Break at Work: Office Music for Busy People, Reduce Stress, Pleasure and Easy Listening in WorkplaceSpotifyAn easy listening instrumental soundtrack for the workplace is more or less my own personal nightmare.
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The record just became more… it's kind of easy listening.
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How did those easy-listening political prophets Hall & Oates put it?
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The fake Legend lacks the easy-listening rhythm of the real one.
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America isn't easy listening music -- uniform, predictable, always pleasant to the ear.
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Sometimes it was not "easy listening" but Trump is not a politician.
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Easy-listening pop songs like Elton John's "Rocket Man" follow the letters.
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This turntable is wireless and connects to speakers or headphones for easy listening.
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This turntable is wireless and connects to speakers or headphones for easy listening.
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This machine is wireless and connects to speakers or headphones for easy listening.
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This machine is wireless and connects to speakers or headphones for easy listening.
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His style has been described as "easy listening," but they appear almost everywhere.
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He was not somebody who was content to write elegant music for easy listening.
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That's actually not true, I listen to Jewel 92, it's an easy listening station.
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Before record stores neared extinction, Sade was often stocked in the easy listening section.
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Mellow electronic beats and easy-listening jazz were piped out over the murmurs of conversation.
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On radio: For those who prefer easy listening, Fox News Radio will broadcast both debates.
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The Dickies jokingly called their style "easy listening punk" in a 1978 interview with Sounds.
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Otherwise, it's smooth and easy listening, while not losing any aspects or details in the track.
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For those who prefer easy listening, Salem Radio Network stations are the place to tune in.
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"I wouldn't mind a little easy listening in there every once in a while," he joked.
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Once I took the rap portion of the song, it felt like it was more easy listening.
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But hopes that its most famous athlete/legislator/easy-listening singer might end that drought were dashed.
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That's why even music classified as "independent" or "genre-defiant" has come to sound like easy listening.
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Indeed, Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 became an easy-listening hit when the Sinfonietta recorded it in 1991.
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This lilting Nashville rock trio gives new meaning to the label "easy listening" with their tempered, dreamy psychedelia.
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This movie is a lot of things, but it is primarily the perfect occasion to use this gif: Jazz & Easy Listening (10271) If you're thinking that Jazz & Easy Listening sounds like a classification of music rather than film, you'd be correct — but this is one hidden category actually full of gems.
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Until then, there had only been schmaltzy carols and easy listening staples, with occasional hints of a party tune.
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There were some easy listening records that I listened to for fun because I love those soft backing vocals.
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Nobody, not even a hard-core Schrader fan, could claim that "First Reformed" makes for easy listening, or viewing.
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The entire production is steeped in a mixture of archness and earnestness that prohibits emotional engagement and easy listening.
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It's not just music for easy listening; it's presented as something to pacify a bored, bummed-out work force.
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It lampoons the easy listening racism that so often lies behind the liberal smile in the "postracial" United States.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE I discovered Mr. Previn's easy-listening albums of the 1960s via that genre's revival in the 1990s.
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At the same time, the disparate tempos between the mini-ensembles kept this from feeling like an easy-listening exercise.
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The drummer, who died at 21989, was the beat behind Phil Spector innovations, Beach Boys experiments and easy listening hits.
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Its 1970s jazz score, by Keith Jarrett, is all tender memories and no gunshots so to speak — it's easy listening.
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The Steelers flew down to miserable Miami, where the newly christened Hard Rock Stadium has seen plenty of Easy Listening football.
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Either that or I'll have a full jazz band behind me and we'll be pumping out easy listening libraries for day spas.
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A whole crop of newer bands have picked up this sentiment too as the backdrop for their invocations of easy listening sounds.
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She makes it stand out, even if the description I've just given might have you wincing at the idea of MOR easy listening.
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"A Day in the Life" is an undisputed masterpiece, though the overdubbed howl of a 40-person ensemble does not make for easy listening.
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I Was Misinformed Good morning, listeners, and welcome to the Smash the Patriarchy Easy Listening Hour, where our special guest today will be. YOU!
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I didn't have this idea to make a record that intentionally ~channels~ the sounds of 80s and 90s new age, jazz fusion, and easy listening.
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Ellen DeGeneres convinced the "My Heart Will Go On" crooner to turn popular rap tracks into ballads worthy of your mom's favorite easy listening station.
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On his recordings, Thundercat nearly qualifies as easy listening, but more in the sense of Hall & Oates than Jack Johnson (no disrespect to either parties).
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For more on the ways that Quiet Friend upends the traditions of easy listening music, read this month's entry in Noisey's experimental column Free Radicals.
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Acting is easy listening, her poppiest and most produced album yet: A collection of chorus-driven earworms and power anthems with a radio-ready sheen.
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They will be followed by the Bushwick collective Jantar, which specializes in ambient and improvised "experimental easy listening music" based on film and background music.
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They are betting that they can achieve the effect they seek by embracing the Confederate cause, while serving up easy-listening Nazism on the side.
