POV: It's been 2 hours, your knees are weak, and your mom is still talking to her friend that she bumped into

now that i work at a supermarket, i kinda wish they would play songs like this sometimes. listening to the same 50 pop songs makes you go a little insane 😵‍💫

i think society would be a little better if we collectively brought this back

"Attention shoppers...the time is currently 8.50pm....this store will be closing in 10 minutes time....please finalise your shopping and make your way to the checkouts....this store will reopen at 9am tomorrow for your convenience."

Bring this back, the retail workers are sick of the chainsmokers 😭

I worked at a small town grocery store that played music like this in the 2010's. It really was nice to hear this behind the cart wheel noises and cashier machine's beeps. When the store was empty and it was just the music I'd get super sleepy and try to keep myself awake by reading the newspaper. I worked New Years Eve and it was stressful but pretty magical- we had lines of people with stuffed carts full of holiday food and lots of old looking decorations that our management would put up. I loved working in the mornings because I would be on the first register and around 7am the sunlight would hit the store just right to make my aisle glow. Right before I left for college my manager let us stay and shop after hours and we had a cookout in the parking lot. I still have my name tag nearly ten years later cuz I loved that job so much

I was born in 1969 and one of my ever first memories of life was in a department store with my Mum. I must have been about 3 or 4 so around 1973. Fortunately my mum is still Alive. Love you Mum X

I wish grocery store chains would experiment by playing this music once again. No one would object …and everyone would stay a little longer browsing the shelves.

Why can't we play this in stores now? I'm so serious.

We high school students used to joke about this music back in the early seventies, but now I fondly look back at those wonderful times when I took for granted this very music. Every Christmas season, I find the K-Mart Christmas tape of 1974 and play that. I do hope you provide something as well. Thank you for your channel.

It's 1985 and I am in a store that still has avocado-colored carpet and brown walls. Mom is checking out clothes and I am sitting in the middle of a round clothes rack so I can be hidden from everyone in my teepee of solitude. We are going to Chick-Fil-A soon and I will get a new book from Waldenbooks today. School starts soon and I can't wait to see all the new kids and make new friends and learn new things. My cat is at home, waiting for me, and we will play with her favorite feather toy. I will sleep deeply and dream vividly. My entire life is ahead of me and I can't wait to see what it brings. I will never forget. And these songs will help me remember. Thank you for these memories!

36:45 Thank you Fardemark for making this compilation. And thank you to all the artists who created this beautiful music. Half a year ago, I was laying in a hospital due to heart failure, and I was there for 3 months straight because I had to go for a surgery and later, recovery in the hospital. It was a very hard and tough period in my life, and this video helped me fall asleep during nights in hospital beds. Difficult times for me, but this made it a bit easier to handle, especially since my family friends couldn't come visit me often because hospital was 300 kilometers away from where we lived, and also because of work, so I didn't get that much visitors and to see my family often, this softened the pain and cryings sometimes. Thank you, Fardemark.

im really hoping department stores and malls ironically go back into style due to nostalgia

I was grocery shopping at Kroger and “Welcome To The Jungle” by Guns-n-Roses was one of the songs playing. There’s something to be said for this ambient music instead of “baby, you’re gonna die!” being screamed at you while you put the Cap’n Crunch in your cart…

I'm 64 years old and as a child I really enjoy this music. I remember when they started changing it. I did not like it and when I spoke up, no one would ever listen. SO REFRESHING READING YOUR COMMENTS

Wow.... This album really is the epitome of what contemporary orchestra is all about. This particular set is really set apart by accentuation of harp & metallophone.... Even today, most ppl are simply looking for something gentle & pleasant while they work, or else something to relax to at days end. To them its just muzak or elevator music However, those of who grew up with this music to become musicians later see this as modern symphony. Just as important as anything mozart, bach, beethovan, or gershwin did. Easily as sophisticated; elegant; even majestic. And sometimes even more challenging to re-create A hundred thank you's for your appreciation & for your care in preserving this irreplaceable recording! 🎼 💜💜

I remember how annoyed my parents were the first time a place of business that normally had canned music like this - had that demon rock n’ roll on. And it was like - one popular rock song, a mild one at that (nothing heavy) - and they were offended. Not too long ago, I was in the big chain grocery store and I was surprised when a hip-hop song came on. And I was like “Ohhh - this is how my parents must have felt.”

