Wait, you live in Texas?
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
H-Town Baby!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
"planet rock" will never be considered obscure hence you not having to mention the artist
― dyl, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
HEB got the tunes!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
Rolling Stones: "Respectable" at Wendy's, this location drawing from an extensive (mostly hits) Stones playlist during my visit.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
Paul Anka’s swing-band “Eye of the Tiger” at Ace Hardware.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
Dire Straits: "Water of Love" at Randall's.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 November 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
band in the subway is playing srv"s 'mary had a little lamb'
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Sparks & Jane Wiedlin: "Cool Places" at Which Wich.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 November 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac: "Songbird" and Van Morrison: "These Dreams of You" at P. Terry's.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 November 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
Buncha deep cut '60s stuff at Freddy's:
Spanky & Our Gang: "Sunday Will Never Be The Same"The Grass Roots: "Things I Should Have Said"Hollies: "I Can't Let Go"Byrds: "He Was A Friend of Mine"Canned Heat: "Rollin' and Tumblin'"Buffalo Springfield: "On The Way Home"
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
“Never Anyone But You” by the Clientele at Bartell Drugs.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
i dig it.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
QOTSA: "My God Is The Sun" and Buzzcocks: "Ever Fallen In Love..." at Five Guy's.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Right now in the supermarket: the Band’s version of “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,” followed immediately by James Brown’s “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Was it The Band? I couldn't find a version by them (on Spotify). It seems like a natural for them to have covered.
Camera Obscura: "Happy New Year" on the Holiday Muzak at HEB
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 November 2019 06:04 (four years ago) link
For me, it's been brit bands as of late that really stood out...
Style Council's "You're the Best Thing" in Walmart. Not TOTALLY obscure, but pretty damn close (Just googled: #76 Hot 100, #31 Adult Contemporary, moderate MTV play at the time). Always cool to hear a bit of Weller over here though...
Oasis' "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" in a Target (not even released in America as a single iirc?).
Stereo MC's "Step it Up" at a Whole Foods.Not super strange, but it's always been hugely overshadowed by the previous smash hit "Connected" and I assumed mostly forgotten. The average person would probably recall them as as one hit wonder here, if they remembered them at all. (Also googled this: #16 Alt, #30 pop radio, #56 Hot 100, minor MTV play)
Also, I recall walking into a Gap store once and hearing some sort of drum 'n' bass/jungle/breaks type tune.... in 2000s suburban America... That was pretty cool.
― gregorianpants, Thursday, 21 November 2019 07:19 (four years ago) link
My local gym's playlist has had a few anomalies as well. Mostly just the typical uptempo, current pop and rap but there's been some awful 2000s stuff in there that I had managed to block out of my memory until recently, like the the nu-metal "remix" version of Ludacris' "Get Back" for one.
Bizarrely, Genesis' "Taking it All Too Hard" and Scorpions' "Wind of Change" I've heard several times as well. Not exactly "pump up" music.
I also used to go to this gym which just used some dude's iTunes/ripped CD collection over the speakers, which included U2's Best of 1990 - 2000. So every now and then you'd get stuff like "Even Better than the Real Thing", "Mysterious Ways", and "Beautiful Day" come on shuffle (recognizable uptempo pop hits; good gym material), but you'd also get stuff off of Zooropa or "Miss Sarajevo" which is like Bono mumbling over Eno/Edge/Flood ambient washes + a minute Luciano Pavorotti opera section (definite vibe killers; bad gym material).
― gregorianpants, Thursday, 21 November 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
I think that Oasis track was a US single, it's just that America had long stopped caring (Charles Aaron or somebody wrote it up in Spin along the lines of "Another god-like Gallagher ballad, America shrugs--Wake Up Kids! Do you really want to hear Nickleback at yr Prom!").
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 November 2019 07:46 (four years ago) link
If it was, I never heard it played anywhere and it certainly never charted. I remember it being in a movie or something though at some point though, I believe.
And that's saying something because even during that era of Oasis' new millennium nadir, I recall even their comeback track "Go Let It Out" from the year prior getting rotation on both MTV and MTV2 (and Liam Gallagher going on TRL to befuddle Carson Daly for all of 2 minutes) as well as my local modern rock station spinning it in between all the Drop D-tuned angst. Granted, it was completely forgotten after a couple months, but still...
