I heard that really sterile, generic, terrible ballad by "Sergio Mendes" from the 80s...."Never Gonna Let You Go"...in a Zaxby's.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
whenever i'm in cvs i hear "shattered dreams"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
I heard Jack Wagner's "All I Need" and Richard Marx's "Hazard" once in an Albertsons during a 4 hour shift. I remain convinced that they had not changed their Muzak since my childhood.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
and whenever I hit the "from this empty heart" falsetto several mothers in the cold medicine section scowl
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:10 (ten years ago) link
hahaha. I can't help not singing along to that tune either. that or "All I Need is a Miracle".
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
haha otm
― goole, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
Shopping for pencils and invisible tape at CVS this morning I heard "Soul Drifter" by Lindsey Buckingham!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
^^^^ I've heard it at CVS too
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Manu Dibango - "Soul Makossa," in H.E.B. yesterday (though for some reason, in that store, the only place you can usually hear the music without straining your ears is in the restroom)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
trouble - lindsey buckingham
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
also hear a LOT of Rumours in CVS
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
i hear a lot of saint etienne in supermarkets and drugstores
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
My fave supermarket plays nothing but 60's soul.
I think I answered this elsewhere, but our CVS had "The Sign of Fire" by the Fixx...I flipped!! It started this whole Fixx thing with me for a while.
― I am Sporadicus! (I M Losted), Thursday, 17 April 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
This morning at CVS I heard REM's "At My Most Beautiful."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
somehow, even though it tanked, that's the single from up i hear most often by far. only in grocery stores and drugstores obv.
― balls, Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word at Walgreens
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
Followed by this random pop punk/emotronic ish:
http://thepasstheband.bandcamp.com/track/cross-walk-stereo
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
Which, just like, I mean, I expected anything else as a follow-up.
― how's life, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
Sunday afternoon: Ric Ocasek's "Something to Grab For."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:14 (ten years ago) link
Semisonic: All About Chemistry― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:56 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Just heard this at Taco Bell.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
At Publix this a.m:
Jesse Johnson ft. Sly Stone - Crazay
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:20 (ten years ago) link
Book of Love - "Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)" @ Which Wich
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Friday, 16 May 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
I had my purchases in hand but continued to wander the aisles because Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two" was playing and there was nobody in line ahead of me.
― naus, Saturday, 17 May 2014 02:20 (ten years ago) link
I caught Steppin' Out in CVS last week!
― how's life, Saturday, 17 May 2014 10:24 (ten years ago) link
I heard that Joe Jackson song in a CVS too ("Breaking Us In Two"), and wondered if Badfinger ever sued/threatened to sue/got joint writing credit.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
― naus,
done on purpose by CVS corporate
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 May 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
All I hear at the drugstore now is the opening riff of ''Down on the Corner,'' played ad infinitum as the theme to the Walgreen's in-house ad.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 19 May 2014 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Sam Phillips- "Baby I Can't Please You" at Wendy's (seems like this song is an evergreen on restaurant/drug store/supermarket muzak)
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
REM - "All The Way To Reno"― da croupier, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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And this was played earlier.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
i heard the beverley knight version of "keep this fire burning" in a shitty off-brand cafe in heathrow. i mean, okay it hit #16 but that's kind of a deep cut in 2014. when "rock with you" came on afterwards i was like okay cafe, you got me.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Neither one very obscure, but back to back in a rather high-end department store: George Jones' "The Race Is On" and Tiffany's "Only In my Dreams." Probably programmed by hipsters, maybe not all THAT surprising.
― Okay, there's lil' Zipper again (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
reminds me of the great Not My Fault columns 'what is the minimum number of hanging plants required to give the illusion that we care?'.
― campreverb, Thursday, 7 August 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac: "Think About Me"* @ Whataburger (followed by, uh, "One Week" by BNL)
*Maybe not obscure by ilx standards, but I don't think I've actually heard this on the radio outside of a 'classic disc' airing of Tusk.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link
Key Food in Brooklyn always has a deep-cut 1960s Top 40 mix going on, and I like the fact that they play even the cornball stuff that you would think would try the patience of many customers - not to mention the young folks who work there.
