Songs heard while shoppin'

Positively Fourth Street

There's a produce store here called Stanley's that plays almost nothing but 80s new wave/post punk stuff (Squeeze, Police, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc.).

"Mr. Crowley"

what kind of place did you hear mr. crowley at?

Probably Jo-Ann.

what kind of place did you hear mr. crowley at?

heard lindstrØm+prins at american apparel once

everytime I go to Stop'n'Shop it's either 'Josie' or 'Peg'

I was singing along to "Peg" in Home Depot the other day and getting a few strange looks.

Probably Jo-Ann.

oh, I was thinking Linens 'n' Things.

I had to restrain myself from emphatically pointing my finger at customers innocently pushing their carts down the frozen foods aisle while I was lip syncing to Positively...

Local shopping centre plays a long list of songs on a loop, but it always seems to be Springsteen's 'Dancing In The Dark' that's playing, especially when I'm in the men's room and looking in the mirror when the song gets to the line "check my look in the mirror". Happened twice this fortnight so far.

I heard a live version of "Hello Cowgirl in the Sand" yesterday when I was shopping in an Italian gourmet food store, and I thought: this is really a depressing song, and no wonder I don't listen to Neil Young more, as good as he is. And I thought they really shouldn't be playing that song. I was tired and my allergies were bothering me, which was making me extremely emotionally hyper-sensitive. Let's all think about loss and disappointment and raw pain while we are trying to find something nice to carry home and eat.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 July 2007 01:00 (3 years ago)

everytime I go to Stop'n'Shop it's either 'Josie' or 'Peg'

― No one is too good for this album; it is better than all of us. (herb albert), Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:53 PM (1 week ago)

I was singing along to "Peg" in Home Depot the other day and getting a few strange looks.

― kkvgz, Monday, July 12, 2010 5:53 AM (6 days ago)

Heard "Peg" in TeaGschwendner the other day.

Heard Stevie B's "In My Eyes" in a thrift shop yesterday.

today, Wild Cherry's 'Play That Funky Music'

supermarket
BARBARA STREISAND- THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT
RICK JAMES- GIVE IT TO ME BABY

thrift store
LUTHER VANDROSS- A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
(a woman who was singing along and saying stuff like "mmm, god rest his soul!")

that Stevie B song is a new one to me

MORE MORE MORE- Andrea True Connection

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama' - in a shopping centre in the deep south... of England

Heaven on the Seventh Floor- Paul Nicholas

I was pretty surprised to hear "I Know There's Something Going On" by Frida in Safeway recently.

that's pretty cool

i think they've done studies showing that people buy more asparagus when exposed to swedish pop music

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/532194935_3969dbbd70.jpg
(there's an uncropped version of this picture with a sign in Swedish that Babelfish's as 'Green Objects', which I suppose includes asparagus)

i find that picture to be strangely alluring

In a shopping mall: Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'

In Sainsbury's: 'Bad Moon Rising Lyrics' by Creedence Clearwater Revival

duh and the music was playing as well, of course...

I mean, it wasn't some loony on the PA system reading out the words.

good, b/c there is a thread elsewhere for those occurences

Phil Collins' 'Against All Odds', followed by... 'Sweet Home Alabama' again.

not shoppin, technically, but rocky raccoon in mcdonald's canal st. and dude is fuckng rocking out to it, man. if there were an upright piano in the restaurant, he would be dancing on top of it, i'm fairly certain

Are you on 77, del? Cause that information would definitely be welcome in the Whiney/Beatles thread.

no, i guess i need to put in a request for access over there... that was a great moment, though . i'm kinda glad i documented it here. years ago i heard alone again or by love in a mcdonald's but that got a much more subdued response

I would be surprised like hell to hear either of those in a McD's.

yeah, i certainly thought it was odd

Little River Band- Reminiscing
Apollo 100- Joy
Steely Dan- Do It Again

I never cared much for that Steely Dan tune, but man did it ever sound good this evening when I was strutting through the coffee/tea/cereal aisle. And yes, you better believe I was strutting, basket in hand. NO SHOPPING CART FOR THIS WILD-LIVING BACHELOR!!! dAMN STRAIGHt woo-hoooooooooo

Also, pasta was on sale 3 for a dollar.

