What music does your local supermarket play?

(You'll be happy to know, though, that I heard "Give Me The Reason" at CVS Pharmacy two weeks ago)

True story: in Autumn of `93 I was in the Food Giant in Seattle, WA and they were playing Pearl Jam's "Porch". At that very milisecond, Grunge died.

I apologise if those words were offensive to your person as I fear they may be to a lady as yourself.

They play a lot of Steely Dan at my Cala. Its always depressing to learn the "truth" that SD is elevator music etc. Once I heard Man Eater too, which was cool.

Living in Florida, it always struck me that the Publix near me would play a muzak version of the Lightning Seeds' "Pure" ... not sure it was a song needing lightening ...

I swear they played a Muzak instrumental of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" here a few years ago, but maybe I had an acid flashback.

The best song I ever heard over the soundsystem there was either Duran Duran's "Save A Prayer" or XTC's "King for a Day."

Also, lots of McCartney/Wings.

I heard "Whip It" at the supermarket today!

Wham! Club Tropicana, back in Durty juRZ.

I DID whippits in the supermarket today.

Was that part of a torts assignment?

U2

I once heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

At an IGA in central Florida.

"Hungry Heart" by The Boss, which almost made me laugh out loud when I realized what it was. Some "Cure" recently. "Heaven is a Place On Earth" too.

I live in Atlanta. If you go to the Ansley Mall part of town all the stores are playing classic disco and cheesy modern dance music. The stores in East Atlanta play Grown Folks Radio, which plays the most badass grocery-store music I have ever heard. Classic funk and r&b.

Richard Butler was a bit jarring after Stevie Wonder.

Today I heard ”California Stars” by Wilco and ”Wild Wild Life” by Talking Heads

1,2,3,4 by Feist

I keep hearing Erasure at Shaw's. It's awesome.

Store I go to now keeps playing this song about how great "American Pie" is. Horrid.

Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"
+ some song baout "shining like a diamond"?? idk

now I'm home listening to cat power like Shit, why didn't I get some beer??

Was just in a little claustrophobically hip co-op and when I heard the music playing I thought: what is it with all this music from recent years that sounds just like 1981? But then it turned out to be Joy Division, on further listening.

"Transmission," live.

i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex in a walgreen's recently that was kinda weird

I'm compiling songs and notes for mix CDs to be played in a retail hell (Dollar General, where my daughter works). I'm shooting for stuff that sounds bubbly and poppy, but subtly confounds retail-environment expectations. The objective is to create the subconscious effect "I want to simultaneously spend all my money here and riot in the streets." Any suggestions?

Background: I had made her a chronological Beatles comp several years ago, which she took to work when she started at DG last year. She reported back that other employees would see the name "Beatles" on the disc, think "yay, pop!" and play it, and be freaking out a bit by the end because it had "Helter Skelter" and "She's So Heavy" on it.

just make it all stevie wonder

when you open any of the dairy cases at my local co-op, you hear death metal

Posted it on the Eagles thread, but Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.

Huh! That's the sort of thing I'm thinking of. Playlists of generally upbeat pop/rock (though never quite the song you'd associate with that artist) with the occasional labor/organizing song or drug song like "Minnie the Moocher."

today at the co-op i heard "happy". Its always played in there when I go in. Its always played in the shopping mall in the town centre too.

I just heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in the Smith's near me, which has pretty low-income and heavily Hispanic demographic (with a good sprinkling of Native Americans and African Americans). I regularly see guys with face tattoos in this store.

my supermarket plays nothing but bonnie raitt's 'have a heart' over and over

That's Bonnie Raitt?

Well I'll be damned. Always thought that was some 90s songstress like Shawn Colvin or Natalie Martika.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnYz0yW0OCA

mostly 80s hits

mine doesn't play any but if it did it would be garbage

Surprisingly varied! I heard the National and Boz Scaggs and Frankie Beverly last week.

"see no evil" by television heard at fred meyers today.

I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)

My new supermarket seems to always be playing "Bizarre Love Triangle." Maybe they just throw it on when I walk in?

I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)

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I heard it at least twice in public areas in the runup to Christmas. It doesn't really shock anyone here in the UK as everyone's heard it.

My local Sainsburys doesn't play music. Perhaps I should be thankful.

of my two local supermarkets - which belong to the inauspiciously named chains "Buy-Low" and "No-Frills" - one plays a pop mix ranging from the almost contemporary back to the 70s but at a very low and unobtrusive volume so it's hard for me to remember any tracks they play, though "hurt so good" by john cougar mellencamp was definitely playing the other day. the other plays a louder and exclusively 80s mix - yesterday: phil collins' "two hearts", baltimora "tarzan boy", and Madonna "borderline" - which I really enjoy.

wow you guys have cool supermarkets. mine seems to actively hate it's patrons and seems to play music design to make people gtfo.

here's the last track I heard just an hour ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZIpac803M

https://youtu.be/DEZIpac803M

Enjoyed hearing Al Stewart "Year of the Cat" at CVS the other day.

Well where else would you have heard it?

It's certainly no Walgreens track

Had to make a quick stop at a WalMart Neighborhood Market last night, and was greeted by the jammy solo section of "Working Man" by Rush as I walked in. This was made more bizarre by the fact the other two songs I could I.D. afterward were Sam Smith and No Doubt.

i get my hair cut at great clips and in indianapolis that meant they played the pop radio station - pretty much the last place where i would actually hear chart pop. now that i'm in portland the great clips plays "because the night" and beck's "loser".

toni basil - mickey

heart - crazy on you

Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.

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And nearly four years later, I heard it again in the soup aisle!

I mean, I hear the melody to that one or "Downtown Train" and automatically assume it's the more well-known cover.

The supermarkets usually don't play music around here. But I once visited one that played Imagination - Lights and music. This was obviously a great moment.

Or music and lights rather

I was out of the UK from 2002-2016 and, among the many changes, supermarkets stopped playing music. What I would give to hear a nice bit of muzak again.

I know I posted this on some thread somewhere, but it's always good for a re-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrPcDw-zuI

At this moment the fucking full Parachutes album by fucking Coldplay

I am genuinely enjoying listening to this, thanks DP.

It's been the soundtrack to my workday a few times. It definitely creates a melancholy, gauzy memory of my youth (the tape hiss helps!)

I heard Radio Free Europe at Whole Foods last night.

I go to my supermarket as little as I can now because "Come Together," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Comfortably Numb," "Imagine," "Mrs. Robinson," and literally no more than a single 74-minute CD worth of songs that are on every-wedding-band-ever's shortlist have been on shuffle for two years and counting. If I had to work there I'd put corkscrews in my ears.

"love will tear us apart" at fred meyers.

I was sat in the cafe in Sainsbury's, Didcot today and heard tracks by Talk Talk and Grizzly Bear.

I’m standing in the checkout line at Ralphs right now. They play mainstream vocal pop.

Today we had "Within You Without You" and I was so pleasantly shocked

Elvis, "Hound Dog", last night, sounded fuckin' great.