On hold music

How about some Paul Anka?

His cover of Van Halen's Jump masterfully castrates the power and energy from the song with smooth Swing melodies.

Perfect Muzac! Better still it will leave people on hold thinking "What the?!?"
 
Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone

ELO - Telephone Line


Or let your IT monkey find some royalty-free ragtime type music. Everyone either loves it or hates it.

Fortunately, the employees are the ones who don't like it (but are also incapable of offering better free suggestions) and the punters tend to like it. Even BT said that they liked it!

I love it :D
 
How about a female voice that repeats every 10 seconds, "Your call is important to us, and will be answered when a representative becomes available"

Drives me crazy
 
When I worked at NatWestm the switch declines department always had some cheesy 80's hits playing. The amount of times I used to just sit there listening to Spandau Ballet or Culture Club was silly.

Don't overdo hold music, it can become counter productive :D.
 
There was a little Spanish flea
A record star he thought he'd be
he heard of singers like beatles and the chipmunks he'd seen on tv
....Why not a Little Spanish Flea?
 
I had the same problem about a couple of years ago trying to find royalty free stuff. Most of it is utter crap.

I ended up with a mixture of euro-sounding techno stuff that was actually quite bland and some plinky plonky piano stuff.

Mixed it all so there were no silent bits between tracks and job's a good 'un.

It's still overall rubbish though, but better than a lot of places I call.
 
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