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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Space Freely on August 21, 2018, 03:00:33 pm
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I do my grocery shopping at Giant and Whole Foods, with an occasional visit to Trader Joe's.
Sunday 8/19 at Giant:
The Kaiser Chiefs: "I Predict a Riot" (this was followed up by Peter Cetera's "Hard to Day I'm Sorry")
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remember, this
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Giant has really been stepping up their music game lately.
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Giant has been killing it lately for sure....also, between songs there are announcements to the effect of: "go ahead, sing along." So, I now treat every grocery visit as karaoke until security escorts me the fuck out.
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Tuesday, 8/21, Giant:
For me it was a tie:
A Flock of Seagulls-"I Ran"
Til Tuesday "Voices Carry"
I asked my wife to vote to break the tie, and she chose AFOS.
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Til Tuesday "Voices Carry"
was listening to some classic gang green recnetly and I always loved their cover of this song and how they changed this one key lyric
"When I tell her that I'm falling down drunk what does she say-a-ay."
just ran across this and thought I'd share
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Blues are Still Blue, B&S, on the PA at Whole Foods tonight. Not starting a new thread for this.
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Blues are Still Blue, B&S, on the PA at Whole Foods tonight. Not starting a new thread for this.
No prob, Anyone can post. I just spent nine hours at King's Dominion and heard maybe three good songs the whole time. Superstition, Private Eyes, and an Avett Brothers song.
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"good" "songs"
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8/26 Giant
It seemed like Patterson Hood was playing dj.
First I heard London Calling and that was followed by Sweet Home Alabama.
I'm calling that one a tie.
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and to think, I mindlessly walk through the aisles, more interested in what my stomach, is telling me to buy. of course, I am obsessed also, with watching all people, and mentally breaking them down psychologically based on their movements, facial actions and what they are wearing. what . . . music. every,once in a,while I do hear that what was awful before, is now updated and attempting to be, cool.
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Sunday, 9/2 Giant.
Elvis Costello "The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes"
Squeeze "Pulling Mussels From a Shell"
I'm going to call this one a tie.
I never tried mussels or even paid mind to what they were until I was in my 30's. (Turns out they make me violently ill, so maybe my ignorance was a blissing.) I think every other dorm room window was blasting that song in the 80's. I always though the guy was singing the jock anthem "Pulling Muscles for Michelle."
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Sunday 9/9, Giant
Bowie-Modern Love
The Cure- Lovesong
tie
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Tuesday 9/11- Madonna-Lucky Star
(it was the only song played, but it still made me think how much better top 40 was in the late 80s.)
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no one remembers, that, Regis.
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Tuesday 9/11- Madonna-Lucky Star
(it was the only song played, but it still made me think how much better top 40 was in the late 80s.)
Released: 1983
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Is beer a grocery?
Here I go again by Whitesnake obviously
Only song I heard...I took care of business quick
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I heard Billy Joel's Keeping the Faith in Giant today, which reminded me that I heard Billy Joel's Big Shot in Whole Foods earlier this week, which reminded me that I really fucking hate Billy Joel.
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I heard Billy Joel's Keeping the Faith in Giant today, which reminded me that I heard Billy Joel's Big Shot in Whole Foods earlier this week, which reminded me that I really fucking hate Billy Joel.
have you listened to this yet...deeep cuts
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I heard Billy Joel's Keeping the Faith in Giant today, which reminded me that I heard Billy Joel's Big Shot in Whole Foods earlier this week, which reminded me that I really fucking hate Billy Joel.
A girlfriend from college's dad did some work on one of Billy's houses, and I heard enough stories from her to know he's a total dick. (It's been so long I don't really remember the stories...)
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Thurs 9/13 Giant
Camera Obscura-Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
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Fri 9/14 Giant
John Fogerty-The Old Man Down the Road
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how many times a week are you in a grocery store?
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I was thinking the same thing yesterday
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how many times a week are you in a grocery store?
Whole Foods maybe two or three times a week, Same for Giant. Maybe more if i need a special ingredient. Trader Joes maybe once a month. Probably the same for my wife.
How many times for you?
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Geez dude...so 5 times a week at grocery store at a minimum
You are doing it wrong...on the other hand you probably go there for free entertainment
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Sunday 9/16, Giant
The GoGos-Head Over Heels
The Cure-Lovesong
I was also at Whole Foods but they don't play the music loud enough to actually hear what it is.
Hearing the GoGos reminded me of my college roommate who got really pissed when cute chubby GoGo Belinda mutated into skinny Belinda. He was so offended.
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Geez dude...so 5 times a week at grocery store at a minimum
You are doing it wrong...on the other hand you probably go there for free entertainment
It's actually two or three times a week (not five) because Whole Foods and Giant are right next to each other and when i hit one i also hit the other. And if you're shopping on a Saturday, you may not know what you want to make on a Thursday, or maybe you want to wait until Thursday so you know the produce is at it's freshest. It's not like I live 10 miles from the nearest grocery store. Each of them are within walking distance of my house, and i drive by both on the way home four days a week.
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Ok my bad...2-3 times a week is not bad
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Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s are the first grocery stores I recall having decent music
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i typically only hit the grocery store once a week, maybe twice.
on saturday, they played Manic Monday. my inner OCD was going insane.
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i typically only hit the grocery store once a week, maybe twice.
on saturday, they played Manic Monday. my inner OCD was going insane.
How close are you to the nearest grocery store? I picture you being miles away.
Growing up, we lived in a number of places, way out in the country. Always a good eight miles from the grocery store. We probably went grocery shopping once a week. In one place we lived, we also lacked a washer and dryer. I remember the laundromat was next door to the grocery store. We'd go grocery shopping while doing our laundry...I'd get a pack of baseball or football cards and come back and peruse all the statistics on the back until the laundry was done. Good times.
