Reminds me that I heard "Cisco Kid" last week st the supermarket.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
Steve Miller: "Dance Dance Dance" & Boz Scaggs "Breakdown Dead Ahead" at Krogers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 February 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
The Yardbirds' "For Your Love" at Walmart.
― timellison, Monday, 13 February 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Not obscure, but it's still kind of strange to hear "London Calling" when I'm (lost) in the supermarket.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 05:34 (seven years ago) link
Holy Shit!
Big Star: "September Gurls" at FUDDRUCKERS
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
the fuck are you doing at a Fuddruckers
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Elton John "Tower of Babel" at Foodtown
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 18 March 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
ok woah.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 18 March 2017 05:51 (seven years ago) link
Lyle Lovett: "Private Conversation" at Randall's
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:21 (seven years ago) link
INXS: "Disappear" at Fuddruckers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
very austin
― 1staethyr, Friday, 14 April 2017 03:53 (seven years ago) link
...except I was in Houston, but yeah...
I actually used to hear that track a lot in stores late '90s/early '00s.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 April 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link
whoops, i don't know why i always thought randall's was only in central texas
― 1staethyr, Friday, 14 April 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
Not exactly obscure, but the huge at the time and now forgotten David Gray: "Avalon" at Jason's Deli
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 April 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Squeeze: "Pulling Mussels (From A Shell)" at Which Which (not that obscure, but still somewhat surprising on a non-80s only muzak)
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 April 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
Happy Mondays - 'Step One
In Guitar Center.
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
*'Step On'
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
OMD - 'Souvenier'
In Starbucks.
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
Two different days, two early Elvis Costello's
"Crawling To The USA" at a pizza place"No Action" at Fuddruckers
And this shouldn't count, but I had an extended project meeting at a local coffee house yesterday that was bringing the Punk/Post-Punk with full album airings of Pink Flag and Entertainment!.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 May 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
Also at Fudds: Talking Heads: "Love-->Building On Fire"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
local coffee houses absolutely do not count although that was probably pretty good listening!
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 5 May 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
It was! The amazing thing to me is this place isn't in some hipster enclave, but rather a strip mall wedged between two fairly large and untrendy subdivisions. I think some of the staff are punks, because I've heard similar stuff in there before, but not to the degree of full albums.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 May 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
Yesterday the gas station I work at played Reel Big Fish's cover of "Take On Me." I have that on CD and I hadn't even thought about it in fifteen years.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Saturday, 6 May 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link
Nirvana: "Molly's Lips", Rolling Stones: "Rip This Joint", and Black Crowes: "Sting Me" at Freebirds
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
ZZ Top: "Doubleback" at Randalls
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:23 (six years ago) link
Galaxie 500 - Tugboat - IKEA parking lot
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 19 May 2017 02:50 (six years ago) link
wow that's a good one ^
― austinb, Friday, 19 May 2017 06:25 (six years ago) link
^ Impressive.
Not impossibly obscure, but Morrissey's "Suedehead" is exactly what I didn't expect to hear in Bunnings [massive blokey hardware warehouse in Australia] recently.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 19 May 2017 07:38 (six years ago) link
Go-Go's: "Speeding" at Kroger
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:14 (six years ago) link
Badfinger "Maybe Tomorrow" at Foodtown
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 1 June 2017 05:07 (six years ago) link
Liz Phair: "Supernova" at Fuddruckers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
...and Split Enz: "Six Months In A Leaky Boat"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 June 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
Classic Gold for this thread:
Lisa Loeb: "I Do" at Taco Bell
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 June 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
Followed up by Carole King: "Jazzman"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 June 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
Just heard Icicle Works — 'A Whisper to a Scream' in Albertson's.
― Austin, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Georgia Satellites: "Battleship Chains" at Kroger
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
I heard "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in Safeway.
― croque monsoon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2017 04:00 (six years ago) link
Otis Redding: "(I've Got) Dreams To Remember" at Fuddruckers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
Not sure where else to put this, but I just heard 'Luchini (aka This is It)' by Camp Lo in Starbucks.
― Austin, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
"Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds. Huge hit in 1971 but I've not heard it much since.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Really? I grew up hearing that. At least with the advent of the U.S. oldies radio format around the mid-'80s.
― timellison, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Heard that one on the radio yesterday.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
My local oldies station has redefined oldies to skew more late 70s/80s. Much more likely to hear The Eagles and Phil Collins than early 70s Grass Roots/Guess Who/3 Dog Night-type stuff.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Talk about obscure! A version of "Don't Pull Your Love" was one of the final Sam & Dave singles on Atlantic (#36 R&B, #102 Pop in late '71).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpDmOzrLbk
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
I had that on some Edsel or Demon or Ace collection, but yeah never heard it over a public PA
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwOwl1KfSU
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
I remember my mom singing it as "Don't throw your love out on the table," but whether this was her mishearing, her mocking one of ours, or just her making fun of the song I cannot say.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
Wilco: "Born Alone" at WalMart
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 July 2017 05:47 (six years ago) link
Lenka: "The Show" at El Pollo Loco
I've heard this at a few places in the last year or so. Thought it was a bigger hit (only got to #25 on the "Billboard Adult Pop Songs Chart"--whatever that is)
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
Humble Pie: "I Don't Need No Doctor" at Burger King
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 July 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link