Odd Grocery Store Music
It's getting stranger and stranger, last week I heard Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" in a grocery store, then this morning at a different store they were playing 999's "Homicide"! But that's not all, after "Homicide", just as I was thinking it couldn't get any weirder they played Fun Boy 3's "The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum"! At least it's better than the old instrumental versions of Glen Campbell songs though.
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Was it a Co-op? Our local branch plays "Co-op Radio" which in between adverts for sink plungers and dog worming powder, plays old hits...
No, it was two different stores, both big chains.Originally Posted by BlindLemonAde
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I have noticed that Co-op plays a load of great stuff that I for one wouldn't pick for my customers (I compile the music for a number of customers..mostly restaurants though) such as Morrissey/ Smiths, The Jam...I forget the others but I'm always thinking "Erm..not sure if this is suitable but I love it!"
Music in shops and restaurants is one of my pet hates. Our local Co-op is tiny and still has that bloody radio station.
If you like a a few quirks Come Dine With Me is always good for a few off the wall choices. Very high representation of Two Tone era ska as well ( Lip Up Fatty being one of their staples).
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
I'm sorry...honest! At the risk of sounding like a lowly SS member, when I choose awful music I am only following orders...
Actually I notice that WH Smiths in The Fort, Brum, doesn't have any music (do any of their stores these days?) and it always seems deathly quiet in there, like they're about to shut down.
I think shops need a bit of B/G music...but then I WOULD say that, wouldn't I?
I have quite a sense that WH Smiths is struggling every time I go into a branch (and Boots BTW).The one in West Brom shut down a while ago ( although that may not be much of a barometer - book store shuts in town with one of the lowest edcuational achievement levels in the UK...).
Its certainly the volume level of in-store music that bothers me a lot as well. Sitting in a cafe or restaurant and the music is at a level where you can't have a conversation to me is wrong. Sometimes if I go somewhere like MacDonalds for a coffee I wander around scoping out the quietest part.
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
Was thinking about this thread and felt my responses may have been rude to Dave - so, apologies, what an interesting job you must have.
On the other hand I am reminded that Alan Partridge started his broadcasting career doing something similar at Our Price records...*
* yes, I know he is fictional!
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
Not in the slightest - I didn't take it that way at all. I agree with a lot of it anyway! It's a job rather than a vocation, put it that way
No apologies required.
Sometimes it is indeed. That said, I used to have to compile a monthly CD of Easy Listening music and I came very close to cutting my own ears off on occasion.
Yeah like I could ever be as cool as him...!
As much as I hated working in Co Op, their music selection was pretty awesome. I remember them playing some reasonably obscure stuff - 'You Get What You Give' by New Radicals, 1994-era REM stuff, I can't remember any weirder examples but there was stranger stuff than that.
As for weird music in shops, I was in Burger King the other day and I was flabbergasted at how immensely depressing their music selection was. It was all miserable, lo-fi indie ballads. I wanted to slit my wrist.
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