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i typically only hit the grocery store once a week, maybe twice.
on saturday, they played Manic Monday. my inner OCD was going insane.
How close are you to the nearest grocery store? I picture you being miles away.
it's a 6 mile drive into town. we're about 3 miles down a small, winding country road and a third of a mile down a gravel road so it can feel isolated but in reality we're not that far out. i drive into civilization every day for work so i potentially could shop ever day but i'd much rather stock up and get it over with once a week.
I'd get a pack of baseball or football cards and come back and peruse all the statistics on the back until the laundry was done. Good times.
i feel this does a lot to explain your current career... ;D
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My groceries are delivered so it's whatever I have on at the time....
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9/20 Giant
Wings-Band on the Run
Don't worry, I wasn't grocery shopping on company time. My wife tells me I should do housework and grocery shopping during telework time, but I say no way. I just stopped and bought groceries on the way home from the doctor. Totally legit.
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God I hate Wings....
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God I hate Wings....
I agree, to a degree. Was only in the store for two songs and can't even remember the other one. I would have skipped posting it but didn't want y'all to think I was slacking on the shopping front.
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Yes yes by all means carry on....forum’s #1 thread baby!
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God I hate Wings....
I agree, to a degree. Was only in the store for two songs and can't even remember the other one. I would have skipped posting it but didn't want y'all to think I was slacking on the shopping front.
Wonderful Christmastime makes me want to wage war on Christmas!
Technically not a wings song, I always thought it was because of the video
Although the members of Wings are not on the recording, they do appear in the promotional music video
it is estimated that McCartney makes $400,000 a year from this song, which puts its cumulative earnings at a little over $15 million
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On the other hand ....live and let die.....oh wait that one has the horribly annoying “what does it matter to you” bridge
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On the other hand ....live and let die.....oh wait that one has the horribly annoying “what does it matter to you” bridge
GnR breathed a little new life into that one two
but yeah that bridge sux
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Wonderful Christmastime makes me want to wage war on Christmas!
I am always amazed that playlists that are automatically created by AI continue to include this song because it's a McCartney song with no credence paid to the time of year. It's fucking not even November and I don't need to hear that song!
It's a simple script to save humanity.
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Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a place on earth
At trader José
Execrable song
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My wife asked me to pick some stuff up on the way home from work Friday night, and of course I happily obliged, awaiting with wonder as to what tunes Giant had in store for me.
Alas, the first song I couldn't decipher. So the next and last song was the winner. Though not her best shot, it may have been her biggest hit.
Benatar-Love is a Battle Field
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Benatar-Love is a Battle Field
Fun Fact, Pat Benatar grew up in Lindenhurst Long Island NY (graduated 71)
birth last name... Andrzejewski (kinda see why she decided to keep her ex husbands last name)
She never ever admits being from there...always said NY or NYC
(although I did just find out she did something with the lindenhurst choir in 2008)
Momma Sidehatch had her in homeroom when she was pregnant with baby Sidehatch
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I think she first made it in Richmond
Love is a battlefield is a great tune...but maybe her last truly great one unless we count invincible or le bel age....by the time we belong came out it was all over but the birchmere
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Benatar-Love is a Battle Field
Fun Fact, Pat Benatar grew up in Lindenhurst Long Island NY (graduated 71)
birth last name... Andrzejewski (kinda see why she decided to keep her ex husbands last name)
She never ever admits being from there...always said NY or NYC
(although I did just find out she did something with the lindenhurst choir in 2008)
Momma Sidehatch had her in homeroom when she was pregnant with baby Sidehatch
I did not know any of that. Your mom had you while she was a student in high school? Fascinating!
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This is so poorly written sidehatch...very on brand!!
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Tina Turner
You Better Be Good To Me
Twinbrook Safeway, 7:45 a.m.
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I'm not sure if this post belongs in the Just Announced thread or in this one.
I'm going grocery shopping tonight. Stay tuned for a new post. Unfortunately, I'll probably have to take my kid, who will no doubt decide she wants to explore the store on her own and find stuff that I would never ever buy and insist that she needs it. Then I'll likely let her pick out one thing, and I'll get to the checkout line and have to stand around waiting until she reappears. Then we'll go home and eat the Papa John's that she's been insisting on for a while now and I finally gave in (because although we do have leftover Ledo's that my wife have in on ("I don't do leftovers.", thanks to the 50% off Nats win and score 7 or more offer.
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not sure that stream of consciousness post needed to go anywhere...but we're here to listen
not a grocery store but some hipster diner that looks like it was from the 50's but is 2 years old
in Penn Quarter at the bottom of the Pod hotel
a pretty well curated sound track played whilst I ate my sausage biscuit
sweet jane - cboy junkies
Junkyard Julie - The Rosewood Thieves (never heard of them ...thanks shazam)
Beyond Belief - Elvis (one of may all time favorites by him)
In the name of Love - Nouvelle vogue
Santa Cruz - JJ Cale
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While inclusiveness is usually a virtue, I'm not sure that the playlist of a hipster diner qualifies for this thread. We *expect* to hear good music at a hipster diner, we don't expect it when we're grocery shopping.
But since you've indirectly raised the issue, doesn't a good playlist make a huge difference in the quality of a dining or drinking experience?
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I think this should have gone on the Upcoming Grocery Store Trip thread.. Space! Don’t clutter the board’s top thread please!
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this thread was a slow burn, but at this rate could take out Just Announced some time soon
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Tina Turner
You Better Be Good To Me
Twinbrook Safeway, 7:45 a.m.
It was a bit much that early in the morning, tbh
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Twinbrook?
You live almost as far out in the hinterlands of Fairfax County as Space.
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Twinbrook?
You live almost as far out in the hinterlands of Fairfax County as Space.
