Positively Fourth Street
― dell (del), Monday, 12 July 2010 01:24 (ten years ago) link
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.).
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 01:30 (ten years ago) link
"Mr. Crowley"
― litel, Monday, 12 July 2010 01:36 (ten years ago) link
what kind of place did you hear mr. crowley at?
― dell (del), Monday, 12 July 2010 02:16 (ten years ago) link
Probably Jo-Ann.
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Monday, 12 July 2010 02:24 (ten years ago) link
― litel, Monday, 12 July 2010 03:53 (ten years ago) link
heard lindstrØm+prins at american apparel once
― Whiney G. Savagegarten (LOLK), Monday, 12 July 2010 04:32 (ten years ago) link
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), Monday, 12 July 2010 04:53 (ten years ago) link
I was singing along to "Peg" in Home Depot the other day and getting a few strange looks.
― kkvgz, Monday, 12 July 2010 10:53 (ten years ago) link
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...
― dell (del), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:31 (ten years ago) link
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)
― dell (del), Monday, 19 July 2010 03:56 (ten years ago) link
― 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)
― 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.
― abstract sand patterns, representing water (corey), Monday, 19 July 2010 04:28 (ten years ago) link
today, Wild Cherry's 'Play That Funky Music'
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 19 July 2010 18:01 (ten years ago) link
supermarketBARBARA STREISAND- THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHTRICK JAMES- GIVE IT TO ME BABY
thrift storeLUTHER VANDROSS- A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME(a woman who was singing along and saying stuff like "mmm, god rest his soul!")
― dell (del), Saturday, 24 July 2010 16:35 (ten years ago) link
that Stevie B song is a new one to me
― dell (del), Saturday, 24 July 2010 16:39 (ten years ago) link
MORE MORE MORE- Andrea True Connection
― dell (del), Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:00 (ten years ago) link
Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama' - in a shopping centre in the deep south... of England
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 27 August 2010 09:21 (ten years ago) link
Heaven on the Seventh Floor- Paul Nicholas
― dude (del), Saturday, 16 October 2010 13:44 (ten years ago) link
I was pretty surprised to hear "I Know There's Something Going On" by Frida in Safeway recently.
― kkvgz, Saturday, 16 October 2010 13:49 (ten years ago) link
that's pretty cool
i think they've done studies showing that people buy more asparagus when exposed to swedish pop music
― dude (del), Saturday, 16 October 2010 14:21 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 17 October 2010 09:06 (ten years ago) link
i find that picture to be strangely alluring
― dude (del), Monday, 18 October 2010 02:20 (ten years ago) link
In a shopping mall: Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 29 October 2010 12:26 (ten years ago) link
In Sainsbury's: 'Bad Moon Rising Lyrics' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 4 November 2010 13:34 (ten years ago) link
duh and the music was playing as well, of course...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 4 November 2010 13:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― loose jorts (del), Thursday, 4 November 2010 21:08 (ten years ago) link
Phil Collins' 'Against All Odds', followed by... 'Sweet Home Alabama' again.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:50 (ten years ago) link
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
― pluperfect (del), Saturday, 27 November 2010 11:36 (ten years ago) link
Are you on 77, del? Cause that information would definitely be welcome in the Whiney/Beatles thread.
― Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Saturday, 27 November 2010 12:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― pluperfect (del), Sunday, 28 November 2010 17:31 (ten years ago) link
I would be surprised like hell to hear either of those in a McD's.
― Avatar: The Last SBanner (kkvgz), Monday, 29 November 2010 10:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i certainly thought it was odd
― pluperfect (del), Monday, 29 November 2010 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Little River Band- ReminiscingApollo 100- JoySteely 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.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 02:47 (nine years ago) link
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.
― dell (del), Sunday, 17 April 2011 15:53 (nine years ago) link
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 the real Village People, Sunday, 17 April 2011 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if this counts but I always enjoy hearing "My Ever Changing Moods" when it plays occasionally at work.
― corey, Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― corey, Sunday, 17 April 2011 19:12 (nine years ago) link
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!
― dell (del), Monday, 18 April 2011 01:38 (nine years ago) link
no. i lied. i think it was "you're the best thing".
― dell (del), Monday, 18 April 2011 01:40 (nine years ago) link
The Lightning Seeds: some unidentified song - they all sound pretty much the same anyway.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Thursday, 12 May 2011 06:53 (nine years ago) link
the beach boys- do it again
― dell (del), Friday, 10 June 2011 04:52 (nine years ago) link
heard at army surplus store: little honda- the beach boys
― dell (del), Saturday, 11 June 2011 13:32 (nine years ago) link
strawberry letter #23- the brothers johnson
not shopping atm but can hear the not-so-distant strains of someone performing "paparazzi" on a kazoo
― dell (del), Sunday, 12 June 2011 23:58 (nine years ago) link
he won't stop until you love him.
― corey, Monday, 13 June 2011 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac, 'Dreams'
― You get nothing for a pair, not in this game (snoball), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 15:54 (nine years ago) link
this, in a thrift shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUgxRnmuypQ
― corey, Friday, 15 July 2011 23:48 (nine years ago) link
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?'
― Servants of the SBankh (snoball), Saturday, 16 July 2011 08:15 (nine years ago) link
heard The Sundays in Walgreens... I think it was "Goodbye"?
― corey, Saturday, 23 July 2011 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Two competing stores blasting ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' and Cameo's 'Word Up'.
