What music does your local supermarket play?

(You'll be happy to know, though, that I heard "Give Me The Reason" at CVS Pharmacy two weeks ago)

True story: in Autumn of `93 I was in the Food Giant in Seattle, WA and they were playing Pearl Jam's "Porch". At that very milisecond, Grunge died.

I apologise if those words were offensive to your person as I fear they may be to a lady as yourself.

They play a lot of Steely Dan at my Cala. Its always depressing to learn the "truth" that SD is elevator music etc. Once I heard Man Eater too, which was cool.

Living in Florida, it always struck me that the Publix near me would play a muzak version of the Lightning Seeds' "Pure" ... not sure it was a song needing lightening ...

I swear they played a Muzak instrumental of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" here a few years ago, but maybe I had an acid flashback.

The best song I ever heard over the soundsystem there was either Duran Duran's "Save A Prayer" or XTC's "King for a Day."

Also, lots of McCartney/Wings.

I heard "Whip It" at the supermarket today!

Wham! Club Tropicana, back in Durty juRZ.

I DID whippits in the supermarket today.

Was that part of a torts assignment?

U2

I once heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

At an IGA in central Florida.

"Hungry Heart" by The Boss, which almost made me laugh out loud when I realized what it was. Some "Cure" recently. "Heaven is a Place On Earth" too.

I live in Atlanta. If you go to the Ansley Mall part of town all the stores are playing classic disco and cheesy modern dance music. The stores in East Atlanta play Grown Folks Radio, which plays the most badass grocery-store music I have ever heard. Classic funk and r&b.

I once TORE THAT ASS apart at an IGA in central florida

They were playing Steely Dan a few weeks ago which I thought was awesome, but since then the usual suspects, Kelly Clarkson, Nickleback and Matchbox 20.

Conventional grocery stores: Gin Blossoms.

Whole Foods: Phil Collins... no less than 3 times a day. I've had to spend some time in there, and that is the one thing I noticed about the music. All Phil. All the time. He must somehow be associated with organic food.

I once heard "Rape Me" in Whole Foods... fellow customers seemed unphased.

The Co-Op this morning had "C-Lebrity" by Queen & Paul Rodgers. At the weekend, "Paranoid Android". It was fun times.

The big Tesco out of town in Exeter plays this cod-Eno ambient wibble all the time.

I was in a supermarket in Poland once that played Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from Monty Python then Born Slippy by Underworld immediately afterwards. It seemed rather odd to me, but the old ladies pushing their trolleys of kiebasa around didn't bat an eyelid.

last time i was at the supermarket they played "psychotic reaction." i love it.

Local small Sainsbury's has two TVs above the checkouts showing music videos frequently punctuated with ads and offers. Standard pop fare, 80s to now, usually when I'm in the queue I'm all "bah humbug evil marketing" and resolutely look away, but the other day they played Let Forever Be and I just had to watch 'cause the video is sooo good.

When I was 14, I was in the music sections of WH Smiths with my parents, when George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" started playing.

The hotel I was in was playing "I'm so tired of America" by Radiohead, or so I thought.

I had to check, it was very Thom singing, and the chords were ones he'd use, but the lyrics were way too direct and unambiguous.

Yep, it was Rufus Wainright.

Still...

I used to work for a sattelite company that did feeds to all of a major supermarket Aus chain for their music and annoying "hey buy our stuff!" blurbs. The stuff was mostly shite, but having access to the playlists i'd pick a few things out now and then that were good.

One of the songs on rotation was "Boom, Shake the Room". Cant say I ever heard that at Safeway but hey.

my local branch of woolworths has been known to play bad religion.

I went to Harris-Teeter a few weeks ago to get hurricane supplies (didn't end up hitting us, thankfully), and for some reason they were playing all this really dramatic classical music. way to set the mood, guys!

The Cure - Close to me in the mall this morning.

Can't be long before they start putting on Christmas Carols though.

Whole Foods: Phil Collins... no less than 3 times a day. I've had to spend some time in there, and that is the one thing I noticed about the music. All Phil. All the time. He must somehow be associated with organic food.

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Phil Collins is mandatory music for any business, whether it be office building, grocery store, or thrift store. He is OMNIPRESENT.

Working in a grocery store full time I should be an expert on this, but as it happens I'm really good at tuning out the jams and maintaining my mental stability. (When it's nothing but the graveyard it's essential to protect your brain.)