Not the MoCo Twinbrook Safeway?
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Yes, yes. Twinbrook MoCo.
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Just like Maryland to steal names from Virginia...
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still...outside the beltway = hinterlands
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Wed 9/26 Giant
There were three of them and they weren't siblings and they weren't named Thompson. And Phil Collins once faxed his wife a divorce request.
Thompson Twins-Love on Your Side (beating out the other song, Phil Collins "That's All", sorry Hutch)
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Story of my Life
Smash Mouth
7:52 a.m.
Twinbrook Safeway
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One Direction or Social D...
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Umm...Smash Mouth
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Alanis Morisette - Ironic
Rupert Holmes - Pina Colada
It was as awful as it sounds, particularly in frozen foods where, for some reason, the speakers are cranked to 11.
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So I went to Giant and Whole Foods Sunday 9/30/18.
At Giant, I got 4-5 songs. The only one i could name was Chris Deburg's "Don't Pay the Ferryman." One of the worst songs in history. Whose idea was it to sell us garbage songs like this. The only people who could possibly like this songs are people with a bone to pick with Ferry Men, and Hutch. ;D
Then I went to Whole Foods. Typically, my old man ears can't hear the music they play. But Whole Foods rescued the day by playing "uh Oh, Love Comes to Town", off of one of the greatest debut albums ever, Talking Heads 77,
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Yeah...talking heads 77....damn it’s good
The only Chris deburg song I know is lady in red....a classic!!
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s Chris Deburg's "Don't Pay the Ferryman." One of the worst songs in history.
when I was 12...I did love that song and video...but it has aged really poorly
Was really into Greek mythology at the time....so the video of the ferryman of Hades crossing the river Styx ...to rock music...was major bonus points for the D&D nerd in me at the time
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The Cure: "Friday, I'm In Love"
Saturday 9/29/2018, Safeway, Towson.
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should I, be shocked this thread has gone, this far . . . no.
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should I, be shocked this thread has gone, this far . . . no.
This is probably the best new thread since a Rolling Compendium of Integers: A Guide To Whole Numbers. A really staggering late-career renaissance by Space.
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This is probably the best new thread since a Rolling Compendium of Integers: A Guide To Whole Numbers.
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10/1/18 Avocados are one of the three foods that make me deathly ill (along with mussels and shitake mushrooms), so I avoid them. But my wife likes having them with Mexican food. Since I was making Mexican last night, she asked me to stop and get some avocados.
I opted to stop at Whole Foods. I picked up two avocados and some brie for later in the week, and while doing so, I heard:
The Replacements-Can't Hardly Wait
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The bad new yesterday 10/3 was that I needed more pasta for my dinner recipe and there was no way of getting around it, I was going to have to take my kid to the grocery store. At least when I take her to a brewery, she doesn't beg for me to buy her everything in the place..
But the good news is of course I was going to get some Giant songs.
We walked in and they were playing "Mushaboom" by Feist. A good song off of her finest album. A strong candidate.
Three minutes later, the opening chords to Tom Petty's "The Waiting" kicked in and I knew we had a winner. Just as the chorus was kicking in, I heard a loony kid a few aisles over start singing along at the top of her lungs. "Some parent is probably gong to be mortified." I thought.....but then realized it was *my* kid. I wasn't sure whether to be embarrassed or proud.
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That’s great
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Three minutes later, the opening chords to Tom Petty's "The Waiting" kicked in and I knew we had a winner. Just as the chorus was kicking in, I heard a loony kid a few aisles over start singing along at the top of her lungs. "Some parent is probably gong to be mortified." I thought.....but then realized it was *my* kid. I wasn't sure whether to be embarrassed or proud.
I'd be proud...if it was Katie Perry, I'd be mortified
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Sunday, 10/7 Giant
First song I recognized was "Forever Man" by Eric Clapton. This one should be in a competition with half of the Billy Joel and all of the Phil Collins catalog for worst song ever. The synth line sounds like it was lifted form Jan Hammer's Miami Vice Theme.
If God isn't real, can we please get rid of Eric Clapton too?
I guess the best song was "And We Danced" by the Hooters. Nothing to write home about, but at least their legions of fans aren't claiming they are "God."
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I do believe Phil Collins was involved with Forever Man and yes it is an atrocity
I was thinking about Eric Crapton this morning...god since about 1971 he has sucked and yet people worship him
BTW read his autobiography....you will loathe him after doing so...a horrible person
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Errata: Phil Collins plays on and conproduced half of Behind the Sun but not Forever Man
Go Phil!
BTW Phil played Verizon Center Sunday...I was very sad to miss it ...people I talked to after show said he is on last legs
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Haddaway - What Is Love?
Steely Dan - Reeling in the Years
Hard call...
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Errata: Phil Collins plays on and conproduced half of Behind the Sun but not Forever Man
Go Phil!
BTW Phil played Verizon Center Sunday...I was very sad to miss it ...people I talked to after show said he is on last legs
actually, he isn't on his legs at all... at least not for the tour opener in florida: he sat for the entire performance, walked in with a cane, and didn't play drums. (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/phil-collins-not-dead-yet-tour-set-list/) the setlist in DC (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/phil-collins/2018/capital-one-arena-washington-dc-6be96a7a.html) was identical to the FL setlist. looks like phil is phoning it in.
tour is called "not dead yet"... which, while technically true...
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What is Love is such a Walkie song
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Errata: Phil Collins plays on and conproduced half of Behind the Sun but not Forever Man
Go Phil!
BTW Phil played Verizon Center Sunday...I was very sad to miss it ...people I talked to after show said he is on last legs
actually, he isn't on his legs at all... at least not for the tour opener in florida: he sat for the entire performance, walked in with a cane, and didn't play drums. (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/phil-collins-not-dead-yet-tour-set-list/) the setlist in DC (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/phil-collins/2018/capital-one-arena-washington-dc-6be96a7a.html) was identical to the FL setlist. looks like phil is phoning it in.
tour is called "not dead yet"... which, while technically true...
