Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

Followed by "In God's Country," the one and only U2 song I unequivocally love.

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."

That particular Dairy Queen is really doing some good cultural preservation work

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.

Heard “Divine Hammer” at Five Guys today.

“Too Late to Turn Back Now" by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose at my kid’s physical therapy office.

That soundtracked a great scene in Blackkklansman. Spike Lee is just about the only director who knows how to use pop music in movies.

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.

Ha, yes I recall, you have strong opinions about this, as do I! <3

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"

“Undercover Angel” by Alan O’Day

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.

“channel for people who have internalized the concept of obscure singles heard at cvs”

^^ real talk imo

like— 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”