Frida: "I Know There's Something Going On" at Randall's
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 May 2024 15:56 (four months ago) link
I've heard Jude Cole's "Baby It's Tonight" twice this week, once at Publix and the second time at a Starbucks after Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere."
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 May 2024 16:21 (four months ago) link
Yesterday I heard "Perfect day" on a mexican Walmart
― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Thursday, 9 May 2024 16:25 (four months ago) link
This must be my '80s Ladies Day for running errands.
Cyndi Lauper: "The Goonies R Good Enough" at Walmart
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 May 2024 17:52 (four months ago) link
I'm in Port Huron, Michigan, right now and just passed a CVS. Not as thrilling as driving past the Stop & Shop, but close. I almost dropped in to see what obscure singles they were playing but instead sought refuge in the familiar, Tim Hortons.
― clemenza, Thursday, 9 May 2024 17:54 (four months ago) link
would've danced in the cat food aisle
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 May 2024 18:30 (four months ago) link
Halsey: "I'm Not A Woman, I'm A God" at Cafe Express
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:42 (four months ago) link
Junior - “Mama Used To Say” at the gas station. Love that song, haven’t heard it in ages. It was followed by a great song that sounded exactly like James Brown, yet I’m fairly sure wasn’t.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:21 (four months ago) link
Oh, duh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsljwYOaVIk
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:43 (four months ago) link
Crap, not that, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbpA-BuSdU
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 21:12 (four months ago) link
Los Lobos: "We Belong Together" at Liberty Taco
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 May 2024 21:47 (four months ago) link
Brenda Lee’s “Is It True?” was playing loudly in the elevator at a corporate convention-center hotel! I played air guitar along with Page’s solo as I swiftly descended, alone…(coming back up later, I heard a track I had to Shazam; it was a 1980 jam by Gladys Knight and the Pips called “Add It Up.” Some absolute king or queen put this hotel’s playlist together…)
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:38 (four months ago) link
(Fate must be smiling upon me on this final morning of my work conference, bc I heard another favorite song – Wolf Parade’s “Shine a Light” – while eating breakfast at another hotel. That place was working a “2000s indie” playlist, so it fit in.)
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:40 (four months ago) link
Two at the coffee shop, low-medium volume: "Uncle John's Band" (perfect) and "Blitzkrieg Bop" (much less so).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:31 (four months ago) link
Followed by "In God's Country," the one and only U2 song I unequivocally love.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:34 (four months ago) link
Oldies Dairy Queen was nosier and playing the muzak at a lower volume than normal. Still could make out:
Buddy Holly: "Not Fade Away"Cleveland Crochet: "Sugar Bee"
The latter was the first and one of the only Zydeco Rock hits, charting in 1960, a good 25 or so years before "My Toot-Toot."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 May 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
That particular Dairy Queen is really doing some good cultural preservation work
― Josefa, Saturday, 25 May 2024 20:19 (four months ago) link
Was packing up to leave the coffee shop, but "Surrender"...62-year-old taps fingers on keyboard, circumspectly bobs head and sways gently. He just seems a little weird.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 18:28 (four months ago) link
Heard “Divine Hammer” at Five Guys today.
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Sunday, 2 June 2024 23:43 (four months ago) link
“Too Late to Turn Back Now" by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose at my kid’s physical therapy office.
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 12:39 (four months ago) link
That soundtracked a great scene in Blackkklansman. Spike Lee is just about the only director who knows how to use pop music in movies.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 13:29 (four months ago) link
Them's fighting words (not that Spike doesn't know how, he does, but the "just about the only" part)...Swear to god, I was on here an hour ago and almost posted the Blackkklansman clip with a security-camera footage joke (i.e., from the physical therapy office--a lot of moving parts for a joke). Incredible scene.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 14:23 (four months ago) link
Ha, yes I recall, you have strong opinions about this, as do I! <3
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 18:12 (four months ago) link
The burger place w/the Traveling Wilburys Pandora station switched to All-Beatles. The lesser-known tracks I heard today:
"Here, There, And Everywhere""I Will" "For No One""Now & Then" (too soon?) "Octopus' Garden"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 June 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
“Undercover Angel” by Alan O’Day
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:07 (three months ago) link
i don't think this officially counts because of the nature of modern-day streaming services vis-a-vis all the readily available genre channels a bidness can select but i heard talking heads' pulled up at a great clips and i couldn't wait to post it. but then they played the well and the lighthouse and love is a long road and something along the lines of the greatest and then island in the sun and then i felt none of that could count because this was intentionally a "channel for people who have internalized the concept of obscure singles heard at cvs."
i did hear barry manilow's daybreak at a speedway in between all the usual stuff and i thought whoever programmed that was going full kmartcore.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 15 June 2024 08:22 (three months ago) link
“channel for people who have internalized the concept of obscure singles heard at cvs”^^ real talk imolike— the 80s shit i hear now in retail streaming feels like “lol this is something you never heard irl in the 80s except for on the boombox in my fucking car”
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Saturday, 15 June 2024 21:28 (three months ago) link
Not obscure, but I feel I need to chronicle this horny '80s pairing from tonight's stop at HEB:
Animotion: "Obsession" --> Van Halen: "Panama"
"Reach down...into the produce sectionEase the cart back..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 June 2024 03:57 (three months ago) link
MOD Pizza:
Rolling Stones: "Mother's Little Helper"New Order: "Love Vigilantes"White Stripes: "Apple Blossom"Derrick Harriott: "Answer Me My Darling" (early Ska)Madness: "Believe Me"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 21 June 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link
^ aside from WS 15 year old me on the decks there!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 21 June 2024 16:21 (three months ago) link
Men at Work’s “Be Good Johnny” for the first time in a few days, at an empty Burgerville. Song holds up!
