Super market music

[Valeyard]

Topped by excessive Power Station. Store's turn to Robert Palmer is totally fine.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/RockNRollPics/status/1271795707981164545
Happy 20th Anniversary to an album that goes into the Supermarket Music Hall of Fame.

Also I feel like this is the last boomer era dad rock album. Either this or Bruce Springsteen's The Rising.

 

[Valeyard]

My mom loved that album. Loved Clapton in general. All I got was a really lame, but very fruitful, intro to BB King.

Last boomer album has to be one of the Rod Stewart albums of him singing standards, which rears its head in the form of Christmas super market music.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The Songs From The Great American Songbook album really kind of falls into category of mom music to me, which is really kind of a subcategory of boomer music. Very few dads enjoy Rod Stewart post 1974 or so.

 

[Valeyard]

Most people I know who enjoy latter Rod Stewart are men, actually. They skip from around '74 up to the Great American Songbook, however. The moms clung to their Phil Collins, Amy Grant, and Enya.

Every parent, teacher, and general 40ish adult at the time seemed to have a copy of Santana's Supernatural.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

It's opposite in my experience. "I miss Rod Stewart when he used to rock" was a semi-frequent topic of discussion with my dad and his friends.

Come to think of it, Idk anyone who enjoyed the GAS series even though they're last boomer albums to go platinum. I think they're made exclusively as background music for boomers cocktail parties. I was low key amazed there were only five of them (plus a classic rock and classic R&B sequel). Still way too many but I would have guessed 10+. It certainly felt like that many.

 

[Gary]

Every parent, teacher, and general 40ish adult at the time seemed to have a copy of Santana's Supernatural.

Not just that. More than half of my friends owned that album. It was everywhere.

 

[Valeyard]

It hit the older crowd at the same time Steely Dan's Two Against Nature came out. I chose to die on the Steely Dan hill while, to this day, muzak versions of "Smooth" and "Maria Maria" dominate the market airwaves every summer.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I mostly remember the "Steely Dan? They're still around!?" talk when Two Against Nature beat The Marshall Mathers LP at the 2001 Grammys.

 

[Valeyard]

I think that's how I learned who they even were. Got the album, it was just very well produced blandness. "Cousin Dupree" needs more market love. Catchy, but the incest aspect might get in the way of people buying cheese.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Total Banger On Grocery Store Loudspeaker Interrupted For Lost Child Announcement

LINCOLN, NE—Shoppers at a local Fareway Grocery were reportedly annoyed Thursday after a total banger on the loudspeaker was interrupted for a missing child announcement. “I was just starting to groove out to ‘Kodachrome’ when the store manager cuts in for some bullshit about parents who can’t...

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Cool to find out @The Valeyard 's shoot name is Mark Barbin.

 

[Valeyard]

The Onion knows nothing about me. I wish I got "Kodachrome."

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Groovin' to "Here Comes Your Man" in Giant today. Kind of a missed opportunity they didn't play "Gigantic".

 

[Fall of Epic]

Grocery shopping the other day and some of the stockers were grooving to "Walking on Sunshine". These kids didn't look a day over 20.

 

[Valeyard]

"Steady As She Goes" is the hippest this market has been. Good work.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The White Stripes' (and I guess Raconteurs in that case) impending induction to classic rock radio has me anxious.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1295747279681400835

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1300388415729434629

Waite topping some absolute icons OTD in 1984, @The Valeyard

 

[geniusMoment]

I was in the frozen food aisle at Meijer at 10 pm last week and "Common Man" the WWF Dusty Rhodes theme started blaring.

 

[Valeyard]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1300388415729434629

Waite topping some absolute icons OTD in 1984, @The Valeyard

That Bad English(?) swag. Two-hit wonderful.

For the record I thought he was part of Damn Yankees, but that might mean "High Enough" is John Waite as fuck.

 

[Valeyard]

"Semi-Charmed Life" when buying vitamins wasn't cool the other day, either.

 

[BUTT]

The grocery store near my work plays a lot of New Order. I heard the Shep Pettibone remix of "True Faith" last week, and "Bizarre Love Triangle" recently, but I've also heard the lesser-known 2005 tracks "Krafty" and "Waiting for the Siren's Call." They use the In-Store Audio Network so it's not like there's some hipster putting together the store playlist but it's an outlier among the likes of OneRepublic and Eddie Money.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

@The Valeyard

 

[Valeyard]

15 year-old-me bought Two Against Nature. More markets should bust out "Cousin Dupree."

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Radio programmers still pissed that Matt Dillon squandered his post Crash comeback by doing a bad comedy with Owen Wilson, I guess.

 

[Valeyard]

I didn't know until now there was lighthearted beef with Fagen and Owen Wilson about that, although I would bet a million dollars Fagen was legitimately pissed.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I was in the frozen food aisle at Meijer at 10 pm last week and "Common Man" the WWF Dusty Rhodes theme started blaring.

damn man you should shop there all the time

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

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Damn if this happened in the '80s, we would have gotten so many cool, pensive, moody power ballads out of this.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1331637568786608128

A GOAT grocery store anthem that wasn't. Piss off Frank Farian!

 

[Valeyard]

Covid has kept me away from "Do They Know It's Christmas?" according to my sister. Thank god. I haven't physically been in a store in two or so months, so it's nice to know I avoided the bane of my holiday existence.