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 (ten years ago) link
^^^^ I've heard it at CVS too
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:49 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
trouble - lindsey buckingham
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
also hear a LOT of Rumours in CVS
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:20 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
This morning at CVS I heard REM's "At My Most Beautiful."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:02 (ten 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 (ten 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
― da croupier, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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
― Gar Tooth (Jon Lewis),
beautiful cover
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Psychedelic Tyme @ Goodwill
Amboy Dukes: "Journey To The Center of The Mind"Electric Prunes: "Get Me To The World On Time"Donovan: "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"Zombies: "I Want You Back Again"
And also:
Junior Walker & The All-Stars: "(I'm A) Road Runner"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:22 (three weeks ago) link
the good thing- talking heads at torchys again and it’s v clear i should never list things from this non-cvs again, they have a gen-x streaming svc channel. but it is soooo good lol.so this is my final torchys listing :-/
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 21:50 (three weeks ago) link
Streaming channels are perfectly fine. More places use them than one would think.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 22:05 (three weeks ago) link
Buncha OMD at Dairy Queen. Standouts were "Secret" and "Maid of Orleans" (demo).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:28 (one week ago) link
I'm glad someone out there's playing the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 April 2024 21:53 (one week ago) link
(Plagiarizing a joke I helped originate 31 years ago.)
― clemenza, Friday, 12 April 2024 21:54 (one week ago) link
Target:
Bobby Womack: "It's Party Time"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 April 2024 23:05 (one week ago) link
Ace Hardware- 18 Alice Cooperi need guidance to rate its obscurity, maybe i’m being distracted by how odd it seemed to me.
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:28 (one week ago) link
'90s Alt Rock Pandora or something at a Double Dave's yesterday.
Sponge: "Plowed"Alice In Chains: "It Ain't Like That"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:56 (two days ago) link
oh man, cock-rock era AiC. love that tune.
and have always loved that Sponge song, plus the album it came from.
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 14:58 (two days ago) link
The Cure - Mint Car
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:48 (yesterday) link
whoa
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:50 (yesterday) link
At a KFC no less
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:54 (yesterday) link
I went to one of my favorite Chinese noodle restaurants recently, and as I was walking in they had Rush - Subdivisions playing. Pretty much all I can ask for from a dining experience.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:12 (yesterday) link
My local artisan grilled cheese place played that on Monday.
Same feeling of bliss
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:17 (yesterday) link
oh damn, Subdivisions Spring is here!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:21 (yesterday) link