I love the comment sections in uploads like this one. No arguing, no hostility, just people vibing together and sharing stories.

I listen to this while shopping online. Sometimes I'll wander around my house pretending to look for customer service.

I want this played at my funeral.. While people shop

00:14 Plucking the Strings - David Snell (c) UK 1983 01:34 Day Away - James Clarke (c) UK 1978 03:28 Going Home - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 06:25 Prairie Farm - David Snell (c) UK 1983 08:25 Rural Green - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 10:29 Strolling Around - Irving Martin (c) UK 1980 13:25 Island of Dreams - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 15:20 Manhattan Transfer - Steve Gray (c) UK 1981 18:19 Tattile - Oscar Rocchi/Franco Godi (c) Italia 1972 20:57 Sublime Country - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 22:47 Magic Moments - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 25:46 Spending Spree - David Snell (c) UK 1983 26:57 Flirtation - Peter Morris (c) UK 1978 29:19 ??? 32:03 Lucky One - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 34:45 Such Sweet Sorrow - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 37:31 Sales Appeal - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 39:37 Blowing in the Wind - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 41:35 Mountain Rose - Chris Gunning (c) UK 1978 43:32 ??? 47:06 Sentimental Journey - David Snell (c) UK 1981 50:06 Like Summer - David Gold/Gordon Rees (c) UK 1973 53:10 Happy Country - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 55:56 Over The Hedge Rows - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 59:09 Picture Gala - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1979 1:01:01 Just Passing Through - Valentino (c) ??? 1:03:20 Autumn Gold - Keith Mansfield (c) UK 1978 1:06:00 When I'm With You - Laurie Robertson Murphy (c) USA 1978 1:09:17 The Swallow - John A Coleman (c) UK 1978 1:11:20 Fun Loving - Johnny Pearson (c) UK 1978 1:13:07 Odyssey - Ron Roker (c) ??? 1:15:08 Halcyon Days - Duncan Lamont (c) UK 1978 1:17:28 ??? 1:20:44 Far Horizons - David Snell (c) UK 1978 1:23:43 Breezing Along - Laurie Robertson Murphy (c) USA 1979

I honestly think relaxing music like this would make people stay in stores longer.

25:46 !! A 70s sunny walk around the town! 💙☀

My mother worked in malls her whole life and couldn't afford child care, but the clothing racks and hiding behind the service counters are free! I loved it, I miss all the malls I grew up playing in. Watching them go under and get dozed still stings. Who else was a mall baby??

Every day I have to play this playlist on loop in a dark room for my chickens so that they will calm down. No other music stops their cries like this one, but it has come to the point where this is the only playlist of department store music they'll ever listen to. Thank you (edit): The dark room in question is just my bedroom. I do this when it's getting dark out and/or the weather is too cold or hot. My chickens, which are just 2 hens, aren't being stripped of their outdoor freedom. They roam around my backyard almost everyday and are spoiled with treats and air conditioning. They sleep in the house.

Im unfortunately too young to have ever had heard music like this playing in stores, yet it still feels so blissful. Stuff like this provide a really unique sense of serenity that I rarely feel.

Gonna add this one to my favorites list. Then when I am at Walmart I can play this on my headphones and be in a. Different better era. An elegant music for a more civilized age.

There's got to be a reason this music has largely been abandoned in grocery & dept. stores and wherever. This music was proven to keep people peaceful and in a good mood while they worked and shopped. Various experiments by industrial phycologists used music , lighting and various other phenomena/factors to determine the best possible work and shopping and learning environment back in the 40&50's and it worked. Now it's the heavy beat and driving beat in our music that I notice in stores and wonder if we are poisoning ourselves or rather our minds and increasing crime, anger, anxiety etc. There's probably something to it.

I'd preferred to have this in stores, idk about anyone else but shopping is lowkey stressful, having soothing music to help me remember what I need would actually be amazing ❤️

As someone who was born in 2003, this playlist of music seems so foreign to me. Whenever my parents and grandparents would talk about the magic of department stores during the holiday season, it was something I could never really wrap my head around. You mean sears and K-Mart were the place to be back in the day? This playlist, somehow, manages to contextualize that. I can imagine these songs playing in a bustling store. I can see why these department store memories are so fondly remembered. Thank you for putting together this little playlist. Its crazy how things like this can bridge the gap between generations!

