FabSwingers.com forum: Gym whinge

By *partharmony OP Couple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I have just walked into the gym and as usual they are playing dance music. I have been using gyms for 25 years and every one I have ever been to thinks that gym-goers are obsessed with dance music. It's the only thing they ever play.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Oh I feel this in my bones.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Use noise cancelling headphones - problem solved

No thanks required

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hear you!

I hate dance music especially the stuff our gym pumps out in the classes.

Why can't they play some hip hop, indie, rock.....

KJ x

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

Yep. Bring your own iPod or phone. Problem solved.

Or you could get a “Disco Sucks” T shirt!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tbh Dance Music is the best, it’s just gyms play the worst kind ever. Proper commercial crap.

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By *partharmony OP Couple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I have brought my noise-isolating earphones but they are playing this crap at a volume I can hear over my own choices. I asked them to turn it down but they say it's all down to policy which they won't override.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

The Gymnopédies more your scene?

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By *partharmony OP Couple
over a year ago

Ruislip

"The Gymnopédies more your scene?

Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.

Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"The Gymnopédies more your scene?

Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.

Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic. "

There weren’t many classical pieces with the word gym in to choose from.

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By *partharmony OP Couple
over a year ago

Ruislip

"The Gymnopédies more your scene?

Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.

Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic.

There weren’t many classical pieces with the word gym in to choose from. "

Dozy me. I didn't even spot your pun. Sorry.

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

"The Gymnopédies more your scene?

Satie wouldn't be my choice for the gym but it's certainly more my type of music.

Have you seen the titles of some of Eric Satie's pieces? They are classic.

There weren’t many classical pieces with the word gym in to choose from.

Dozy me. I didn't even spot your pun. Sorry.

I guessed that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit.

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By *AABMan
over a year ago

Not far

Could be worse OP, they could be playing bagpipe music.

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By *partharmony OP Couple
over a year ago

Ruislip

"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit. "

A live DJ? That's random. Do they hold wedding receptions too?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have opposite problems in all gyms I go to, they play crappy pop/ chart music or R & B. Always blast my own music on in earphones.

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By *ed-monkeyCouple
over a year ago

Hailsham

"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit.

A live DJ? That's random. Do they hold wedding receptions too? "

Better than a dead one I guess

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This isn't music I would listen to any other time but this is my kind of gym listening

https://youtu.be/qiMaOmDtaYI

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By *partharmony OP Couple
over a year ago

Ruislip

"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit.

A live DJ? That's random. Do they hold wedding receptions too?

Better than a dead one I guess"

At least a dead one should be quiet and I can listen to my own stuff in peace.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

I wish they played it where I go- I just get constant R ‘n’ B ( note the ‘n’ and not R & B, which is entirely different. R ‘n’ B is so shite, even its name isn’t fucking original- just some cockwomble saying stuff that almost rhymes, over some decent tune they’ve stolen and fucked over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit. "

Is that Gymbox? I used to go to them in London and they had some good live DJs but that was few years ago

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Why do they have to play anything?

I can go into city center bars with music blaring out that nobody particularly wants to hear, and racks of tvs on the wall behind the bar showing the same images on each one, with no connection to the cacophony being spewed out. Nobodys asking for this shit. Can a member of the gym/bar industry who is actually responsible for this, tell us just why the fuck we have to hear it?

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

More public places should respect those who prefer or need low levels of sensory stimulation.

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By *omesticflightMan
over a year ago

Burton-on-Trent

Good GOD yes

Always driven me nuts.

Once, as I was the only member there, I talked the attendant into putting BBC6music on for a half hour. It was sublime.

Another instructor would do spin classes to Nirvana & Slaves, pilates to the Mountain Goats. That was great, I miss him.

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By *omesticflightMan
over a year ago

Burton-on-Trent

Do the gym management not get a hint, when all their customers are using earphones?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same. Their dance shite is always audible over my own stuff on my headphones. Annoying as hell. Given how everyone wears headphones anyway, why play music at all?

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By *forfun500Couple
over a year ago

walsall

"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke "

Wear ear phones listen to your own shit....

But then again my gym as s juke box (free) snc you put on what ever they have

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke "
i dont like gyms

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke "

I share your pain....Worse for me as there’s no escape as I work in a gym!

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By *urtyGentMan
over a year ago

eastleigh

The gym I go to added a play list to Spotify, people where allowed to add whatever they wanted. Sounds great right? Wrong. Lead to all sorts of disagreements. Lots of people listen to dogshit music. Someone added Ed Sheeran piece of you. A song virtually impossible to work out to. Dance music is, in the main, uptempo and up lifting. It’s supposed to make you work harder and faster

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wear bose noise cancelling headphones theyre great. I only need them wednesday when they blast grungy rock music out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Why do they have to play anything?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"More public places should respect those who prefer or need low levels of sensory stimulation. "

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

"I have brought my noise-isolating earphones but they are playing this crap at a volume I can hear over my own choices. I asked them to turn it down but they say it's all down to policy which they won't override. "

"Policy"? .. sounds like bollocks. What policy is there to pump out music at a high level? If you want music that loud you go to a club. Tell them you are sensitive to loud noises as it brings on PTSD.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke "

I sense a need to play 140bpm EDM all day now!

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

"The gym I go to added a play list to Spotify, people where allowed to add whatever they wanted. Sounds great right? Wrong. Lead to all sorts of disagreements. Lots of people listen to dogshit music. Someone added Ed Sheeran piece of you. A song virtually impossible to work out to. Dance music is, in the main, uptempo and up lifting. It’s supposed to make you work harder and faster"

Dance is ok for cardio. When I'm lifting weights I want to listen to Pantera and get angry and growly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My gym sometimes as a live DJ. Other times it gangster rap shit. "

Mine did that once. It was truly awful. I wondered whether it was some bizarre comedy and our reactions were being filmed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My old gym had a free jukebox which was pretty cool, whereas the new one has its own kind of radio station, playing a mixture but mostly crap. So headphones and Amazon music in my phone play the soundtracks to my workouts now.

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By *orenzoVonMatterhornMan
over a year ago

Lincoln

"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke "

I've used a couple of gyms that allow people to choose the playlists or hook up their own phones and the results have mostly been rock or metal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What annoys me more than the music in the gym are the self entitled pricks who think that the entire changing room wants to be subjected to their utterly shite music and play it on their phone.

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By *wingamajigsCouple
over a year ago

Folkestone

"I don't expect anybody to care about this but I wanted to air it.

I fucking hate dance music. It's so repetitive and synthetic which bores the living shit out of me. Please for God's sake could somebody start a gym that plays something other that dance music.

Gripe over. Thanks for reading.

Luke "

I hear you, I have to use nouse cancelling headphones to drown out the mass produced repetetive shit being played.

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