I heard "Alone Again Or" in the produce section...

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So I recently heard a Love song in the grocery store... it was even interrupted by a page: "Stacy, cleanup on aisle four..." It was followed by an Eagles song.

Have you ever heard a song delightfully out of context? No, I'm not talking about Nick Drake in a VW ad, but something so strange, so startling, that it sounded fresh again?

― andy, Thursday, 26 June 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I was at a Chinese buffet last week and they were playing some distinctly Oriental sounding flute music. Then I realized the melody being played was "From A Distance." That was fucked up. I've also heard muzak versions of "Don't Go Back To Rockville" and "Runaway Train," which both sounded rather perverse.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 26 June 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard the same song once while I was folding girls' tops in the back of a department store. Surreal.

― chris smith, Friday, 27 June 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Similar to Andy's experience, I was grocery shopping when I heard Van Halen's "Dance the Night Away" come over the PA. "She's on fire/barely a beginner/but just watch that lady price check on a jar of strained peas"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 27 June 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Strangely enough, I also heard "Alone Again Or" in an upstate NY grocery store a couple years back. I was shocked and it got me to thinkin' who the hell programs these playlists.

― Colin from Albany, Friday, 27 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Strangely enough, I also heard "Alone Again Or" in an upstate NY grocery store a couple years back. I was shocked and it got me to thinkin' who the hell programs these playlists.

― Colin from Albany, Friday, 27 June 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i was cashiering at a grocery store one sunday. it was just after noon, so all the churchgoers were raushing into the store to get their groceries and "modern love" by bowie came on. it just kinda seemed right.

― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 27 June 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

last night i heard "scorpio" on the p.a. when i was getting coffee at the gas station ...

― tony bleach, Friday, 27 June 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard VU's "Sunday Morning" in a moderately fancy restaurant in Granada, Spain a few years ago.

And speaking of grocery store announcements, the Wild Oats in Pasadena (and perhaps elsewhere) plays these tones to interrupt the music before an announcement, and every time I hear them I'm reminded of that Grand Funk RR song "Ride Captain, Ride." It sounds just like the guitar bit at the start of the song.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 27 June 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean blues image.

muzak version of quicksilver messenger service "edward the mad shirt grinder" heard in a taco bell in the mid-'70s. no lie.

― otis figby, Friday, 27 June 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

You are correct sir! All these years I was thinking it was an uncharacteristic GFR song.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 28 June 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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