Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

toad the wet sprocket 'in my ear' at . . . cvs

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?

Citizen King: "Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)" at Randall's.

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.

Listening now, that Oasis song would be good to hear at a Prom.

Obscure Singles Heard At Proms

Stevie Nicks: "Every Day" at CVS.

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)

John Anderson: "Somebody Slap Me" at Kroger.

Good Lord.

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.

SHURAV DHAKAL
5 years ago
This plays at my local #Kroger everyday!
it's now stuck in my head

rhonda h
4 years ago
OMG! 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

KRDsonic
KRDsonic
4 years ago
@rhonda h I work at Kroger too and it plays in our store too. It's such a weird song D:

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Social Distortion: "I Was Wrong" at a pizza joint.

...and "Kinky Afro" by Happy Mondays.

The Replacements: "I Will Dare" at Randall's.

Love Will Tear Us Apart at a Smith's grocery store

Gorillaz: "On Melancholy Hill" at Target.

Speaking of incongruous music at CVS .

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.

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.

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.

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.

Camera Obscura: "Happy New Year" on the Holiday Muzak at HEB

...and again at Lowe's.

4 hours later, I Heart Radio just played Squeeze again.

i heard a goddam andrew thomas kompakt pop ambient deep cut at half price books, it was weird

David Crosby - "Hero"

have just heard julia fucking holter in the dentist's office. hell yes.

Father John Misty: "Total Entertainment Forever" at Taco Bell.

“Really Sayin Something” Bananarama and FB3 in the Xmas return line at Kohls.

Scritti Politti "Perfect Way" in At Home: The Home Decor Superstore

Hope you and your teen friends played along to an 80s montage of wackiness, like wearing lampshades, playing throw pillows like drums with spatulas and "framing" each other.

Ran into either a curated playlist or Pandora channel for Morris Day at Dairy Queen:

"Color of Success"
"The Walk"
"The Character"
"The Oak Tree"

And some other stuff before something switched for:

The Spinners: "Love Don't Love Nobody"

Richie Valens: "Bony Maronie" at KFC.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: "Stop" at Pepperoni's.

The Shadows of Knight's "Gloria," followed immediately by Joe Cocker's "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" at the supermarket yesterday.

"Don't try to live your life in one day" by Howard Jones at a local farm-market kind of place (which I had forgotten existed) followed by "Transmission" by Joy Division (which I had not forgotten about but was confused to hear in that setting).

"Thunder Island" at a fresh thyme market which I had to google because I've heard it many times but had no idea who did it and apparently the same guy wrote the theme song to the Office

...and was also the lead singer for somewhat obscure 60s/70s rock bands Spirit and JoJo Gunne.

“Someday, Someway,” by Marshall Crenshaw, at Target.

Ghost: “He Is” at McCarran International Airport, Terminal D

Crowded House - Fall at your feet - community centre bathroom

fastball "you're an ocean" - taco bell

Ghost: “He Is” at McCarran International Airport, Terminal D

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.),

Wow!

heard Prince's "Strollin'" just yesterday!

wasn't a CVS though, it was a Target!

Ghost: “He Is” at McCarran International Airport, Terminal D

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.),

Wow!

Is it possible the music player person didn't know who the "He" was

INXS: "Listen Like Thieves" at McDonald's.

At Pennsy Food Hall next to Madison Square Garden, prior to a Billy Joel show, amongst a steady stream of big '70s hits by Stevie Wonder & Paul Simon, came E.L.O.'s "Last Train to London."