"There's No Other Way" at Vons.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link
I guess the "best mix of the 70s, 80s, and today" format lives on in our nation's supermarkets.I once applied for a job with one of those companies that chooses & licenses songs to create monthly music mixes for retail stores, etc. Seemed like it would be cool...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
That is cool. Probably pays shit, though.
― incel clown posse (naus), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
…And to contribute to this thread, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – "What I Am" at Smart & Final this past Friday. My coworker who is two years older than me (I'm 35) and has only listened to "alternative rock" radio since the 90s did not recall the song at all.
― incel clown posse (naus), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:21 (six years ago) link
^^Have thoughts on that which I'll save for later/never share.
Van Morrison: "Alan Watts Blues" at the FedEx Store.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
My coworker who is two years older than me (I'm 35) and has only listened to "alternative rock" radio since the 90s did not recall the song at all.
To be fair, that song (and, for that matter, the band) completely dropped off the airwaves after 1989.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
Not in Texas!
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
The song anyway...
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
Interesting! I have literally never heard it on any radio station (or CVS or grocery store) since 1989, throughout the midwest and northeast. Even the "oldies" station here in upstate NY that plays Bon Jovi and "I've Had The Time Of My Life" doesn't play "What I Am."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:33 (six years ago) link
I heard that one in Kroger too!
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
not a pharmacy, but I heard Teenage Fanclub in Next the other day
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
I just remembered when I moved to the U.S. I heard Camera Obscura in like every single clothes shop I went in
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
― incel clown posse (naus), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 02:39 (six years ago) link
I will...soon.
The Wonders: "That Thing You Do!" at Kroger.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
"French Navy" got a lot of play at Wendy's when it was first out.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
I just heard a Muzak version of "Surf's Up" by The Beach Boys at the Palm Springs airport.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
D’Lacy Hideaway in a supermarket in Miami Platja, Costa Dorada, Spain cheered me up today
― the article don, Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
"Can't Hardly Wait"The ReplacementsPleased to Meet Me, 1987Sire Records
KrogerNorth Little Rock, Ark.July 22, 2018 | 8:52 a.m. CDT
― pplains, Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Just heard "You're An Ocean" by Fastball, which I haven't thought about since 2000.
― No organ. (crüt), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
Just remembering this now: I was at a Church's Chicken a few weeks ago, and they had this TV running a "Church's Network" channel that runs PSAs, Movie Trailers, and life style stuff. One of the videos was snowboard highlights reel soundtracked by "Dancing To The Beat" by Clarence Murray, a non-charting Southern Soul swinger from 1969 on the SSS label.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
Rodney Crowell & Roseanne Cash: "It's Such A Small World" at Kroger.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 August 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
“Hesitating beauty “ fucking wilco
― calstars, Monday, 6 August 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
"I Was Made to Love Her," by Stevie Wonder, playing in the work cafeteria at lunch. I don't know how "obscure" it is (being a hit and all), but I rarely hear it... It was a joy to hear that James Jamerson bassline in a public setting.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Aretha's "Day Dreaming" in CVS this afternoon. I'd never heard it on the radio before, and didn't even know it had been released as a single, much less that it was a hit (#5, 1972). Was wonderful to hear, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
I heard James Brown’s “Living in America” at Whole Foods the other day
― joygoat, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
Not that obscure, just weird af in this context: Metallica--"Nothing Else Matters" at Wendy's.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
That’s the feeling I get when I’m in the middle of my large fries
― calstars, Monday, 27 August 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
Air’s “la femme d’argent” at a food court at Tokyo Disneyland
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
Vitamin C at Chipotle
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
"Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town,” by Talking Heads, at Chipotle
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
(a bit surprised to learn that was actually the lead single from Talking Heads 77)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
Diamonds and Pearls.
― how's life, Friday, 7 September 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
"Bang and Blame" at Chipotle. Maybe they hired the CVS programmer.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
Ugh, that’s the worst r e m
― calstars, Saturday, 8 September 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
It’s a good single
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Saturday, 8 September 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
"Half a Mile Away" - Billy Joel album cut at Kroger.
― pplains, Saturday, 8 September 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
damnnnn
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
I like this thread because it re-contextualizes song titles for me into these absurdist alternate realities where the original song title was actually "Nothing Else Matters at Wendy's" and "Bang and Blame at Chipotle."
― del griffith, Sunday, 9 September 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
Lost in the Supermarket at the Supermarket
― Chesapeake Bae (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
That’s a pretty hip supermarket!
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
When I walked into Trader Joe's this morning they were playing "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" by Captain Beefheart. When I left a half hour later they were playing David Bowie's "Sound And Vision." In between I heard at least one T.Rex song but not a well-known or popular one; I just recognized Bolan's voice. A strange morning at the grocery store.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:54 (six years ago) link
Not that surprising though given it’s a TJ’s
― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
"See No Evil" by Television heard at Five Guys this evening.
― visiting, Saturday, 15 September 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link
Boz Scaggs: "What Can I Say?"Barenaked Ladies: "It's All Been Done"Queen: "Play The Game"
All at Whataburger
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 September 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
"Real Gone Kid" by Deacon Blue heard at Goodwill. Obscure in the US?
― visiting, Monday, 17 September 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
VU's "Lisa Says" at Peet's Coffee.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
^nice one
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
KLF's Justified and Ancient (Stand by the JAMs) at IKEA
(though looking it up, it made it to 11 on the Hot 100, so not actually obscure?)
― circles, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
Neil Sedaka “Laughter in the Rain” at a taco shop in San Diego.
― timellison, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
“State Farm (Extended Version),” by Yaz(oo), at Chipotle just now
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link