instead...

I'm going to get me a GM module for these situations...

thanks for the replies

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:50 am

what is "muzak"?!

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:49 am

The stuff you hear in the background when you're in the mall, or in the elevator

Post by **hubird** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:53 am

originally music for spiritual environmental purposes, just to be there without the need for really listening.
If I'm right it started with ambient stuff like Music for Airports from ?name?, but the word muzak later degraduated to flatted GM like copy music for supermarkets etc.

edit: King was faster

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King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 11:52 am

If I'm right it started with ambient stuff like Music for Airports from ?name?,
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It's by Brian Eno

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:51 pm

if i understand correct, it can be muzak for toilet? my friend already writed stories for toilet. one short story is measured for one shit. toliet stories book you can buy with tolilet papper and other toilet stuff

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 1:53 pm

newer stones songs will be nice for toilet muzak

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 7:15 pm

Toilet muzak and stories

I don't really like any Stones music that much. The closest I get is Devo's excellent version of Satisfaction.

Post by **hubird** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:19 pm

thanks King, I just couldn't snap the name from my memory.
Eno is the (tape) loop guru, and Loop Guru must be inspired by him

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Post by **hubird** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:27 pm

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:25 am

Is the word 'muzak' an everyday word? Or is it a junk word? Should I be ashamed using it talking to serious people?

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:38 am

On 2003-02-19 10:49, King of Snake wrote:
The stuff you hear in the background when you're in the mall, or in the elevator

In the days of socialism (at least '70s) here in Poland we had no ads on our tv. So the time between programs was filled with static postcards or with a clock. Additionaly there was music in the background, usually Santana's 'Parisien Walkways'. So from that time I call such music a clock music. Unfortunatelly they overused it on our tv and that's why now I hate this song - you know, childhood memories - waiting for a favourite cartoon watching boring postcards or a blue clock and listening to Santana.

sandrob · Post by **sandrob** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:58 am

yes, scopernicus. it was sad.
fortunately, we in former yugoslavia didn't had staljin. i was able to buy any lp of world's popular music in yugoslavia but only with yougoslavian etikete - licenced, ofcorse! on the radio and tv we played foreighn music same as ours without any limit from our komunistic partie.
problem was with me because i like older music from sixties and in that time we had only hit singles, but i wanted lp-s. so, lp's from sixties i bought all around europe. also, groups like easy beats or seekers i got from australia. with '70 we was able to buy lp's too.
i have one procol harum album from poland

i like stones verry much, specialy with brian jones and in time of early '70.
btw: i was born november 1966, but i like oldies but goldies

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:20 am

We had foreign pop music on our radio, too. LPs were unavailable (only black market but you know, my father as a vice president of a town milk factory (140 000 citizens; there was only one milk factory, of course) earned $25 a month so there was no way to afford it!). There were some licensed ones - the Procol Harum album for instance, I guess. The most curious LPs were those from Bulgaria: they looked like licensed (everything should be such in a serious country, published by a national factory!!!!!) but with stickers like 'nice price from CBS printed... on the cover (it looked like scanned with the whole cover

). And I have the John Lennon's 'Imagine' lp with Bulgarian titles only - 'Priedstavi si' - in cirilic, of course).

The Polish releases of heavy metal albums were popular in GDR - there were many metal fans there. I remember long-haired people crowding before the Polish Culture Center in Berlin (BTW - what has Iron Maiden with Polish culture?).

My brother's got a Yugoslavian single (sorry for that, Sandro, I don't know from which repubic exactly but I'm going to ask him to record me it and I will send you an mp3) from the '60. BTW I'm from 1970.

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Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:22 am

In the days of socialism (at least '70s) here in Poland we had no ads on our tv.

Ah, what a beautiful thing ! I simply can't watch TV because of the ads, they drive me crazy. There are ads everywhere now, everywhere you turn.

Post by **hubird** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:26 am

On 2003-02-20 03:25, samplaire wrote:
Is the word 'muzak' an everyday word?
Should I be ashamed using it talking to serious people?

Hi Sam, yes it's a 'normal' word, I bet you can find it in a dictionaire, it's just not really common.
You often find it used by publicists or journalists etc.

You should be ashamed if you tell people it's your favourit music

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