Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

And now "Do Ya," although not loud enough to tell if it's the Move or ELO--the latter, probably.

Playing now: "Dead Flowers."

The Urinals song??

Rolling Stones I assume

Yeah...the only one I know.

Ah – well here it is: https://theurinals.bandcamp.com/track/dead-flowers

"Riders on the Storm"--I basically never hear that anymore while out in the world.

not obscure and i probably only THINK that walgreens has this on a loop but the only time i ever hear this is in a store. never seen the video until now! one of those songs that people would know and never ever know who sang it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUg5aEy-8CQ

also who knew how cool the amherst records youtube channel was!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

Glenn Medeiros is a school principal in Hawaii now iirc

no offense to glenn, but that song would have been a hit with anyone singing it. johnny mathis, james ingram, just about anyone really. jack wagner. rex smith.

Stray Cats: "Runaway Boys" & The Who: "Is It In My Head? at Tacos A Go Go

...and Kacey Musgraves: "Lonely Weekend"

"The Rain, the Park & Other Things" in Giant Tiger, and of course felt happy to be alive.

With a group of family in a restaurant, ppl were taking bets on which decade the song playing was from (“the ‘70s…”), I used Shazam, it was taking a long time, I thought it wouldn’t work, then it revealed… Ariel Pink :/

Roxy Music "Dance Away" at Walgreens

"19th Nervous Breakdown" at Fred Meyer. Not exactly obscure but I can't remember the last time I ever heard it.

"Hungry Like the Wolf," at my coffee shop, right now.

(I'm just live-blogging because the thread is up top. I have no use for "Hungry Like the Wolf" whatsoever.)

is "Hungry Like the Wolf" obscure in your neck of the woods, clem? Here it's the J'ran J'ran tune I'm most likely hear in the wild.

I even hear Ordinary World and Come Undone a lot

"Rio" too.

yeah "Ordinary World" is probably second.

this algorithm need SERIOUS adj. some posters don’t kno what obscure is. some posters don’t kno what a “single” was. some posters don’t know what a CVS is, or what a cvs-like venue is. frankly, i’m faced with a remove-bookmark situation and it fills me with woe. the rest of me is allegedly filled w lager but i deny

It’s basically now used for discussing music heard in public (for better or worse)

That's how I've been using it--that's something I always take notice of. I thought I clearly framed the Duran Duran post as a joke. I don't really think they're obscure.

to be clear— i use it wrong all the time! but i got that removal feel ha

I heard Mozart's trap song at Fuddruckers

(xpost) "Post Removal Machine"

There's a lot to unpack here, but at the very least using the term 'Single' as a qualifier doesn't quite apply to the way I've experienced music in retail environments. Growing up I first heard so many of what I later would discover were less-exposed album cuts from artists like Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, and even the Beatles in fast food places after school or out with my mom and/or grandma at the grocery store. To leave stuff like that out is missing a major part of the experience.

For me, it's the qualifier of obscure that comes up short. My deepest connections with music in public settings are almost always with songs that are anything but obscure: "Every Picture Tells a Story" above, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in a record store a few weeks ago, mid-'60s Dylan anywhere, etc.

honestly feel like no one but c. grisso/mccain should post in this thread

unless someone actually hears benny mardones in the wild in the 2020s

From now every entry from me gets an oshcvs factor score which is—

Obscurity: 1-10 (did it chart? when? In adverts? When? Sdtrk? 10 is most obscure. Whatevs that means TO ME ,the poster.)

x (lol “times”)

Single: 1-3 (3 = an actual single, 2 = um, a b-side, 1= possibly fm radio album fodder)

x

CVS: (10= an actual cvs, 9=a pharmacy, .1 to .5= um any public place that is actually cool.)

unless someone actually hears benny mardones in the wild in the 2020s

This happened to me recently at Home Depot.

Can we all agree that this isn't the "Songs We Hear When We're in Public" thread?

Carry on--I think I'll start a thread for exactly that. Before I do, though, does one already exist? I tried a search on "public," and the closest I got was "Strange Music in Public Places." I don't need strange.

There is this one:
What music does your local supermarket play?

Thanks. I'll start a very general one that takes in any kind of music in any kind of public setting.

A Thread to Mention Random or Surprising Songs We've Recently Heard in Public

Good enough--that one will do when something catches my attention in the non-CVS world (which I've just now googled for the first time).

Songs I heard at Chuck E. Cheese today

I think it would make sense to make a list of all the different release types: singles, eps, lps, small press cassettes, soundcloud mixes, tik toks, etc, then make another list of all the major retail chains, and another for obscurity or familiarity degrees, and finally to make threads based on every conceivable combination of the three.

we should have a poll first though...

Preceded by nominations. And with a running Spotify playlist. And you're listening to the Spotify playist somewhere in public, that calls for a new thread.

rolling out my Moderately Well Known Flexidiscs Heard At Dollar General playlist

does anyone have a slide rule

I know where you can buy one.

The Traveling Wilburys: "Last Night" on a Pandora Oldies channel at a burger place.

Same place, today got "Heading For The Light" and whatever that Jim Croce song is about him walking to Georgia.

"Walking Back To Georgia", surprisingly.

His third biggest Spotify track for some reason.

wow. maybe on some Georgia playlists or something.