Songs heard while shoppin'

Positively Fourth Street

There's a produce store here called Stanley's that plays almost nothing but 80s new wave/post punk stuff (Squeeze, Police, Echo and the Bunnymen, etc.).

"Mr. Crowley"

what kind of place did you hear mr. crowley at?

Probably Jo-Ann.

what kind of place did you hear mr. crowley at?

heard lindstrØm+prins at american apparel once

everytime I go to Stop'n'Shop it's either 'Josie' or 'Peg'

I was singing along to "Peg" in Home Depot the other day and getting a few strange looks.

Probably Jo-Ann.

oh, I was thinking Linens 'n' Things.

I had to restrain myself from emphatically pointing my finger at customers innocently pushing their carts down the frozen foods aisle while I was lip syncing to Positively...

Local shopping centre plays a long list of songs on a loop, but it always seems to be Springsteen's 'Dancing In The Dark' that's playing, especially when I'm in the men's room and looking in the mirror when the song gets to the line "check my look in the mirror". Happened twice this fortnight so far.

I heard a live version of "Hello Cowgirl in the Sand" yesterday when I was shopping in an Italian gourmet food store, and I thought: this is really a depressing song, and no wonder I don't listen to Neil Young more, as good as he is. And I thought they really shouldn't be playing that song. I was tired and my allergies were bothering me, which was making me extremely emotionally hyper-sensitive. Let's all think about loss and disappointment and raw pain while we are trying to find something nice to carry home and eat.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 1 July 2007 01:00 (3 years ago)

everytime I go to Stop'n'Shop it's either 'Josie' or 'Peg'

― No one is too good for this album; it is better than all of us. (herb albert), Sunday, July 11, 2010 11:53 PM (1 week ago)

I was singing along to "Peg" in Home Depot the other day and getting a few strange looks.

― kkvgz, Monday, July 12, 2010 5:53 AM (6 days ago)

Heard "Peg" in TeaGschwendner the other day.

Heard Stevie B's "In My Eyes" in a thrift shop yesterday.

today, Wild Cherry's 'Play That Funky Music'

supermarket
BARBARA STREISAND- THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT
RICK JAMES- GIVE IT TO ME BABY

thrift store
LUTHER VANDROSS- A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
(a woman who was singing along and saying stuff like "mmm, god rest his soul!")

that Stevie B song is a new one to me

MORE MORE MORE- Andrea True Connection

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama' - in a shopping centre in the deep south... of England

Heaven on the Seventh Floor- Paul Nicholas

I was pretty surprised to hear "I Know There's Something Going On" by Frida in Safeway recently.

that's pretty cool

i think they've done studies showing that people buy more asparagus when exposed to swedish pop music

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/532194935_3969dbbd70.jpg
(there's an uncropped version of this picture with a sign in Swedish that Babelfish's as 'Green Objects', which I suppose includes asparagus)

i find that picture to be strangely alluring

In a shopping mall: Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'

In Sainsbury's: 'Bad Moon Rising Lyrics' by Creedence Clearwater Revival

duh and the music was playing as well, of course...

I mean, it wasn't some loony on the PA system reading out the words.

good, b/c there is a thread elsewhere for those occurences

Phil Collins' 'Against All Odds', followed by... 'Sweet Home Alabama' again.

not shoppin, technically, but rocky raccoon in mcdonald's canal st. and dude is fuckng rocking out to it, man. if there were an upright piano in the restaurant, he would be dancing on top of it, i'm fairly certain

Are you on 77, del? Cause that information would definitely be welcome in the Whiney/Beatles thread.

no, i guess i need to put in a request for access over there... that was a great moment, though . i'm kinda glad i documented it here. years ago i heard alone again or by love in a mcdonald's but that got a much more subdued response

I would be surprised like hell to hear either of those in a McD's.

yeah, i certainly thought it was odd

Little River Band- Reminiscing
Apollo 100- Joy
Steely Dan- Do It Again

I never cared much for that Steely Dan tune, but man did it ever sound good this evening when I was strutting through the coffee/tea/cereal aisle. And yes, you better believe I was strutting, basket in hand. NO SHOPPING CART FOR THIS WILD-LIVING BACHELOR!!! dAMN STRAIGHt woo-hoooooooooo

Also, pasta was on sale 3 for a dollar.