I Love You Always Forever- Donna Lewis

This woman was walking down the sidewalk this morning talking on her cellphone and I heard her say "Oh really? Well, that's my number one hangover cure-- I have a fatty..." and then poof! She was out of earshot right after that word...so I was left wondering if she meant she chose to smoke a "fatty" to cure her hangovers or if she ate a fatty breakfast. I guess she was probably just advising her friend to eat scrapple.

I've heard Camera Obscura pretty much every other shopping trip in the past 18 months in the Bay Area. Doesn't matter what shop, I will hear them somewhere.

Not sure if this counts but I always enjoy hearing "My Ever Changing Moods" when it plays occasionally at work.

I like less hearing 10 Jason Mraz songs a day. His music is like that annoying kid you went to high school with who was in all the AP classes and wore sandals with pre-stressed jeans every day of the year.

Not sure if this counts but I always enjoy hearing "My Ever Changing Moods" when it plays occasionally at work.

oh man, i want to work at a place like that

i remember my friend texted me once a few years ago to tell me that she was in macy's and that song was playing!

no. i lied. i think it was "you're the best thing".

The Lightning Seeds: some unidentified song - they all sound pretty much the same anyway.

the beach boys- do it again

heard at army surplus store: little honda- the beach boys

strawberry letter #23- the brothers johnson

not shopping atm but can hear the not-so-distant strains of someone performing "paparazzi" on a kazoo

he won't stop until you love him.

Fleetwood Mac, 'Dreams'

this, in a thrift shop

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

Somebody needs to record a special album for thrift stores and charity shops:

'Yes Of Course I Can Give You Change For A £20 Note'
'Thanks For This Kind Donation Of Betamax Tapes'
'No We Do Not Accept Clothes Covered In Dubious Stains'
'Haggling On A £2 Item Is Perfectly Acceptable In A Charity Shop'
'Just Buy Something Will Ya?'

heard The Sundays in Walgreens... I think it was "Goodbye"?

Hot Chocolate, 'So You Win Again'

'Mack The Knife', Michael Buble, in a charity shop.
'Psycho Killer', Talking Heads, in a slightly hipper charity shop.

'Wonderful Christmastime', Paul McCartney

I HATE THAT SONG SO MUCH

According to Wikipedia Macca earns $400,000 a year from it. I don't hate the song exactly, but it's such a nothing song, who would have thought he'd coin so much from it?

Anyway, continuing with the Christmas theme in my local circle of Hell shopping centre: 'Step Into Christmas' by Elton John. Which somehow I find more tolerable than 'Wonderful Christmastime', but still, it's not a track I'd choose to listen to.

"I Was Born On Christmas Day" by Saint Etienne while I was shopping for pillows and an 8" square cake pan. This made me irrationally giddy and eager as it is my 2nd favorite Christmas song, and my best friend and I danced in a really sad and decrepit part of the Seasonal section together.

• 'Night Fever', The Bee Gees
• unidentifiable song coming out of some muffled speakers
• some late period Rod Stewart song where it sounds like he's half asleep and has stopped giving a shit

James Brown Christmas songs in Primark

'Santa Baby' sung by Eartha Kitt in a local charity shop.

Bananarama - venus (i hear this one all the time and it's basically become my grocery shopping anthem)
Spice Girls - Wannabe (had not heard this in years! Great produce shopping music. Hearing it was a huge breath of fresh air after suffering through a block of sad sack achey james blunt ed mccain crap)

The Corrs - "Breathless"
Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"

Two competing stores blasting ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' and Cameo's 'Word Up'.

