Not obscure, but I really enjoyed hearing Scritti Politti at CVS yesterday.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
I heard the song 'On the Beach' by Neil Young at the grocery store once.
― Austin, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
Heard "Couple Days Off" by Huey Lewis & The News last night at Whataburger.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 February 2014 03:17 (ten years ago) link
Heard "Emerge" Fischerspooner at a Florida water-park
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 February 2014 07:14 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/hennessyyoungman/cvsbangers
― 龜, Thursday, 13 February 2014 07:21 (ten years ago) link
haha thank you, a classic
― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 February 2014 07:44 (ten years ago) link
Jack In The Box is good for these. Today it was "Wild Wild Life" by Talking Heads, and last time a couple weeks ago I heard "Canary In A Coalmine" by The Police.
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
It's not obscure but I was euphoric when I heard Amy Grant's "I Will Remember You" yesterday.
alfred i'd start straight up bawling
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
I heard that really sterile, generic, terrible ballad by "Sergio Mendes" from the 80s...."Never Gonna Let You Go"...in a Zaxby's.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
whenever i'm in cvs i hear "shattered dreams"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
I heard Jack Wagner's "All I Need" and Richard Marx's "Hazard" once in an Albertsons during a 4 hour shift. I remain convinced that they had not changed their Muzak since my childhood.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
and whenever I hit the "from this empty heart" falsetto several mothers in the cold medicine section scowl
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
hahaha. I can't help not singing along to that tune either. that or "All I Need is a Miracle".
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
haha otm
― goole, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
Shopping for pencils and invisible tape at CVS this morning I heard "Soul Drifter" by Lindsey Buckingham!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
^^^^ I've heard it at CVS too
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Manu Dibango - "Soul Makossa," in H.E.B. yesterday (though for some reason, in that store, the only place you can usually hear the music without straining your ears is in the restroom)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:16 (nine years ago) link
trouble - lindsey buckingham
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
also hear a LOT of Rumours in CVS
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
i hear a lot of saint etienne in supermarkets and drugstores
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
My fave supermarket plays nothing but 60's soul.
I think I answered this elsewhere, but our CVS had "The Sign of Fire" by the Fixx...I flipped!! It started this whole Fixx thing with me for a while.
― I am Sporadicus! (I M Losted), Thursday, 17 April 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
This morning at CVS I heard REM's "At My Most Beautiful."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
somehow, even though it tanked, that's the single from up i hear most often by far. only in grocery stores and drugstores obv.
― balls, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word at Walgreens
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
Followed by this random pop punk/emotronic ish:
http://thepasstheband.bandcamp.com/track/cross-walk-stereo
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
Which, just like, I mean, I expected anything else as a follow-up.
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link
Sunday afternoon: Ric Ocasek's "Something to Grab For."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:14 (nine years ago) link
Semisonic: All About Chemistry― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:56 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:56 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just heard this at Taco Bell.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
At Publix this a.m:
Jesse Johnson ft. Sly Stone - Crazay
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Book of Love - "Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)" @ Which Wich
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
I had my purchases in hand but continued to wander the aisles because Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two" was playing and there was nobody in line ahead of me.
― naus, Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
I caught Steppin' Out in CVS last week!
― how's life, Saturday, 17 May 2014 10:24 (nine years ago) link
I heard that Joe Jackson song in a CVS too ("Breaking Us In Two"), and wondered if Badfinger ever sued/threatened to sue/got joint writing credit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
― naus,
done on purpose by CVS corporate
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:22 (nine years ago) link
All I hear at the drugstore now is the opening riff of ''Down on the Corner,'' played ad infinitum as the theme to the Walgreen's in-house ad.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 19 May 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
Sam Phillips- "Baby I Can't Please You" at Wendy's (seems like this song is an evergreen on restaurant/drug store/supermarket muzak)
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
REM - "All The Way To Reno"― da croupier, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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And this was played earlier.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
i heard the beverley knight version of "keep this fire burning" in a shitty off-brand cafe in heathrow. i mean, okay it hit #16 but that's kind of a deep cut in 2014. when "rock with you" came on afterwards i was like okay cafe, you got me.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Neither one very obscure, but back to back in a rather high-end department store: George Jones' "The Race Is On" and Tiffany's "Only In my Dreams." Probably programmed by hipsters, maybe not all THAT surprising.
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
reminds me of the great Not My Fault columns 'what is the minimum number of hanging plants required to give the illusion that we care?'.
― campreverb, Thursday, 7 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac: "Think About Me"* @ Whataburger (followed by, uh, "One Week" by BNL)
*Maybe not obscure by ilx standards, but I don't think I've actually heard this on the radio outside of a 'classic disc' airing of Tusk.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link
Key Food in Brooklyn always has a deep-cut 1960s Top 40 mix going on, and I like the fact that they play even the cornball stuff that you would think would try the patience of many customers - not to mention the young folks who work there.
Thanks to them I got hipped to the 1967 track "A Girl Like You" by the Young Rascals.
― Josefa, Saturday, 9 August 2014 07:45 (nine years ago) link
Boys Club - I Remember Holding You #8 January 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLA9oIemtG8
I heard this a couple times in late '88: a "Careless Whisper" pastiche recorded by skin trade before New Kids took off.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
Hipsway, "Honeythief" at Walgreen. I almost knocked over an display 'cause I started dancing.
