Lulu: "Oh Me Oh My" at Goodwill
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
...and Mercy: "Love Can Make You Happy"
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Doobie Brothers - "Echoes of Love" at my local supermarket.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
War: "All Day Music" at the FedEx Store
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 22:27 (seven years ago) link
Reminds me that I heard "Cisco Kid" last week st the supermarket.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
Steve Miller: "Dance Dance Dance" & Boz Scaggs "Breakdown Dead Ahead" at Krogers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 February 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link
The Yardbirds' "For Your Love" at Walmart.
― timellison, Monday, 13 February 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Not obscure, but it's still kind of strange to hear "London Calling" when I'm (lost) in the supermarket.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 05:34 (seven years ago) link
Holy Shit!
Big Star: "September Gurls" at FUDDRUCKERS
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
the fuck are you doing at a Fuddruckers
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Elton John "Tower of Babel" at Foodtown
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 18 March 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
ok woah.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 18 March 2017 05:51 (seven years ago) link
Lyle Lovett: "Private Conversation" at Randall's
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:21 (seven years ago) link
INXS: "Disappear" at Fuddruckers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
very austin
― 1staethyr, Friday, 14 April 2017 03:53 (seven years ago) link
...except I was in Houston, but yeah...
I actually used to hear that track a lot in stores late '90s/early '00s.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 14 April 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link
whoops, i don't know why i always thought randall's was only in central texas
― 1staethyr, Friday, 14 April 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
Not exactly obscure, but the huge at the time and now forgotten David Gray: "Avalon" at Jason's Deli
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 April 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Squeeze: "Pulling Mussels (From A Shell)" at Which Which (not that obscure, but still somewhat surprising on a non-80s only muzak)
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 April 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Happy Mondays - 'Step One
In Guitar Center.
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
*'Step On'
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
OMD - 'Souvenier'
In Starbucks.
― Austin, Friday, 5 May 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Two different days, two early Elvis Costello's
"Crawling To The USA" at a pizza place"No Action" at Fuddruckers
And this shouldn't count, but I had an extended project meeting at a local coffee house yesterday that was bringing the Punk/Post-Punk with full album airings of Pink Flag and Entertainment!.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 May 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Also at Fudds: Talking Heads: "Love-->Building On Fire"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 5 May 2017 21:13 (seven years ago) link
local coffee houses absolutely do not count although that was probably pretty good listening!
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 5 May 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
It was! The amazing thing to me is this place isn't in some hipster enclave, but rather a strip mall wedged between two fairly large and untrendy subdivisions. I think some of the staff are punks, because I've heard similar stuff in there before, but not to the degree of full albums.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 6 May 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
Yesterday the gas station I work at played Reel Big Fish's cover of "Take On Me." I have that on CD and I hadn't even thought about it in fifteen years.
― Guy Pidgeotto (Tom Violence), Saturday, 6 May 2017 02:24 (seven years ago) link
Nirvana: "Molly's Lips", Rolling Stones: "Rip This Joint", and Black Crowes: "Sting Me" at Freebirds
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
ZZ Top: "Doubleback" at Randalls
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 May 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Galaxie 500 - Tugboat - IKEA parking lot
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 19 May 2017 02:50 (seven years ago) link
wow that's a good one ^
― austinb, Friday, 19 May 2017 06:25 (seven years ago) link
^ Impressive.
Not impossibly obscure, but Morrissey's "Suedehead" is exactly what I didn't expect to hear in Bunnings [massive blokey hardware warehouse in Australia] recently.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 19 May 2017 07:38 (seven years ago) link
Go-Go's: "Speeding" at Kroger
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link
Badfinger "Maybe Tomorrow" at Foodtown
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 1 June 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Liz Phair: "Supernova" at Fuddruckers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 June 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
...and Split Enz: "Six Months In A Leaky Boat"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 June 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
Classic Gold for this thread:
Lisa Loeb: "I Do" at Taco Bell
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 June 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
Followed up by Carole King: "Jazzman"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 12 June 2017 00:14 (six years ago) link
Just heard Icicle Works — 'A Whisper to a Scream' in Albertson's.
― Austin, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:49 (six years ago) link
Georgia Satellites: "Battleship Chains" at Kroger
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 June 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
I heard "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in Safeway.
― croque monsoon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2017 04:00 (six years ago) link
Otis Redding: "(I've Got) Dreams To Remember" at Fuddruckers
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 June 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
Not sure where else to put this, but I just heard 'Luchini (aka This is It)' by Camp Lo in Starbucks.
― Austin, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
"Don't Pull Your Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds. Huge hit in 1971 but I've not heard it much since.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
Really? I grew up hearing that. At least with the advent of the U.S. oldies radio format around the mid-'80s.
― timellison, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Heard that one on the radio yesterday.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
My local oldies station has redefined oldies to skew more late 70s/80s. Much more likely to hear The Eagles and Phil Collins than early 70s Grass Roots/Guess Who/3 Dog Night-type stuff.
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
Talk about obscure! A version of "Don't Pull Your Love" was one of the final Sam & Dave singles on Atlantic (#36 R&B, #102 Pop in late '71).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpDmOzrLbk
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
I had that on some Edsel or Demon or Ace collection, but yeah never heard it over a public PA
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwOwl1KfSU
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link