I heard Mozart's trap song at Fuddruckers
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2024 00:24 (seven months ago) link
(xpost) "Post Removal Machine"
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 00:28 (seven months ago) link
There's a lot to unpack here, but at the very least using the term 'Single' as a qualifier doesn't quite apply to the way I've experienced music in retail environments. Growing up I first heard so many of what I later would discover were less-exposed album cuts from artists like Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, and even the Beatles in fast food places after school or out with my mom and/or grandma at the grocery store. To leave stuff like that out is missing a major part of the experience.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 January 2024 00:42 (seven months ago) link
For me, it's the qualifier of obscure that comes up short. My deepest connections with music in public settings are almost always with songs that are anything but obscure: "Every Picture Tells a Story" above, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in a record store a few weeks ago, mid-'60s Dylan anywhere, etc.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 00:59 (seven months ago) link
honestly feel like no one but c. grisso/mccain should post in this thread
unless someone actually hears benny mardones in the wild in the 2020s
― mookieproof, Monday, 29 January 2024 04:47 (seven months ago) link
From now every entry from me gets an oshcvs factor score which is—Obscurity: 1-10 (did it chart? when? In adverts? When? Sdtrk? 10 is most obscure. Whatevs that means TO ME ,the poster.)x (lol “times”)Single: 1-3 (3 = an actual single, 2 = um, a b-side, 1= possibly fm radio album fodder)xCVS: (10= an actual cvs, 9=a pharmacy, .1 to .5= um any public place that is actually cool.)
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 January 2024 05:16 (seven months ago) link
This happened to me recently at Home Depot.
― pplains, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:32 (seven months ago) link
Can we all agree that this isn't the "Songs We Hear When We're in Public" thread?
― pplains, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:34 (seven months ago) link
Carry on--I think I'll start a thread for exactly that. Before I do, though, does one already exist? I tried a search on "public," and the closest I got was "Strange Music in Public Places." I don't need strange.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 15:51 (seven months ago) link
There is this one:What music does your local supermarket play?
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:00 (seven months ago) link
Thanks. I'll start a very general one that takes in any kind of music in any kind of public setting.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:01 (seven months ago) link
A Thread to Mention Random or Surprising Songs We've Recently Heard in Public
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:04 (seven months ago) link
Good enough--that one will do when something catches my attention in the non-CVS world (which I've just now googled for the first time).
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:06 (seven months ago) link
Songs I heard at Chuck E. Cheese today
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:09 (seven months ago) link
I think it would make sense to make a list of all the different release types: singles, eps, lps, small press cassettes, soundcloud mixes, tik toks, etc, then make another list of all the major retail chains, and another for obscurity or familiarity degrees, and finally to make threads based on every conceivable combination of the three.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:15 (seven months ago) link
we should have a poll first though...
― scott seward, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:17 (seven months ago) link
Preceded by nominations. And with a running Spotify playlist. And you're listening to the Spotify playist somewhere in public, that calls for a new thread.
― clemenza, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:20 (seven months ago) link
rolling out my Moderately Well Known Flexidiscs Heard At Dollar General playlist
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:21 (seven months ago) link
does anyone have a slide rule
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 29 January 2024 19:16 (seven months ago) link
I know where you can buy one.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 17:49 (seven months ago) link
The Traveling Wilburys: "Last Night" on a Pandora Oldies channel at a burger place.
Same place, today got "Heading For The Light" and whatever that Jim Croce song is about him walking to Georgia.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:29 (seven months ago) link
"Walking Back To Georgia", surprisingly.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:30 (seven months ago) link
His third biggest Spotify track for some reason.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:31 (seven months ago) link
wow. maybe on some Georgia playlists or something.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:40 (seven months ago) link
Ok well blancmange “don’t tell me” into ultravox “reap the wild wind” was a strain of 84 LIR heaven. at torchy’s centennial CO.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:38 (seven months ago) link
holy crap into gogos cant stop the world. tho i figger thw gogos to be more kroq than lir.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:40 (seven months ago) link
Ok now it’s fantastic day h100 they just know i’m here nm
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 18:47 (seven months ago) link
Bowie “Suffragette City” in a dead small-town shopping mall.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 15:08 (seven months ago) link
Oh wait, now it’s “Shake and Finger Pop” by Junior Walker.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 15:10 (seven months ago) link
Translator “Everywhere That I’m Not” in a Goodwill in Venice, Florida
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:36 (seven months ago) link
Nirvana ft Cris & Curt Kirkwood - "Lake Of Fire"
When the suction came off at the dentist... pretty deep cut for a dentist office (or nah?)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:57 (seven months ago) link
So are we okay again with using this as more of an all-purpose thread for music heard in public spaces? That seemed to be a topic of concern a few days ago.