He is just not in good shape...health problem
Lots of artists play identical set lists night after night and it means nothing
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Duran Duran - A View to a Kill
?? - A cover of Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven Is a Place on Earth". Kind of a slow club jam version.
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Thurs, 10/11
Blind Melon-No Rain. Trader Joe's. I hated this song with a passion when it was overplayed on the VT radio station I listened to back when it was released. Now I think it's ok given that I only hear it once every five years.. We had just dashed into TJ's sans umbrellas in a rainstorm and it was playing. Perfect.
Talking Heads-Uh Oh, Love Comes to Town. Whole Foods. Uh Oh, second time I've heard this song in a short period of time at WF. Maybe they have just a handful of songs on endless replay. In my younger years I have worked in that kind of environment and I think it qualifies as a minor form of abuse.
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10/16
Whole Foods:
Stones-It's Only Rock and Roll
Rod Stewart- Maggie Mae
Giant:
Kiss-Beth
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10/16
Whole Foods:
Stones-It's Only Rock and Roll
Rod Stewart- Maggie Mae
Giant:
Kiss-Beth
Pretty good shopping day.
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10/16
Whole Foods:
Stones-It's Only Rock and Roll
Rod Stewart- Maggie Mae
Giant:
Kiss-Beth
Pretty good shopping day.
in 1976 ....
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I forgot to get paper towels yesterday so it was back to Giant today. The glories of teleworking.
U2- Mysterious Ways
U2 seems to be the band that people who are trying to be cool love to hate. Whereas other people love them. There seems to be little in between. I'm an in between. Some of their stuff is great, some is complete garbage. This particular song is ok.
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Paper towels are worth going back for
The two bands all guys listened to at my college circa 1990 were REM and U2...I think it was considered ok or cool in a conformist I have zero individuality kind of way....
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U2 seems to be the band that people who are trying to be cool love to hate. Whereas other people love them. There seems to be little in between. I'm an in between. Some of their stuff is great, some is complete garbage. This particular song is ok.
U2 had a great first 3-4 records. Then everything after that (including Joshua Tree) is ass. So I guess I'm with you: they undeniably have some great stuff, just none of it has come out in the last 25 years.
I think if the band was from -- I don't know -- Albany, NY they would've broken up a long time ago and be certainly remembered, but revered about as much as, say, REO Speedwagon. Along with Boston Sports teams; Conor McGregor; Catholicism; Notre Dame; Jameson; et al, U2 profits from the sick, weird tribalism of Irish-American immigrants that demands their obsequious support for all things with the thin veneer of overt-Irishness regardless of any of these institutions' relative merits. (And I say this as someone whose mother's maiden name was Brady.)
Vansmack will now show up and remind everyone of this year's Notre Dame/Michigan score.
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i was at a local street festival recently, poking around... so that sorta counts as shopping.
it was a huge festival, biggest street fair i've ever been to. off in the distance i heard some orchestral-tinged hard rock coming from the stage area. thought to myself "hey, this is decent, sounds very 70's or 80's prog-rock". then a voice with a thick English accent chimed in, "...and i think you'll all recognize this next one, it's called Aqualung" - and a perfect rendition of Aqualung ensued. "wait, that voice, i recognize it... was that Ian Anderson?!?" i've seen Jethro Tull live, and hell if this wasn't them. didn't make any sense - have Tull been reduced to the county fair circuit?!? we were on our way back to the car with two whiney kids so i couldn't break away to visually confirm, but my ears were certain it was JT (or Anderson, at least).
got home, looked it up online, turns out it was a (very good) JT cover band called The Jethro Tull Experience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4grPJRHFGs).
so i wasn't really shopping, and i heard a cover band. probably doesn't warrant a post in this thread, but here i am anyways. sorry.
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the sick, weird tribalism of Irish-American immigrants that demands their obsequious support for all things with the thin veneer of overt-Irishness regardless of any of these institutions' relative merits. (And I say this as someone whose mother's maiden name was Brady.)
as opposed to the sick, weird tribalism of Michigan emigrants that proffer their obsequious support for all things with the thin veneer of overt-Michiganess regardless of any of these institutions' relative merits. (And I say this as someone whose mother is from Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, and spent my summers crossing the river to Soo Michigan).
Vansmack will now show up and remind everyone of this year's Notre Dame/Michigan score.
yeah, can see that one coming from a mile away... ;D
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the sick, weird tribalism of Irish-American immigrants that demands their obsequious support for all things with the thin veneer of overt-Irishness regardless of any of these institutions' relative merits. (And I say this as someone whose mother's maiden name was Brady.)
as opposed to the sick, weird tribalism of Michigan emigrants that proffer their obsequious support for all things with the thin veneer of overt-Michiganess regardless of any of these institutions' relative merits. (And I say this as someone whose mother is from Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, and spent my summers crossing the river to Soo Michigan).
Seeing as one of those phenomenons exists and the other is wholecloth you just imagined, yes, I suppose "as opposed to" is the proper prefix to that sentence.
People from Michigan do not go around telling everyone everything from Michigan is fantastic and worthy of our support; we tell people we it is "not cold," despite all evidence to the contrary.
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People from Pittsburgh
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My daughter informed me that tomorrow is a field trip and she needed something from Giant, so back I went.
INXS-New Sensation
I saw them at the Palace Theater in Albany, NY on 10/29/87. I'll admit, I was a fan for much of the 80's going back to 1982's Shabooh Shoobah. Or whatever it was called. Then they lost me in the 90's. Then the singer died while jerking off. Then they got a new singer on Rock Star INXS which was must see viewing at our house but they don't seem to be doing much these days. god i love that you can find stuff out on he internet like that last sentence. god bless the web.