What I can recall: Phil Collins (like duh), some terrible cover of that awful Modest Mouse song from that sinkhole of an album right before Johnny Marr joined, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Eat World, y'know, the usual current(ish) stuff, balanced out by Van Morrison, the Kinks ('80s KINKS!!! YEAH), CCR, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, WHAT I'M SAYING HERE IS WE GET A LOT OF CLASSIC ROCK YA SEE. But never any fun surprises like Psychotic Reaction, or like that time I went into a gas station and heard "I want your skuuu-uuull, I need your skuuu-uuull!"
Though coincidentally there is a guy in the meat department named Scott Walker, so that's cool right? (I can't believe I didn't bring him up when some of us were talking about people with other famous people's names in some other thread a while back).

Dalhousie Safeway raped me of my James Blunt virginity. I'd never heard 'You're Beautiful' -- I had managed to somehow avoid it for ages -- until that fateful day at the grocery store.

They also frequently played Love Song by the Cure and some Avril Lavigne rubbish.

salsa shark you're a terrible man for the way with words, to be sure

Sweet Jesus James Blunt! I heard that shit every day for two years.

No, salsa shark's words are an accurate account of the experience.

My gGod, have you heard this "Thanks for the Lemonade" by one Chris Rice? So atrocious it stopped me in my tracks like nothing since "Bad Day."

I heard "Radio Radio" in the supermarket a few days ago.

A few years back I heard "100 Years" by Five For Fighting every third supermarket visit or so.

The other day, Safeway was inexplicably playing the Star-Spangled Banner.

Centra is obsessed with Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer

the best i can hope for in the grocery store is some bill withers or bobby caldwell's "what you won't do for love", although i know i've heard some really weird things over the years.

I hear a lot of great '80s stuff in the local grocery stores -- Bunnymen, Psych Furs, Talk Talk, Scritti Politti, OMD, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, etc. I'm not sure how or why this occurs, but I won't complain...

Even if the supermarket plays something unexpected, it still comes through as anti-music thanks to the tinny little speakers in the roof. Can't say I've ever enjoyed a song via supermarket speakers.

No supermarket I go to plays music anymore. But my local Chase bank plays the Carpenters, Bee Gees and ABBA!

Both supermarkets in my neighborhood play MOR hits. Sometimes good, sometimes maddening.

I HAVE HEARD PARANOID AT MY LOCAL QFC. WAS STOKED!

Have heard no solid jams in QFCs here

Lowe's Super Saver #98: oldies (with an emphasis on regional western favorites)
Albertson's: depressing 80s MOR
Pro's Ranch Market: Banda! Banda! Banda! and other Mexican music
Smith's: I forget.

I could live in Rockist Scientist's neighborhood.

Big K-Mart has the most interesting mix (but of course it's not a supermarket, even if it does sell food). It plays al sort of familiar Anglophone pop songs alongside Spanish-language pop, and it covers a fwe decades. Today I heard David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and then an okay Latin pop tune and then a couple mediocre Anglo pop songs and then what sounded like an early rock or R&B song, and then a mediocre Latin pop song, etc. I've heard Fleetwood Mac there, I've heard Spanish covers of familiar English songs.

Inexpecliably, I like banda much more when I hear it at Ranch Market. I can't decide if their selection is better or if it's just the environment. Pro's Ranch Market is the most festive supermarket I've ever shopped in. Some of the songs at Albertson's, on the other hand, just make me want to leave the store before I fall into a severe depression.

"I Wanna Be Sedated", yesterday.

PARANOID! At 9:00 on a Saturday!

i was at raley's (grocery store) and they played cat power's living proof

I've heard Neko Case and Calexico at my Wegman's.

The local H-E-B (a Texas chain formerly known as "H. E. Butts") has 80s pop music on. "I Eat Cannibals" and "Word Up!". It makes me feel old.

