When I walked into Trader Joe's this morning they were playing "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" by Captain Beefheart. When I left a half hour later they were playing David Bowie's "Sound And Vision." In between I heard at least one T.Rex song but not a well-known or popular one; I just recognized Bolan's voice. A strange morning at the grocery store.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
Not that surprising though given it’s a TJ’s
― calstars, Sunday, 9 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
"See No Evil" by Television heard at Five Guys this evening.
― visiting, Saturday, 15 September 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
Boz Scaggs: "What Can I Say?"Barenaked Ladies: "It's All Been Done"Queen: "Play The Game"
All at Whataburger
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 17 September 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
"Real Gone Kid" by Deacon Blue heard at Goodwill. Obscure in the US?
― visiting, Monday, 17 September 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
VU's "Lisa Says" at Peet's Coffee.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
^nice one
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
KLF's Justified and Ancient (Stand by the JAMs) at IKEA
(though looking it up, it made it to 11 on the Hot 100, so not actually obscure?)
― circles, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
Neil Sedaka “Laughter in the Rain” at a taco shop in San Diego.
― timellison, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
“State Farm (Extended Version),” by Yaz(oo), at Chipotle just now
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Chipotle plays some good sh*t
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
They’re in the middle of a wild punk-funk block... I’ve been trying to use Siri to ID the tracks, but she only knows some of them. NP: “The Mirror,” by someone called Damaged Bug
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Now it’s “Huff & Puff,” by Just a Band(?)I realize some of these who? artists are probably in the realm of stuff that’s chiefly licensed out for commercials etc.; but it sounds pretty great played loud at lunchtime. Whoever puts these mixes together is on-point.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I heard The Slits' version of "...Grapevine" in Chipotle once, alongside something that sounded like "Radio Clash" but wasn't. If that programming is coming out of Chipotle corporate HQ, I'm impressed.
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Chipotle just moved their headquarters from Denver, Colorado to Newport Beach, California and maybe that has something to do with it?
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
VP, Soundscapes
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
I guess it’s time for a moratorium on Chipotle posts — but I just stopped in to pick up dinner, and heard “Falling and Laughing,” by Orange Juice.
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Thursday, 20 September 2018 01:41 (five years ago) link
Paul's Westerberg ("Love Untold") & McCartney ("My Brave Face") at Kroger.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 September 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
Ha, I heard My Brave Face at Kroger too. Been in my head for a month now.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 September 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link
Mother Love Bone’s “Stardog Champion” at Five Guys. I forgot that it even existed
― joygoat, Thursday, 20 September 2018 11:08 (five years ago) link
Stevie Wonder: "Do I Do" at the Fed Ex Store.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
De La Soul's "Buddy" at a Minneapolis airport bar
― joygoat, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
does "do i do" really qualify as obscure
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 01:50 (five years ago) link
It doesn't seem to me to have had the shelf life of other Stevie hits, and I don't hear it out there that much if at all.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
If you want to be technical, a lot of what gets posted here--particularly in regards to major artists--are closer to deep cuts than genuine obscurities.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 03:44 (five years ago) link
Boston: "Something About You" at Randall's.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 September 2018 05:28 (five years ago) link
All at Five Guys:
Spoon: "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"Foo Fighters: "Next Year"Steve Miller: "Living In The USA"Ratt: "Back For More"Bad Religion: "21st Century Digital Boy"
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 October 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
I really want to know where my little Foodtown gets their music.
"Little Children" by Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas was obscure enough, but then they hit me with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyxU9jmk21E
"Walk Tall (Like a Man)" by the Cincinnati girl group The 2 of Clubs from 1967. Going by the YouTube comments, this was a pretty big regional hit in the Midwest. I'm now obsessed with this song.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 04:58 (five years ago) link
Blur "There's No Other Way" at Target.
it's funny as this song was not played on KROQ at the time as this was not a hit in America. MWRS 103.1 was around and did play it in the Los Angeles market.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:45 (five years ago) link
meantg, MARS
― Bee OK, Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:46 (five years ago) link
Both at CVS:
Evan & Jaron: "Crazy For This Girl"Steve Winwood: "The Finer Things"
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 October 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
Was walking into Trader Joe's just as Slade's "Get Down and Get With It" was ending.