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the Palace Theater in Albany, NY
Didn’t the long-defunct alterno-U2 play a somewhat acclaimed three-night homestand there once back in ‘88?
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the Palace Theater in Albany, NY
Didn’t the long-defunct alterno-U2 play a somewhat acclaimed three-night homestand there once back in ‘88?
It's possible, but i don't recall. Apparently, they did play my school's Mayfest celebration, but it was a few years before I got there.
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Before-U2-conquered-the-world-12891468.php
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the Palace Theater in Albany, NY
Didn’t the long-defunct alterno-U2 play a somewhat acclaimed three-night homestand there once back in ‘88?
It's possible, but i don't recall. Apparently, they did play my school's Mayfest celebration, but it was a few years before I got there.
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Before-U2-conquered-the-world-12891468.php
WE ARE THROUGH THE MANDELA-EFFECT LOOKING GLASS HERE, PEOPLE!!
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'Weight of the World' by The Samples. Olney Giant yesterday.
Nice pop tune. Boulder Co band from the 80s described as a cross between The Police and The Dead.
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Another repeat...
Giant 10/20: Squeeze-Pulling Mussels from a Shell
I won't repeat my story of how i used to think this song was called Pulling Muscles for Michelle
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10/23 Whole Foods
ELO-Mr. Blue Sky
I spent this whole song fantasizing about how low tickets prices will go on stubhub for their DC show after it undersells the arena.
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I spent this whole song fantasizing about how low tickets prices will go on stubhub for their DC show after it undersells the arena.
you really need to expand your fantasy life...
but ...I did think a similar thing when they listed Cap Center....I think this would be a perfect Anthem show
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Miami Sound Machine - The rhythm is gonna get you
Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
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Weis Market, Middle River, MD
Wilco! - 'Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)'
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10/27, Giant
In addition to my usual Saturday shopping, I was tasked with purchasing some nail polish remover. I haven't worn nail polish since 1997, so that was a tough find and kept me in store for some extra tunes.
The first two songs I heard were "I Don't Care Anymore" by Phil Collins and "I Go To Extremes" by Billy Joel. Has there ever been a worse double shot? Clearly the winner was the PSA for changing your smoke detector batteries. She had a sexy commanding voice.
Then, as i was struggling and getting upset because I couldn't find the nail polish remover, on came the soothing voice of Glen Frey doing the Jackson Browne classic "Take it Easy." And oh how much better I felt.
People like to shit on the Eagles, and surely they weren't in the same league as Gram Parsons, but what man can't identify with the idea of having seven women on his mind? Sometimes you're just feeling 1972.
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I don’t care anymore is great!
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Okay, so technically I was not grocery shopping, but I dressed as the Log Lady for Halloween and they played the soundtrack for me at Vigilante Coffee while I was there drinking it. Best. Day. Ever.
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Okay, so technically I was not grocery shopping, but I dressed as the Log Lady for Halloween and they played the Twin Peaks soundtrack for me at Vigilante Coffee while I was there drinking it. Best. Day. Ever.
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11/1, Giant
Naked Eyes-Always Something There to Remind Me.
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11/2, Giant
Semisonic - Singing in My Sleep
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Harris Teeter
Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody that I used to know.
Had to look this one up.
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Harris Teeter
Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody that I used to know.
Had to look this one up.
You forgot to log in to your Space account.
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11/8 Giant
The Cars-Just What I Needed
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11/11 Tip of the hat to all of the Veterans out there. Giant
Prince-Delirious
So a few weeks ago I picked up 1999 and Purple Rain among a bunch of other CD's and books in a $10 last day box at a library book sale. Usually, there's some senior citizen dealer guy who has waited in line so that he can grab all of the DVD's and CD's before anyone else. So I lucked out.
I played 1999 on a long car ride last weekend. My kid's review: "Turn this garbage off." My wife's review: "Some music just doesn't age well." My review: "This is Prince's best album and it's awesome, and I'm the driver."
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Nothing says respect for the troops quite like a shout-out in the midst of a rolling compendium of songs heard in a grocery store.
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11/12 Whole Foods
Crowded House-Something So Strong
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11/12 Whole Foods
Crowded House-Something So Strong
So boring
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11/13 Giant
The Knack-My Sharona
Has ever a greater musical riff been written? I think not. We were dancing in the aisles of Giant.
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11/18
A banner day for grocery store playlists.
First up was Giant. First song was the annoying Ballroom Blitz by Sweet.
But then, a sweet three song blast followed:
Television-See No Evil
The Cure-Lovesong
Talking Heads-This Must Be the Place
They were on such a roll, I didn't want to leave. But alas, I headed to Whole Foods for a few items, where I heard:
Johnny Cash-Walk the Line
Phosphorescent-New Birth in New England
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Come for the food, stay for the music!
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I had occasion to be in Space Freely's home Giant this weekend (Hollies - Long Cool Woman) and I was struck by the clarity of their audio system. I find most grocery stores have crappy systems that one must struggle to hear. But Space's Giant clearly values the customer experience and have engineered a system to ensure that you hear your shopping soundtrack consistently from the produce section all the way to frozen foods.
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who would have thought this thread would have legs...dominating the top spot for some time now
maybe Julie can come up with a "integers I saw while at the Grocery Store" companion thread
This begs the question, who makes the call on music selection?
Do we think it's locally sourced?
What about royalties...as surely the stores are profiting from artists blood, sweat and tears?
Is someone's full time job to DJ?
Or is it listed as the Assistant Managers responsibilities and no extra fee is paid?
Who is the audience?... do internal staff want something to listen whilst they polish the apples?