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
"a" display, not "an" display, ugh this phone
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
was picking up prescription for antidepressant at walgreens and they were playing "i wanna be sedated." no lie.heard this last week too.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 September 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
heard a weird muzaky cover of "I'm Looking Through You" by the Beatles the other week when i was buying pills
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
Jack In The Box: The Go-Gos--"Cool Jerk" from the '90 Greatest Hits.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Cvs yesterday: the bangles "if she knew what she wants"
Not obscure in its day but I'd completely forgotten this track
― Gar Tooth (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
XTC: "Generals and Majors" at Wendy's
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Sting: "Love Is The Seventh Wave" at HEB
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 March 2024 04:58 (three weeks ago) link
I heard "Field of Gold" at Home Depot recently.
Sent me back to those months working at Liquor Depot in 1994. How that one, Billy Joel's "The River of Dreams" and Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" just rotated with each other, over and over and over and over again. Certain songs that when I play them back in my head, I only hear them through shitty retail P.A. speakers.
"Stuck On You" by Lionel Ritchie another one. That played all summer long at the waterslide, interrupted occasionally by "PURPLE MATS, ALL PURPLE MATS MUST BE RETURNED AT THE FRONT."
― pplains, Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:01 (three weeks ago) link
purple mats is a good band name at least, forgetting the trauma. altho i guess it sounds like a replacements trib act, which would be very risky to perform properly
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:08 (three weeks ago) link
Purple Mats: A Tribute To Prince *And* The Replacements
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:16 (three weeks ago) link
Updated The Playlist (after 3 1/2 years):
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Qvc8uzVk4bDpMeW6p2lc6?si=WeLFdjwOTFSSK8QLAcyn2A&pi=u-DHyTVDxlRsiB
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:11 (three weeks ago) link
Is there a count ceiling? That’s almost 1000! Well done.Just hears Right Place Wrong Time Dr John at King Soopers. I dont know if obscure. But it was backed up by v v not obscure Horse w No Name, then v v v v v not obscure Mr Bluesky (extended mix). I think the ELO lasted 15 mins.Hmm now Joan Jett. HMfLY
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:58 (three weeks ago) link
stars are stars- eatb at torchysfuck i dont care if it was a single anywhere and i dont care if it’s on torchy’s spotify clone targeting my demo— this owned, i regret nothing
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Thursday, 14 March 2024 18:56 (two weeks ago) link
Oldies Dairy Queen again:
Impalas: "I'm Sorry (I Ran The Whole Way Home)"Stompers: "Quarter To Four Stomp"Buddy Holly: "Well…All Right"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:23 (six days ago) link
Never heard of that middle one; "Well...All Right" one of Holly's best.
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 March 2024 21:40 (six days ago) link
I hadn't either. According to the shot of the 45 label in this YouTube, they were an act from the stable of writer/producer Gary S. Paxton of "Ally Oop" and Skip & Flip fame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n95hdb7RKkI
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 March 2024 23:57 (six days ago) link
According to the trivia buffs in the YT comments, a pre-"Monster Mash" Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a Stomper.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 March 2024 00:04 (five days ago) link
Paxton's Wiki page is a trip. Some pearls:
His work throughout this early-1960s period is scattered over various labels, mostly his own, which he seemed to open and close on a constant basis, making regular use of the five studios he owned. Over the years, Paxton built a reputation as an eccentric figure in the recording industry. Brian Wilson was known to admire his talents, and Phil Spector to fear him. His creativity and knack for promotion were legendary, but could also run to excess: once, after a local radio station dismissed one of his records ("Elephant Game (Part One)" by Renfro & Jackson) as "too black", he assembled a protest parade down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, consisting of 15 cheerleaders and a live elephant pulling a Volkswagen convertible. He was arrested after the elephant got scared and began to defecate in the street....On December 29, 1980, Paxton was shot three times by hitmen (allegedly) hired by Vern Gosdin, a country singer he was producing, putting him out of the music world for eight years and nearly ending his life. After the trial, he visited the men in prison and forgave them....Appearing on his gospel album covers in a halo of facial hair and a tall-top cowboy hat, Paxton infused his religious work with the same eccentricity, individuality, and hippie humor that had characterized his 60s material in Los Angeles: acting the role of the Jesus freak, likening himself to "an armpit in the body of Christ", and crafting song titles like "When the Meat Wagon Comes for You", "Will There Be Hippies in Heaven?", "I'm a Fool for Christ (Whose Fool Are You?)", and "Jesus Is My Lawyer in Heaven".
...
On December 29, 1980, Paxton was shot three times by hitmen (allegedly) hired by Vern Gosdin, a country singer he was producing, putting him out of the music world for eight years and nearly ending his life. After the trial, he visited the men in prison and forgave them.
Appearing on his gospel album covers in a halo of facial hair and a tall-top cowboy hat, Paxton infused his religious work with the same eccentricity, individuality, and hippie humor that had characterized his 60s material in Los Angeles: acting the role of the Jesus freak, likening himself to "an armpit in the body of Christ", and crafting song titles like "When the Meat Wagon Comes for You", "Will There Be Hippies in Heaven?", "I'm a Fool for Christ (Whose Fool Are You?)", and "Jesus Is My Lawyer in Heaven".
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 March 2024 00:14 (five days ago) link
Not exactly obscure, but a bit unexpected: my local Food Bazaar was blasting "Fight For Your Right to Party" a few weeks ago.
― obvious, Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:06 (five days ago) link
I heard this thing at Publix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2REh2XpwDo
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 March 2024 01:11 (five days ago) link
My friend just posted on FB about hearing "Take Your Mama" by Scissor Sisters AT WHATABURGER
WTFBURGER
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:01 (yesterday) link
...and now he just posted about hearing "Had A Dad" at the washateria.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:11 (yesterday) link
...and now I'm hosting a pub quiz at a BBQ joint, and as I come in they're playing "Parklife"!
*What is going on today?*
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:33 (yesterday) link