― DEATH PUPPET (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 08:50 (five years ago) link
Gin Blossoms: "Alison Road" at Fuddruckers.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 October 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
'70s Gold at HEB:
Delaney & Bonnie: "Never Ending Song of Love"Linda Ronstadt: "Silver Threads & Golden Needles"John Stewart: "Gold"Bob Welch: "Sentimental Lady"
Had I stayed longer I might have heard "Werewolves of London" or "Magnet And Steel" and completed the "Non-Mac Mac" hits set.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 October 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
Grand Funk Railroad: "Shinin' On" and Elton John: "Little Jeanie" at Walmart Neighborhood Market.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 October 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
The Police: "Driven To Tears" at Jack In The Box
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 October 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
That's when you know the Lord's just fuckin' with ya.
― pplains, Monday, 15 October 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
"Walk Tall (Like a Man)" is a totally awesome discovery, thanks for that!
― Freddy "Boom Boom" QAnon (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
If you're interested, it appears on one of the better Where the Girls Are volumes: https://acerecords.co.uk/where-the-girls-are-volume-6
(pushes thick glasses up on bridge of nose; runs hand thru greasy hair)
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
That volume ends with "Jilted," one of my all-time fave songs. ALL. TIME. FAVE.
― brush ’em like crazy (morrisp), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
"Walk Tall (Like a Man)" is a totally awesome discovery
I Shazam'ed it several times in the supermarket but came up empty-handed. I just had to hope that "Walk Tall" was the title so I could search my hard drive when I got home.
I've also got a British version by The New Faces on Sequel's Here Come the Girls, Vol. 8 comp, which isn't as good. Strangely, it's titled "(Walk Tall) Like a Man" instead of "Walk Tall (Like a Man)". Also strangely, the 2 of Clubs version sounds very British--I hear a lot of Petula Clark in the vocals.
Together or separately, the songwriters Paul Vance & Lee Pockriss also wrote:
Perry Como "Catch a Falling Star"Brian Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini"The Cuff Links "Tracy"Simon Dupree "Kites"Anita Bryant "My Little Corner of the World"Shelley Fabares "Johnny Angel"Clint Holmes "Playground in My Mind"The Detergents "Leader of the Laundromat"David Geddes "Run Joey Run"and songs for the movie The Phantom Tollbooth
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
Donovan: "Epistle To Dippy" at Buc-ee's
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 October 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
god damn this thread fascinates me. it's just people saying "here's some shitty music I don't even really care about that I heard playing at some shitty place that I'd prefer not to go to but I kinda have to based on convenience and/or my pharmaceutical obligations." yet I keep reading it and making note of this seemingly arbitrary cross-section of hints gone by. I listen to enough of my own tastes, now it's time I be suggested that I listen to a forgotten Mike and Mechanics psuedo-hit because the tastemakers from the CVS muzak department decided it
― del griffith, Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
and why do they seem to like Paul Westerberg so much
― del griffith, Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
I just heard Portishead’s “Glory Box” booming out of someone’s open car window. Not too obscure, but cool to encounter in that setting.
― a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze (morrisp), Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
apparently songs that were big radio hits once are obscure so "glory box" counts
― dyl, Saturday, 20 October 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
I think "songs you were surprised to hear in a retail establishment" would be a more accurate title but this is an okay place to remark that you heard "Love Vigilantes" in Safeway or whatever. It's harmless fun; let ppl have it ffs.
The posts challenging whether something is or is not an "obscure single" are to be expected. It's already an odd category: singles tend to be less obscure than other songs. But I don't see what that debate adds to the discussion except to pooh-pooh the whole premise. No one is forcing you to read the thread; just look at one of the bajillion other ones if this one doesn't meet your high standards I guess?
― (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 20 October 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
Fwiw, in the quoted post by Croup in this thread's op, he's talking about hearing "Sleeping Bag", a forgotten Top Ten Pop hit by ZZ Top, at CVS.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 October 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
this thread is ILM HOF material IMO
― the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Saturday, 20 October 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
I love the thread because I love the act of putting on a song, I just love loving real songs for real reasons even more
― del griffith, Saturday, 20 October 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link