Or does the manager say "we need to create an atmosphere of a hipsters basement soundtrack"
Or is there a station on Spotify/Pandora/Musaqic
the store manager should review this
https://cloudcovermusic.com/blog/licensing-questions-legal-business-music/
If you do not receive the proper authorization you can be held liable for damages from a minimum of $750 up to a maximum of $150,000 per song played.
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Industry
Retail Media
Founded
Salt Lake City, Utah
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah
Products
Distribution of music & video
Number of employees
80
Website
www.instoreaudionetwork.com
InStore Audio Network (also known as ISAN) is a retail media provider of narrowcast in-store background music, in-store video content and advertising for delivery within supermarkets and drugstores. InStore Broadcasting Network's music programming is housed locally on a music server at each location, containing the music library and IBN's proprietary scheduling and delivery software. This software enables each server to receive new ads and playlists as often as necessary, transferred over the Internet. The playlists dictate what will be played during the following week in that particular store.
ISAN reports that it provides music to over 22,000 retail and grocery stores in the United States. Its largest client base holds nationwide accounts. Included are stores owned by Ahold (including Giant Food Stores, Tops and Martin's), Kroger, Safeway, Rite Aid, Supervalu, Meijer, Winn-Dixie and Walgreens.[
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dude...the Mormons are kick ass dj's ...who would have predicted that!
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dude...the Mormons are kick ass dj's ...who would have predicted that!
The company founder is named Jeff Shapiro. He may not be a Mormon.
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dude...the Mormons are kick ass dj's ...who would have predicted that!
The company founder is named Jeff Shapiro. He may not be a Mormon.
oh that's no fun, I already knew the jews had a thing for music
ohhh he went there!
come on think of any X-mas tune you know...probably written by a jew
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maybe Julie can come up with a "integers I saw while at the Grocery Store" companion thread
I do only shop at bespoke farm-to-table grocery stores that round off all item prices to whole numbers so this is totally in play.
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11/20 Whole Foods H Street DC: Devo-I Cant Get No Satisfaction
11/22: Giant: Blondie:Rapture
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Just now (probably will be playing for another 20 minutes so hurry)
Italian store westover
Grateful Dead- some cool jam...all I heard was instrumental
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Today is my telework day. I will be shopping after I sign out later. I'll report my findings later, though this time of year it's usually lots of Xmas music.
My wife seems to think that the purpose of me teleworking is for me to get housework and errands done while I'm supposed to be working, but I disagree.
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Today is my telework day. I will be shopping after I sign out later. I'll report my findings later, though this time of year it's usually lots of Xmas music.
My wife seems to think that the purpose of me teleworking is for me to get housework and errands done while I'm supposed to be working, but I disagree.
Get a “permission slip” from your employer saying you are not authorized to do housework while teleworking
Problem solved
(Actually I feel you man)
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I think the only non-Xmas song I heard at either Giant or Whole Foods yesterday was fat turd John Belushi singing Soul Man. Or at least I think it was the JB version. That's a song that I don't think anybody could make a good version of.
So I'm going to go with...none.
This weekend I'm planning a rare stop at TJ's. Maybe they'll have something.
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12/1 P Street Whole Foods
Prince-Raspberry Beret
Aldo Nova- Fantasy
The second one of of one of the first cassettes I ever purchased! 1982!
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12.2-A couple of gems amid the Xmas dreck.
Giant- Petty-Here Comes My Girl
Whole Foods-Violent Femmes-Gone Daddy Gone
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Aldo Nova- Fantasy
The second one of of one of the first cassettes I ever purchased! 1982!
ah...the early days of MTV...loved this guy and his leopard skin spandex suit
(https://img.youtube.com/vi/lHXqQOwLytg/hqdefault.jpg)
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Derailing the thread with this: best song that played while i drank coffee in Brooklyn - Thin Lizzy's Cowboy Song. Which The Hold Steady and Ted Leo covered earlier in the week in Brooklyn; and which, I had never heard, prior to this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq6JQLnAW00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq6JQLnAW00)
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Christmas all over again
At falls church Trader Joe’s
One of my favorite Christmas songs
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12.8
Giant- Pink Floyd-Time
Whole Foods- Bowie-Changes
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Gotta love the onion
https://www.instagram.com/p/BrgjV_WFD6L/
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Whole Foods, Dublin, OH:
The Smiths: How Soon is Now?
This was preceeded by Bill Ocean's Carribean Queen.
Weird segue.
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how can you compare an artist who won Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for Caribbean Queen to some barely memorable band from Manchester that was around for only a few years an never amounted to anything
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So many hits....Caribbean queen (no more love on the run), lover boy, suddenly, get out of my car, when the going gets tough...the song from romancing the Stone or was that eddy grant?
Anyways the guy was a hit making machine
Not sure who the other guys are
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12/30
Giant: Cowboy Junkies-A Common Disaster
Whole Foods: Dr. Dog-Heartkiller
Honorable mention for Whole Foods: Me and Bobbie McGee. But it wasn't the preferred version.
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First song heard at a grocery store in 2019:
Corey Hart-Sunglasses at Night
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1/3 Whole Foods
Nice back to back of:
Lemonheads- Mrs. Robinson
Beach Boys-Good Vibrations
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NYE - Quench (Beer store in Silver Spring)
Playing Bowie's Blackstar album as I purchased sparkling wine.
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What I am
Eb and nb
Safeway kensington
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1/6
Giant: The Grass Roots-Temptation Eyes
Whole Foods: Sharon Jones-not sure of song name. Also, I had to walk out without buying my bag of apples because every line was way too long except for the one where the old Indian lady is the cashier and she's really slow so nobody gets in her line. The 15 items or less express line was being clogged up by some shaved-side-hair-manbun-earring-shaggy-beard wearing douche with about 30 items.
