worst/weirdest music to play over climbing gym speakers

non-explicit, of course. i'm trying to build a playlist for work [/my own amusement, as i work a graveyard shift]. currently have sigur ros going & then going to put on arabic rap or enya.

alternatively: what is the batshittest thing you've heard going at the gym?

1. The song that never ends
2. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves
3. John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt 
4. Mmmbop
5. Baby Shark

When I used to work at the Rockreation in SLC we played all our music on a gym Pandora account. For whatever reason, seemingly no matter what station genre we selected, the song Somewhere Over The Rainbow would inevitably be played. Eventually our manager lost his cool with the desk staff and declared that the next time that song came over the speakers someone was getting fired. I sort of had to agree with him, great song, but it doesn’t give a workout vibe.

I've heard every manner of noise pollution that's ever been produced, just about, come through gym speakers at one time or another.  Bela Fleck, Toby Keith, Ghetto Boyz, you name it (not that all of these are noise pollution, but certainly not typical gym fare).  The worst thing a gym can do regarding music, IMO, is give the staff the ability to play whatever they want on Spotify.  

One time in stone gardens Bellevue there was like a ghouls and goblins scary haunted house noises soundtrack playing. It was June. 

It wasn’t in a gym, but I bring a speaker to listen to music while bouldering with friends in less populated areas. Buddy brought his cousin, and I guess he decided to change my music to Tom Macdonald while I was using the bathroom. We gave him like ten minutes of time and took control back again.

the Arab rap sounds lit

Here's a playlist of songs that I plan on busking with my baritone acoustic and flute downtown this summer. They're mostly millennial bubblegum.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WLUJVD9wlqAmTpb2gIfKN?si=OGt8r0rpTCOCJ7Nad2Cn9g

Here's a playlist of German hiphop that always got me stoked to climb when I was living in Mexico: 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60YMYFzNDAQEm4C1WJxe38?si=at1cu9eaS-aNwByX6rLd4w

Here's my number two voice crush, behind Melody Gardot:

Congrats on befriending your lover's cat! 

I was painting a gym a few years ago when it was closed while I coated the floor but the route setters were there and were playing rap music, which I cannot stand, so I told the owner they needed to change it or I would leave .It was more important for the floor to be done so it got changed.

If you want patrons to leave, anything from this channel will get the work done - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMmLi8z1HbyhTEvfBgXpyg 

One of the things I hate most about gyms is the music.

Can’t think of a gym session I’ve had where the music wasn’t buggin. Mostly just wish washy whacked out frenetic noise with no power or soul

It actually compliments the fluorescent light, stale air, plastic and fiberglass quite well!

Let the bodies hit the floor is surprisingly flowly

I told one staffer that I had been to a Florence and machine concert. They started playing Florence that day and I thought it was weird. Then it seemed like Florence was added to all their playlists.

Desert rose by sting 

I prefer that "old school" music when climbing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1phCytJyg

F r i t z wrote:

[fabulous taste in music here <3]

Congrats on befriending your lover's cat! 

(-':

thank you. honestly there are few, few things quite as life-affirming as getting a traumatized-as-hell cat to love you

& y'all my plan to be a [private] pissant backfired, and i made a new post-rock friend after i had GY!BE playing in the roping areas. 

i'm so happy. i think my experiment next shift is going to be a lot of merzbow

There ought to be a law: wherever they happen to be, gym owners should have to listen to whatever their staff is playing.

The sort of music that helps kids cope with customers at the front desk is rarely what will make me feel like climbing. Rather, the complaints of tone-deaf eunuchs make me feel like eating a salad laced with cyanide. Then again, when the staff attempts to do my old ass a favor by putting on a classic rock playlist, it's just as bad. 

Oh and another law: as part of the gym interview process, applicants shall be asked to clap their hands to a song (in 4/4). If they clap on 1 and 3, they shall be locked out of the Spotify account.

Logan Peterson wrote:

There ought to be a law: wherever they happen to be, gym owners should have to listen to whatever their staff is playing.

The sort of music that helps kids cope with customers at the front desk is rarely what will make me feel like climbing. Rather, the complaints of tone-deaf eunuchs make me feel like eating a salad laced with cyanide. Then again, when the staff attempts to do my old ass a favor by putting on a classic rock playlist, it's just as bad. 

exactly. there is no winning, so why even play the game? looping this during the next morning youth camp

I remember one morning at the Front in SLC somebody put on GY!BE F# A # infinity. 

I mean, it's actually a great album but it doesn't do much for stoke.

The bouldering only gym near me goes back and forth between white people reggae and like ambient calm music that makes you want to fall asleep. 

On the last night they were open before shutting for quarantine, the Vertical World in Seattle was blasting (seriously, much higher volume than normal) songs from animated Disney movies. It was bizarre, distracting and actually kind of fun in a strange way.

I could totally see Gregorian chant giving you some odd looks.  Try that out.