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 21 June 2024 17:19 (three months ago) link
*first time in a few decades
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 21 June 2024 17:20 (three months ago) link
Bumper Crop at Oldies Dairy Queen
Coasters: "Down In Mexico"Chubby Checker: "Loddy Lo"Ikettes: "I'm Blue"Impressions: "Talkin' About My Baby"Dixie Belles: "(Down At) Papa Joe's"Genies: "Who's That Knocking On My Door?"Chiffons: "I Have A Boyfriend"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 22 June 2024 18:39 (three months ago) link
What a run!
― Stockton Asparagus Festival (morrisp), Saturday, 22 June 2024 21:05 (three months ago) link
Oldies Dairy Queen is better than most ‘60s DJs
Would in fact be a good DJ name
― Josefa, Saturday, 22 June 2024 22:44 (three months ago) link
“I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms,” by the Modern Lovers, at REI Co-op.
― Stockton Asparagus Festival (morrisp), Sunday, 30 June 2024 20:32 (three months ago) link
I heard all of Mr. Roboto in Safeway.
Not too obscure, I guess, but it is a pretty weird, long song that had been mostly forgotten (for good reasons).
― Millennium Falco (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 30 June 2024 22:49 (three months ago) link
Outside Safeway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D692JJPPUe4
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 30 June 2024 23:02 (three months ago) link
Fed Ex Store:
Chuck Wood: "Seven Days Too Long"Elvis Costello: "Accidents Will Happen"Al Wilson: "The Snake"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 July 2024 15:54 (three months ago) link
#onethread about the latter track
The song gained renewed attention during the campaign for the 2016 United States presidential election. Republican candidate Donald Trump read its lyrics at several campaign rallies to illustrate his position on illegal immigration, claiming that the decision to allow people claiming refugee status to enter the United States would "come back to bite us", as happened to the woman who took in the snake in the song. Oscar Brown's work has been described as "a celebration of black culture and a repudiation of racism". Two of Brown's seven children asked Trump to stop using their late father's song, telling the media: "He's perversely using 'The Snake' to demonize immigrants" and that Brown "never had anything against immigrants". Despite a cease and desist letter, Trump has continued reciting the lyrics at rallies including in June 2021, and in September and December 2023. At a rally in Ohio March 16, 2024, Trump again read "The Snake," calling it "a very accurate metaphor, and it's about our border, it's about the people we have coming in, and don't be surprised when bad things happen, because bad things will happen."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 July 2024 17:41 (three months ago) link
Rolling Stones: "Rock And A Hard Place" at Denny's
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 July 2024 16:14 (three months ago) link
“Break It Down Again,” by Tears for Fears, at an Italian restaurant in Guatemala City.
― Stockton Asparagus Festival (morrisp), Sunday, 7 July 2024 00:41 (two months ago) link
CSNY's "Carry On" at the coffee shop--likely the first time I've ever heard that in a public setting--followed by Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman." I'm wondering if the shop is just a front for a cocaine operation.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 16:43 (two months ago) link
Ariana Grande album cut “Daydreamin’,” at a Pollo Campero in Panajachel, Guatemala (…following up a tropical remix of Taylor Swift’s “Paper Rings”).
― Stockton Asparagus Festival (morrisp), Friday, 12 July 2024 00:41 (two months ago) link
Slim Chickens (last week, note on phone):
Animals: "Dimples"The Band: "Rag Mama Rag"SRV: "I'm Cryin'"Drive-by Truckers: "Surrender Under Protest"Albert King: "Searching For A Woman"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2024 00:56 (two months ago) link
UPS Store
The Smithereens: "A Girl Like You"Melissa Etheridge: "Similar Features"
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 July 2024 01:30 (two months ago) link
(last week, note on phone)
lol
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 July 2024 01:51 (two months ago) link
Can’t remember which grocery store, maybe QFC: R Dean Taylor - “Indiana Wants Me”
― JoeStork, Friday, 12 July 2024 04:35 (two months ago) link
Always liked that one, such great cheesy melodrama. Though it's now forever linked to this post:
Without the siren, you'd think that maybe Indiana wants to give him a basketball scholarship.― Heidy- Ho, Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:54 AM bookmarkflaglink
― Heidy- Ho, Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:54 AM bookmarkflaglink
― the last visible dot (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 July 2024 13:39 (two months ago) link
17 - Ladytron, at Pröst brewery
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Friday, 12 July 2024 18:48 (two months ago) link