I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading. 
Luke |
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I have brought my noise-isolating earphones but they are playing this crap at a volume I can hear over my own choices. I asked them to turn it down but they say it's all down to policy which they won't override. |
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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago
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"The Gymnopédies more your scene? 
Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.
Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic. "
There weren’t many classical pieces with the word gym in to choose from. |
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"The Gymnopédies more your scene?
Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.
Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic.
There weren’t many classical pieces with the word gym in to choose from. "
Dozy me. I didn't even spot your pun. Sorry. |
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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago
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"The Gymnopédies more your scene?
Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.
Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic.
There weren’t many classical pieces with the word gym in to choose from.
Dozy me. I didn't even spot your pun. Sorry. "
I guessed that. |
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"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit.
A live DJ? That's random. Do they hold wedding receptions too?
Better than a dead one I guess"
At least a dead one should be quiet and I can listen to my own stuff in peace. |
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I wish they played it where I go- I just get constant R ‘n’ B ( note the ‘n’ and not R & B, which is entirely different. R ‘n’ B is so shite, even its name isn’t fucking original- just some cockwomble saying stuff that almost rhymes, over some decent tune they’ve stolen and fucked over  ) |
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"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit. "
Is that Gymbox? I used to go to them in London and they had some good live DJs but that was few years ago |
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Why do they have to play anything?
I can go into city center bars with music blaring out that nobody particularly wants to hear, and racks of tvs on the wall behind the bar showing the same images on each one, with no connection to the cacophony being spewed out. Nobodys asking for this shit. Can a member of the gym/bar industry who is actually responsible for this, tell us just why the fuck we have to hear it? |
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Good GOD yes
Always driven me nuts.
Once, as I was the only member there, I talked the attendant into putting BBC6music on for a half hour. It was sublime.
Another instructor would do spin classes to Nirvana & Slaves, pilates to the Mountain Goats. That was great, I miss him. |
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Same. Their dance shite is always audible over my own stuff on my headphones. Annoying as hell. Given how everyone wears headphones anyway, why play music at all? |
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"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading.
Luke "
Wear ear phones listen to your own shit....
But then again my gym as s juke box (free) snc you put on what ever they have |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading.
Luke "
i dont like gyms   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading.
Luke "
 
I share your pain....Worse for me as there’s no escape as I work in a gym!  |
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The gym I go to added a play list to Spotify, people where allowed to add whatever they wanted. Sounds great right? Wrong. Lead to all sorts of disagreements. Lots of people listen to dogshit music. Someone added Ed Sheeran piece of you. A song virtually impossible to work out to. Dance music is, in the main, uptempo and up lifting. It’s supposed to make you work harder and faster |
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"Why do they have to play anything?
I can go into city center bars with music blaring out that nobody particularly wants to hear, and racks of tvs on the wall behind the bar showing the same images on each one, with no connection to the cacophony being spewed out. Nobodys asking for this shit. Can a member of the gym/bar industry who is actually responsible for this, tell us just why the fuck we have to hear it?"
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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"I have brought my noise-isolating earphones but they are playing this crap at a volume I can hear over my own choices. I asked them to turn it down but they say it's all down to policy which they won't override. "
"Policy"? .. sounds like bollocks. What policy is there to pump out music at a high level? If you want music that loud you go to a club. Tell them you are sensitive to loud noises as it brings on PTSD. |
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"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading.
Luke "
I sense a need to play 140bpm EDM all day now! |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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"The gym I go to added a play list to Spotify, people where allowed to add whatever they wanted. Sounds great right? Wrong. Lead to all sorts of disagreements. Lots of people listen to dogshit music. Someone added Ed Sheeran piece of you. A song virtually impossible to work out to. Dance music is, in the main, uptempo and up lifting. It’s supposed to make you work harder and faster"
Dance is ok for cardio. When I'm lifting weights I want to listen to Pantera and get angry and growly. |
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"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit. "
Mine did that once. It was truly awful. I wondered whether it was some bizarre comedy and our reactions were being filmed. |
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My old gym had a free jukebox which was pretty cool, whereas the new one has its own kind of radio station, playing a mixture but mostly crap. So headphones and Amazon music in my phone play the soundtracks to my workouts now. |
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"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading.
Luke "
I've used a couple of gyms that allow people to choose the playlists or hook up their own phones and the results have mostly been rock or metal |
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What annoys me more than the music in the gym are the self entitled pricks who think that the entire changing room wants to be subjected to their utterly shite music and play it on their phone. |
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"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.
I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.
I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.
Gripe over. Thanks for reading.
Luke "
I hear you, I have to use nouse cancelling headphones to drown out the mass produced repetetive shit being played. |
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