When you ring most help Lines these days, you get put on 'hold', and they play the most AWEFUL music into your ear until you can lose the will to live!
My question is - where does it come from?
Did someone say - 'Let's make music with anything remotely approaching soul, substance, excitement, highs and lows, and any meanigful content whatsoever sucked out of it ...'
or is there actually a market for this pap out side 'hold' tape loops?
Someone I used to know made a good living out of writing hold music and other such pap. Some companies do buy tapes. Others subscribe to services.
I sometimes have to speak to publishers in my job. I remember one children's publisher (I think it was Walker Books), instead of playing the usual muzac, had a recording of someone telling a story which, on that occasion, was 'Toad of Toad Hall'. I almost didn't want them to answer.