― Hans Veneman (veneman), Monday, 11 July 2005 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Jeanne (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
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."
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, lots of McCartney/Wings.
― Colin O, Monday, 11 July 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ian Riese-Moraine: that obscure object of desire. (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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I heard "Whip It" at the supermarket today!
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Wham! Club Tropicana, back in Durty juRZ.
― sturt banton (burt_stanton), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I DID whippits in the supermarket today.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Was that part of a torts assignment?
― sturt banton (burt_stanton), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
U2
― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I once heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
At an IGA in central Florida.
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"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.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I once TORE THAT ASS apart at an IGA in central florida
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link
They were playing Steely Dan a few weeks ago which I thought was awesome, but since then the usual suspects, Kelly Clarkson, Nickleback and Matchbox 20.
― No marigolds in the promised land (Kate.), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Conventional grocery stores: Gin Blossoms.
Whole Foods: Phil Collins... no less than 3 times a day. I've had to spend some time in there, and that is the one thing I noticed about the music. All Phil. All the time. He must somehow be associated with organic food.
― drainCosmetics, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I once heard "Rape Me" in Whole Foods... fellow customers seemed unphased.
― drainCosmetics, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The Co-Op this morning had "C-Lebrity" by Queen & Paul Rodgers. At the weekend, "Paranoid Android". It was fun times.
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The big Tesco out of town in Exeter plays this cod-Eno ambient wibble all the time.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 06:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I was in a supermarket in Poland once that played Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from Monty Python then Born Slippy by Underworld immediately afterwards. It seemed rather odd to me, but the old ladies pushing their trolleys of kiebasa around didn't bat an eyelid.
― GamalielRatsey, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 07:29 (fifteen years ago) link
last time i was at the supermarket they played "psychotic reaction." i love it.
― REIGN IN FUDGE (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 07:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Local small Sainsbury's has two TVs above the checkouts showing music videos frequently punctuated with ads and offers. Standard pop fare, 80s to now, usually when I'm in the queue I'm all "bah humbug evil marketing" and resolutely look away, but the other day they played Let Forever Be and I just had to watch 'cause the video is sooo good.
― shoving leopard (ledge), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link
When I was 14, I was in the music sections of WH Smiths with my parents, when George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" started playing.
― snoball, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
The hotel I was in was playing "I'm so tired of America" by Radiohead, or so I thought.
I had to check, it was very Thom singing, and the chords were ones he'd use, but the lyrics were way too direct and unambiguous.
Yep, it was Rufus Wainright.
Still...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to work for a sattelite company that did feeds to all of a major supermarket Aus chain for their music and annoying "hey buy our stuff!" blurbs. The stuff was mostly shite, but having access to the playlists i'd pick a few things out now and then that were good.
One of the songs on rotation was "Boom, Shake the Room". Cant say I ever heard that at Safeway but hey.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
my local branch of woolworths has been known to play bad religion.
― m the g, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I went to Harris-Teeter a few weeks ago to get hurricane supplies (didn't end up hitting us, thankfully), and for some reason they were playing all this really dramatic classical music. way to set the mood, guys!
― it be me, me, me and timothy (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 11:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The Cure - Close to me in the mall this morning.
Can't be long before they start putting on Christmas Carols though.
― fantasimundo, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
― drainCosmetics, Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest
Phil Collins is mandatory music for any business, whether it be office building, grocery store, or thrift store. He is OMNIPRESENT.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Working in a grocery store full time I should be an expert on this, but as it happens I'm really good at tuning out the jams and maintaining my mental stability. (When it's nothing but the graveyard it's essential to protect your brain.)
What I can recall: Phil Collins (like duh), some terrible cover of that awful Modest Mouse song from that sinkhole of an album right before Johnny Marr joined, Taylor Swift, Jimmy Eat World, y'know, the usual current(ish) stuff, balanced out by Van Morrison, the Kinks ('80s KINKS!!! YEAH), CCR, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, WHAT I'M SAYING HERE IS WE GET A LOT OF CLASSIC ROCK YA SEE. But never any fun surprises like Psychotic Reaction, or like that time I went into a gas station and heard "I want your skuuu-uuull, I need your skuuu-uuull!"Though coincidentally there is a guy in the meat department named Scott Walker, so that's cool right? (I can't believe I didn't bring him up when some of us were talking about people with other famous people's names in some other thread a while back).
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Dalhousie Safeway raped me of my James Blunt virginity. I'd never heard 'You're Beautiful' -- I had managed to somehow avoid it for ages -- until that fateful day at the grocery store.
They also frequently played Love Song by the Cure and some Avril Lavigne rubbish.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
salsa shark you're a terrible man for the way with words, to be sure
― J4gger Dynamic Pentangle (Just got offed), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Sweet Jesus James Blunt! I heard that shit every day for two years.
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 16:01 (fifteen years ago) link
No, salsa shark's words are an accurate account of the experience.
― RabiesAngentleman, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
My gGod, have you heard this "Thanks for the Lemonade" by one Chris Rice? So atrocious it stopped me in my tracks like nothing since "Bad Day."
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard "Radio Radio" in the supermarket a few days ago.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
A few years back I heard "100 Years" by Five For Fighting every third supermarket visit or so.
The other day, Safeway was inexplicably playing the Star-Spangled Banner.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Centra is obsessed with Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
the best i can hope for in the grocery store is some bill withers or bobby caldwell's "what you won't do for love", although i know i've heard some really weird things over the years.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)
― radiohead OK computer coca cola co KO (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:16 (1 week ago)
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.
― prunetracy, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:15 (eight years ago) link
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
― Darin, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
Enjoyed hearing Al Stewart "Year of the Cat" at CVS the other day.
― Moodles, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
Well where else would you have heard it?
― pplains, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
It's certainly no Walgreens track
― Moodles, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
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.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
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".
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
toni basil - mickey
heart - crazy on you
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 7 January 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.
― pplains, Friday, April 25, 2014 6:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
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.
― haudrum, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Or music and lights rather
― haudrum, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
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
― Supporters Fear Dan's Post Will Lack The Edge They Love (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
At this moment the fucking full Parachutes album by fucking Coldplay
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
I am genuinely enjoying listening to this, thanks DP.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
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!)
― Supporters Fear Dan's Post Will Lack The Edge They Love (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
I heard Radio Free Europe at Whole Foods last night.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
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.
― mick signals, Thursday, 15 February 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
"love will tear us apart" at fred meyers.
― new noise, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
I was sat in the cafe in Sainsbury's, Didcot today and heard tracks by Talk Talk and Grizzly Bear.
― djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
I’m standing in the checkout line at Ralphs right now. They play mainstream vocal pop.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Today we had "Within You Without You" and I was so pleasantly shocked
― mick signals, Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Elvis, "Hound Dog", last night, sounded fuckin' great.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 May 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link