iPod doldrums
Name the top 3 songs you're playing in your cafe this week.
Is your iPod deadly over-played like mine?
Want NEW music. Not just new shuffles and frickin genius mixes but actual NEW music.
Whaddya got?
Hook me up, babies!
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Permalink Reply by Jay Caragay on
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Here's our daily playlist (at two locations):
1 - Silence
2 - Silence
3 - Silence
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Permalink Reply by zack burnett on
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Why?
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Permalink Reply by Jared Rutledge on
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Jay Caragay said:Here's our daily playlist (at two locations):
1 - Silence 2 - Silence
3 - Silence
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Permalink Reply by Corinne Derusha on
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make sure its "city and colour" if you're talking about Dallas Green. he's a genious. i would also check out Bowerbirds, Yael Naim, Bon Iver, the Dodos, the dirty projectors, fleet foxes, Carina Round [favorite]...sorry. i consider myself a guru of good music. playlists are my specialty.
chaz Cox said:dude, get pandora in there put like bonobo or city of color and you will be set for weeks.
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Check out Cotton Jones. You won't be disappointed. I went to one of their shows a few weeks ago and was thoroughly impressed.
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Permalink Reply by christopher myers on
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My idea is to buy an external hard drive and have everyone dump all their music onto it. Making a bunch of playlists with everyone's music could be a fun project.
Hot Chip, Fever Ray, Avett Brothers, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead, Broken Bells, Grizzly Bear, Ratatat are some work favorites
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Permalink Reply by Stickman on
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Jay likes silence because it allows him to hone his near-perfect falsetto.
zack burnett said:
Silence is good for some shops but I have chosen music. And like it! Music - and the din accompanying a busy shop with machinery buzzing away - allows for more intimacy between conversing patrons. Music does increase the overall Db level but I think music makes for a nice atmosphere.Why?
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Zack-
Silence because I've found that in most situations, the "music" that supposedly there for the "ambience" really is just for the whims of whoever is working. To my mind, we're creating an atmosphere for our customers while most places play music that the staff enjoys - which invariably, leads to some people being turned off.
For Spro, we want our customers to focus on the coffee, the product and the people they are enjoying their time. Music adds extraneous noise and detracts from that experience.
Ask yourself if the music you are targeting is for your enjoyment or for your customers. Chances are that it's really just music you want to hear. Most places do not actively cultivate a playlist with a specific environment in mind.
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well....hopefully the music you like will influence the atmosphere, rather than just be for pure enjoyment by your baristas...i love walking into a store, hearing an interesting new song that i've never heard before, and striking up a conversation with the employees about it....now, i know not everyone reacts like this, but its nice to try and give your customers something new and refreshing to experience
Jay Caragay said:Zack-
Silence because I've found that in most situations, the "music" that supposedly there for the "ambience" really is just for the whims of whoever is working. To my mind, we're creating an atmosphere for our customers while most places play music that the staff enjoys - which invariably, leads to some people being turned off.
For Spro, we want our customers to focus on the coffee, the product and the people they are enjoying their time. Music adds extraneous noise and detracts from that experience.
Ask yourself if the music you are targeting is for your enjoyment or for your customers. Chances are that it's really just music you want to hear. Most places do not actively cultivate a playlist with a specific environment in mind.
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Permalink Reply by Joona Suominen on
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Zack might have meant a band called Why? and if he did, it was a solid suggestion.
Stickman said:Jay likes silence because it allows him to hone his near-perfect falsetto.
zack burnett said:
Silence is good for some shops but I have chosen music. And like it! Music - and the din accompanying a busy shop with machinery buzzing away - allows for more intimacy between conversing patrons. Music does increase the overall Db level but I think music makes for a nice atmosphere.Why?
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I think the conversation of music or not music is for another post - and I'd happily chime in with more comments! This post is to determine what you're playing.
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I'll start off by mentioning a band I'm digging right now to stay on subject. That would be Heartless Bastards their album The Mountain is kick ass. May be off-putting to some though.
Jay you have a very valid point. I like most music but have been turned off by some that I have heard and would not want to sit through some baristas' playlists. As a whole, baristas tend to have good taste in music though. But if I was trying to be a regular at a shop and they played a lot of bad music I probably wouldn't continue going. On the same hand, I probably wouldn't frequent a shop that didn't play music. Unless I was in your neighborhood, as your shop looks top notch. I'm very interested in this because I am trying to figure out what to do in a future shop. Thanks for your view point.
I think there is music that is widely enjoyable that can not only entertain the guests in you shop but also your baristas. I tend to agree with Corinne in that I like to hear new music and I think a coffee shop can serve as a good place to hear new music. I think a good barista should try to figure out what the crown wants to hear. Maybe the really do want to hear nothing and let the coffee do all the "entertaining" if you will. It'd probably be pretty hard to go wrong with some good jazz at a practical decibel level though.
Oh yeah, I really dig the new Dr. Dog album.
Hope I kept that enough on topic Stickman. I'd like this to stay on the topic of music to play also, just thought Jay's input deserved a reply.
Jay Caragay said:Zack-
Silence because I've found that in most situations, the "music" that supposedly there for the "ambience" really is just for the whims of whoever is working. To my mind, we're creating an atmosphere for our customers while most places play music that the staff enjoys - which invariably, leads to some people being turned off.
For Spro, we want our customers to focus on the coffee, the product and the people they are enjoying their time. Music adds extraneous noise and detracts from that experience.
Ask yourself if the music you are targeting is for your enjoyment or for your customers. Chances are that it's really just music you want to hear. Most places do not actively cultivate a playlist with a specific environment in mind.
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