― clemenza, Thursday, 8 February 2024 06:10 (seven months ago) link
yeah i'm pretty ok with that now thanks to the therapy here. i'm still a little iffy on defining obscure, but i've moved v significantly toward "if the hearer blees it obscure, it's obscure, hunt3r."
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:16 (seven months ago) link
i mean, my lived experiences and those of millions now dying are not like some young pup's lived experience.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:17 (seven months ago) link
Reminded by the LZ II thread that they were playing Billy Squier - The Stroke at the grocery yesterday. I know it was a fairly popular song, but it's still pretty weird and embarrassing to hear it blasted while you're out food shopping.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 17 February 2024 06:03 (seven months ago) link
it was even weirder when it was on like 2 AM and 6 FM channels, which was the entire universe of mobil music, riding in the car with yr parents, and everyone was pretending it wasn’t billy squire, singing the stroke. it was pretty great.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 February 2024 07:31 (seven months ago) link
ha mobile
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 February 2024 07:33 (seven months ago) link
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/h-e-b-employees-say-this-song-is-played-too-much-at-their-stores/
“I swear to God when I used to open for the produce department at 5 a.m., the playlist would be exactly the same every time… ‘Mambo No. 5’ would play at like exactly 5:10 a.m. [The song] legit gives me PTSD flashbacks.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 February 2024 17:03 (seven months ago) link
^^Reminds me about how most of the YT comments section for the music video to John Anderson's "Somebody Slap Me" is made up of Kroger employees talking about constantly hearing it at work.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 February 2024 17:08 (seven months ago) link
My post about The Stroke was from HEB, I wish it had been Mambo #5 instead.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 18 February 2024 17:12 (seven months ago) link
Smithereens: "A Girl Like You" at Five Guys
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, November 11, 2016 4:54 PM (seven years ago)
Many customers and workers at Trader Joe's in Chicago were rockin' pretty hard to this on Friday afternoon.
― Mike Dixn, Sunday, 18 February 2024 19:08 (seven months ago) link
Not obscure, but let me tell you that a Trader Joe’s in Downtown Philadelphia at 5 pm jamming out to “Hot Stuff” is truly a lovely thing
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 18 February 2024 22:47 (seven months ago) link
grocery/drugstore playlists are legitimately better and more varied than actual radio now
― dyl, Monday, 19 February 2024 02:11 (seven months ago) link
a long time ago i spent a summer stocking shelves overnight at a grocery store. there was no playlist, but the foreman (the store was closed, thank god) played a certain radio station featuring 'the hits of the 60's, 70's, 80's and today!'
it was pretty much the same songs in a different order each night, but we placed bets on when exactly 'suspicious minds' would be played
a few years later i helped open a large bookstore and somehow the only CD that no one objected to was van morrison's greatest hits. so for three weeks we heard that entire album at *least* once a day. it took me 20 years to even listen to van morrison again, and i will never be fully over it
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 February 2024 02:46 (seven months ago) link
i fucking love 'suspicious minds' tho
― mookieproof, Monday, 19 February 2024 02:47 (seven months ago) link
we had a work ipod at a retail job i worked once upon a time, and corporate had put about 250 songs on it that were “approved.” some of it was fine— Grace Jones, Nick Cave’s soundtrack work, Solange— but there were a few tracks that i still absolutely loathe that I didn’t loathe before, like “Thinkin Bout You.” thanks Frank, i would rather fuckin not. that was better than the organic grocer where i worked a few years later that only played the ‘stomp clap hey’ genre. was overjoyed when i got moved to the back and could play my own music.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 19 February 2024 02:52 (seven months ago) link
By the way when did CVS’ start selling g sex toys. The travel section even in my non-bougie neighborhood has travel sized vibrators.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:20 (seven months ago) link
Putting the 'V' in CVS...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:42 (seven months ago) link
i don’t wanna see the sights - charlatans at torchy’s centennial CO
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:16 (seven months ago) link
In view of my adherence tho not loyalty to my prev comments in thread, i verified via discogs that idwsts was a single (US) for charlatans. torchys is def not a drug store, tho it is possible i’m just doing it wrong.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:30 (seven months ago) link