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
Dinosaur jr start choppin at westin dia public restroom
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Friday, 20 May 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
Heard "I'm in love with the Other Woman" on a classic rock station out of Beaumont Texas driving home today. Knew the tune was stumped for an hour or so until I got to the next place I stopped and could pull out my phone to look it up that it was Ray Parker Jr. Cool tune. Awesome playlist on that funky station, they also literally went back to back from Sabbath's "Iron Man" to Olivia Newton John's "Magic", which I also had not heard in a couple decades. It's a cool tune too.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Sunday, 22 May 2022 05:00 (two years ago) link
If he were shopping at the Hawthorne Fred's, that might be a different story.
Heard "See No Evil" by Television there once!
― Kim Kimberly, Sunday, 22 May 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
"Don't Cry out Loud," a live version by Joe Longthorne (!), blasted out of flat window I happened to be walking past, with the entire room singing along.
I don't know the song, or Joe Longthorne beyond his cheesy reputation, but I found it to be a strangely affecting piece of bombastic kitsch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yvXmSmZxQ
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 23 May 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
went back to back from Sabbath's "Iron Man" to Olivia Newton John's "Magic"
What in the ...
― pplains, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
“Don’t Cry Out Loud” is a great song and I appreciate that strange man for trying it. Melissa Manchester’s version is obviously definitive
― Josefa, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
"Longthorne was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to charity."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
and he just keeps giving
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
Music best heard in a charity shop
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
Animals: "Boom Boom" at Freebirds
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
Cool
― Once Were Chemical Brothers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 May 2022 02:27 (two years ago) link
Not obscure, really, by my local Trader Joe's recently did something I've never heard in a supermarket before - back-to-back songs by the same artist.
"Time After Time" --> "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough."
― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
Dave Mason ft. Michael Jackson "Save Me" at Rexall's
Stephen Bishop "Save it for a Rainy Day" at Giant Food
Nick Drake's "Northern Sky" at Lidl
Head East's "Love Me Tonight"* at a Sonoco convenience store.
(note: "Love me Tonight" was a bigger hit than "Never Been Any Reason")
― Lee626, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 09:40 (two years ago) link