"Stop Crying" is a decent tune. In an alternate timeline, '02 era Coldplay probably could have turned it into a smash. But it's little wonder why it flopped in the states. Poor vocal performance from Liam, substandard arrangement, probably little promotion for an out-of-touch band with tons of baggage/negative press that had flopped over and over for the past 5 years running.
― gregorianpants, Thursday, 21 November 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
toad the wet sprocket 'in my ear' at . . . cvs
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 November 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Charles Aaron or somebody wrote it up in Spin along the lines of "Another god-like Gallagher ballad, America shrugs--Wake Up Kids! Do you really want to hear Nickleback at yr Prom!
How did Aaron find meaning in his life after the War on Scrunge ended?
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Friday, 22 November 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link
Citizen King: "Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)" at Randall's.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 November 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Was it The Band?
What I noticed first, before recognizing the tune, was Levon's voice, and a guitar that sounded similar to Robertson's. But I can't find anything in a cursory Google search, so...maybe it wasn't the Band, or maybe it was one of Levon's solo projects or something. It was definitely Levon singing, though. I'm like...98% sure.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 22 November 2019 23:55 (four years ago) link
Listening now, that Oasis song would be good to hear at a Prom.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
Obscure Singles Heard At Proms
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:20 (four years ago) link
Stevie Nicks: "Every Day" at CVS.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 November 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
richard marx & donna lewis "at the beginning" at the grocery store
(second time i've heard it there in the past couple years or so so maybe it's actually being heard more than i think)
― dyl, Thursday, 28 November 2019 07:45 (four years ago) link
John Anderson: "Somebody Slap Me" at Kroger.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 05:47 (four years ago) link
Good Lord.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
His last Top 25 Country Hit, from 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzqV28LdJ8
It's stuff like this that makes you wonder just how deep the barrel is that their Muzak people are drawing from.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
SHURAV DHAKAL5 years agoThis plays at my local #Kroger everyday!it's now stuck in my head
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
rhonda h4 years agoOMG! I work at Kroger. It is played at my store too! When we hear it my co workers say "Just slap him already so he shuts up." lol KRDsonicKRDsonic4 years ago@rhonda h I work at Kroger too and it plays in our store too. It's such a weird song D:
KRDsonicKRDsonic4 years ago@rhonda h I work at Kroger too and it plays in our store too. It's such a weird song D:
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/TKwNBFp.gif
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
Social Distortion: "I Was Wrong" at a pizza joint.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 December 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
...and "Kinky Afro" by Happy Mondays.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 December 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
The Replacements: "I Will Dare" at Randall's.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Love Will Tear Us Apart at a Smith's grocery store
― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 12 December 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
Gorillaz: "On Melancholy Hill" at Target.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Speaking of incongruous music at CVS .
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 12 December 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Pfft, I mean, yeah. Anyone can tell you that while Walgreens is your place for ambient and trance, their industrial section has been pilthy for years.
― pplains, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
There's a CVS I'm in sometimes that has $5.99 CDs like that. IIRC, according to their barcode stickers, they date back to 2006-8. Mostly catalogue stuff: Diana Ross' Diana; Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs; The Rod Stewart Album.
They've also got a batch of new release DVDs that are just as old--Indiana Jones & The Crystal Skull for $25.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
My local supermarket, back when I lived in Western Mass, had a small, cheap CD section in the late '00s. One day I found two -- TWO! -- John Coltrane live discs that I'd never see nor heard of before. They were kinda bootleg-looking, and presumably recorded from radio broadcasts, but one had what instantly became one of my all-time favorite Coltrane pieces.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
I Heart Radio's Christmas music channel, playing in the halls here at work, just played Squeeze "Christmas Day."
References to Morecambe and Wise will mean nothing to 99% of the people here.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
...and again at Lowe's.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 December 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
4 hours later, I Heart Radio just played Squeeze again.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 13 December 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
i heard a goddam andrew thomas kompakt pop ambient deep cut at half price books, it was weird
― brimstead, Friday, 13 December 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
David Crosby - "Hero"
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
have just heard julia fucking holter in the dentist's office. hell yes.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
Father John Misty: "Total Entertainment Forever" at Taco Bell.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link