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God I hate people
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Also, I had to walk out without buying my bag of apples because every line was way too long except for the one where the old Indian lady is the cashier and she's really slow so nobody gets in her line. The 15 items or less express line was being clogged up by some shaved-side-hair-manbun-earring-shaggy-beard wearing douche with about 30 items.
Hey man, some of us come here just to read about the best songs people heard while grocery shopping. Can you please keep your commentary and grocery exploits out of this thread so we don't sully it? Perhaps we should make a The Best Song that Plated as I Grocery Shopped Commentary thread so we can stop living like savages.
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I dunno...as the creator of the thread I'm just as interested in poster's editorials as I am their song selection. As the great Rick Springfield once sang....
We all need the human touch
We all need the human touch
I need it, the human touch
We all need the human touch
We all need it, and I need it too!
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yikes...in this #metoo era...I'd watch out how you ask other bordies to touch you
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The commentary is the best part of this thread
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This really happened: I Still Haven't found what I'm Looking For on the PA at Home Depot in Parkville over the weekend as I wandered about not finding what I was looking for with no one around to help.
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Followed by I can’t live with or without you and where the aisles have no name?
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1/10 Giant
Feist-Mushaboom
AFOS-I Ran
1/11 H Street Whole Foods
REM-Man on the Moon
The Flips-She Don't Use Jelly
What's the deal with the three major OJ companies all reducing the size of their containers from 59 ozs to 52 ozs and keeping the price the same? What a scam. My response is to decrease portion size.
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that is happening with everything at grocery store and is super annoying...its a way of raising prices without being obvious to most people...
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I am at the grocery listening to what I believe is a Muzak remix of “Champagne Supernova” (https://twitter.com/MusicologyDuck/status/1084980072866607104)
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1/14 Whole Foods
Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower
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1/14 Whole Foods
Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower
these types of songs should be retired... they've been beaten to death... they are stale
is it a great version? yes but we have heard it so much
I'd rather they play Dylan's original... that is a shocker in its starkness
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1/14 Whole Foods
Hendrix-All Along the Watchtower
these types of songs should be retired... they've been beaten to death... they are stale
is it a great version? yes but we have heard it so much
I'd rather they play Dylan's original... that is a shocker in its starkness
I don't listen to the radio and i don't own any Hendrix, so it's not that overdone to me. I'd also rather hear the Dylan original but of course they're going to go with the popular version at the grocery store..
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Am surprised to read that... Hendrix's version is and has been everywhere for decades...but whatever, good for you
A lot of these classic rock songs are just so boring at this point... the songs that stand out at a grocery store are the more modern ones... when i go to a grocery store and i hear something from the 80s on I am pleased....
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I was in Giant about a week ago and they played a song that was way too indie for the people shopping at the time. I could even catch any of the words to the song to look it up. If I had the guess, I would have guessed Built To Spill. After hearing them on the radio just now, I'm slightly more sure it was them....
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What a great night in the burbs for hitting he Giant and getting buttermilk for the morning pancakes.
The Cars-Just What I Needed
Elvis C.-Allison
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2/9 A little weird that i go to the Drive By Truckers and hear them cover Sign of the Times and the next afternoon Giant plays Starfish and Coffee off of the same album.
Edit: Whole Foods, not Giant.
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2/9 A little weird that i go to the Drive By Truckers and hear them cover Sign of the Times and the next afternoon Giant plays Starfish and Coffee off of the same album.
How bad was the cover?
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we crossed paths like ships in the night
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2/9 A little weird that i go to the Drive By Truckers and hear them cover Sign of the Times and the next afternoon Giant plays Starfish and Coffee off of the same album.
How bad was the cover?
I think it was more like a reinterpretation than a cover, and it was inserted as part of a song...they've done this with other songs.
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Giant hitting the Franz Ferdinand hard this week.
2/21: Take Me Out
2/23: Do You Want To
but the winner for the week:
2/23 Petty, The Waiting
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Ugh.,,,tAke me out beats the waiting
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Shoppers Glenmont
Praise You - FBS
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2/27 Giant
A repeat of a previous play, but a song I love by a band I miss.
Camera Obscura-Lloyd I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
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3/10 Giant
*Blondie: Heart of Glass
Duran Duran: Union of the Snake
*This was my kid's pick. She even knew the name of the song. She's learnin'.
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while waiting at the FedEx facility in Rockville last night to retrieve a package; no staph anywhere....Simple Minds, "Don't You (Forget About Me)" on the PA system.
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Been falling down on the job on this thread.
About a week ago at Giant:
The Knack- My Sharona
Courtney Barnett-Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party
Yesterday at Whole Foods:
The Housemartins-Happy Hour (it was actually after happy hour)
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Today- Giant
J Geils-Freeze Frame
Kim Wild- Kids in America
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4/2 Giant (my dog needed dog food)
Siouxie and the Banshees-Hong Kong Garden (1978)
Deep cutting with that one for sure.
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What a great track...early Siouxsie is killer
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Courtney Barnett at Giant? woah.
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Definitely not the best, but the most noteworthy:
Wegmans
Weird al yankovic - Eat It
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Definitely not the best, but the most noteworthy:
Wegmans
Weird al yankovic - Eat It
Thanks. Next time I need to convince my kid to RVA, I'll tell her they play weird Al at all the stores.
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4/7 Whole Foods
Pixies-Here Comes Your Man
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Peaches & Herb "Shake Your Groove Thing"
HEB South Austin
Show em how we do it now!
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Peaches & Herb "Shake Your Groove Thing"
TIL
Peaches & Herb are an American vocalist duo. Herb Fame (born October 1, 1942) has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966; seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches", most notably Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (April 28, 1947 – August 13, 2005), the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Greene, the third "Peaches" who appeared on the duo's biggest hits "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) and "Reunited" (1979).