We ever - Photograph

Weezer

Gary Numan's "Cars" in my local Morrison's... sounded well weird.

The Gap Band, 'You Dropped A Bomb On Me'
Ben E King, 'Stand By Me'

Not exactly shoppin', but every weekday on my way home I take a shortcut through a shopping centre to the bus staton.

Rose Royce, 'Car Wash' (which was so distorted by the PA system that the title sounded like "bogwash")
The Beatles, 'Help!' ("Kelp!"?)

Con Funk Shun "Ffun" first thing in the morning at Trader Joes on Sunday.

'Wonderful Christmastime', Paul McCartney

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Wednesday, December 4, 2013

^^^ again today while walking through the shopping centre on my way to stand in a queue for an overcrowded bus. First thing I thought about was this thread.

USSR by Eddy Huntington at a supermarket in Yerevan.

Missy Elliott, 'Get Ur Freak On'.

They were playing George Duke's flawless I Love You More in TK Maxx at Charing Cross Road this morning. Seems very strange the song has less than 250k plays on YouTube in three years: http://youtu.be/IEibygqqLZc

Robin S, 'Show Me Love'

Sylvester, 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'

songs heard while waiting on hold to transfer a call to another company's internal help desk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heW3TziyFLI

Lipps Inc, 'Funky Town'

Chaka Khan, 'I Feel For You'

more than a feeling
Magic man

Andrea True Connection, 'More More More'

Also a weird experience where a busker outside a shopping centre was playing a Bob Marley song, then I walked into the shopping centre and another Bob Marley song was playing over the PA system.

I went to a v fancy restaurant last night and they played "Fools Gold" by Stone Roses

The nordstrom at the freehold raceway mall plays a lot of stereolab. I've noticed it a few times

Also i heard william onyeabor's fantastic man twice in a 24 hour period. Once at luskus, the tasting menu restaurant in the back of torst, and once (the next morning) at a secondhand store in bushwick.

• 'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakin' Stevens, in Gregg's, while purchasing a pink cylinder tasting vaguely of spices wrapped in a cardboard tube. Very fitting.
• 'Top Of The World' performed by a violinist busker on the high street, who was Portsmouth Sinfonia level bad.
• 'Mull Of Kintyre', Wings.

Not heard while shopping, but the someone on the local radio station clearly has a sense of gallows humour because the day after Trump won they played D:Ream's 'Things Can Only Get Better' (Labour used it as their campaign song in the 1997 UK General Election).

I was walking down the street thinking about 'Finally' by Ce Ce Peniston, when I walked into a supermarket to hear it playing over the in-store radio.

Duran Duran's 'Rio' while in the Co-Op.

Alesha Dixon's 'The Boy Does Nothing', again while in the Co-Op.

Co-Op strikes gold again: Suzi Quatro's 'Can The Can'.

Buggles' 'Video Killed The Radio Star' and Aretha Franklin's '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' (which reminded me to buy some milk).

ABBA - 'Mamma Mia'
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D1SQyMuyk6E/SqW_w-6ZRqI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qOlLHpdV8wA/s400/Agnetha_supermercado2.jpg

Wings, 'Mull of Kintyre'. It was the UK Christmas #1 in 1977, but I've never heard it played in a shopping centre at all, particularly not as a Christmas song.

Kate Bush, 'Cloudbusting'.

Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill'.

Felt particularly appropriate as I'd just walked nearly two miles in a torrential downpour.

I've just remembered, when I was in Lisbon, I went for a meal and the kinda hippyish waiter played all sorts of good music but I especially remember he played "Maggot Brain", which was cool.

"Family Affair" in Morrisons. Sweet.

Wizkid’s “Master Groove” blasting out of a shop in the Xiaobei area of Guangzhou. Good times!

Morrisons again. "Respect Yourself" by the Staples Singers. They play some good music in that shop.

... and today, The Who, "Magic Bus".