All 14 minutes of Neil Young's "Change Your Mind" while waiting for prescription at Walgreens.
― pplains, Monday, 6 February 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Not the supermarket, but when I walked into Home Depot today, they were playing "I Feel Love".
― beachville, Monday, 12 March 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Monday, 12 March 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Casinos are the worst. Think I heard a Green Day-Alan Jackson-Al Wilson set last time I was at crablegs buffet.
― pplains, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
Heard "Israelites" the other week in the grocery store.
― JoeStork, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Silence in mine.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― desk calendar white out (Matt P), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
gonna be weird in 30 years when Kroger plays trancecore.
― pplains, Monday, 12 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― love this song! :) especially his hair (get bent), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Wendy Carlos the Jackal (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
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. ;_;
― rener, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Stereolab and the Smiths plays every single time I go to Shophouse (an Asian spinoff of Chipotle) in DC.
― skip, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
"I Wanna Be Sedated" - The Ramones (1978)
― pplains, Sunday, 4 November 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Was in Sprouts earlier than I normally make it and heard:
Rock Around the ClockStevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My LifePsychedelic 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).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 March 2013 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Butler was a bit jarring after Stevie Wonder.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 March 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
Today I heard ”California Stars” by Wilco and ”Wild Wild Life” by Talking Heads
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 March 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
1,2,3,4 by Feist
― how's life, Friday, 15 March 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I keep hearing Erasure at Shaw's. It's awesome.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 15 March 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
Store I go to now keeps playing this song about how great "American Pie" is. Horrid.
― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 16 March 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"+ some song baout "shining like a diamond"?? idk
― underused emoticons I have gotten confused (bernard snowy), Saturday, 16 March 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
now I'm home listening to cat power like Shit, why didn't I get some beer??
― underused emoticons I have gotten confused (bernard snowy), Saturday, 16 March 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
"Transmission," live.
i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex in a walgreen's recently that was kinda weird
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
just make it all stevie wonder
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
when you open any of the dairy cases at my local co-op, you hear death metal
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Posted it on the Eagles thread, but Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.
― pplains, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
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."
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ۩, Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
my supermarket plays nothing but bonnie raitt's 'have a heart' over and over
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
That's Bonnie Raitt?
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
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
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
mostly 80s hits
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
mine doesn't play any but if it did it would be garbage
― j., Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
Surprisingly varied! I heard the National and Boz Scaggs and Frankie Beverly last week.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
"see no evil" by television heard at fred meyers today.
― new noise, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:06 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
My new supermarket seems to always be playing "Bizarre Love Triangle." Maybe they just throw it on when I walk in?
― kate78, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
― 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