― I only listen to Vantablack Metal (snoball), Saturday, 26 July 2014 06:47 (six years ago) link
We ever - Photograph
― how's life, Saturday, 26 July 2014 12:33 (six years ago) link
Weezer
Gary Numan's "Cars" in my local Morrison's... sounded well weird.
― We cry crows craws (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 August 2014 12:54 (six years ago) link
The Gap Band, 'You Dropped A Bomb On Me'Ben E King, 'Stand By Me'
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 20:51 (six years ago) link
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!"?)
― wackness unlimited (snoball), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:25 (six years ago) link
Con Funk Shun "Ffun" first thing in the morning at Trader Joes on Sunday.
― how's life, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:33 (six years ago) link
'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.
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 21:10 (six years ago) link
USSR by Eddy Huntington at a supermarket in Yerevan.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:52 (six years ago) link
Missy Elliott, 'Get Ur Freak On'.
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Wednesday, 24 December 2014 11:11 (six years ago) link
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
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 29 December 2014 21:57 (six years ago) link
Robin S, 'Show Me Love'
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:41 (five years ago) link
Sylvester, 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'
― passive-aggressive rageaholic (snoball), Monday, 29 June 2015 20:53 (five years ago) link
songs heard while waiting on hold to transfer a call to another company's internal help desk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heW3TziyFLI
― Y Kant Max Read (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 28 August 2015 16:19 (five years ago) link
Lipps Inc, 'Funky Town'
― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Friday, 9 October 2015 21:29 (five years ago) link
Chaka Khan, 'I Feel For You'
― "Tell them I'm in a meeting purlease" (snoball), Saturday, 24 October 2015 14:14 (five years ago) link
more than a feelingMagic man
― brimstead, Saturday, 24 October 2015 19:49 (five years ago) link
Andrea True Connection, 'More More More'
― Eins zwei PoliSci (snoball), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― Eins zwei PoliSci (snoball), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:58 (five years ago) link
I went to a v fancy restaurant last night and they played "Fools Gold" by Stone Roses
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:37 (five years ago) link
The nordstrom at the freehold raceway mall plays a lot of stereolab. I've noticed it a few times
― Treeship, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:42 (five years ago) link
― Eins zwei PoliSci (snoball), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 19:50 (five years ago) link
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).
― darling you were wonderful you really were quite good (snoball), Saturday, 19 November 2016 11:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― let it go let it go let it go (snoball), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:09 (four years ago) link
Duran Duran's 'Rio' while in the Co-Op.
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Thursday, 23 February 2017 18:46 (three years ago) link
Alesha Dixon's 'The Boy Does Nothing', again while in the Co-Op.
― 2017, how bad could it be? (snoball), Sunday, 26 February 2017 21:09 (three years ago) link
Co-Op strikes gold again: Suzi Quatro's 'Can The Can'.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 18:10 (three years ago) link
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).
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Friday, 21 July 2017 11:18 (three years ago) link
ABBA - 'Mamma Mia'http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D1SQyMuyk6E/SqW_w-6ZRqI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qOlLHpdV8wA/s400/Agnetha_supermercado2.jpg
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 5 August 2017 13:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 16 December 2017 13:58 (three years ago) link
Kate Bush, 'Cloudbusting'.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Sunday, 25 March 2018 10:27 (two years ago) link
Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill'.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 23 September 2018 09:52 (two years ago) link
Felt particularly appropriate as I'd just walked nearly two miles in a torrential downpour.
― Visibly Over 25 (snoball), Sunday, 23 September 2018 09:55 (two years ago) link
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.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 November 2018 22:24 (two years ago) link
"Family Affair" in Morrisons. Sweet.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Monday, 1 April 2019 17:29 (one year ago) link
Wizkid’s “Master Groove” blasting out of a shop in the Xiaobei area of Guangzhou. Good times!
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:21 (one year ago) link
Morrisons again. "Respect Yourself" by the Staples Singers. They play some good music in that shop.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2019 09:24 (one year ago) link
... and today, The Who, "Magic Bus".
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Friday, 19 April 2019 16:47 (one year ago) link
Local shopping centre, ironically, Jessie J's 'Price Tag'.
― just another country (snoball), Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:05 (one year ago) link
Forgot to mention "One Nation Under a Groove" in Morrisons (again).
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:49 (one year ago) link
Delighted to hear Gang of Four in a genteel, single-origin-bags-for-decor, popup cafe.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 28 September 2019 22:05 (one year ago) link
How high are the ceilings in the supermarket?Do they play music in there?
These are questions I should know the answers to, but genuinely can't answer
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:59 (one year ago) link
Fools Gold by the Stone Roses in American Eagle. I had no idea they were at all known in the US.
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 11 October 2019 23:21 (one year ago) link
"Teenage Kicks" in Morrisons.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:57 (one year ago) link
7:30am in the Tesco's I often drop in to on my way to work: Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire'. I reached the self service checkout area just in time to hear William bellowing "BRITISH POLITICIAN SEX!" through the cranked in-store PA system. Just the thing to get people awake on a Monday."JFK! BLOWN AWAY! WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY!!!"
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:40 (eleven months ago) link
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 27 August 2010 10:21 (nine years ago)
Yep, they're still playing that song.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 29 February 2020 20:11 (ten months ago) link
― AlanSmithee, Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:21 (five months ago)
'Fools Gold' then straight into Mark Morrison's 'Return Of The Mack'.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 15 March 2020 20:14 (ten months ago) link
'Word Up' - Cameo
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 1 November 2020 10:02 (two months ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljl17sqgyX1qzujsgo1_400.gif
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Sunday, 1 November 2020 10:03 (two months ago) link