I Love You Always Forever- Donna Lewis

This woman was walking down the sidewalk this morning talking on her cellphone and I heard her say "Oh really? Well, that's my number one hangover cure-- I have a fatty..." and then poof! She was out of earshot right after that word...so I was left wondering if she meant she chose to smoke a "fatty" to cure her hangovers or if she ate a fatty breakfast. I guess she was probably just advising her friend to eat scrapple.

I've heard Camera Obscura pretty much every other shopping trip in the past 18 months in the Bay Area. Doesn't matter what shop, I will hear them somewhere.

Not sure if this counts but I always enjoy hearing "My Ever Changing Moods" when it plays occasionally at work.

I like less hearing 10 Jason Mraz songs a day. His music is like that annoying kid you went to high school with who was in all the AP classes and wore sandals with pre-stressed jeans every day of the year.

Not sure if this counts but I always enjoy hearing "My Ever Changing Moods" when it plays occasionally at work.

oh man, i want to work at a place like that

i remember my friend texted me once a few years ago to tell me that she was in macy's and that song was playing!

no. i lied. i think it was "you're the best thing".

The Lightning Seeds: some unidentified song - they all sound pretty much the same anyway.

the beach boys- do it again

heard at army surplus store: little honda- the beach boys

strawberry letter #23- the brothers johnson

not shopping atm but can hear the not-so-distant strains of someone performing "paparazzi" on a kazoo

he won't stop until you love him.

Fleetwood Mac, 'Dreams'

this, in a thrift shop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUgxRnmuypQ

Somebody needs to record a special album for thrift stores and charity shops:

'Yes Of Course I Can Give You Change For A £20 Note'
'Thanks For This Kind Donation Of Betamax Tapes'
'No We Do Not Accept Clothes Covered In Dubious Stains'
'Haggling On A £2 Item Is Perfectly Acceptable In A Charity Shop'
'Just Buy Something Will Ya?'

heard The Sundays in Walgreens... I think it was "Goodbye"?

25 Miles - Edwin Starr

Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)- Looking Glass
Beginnings- Chicago

recently i was at the supermarket walking down a long empty aisle when a man appeared at the other end and started walking towards me and then the 'the lady in red' started playing and as we drew level we looked at each other and burst out laughing.

:D

:D

Today: "bad sneakers" in the liquor store.

At trader joes: Some badass EWF song with a lot of chord changes.

disappointed not to see any kaiser chief gags tbph

Also at TJ's: Aztec Camera, "Oblivious."

Pat Benetar - "I need a love that don't drive me crazy". Yeah, me too. So classic.

Today: "bad sneakers" in the liquor store.

that's kind of perfect

beach baby- first class

devil woman- cliff richard
guitar man- bread
fly, robin, fly- silver convention

and of course,
bad, bad leroy brown- jim crotchead

rikki don't lose that number- steely dan
ramblin' man- the allman brothers band
life's been good- joe walsh

guess what america?? guess who fcking heard the following songs in the effing grocery store earlier tonight??

lowdown- boz scaggs
jet- macca / wings

yeh, effing me, that's who

in your face america

in your face!! :D

boz scaggs is one of my top ten grocery store musical artists.

yesterday in a department store i heard:
funky cold medina (tone loc)
followed by
copperhead road (steve earle)
followed by
you give love a bad name (bon jovi)
followed by
i don't know because i left but i was braced for anything.

there was a likeable thin middle-aged sales clerk with a handlebar moustache and a glinting ear who became animated and sang a little during copperhead road but then sank into a lugubrious state when bon jovi commenced, i didn't see what he got up to during funky cold medina because he was lurking behind a rack of jackets. he struck me as someone who is skilled at looking busy, which is a talent i envy.

hah!

i heard somebody's watching me by rockwell while standing in line earlier tonight

i like this thread, dell.

i am glad to hear that. it's been working out quite well for me, all things considered.

Friday I'm In Love, at 6 in the morning on a Monday at the local Shell station.

ha

what's my name - snoop doggy dogg

7pm in the grocery store

I'm always waiting with baited breath for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3FqJLtjpw

my sweet lord- george harrison

i'll be there- the jackson 5

boy am i miffed that "tighter tighter" started playing just as i was walking out the electronic doors. drat.

feel like making love- roberta flack with donnie hathaway

still crazy after all these years- paul simon

long tall glasses- leo sayer

low rider- war

yeh it was a pretty good night!!

feel like making love- roberta flack with donnie hathaway

is donny even involved w/that? fuck if i know

shoeshine boy- eddie kendricks

Some song with the line "oh it was a shame about that tree, it was beautiful", and 'When I Ruled The World' by Coldplay, both performed by a busker with an acoustic guitar.

usually keep this positive but I'd been going to Starbucks to study for classes in the hour and a half I have between work and school, but lately they've been playing this CD of Barbra Streisand crooner songs and it's like aural terrorism. I feel so bad for the people working there.

