Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

It's not obscure but I was euphoric when I heard Amy Grant's "I Will Remember You" yesterday.

was picking up prescription for antidepressant at walgreens and they were playing "i wanna be sedated." no lie.

heard velvet underground - oh! sweet nuthin' at walgreens last week

Sugar Ray's "Chasin You Around" at Met Foods. The second single off In Pursuit Of Leisure, the album after the last one anyone cared about

not obscure but heard like a 10-minute Tool deep cut in a 24 hour kroger once. it was weird because there was usually just soft rock & r&b playing there

a couple visits to shop rite ago i heard the 12-inch edit of "she's always in my hair"

I'm just gonna use this thread for obscure songs heard in any retail setting:

Roxy Music - 2HB in Noodles and Company yesterday.

The other week in Morrisons they were playing 'If I Could Talk I'd Tell You' by the Lemonheads (a #39 smash in 1996).

Heard the Kinks' "Juke Box Music" in a grocery store a couple of years ago. Barely a hit in the US in 1977, never played on "classic rock" radio.

lol i heard donna lewis's flop second single "without love" in a cvs once

Heard "For What It's Worth" by The Cardigans in the grocery store the other day.

not that obscure really but heard dennis deyoung's "desert moon" followed by madonna's "this used to be my playground" on KRGR kroger radio last night, the algorithm was feeling some super intense nostalgia apparently

Thought this was a revival of this thread: albert hammond, "it never rains in southern california"

Not obscure, but I really enjoyed hearing Scritti Politti at CVS yesterday.

I heard the song 'On the Beach' by Neil Young at the grocery store once.

Heard "Couple Days Off" by Huey Lewis & The News last night at Whataburger.

Heard "Emerge" Fischerspooner at a Florida water-park

https://soundcloud.com/hennessyyoungman/cvsbangers

haha thank you, a classic

Jack In The Box is good for these. Today it was "Wild Wild Life" by Talking Heads, and last time a couple weeks ago I heard "Canary In A Coalmine" by The Police.

It's not obscure but I was euphoric when I heard Amy Grant's "I Will Remember You" yesterday.

alfred i'd start straight up bawling

I heard that really sterile, generic, terrible ballad by "Sergio Mendes" from the 80s...."Never Gonna Let You Go"...in a Zaxby's.

whenever i'm in cvs i hear "shattered dreams"

I heard Jack Wagner's "All I Need" and Richard Marx's "Hazard" once in an Albertsons during a 4 hour shift. I remain convinced that they had not changed their Muzak since my childhood.

and whenever I hit the "from this empty heart" falsetto several mothers in the cold medicine section scowl

hahaha. I can't help not singing along to that tune either. that or "All I Need is a Miracle".

haha otm

Shopping for pencils and invisible tape at CVS this morning I heard "Soul Drifter" by Lindsey Buckingham!

^^^^ I've heard it at CVS too

Manu Dibango - "Soul Makossa," in H.E.B. yesterday (though for some reason, in that store, the only place you can usually hear the music without straining your ears is in the restroom)

trouble - lindsey buckingham

also hear a LOT of Rumours in CVS

i hear a lot of saint etienne in supermarkets and drugstores

My fave supermarket plays nothing but 60's soul.

I think I answered this elsewhere, but our CVS had "The Sign of Fire" by the Fixx...I flipped!! It started this whole Fixx thing with me for a while.

This morning at CVS I heard REM's "At My Most Beautiful."

somehow, even though it tanked, that's the single from up i hear most often by far. only in grocery stores and drugstores obv.

Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word at Walgreens

Followed by this random pop punk/emotronic ish:

http://thepasstheband.bandcamp.com/track/cross-walk-stereo

Which, just like, I mean, I expected anything else as a follow-up.

Sunday afternoon: Ric Ocasek's "Something to Grab For."

Semisonic: All About Chemistry

― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:56 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just heard this at Taco Bell.

At Publix this a.m:

Jesse Johnson ft. Sly Stone - Crazay

Book of Love - "Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)" @ Which Wich

I had my purchases in hand but continued to wander the aisles because Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two" was playing and there was nobody in line ahead of me.