Thanks to them I got hipped to the 1967 track "A Girl Like You" by the Young Rascals.
― Josefa, Saturday, 9 August 2014 07:45 (nine years ago) link
Boys Club - I Remember Holding You #8 January 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLA9oIemtG8
I heard this a couple times in late '88: a "Careless Whisper" pastiche recorded by skin trade before New Kids took off.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
Hipsway, "Honeythief" at Walgreen. I almost knocked over an display 'cause I started dancing.
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
"a" display, not "an" display, ugh this phone
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
was picking up prescription for antidepressant at walgreens and they were playing "i wanna be sedated." no lie.heard this last week too.
― tylerw, Friday, 19 September 2014 01:51 (nine years ago) link
heard a weird muzaky cover of "I'm Looking Through You" by the Beatles the other week when i was buying pills
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
Jack In The Box: The Go-Gos--"Cool Jerk" from the '90 Greatest Hits.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Cvs yesterday: the bangles "if she knew what she wants"
Not obscure in its day but I'd completely forgotten this track
― Gar Tooth (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 20 September 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
XTC: "Generals and Majors" at Wendy's
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
― Gar Tooth (Jon Lewis),
beautiful cover
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
also at Jack In The Box: The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
― 𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒 𠁢 (+ +), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Dairy Queen: Rodney Crowell - "Lovin' All Night", his last big Country hit from '92. I assume it hasn't got much radio love since.
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 3 October 2014 21:15 (nine years ago) link
Marshall Crenshaw: "Someday Someway" actually at CVS (and interrupted at least twice for ads)
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link
i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex at walgreen's a while back
― punk rocketeer (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Aztec Camera's "Walk Out to Winter" at Ocean State Job Lot
(part of their Christmas programming, presumably)
― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
T Rex's "The Slider" playing in a hardware store in Agawam, MA
― col, Friday, 14 November 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
heard Building Steam With A Grain of Salt at an airport yesterday, was real confused, looked around realized it was a Chevy commercial on a nearby TV
― less paul (lukas), Friday, 14 November 2014 01:54 (nine years ago) link
Oldies Dairy Queen was nosier and playing the muzak at a lower volume than normal. Still could make out:
Buddy Holly: "Not Fade Away"Cleveland Crochet: "Sugar Bee"
The latter was the first and one of the only Zydeco Rock hits, charting in 1960, a good 25 or so years before "My Toot-Toot."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 May 2024 19:55 (two weeks ago) link
That particular Dairy Queen is really doing some good cultural preservation work
― Josefa, Saturday, 25 May 2024 20:19 (two weeks ago) link
Was packing up to leave the coffee shop, but "Surrender"...62-year-old taps fingers on keyboard, circumspectly bobs head and sways gently. He just seems a little weird.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 June 2024 18:28 (one week ago) link
Heard “Divine Hammer” at Five Guys today.
― OG Rizzler (morrisp), Sunday, 2 June 2024 23:43 (one week ago) link
“Too Late to Turn Back Now" by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose at my kid’s physical therapy office.
― Overly dramatic elevator music (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 12:39 (six days ago) link
That soundtracked a great scene in Blackkklansman. Spike Lee is just about the only director who knows how to use pop music in movies.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 13:29 (six days ago) link
Them's fighting words (not that Spike doesn't know how, he does, but the "just about the only" part)...Swear to god, I was on here an hour ago and almost posted the Blackkklansman clip with a security-camera footage joke (i.e., from the physical therapy office--a lot of moving parts for a joke). Incredible scene.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 14:23 (six days ago) link
Ha, yes I recall, you have strong opinions about this, as do I! <3
― brimstead, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 18:12 (six days ago) link
The burger place w/the Traveling Wilburys Pandora station switched to All-Beatles. The lesser-known tracks I heard today:
"Here, There, And Everywhere""I Will" "For No One""Now & Then" (too soon?) "Octopus' Garden"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 8 June 2024 18:48 (two days ago) link