I asked one of the baristas if they could turn it down a notch and she explained that the music is either so loud you can't ignore it or off, there's no volume control. Fucking horrible.

jeepers

fuck yeh, "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell! !

little red corvette- prince

some song by sisters sledge about family or something?

i just called to say i love you--stevie wonder + the faux hoos who works at my local grocery store who i caught singing along when i changed aisles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DArS8zJGgcw

Had no idea who did the song before — was v much grooving to it at the time

'Party Rock Anthem' in HMV.

Skee Lo's "I Wish" in newsagent <3

"I wish I was a little bit taller... so I could reach the top shelf mags."

BEP's 'I Gotta Feeling', in the men's room of a shopping centre.

"afternoon delight"

there were maybe three customers in the supermarket. i felt nervous and tried to keep to empty aisles.

TLC's 'Creep' - haven't heard it for a while, it was a shopping mall staple from the 90's.

The Clash - 'I Fought The Law'

Donald Fagen- I.G.Y. @Walgreens

Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven
ELO- Sweet Talkin' Woman

& ran into an ILXor whose name rhymes with a famous Liverpool footballer

Jimmy "Jim Jam" Buffett- Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

don't recall music but this woman who is i guess a manager at the supermarket was singing "don't you know that crime is going up up up up"

i had to restrain myself from singing the next line

then she said something about coupons and looked at me and winked.

i guess she is a s~t~o~n~e~r? b/c back a couple yrs ago when i was an occasional Smoker a pack of rolling papers fell out of my wallet, and she was like "where do you get those? is there a store near here that sells them?"

harry chapin- taxi
isaac hayes- theme from shaft

lately rock the boat by the hues corporation is following me around everywhere. i guess that is simply god's way of impressing upon me that i need to buy a yacht.

some song by the strokes in a "HomeGoods" store

Love is the Answer- England Dan and John Ford Coley

never realized until looking this up on internet that it's actually a cover of a Todd Rundgren/Utopia song??

had just assumed it was simply the next logical step in Bahá'i rock given the times

Christina Aguilera, 'Beautiful'

And it was playing loudest in the men's room, so maybe the lyrics could have been change to "turds can't bring me down".

thought those were the lyrics???

in ~designer shoes warehouse~ that SNEAKER PIMPS song that was big in U.S.

The Korean lady in the Italian deli wax listening to some kind of German Schlager. Seems like it was "Papillon" by Nicole

Deodato- Also Spoke Zarathustra

sounded amazing

fun tidbit: he produced K. Rowland's first solo record

Todd Rundgren- I Saw the Light

the cashier was singing along to that one. we don't have self-checkouts in this town. they don't trust us... i like it better this way tho

James, 'She's A Star' - first I thought it was by Suede, but then I remembered that the woman in the video is also in the video for 'She's In Fashion'.

Dan Fogelberg- Longer

biggest part of me- ambrosia

also they sell this now at "my store": http://realityweeklymagazine.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rw21_small.jpg

"HOW YOU CAN MAKE A FORTUNE FROM OTHER PEOPLE'S GARBAGE!"

...collect it and print it in a magazine!

'Nothing Compares 2 U', Sinead O'Connor
'Sit Down', James
some bangin' techno thing

'Heart of Glass', Blondie

"HOW YOU CAN MAKE A FORTUNE FROM OTHER PEOPLE'S GARBAGE!"

...collect it and print it in a magazine!

haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTIWv3yJMRk

cashier (looking at my bundle of two bananas): that's all you're getting??
me: yup! this is it!
cashier: okaaay
me: is there a minimum purchase requirement here?
cashier: no, there's not a minimum purchase requirement
me: ok. thanks, enjoy your evening
cashier: thanks, have a good night, hon

^^^ cashier was probably wondering if you'd also be wanting some whipped cream.