I caught Steppin' Out in CVS last week!

I heard that Joe Jackson song in a CVS too ("Breaking Us In Two"), and wondered if Badfinger ever sued/threatened to sue/got joint writing credit.

I had my purchases in hand but continued to wander the aisles because Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two" was playing and there was nobody in line ahead of me.

― naus,

done on purpose by CVS corporate

All I hear at the drugstore now is the opening riff of ''Down on the Corner,'' played ad infinitum as the theme to the Walgreen's in-house ad.

Sam Phillips- "Baby I Can't Please You" at Wendy's (seems like this song is an evergreen on restaurant/drug store/supermarket muzak)

REM - "All The Way To Reno"

― da croupier, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And this was played earlier.

...and now I'm hosting a pub quiz at a BBQ joint, and as I come in they're playing "Parklife"!

*What is going on today?*

Psychedelic Tyme @ Goodwill

Amboy Dukes: "Journey To The Center of The Mind"
Electric Prunes: "Get Me To The World On Time"
Donovan: "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
Zombies: "I Want You Back Again"

And also:

Junior Walker & The All-Stars: "(I'm A) Road Runner"

the good thing- talking heads
at torchys again and it’s v clear i should never list things from this non-cvs again, they have a gen-x streaming svc channel. but it is soooo good lol.

so this is my final torchys listing :-/

Streaming channels are perfectly fine. More places use them than one would think.

Buncha OMD at Dairy Queen. Standouts were "Secret" and "Maid of Orleans" (demo).

I'm glad someone out there's playing the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

(Plagiarizing a joke I helped originate 31 years ago.)

Target:

Bobby Womack: "It's Party Time"

Ace Hardware- 18 Alice Cooper

i need guidance to rate its obscurity, maybe i’m being distracted by how odd it seemed to me.

'90s Alt Rock Pandora or something at a Double Dave's yesterday.

Sponge: "Plowed"
Alice In Chains: "It Ain't Like That"

oh man, cock-rock era AiC. love that tune.

and have always loved that Sponge song, plus the album it came from.

The Cure - Mint Car

whoa

At a KFC no less

I went to one of my favorite Chinese noodle restaurants recently, and as I was walking in they had Rush - Subdivisions playing. Pretty much all I can ask for from a dining experience.

My local artisan grilled cheese place played that on Monday.

Same feeling of bliss

oh damn, Subdivisions Spring is here!

Sara Bareilles: "King of Anything" & The Animals: "Don't Bring Me Down" at Northern Tool

Oldies Dairy Queen again again:

Marvelettes: "Playboy"
John Fred: "Shirley"
Mary Wells: "Bye Bye Baby"
Hank Ballard: "Let's Go Again (Where We Went Last Night)"

Not too “obscure”—but Folk Implosion’s “Natural One” was playing in DIY Home Center; can’t remember the last time I heard it in the wild. (It was followed by Blondie’s “Call Me,” to give you an idea of how it was punching above its weight on their playlist.)

They were playing Julee Cruise in Hobbycraft once a few years ago. Also the Starbucks at my uni once randomly inserted death metal in a playlist that was mostly soft pop and r&b which still perplexes me

Blind Melon: "Change" at Raising Cane's (also the previously mentioned itt "You Only Live Once" by the Strokes)

Just heard this weird Wallflowers song called "Reboot The Mission" (featuring Mick Jones of The Clash) from 2012 at Target -- sounded like they were trying to get some of those sweet Maroon 5 bucks.

One more (by proxy): my friend just reported on FB hearing "Rain In The Summertime" by The Alarm at Kroger.

Frida: "I Know There's Something Going On" at Randall's

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."

Yesterday I heard "Perfect day" on a mexican Walmart

This must be my '80s Ladies Day for running errands.

Cyndi Lauper: "The Goonies R Good Enough" at Walmart

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.

Cyndi Lauper: "The Goonies R Good Enough" at Walmart

would've danced in the cat food aisle