I swear to almighty God, everytime I walk into a Borders 'Love Is In The Air' comes on, the John Paul Young version I think. It's the kind of song that would go well with some hot crazy homicidal killing spree, but not when I'm trying to buy books. One of these I will crack and mow down the toothless hoardes, making them eat on their Barbara Kingsolver paperbacks. They only have themselves to blame.

anytime i hear stuff on oldies stations, my mind returns to the williamsburg c-town

I was just in the Trader Joes and they were playing some soft piano and falsetto schmaltz that I think was Coldplay (but might have been James Blount or Travis or Keane or Jack Johnson or any of those that I can't really tell apart, but it was a hit that I probably should know), so things were already melancholy and sort of alienated feeling under those fluorescent lights, and then they went right into Tears in Heaven, and the clerk was explaining in vague terms what the song was about to some customer who kept saying, "That Eric Clapton, he's so versatile. He writes songs about everything!"

As a teenager, I bagged groceries at a local Kroger, where they played cassettes which were issued by the corporate headquarters. These cassettes were weird blocky things - almost like miniature VHS tapes. Interspersed w/ cheerful shopping tips and such, the playlists consisted of muzak versions of oldies & soft-rock hits, but, amid the usual AOR standards, there was a version of "Bluebeard" by The Cocteau Twins. That was my jam, when it came on.

my local upscale yuppie-foodmart-for-white-people plays mor chillout, period. doesn't grate but it's kind of yaaaaawwwwwnn... the locals grocery store plays your standard indonesian rock-pop hit bands, but usually play the whole album, which makes it slightly more interesting somehow

Heard Neko Case and Camera Obscura at this dollar store recently.

i heard something off the most recent fleetwood mac album in my supermarket last week. made shopping 1000x more pleasant

On Sunday mornings, my local supermarket in Tokyo plays synthesizer covers of hi-nrg tracks. It really is the most atrocious think you can imagine. While elderly Japanese housewives wander around seemingly oblivious. Strange stuff indeed.

i heard something off the most recent fleetwood mac album in my supermarket last week. made shopping 1000x more pleasant

Coincidentally, while in the car today I was thinking about how I wish to strangle the next person who makes me listen to anything from "Rumours" again without my consent. Good to know the great DJ in the sky is mixing things up.

eating a valium and shopping in a health food store while fleetwood mac was playing in the background would undoubtably take me back to the 70's in the worst yet nicest way possible. but you know what i WISH they'd play in supermarkets? some 60's muzac, al la henry mancini and co. i would've thought the last 10 years or so have been ironic enough for that to have become a popular supermarket meme

I've heard Neko Case and Calexico at my Wegman's.

I heard "Only Shallow" recently at Wegmans (immediately after "Lido Shuffle," no less).

i would've thought the last 10 years or so have been ironic enough for that to have become a popular supermarket meme

Wow, I'm trying to figure out if I'd shop at a store that played ironic shopping music and loved in-jokes.

Mostly unidentifiable world music, but then there's one guy who always puts Sebastien Tellier on.

The post-Leonard Cohen Jennifer Warnes.

yesterday at how's in north hollywood -- that sara bareilles (sp?) hit song. which i'm finally warming up to; it's an earworm for sure.

anytime i hear stuff on oldies stations, my mind returns to the williamsburg c-town

the "western bagel" location i go to always has the same oldies station on ("cathy's clown," "shout," other non-intimidating music for 60-year-olds).

The really nasty Eastgate Foods that is the closest grocer to my house has mix tapes of great oldies hits playing. Motown and British Invasion and early rock and roll and bubblegum. Tommy James and his brethren. The owner makes the tapes, from what I understand. The overpriced locally owned organic market that is next door plays the selections of their hipster staff through one stereo channel and it grates.

I heard "Only Shallow" recently at Wegmans (immediately after "Lido Shuffle," no less).

This world is a good world.

The really nasty Eastgate Foods that is the closest grocer to my house has mix tapes of great oldies hits playing. Motown and British Invasion and early rock and roll and bubblegum. Tommy James and his brethren. The owner makes the tapes, from what I understand. The overpriced locally owned organic market that is next door plays the selections of their hipster staff through one stereo channel and it grates.

i'd probably like the bagel store's oldies station better if it were programmed by one person instead of (i'm assuming) a market research firm.

Working very long days at a supermarket a very long time ago, I have good memories of hearing "All I Need" and "You Make It Easy" from Air's Moon Safari only days after I had first discovered those songs.

More recently at a different supermarket, I've heard The Strokes "Someday" and Weezer "Island In The Sun" multiple times.

Dusty little market on Central Avenue: "Come Together" in the back, "Comfortably Numb" in the front. (Actually, they aren't always classic rock central, I hear a fair amount of punk in there. Depends on whose working there.)

buying 40s at harris teeter the other night, to the smooth sounds of "Imagine" arranged for spanish guitar

"I Wanna Be Sedated", yesterday.

