...and Len: "Steal My Sunshine" (which actually kept me in the store for a few minutes).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by st Etienne at save on
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
"One More Try" by Timmy T at London Drugs. This was #1 in 1991 but it feels obscure today.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 4 May 2018 04:44 (six years ago) link
John Mellencamp: "Play Guitar" at Jersey Mike's Subs
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
The Band: "The Unfaithful Servant" at Kroger.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 7 May 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
Steve Miller: "Space Cowboy" at Kroger (who've stepped up their lesser known tracks game)
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 May 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link
Not really obscure but I heard "Wishing Well" in a taqueria yesterday. That song still slays.
― let's not talk about the gincident (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
Correct
― Hunt3r, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
Sonic Youth: "100%"Sleater-Kinney: "Turn It On"Wilco: "I'm A Wheel"Sly Stone: "I Get High On You"
All at Freebirds
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 May 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
Junior Murvin Police & Thieves (but at Apple store, so I figured I’d get more select stuff- but i’ve not heard that in any public space outside of shows).
― Hunt3r, Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Rod Stewart: "Baby Jane" and Human League: "Fascination" at KFC
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 20 May 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
Christine McVie: "Got A Hold On Me" at CVS
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
Not obscure, but somewhat surprising: I heard Kacey Musgraves's "High Horse" in Safeway. Not that surprising as it's a current popular song, but it's weird that it was bookended by things like Christopher Cross and Celine Dion.
I guess the "best mix of the 70s, 80s, and today" format lives on in our nation's supermarkets.
― hangry like the wolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Johnny Burnette & The Rock-'n'-Roll Trio: "The Train Kept-A-Rollin'" at Goodwill.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 11 June 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
"Istanbul" by TMBG at Kroger.
I'm starting to get that this is like hearing "Red Rubber Ball" by Cyrkle in Otasco Drugs in 1985. You think, wow, this is kinda obscure until you realize that everyone's thinking that.
― pplains, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
i'm trying to remember where i recently heard istanbul, and i was amazed by my 14 y/o saying "huh it's tmbg that's weird i love this."
― Hunt3r, Monday, 11 June 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
"There's No Other Way" at Vons.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
I guess the "best mix of the 70s, 80s, and today" format lives on in our nation's supermarkets.I once applied for a job with one of those companies that chooses & licenses songs to create monthly music mixes for retail stores, etc. Seemed like it would be cool...
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 02:53 (five years ago) link
That is cool. Probably pays shit, though.
― incel clown posse (naus), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:15 (five years ago) link
…And to contribute to this thread, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – "What I Am" at Smart & Final this past Friday. My coworker who is two years older than me (I'm 35) and has only listened to "alternative rock" radio since the 90s did not recall the song at all.
― incel clown posse (naus), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:21 (five years ago) link
^^Have thoughts on that which I'll save for later/never share.
Van Morrison: "Alan Watts Blues" at the FedEx Store.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
My coworker who is two years older than me (I'm 35) and has only listened to "alternative rock" radio since the 90s did not recall the song at all.
To be fair, that song (and, for that matter, the band) completely dropped off the airwaves after 1989.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
Not in Texas!
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:27 (five years ago) link
The song anyway...
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:28 (five years ago) link
Interesting! I have literally never heard it on any radio station (or CVS or grocery store) since 1989, throughout the midwest and northeast. Even the "oldies" station here in upstate NY that plays Bon Jovi and "I've Had The Time Of My Life" doesn't play "What I Am."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
I heard that one in Kroger too!
― pplains, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
not a pharmacy, but I heard Teenage Fanclub in Next the other day
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
I just remembered when I moved to the U.S. I heard Camera Obscura in like every single clothes shop I went in
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
― incel clown posse (naus), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
I will...soon.
The Wonders: "That Thing You Do!" at Kroger.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
"French Navy" got a lot of play at Wendy's when it was first out.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
I just heard a Muzak version of "Surf's Up" by The Beach Boys at the Palm Springs airport.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 19 July 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
D’Lacy Hideaway in a supermarket in Miami Platja, Costa Dorada, Spain cheered me up today
― the article don, Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
"Can't Hardly Wait"The ReplacementsPleased to Meet Me, 1987Sire Records
KrogerNorth Little Rock, Ark.July 22, 2018 | 8:52 a.m. CDT
― pplains, Sunday, 22 July 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
Just heard "You're An Ocean" by Fastball, which I haven't thought about since 2000.
― No organ. (crüt), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
Just remembering this now: I was at a Church's Chicken a few weeks ago, and they had this TV running a "Church's Network" channel that runs PSAs, Movie Trailers, and life style stuff. One of the videos was snowboard highlights reel soundtracked by "Dancing To The Beat" by Clarence Murray, a non-charting Southern Soul swinger from 1969 on the SSS label.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
Rodney Crowell & Roseanne Cash: "It's Such A Small World" at Kroger.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 August 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
“Hesitating beauty “ fucking wilco
― calstars, Monday, 6 August 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
"I Was Made to Love Her," by Stevie Wonder, playing in the work cafeteria at lunch. I don't know how "obscure" it is (being a hit and all), but I rarely hear it... It was a joy to hear that James Jamerson bassline in a public setting.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Aretha's "Day Dreaming" in CVS this afternoon. I'd never heard it on the radio before, and didn't even know it had been released as a single, much less that it was a hit (#5, 1972). Was wonderful to hear, though.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
I heard James Brown’s “Living in America” at Whole Foods the other day
― joygoat, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 23:52 (five years ago) link
Not that obscure, just weird af in this context: Metallica--"Nothing Else Matters" at Wendy's.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 August 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
That’s the feeling I get when I’m in the middle of my large fries
― calstars, Monday, 27 August 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
Air’s “la femme d’argent” at a food court at Tokyo Disneyland
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 11:50 (five years ago) link
Vitamin C at Chipotle
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
"Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town,” by Talking Heads, at Chipotle
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
(a bit surprised to learn that was actually the lead single from Talking Heads 77)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
Diamonds and Pearls.
― how's life, Friday, 7 September 2018 11:03 (five years ago) link
"Bang and Blame" at Chipotle. Maybe they hired the CVS programmer.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Saturday, 8 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Ugh, that’s the worst r e m
― calstars, Saturday, 8 September 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link