What music does your local supermarket play?

back when i used to work at the grocery store we listened to pre-programmed "Albertson's Now Thats What You Call Music! Vol 52", but inevitably Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown would play at least 3 times every day and ended up being something I anticipated in the drear of the rest of the day. I always sang along to it while bagging groceries. *nostalgic tears*

back when I worked at a supermarket for all of five minutes in 2004, I was stunned at the Muzak they were playing. It was as if nobody had ever changed the Muzak tapes in 15-20 years. I mean they were playing pop songs that at one time were hits, but like...not iconic, and largely from the 1985-1993 timeframe.

Example -- at one point, Jack Wagner's "All I Need" came on. The next, Richard Marx's "Hazard" came on, then k.d. Lang's "Constant Craving". It was like an eerie timewarp, I got scared a few times that I was in some Outer Limits thriller that I didn't know about.

Pete's Fresh Market is my favorite....it is old skool they have thirty different kinds of olive oil...and they play soul oldies!

I always hear Camera Obscura and The Sundays at my local market.

That's cool, you know a lot of stores stopped playing music entirely, they don't even play the radio. SAD! How can you love food if you don't love music.

The HEB we go mostly plays 80s hits. I'm pretty ok with that.

The Gin Blossoms' "Found Out About You" this afternoon. No complaints about that.

Was in shock when I heard Alice Cooper's "Caught in a Dream" today

I never really pay attention anymore. Once in a while at the Hannaford I'll hear an obscure song from the early 1990s or late 1980s and try to figure out what it is. Sort of takes the boredom out of the trip.

This week at the local Shaw's I heard Sonny & Cher's The Beat Goes On and The Kinks' Sunny Afternoon.

In the lavatoruy of the gas station that doubles as the local supermarket in the village where I live. What am I hearing?

Like a Prayer!

When You Were Mine by Cyndi Lauper!

I like oldies supermarkets the best, everyone can agree on the selections. Not everyone has fond memories of Madonna or Cyndi Lauper. There was a period in the nineties where all kinds of weird songs were re-recorded into muzak.

the fred meyer closest to my house in portland, or is kinda ridiculous and plays tv on the radio, animal collective, ted leo, etc... yknow, indie. i'm sure this isn't shocking to anyone out there but i just want to confirm that YES, it really is like that here

I heard "Bluish" in a restaurant where I lived...

I complained to my server at a restaurant last night about the music they were playing. It was Sunday-morning brunch music, not Saturday night music.

I was in a local gourmet sandwich shop (mostly very good food) owned by a young couple. Modest Mouse was playing. It was not fun.

I've never been forced to hear Modest Mouse while buying a burrito.

i heard Neon Indian once at Whole Foods. that somehow seemed a little weird to me

I was in Sunflower tonight and "Don't Stop the Dance" came on. Sounded pretty amazing. The guys who stock the shelves did not clownishly sing along with it, as they do with a lot of the older oldies. I don't know, maybe the music there gets cooler after 8PM or something.

one time i was in a krogers at like 3 AM and the entirety of tool's lateralus was playing over the loudspeaker. it was weird because usually they just played soft R&B and adult contemporary stuff

Since we have a Target relatively close to our house, I do most of my shopping there and they don't play any music. Its kind of eerie when it gets late and its quiet in there.

the main section of the local co-op plays all sorts of stuff, often a lot of 70s soul/disco. the dairy department, however, is ALL METAL ALL THE TIME. which is awesome.

All 14 minutes of Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" while waiting for prescription at Walgreens.

Not the supermarket, but when I walked into Home Depot today, they were playing "I Feel Love".

My supermarket always plays 80s hits, which is pretty great but also makes me realize that I'm old enough to be the target demographic for supermarket music.

Casinos are the worst. Think I heard a Green Day-Alan Jackson-Al Wilson set last time I was at crablegs buffet.

Heard "Israelites" the other week in the grocery store.

Silence in mine.

last week was that POS Dan Fogelberg song "Longer than...", which I can never remember who perpetrated cuz I am not a fan of it like some of the pervs on ILM.

my supermarket was playing "i feel love" yesterday morning too!!! and then "le freak" while i was in the bulk section. they're always playing disco/funk and i love it. it has to be some kind of digital radio service for franchises and big box stores and the like right? anyone know anything about this?

gonna be weird in 30 years when Kroger plays trancecore.

i'm fascinated by the station my laundromat plays -- 94.7 the wave -- which is l.a.'s smooth jazz/mellow jammin-oldies station with some '90s r&b and the obligatory adele hits thrown in. it really doesn't know how to market itself. wikipedia sez "hybrid smooth AC" though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTWV

My local Ultra plays soul hits like "Shotgun" and "Harlem Shuffle". Why don't more stores realize that dance music makes you want to stay in the store and buy more tasty food? It made me realize that too many people think going to the supermarket is a chore, not a pleasure.

The shopping centre below my apartment used to play Wings albums when it got semi-deserted in the evenings. Mr Artists' Royalties man must have paid a visit, though, as now they just play supermarket muzak. ;_;

Stereolab and the Smiths plays every single time I go to Shophouse (an Asian spinoff of Chipotle) in DC.

"I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones (1978)

Was in Sprouts earlier than I normally make it and heard:

Rock Around the Clock
Stevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink [Inferior film version]
ABBA - Dancing Queen

in that order (unless there was something between Rock Around the Clock and Stevie that I'm forgetting, but I don't think so).

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