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I heard this on Friday.

I worked at Publix for eight years (all through high school and college). There was a lot of good 60s music and a lot of really crappy adult contemporary garbage. But I actually discovered Mazzy Star working there because they played "Fade Into You" quite a lot.

When I went back home to visit the Publix I worked at was playing a Spoon track (don't remember which one), which was a nice little surprise.

Not a supermarket, but got a taxi in Belfast the other week, which usually means either the local chart pop station or the station which plays countryish stuff (hear this a lot in NI and never elsewhere in the UK for some reason), and dude was playing "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" in its entirety. Which was kind of unexpected.

I like my local Co-Op, it sounds like it's on one of those "jammin' oldies" setups mentioned upthread. Right before Christmas I heard "Back Door Santa" a couple of times, which made me giggle appreciatively.

not a supermarket but the falafel shop I ate in today was playing 'kiss me thru the phone' on repeat, it was awesome

My local Publix was playing Grizzly Bear "Two Weeks".

I've heard Air France and jj at my local market, which is always a pleasantl surprise.

Last week I saw a weird guy dancing frantically to Sade's 'Paradise' in the supermarket nearby my house. Which reminded me of the great bass line in that song.

Heard the Go! Team while stopping in for breakfast tacos this morning.

my go-to kroger plays "captain of her heart" about every third visit. makes me a happy shopper.

^Oh man, I love that song!

Steely Dan!

(sometimes)

and the Nightfly

Dusty little market on Central Avenue: some of the coolest sounding Arabic music I've heard in a while, very low-key, mostly drums with female vocals. I couldn't identify the country. That place may be under new ownership, or maybe they just have some new help.

I heard the Kinks' "Juke Box Music" the other day (Price Chopper, upstate NY). Kind of blew my mind, actually.

back when i used to work at the grocery store we listened to pre-programmed "Albertson's Now Thats What You Call Music! Vol 52", but inevitably Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown would play at least 3 times every day and ended up being something I anticipated in the drear of the rest of the day. I always sang along to it while bagging groceries. *nostalgic tears*

back when I worked at a supermarket for all of five minutes in 2004, I was stunned at the Muzak they were playing. It was as if nobody had ever changed the Muzak tapes in 15-20 years. I mean they were playing pop songs that at one time were hits, but like...not iconic, and largely from the 1985-1993 timeframe.

Example -- at one point, Jack Wagner's "All I Need" came on. The next, Richard Marx's "Hazard" came on, then k.d. Lang's "Constant Craving". It was like an eerie timewarp, I got scared a few times that I was in some Outer Limits thriller that I didn't know about.

Pete's Fresh Market is my favorite....it is old skool they have thirty different kinds of olive oil...and they play soul oldies!

I always hear Camera Obscura and The Sundays at my local market.

That's cool, you know a lot of stores stopped playing music entirely, they don't even play the radio. SAD! How can you love food if you don't love music.

The HEB we go mostly plays 80s hits. I'm pretty ok with that.

The Gin Blossoms' "Found Out About You" this afternoon. No complaints about that.

Was in shock when I heard Alice Cooper's "Caught in a Dream" today

I never really pay attention anymore. Once in a while at the Hannaford I'll hear an obscure song from the early 1990s or late 1980s and try to figure out what it is. Sort of takes the boredom out of the trip.

This week at the local Shaw's I heard Sonny & Cher's The Beat Goes On and The Kinks' Sunny Afternoon.

In the lavatoruy of the gas station that doubles as the local supermarket in the village where I live. What am I hearing?

Like a Prayer!

When You Were Mine by Cyndi Lauper!

I like oldies supermarkets the best, everyone can agree on the selections. Not everyone has fond memories of Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. There was a period in the nineties where all kinds of weird songs were re-recorded into muzak.

the fred meyer closest to my house in portland, or is kinda ridiculous and plays tv on the radio, animal collective, ted leo, etc... yknow, indie. i'm sure this isn't shocking to anyone out there but i just want to confirm that YES, it really is like that here

I heard "Bluish" in a restaurant where I lived...

I complained to my server at a restaurant last night about the music they were playing. It was Sunday-morning brunch music, not Saturday night music.

