hanging around the store an extra 30 seconds so you can hear the end of the song: classic or pathetic?

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tonight it was "gonna take a miracle," version i didn't recognize.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

anyone who says classic reads too much nick hornby.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:41 (twenty years ago)

clasthetique

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

classic! done it before, if I don't do it again I'll just sing the rest of it and annoy everyone I'm with. Which one do you want? Well? That's what I thought.

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)

versus hanging out in my car to hear the end of a magnetic fields or evoken song on the radio. in the january cold.

― no bones, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:48 (twenty years ago)

I know I've paused in a store aisle before going "ooh whats this?" (Kajagoogoo's "Too Shy" which I didnt recognise the start of).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes classic, but really dud if you're in a Burger King.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 02:54 (twenty years ago)

Which I have done.

But now I have a portable MP3 player, so I can ignore evrything around me and soundtrack anything as I see fit, so this is no longer an issue for me at all.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

i have never even once in my life considered doing this. wtf is with you peeople??

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

"Lotta Love" by Nicolette Larson came on as we were leaving IHOP yesterday. I would've paused or hesitated, but I had just stolen the really awesome pen that the waitress had left for me to sign the bill with.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

"Lotta Love" by Nicolette Larson

oh, if you only knew how much i've been playing this one since that ILM thread.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:10 (twenty years ago)

ts: "gonna take a miracle" vs. "gonna take a lot of love"

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

clastic fantastic

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

The only time I have done this is for Amerie's "1 Thing" in downtwon Berkeley Ross Dress For Less!

And I bought a beard trimmer.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

It is perhaps kind of kinky, but I feel so much more prone to go to a fitting room if there is any enticing/enjoyable/sexy song being played at the store.Honest.

― olenska (olenska), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

You're trying on clothes in there, right?

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discopotential.com/cdimages/1167.jpg

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

i used to have the cassingle of that.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:16 (twenty years ago)

I once stayed in a store for a few more songs. Urban Outfitters, circa 1990, playing the Pixies Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim twofer CD. I *had* to find out what would happen when they got to that line in "Nimrod's Son."

Maybe 20 seconds after "You are the son of a...", the music suddenly cut out. Ha.

― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:21 (twenty years ago)

If it's a song I don't own, of course I do!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

I nearly did this in Top Man the other day - some Beck song I didn't recognise but surprisingly good, something after it closer to The Junior Boys - wanted to ask them what music was playing but the staff in a lot of places tend to just shrug or stare at you blankly when asked this, I've found.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

as i've said before, things somehow sound better when you hear them unexpectedly.

i did once ask what they were playing in selectadisk once only to be told it was something i already owned. (plaid, first track off double figure)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

classic

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:42 (twenty years ago)

It really depends on what stores you're in. All too many shops have piped in music that the people who work in them have no control over, and have no idea what they're listening to.

But smaller shops, it's usually more down to the taste of the people who work there. I discovered Mogwai that way, because I thought the fan was singing to me!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:43 (twenty years ago)

But smaller shops, it's usually more down to the taste of the people who work there.

exactly -- they'll try to impose their horrible indie on you.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

the harvest foods near my work likes to play the carpenters a lot which is nice for me since i like them AND I havent heard the carpenters on the radio EVER in the US. And, yeah, I hang around to hear the whole song. They also play U2s 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for" which must be the worst song to play in a supermarket. Any U2 song would be bad but that song always feels like its mocking me. Especially in Harvest Foods where they seem to have no clue about how a supermarket should be arranged.

The local Dollar General plays 'Under my thumb" which I always stay to hear.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

exactly -- they'll try to impose their horrible indie on you.

haha totally. but the soft rock station is playing just the right song 90 percent of the time. (except for the 10 percent when they keep repeating that godawful "this kiss" song.)

― jbr, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

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