Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

Heard that one on the radio yesterday.

My local oldies station has redefined oldies to skew more late 70s/80s. Much more likely to hear The Eagles and Phil Collins than early 70s Grass Roots/Guess Who/3 Dog Night-type stuff.

Talk about obscure! A version of "Don't Pull Your Love" was one of the final Sam & Dave singles on Atlantic (#36 R&B, #102 Pop in late '71).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpDmOzrLbk

I had that on some Edsel or Demon or Ace collection, but yeah never heard it over a public PA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwOwl1KfSU

I remember my mom singing it as "Don't throw your love out on the table," but whether this was her mishearing, her mocking one of ours, or just her making fun of the song I cannot say.

Wilco: "Born Alone" at WalMart

Lenka: "The Show" at El Pollo Loco

I've heard this at a few places in the last year or so. Thought it was a bigger hit (only got to #25 on the "Billboard Adult Pop Songs Chart"--whatever that is)

Humble Pie: "I Don't Need No Doctor" at Burger King

"The Wire" by Haim at Vons.

such a great change of pace. loved this album and have yet to even play the new one.

"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms at Vons

adore that one, changes my whole day any time i hear it

Just heard "4th of July" by X at Whole Foods, made my day.

Aimee Mann: "Save Me" at Buc-ee's (fancy truckstop)

At CVS right now: Collective Soul, "Run." I remember it having a nice but short run on alt radio, and being momentarily appreciated by a friend of mine who was a runner, but otherwise not sure I've heard it since idk early 2000.

Funky Green Dogs 'Fired Up' in KMart.

KC and the Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go" at Trader Joe's

I know it was a #1 but I don't think I had heard Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" in decades before I heard it at CVS last week.

Wait, really??! I hear it all the time.

If you'd said "Leave a Light On," I'd believe it.

Totally possible that it's actually on all the time and I only paid attention when the music was really loud in CVS the other day.

Actually, I just started watching a Black Mirror episode and it opened with "Heaven" so.

"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion (featuring Joey Levine) at Vons

Filter: "Take A Picture" at CVS.

that one's such an oddball, it was REALLY big but for a very short time and then dropped off the face of the earth.

I think people genuinely don't remember who did it. And even if you know some stuff, connecting it as the "Hey Man Nice Shot" guys isn't easy.

I liked how Alternative Press described it as '"Solsbury Hill" failing to get its 90 Day chip from A.A.' in the original review.

it has persisted on ac radio

hey dad what do you think about your son now

i found that song so confusing as a kid, if only i had wikipedia at the time

Filter's frontman, and founding member Richard Patrick has said that the song is about him getting drunk on an airplane and taking off all of his clothes.[1]

Well that's... unexpected. Not sure if I could have handled that information in 1999. I think I'e posted about this on ilx before but i had just had my first kiss, with someone met on a summer vacation far away. The idea of traveling on airplanes and feeling like a newborn and needing a picture of someone in order to remember them.... it was all charged with ~~big feelings~~.

You know what would really stun me to hear in any circumstance, though, would be that album's previous, "remind them we rock, before rolling out the hit" single, "Welcome to the Fold." True to form, it'd already died on alt-rock radio by the time "Take a Picture" went crossover, and it's a dreadfully unfashionable form of industrial-tinged grunge-metal that has no plausible constituency today. Even "Lakini's Juice" has more of a cultural footprint among people like me who were teenagers at the right time.

can everyone aGREE that no one should be left alone

By no means obscure, but I've heard Livin' La Vida Loca twice at the supermarket in the past few months and each time I was like 'whoa, what ska song is this?' right up until he gets to the 'make you take your clothes off' lyric. Then I'm like 'shit, you got me again Ricky Martin.'

I'm more likely to hear "She's All I Ever Had" at CVS.

"Shake Your Bon Bon" or nothing!

Madness: "It Must Be Love" at Randall's

LTD - "Back In Love Again." Love that song.

A cover version of Roxy Music "More Than This"

i heard hang a picture by thee oh sees at a sheetz the other day

Carly Rae Jepsen 'Warm Blood' in Panda Express 3 or 4 days ago. Took me a minute to process what was happening.

Nice!

"Boris the Spider" in the supermarket a couple of weeks ago. Granted, it was on Halloween, but I was still very surprised to hear that rumbling out of the overhead speakers.

Four Tops: "I'll Turn To Stone" at HEB

No idea what's going on with the station played at work, as in between super schmaltzy Mariah Carey and Celine Dion christmas power ballads, somehow Throwing Muses' 'Santa Claus' and Aztec Camera's 'Walk Out to Winter' made it into the playlist. I've heard those two at least once a day for the past two weeks.

I hear Black Box's Everybody Everybody at the dumpy Smith's near me fairly frequently. Yeah, just leave your shopping carts wherever you want.

Beach Boys: "Do It Again" at FedEx Office

Gin Blossoms: "Until I Fall Away" at Fuddrucker's

Do you work there?

No. They just have a burger combo special during the week that beats pretty much every fast food chain rn.

I don't have one near me, but I just happened to notice you go there a lot. I tend to get a good vibe from my local supermarket, which is 90% a Mexican grocery, but halfheartedly tries to accommodate the rest of the locals. The main result of that is that their PA plays deeper 60s R&B and pop cuts.

(One for Alf's "Worst Singles" project) The Wallflowers: "Heroes" at Fuzzy's Taco Shop