Usually the music played in planes, malls, diners and hotel rooms are unremarkable crap which you can ignore. Sometimes they play awful loud music in planes (at least here in India).
So as background score fans, if you had a choice, what scores would you have playing in planes, malls, diners, bars and motels?
Here are my choices:
Planes -
Henry Mancini's title track score for Experiments in Terror Riz Ortolani's score for Don't Torture a Ducking (if the plane crashes, I wouldn't mind dying with this one playing )
Malls -
Love Theme and The Girl with the Fringe from Morricone's score for Le Casse. I could walk all day around malls if these two tracks were playing.
Diners -
The whole Peter Gunn score by Mancini. Lalo Schifrin's score for Bullit
Bars -
Bambole and Spasmo from Morricone's score for Spasmo Amapola from Morricone's score for Once Upon a Time in America Jill's theme from Morricone's score for Once Upon a Time in the West
Motels -
Four Flies on Grey Velvet by Morricone - I could go to sleep with Orso singing.
A humorous use of music used in a hotel room is from the Kolchak: the Night Stalker episode "The Vampire", where Kolchak switches on the radio in his room and the "Voodoo" cue from a previous Kolchak episode, "The Zombie", begins to play!
To be perfectly honest, it doesn't really matter. If I'm at any of those places, my mind is occupied with other things anyway. Might get a smile or two if I recognize the tune, though.
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