I was in a local gourmet sandwich shop (mostly very good food) owned by a young couple. Modest Mouse was playing. It was not fun.

I've never been forced to hear Modest Mouse while buying a burrito.

i heard Neon Indian once at Whole Foods. that somehow seemed a little weird to me

I was in Sunflower tonight and "Don't Stop the Dance" came on. Sounded pretty amazing. The guys who stock the shelves did not clownishly sing along with it, as they do with a lot of the older oldies. I don't know, maybe the music there gets cooler after 8PM or something.

one time i was in a krogers at like 3 AM and the entirety of tool's lateralus was playing over the loudspeaker. it was weird because usually they just played soft R&B and adult contemporary stuff

Since we have a Target relatively close to our house, I do most of my shopping there and they don't play any music. Its kind of eerie when it gets late and its quiet in there.

the main section of the local co-op plays all sorts of stuff, often a lot of 70s soul/disco. the dairy department, however, is ALL METAL ALL THE TIME. which is awesome.

All 14 minutes of Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" while waiting for prescription at Walgreens.

Not the supermarket, but when I walked into Home Depot today, they were playing "I Feel Love".

My supermarket always plays 80s hits, which is pretty great but also makes me realize that I'm old enough to be the target demographic for supermarket music.

Casinos are the worst. Think I heard a Green Day-Alan Jackson-Al Wilson set last time I was at crablegs buffet.

Heard "Israelites" the other week in the grocery store.

Silence in mine.

last week was that POS Dan Fogelberg song "Longer than...", which I can never remember who perpetrated cuz I am not a fan of it like some of the pervs on ILM.

my supermarket was playing "i feel love" yesterday morning too!!! and then "le freak" while i was in the bulk section. they're always playing disco/funk and i love it. it has to be some kind of digital radio service for franchises and big box stores and the like right? anyone know anything about this?

gonna be weird in 30 years when Kroger plays trancecore.

i'm fascinated by the station my laundromat plays -- 94.7 the wave -- which is l.a.'s smooth jazz/mellow jammin-oldies station with some '90s r&b and the obligatory adele hits thrown in. it really doesn't know how to market itself. wikipedia sez "hybrid smooth AC" though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTWV

My local Ultra plays soul hits like "Shotgun" and "Harlem Shuffle". Why don't more stores realize that dance music makes you want to stay in the store and buy more tasty food? It made me realize that too many people think going to the supermarket is a chore, not a pleasure.

The shopping centre below my apartment used to play Wings albums when it got semi-deserted in the evenings. Mr Artists' Royalties man must have paid a visit, though, as now they just play supermarket muzak. ;_;

Stereolab and the Smiths plays every single time I go to Shophouse (an Asian spinoff of Chipotle) in DC.

"I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones (1978)

Was in Sprouts earlier than I normally make it and heard:

Rock Around the Clock
Stevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink [Inferior film version]
ABBA - Dancing Queen

in that order (unless there was something between Rock Around the Clock and Stevie that I'm forgetting, but I don't think so).

Richard Butler was a bit jarring after Stevie Wonder.

Today I heard ”California Stars” by Wilco and ”Wild Wild Life” by Talking Heads

1,2,3,4 by Feist

I keep hearing Erasure at Shaw's. It's awesome.

Store I go to now keeps playing this song about how great "American Pie" is. Horrid.

Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"
+ some song baout "shining like a diamond"?? idk

now I'm home listening to cat power like Shit, why didn't I get some beer??

Was just in a little claustrophobically hip co-op and when I heard the music playing I thought: what is it with all this music from recent years that sounds just like 1981? But then it turned out to be Joy Division, on further listening.

"Transmission," live.

i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex in a walgreen's recently that was kinda weird

I'm compiling songs and notes for mix CDs to be played in a retail hell (Dollar General, where my daughter works). I'm shooting for stuff that sounds bubbly and poppy, but subtly confounds retail-environment expectations. The objective is to create the subconscious effect "I want to simultaneously spend all my money here and riot in the streets." Any suggestions?

Background: I had made her a chronological Beatles comp several years ago, which she took to work when she started at DG last year. She reported back that other employees would see the name "Beatles" on the disc, think "yay, pop!" and play it, and be freaking out a bit by the end because it had "Helter Skelter" and "She's So Heavy" on it.

just make it all stevie wonder

when you open any of the dairy cases at my local co-op, you hear death metal

Posted it on the Eagles thread, but Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.

