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Post by Kapitan on Jun 29, 2019 23:30:43 GMT
Grocery stores, passing cars, bars, whatever. Most of the music is predictable, terrible, or both. But sometimes it's a pleasant surprise. (Or a surprise, anyway.) This would be the place for that.
My neighborhood liquor store usually has classic rock going, either of the typical 60s-70s variety or 70s-80s AOR type stuff. Today I walked in to hear in progress Jimi Hendrix "Can You See Me." Nothing unusual about that.
But by the time I checked out, it had moved on to Twisted Sister's "Don't Let Me Down." I can't recall having ever heard that one in public before.
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Post by kds on Jul 1, 2019 12:18:46 GMT
There's a grocery store near me that used to play a great classic rock satellite station. On one memorable shopping trip, I heard
The Who - The Real Me Uriah Heep - Easy Livin Bruce Springsteen - Blinded by the Light
Unfortunately, they've recently switched to a far more predictable variety style station.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 1, 2019 12:53:13 GMT
I don't know what stores you guys are frequenting! All I ever hear is some Rod Stewart (later fluff), Michael Jackson, and maybe Cyndi Lauper.
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Post by kds on Jul 1, 2019 13:26:46 GMT
I don't know what stores you guys are frequenting! All I ever hear is some Rod Stewart (later fluff), Michael Jackson, and maybe Cyndi Lauper. Mine was a Weis grocery store, which often played classic rock, sometimes loudly for a grocery store, when their new location opened in my area. But, that was sadly short lived.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 1, 2019 13:36:50 GMT
I don't know what stores you guys are frequenting! All I ever hear is some Rod Stewart (later fluff), Michael Jackson, and maybe Cyndi Lauper. Mine was a Weis grocery store, which often played classic rock, sometimes loudly for a grocery store, when their new location opened in my area. But, that was sadly short lived. I go to the local Weis grocery store about five times a week! Do the individual stores choose their own music? I'm just asking, I don't expect you to know.
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Post by kds on Jul 1, 2019 13:48:18 GMT
Mine was a Weis grocery store, which often played classic rock, sometimes loudly for a grocery store, when their new location opened in my area. But, that was sadly short lived. I go to the local Weis grocery store about five times a week! Do the individual stores choose their own music? I'm just asking, I don't expect you to know. That's a good question. Maybe they offer a couple different stations to chose from. But, a few months after our store opened, the playlist became far more generic and repetitive. I'll bet some customers complained about the loud guitar rock. Squares.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 2, 2019 12:25:57 GMT
There’s a grocery store down the street from me that plays rock n roll, but wildly diverse stuff and deep cuts. (It’s one of a 2-store local independent company so maybe that has something to do with freedom/ eclecticism?)
Once I heard Surfs Up, the 1971 album version. I’ve heard Squeeze’s “In Quintessence” (my favorite Squeeze song!) in there. Etc.
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Post by kds on Aug 5, 2019 19:53:05 GMT
My family and I were at a restaurant at the beach while on vacation last month. They seemed to be played some sort of 80s station, and we heard The Beach Boys version of California Dreamin'
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 6, 2019 0:06:07 GMT
My family and I were at a restaurant at the beach while on vacation last month. They seemed to be played some sort of 80s station, and we heard The Beach Boys version of California Dreamin' In a few short months:
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Post by kds on Aug 6, 2019 12:14:34 GMT
My family and I were at a restaurant at the beach while on vacation last month. They seemed to be played some sort of 80s station, and we heard The Beach Boys version of California Dreamin' In a few short months: I'm so not ready to even think about Christmas time or the cold months that follow.
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 14, 2019 14:33:37 GMT
I was at the coop this morning--the hipsterest place I frequent, and very hipster at that--and what was playing on the sound system?
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Post by kds on Dec 15, 2019 13:55:22 GMT
I was at the coop this morning--the hipsterest place I frequent, and very hipster at that--and what was playing on the sound system?
Perhaps Extreme will be the next band hipsters start to like ironically? Or, they'll start saying "now, THAT GUY fronted the best version of Van Halen!!"
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 15, 2019 14:55:53 GMT
I actually have a working hypothesis on this. The cashier when I was there is a guy I remember having previous been gushing about the Queen movie a year or so ago, and Freddie Mercury more generally. (I remember thinking, "should I butt in to this conversation?" But I didn't.)
So maybe in getting into Queen, he came across the Mercury tribute show, saw Extreme as an obvious highlight, and presto!
That or some random person just put on some hair band focused station on Sirius or something and it popped up. Less rewarding, but equally plausible.
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Post by kds on Dec 16, 2019 3:18:47 GMT
Hipsters, so complex, yet so simple.
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Post by bellbottoms on Dec 16, 2019 16:29:53 GMT
Sorry to Christmasify this thread but the other day I was listening to a Jimi Hendrix Christmas medley on my headphones when I walked into the grocery store. I turned off my headphones and what was playing on the grocery store speakers? The same Jimi Hendrix Christmas medley. That was a surprise because I’m pretty sure my grocery store’s Christmas mix is Wonderful Christmas Time on repeat.
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