Super market music

[Valeyard]

"I Think We're Alone Now" is a great song. Tiffany is so pigeonholed by the mall gimmick that it's easy for forget.

Also I didn't realize "Always Something There To Remind Me" was a Bacharach song until it started getting substantially more play than I remember at the shitty little market I go to. That means I've heard it three times.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

how friggin sick Pino Palladino's bass playing is on Paul Young's "Every Time You Go Away".

Probably a supermarket song in the UK. Pino's bass playing might even be sicker on this. It's a cover of a punk song (written by the same guy that wrote Blondie's "Hangin' on the Telephone" IIRC). Paul Young's got one of the sleeper sets at Live Aid. He's got three old R&B singers in pastel suits with him singing backup , mullet bobbing in the air as the '80s UK gals go wild. Pino's probably slapping a funky one too there.

 

[BUTT]

"I Think We're Alone Now" is a great song. Tiffany is so pigeonholed by the mall gimmick that it's easy for forget.

Agree on "I Think We're Alone Now" but her "I Saw Him Standing There" is a frontrunner for worst Beatles cover. And I've heard it a couple of times at my supermarket.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I've probably told this story before but in the mid '90s, my dad competed in a karaoke tournament with a pretty decent cash prize ( I think it was $500, which is decent now but especially in 1993-94 money). His ace in the hole for the finals was Tommy James & The Shondells "I Think We're Alone Now".

Except the karaoke DJ thought he wanted Tiffany's cover of "I Think We're Alone Now". Needless to say, he bombed and did not take home that win.

Mental image of an angry middle aged Pops Kamala poorly singing Tiffany at the height of the grunge era never ceases to amuse me.

Tiffany is singing at a 60 seat lounge in Portsmouth, NH on a weeknight next month. It might go over worse than Pops Kamala's performance at that karaoke contest thirty years ago IMO.

 

[Valeyard]

Small venue could mean a better show.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Easier to provoke her into having a meltdown.

 

[geniusMoment]

Heard this in a little mom and pop store on the beach:

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

alright Vale.


I hope he talks about being the musical guest on the episode of SNL hosted by Robert Blake.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Walmart has "Skater Boi" on the near daily rotation. For reasons I can't put together yet the word "Punk" is bleeped

He was a boy
She was a girl
Can I make it any more obvious?
He was a punk
She did ballet
What more can I say?

--
They've played Blink 182 "All the Small Things" for years, They used to edit out "Works sucks, I know" but have since returned the song to it's full glory.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Oh man "Make 'Em Say Ugh" while I was in the bread aisle. Me and some fellow patrons were bopping our heads and miming the lyrics!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I associate Filter with "Take A Picture" so much that I forgot that they're a NIN spinoff. I was confused when I saw that they're the opening act for the Alice Cooper/Rob Zombie/Ministry package tour.

Alice Cooper's done some supermarket music too. He even had an album produced by David Foster.

 

[Valeyard]

I've never heard Alice at the supermarket.

 

[strummer]

Heard 99 luftballons today while walking in produce and honestly kinda quietly marked out

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I've never heard Alice at the supermarket.

“You and Me” seems totally like it has played in a supermarket at some point. “Only Woman Bleed” would be a great supermarket song if it wasn’t for the whole domestic abuse thing. Maybe a Muzak version.

 

[Valeyard]

I just post about what I hear. If Alice got played at Trader Joe's or some shit I'd be gleefully going on about how they'd have my business forever. Best hope is "School's Out" at the shitty corner store in June, sadly.

 

[Fall of Epic]

The local pharmacy blasting U2's "She Moves in Mysertious Ways" guaranteed that I wasn't going to have a good evening last night!

 

[Valeyard]

Don't worry. It's alright it's alright it's all right

 

[Gary]

The local pharmacy blasting U2's "She Moves in Mysertious Ways" guaranteed that I wasn't going to have a good evening last night!

I actually like that song!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Any thoughts on Fastball’s “You’re An Ocean”?

 

[BUTT]

I heard the most sterile cover of “Once in a Lifetime” the other day. It ended before I could ask Shazam who the artist was. Talking Heads are an act I respect more than enjoy tbh but I felt offended on behalf of their many fans.

 

[strummer]

Was in Target today and they were *still* playing Christmas music

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

When I played trivia tonight, they were showing some Christmas romance TV movie on the one TV that wasn’t playing the Rose Bowl. It was a streaming only channel so afaik they play Christmas romances year round.

 

[BUTT]

Made a quick stop into ShopRite for a much-needed midday dump and they were blasting "Love of a Lifetime."

 

[AA484]

You know what plays some random awesome jams? Sheetz.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Michael Bolton Recovering From Surgery to Remove Brain Tumor

The singer is postponing tour dates as he recuperates.

www.billboard.com

He seems like a legit good dude. Hope he is back to revving up our moms in no time.

 

[Valeyard]

"The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You" played for the first time in 25 years today at the shitty market where I spent $13 on six cans of catfood in a pinch.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Duran Duran’s “New Moon on Monday” while picking up Chinese takeout. Feels timely since me and my classic hits radio DJ friend were texting about bands who had shitty sets at Live Aid earlier today!

 

[Valeyard]

Duran Duran are comforting.

I cannot begin to express the fear I have of Chinese food in Maine.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

It’s an American Chinese food. It’s the same everywhere. Comedy club here has very gentrified American Chinese food but that might have scared you even more.

 

[Valeyard]

So it's just Panda Express with jokes.