Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

haha otm

Shopping for pencils and invisible tape at CVS this morning I heard "Soul Drifter" by Lindsey Buckingham!

^^^^ I've heard it at CVS too

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)

trouble - lindsey buckingham

also hear a LOT of Rumours in CVS

i hear a lot of saint etienne in supermarkets and drugstores

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.

This morning at CVS I heard REM's "At My Most Beautiful."

somehow, even though it tanked, that's the single from up i hear most often by far. only in grocery stores and drugstores obv.

Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word at Walgreens

Followed by this random pop punk/emotronic ish:

http://thepasstheband.bandcamp.com/track/cross-walk-stereo

Which, just like, I mean, I expected anything else as a follow-up.

Sunday afternoon: Ric Ocasek's "Something to Grab For."

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

Just heard this at Taco Bell.

At Publix this a.m:

Jesse Johnson ft. Sly Stone - Crazay

Book of Love - "Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)" @ Which Wich

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.

I caught Steppin' Out in CVS last week!

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.

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,

done on purpose by CVS corporate

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.

Sam Phillips- "Baby I Can't Please You" at Wendy's (seems like this song is an evergreen on restaurant/drug store/supermarket muzak)

REM - "All The Way To Reno"

― da croupier, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 10:53 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And this was played earlier.

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.

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.

done on purpose by CVS corporate

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?'.

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.

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.

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.

Hipsway, "Honeythief" at Walgreen. I almost knocked over an display 'cause I started dancing.

"a" display, not "an" display, ugh this phone

was picking up prescription for antidepressant at walgreens and they were playing "i wanna be sedated." no lie.
heard this last week too.

heard a weird muzaky cover of "I'm Looking Through You" by the Beatles the other week when i was buying pills

Jack In The Box: The Go-Gos--"Cool Jerk" from the '90 Greatest Hits.

Cvs yesterday: the bangles "if she knew what she wants"

Not obscure in its day but I'd completely forgotten this track

XTC: "Generals and Majors" at Wendy's

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),

beautiful cover

also at Jack In The Box: The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard

Dairy Queen: Rodney Crowell - "Lovin' All Night", his last big Country hit from '92. I assume it hasn't got much radio love since.

Marshall Crenshaw: "Someday Someway" actually at CVS (and interrupted at least twice for ads)

i heard "cosmic dancer" by t-rex at walgreen's a while back

Aztec Camera's "Walk Out to Winter" at Ocean State Job Lot

(part of their Christmas programming, presumably)

T Rex's "The Slider" playing in a hardware store in Agawam, MA

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

I caught Steppin' Out in CVS last week!

― how's life, Saturday, May 17, 2014 5:24 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've heard this twice in the last couple weeks, first at a restaurant and the second at a grocery store.

Swing Out Sister's "Breakout" playing in a supermarket this evening

that's enough to revive the thread

I too have heard "Someday, Someway" at CVS. Also heard "IGY" by Donald Fagen.

IGY is on a lot of retail playlists in my experience

I'm glad someone out there's playing the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

(Plagiarizing a joke I helped originate 31 years ago.)

Target:

Bobby Womack: "It's Party Time"

Ace Hardware- 18 Alice Cooper

i need guidance to rate its obscurity, maybe i’m being distracted by how odd it seemed to me.