In the 60s, visiting a good department store was like entering a soft, quiet, plush world that smelled good and felt safe. I always headed straight to the TV section with the banks of screens and cabinet stereo systems.

Hello, my dearies.🤎 I just did a 14 hr shift at Soda Steve's Restaurant. ⏰ 🍔 🍟 My brother came and picked me up. We saw a deer on the way home. 🪚 🦌 🏡 I gave my mom and brother my $35.00 worth of tips, so they could go and try to win some money. 💵 I ate some pork chops and rice. I'm listening to this music, now. 🎧 🎵 Goodnight to all. 🌌 Thanks for the upload. 🙏

This is cute . I worked for Sears thru the 1980s. It was all Muzak and the best people I've ever worked with. We had a blast . I sold video game systems (Atari. ColecoVision) and tractors . Back then , you got a free game, with every game system. (PacMan. Donkey Kong. Cosmic Ark). We had a wonderful boss, and great sales numbers. Won awards for sales. Great job, lovely people.

We definitely need this. Imagine how good people would feel in the stores. So much hate and anger now. It used to play in the air everywhere. No words needed just the peaceful uplifting melodies.

I'm 76 now. I tell younger people about having ash trays in grocery stores and they look at me like I'm crazy. I'm on oxygen now. Back then 55 percent of the population smoked. I still miss those days.

Fun, uplifting, relaxing music! No wonder everyone is so depressed today.

Rough timestamps. A few I can't identify. If you can identify a song, please let me know in a reply. Thank you so much to the people that've helped out so far! 00:00 Plucking the Strings (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 01:34 Day Away (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 03:26 Going Home (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 06:20 Prairie Farm (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 08:21 Rural Green (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 10:25 Irving Martin - Strolling Around 13:23 Island of Dreams (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 15:14 Family Ties Theme 18:14 Tattile (Pop-Paraphrenia, Rochi - Godi) 20:53 Sublime Country (All Creatures, Johnny Pearson) 22:44 Magic Moments (Country Bound, Bruton Music) 25:41 Spending Spree (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 26:54 Flirtation (Contemporary Orchestral, Bruton Music) 29:19 (Unidentified) 31:58 Lucky One (Country Bound, Bruton Music) 34:39 Such Sweet Sorrow (Fragrance, Bruton Music) 37:28 Sales Appeal (Wallpaper, Bruton Music) 39:33 Blowing in the Wind (Happiness, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 41:31 (Unidentified) 43:32 (Unidentified) 47:05 (Unidentified) 50:04 Like Summer (KPM 1000 Happy Rainbows, Gordon Rees) 53:04 Happy Country (Happiness, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 55:53 Over The Hedge Rows (All Creatures, Johnny Pearson) 59:05 Picture Gala (Bright Orchestra/Bright Woodwind, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 1:01:00 Just Passing Through - Valentino 1:03:19 Autumn Gold (Fragrance, Bruton Music, Kieth Mansfield) 1:06:00 (Unidentified) 1:09:16 (Unidentified) 1:11:18 Fun Loving (Happiness, Bruton Music, Johnny Pearson) 1:13:04 Odyssey (Ron Roker) 1:15:06 (Unidentified) 1:17:28 (Unidentified) 1:20:43 Far Horizons (Golden Plains, Bruton Music, David Snell) 1:23:43 Breezing Along (Walter Murphy)

People would be a lot happier if they played music like this at stores nowadays.

If listening to this awesome department store mix can bring back my mom, so be it. x

This brings back memories of the late 70s heading into the 80s. "Easy Listening," they called it. An old genre of music. Very relaxing.

For anyone wondering what this genre this would fit into, it’s in general 1950s~1970s jazz. other words would be lounge, Muzak, airline music, elevator music, oldies, bossa nova,

As a bass player, I always found the bass part of this music very well done!

As much as my late dad loved r&b and Soul, he also liked that easy listening music, too. RIP

If I ever owned a store I would have music like this play. Nice and relaxing

this is way better than the pop trash songs they play in stores nowadays

All the pics of 1970s stores are wonderful. I was born after those days (Early 80s), so I have no memory of hearing these particular songs while out shopping. A different time. Not necessarily simpler or better. We had problems then and we have problems now. That world is gone, but it lives on in memories and pictures like these. Mundane, everyday, yet beautiful moments frozen in time. These people probably had no idea we'd be seeing them 50 years later. Experiencing just a little taste of what their lives were like. There's something rather beautiful about videos like this. A little trip back in time.