Huh! That's the sort of thing I'm thinking of. Playlists of generally upbeat pop/rock (though never quite the song you'd associate with that artist) with the occasional labor/organizing song or drug song like "Minnie the Moocher."

today at the co-op i heard "happy". Its always played in there when I go in. Its always played in the shopping mall in the town centre too.

I just heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in the Smith's near me, which has pretty low-income and heavily Hispanic demographic (with a good sprinkling of Native Americans and African Americans). I regularly see guys with face tattoos in this store.

my supermarket plays nothing but bonnie raitt's 'have a heart' over and over

That's Bonnie Raitt?

Well I'll be damned. Always thought that was some 90s songstress like Shawn Colvin or Natalie Martika.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnYz0yW0OCA

mostly 80s hits

mine doesn't play any but if it did it would be garbage

Surprisingly varied! I heard the National and Boz Scaggs and Frankie Beverly last week.

"see no evil" by television heard at fred meyers today.

I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)

My new supermarket seems to always be playing "Bizarre Love Triangle." Maybe they just throw it on when I walk in?

I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)

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I heard it at least twice in public areas in the runup to Christmas. It doesn't really shock anyone here in the UK as everyone's heard it.

My local Sainsburys doesn't play music. Perhaps I should be thankful.

of my two local supermarkets - which belong to the inauspiciously named chains "Buy-Low" and "No-Frills" - one plays a pop mix ranging from the almost contemporary back to the 70s but at a very low and unobtrusive volume so it's hard for me to remember any tracks they play, though "hurt so good" by john cougar mellencamp was definitely playing the other day. the other plays a louder and exclusively 80s mix - yesterday: phil collins' "two hearts", baltimora "tarzan boy", and Madonna "borderline" - which I really enjoy.

wow you guys have cool supermarkets. mine seems to actively hate it's patrons and seems to play music design to make people gtfo.

here's the last track I heard just an hour ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZIpac803M

https://youtu.be/DEZIpac803M

Enjoyed hearing Al Stewart "Year of the Cat" at CVS the other day.

Well where else would you have heard it?

It's certainly no Walgreens track

Had to make a quick stop at a WalMart Neighborhood Market last night, and was greeted by the jammy solo section of "Working Man" by Rush as I walked in. This was made more bizarre by the fact the other two songs I could I.D. afterward were Sam Smith and No Doubt.

i get my hair cut at great clips and in indianapolis that meant they played the pop radio station - pretty much the last place where i would actually hear chart pop. now that i'm in portland the great clips plays "because the night" and beck's "loser".

toni basil - mickey

heart - crazy on you

Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.

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And nearly four years later, I heard it again in the soup aisle!

I mean, I hear the melody to that one or "Downtown Train" and automatically assume it's the more well-known cover.

The supermarkets usually don't play music around here. But I once visited one that played Imagination - Lights and music. This was obviously a great moment.

Or music and lights rather

I was out of the UK from 2002-2016 and, among the many changes, supermarkets stopped playing music. What I would give to hear a nice bit of muzak again.

I know I posted this on some thread somewhere, but it's always good for a re-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrPcDw-zuI

At this moment the fucking full Parachutes album by fucking Coldplay

I am genuinely enjoying listening to this, thanks DP.

It's been the soundtrack to my workday a few times. It definitely creates a melancholy, gauzy memory of my youth (the tape hiss helps!)

I heard Radio Free Europe at Whole Foods last night.

I go to my supermarket as little as I can now because "Come Together," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Comfortably Numb," "Imagine," "Mrs. Robinson," and literally no more than a single 74-minute CD worth of songs that are on every-wedding-band-ever's shortlist have been on shuffle for two years and counting. If I had to work there I'd put corkscrews in my ears.

"love will tear us apart" at fred meyers.

I was sat in the cafe in Sainsbury's, Didcot today and heard tracks by Talk Talk and Grizzly Bear.

I’m standing in the checkout line at Ralphs right now. They play mainstream vocal pop.

Today we had "Within You Without You" and I was so pleasantly shocked

Elvis, "Hound Dog", last night, sounded fuckin' great.

"A Nightmare on My Street" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, heard at Trader Joe's.

"Kiss and Tell" by Bryan Ferry, heard this evening at Fred Meyer... not sure I've heard this in the wild before.