Comments on: Our tune

By: Teg

Teg — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:57:16 +0000

Without a doubt, the worst hold music I’ve ever heard is the music that corporate travel whores Carson Wagonlit play on hold in their central offices. It’s an (approximately) 12 bar loop - not even a logical 16 - of nasty, NASTY synth sounds, including swoops and awful drum tracks. It amde me want to scream, every time.

The other, really bad, one, is Select’s midi rendition of the Four Seasons. Ridiculous.

By: will

will — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:41:10 +0000

I was dialling in for a conference call at work and while being passed from one of the caller’s secretaries to his desk was greeted with “Money Money Money” by ABBA (the real thing in all it’s glory, not a midi rendition). Given that I was calling an asset management company, a firm that exists exclusively for the purpose of making extremely rich people even richer, the selection was less amusing than tasteless to the point of being vomit inducing…

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:52:39 +0000

ATB have Metallica as their hold music. Sometimes I don’t want to be taken off hold until the song finishes…

: P

By: cat

cat — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:48:30 +0000

I particularly loved the time I was on hold for about 45 minutes to the 02 customer complaint line, about to threaten firebombing their headquarters for lack of service. The music?

I want to be loved by you, Marylin Monroe.

Do you? Do you really?