have just been in stater brothers and heard no doubt's "it's my life" followed immediately by siouxsie's "the passenger." one or the other in isolation not that notable, but back to back and i was chuckling in delight.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 21:58 (two years ago) link
At Torchys Tacos, got Oblivious by Aztec Camera. Nah, that’s standard 80s shit esp for Torchys. Then Lips Like Sugar. Fuck no, Torchys, that’s standard 80s for olds in USA.Then Chant No. 1 by Spandau Ballet (which I initially thought was Haircut 100). OK that passes for obscure enough
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
"At which point I look around Frozen Foods and wonder: 'Is anyone else hearing this?'" William Gibson on Steely Dan is so good - https://t.co/sIPdN6cpTg pic.twitter.com/pgQgpZQqF3— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) January 24, 2022
#onethread
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
Huh, that thread references the concept that fine Columbian was weed not coke, and I cannot imagine that world. in my head, with no fine columbian experience.Then someone invokes (and to their credit denies) Dan as either in, or adjacent to, Yacht Rock, and I’m like “fuck, were you alive then? cause ay, fuck, not imaginably the case.” imo.
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
fine Columbian will always be cocaine to me, I don't care what anyone else says
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
In the context of this thread it's coffee from Trader Joe's or your local Chevron.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
Backing up a bit I would be stunned hearing “Chant No. 1” by Spandau Ballet anywhere in the USA, which you never would have before streaming services
― Josefa, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link
Sophisti-pop classic 'Twist in My Sobriety' by Tanita Tikaram.
― triggercut, Friday, 28 January 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link
Skeevy message and all, I adore "Caught Up in You."
This song is basically a marriage proposal. How is it sleepy? Or was that the joke?
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 28 January 2022 13:04 (two years ago) link
SKEEVY. Damn autocorrect.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 28 January 2022 13:05 (two years ago) link
I mean, I'm pretty sure "little girl" isn't literal.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 28 January 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
Great Dan post.
Reminds me of when I'd hear "Pull Up to the Bumper" in Whole Foods.
Okay, just eating my soup samples and shaking my ass.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Sunday, 30 January 2022 00:21 (two years ago) link
Stopped in a McDonald’s for coffee and, lo and behold, there’s ABC’s “Poison Arrow.”
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 10 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
Our local supermarket extended its hours until 1am, so we've gotten into the habit of doing our big in-person shopping at midnight - no one is in the store then except for an occasional last-minute alcohol buyer and the crew restocking the shelves. Lately the restocking crew have been playing whatever they want to while they work - last week we heard The Supremes' A Bit Of Liverpool. A couple nights ago it was Nina Simone's Here Comes The Sun.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 March 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link
Wow, I’d be stunned to hear either of those in a supermarket setting
― Josefa, Sunday, 13 March 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
Kacey Musgraves: "Pageant Material" at Rudy's BBQ
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 March 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
Prodigy - Breathe
followed by Happy Clappers - I Believe
Bosley's (pet food store)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 14 March 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
I have also come to love late-night grocery shopping during pandemic times. The other night:
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 14 March 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
Not a chain store, so maybe not within this thread's purview, but the new locally-owned ice cream shop was playing Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight by Spinal Tap yesterday.
― peace, man, Monday, 14 March 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
not obscure, not a cvs, but they played Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man" at my physical therapist's this morning
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 18 March 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
"Fade Into You" was playing as I got a tooth drilled into this morning, and then the JJ Cale version of "Cocaine." It was a little weird, but then again, I remember when "Blackwater" by the Doobies played when I was getting a radiation treatment.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 18 March 2022 00:23 (two years ago) link
wow the latter is extra nightmarish
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 March 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
It's an odd gambit— doctors and dentists have always told me that a lot of people bring their favorite music to these appointments and just put on their earphones, but I've never wanted to associate music I like with dire medical procedures, so I always deal with what they're playing over the speakers. I think once in radiation, I asked them to turn off "American Pie" for personal reasons.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Friday, 18 March 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
Back in my oncology days, I'd listen to Blonde Redhead or Steely Dan on the iPod. Nice n' sterile.
Last time I had a crown put in at the dentist, he was playing some Black Crowes channel. I felt filthy afterwards.
― pplains, Friday, 18 March 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
The Southern Harmony & Dental Companion
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link
lol.
More like Hotel Drillness.
― pplains, Friday, 18 March 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
Well-played, sir.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 March 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
this is 100% true. When my partner was going on for heart surgery, in the waiting room the radio was playing some song that kept saying "I will fix your heart" (or maybe "i can fix your heart"). I never figured out of it was intentional or not but it seemed like "live" radio iirc
― kinder, Friday, 18 March 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
"Shake Your Hips" (Rolling Stones) at a San Diego Zoo snack bar.
― Please don’t take / My time change away (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
Shake Your Hippos
― peace, man, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
Neko Case: "Bad Luck" in the lobby of a Sleep Inn.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 April 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Paramore: "Hard Times" and Sheryl Crow: "Hole In My Pocket" at Dairy Queen.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 April 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
Ben Kweller: "Magic" at Walmart.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 April 2022 01:30 (two years ago) link
Which reminds me that one of the Pop Conference presentations is about retail soundscapes, specifically those at Walmart. Hopefully this thread is in the citations.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 April 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
my friend just heard the sundays “here’s where the story ends” in cvs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
it made her day. would make mine too
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096564202/gap-store-playlist-music-collection?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
I've heard "Here's Where the Story Ends" quite a lot in the wild, still catches me offguard.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
xp That’s cool… I had a side job at the Gap for a few years in the early 2000s, I was definitely interested in the playlists.
― Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe (morrisp), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
Martha & The Vandellas: "You've Been In Love Too Long" at Cheddar's.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
Going Back Where I Belong by Sugar Pie De Santo at the non-Starbucks coffee chain I went to a couple days ago (but I cant recall name of it).
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Thursday, 5 May 2022 23:14 (two years ago) link
Everything from "Mama I'm Coming Home" by Ozzy Osbourne to "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes" at my blue-collar, mixed-culture Kroger.
― pplains, Friday, 6 May 2022 23:34 (two years ago) link
Speaking of retail playlists, the monthly ones from The Row can be pretty great. Obscurities and album cuts.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 7 May 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
Hib-tone version of "Radio Free Europe" at Dairy Queen
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 9 May 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
When you’re getting dinner in Portland and a song you used to goth out to at the legendary City Nightclub comes on thirty-six years down the line pic.twitter.com/HwptOybvB1— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) May 10, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 19:42 (two years ago) link
This barely fits the thread - but I was pumping gas a few weeks ago, and a promotional interview with "up & coming" singer Maeta (whom you may know from the rolling r&b threads) came on the pump's screen. I've never encountered her anywhere but my own little listening world, so it was pleasantly jarring.
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
Whoa -- Caron Wheeler's "Livin' in the Light."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
xp
It's not so strange to hear Siouxsie in a restaurant in Portland. If he were shopping at the Hawthorne Fred's, that might be a different story. It's still a possibility though.
― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
Doing an errand this morning at CVS/Target, they played 00s-style club bangers by Daft Punk, Justice, Boys Noize, Deadmaus etc. Two upset women walked by me, one of them saying “I’m tired of this car-commercial shit music.”— Steady State Sounds (@StateSounds) May 14, 2022
― mookieproof, Saturday, 14 May 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
Just heard Portishead’s “Glory Box” in Trader Joe’s (I haven’t heard that song in over 20 years).
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Saturday, 14 May 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link