In a music store, Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid', only something went wrong with the PA system at the start of the solo and Tony Iommi's guitar sounded like a wasp in a tailpipe.

heh-heh

Toast and Marmalade for Tea- Tin Tin

The Bee Gees - 'Night Fever'

Michael Buble - 'Just Haven't Met You Yet'

Duran Duran - 'View To A Kill'

That was my favorite song when I was 6. I'd love to hear that while shopping.

Pet Shop Boys - 'West End Girls' (I think it was the mix on their 'Disco' album)

The Rolling Stones - 'Brown Eyed Girl'
U2 - 'With Or Without You'

Robbie Williams - 'Rock DJ'

Eurythmics - 'You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart'

'tis the season... to listen to terrible Christmas music:

• A live brass band playing an out of tune rendition of 'I Saw Three Ships'.
• Diana Ross, 'I'm Still Waiting'
• Shopping-mall-lite version of 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas'.

In HMV this afternoon, 'Bittersweet Symphony' by The Verve.

Said it another thread but "Watch the Sunrise" by Big Star in a branch of the Bank of Scotland in Paisley over Christmas

'All Around The World', Lisa Stansfield - instant late 80's shopping centre flashback

'Harlem Shake'

TK Maxx continues to have surprisingly great music. They were playing Amanda Mair last time I went in.

Hot Chocolate, 'So You Win Again'

'Mack The Knife', Michael Buble, in a charity shop.
'Psycho Killer', Talking Heads, in a slightly hipper charity shop.

'Wonderful Christmastime', Paul McCartney

I HATE THAT SONG SO MUCH

According to Wikipedia Macca earns $400,000 a year from it. I don't hate the song exactly, but it's such a nothing song, who would have thought he'd coin so much from it?

Anyway, continuing with the Christmas theme in my local circle of Hell shopping centre: 'Step Into Christmas' by Elton John. Which somehow I find more tolerable than 'Wonderful Christmastime', but still, it's not a track I'd choose to listen to.

"I Was Born On Christmas Day" by Saint Etienne while I was shopping for pillows and an 8" square cake pan. This made me irrationally giddy and eager as it is my 2nd favorite Christmas song, and my best friend and I danced in a really sad and decrepit part of the Seasonal section together.

• 'Night Fever', The Bee Gees
• unidentifiable song coming out of some muffled speakers
• some late period Rod Stewart song where it sounds like he's half asleep and has stopped giving a shit

James Brown Christmas songs in Primark

'Santa Baby' sung by Eartha Kitt in a local charity shop.

Bananarama - venus (i hear this one all the time and it's basically become my grocery shopping anthem)
Spice Girls - Wannabe (had not heard this in years! Great produce shopping music. Hearing it was a huge breath of fresh air after suffering through a block of sad sack achey james blunt ed mccain crap)

The Corrs - "Breathless"
Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"

Two competing stores blasting ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' and Cameo's 'Word Up'.

We ever - Photograph

Weezer

Gary Numan's "Cars" in my local Morrison's... sounded well weird.

The Gap Band, 'You Dropped A Bomb On Me'
Ben E King, 'Stand By Me'

Not exactly shoppin', but every weekday on my way home I take a shortcut through a shopping centre to the bus staton.

Rose Royce, 'Car Wash' (which was so distorted by the PA system that the title sounded like "bogwash")
The Beatles, 'Help!' ("Kelp!"?)

Con Funk Shun "Ffun" first thing in the morning at Trader Joes on Sunday.

'Wonderful Christmastime', Paul McCartney

― fashionably early Christmas themed display name (snoball), Wednesday, December 4, 2013

^^^ again today while walking through the shopping centre on my way to stand in a queue for an overcrowded bus. First thing I thought about was this thread.

USSR by Eddy Huntington at a supermarket in Yerevan.

Missy Elliott, 'Get Ur Freak On'.

They were playing George Duke's flawless I Love You More in TK Maxx at Charing Cross Road this morning. Seems very strange the song has less than 250k plays on YouTube in three years: http://youtu.be/IEibygqqLZc

Robin S, 'Show Me Love'

Sylvester, 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)'

songs heard while waiting on hold to transfer a call to another company's internal help desk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heW3TziyFLI

Lipps Inc, 'Funky Town'

Chaka Khan, 'I Feel For You'

more than a feeling
Magic man

Andrea True Connection, 'More More More'

Also a weird experience where a busker outside a shopping centre was playing a Bob Marley song, then I walked into the shopping centre and another Bob Marley song was playing over the PA system.

