Thoughts on music changes throughout the park?

How do you all feel about the new music? It was for sure kind of weird to hear all the updated music you hear on the radio in the park. I will miss all the classic songs. It was kind of music you only hear when you're at CP.

Also, question, was music updated ALL through the park or only in certain sections? In frontier town it seemed to be updated country music? Not positive though... Also, the day I went it was not so crowded so was never in line, is que music still all the same? Like Magnum and Raptor 80's music, MF, techno music. etc.?

^It wasn't just CP, it was all the Cedar Fair parks. Michigan's Adventure still blasts the Beach Boys.

Magnum STILL plays 80s music.
Wicked Twister, Millennium Force, Maverick & Top Thrill Dragster all still have the same theme songs they had before.

^The music that is played in those queues is done by a different department than that which is played throughout the park. It also is controlled by one man so until he decides to change it, those playlists will remain the same.

I personally love the updated music and see and hear more patons responding to the music by singing in the midways than ever before. The only park that didn't get that memo I think was MI Adv. (and kudos to the landscape team at Dorney! NICE!)

Also, it did seem like on the beach walkway to Breakers had the same beach boys type music playing.

CPboy77 said:
I will miss all the classic songs. It was kind of music you only hear when you're at CP.

I know whenever I hear "Ants Marching" by Dave Mathews I immediately flashback to walking along the midway at CP. I liked the song to begin with but now with its added value of the memory it is a bonus.

I like the new updated music! It's more exciting and better for the park's environment. Not to mention that I was really tired of hearing "Sk8er Boi" four times every time I went to the park...

CoasterKid20 said:
Magnum STILL plays 80s music.
Wicked Twister, Millennium Force, Maverick & Top Thrill Dragster all still have the same theme songs they had before.

Maverick no longer has it's own que music. It is playing the frontier town music.

I am hoping that they don't change the "Halloweekends" music too much.

I am a big fan of the atmosphere that the music creates around the park that time of year.

^ They screw it up during the day as it is, with playing "regular" music. I don't care what time of the day it is, if I'm walking around in a Halloween atmosphere, I want to hear music that correlates!

I agree, JW... do they play 'regular' music throughout the whole park during the day?

I guess I never really noticed, but I thought for sure that they played Halloween music by the restaurants...

Either way, there is PLENTY of Halloween music out there to make a setlist for a few days!

I like the new music, but there needs to be a better mix of different decades rather than almost all current music. The biggest improvement to music has to be Soak City. I am very happy I don't have to hear the same songs 3-4 times during a 4 hour visit.

I'm glad they made Maverick's queue music the same as the rest of Frontier Town. I didn't mind the music they used to play, but it got a bit annoying after a while. As for the rest of the park, I didn't mind hearing the same old Beach Boys and B-52's that has been played on the midway since they were #1 hits. Better than the crap that's on the radio now.

+1 Vince!

I love the new music! I know some of you will probably completely disagree and bash me on this, but I really like current/pop music (I'm a teenager, what do you expect? haha). I do like some older stuff like the Beach Boys, but I think the new music makes the park's atmosphere a lot livelier. My only problem was that disco music was playing as I entered the park my last trip...Not a fan of that.

Vince982 said:
...it got a bit annoying after a while.

Completely agree. I enjoy some country music, but a man can only handle so much banjo.

The banjo is not so bad. It is the squealing pig that I stay away from.

For some reason whenever I hear Bon Jovi I think of Dodgems...I don't really mind the background music in any one spot in the park but I hate what they're playing on Cedar Downs. I miss the race announcements, they worked better with the theming of the ride.

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Personally, I think the new music lacks the connection to the atmosphere of Cedar Point that we all knew and grew to love. Maybe it's just because I have some sentimental value toward the old stuff, but Adele complaining about past love isn't exactly something I want to hear while walking the midway of a very joyful place, or anywhere really. Seems like the old stuff was picked carefully and matched the overall experience of the park. While this year, we're hearing the same songs that play over and over all day long on the radio.