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
Fleetwood Mac: "Seven Wonders" (which I never hear on the radio or anything) at HEB
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 04:59 (seven months ago) link
Great radio jam
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 February 2024 05:21 (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, February 21, 2024
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Great song, man I love those first four, five , six Charlatans albums...
― Bee OK, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:00 (seven months ago) link
Beatles "Nowhere Man" in a Harris Teeter, which is obviously far from obscure, but it did make me think about how rarely I hear the Beatles in stores or eateries despite being hugely popular across generations. Is it too expensive to license or something?
― Lee626, Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:15 (seven months ago) link
Probably just too old? If I'm hearing them in the wild, it's almost always alongside other '60s/'70s music.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:28 (seven months ago) link
...and if it's not, then it's one of the big hits mixed in with other Pop hits through the ages.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:39 (seven months ago) link
Lee Dorsey: "Do-Ri-Mi"Gary US Bonds: "Dear Lady Twist"The Cadillacs: "Nag"Bob & Earl: "The Harlem Shuffle"The Toys: "May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone"
All at Dairy Queen
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 February 2024 21:03 (seven months ago) link
Wow, love that last one… I only know it from the One Kiss box
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Saturday, 24 February 2024 21:39 (seven months ago) link
good dq
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Sunday, 25 February 2024 02:41 (seven months ago) link
The Cadillacs and the Toys are so associated with one song each for me, impressed you'd hear something different in a public setting.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 February 2024 02:49 (seven months ago) link
Was The Cadillacs song “Naggy Nag”(?) i’m listening to it now… It sounds like a rip-off of “Yakety Yak”?
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Sunday, 25 February 2024 03:12 (seven months ago) link
(Looks like The Cadillacs also did “Buzz Buzz Buzz,” but I guess the Hollywood Flames version must be the most well-known…)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Sunday, 25 February 2024 03:14 (seven months ago) link
(to be clear, the main Cadillacs song I knew was “Speedoo”)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Sunday, 25 February 2024 03:17 (seven months ago) link
Looking harder, I think this was the Halos' original version of "Nag". I googled it at the time and came up with the Cadillacs.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2024 04:29 (seven months ago) link
Ah, looks like that’s a different song (interestingly, this fellow J.R. Bailey was in both the Halos and the Cadillacs)
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Sunday, 25 February 2024 04:41 (seven months ago) link
Huh, looks like the Halos were also the guys backing up Curtis Lee on “Pretty Little Angel Eyes.”
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Sunday, 25 February 2024 04:47 (seven months ago) link
..."Who Put The Bomp..."!
Bass Singer Arthur Crier's grandson is Keith Sweat!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2024 05:03 (seven months ago) link
"Who Put The Bomp..." too!, I meant.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 February 2024 05:04 (seven months ago) link
The employees in the costco tire department were cranking the shit out of "break my stride" the other day
― joygoat, Monday, 26 February 2024 17:59 (seven months ago) link
soemthing about those synths and that driving beat made it a popular one on the 80s nights at the local club here, like people would yell during it
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 February 2024 19:04 (seven months ago) link
have always felt that somewhere in 1983 electric avenue was supposed to choke out break my stride for fucking EVER, but somehow bms survived and here we are.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 01:08 (seven months ago) link
Wilder ended up producing No Doubt.
If you gotta blame somebody.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 01:37 (seven months ago) link
“the sound” by the 1975, at rite aid
― ivy., Tuesday, 27 February 2024 16:55 (seven months ago) link
The right aid imo
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:02 (seven months ago) link
Dionne Warwick - “you’re gonna need me” in Home Depot
― brimstead, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 23:58 (seven months ago) link
need her in home depot right now, been sitting in aisle 6 for ten minutes
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:11 (seven months ago) link
Favourite coffee shop, right now: "Radio Free Europe." (LZ's "Rock and Roll" before that, but I hear that a lot.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 18:13 (seven months ago) link
I hear "Losing My Religion" constantly out in the world, making me dislike a song I've always disliked even more. I never hear "Radio Free Europe."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 18:15 (seven months ago) link
Sting: "Love Is The Seventh Wave" at HEB
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:58 (six months ago) link
I heard "Field of Gold" at Home Depot recently.
Sent me back to those months working at Liquor Depot in 1994. How that one, Billy Joel's "The River of Dreams" and Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" just rotated with each other, over and over and over and over again. Certain songs that when I play them back in my head, I only hear them through shitty retail P.A. speakers.
"Stuck On You" by Lionel Ritchie another one. That played all summer long at the waterslide, interrupted occasionally by "PURPLE MATS, ALL PURPLE MATS MUST BE RETURNED AT THE FRONT."
― pplains, Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:01 (six months ago) link
purple mats is a good band name at least, forgetting the trauma. altho i guess it sounds like a replacements trib act, which would be very risky to perform properly
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:08 (six months ago) link
Purple Mats: A Tribute To Prince *And* The Replacements
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:16 (six months ago) link
Updated The Playlist (after 3 1/2 years):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Qvc8uzVk4bDpMeW6p2lc6?si=WeLFdjwOTFSSK8QLAcyn2A&pi=u-DHyTVDxlRsiB
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:11 (six months ago) link
Is there a count ceiling? That’s almost 1000! Well done.Just hears Right Place Wrong Time Dr John at King Soopers. I dont know if obscure. But it was backed up by v v not obscure Horse w No Name, then v v v v v not obscure Mr Bluesky (extended mix). I think the ELO lasted 15 mins.Hmm now Joan Jett. HMfLY
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:58 (six months ago) link
stars are stars- eatb at torchysfuck i dont care if it was a single anywhere and i dont care if it’s on torchy’s spotify clone targeting my demo— this owned, i regret nothing
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:56 (six months ago) link
Oldies Dairy Queen again:
Impalas: "I'm Sorry (I Ran The Whole Way Home)"Stompers: "Quarter To Four Stomp"Buddy Holly: "Well…All Right"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:23 (six months ago) link
Never heard of that middle one; "Well...All Right" one of Holly's best.
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 March 2024 21:40 (six months ago) link