― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 9 July 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 9 July 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Grell (Grell), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: that obscure object of desire. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
(You'll be happy to know, though, that I heard "Give Me The Reason" at CVS Pharmacy two weeks ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
True story: in Autumn of `93 I was in the Food Giant in Seattle, WA and they were playing Pearl Jam's "Porch". At that very milisecond, Grunge died.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 11 July 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― alice, Monday, 11 July 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 11 July 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Monday, 11 July 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Esteban P. Buttez, Monday, 11 July 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 11 July 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I apologise if those words were offensive to your person as I fear they may be to a lady as yourself.
― Esteban P. Buttez Esq., Monday, 11 July 2005 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 11 July 2005 04:35 (eighteen years ago) link
They play a lot of Steely Dan at my Cala. Its always depressing to learn the "truth" that SD is elevator music etc. Once I heard Man Eater too, which was cool.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 11 July 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Living in Florida, it always struck me that the Publix near me would play a muzak version of the Lightning Seeds' "Pure" ... not sure it was a song needing lightening ...
― Dare (Dare), Monday, 11 July 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I swear they played a Muzak instrumental of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" here a few years ago, but maybe I had an acid flashback.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 11 July 2005 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hans Veneman (veneman), Monday, 11 July 2005 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeanne (Tim Ellison), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Monday, 11 July 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
The best song I ever heard over the soundsystem there was either Duran Duran's "Save A Prayer" or XTC's "King for a Day."
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, lots of McCartney/Wings.
― Colin O, Monday, 11 July 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: that obscure object of desire. (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 10 September 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― late adopter, Saturday, 10 September 2005 04:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 10 September 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 11 September 2005 07:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 11 September 2005 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I heard "Whip It" at the supermarket today!
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Wham! Club Tropicana, back in Durty juRZ.
― sturt banton (burt_stanton), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I DID whippits in the supermarket today.
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Was that part of a torts assignment?
― sturt banton (burt_stanton), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
U2
― milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill (S-), Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I once heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
At an IGA in central Florida.
― kate78, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hungry Heart" by The Boss, which almost made me laugh out loud when I realized what it was. Some "Cure" recently. "Heaven is a Place On Earth" too.
I live in Atlanta. If you go to the Ansley Mall part of town all the stores are playing classic disco and cheesy modern dance music. The stores in East Atlanta play Grown Folks Radio, which plays the most badass grocery-store music I have ever heard. Classic funk and r&b.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Richard Butler was a bit jarring after Stevie Wonder.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 March 2013 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
Today I heard ”California Stars” by Wilco and ”Wild Wild Life” by Talking Heads
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 March 2013 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
1,2,3,4 by Feist
― how's life, Friday, 15 March 2013 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
I keep hearing Erasure at Shaw's. It's awesome.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Friday, 15 March 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
Store I go to now keeps playing this song about how great "American Pie" is. Horrid.
― The Jacket Bastard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 16 March 2013 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Avril Lavigne - "Complicated"+ some song baout "shining like a diamond"?? idk
― underused emoticons I have gotten confused (bernard snowy), Saturday, 16 March 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
now I'm home listening to cat power like Shit, why didn't I get some beer??
― underused emoticons I have gotten confused (bernard snowy), Saturday, 16 March 2013 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
Was just in a little claustrophobically hip co-op and when I heard the music playing I thought: what is it with all this music from recent years that sounds just like 1981? But then it turned out to be Joy Division, on further listening.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
"Transmission," live.
i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex in a walgreen's recently that was kinda weird
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
I'm compiling songs and notes for mix CDs to be played in a retail hell (Dollar General, where my daughter works). I'm shooting for stuff that sounds bubbly and poppy, but subtly confounds retail-environment expectations. The objective is to create the subconscious effect "I want to simultaneously spend all my money here and riot in the streets." Any suggestions?
Background: I had made her a chronological Beatles comp several years ago, which she took to work when she started at DG last year. She reported back that other employees would see the name "Beatles" on the disc, think "yay, pop!" and play it, and be freaking out a bit by the end because it had "Helter Skelter" and "She's So Heavy" on it.
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
just make it all stevie wonder
― j., Friday, 25 April 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
when you open any of the dairy cases at my local co-op, you hear death metal
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
Posted it on the Eagles thread, but Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.
― pplains, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Huh! That's the sort of thing I'm thinking of. Playlists of generally upbeat pop/rock (though never quite the song you'd associate with that artist) with the occasional labor/organizing song or drug song like "Minnie the Moocher."
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
today at the co-op i heard "happy". Its always played in there when I go in. Its always played in the shopping mall in the town centre too.
