Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

Funky Green Dogs 'Fired Up' in KMart.

KC and the Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go" at Trader Joe's

I know it was a #1 but I don't think I had heard Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" in decades before I heard it at CVS last week.

Wait, really??! I hear it all the time.

If you'd said "Leave a Light On," I'd believe it.

Totally possible that it's actually on all the time and I only paid attention when the music was really loud in CVS the other day.

Actually, I just started watching a Black Mirror episode and it opened with "Heaven" so.

"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion (featuring Joey Levine) at Vons

Filter: "Take A Picture" at CVS.

that one's such an oddball, it was REALLY big but for a very short time and then dropped off the face of the earth.

I think people genuinely don't remember who did it. And even if you know some stuff, connecting it as the "Hey Man Nice Shot" guys isn't easy.

I liked how Alternative Press described it as '"Solsbury Hill" failing to get its 90 Day chip from A.A.' in the original review.

it has persisted on ac radio

hey dad what do you think about your son now

i found that song so confusing as a kid, if only i had wikipedia at the time

Filter's frontman, and founding member Richard Patrick has said that the song is about him getting drunk on an airplane and taking off all of his clothes.[1]

Well that's... unexpected. Not sure if I could have handled that information in 1999. I think I'e posted about this on ilx before but i had just had my first kiss, with someone met on a summer vacation far away. The idea of traveling on airplanes and feeling like a newborn and needing a picture of someone in order to remember them.... it was all charged with ~~big feelings~~.

You know what would really stun me to hear in any circumstance, though, would be that album's previous, "remind them we rock, before rolling out the hit" single, "Welcome to the Fold." True to form, it'd already died on alt-rock radio by the time "Take a Picture" went crossover, and it's a dreadfully unfashionable form of industrial-tinged grunge-metal that has no plausible constituency today. Even "Lakini's Juice" has more of a cultural footprint among people like me who were teenagers at the right time.

can everyone aGREE that no one should be left alone

By no means obscure, but I've heard Livin' La Vida Loca twice at the supermarket in the past few months and each time I was like 'whoa, what ska song is this?' right up until he gets to the 'make you take your clothes off' lyric. Then I'm like 'shit, you got me again Ricky Martin.'

I'm more likely to hear "She's All I Ever Had" at CVS.

"Shake Your Bon Bon" or nothing!

Madness: "It Must Be Love" at Randall's

LTD - "Back In Love Again." Love that song.

A cover version of Roxy Music "More Than This"

i heard hang a picture by thee oh sees at a sheetz the other day

Carly Rae Jepsen 'Warm Blood' in Panda Express 3 or 4 days ago. Took me a minute to process what was happening.

Nice!

"Boris the Spider" in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago. Granted, it was on Halloween, but I was still very surprised to hear that rumbling out of the overhead speakers.

Four Tops: "I'll Turn To Stone" at HEB

No idea what's going on with the station played at work, as in between super schmaltzy Mariah Carey and Celine Dion christmas power ballads, somehow Throwing Muses' 'Santa Claus' and Aztec Camera's 'Walk Out to Winter' made it into the playlist. I've heard those two at least once a day for the past two weeks.

I hear Black Box's Everybody Everybody at the dumpy Smith's near me fairly frequently. Yeah, just leave your shopping carts wherever you want.

Beach Boys: "Do It Again" at FedEx Office

Gin Blossoms: "Until I Fall Away" at Fuddrucker's

Do you work there?

No. They just have a burger combo special during the week that beats pretty much every fast food chain rn.

I don't have one near me, but I just happened to notice you go there a lot. I tend to get a good vibe from my local supermarket, which is 90% a Mexican grocery, but halfheartedly tries to accommodate the rest of the locals. The main result of that is that their PA plays deeper 60s R&B and pop cuts.

(One for Alf's "Worst Singles" project) The Wallflowers: "Heroes" at Fuzzy's Taco Shop

David Bowie: "Kooks" at Jason's Deli

Every once in a while my Giant likes to drop Any Colour You Like by Pink Floyd into the mix. It's a real mind fuck.

Rodney Crowell: "She's Crazy For Leaving" at Kroger.

A song later they played Seger's not so obscure cover of "Shame On The Moon". #CrowellMania

The Jaynetts' "Sally Go Round the Roses" at Foodtown

George Benson "Breezin'" at a local brewpub. Not really obscure, but I don't think I've heard it on retail/restaurant background music before, or at least not for a long time.

Lee Michaels: "Do You Know What I Mean?" at HEB.

Janis Joplin: "Get It While You Can" at Jason's Deli

Heard "I Will Survive" at Golden Pride shortly after an emotional crisis earlier this year. OK, not to obscure but I don't think I've ever heard it in Golden Pride before.

Not to obscure.

yesterday at a shoppers in ottawa i heard the version of bryan adams' late-'90s muchmusic hit 'when you're gone' where melanie c is swapped out for... (looks up on wikipedia) wait, pamela anderson?

anyway her voice is not as good as mel's obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W2jONIjrM0

Hearing 'Here's Where the Story Ends' in CVS this morning brightened my snow-dampened mood significantly.

Oh shit, that would be the best.

Blues Image: "Ride Captain Ride" at Kroger

Shirley and Lee "Feels So Good." Not CVS, but the lengthy skyway that connects my office to my favorite lunch place. It's usually current pop hits; how this slice of 50s New Orleans R&B got on there is anyone's guess.

This was a 4-song stretch at Foodtown the other night:

Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
They Might Be Giants - A live version (!) of "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
Andrew Bird - Lull
George Michael - Faith

(I had to Shazam "Lull" to find out what it was.)