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Not everybody likes his work, which tends toward a tuneful, easy-listening accessibility that robs him of a place in the pantheon of serious composers.
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J.P. Easy listening crooner (Johnny Mathis: that is to say, the one) meets powerhouse disco songwriting team (Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards: also the ones).
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The first since 2014's V, Red Pill Blues (out November 4) is set to take over dentists' offices and easy listening stations the world over.
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His résumé included ambitious art-rock totems, easy listening schmaltz, TV theme songs, incendiary folk-rock, Phil Spector's "wall of sound" and Steely Dan's smooth softscapes.
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But as to musical synthesis and what it represents, I'd opt for "Changes" in the end, even if it's a track [that's made for] super easy listening.
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"I Feel It Coming" is an easy-listening little funk tune, further shaping up the idea that Starboy will be Abel Tesfaye's most radio-friendly release yet.
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Musically, their songs have been linked to what is often seen as the uncool crowd: easy listening squares, baby boomers and anyone who saw Mamma Mia repeatedly.
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Maybe it was the combination of all those colorful, kid-friendly movie posters against the backdrop of a bright blue sky and a warm easy-listening soundtrack.
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"It's French," he said, before launching into an easy-listening Mandarin hit by Wang Leehom, an American Chinese pop sensation who grew up in upstate New York.
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When once upon a time that would have consisted of easy-listening "Muzak," now background-music playlists are designed to have all sorts of effects on us.
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On his most recent album, "This Land," he tackles racism and American politics through tunes that are anything but easy listening — and all the better for it.
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If your family's listening habits are anything like mine, however, then you might end up with a shared playlist that veers chaotically between easy-listening and heavy metal.
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What's more, to get a sense of the pristine acoustics of the chamber, here's a video of a guitarist using the facility to achieve maximum easy listening resonance.
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Despite both having dated lothario John Mayer, Katy Perry and Jennifer Aniston have forged a friendship that is greater than any treacly ballad played on some easy-listening station.
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Its combination of Minimalism, pre-70s easy listening and cutting-edge studio techniques was simultaneously nostalgic and forward-looking, making the band sound both out-of-time and timeless.
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Over several events across Iowa and New Hampshire in January, Mr. Buttigieg's supporters settled in for the kind of center-left easy-listening fare that has become his hallmark.
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A user can add a station to their library for easy listening access whenever they log into their account, and similarly, they can delete a station at any time.
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You expect the reek of cheesiness, only to be moved, as Michael is, by the heartsore fragility of her voice: easy listening, in the depths of a difficult film.
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This has always felt like a reasonable tradeoff for the convenience of jamming a little module into my skull and enjoying some easy listening classics like "Sailing" by Christopher Cross.
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She expanded her reach to the easy listening charts and profited financially from touring, but as it would later be proven, Columbia Records had not tapped into her full potential.
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They're aiming to bridge different listening contexts — lounge easy-listening, late-night dance clubs, megafestivals, all at once, and their coded genre mashups are supposed to mix sophistication and crassness.
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"Country Boy" was Campbell's fifth straight number one hit on the Easy Listening chart, but its schmaltzy veneer masks one of Campbell's deepest declarations of anxious introspection and self-doubt.
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Editorial Observer The easy-listening white supremacists who surged out of the shadows during the presidential campaign are no less dangerous than their white power survivalist or raving skinhead counterparts.
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Compared to the glitchy mania of their last single, the wonderfully titled and 22-minute-long "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)," Death Grips' latest song, "Streaky," makes for easy listening.
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In 27, the managers of a number of 7-Eleven stores in British Columbia began playing classical and easy-listening music in their parking lots to drive away loitering teen-agers.
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The thin layer of ice on the washes sparkled in the sunshine, and occasionally a covey of birds exploded from beneath the brush, adding cymbals to an otherwise easy listening classical movement.
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Lo-fi channels singlehandedly incorporate Soundcloud culture, wholesome internet culture, teen study communities on Tumblr and Instagram, and all that subtly detailed animated Tumblr GIF art into one beautiful easy-listening soundtrack.
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"They used violence as an instrument, but in the meantime they tried to have tranquil lives," he said of the popularity of easy listening during times of strife, likening it to meditation.
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Tayler claims she trained in dog psychology with Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan himself, and doesn't skimp on the comfort: audio systems pipe in easy-listening classics and the entire building is air-conditioned.
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She has developed semi-theatrical concert programs that weave together works of many periods, and she aggressively campaigns on behalf of her favorite contemporary composers, who seldom fall into the easy-listening category.
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The Faith No More and Mr. Bungle frontman is scoring a Netflix adaptation of Stephen King's novella, 1922, and working on a self-described "easy listening" album with French composer Jean-Claude Vannier.
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The rawness of their recordings means that they are not quite as suited to easy listening as the beautiful melodies and harmonies of Queen or the upbeat power chords of AC/DC (see chart).
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Many artists felt they were being forced into a demeaning balancing act: extracting money and applause from their new patrons — the bourgeoisie, who liked easy-listening and easy-reading — without compromising their creative freedom.
