Song You Were Least Likely to Hear in the Grocery Store

Conquistador by Procul Harum.

 

Edit: Procol Harum

 

The lamb lies down on broadway- Genisis

 

Les Brers in 'A' Minor A... heard it at the grocery store late at night, a few weeks ago...I assume the shelf stockers were jamming out!

 

If Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - Manic Street Preachers. Best toilet paper run ever.

 

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

 

It always makes me laugh with the choices for "safe" music my local conservative grocery company chooses without understanding the lyrics. Things like Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" and "Mellow Yellow" which references LSD and a vibrator; Beatles "Got to Get You into My Life", an ode to pot; "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay", contemplating suicide; etc..

 

I have heard The Beatles' "Baby You're a Rich Man" at Wal-Mart.

 

"Pigs" by Pig Pink Floyd

 

My local supermarket has surprised me twice in the past three years. Usually they play generic nothing supermarket music that completely fails to register as I do my shopping. However, the two tracks which have stood out were:

The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

One of the checkout obasan must like her 80s British post punk.

 

I've heard "Achilles Last Stand" by Led Zeppelin at the grocery store, so it would take a lot to surprise me.

 

Bird Dance Beat by the Trashmen at Kroger a couple of years ago

 

This is the remix y'all-
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I once heard Guns N' Roses cover of Ain't It Fun played in a shopping centre. As you may know, that song contains the rudest word in the whole english language...

 

I once heard a Caribbean style instrumental of "Black Hole Sun" at Disneyland. I still remember sitting there in Tomorrowland trying to place the very familiar melody.

 

My wife and I were eating at some restaurant a few years back and Crazy Train by Ozzy came on. When that song came out, the odds of that happening some day were pretty long. Seems Ozzy went from a crazed devil worshipping madman to suitable for family casual dining in under 30 years

 

I once heard Dylan's Positively Fourth Street in my local Stop & Shop.

You know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed goes really well with the family shopping experience.

 

I haven't heard in store music in a supermarket/grocery shop for years. I can remember hearing "Green Manalishi" a few times..

 

My local suburban grocery store plays a deep track mix that floors me sometimes. Songs I've heard off the top of my head:

I'm Waiting For My Man - VU
several songs from Forever Changes
Omaha - Moby Grape
It's A Long Way To the Top etc. - AC/DC
Obviously Sweet Marie - Dylan

The list could on and on. Everytime I'm in there I here at least several tracks that make me think "does anyone else in here grasp what they're hearing?". My best guess is that it's some form of satellitte feed. It's not programmed by anyone at the store.

 

Ate a mall burrito to "Love Will Tear Us Apart" just last week, but that's probably another thread.

 

My local fish 'n' chip shop was playing 'Kind of Blue' one time I went in, which was a nice surprise. Last time I went it was Eagles Greatest Hits, which is ok, but not quite as (well, in fact, nowhere near as) cool.

 

"Cold Turkey" - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

 

I heard Trower-Day of the Eagle in Walgreens once

 

"Let's Go Away For Awhile"

 

I heard Day of the Eagle by Procol Harum once...