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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
Just heard Icicle Works — 'A Whisper to a Scream' in Albertson's.
― Austin, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:49 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
I heard "Don't Pay the Ferryman" in Safeway.
― croque monsoon (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 15 June 2017 04:00 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
Heard that one on the radio yesterday.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 18:32 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhwOwl1KfSU
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
I remember my mom singing it as "Don't throw your love out on the table," but whether this was her mishearing, her mocking one of ours, or just her making fun of the song I cannot say.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 04:35 (seven years ago) link
Wilco: "Born Alone" at WalMart
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 July 2017 05:47 (seven years ago) link
Lenka: "The Show" at El Pollo Loco
I've heard this at a few places in the last year or so. Thought it was a bigger hit (only got to #25 on the "Billboard Adult Pop Songs Chart"--whatever that is)
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
Humble Pie: "I Don't Need No Doctor" at Burger King
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 July 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
"The Wire" by Haim at Vons.
such a great change of pace. loved this album and have yet to even play the new one.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
"Allison Road" by Gin Blossoms at Vons
― timellison, Monday, 11 September 2017 03:51 (seven years ago) link
adore that one, changes my whole day any time i hear it
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 September 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
Just heard "4th of July" by X at Whole Foods, made my day.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 September 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Aimee Mann: "Save Me" at Buc-ee's (fancy truckstop)
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 September 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
At CVS right now: Collective Soul, "Run." I remember it having a nice but short run on alt radio, and being momentarily appreciated by a friend of mine who was a runner, but otherwise not sure I've heard it since idk early 2000.
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
Funky Green Dogs 'Fired Up' in KMart.
― how's life, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 13:06 (seven years ago) link
KC and the Sunshine Band's "Please Don't Go" at Trader Joe's
― timellison, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
I know it was a #1 but I don't think I had heard Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" in decades before I heard it at CVS last week.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
Wait, really??! I hear it all the time.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
If you'd said "Leave a Light On," I'd believe it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Totally possible that it's actually on all the time and I only paid attention when the music was really loud in CVS the other day.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:11 (seven years ago) link
Actually, I just started watching a Black Mirror episode and it opened with "Heaven" so.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
"Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by Reunion (featuring Joey Levine) at Vons
― timellison, Friday, 6 October 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
Filter: "Take A Picture" at CVS.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 October 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link
that one's such an oddball, it was REALLY big but for a very short time and then dropped off the face of the earth.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 23 October 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
I think people genuinely don't remember who did it. And even if you know some stuff, connecting it as the "Hey Man Nice Shot" guys isn't easy.
I liked how Alternative Press described it as '"Solsbury Hill" failing to get its 90 Day chip from A.A.' in the original review.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 October 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
it has persisted on ac radio
― maura, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 02:02 (seven years ago) link
hey dad what do you think about your son now
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 02:08 (seven years ago) link
i found that song so confusing as a kid, if only i had wikipedia at the time
Filter's frontman, and founding member Richard Patrick has said that the song is about him getting drunk on an airplane and taking off all of his clothes.[1]
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Well that's... unexpected. Not sure if I could have handled that information in 1999. I think I'e posted about this on ilx before but i had just had my first kiss, with someone met on a summer vacation far away. The idea of traveling on airplanes and feeling like a newborn and needing a picture of someone in order to remember them.... it was all charged with ~~big feelings~~.
You know what would really stun me to hear in any circumstance, though, would be that album's previous, "remind them we rock, before rolling out the hit" single, "Welcome to the Fold." True to form, it'd already died on alt-rock radio by the time "Take a Picture" went crossover, and it's a dreadfully unfashionable form of industrial-tinged grunge-metal that has no plausible constituency today. Even "Lakini's Juice" has more of a cultural footprint among people like me who were teenagers at the right time.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 02:27 (seven years ago) link
can everyone aGREE that no one should be left alone
― clouds, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
By no means obscure, but I've heard Livin' La Vida Loca twice at the supermarket in the past few months and each time I was like 'whoa, what ska song is this?' right up until he gets to the 'make you take your clothes off' lyric. Then I'm like 'shit, you got me again Ricky Martin.'
― how's life, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link