|
Post by carllove on Jan 29, 2023 21:52:07 GMT
Fox played “Good Vibrations” while showing first half highlights of the NFC Championship game at halftime. Gotta love that!
|
|
|
Post by kds on Jan 30, 2023 13:57:43 GMT
Fox played “Good Vibrations” while showing first half highlights of the NFC Championship game at halftime. Gotta love that! Ha! I just mentioned that in the NFL thread. Before the games began, I ran to the store to pick up a few things. The Weis by my house went back to favoring classic rock after the holiday season. When you go to pick up some onions and red peppers, you don't always expect to hear the big fat riff of Rush's Working Man blaring over the grocery store PA.
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Mar 9, 2023 21:31:15 GMT
At my local grocery store, both the Georgia Satellites' 1986 hit "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and the Scorpions' 1990 hit, the power ballad "Wind of Change."
I'd have been surprised to hear either one, much less both together.
|
|
|
Post by kds on Mar 9, 2023 21:33:50 GMT
I know I've heard that Georgia Satellites song at my local Weis, which sometimes favors classic rock. Speaking of which, on a trip there last month, I heard Thin Lizzy's Cowboy Song, even though it was a terrible single edit that butchered the guitar solo.
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on Mar 9, 2023 21:39:58 GMT
I think I've said before, but I love the music at this store. It's a small local chain--three stores in the metro, and that's it--and whatever their music is, it's eclectic. But I also love that the people working there are people. If I go early in the morning (as I often do, just to grab this or that for breakfast or lunch--it's convenient, as it's literally a block down the street), I'm likely to see the stockers belting out the tunes along with the sound system ... and I mean belting them out loudly. Or shouting across aisles to one another about last night's game, or whatever else. In fact, one of them was singing "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" along with it, the kind of yodeling-sounding part. Some people might think all this is unprofessional, and I suppose it is. But to me, it adds charm. After all, they're also all very friendly and helpful.
My favorite tune there is still the 1971 "Surf's Up" I heard there once. Definitely didn't see that one coming.
|
|
|
Post by kds on Mar 10, 2023 14:00:32 GMT
I think I've said before, but I love the music at this store. It's a small local chain--three stores in the metro, and that's it--and whatever their music is, it's eclectic. But I also love that the people working there are people. If I go early in the morning (as I often do, just to grab this or that for breakfast or lunch--it's convenient, as it's literally a block down the street), I'm likely to see the stockers belting out the tunes along with the sound system ... and I mean belting them out loudly. Or shouting across aisles to one another about last night's game, or whatever else. In fact, one of them was singing "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" along with it, the kind of yodeling-sounding part. Some people might think all this is unprofessional, and I suppose it is. But to me, it adds charm. After all, they're also all very friendly and helpful. My favorite tune there is still the 1971 "Surf's Up" I heard there once. Definitely didn't see that one coming. I think that's cool. It's not like they're working at a funeral parlor. Good to say employees having a little fun at their jobs.
|
|
|
Post by kds on Mar 28, 2023 19:38:16 GMT
The other day, I caught a commercial for Amazon where a HS girl with some hair on her upper lip decides to buy a yellow Freddie Mercury jacket from Amazon. The song playing in the add was Cool Cat by Queen. Talk about a Queen song I didn't expect to hear in an ad, TV show, or movie.
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on May 15, 2023 18:36:57 GMT
Right now, from some car blasting it so loudly that I can hear it from my home office (which is to the back of the house compared to the street where the car is), Ozzy Osbourne's and Lita Ford's "Close My Eyes Forever."
That one takes me back to junior high dances.
|
|
|
Post by Kapitan on May 21, 2023 16:58:15 GMT
This isn't a song I was surprised to hear, but a comment.
I was in a used bookstore (which also sells used albums and CDs), and a kid who couldn't have been more than 14 or 15 said something that perked up my ears: "The Traveling Wilburys, I am obsessed with them!"
What!? So I lingered and listened as he talked to his (apparently) younger brother. "I love all of those guys. I would rank them in talent like this: first is Jeff Lynne, I am OBSESSED with Jeff Lynne. Then Tom Petty. Then Roy Orbison, then George Harrison. I don't like Bob Dylan as much as the other guys, but I love the Traveling Wilburys!" And the other kid, apparently confirming some facts, must have repeated about three times, "you LOVE Jeff Lynne, you are totally obsessed with Jeff Lynne."
So funny. But then again, when I was 14, I was obsessed with the likes of Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Queen, and such. Then again, Jeff Lynne? It's like if I had been saying "I love the Jimi Hendrix Experience! I am obsessed with Noel Redding!"
|
|
|
Post by kds on Jun 22, 2023 12:19:13 GMT
The other day, when getting gas, I heard a little bit of a live version of David Gilmour's "Take a Breath." Granted, it was being played loudly from another vehicle, but that's still a song I did not expect to hear in public.
|
|
|
Post by jk on Jun 26, 2023 19:55:36 GMT
|
|
|
Post by jk on Jul 7, 2023 17:16:40 GMT
…the original of "Devoted To You" at the off-license this week:
|
|
|
Post by carllove on Nov 3, 2023 21:32:18 GMT
Was listening to talk radio on my drive home today and the hosts liked this so much, they played it twice. I was laughing so hard, I was in tears.
|
|
|
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Dec 6, 2023 13:54:16 GMT
This is an all-timer for me...
With my job, each week I stop by a local retirement home. There is always music being softly funneled in from some satellite source. I probably listen to or focus in on the music more than anybody else in the facility. While the music selection is usually oldies from the early 1960s, they will delve into the 1970s and some country. Today, the music being featured (chosen by somebody in the HR department) was oldies from the early/mid 1960s. And, out of nowhere came "He's A Doll" by The Honeys. I so wanted to stop what I was doing and discuss the song, but there wasn't anybody present who would even remotely understand...or care. I enjoyed that two minutes immensely, though.
|
|
|
Post by jk on Dec 11, 2023 12:39:10 GMT
Last month a guitarist-singer friend and I played for five hours for an artists' club (with breaks). Fred's repertoire includes many CCR songs, amongst them this one, which I was surprised to hear today at the grocer's store: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Ever_Seen_the_Rain%3F
|
|