I went to a v fancy restaurant last night and they played "Fools Gold" by Stone Roses

The nordstrom at the freehold raceway mall plays a lot of stereolab. I've noticed it a few times

Also i heard william onyeabor's fantastic man twice in a 24 hour period. Once at luskus, the tasting menu restaurant in the back of torst, and once (the next morning) at a secondhand store in bushwick.

• 'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakin' Stevens, in Gregg's, while purchasing a pink cylinder tasting vaguely of spices wrapped in a cardboard tube. Very fitting.
• 'Top Of The World' performed by a violinist busker on the high street, who was Portsmouth Sinfonia level bad.
• 'Mull Of Kintyre', Wings.

Not heard while shopping, but the someone on the local radio station clearly has a sense of gallows humour because the day after Trump won they played D:Ream's 'Things Can Only Get Better' (Labour used it as their campaign song in the 1997 UK General Election).

I was walking down the street thinking about 'Finally' by Ce Ce Peniston, when I walked into a supermarket to hear it playing over the in-store radio.

Duran Duran's 'Rio' while in the Co-Op.

Alesha Dixon's 'The Boy Does Nothing', again while in the Co-Op.

Co-Op strikes gold again: Suzi Quatro's 'Can The Can'.

Buggles' 'Video Killed The Radio Star' and Aretha Franklin's '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman' (which reminded me to buy some milk).

ABBA - 'Mamma Mia'
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_D1SQyMuyk6E/SqW_w-6ZRqI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qOlLHpdV8wA/s400/Agnetha_supermercado2.jpg

Wings, 'Mull of Kintyre'. It was the UK Christmas #1 in 1977, but I've never heard it played in a shopping centre at all, particularly not as a Christmas song.

Kate Bush, 'Cloudbusting'.

Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill'.

Felt particularly appropriate as I'd just walked nearly two miles in a torrential downpour.

I've just remembered, when I was in Lisbon, I went for a meal and the kinda hippyish waiter played all sorts of good music but I especially remember he played "Maggot Brain", which was cool.

"Family Affair" in Morrisons. Sweet.

Wizkid’s “Master Groove” blasting out of a shop in the Xiaobei area of Guangzhou. Good times!

Morrisons again. "Respect Yourself" by the Staples Singers. They play some good music in that shop.

... and today, The Who, "Magic Bus".

Local shopping centre, ironically, Jessie J's 'Price Tag'.

Forgot to mention "One Nation Under a Groove" in Morrisons (again).

Delighted to hear Gang of Four in a genteel, single-origin-bags-for-decor, popup cafe.

How high are the ceilings in the supermarket?
Do they play music in there?

These are questions I should know the answers to, but genuinely can't answer

Fools Gold by the Stone Roses in American Eagle. I had no idea they were at all known in the US.

"Teenage Kicks" in Morrisons.

7:30am in the Tesco's I often drop in to on my way to work: Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start The Fire'. I reached the self service checkout area just in time to hear William bellowing "BRITISH POLITICIAN SEX!" through the cranked in-store PA system. Just the thing to get people awake on a Monday.
"JFK! BLOWN AWAY! WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY!!!"

Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama' - in a shopping centre in the deep south... of England

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 27 August 2010 10:21 (nine years ago)

Yep, they're still playing that song.

Fools Gold by the Stone Roses in American Eagle. I had no idea they were at all known in the US.

― AlanSmithee, Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:21 (five months ago)

'Fools Gold' then straight into Mark Morrison's 'Return Of The Mack'.

'Word Up' - Cameo

https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljl17sqgyX1qzujsgo1_400.gif

"The Return of the Los Palmas 7" - Madness
"Fools Gold" - The Stone Roses
"Twist & Shout" - The Beatles
"The One & Only" - Chesney Hawkes (especially weird because I was thinking about this song while walking to the shopping centre only to hear it playing when I walked in)

"Angels" - Robbie Williams (played horrendously out of tune by a busker on saxophone)
"Teenage Kicks" - The Undertones (a different busker playing an acoustic guitar)
"Chelsea Dagger" - The Fratellis
"Sugar" - Maroon 5

May be coincidence, or maybe whoever picks the music for Co-Op in-store radio subscribes to this channel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJIgsFHX0Q
...because Lulu's version of 'The Man Who Sold The World' was playing.