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"Ultra Pink" imagines a version of easy listening where you're implicated in your placidity—"Don't tell me I'm some kind of woman," Hulett pleads obliquely—forcing you to take ownership of your own comfort.
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That this approach strips her songs of tension is the point, as the album aims to define a new mode of soft rock, easy listening for a commercial climate where no such mode currently exists.
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Reagan's stirring example is still taught in Dixon, a trim, conservative town, with an equestrian statue of the president on its riverfront and loudspeakers on lamp-posts that play the Carpenters and other easy-listening classics.
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He makes a fine case for it on The Lillywhite Sessions, combining the easy pop-rock of "Diggin' a Ditch" and the lovelorn easy listening of "Grace Is Gone" with abrasive interludes and careening jazz stretches.
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As easy listening, though, "The Folly of Desire" was also easy to like for its 45 minutes, even if it left the audience thinking more about Mr. Mehldau's thoughtfully essayistic program note than the music itself.
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Steely Dan's musical surfaces were sleek and understated, smooth enough to almost be mistaken for easy-listening pop, and polished through countless takes that earned Mr. Becker and Mr. Fagen a daunting reputation as studio perfectionists.
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From Drake, Kanye and Cardi B to easy listening melodies, like Bon Iver, Enya and Norah Jones — the songs you listen to on the way to and from work can affect your mood and overall well-being.
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The songs confidently acknowledge and parody influences and peers: blues, country, doo-wop, parlor songs, 1920s jazz, psychedelia, musique concrete, orchestral easy listening, Baroque harpsichord, bossa nova, Jamaican bluebeat, English brass bands, Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys.
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For over 20173 years, jazz had been fraying into attenuated alliances: free improvisers and avant-garde composers; jazz-rock fusion musicians; and, in Los Angeles more than New York, studio musicians combining soul-jazz with easy listening.
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While "Golden Hour" still hasn't gotten old in the two years since it was released, we're always ready for her genre-bending, easy-listening country vibes, especially when this year is shaping up to be a stressful one.
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Your character may be facing inner turmoil about his crumbling life, but that doesn't stop you from stealing cars and joyriding while tuning in to easy listening radio stations instead of continuing on with your violent endgame ambitions.
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Gnash's easy listening is in the mode of Jason Mraz, or, more recently, Mike Posner — a chipper singer with an uncomplicated approach to melody who makes bright songs easy to wrap a beat around, were you so inclined.
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Even this easy-listening version, which lays on the romance, jokes and limp dialogue ("They may not have wanted a war, but by Frith, that's what they'll get"), has moments of grandeur and the sweep of a fantasy epic.
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Mr. Carrisi, who was blacklisted this month by Ukraine apparently in part for serenading Vladimir Putin in Moscow at a 100th anniversary celebration of the KGB, traced the roots of Italian easy listening back to Gregorian chants and Verdi.
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Forever, in comparison to his debut, is an album that feels like a more pointed reflection of things going on in Popcaan's life, even if many of the songs are more suited for easy listening than Where We Come From.
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But according to People, the exes came together again at an Ed Sheeran concert in Los Angeles, proving that it's possible to hang out with an ex and jam to easy-listening rock songs without having it devolve into a Bravo-worthy conflict.
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Then there are masters for largely forgotten artists that were stored in the vault: tens of thousands of gospel, blues, jazz, country, soul, disco, pop, easy listening, classical, comedy and spoken-word records that may now exist only as written entries in discographies.
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Yet again, the season starts with a black-and-white flash forward to Jimmy-Saul-Gene's life in Nebraska, where the drudgery of his life behind the Cinnabon counter is juxtaposed with Lee Hazelwood's easy-listening confection "Sugar Town," sung by Nancy Sinatra.
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For instance, you can use Shortcuts to create a bedtime routine shortcut that turns on Do Not Disturb, sets a timer for you to brush your teeth, then plays the latest episode of the New Yorker fiction podcast for easy listening as you wind down.
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And more than ever, in 2018, it feels like the oft-maligned sounds of easy listening are in the air—providing a deceptively blissful packaging for some of pop music's most experimental operators, offering the promise of relaxation, as if that's even possible anymore.
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Like most of the record's best moments—as I wrote yesterday—Zanca's unflagging delivery lends to the feeling that this a refraction of the history of easy listening music, sorta Pure Moods pop complicated by the fact that its ultimately a song about the disappointment of adulthood.
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"Please" is a piano-led, mid-tempo track which I would classify as "easy listening but actually cool," while "Summer Days" is livelier (though it still retains the group's signature chill), and is, as it happens, an especially pretty song to hear on a summer day.
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Nick Zanca, the producer and songwriter who once recorded head-nodding beat music as Mister Lies, has a new band called Quiet Friend that explicitly channels the droning synth work and mannered melodies of the many strains of easy listening music and sophisti-pop, as well as new age and ambient music (styles themselves having a renaissance in non-experimental spheres for the first time in a while).
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