This is on a whole different level and I love it. Elevator up.

If I ever own a store I must have this on repeat the whole time.

As a Walmart employee, I'd rather listen to this than the garbage we had on loop since 2018.

Born 1989, never heard music like this in a store. It reminds me of Sims 1 buy mode. Now I know the inspiration!

I've lived my whole life in South Korea and now I am so fascinated how universal this is.

A young 63 year old here. I still remember that music like it was the other day. Back when you couldn't enter without shirts and shoes, pets weren't allowed inside, shoplifting was an actual crime and employees took pride in helping you out. Even though I'm not a saint, whatever happened to just basic decency and respect for your fellow citizens?

I'm about to turn 50 and this is the shopping music from my childhood. Thanks so very much 😊 ☺️

Dear KZfaq algorithm, Please keep recommending me videos like this one. - Everyone grooving to this shit rn

Boy.... this takes me back. This was definitely the public sound of the 70's. Oh how well I do remember. LOVE IT!

i'd literally open a store just 4 this kind of music 2 play

I used to call this music “ elevator music”. Love it..soothing ❤

Crazy to think without things like KZfaq, this music would probably have faded out of existence. It's nice to see people still have appreciation for it. REAL people playing REAL instruments here!

Ohhhh...how the 80's were the good Ole days. Summer time running around with your friends on the block and the ice cream trucks and Bodega wow all night on the steps until the street lights went out we had the best times I wouldn't change that feeling for the world 😊

What a fantastic upload. Maybe these should come back there might be more unity peace harmony and less violence. Beautiful. Love this.

I love all the “get off my lawn!” comments! But seriously, this music is so pleasant and relaxing. Thanks for making this compilation.

i wish we could bring this back

Back in the days when shopping was actually a fun event. Especially at Christmas. Now it SUCKS ! So do the people !

I was born in 74 and can remember this music and when stores were this organized and clean. What a flashback!

There is NOTHING worse then a store that plays modern pop music

Listen this playlist as Japanese born and bred in Japan, feels really good like J-city pop boom in this recent years. It’s so relax, and feels enough. If I listen this music in supermarket or department store now, I’m gonna go to ask clerks, “Who decided to play this music?? Keep playing this! This is really good!”

I don't know why YT put this in my feed, but I'm using it as my study music and going back in time with all of the nostalgic comments on how things used to be in the grocery stores back in the days. 😂❤

This music gives off great vibes of togetherness and promising times. I can remember my younger brother pushing the cart and me on the front inside the grocery store while my mother picked stuff for my older brother pass. This was in the latter of the 60s and early 70,'s 1970'. Thinking back the store had this music and it seemed all shoppers were at peace strolling the isles. What a time it was then we had no cell phones..internet..but had 8 track players..for this music.

POV: it’s 1970 you’ve just finished your 8 hour shift. Wow! $12 to take home! My house is finally paid off! And with the extra I think I’ll buy a new car.

I can smell vinyl and popcorn!

I miss my elders so much. They were silent generation and they loved this muzak.😅😢

15:36. That image makes me weep happy nostalgic tears. I could wrap myself up in the obligatory brown/orange/yellow crochet blanket, found on the back of nearly EVERY family room couch of the era, and drift away in the innocent bliss of my 8th year, laying on the couch sleeping and watching one of these TVs on a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon......and never want to leave.

Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, every restaurant, department store, and mall played this easy listening music. It was so relaxing and life was so much easier. You were not stressed out everywhere you go because people didn't have to be entertained with TVs and LOUD OPPRESSIVE Music like is played everywhere you go today.

So thankful that I am Gen X and got to be the tail end of experiencing department stores, and malls. It is truly lost, and seems worlds away now. Everyone lives on Amazon, or orders Instacart for groceries now. Our world ironically, has become less social, the more connected we've gotten on the internet. This is why people found relationships and friends easier as well. You went out, got to know people, talk to others, were familiar with the cashiers, and managers. You wouldn't just grab what you needed and rush out, there was actual shopping and comparing to do, trying stuff on. Browsing, and "window shopping." Christmas was a huge thing! In fact, every holiday was and it was certain the stores would roll out decorations. It got you in the mood and spirit, and most stores had Santa there, and the Easter Bunny. Many of the malls had a haunted house around Halloween. They were very engaging places to be at, and it was a hobby and place to go relax in and of itself really. I met many friends and people just standing around talking, and you'd go hang-out afterwards, or talk to someone who worked there, and then they'd tell you when they got off and you'd go hang-out together, and become friends, or start dating. It was easier for people to connect then, and you got what you see. No catfishing or lying about your location, age, height, weight, where you lived or worked, when you had to be face-to-face with others. I feel like that is why the younger generations, like the Millennials and Gen Z, deal with this slue of mental illness now. Anxiety, depression, awkwardness, being extreme introverts. Living on social media, despite the name , is NOT healthy social human interaction and isn't genuine.

