Yesterday I heard "Perfect day" on a mexican Walmart
― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Thursday, 9 May 2024 16:25 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
would've danced in the cat food aisle
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 May 2024 18:30 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
Followed by "In God's Country," the one and only U2 song I unequivocally love.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:34 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link
That particular Dairy Queen is really doing some good cultural preservation work
― Josefa, Saturday, 25 May 2024 20:19 (three weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
Heard “Divine Hammer” at Five Guys today.
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Sunday, 2 June 2024 23:43 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link
Ha, yes I recall, you have strong opinions about this, as do I! <3
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 18:12 (two weeks 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 (one week ago) link
“Undercover Angel” by Alan O’Day
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:07 (one week 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 days 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 days ago) link