― ۩, Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
I just heard "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in the Smith's near me, which has pretty low-income and heavily Hispanic demographic (with a good sprinkling of Native Americans and African Americans). I regularly see guys with face tattoos in this store.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
my supermarket plays nothing but bonnie raitt's 'have a heart' over and over
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 05:32 (eight years ago) link
That's Bonnie Raitt?
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Well I'll be damned. Always thought that was some 90s songstress like Shawn Colvin or Natalie Martika.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnYz0yW0OCA
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
mostly 80s hits
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
mine doesn't play any but if it did it would be garbage
― j., Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
Surprisingly varied! I heard the National and Boz Scaggs and Frankie Beverly last week.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
"see no evil" by television heard at fred meyers today.
― new noise, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
I heard "Fairytale of New York" at McDonald's! Was legit shocked (what with "cheap lousy faggot", "old slut on junk" etc)
― radiohead OK computer coca cola co KO (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:16 (eight years ago) link
My new supermarket seems to always be playing "Bizarre Love Triangle." Maybe they just throw it on when I walk in?
― kate78, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
― radiohead OK computer coca cola co KO (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 04:16 (1 week ago)
I heard it at least twice in public areas in the runup to Christmas. It doesn't really shock anyone here in the UK as everyone's heard it.
My local Sainsburys doesn't play music. Perhaps I should be thankful.
― prunetracy, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
of my two local supermarkets - which belong to the inauspiciously named chains "Buy-Low" and "No-Frills" - one plays a pop mix ranging from the almost contemporary back to the 70s but at a very low and unobtrusive volume so it's hard for me to remember any tracks they play, though "hurt so good" by john cougar mellencamp was definitely playing the other day. the other plays a louder and exclusively 80s mix - yesterday: phil collins' "two hearts", baltimora "tarzan boy", and Madonna "borderline" - which I really enjoy.
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:15 (eight years ago) link
wow you guys have cool supermarkets. mine seems to actively hate it's patrons and seems to play music design to make people gtfo.
here's the last track I heard just an hour ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEZIpac803M
https://youtu.be/DEZIpac803M
― Darin, Wednesday, 13 January 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
Enjoyed hearing Al Stewart "Year of the Cat" at CVS the other day.
― Moodles, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
Well where else would you have heard it?
― pplains, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
It's certainly no Walgreens track
― Moodles, Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
Had to make a quick stop at a WalMart Neighborhood Market last night, and was greeted by the jammy solo section of "Working Man" by Rush as I walked in. This was made more bizarre by the fact the other two songs I could I.D. afterward were Sam Smith and No Doubt.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
i get my hair cut at great clips and in indianapolis that meant they played the pop radio station - pretty much the last place where i would actually hear chart pop. now that i'm in portland the great clips plays "because the night" and beck's "loser".
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 January 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
toni basil - mickey
heart - crazy on you
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 7 January 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Kroger was playing the Tom Waits original of "Old '55" last weekend.
― pplains, Friday, April 25, 2014 6:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And nearly four years later, I heard it again in the soup aisle!
I mean, I hear the melody to that one or "Downtown Train" and automatically assume it's the more well-known cover.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
The supermarkets usually don't play music around here. But I once visited one that played Imagination - Lights and music. This was obviously a great moment.
― haudrum, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Or music and lights rather
― haudrum, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
I was out of the UK from 2002-2016 and, among the many changes, supermarkets stopped playing music. What I would give to hear a nice bit of muzak again.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
I know I posted this on some thread somewhere, but it's always good for a re-up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvrPcDw-zuI
― Supporters Fear Dan's Post Will Lack The Edge They Love (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
At this moment the fucking full Parachutes album by fucking Coldplay
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
I am genuinely enjoying listening to this, thanks DP.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 22:55 (six years ago) link
It's been the soundtrack to my workday a few times. It definitely creates a melancholy, gauzy memory of my youth (the tape hiss helps!)
― Supporters Fear Dan's Post Will Lack The Edge They Love (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
I heard Radio Free Europe at Whole Foods last night.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
I go to my supermarket as little as I can now because "Come Together," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Comfortably Numb," "Imagine," "Mrs. Robinson," and literally no more than a single 74-minute CD worth of songs that are on every-wedding-band-ever's shortlist have been on shuffle for two years and counting. If I had to work there I'd put corkscrews in my ears.
― mick signals, Thursday, 15 February 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
"love will tear us apart" at fred meyers.
― new noise, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
I was sat in the cafe in Sainsbury's, Didcot today and heard tracks by Talk Talk and Grizzly Bear.
― djh, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
I’m standing in the checkout line at Ralphs right now. They play mainstream vocal pop.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Today we had "Within You Without You" and I was so pleasantly shocked
― mick signals, Thursday, 22 March 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
Elvis, "Hound Dog", last night, sounded fuckin' great.
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Saturday, 5 May 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link