When you go to a coffee shop for your morning coffee, whether you are just ordering to go, or ordering to stay and drink there, say from 6am to 10am. What would you rather listen to? Soft mellow music, talk radio, or news?
I don't really go to coffee shops in the morning but if I did, I would prefer news.
News
New Age Music, somewhat upbeat, al la, Vangelis, Jon Anderson, Bruce BecVar, B-Tribe, Shadowfax, Oregon etc... If I can't listen to news while getting ready, or riding in the car, I sure as sugar don't want to hear it while I'm trying to relax and get my brain working.
So if the world is going to stop spinning tomorrow, not much I could do anyway, so who cares? Suicide is painless, why push it?
OCKLAWAHA
NPR
NPR
Sports Center... ESPN... :)
My whole thought was since stopping in for a coffee might be somewhat of a luxury these days, that it should be more of an "oasis" I figured that people wouldnt want to hear news and everything else that they hear at home getting ready or in their car on the way to work.
Quote from: Ocklawaha on September 30, 2008, 09:05:59 AM
So if the world is going to stop spinning tomorrow, not much I could do anyway, so who cares? Suicide is painless, why push it?
OCKLAWAHA
LoL. 'Suicide is painless.' Ock's worst nightmare would be to walk into a coffee shop and have the M*A*S*H theme song playing ad infinitum.
Soft mellow, new age...anything but the news or some TV blasting..
News
I'd rather have a mellow tone to the visit, I can catch the news in my car or at home
QuoteLoL. 'Suicide is painless.' Ock's worst nightmare would be to walk into a coffee shop and have the M*A*S*H theme song playing ad infinitum.
But Doc K, being maybe the only other JAZZ FAN on this board, you've got to know I love the original piece!
NICE CATCH. I bat 100's out there, but few have ever been snagged. I think you got one here and someone else pulled out DOC HOLIDAY! LOL! (You did know he was a local boy didn't you?)
I love New Age as well but it must tell a story or go somewhere... Abercrombies TIMELESS or anything by OREGON are the key bridge sounds. OCKLAWAHA
Quote from: jacksonvilleconfidential on September 30, 2008, 09:38:27 AM
NPR
NPR would put me back to sleep.
EDIT: I didn't answer the question ... I'll second jbm .. I can listen to news in the car I'll take something mellow with my Coffee.
Norwegian Death Metal...at a piercing volume.
Quote from: TREE4309 on October 14, 2008, 04:09:01 PM
Norwegian Death Metal...at a piercing volume.
Swedish death metal is much more deathier... :)
Something mellow and sophisticated. I think jazz would be ideal. Classical would be good too. Personally, I hate the idea of news or talk radio in a coffee shop. Genuinely dislike it. The same way I dislike it when I go to a restaurant and they have the TVs tuned to FOX News or CNN. I like how someone earlier in the thread refered to a coffee shop as an "oasis." I think that's a pretty good description of what a coffee shop should feel like. A place where you can relax, clear your mind, and watch the world go by without having the speakers pumping your brain full of information that you are probably going to the coffee shop to escape from. Nothing is the antithesis of what a cafe experience should be like more than an NPR coorespondent or a radio shock jock drolling on about Sarah Palin or Barrack Obama or the collapsing economy or War in Iraq.
Quote from: Ocklawaha on September 30, 2008, 04:51:19 PM
QuoteLoL. 'Suicide is painless.' Ock's worst nightmare would be to walk into a coffee shop and have the M*A*S*H theme song playing ad infinitum.
But Doc K, being maybe the only other JAZZ FAN on this board, you've got to know I love the original piece!
NICE CATCH. I bat 100's out there, but few have ever been snagged. I think you got one here and someone else pulled out DOC HOLIDAY! LOL! (You did know he was a local boy didn't you?)
I love New Age as well but it must tell a story or go somewhere... Abercrombies TIMELESS or anything by OREGON are the key bridge sounds.
OCKLAWAHA
While I'm not necessarily a jazz 'aficionado', I've been known to migrate to the jazz channels on my XM. I think I can agree on the Oregon part.
To KenFSU's point - it's amazing what some 'lighter' classical can do for the mind and well-being. Jazz isn't for everyone, and neither is classical. But I find, to the average joe, Classical is a little less polarizing than just about any sub-genre of Jazz. New Age, depending on the artist, might be a good compromise.
At least have a TV with ESPN and the sound off with captions... :)
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