Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

I spent just about every Saturday night with my folks b/w 1984 and 1990 at Fuddruckers.

the Fuddruckers near me now is basically you walk up to a kiosk and put in your order electronically, you can see some of the people making your burger but it wasn't like that big clear glass window most Fuddruckers had in the 80s. and you can order like Bison burger and shit now

It def feels like a heavy piece of 1980s culture that somehow has persisted as an actual place instead of a meme.

their milkshakes were legit good!

Oh, I loved it as a kid. I can still smell that smell

Their hot dog bread was the most...generous I'd ever seen. I'm sure it had more calories by itself than the side o' beef on display behind the glass.

I have a Berenstein Bears moment any time someone brings up Fuddruckers, since my family's eating establishment of choice on vacations was Fudpucker's.

Such a ridiculous question. I’m vaccinated and when I walk into a grocery store or CVS, I still wear a mask out of respect to my fellow citizen. I also walk into both mostly to hear my songs but that’s another topic. https://t.co/SVKnalkk1q

— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) May 7, 2021

Funny guy (and not just “for a musician”)

I like Marx

Walk of Life is, at minimum, a top three grocery store song. https://t.co/mkpQkaAj5H

— Kaleb Horton (@kalebhorton) May 11, 2021

Dire Straits are fine, but this is a hard disagree for me

Just because BOSE salesmen used CDs of both bands to showcase their speakers doesn't mean that the two bands are in any way equal to each other.

One unique way they are related is that I was first exposed to a ton of their album tracks on store and restaurant Muzaks.

i heard a good one just yesterday in the grocery store but i've already forgotten what it was

i remember now! it was "shine" by years & years... which i know was a big hit in the uk, but i live in the states so i was v surprised to hear it in the wild like that

how can someone even enjoy music if they think “walk of life” is a top 3 anything

dedication, devotion

Us3: "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" at Fuddruckers

I dunno, hearing "Walk of Life" in a really bleak Costco in rural Indiana while scanning the bread might just make my day.

“Walk of Life” was playing in the grocery store earlier, and I was enjoying it so much I felt a flash of annoyance when someone cut through on the PA to make an announcement.

I wish it were obscure!

XP "Super Special Two-For-One Sale On Headbands! Boppa Lula Only Today!"

we got to move these
digiorno's pizzas
we got to move these chef boyardeeeeeees

“Walk of Life” was playing in the grocery store earlier, and I was enjoying it so much I felt a flash of annoyance when someone cut through on the PA to make an announcement.

I feel like Byrne would appreciate that.

True story.

While pumping gas at a Holiday station in rural upper Michigan today I heard Alphabet Street and Electric Avenue back to back which felt very out of place and amazing simultaneously

Relevant...

Huge riffs in unexpected places: When I was walking into @LiveCasinoPHL around noon today, "Rock Bottom" by @UFO_rockband came over the sound system! A few hours later they played "Gypsy" by @uriah_heep!

Almost made losing that huge pot with top two against middle set worth it.

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) June 10, 2021

Waiting for Somebody - Paul Westerberg

― how's life, Saturday, August 13, 2016 6:41 AM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just got Dyslexic Heart.

L'Trimm - "Cars That Go Boom" at the garden center

the pods that go bloom

Lately I feel like I have heard the Kurt Vile version of Box of Rain in grocery stores at least a couple times.

I’m a bar/restaurant where I just heard 311 “Down” for the first time in about two decades, and I can report that it still slaps

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 13, 2021

yesterday I walked past Five Guys in Cambridge, they were playing Jimmy Olsen's Blues by the Spin Doctors, then they played a song I didn't know but which was identifiably by The Nation of Ulysses.

Five Guys is usually pretty good for eclectic Rock muzak.

i heard "The Sound" at Vons the other day, i don't think i have heard any 1975's songs in the wild before.

Yeah, I heard "Kick out the Jams" at a Five Guys once.

I realized what it was before noticing if the "motherfucker" was included but my bet is it was not.

ALL THE WAY receives only toppings in black, Motherfucker

"It takes five seconds, five seconds of decision, five seconds to pick your mix at the Coke Freestyle machine!"

Kroger had "All Star" playing last night (foisting it on workers twice an hour should be a crime) but I would swear it was remixed or something to be even peppier and more upbeat.

^^This might not be it, but I read some time ago in Rolling Stone that Smash Mouth had to rerecord parts of it when it to RockBand because the digital multitracks had become corrupted*; iirc, among other things they had redo all the drums as those tracks had all disappeared.

*This was part of a larger article about the vulnerability of digital masters being discovered as more and more tracks from the then-recent past were getting licensed in 5.1 mixes for film and games.

Of course, it's really probably a "Top 40" radio mix that ultimately didn't have the legs or availability of the regular version.

DJ MILF's All Whistling and Turntable Work Mix (3:55)

<AS HEARD ON MTV'S ROAD RULES>

"All Star (Upbeat Version)" by Smash Mouth

"All Star (Clean-Up On Aisle 12 Dub)" by Smash Mouth Ft. DJ Kroger Signature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE

The Hib-Tone Radio Free Europe at Trader Joe's. I dutifully bought an extra bag of Scandinavian Swimmers.

Not obscure or CVS, but our local Giant plays Ex's and Oh's by Elle King probably 1 in 5 times I go there. That song puts me into rough headspace, which has only grown worse since I looked her up and learned that she is Rob Schneider's daughter.