I’m now making it my mission to open a store and play this 24/7 because other stores don’t want to

If there is a heaven, I hope they play music like this.

Ahh the sounds of hiding in the circular clothing rack with my brothers as my mom yelled for us. Luckily, we were shielded by housecoats and a wall of polyester.

The 70s seemed like such a golden era of everything. Truly a special decade.

Back in the day when going to the mall on a Saturday with Mom & Dad was fun & exciting I really miss those days !

This music is so magical it's timeless, it knows no class, no race , no age, it's just beautiful ! I remember shopping with my parents in department stores or grocery stores in malls , then in high school with pals, going to the movies or just hanging out in the food court no violence or loud voices but smiles , feeling carefree happy breezy safe. Now it's gone we've lost brick and mortar in exchange for internet and isolating people from one another , and the few places left aren't very inviting . This music needs to come back intl what few stores we have left psychologically I believe shoppers etc would feel relaxed and it might drive away negative influences . It could bring us together again

Mom, I'm going to go to the toy section.

So this is what it sounds like while you're waiting to go to heaven. Great. Wonderful.

Disco and muscial type music. Makes you want to click your heels together and dance around like "Dancing in the Rain!" Impossible to be unhappy while listening to this! Negative thoughts just cannot find a place to invade!!

I love the stores like piggly wiggly that never changed! I wish we could go back in time to a simpler life but, we can’t. Fortunately we can when we walk into a store unchanged by history. Makes all my troubles feel small like time they go away.

I just downloaded this so I can play it while riding my bike along the beach ⛱️🏖️ thanks!

I suddenly wanna buy a towel set at a reasonable price...

Worthy of laughter and tears.

My mom used to drop me off at Korner Plaza in Richfield MN when I was 6 years old in 1976. I would stay in the toy section for up to 2 hours sometimes while she drove across the way to go grocery shopping. She’d do this to at Dayton’s at Southdale Mall in Edina MN. While she shopped. I could just keep busy by looking at all the toys and reading the boxes. Glory years.

I missed the old times.. ❤️✨

I'm too young to remember this from "back in the day", but I've currently got this on a loop in my office for background music. I've already had one visitor give compliment compliments.

I'm feeling nostalgia for a time period I'm not even from 😅 I wish this was my era 😕

Our childhood malls had cafeterias, toy stores and arcades. Oh how I miss those days!

I was a kid in the sixties and this was the music you heard. How I long for those days again, music and all!

Elevator music is nice too. This takes me back to the 70s when shopping was fun and not a hassle and the music has subliminal messages in it. Very calming. Restaurants used to have music to soothe you while you eat. So you can eat calmly. Anger can make you have stomach troubles while you eat.

Born in '83, far from the USA, and somehow those old movies or tv shows from the 70s & 80s that I grew up watching are like a lost treasure that I'd love to experience again, now I live here in the USA and I wonder what happened. Those days are long gone.

I use to hate this music as a kid because I’d have to sit and be patient while my mom talked to her church friends in the bread aisle. But now that grocery stores only play shitty top 40s I need this music back.

my personal timestamps: 3:27 slow relaxing 6:24 upbeat relaxing 8:24 upbeat happy 10:28 show chill 34:44 serene

Back when music and interiors were designed to enhance the enjoyment of the shopping experience instead of being used to control you to buy and buy more, quickly.

(01:34) James Clarke "Day Away" reminds me of my recently departed grandmother. 👍🏽💯🕊️🙏🏽🕍🛐

I've put this mix on in my classroom in the background during group or silent work when the students tell me they're sleepy or tired (I teach at a university). They're never as into it as me, and are too "cool" to admit it made them feel better, but it doesn't matter because I can tell from how engaged and focused they are the whole time it's on that they feel the magic deep down.