Songs heard while shoppin' waiting to get your COVID vaccine booster

'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakin' Stevens
'Dancing In The Moonlight' by Toploader

yesterday in the shopping centre, 'Wombling Merry Christmas'

I was in Saisbury's but this is a very Co-Op kind of track - Bryan Ferry's 'Let's Stick Together'.

It was like seeing a stiff and starchy relative get loose at a Christmas party.

Lol

Today in the shopping centre: Endor - 'Pump It Up'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfnjX88Va4Y
followed by Majestic x Boney M. - 'Rasputin (2022 Remix)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8XADglx9z4

Not shopping but sitting in an empty pub in Paisley in the late afternoon and "Simon Says" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company is playing.

... "Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Makes "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" sound like "Helter Skelter".

Yesterday I heard...
Tracy Chapman, 'Fast Car' in a shopping centre,
Billy Joel, 'Uptown Girl' in a DIY store,
Craig David, 'Re-Rewind' and Dizzy Rascal, 'Bonkers', both in a computer store.

Probably the most unexpected one for me was "How to Disappear Completely" at Home Depot.

A very unexpected song to hear in a supermarket in the South East of England - Neil Young's 'Harvest Moon'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MtEsrcTTs

An odd set of songs to hear one after the other:

'Miss You', The Rolling Stones
'The Man Who Sold The World', Lulu
'September', Earth, Wind & Fire
'Boys Don't Cry', The Cure

Filtered through the PA system of a store is probably the optimal way to hear miss you as it blows, particularly if you watch the video at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hic-dnps6MU
I wonder whose bright idea it was to remove the guitar riff from Lulu's version and replace it with a flatulent sax?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFAnA9oPRE

In a shopping centre on my way to the food court:

'Groove Is In The Heart' - Deee-Lite
'Can't Get You Out Of My Head' - Kylie Minogue

In an outdoor equipment store shortly after lunch:

'Stay Together' - Suede

I've just remembered, when I was in Lisbon, I went for a meal and the kinda hippyish waiter played all sorts of good music but I especially remember he played "Maggot Brain", which was cool.

I was visiting my sister in Scotland at the weekend and we were in her local pub in the village she lives in, on a busy Friday night, and "Maggot Brain" was played!

In the supermarket, Axl Rose's favourite Pet Shop Boys song, 'Being Boring'.

In Tesco's, while picking up my morning dose of mind-rotting energy drink: George Michael's 'Careless Whisper'.
In the Co-Op, while picking up my evening dose of mind-rotting energy drink (it's Friday, weekend gotta start somewhere): Kim Wilde's 'You Came'.

You can tell it's the Friday evening before a Bank Holiday weekend because the supermarket was rowdy and full of teenagers, including one 14 year old lad riding a bicycle down the aisle until I eyeballed him and then he was just wheeling it down the aisle. Soundtrack: Belinda Carlisle's 'Live Your Life Be Free' at even louder volume than normal.

my doc's office has generic muzak playing pop songs in maudlin solo piano form.

the funniest version I heard today was Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" performed if it was a funeral

Kate Bush, 'Babooshka'.

ABC, 'When Smokey Sings' ("when Smokey sings... I buy onions")

Surprised this morning to hear a deep track, "I Dream of Sleep", from last year's Sloan album. I guess it would have been more surprising if I were not in Canada.

Horrorpops, 'Walk Like A Zombie'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RKZpKkgWMM

This kind of downbeat selection of Christmas tunes in a shopping centre:

Wings - 'Mull Of Kintyre'
Wham! - 'Last Christmas'
Alexandra Burke (UK X Factor 2008 winner) - 'Hallelujah'

Last Sunday at 2pm in the afternoon in the Co-Op: 'Broken Wings', Mister Mister
Last Sunday at 2pm in the afternoon in the Co-Op: 'Babooska', Kate Bush

This Sunday at 2pm in the afternoon in the Co-Op: 'Babooska', Kate Bush

This is an unlikely one. "Aren't You Glad", from "The Family That Plays Together" by Spirit, in an extremely un-hipsterish pub in Paisley. Also it's literally the only music that's
been played.

Day off work so I was in town - in particular eating lunch in a McDonald's in a shopping centre - and heard this startling selection back to back:

Madonna, 'Vogue'
Kate Nash, 'Foundations'
Robin S, 'Show Me Love'
Elle King, 'Ex's & Oh's'
Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, 'Uptown Funk'