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The salient point is they were from DC
Good to hear from you twangirl!
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Peaches & Herb "Shake Your Groove Thing"
TIL
Peaches & Herb are an American vocalist duo. Herb Fame (born October 1, 1942) has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966; seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches", most notably Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (April 28, 1947 – August 13, 2005), the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Greene, the third "Peaches" who appeared on the duo's biggest hits "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) and "Reunited" (1979).
Do you think Herb will ever employ this Peaches?
(http://thewildmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/000021170032-copy.jpg)
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Last week at Giant: Another deep cut from the Talking Heads
4/19 P Street Whole Foods-Phoenix-track off of the Wolfgang album
4/21 Giant: Prince-Little Red Corvette
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Sat 5/4/19 Giant Prince-Delirious
Tues 5/7/19 Giant Petty-I Need to Know
This is always a good one to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
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Whole Foods Tenleytown
The Kinks "You Really Got Me"
Booker T & The MGs "Green Onions" --wasn't the first time I've danced in the grocery store, won't be the last
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Booker T & The MGs "Green Onions" --wasn't the first time I've danced in the grocery store, won't be the last
Love Booker t
Was just listening to universal language on the spinny thing
their show at the club was fun
but don't remember a whole lot
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6/9/19
Whole Foods:
The Undertones-Teenage Kicks
Spoon- Do You
Jenny Lewis- Breakin Up
Giant:
Feist-one of her songs they always play
Thomas Dolby- She Blinded Me With Science*
*It's been 33+ years, but I can finally listen to this song again. My hunchback freshman college roommate played the Thomas Dolby album all the freaking time, and there's only so much you can take of that in a lifetime.
**Note to middle aged white guy who was trying to dance to this song while pushing his cart...you wife was not amused, and neither was I.
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Sorry.
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Whole Foods Tenleytown
Echo & The Bunnymen "Bring on the Dancing Horses"
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Whole Foods Tenleytown
Echo & The Bunnymen "Bring on the Dancing Horses"
7 posts in the last 5 years, and three of them are in this thread? What kind of long game are you even playing?!?
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What kind of long game are you even playing?!?
What lady can refuse the dulcet tones of a James Ford thread?
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Whole Foods Tenleytown
Echo & The Bunnymen "Bring on the Dancing Horses"
7 posts in the last 5 years, and three of them are in this thread? What kind of long game are you even playing?!?
I like this thread!
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I live in the country. And I mean the country. I have noticed something odd . . . none, and I mean none, of the stores (Food Lion / Martins / Walmart / Target / Aldi ) around here, do not play any type of music at all, ever. But they do now have robots that wander up and down the aisles looking for spills, or things on shelves that don't belong there.
People here, hate those robots, and believe they are all out to take people's jobs. I just want to know, if they are good in bed.
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People here, hate those robots, and believe they are all out to take people's jobs. I just want to know, if they are good in bed.
the answer is yes to both questions
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Whole Foods
Bowie-Young Americans
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Whole Foods
Bowie-Young Americans
Great song but am a bit burned out on it....also it’s a song that is better at night
So many great Bowie songs but they always play the same ones
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Trader Joe's Glover Park
Bryan Adams "Summer of '69"
I could've done without that actually
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8/3 Whole Foods, Basalt, CO
Queen-Radio Gaga
Still kicking myself for not getting any of the wide array of Casey bottles at the only place I'll probably ever see them in a grocery store (though i did get a couple at the brewery)
8/4 Giant (NoVA)
The Church-Under The Milky Way
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8/1 Taco Bell, College Park
Ex Hex - Cosmic Cave
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8/1 Taco Bell, College Park
Ex Hex - Cosmic Cave
Now that is cool
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8/1 Taco Bell, College Park
Ex Hex - Cosmic Cave
Now that is cool
Though we may need to have a conversation if you're grocery shopping at a Taco Bell.
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8/1 Taco Bell, College Park
Ex Hex - Cosmic Cave
Now that is cool
Though we may need to have a conversation if you're grocery shopping at a Taco Bell.
pretty sure that's Julian's gig.
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HEB South Austin
Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
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Giant, 8/17
Cat Power-Don't know the song, she gobbles the lyrics too much for me to guess and google, but i still like it
Clash-London Calling
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Ok, this is one of the most craptastic songs ever recorded but what made this the best song at Giant today, 9/5/19, was seeing a 60+ year old man pushing his cart through the produce aisle, singing every line.
Lovin' Every Minute of It
Loverboy
I'm not man or machine
I'm just something in between
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I'm all love, a dynamo
So push the button and let me go
Whoa, oh, whoa, whoa
You want me to come alive
Flick the switch into overdrive
You and me can let it be
Ready (ready)
Aim (aim)
Fire
Touch that dial
Turn me on
Start me like a motor, make me run
Lovin' every minute of it (Lovin')
Lovin' every minute of it
Turn that dial all the way
Shoot me like a rocket into space
Lovin' every minute of it
Lovin' every minute of it
Lovin' every minute of it
C'mon on
I got fun, you want some
I'm ever ready, Dr. Love
Whoa, oh, whoa, whoa
I'm antenna, aerial
I'm tunin' in, I'm outta control
Whoa, oh, whoa, whoa
You got love, you got a deal
You wanna drive then take the wheel
You and me can let it be
Ready (ready),…
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Just like paradise, DLR
Giant, Montrose Crossing
right now
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Whole Foods Tenleytown, Seals & Crofts "Summer Breeze"
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9/11 Giant
One of my favorite songs from my youth...
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts-I Love Rock and Roll
…………………………………..
They also played Stevie Wonder, but he's always seemed overrated to me. If he were a white guy with 20/20 vision, he'd be about as revered as Anthony Kiedis.
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YC
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They also played Stevie Wonder, but he's always seemed overrated to me. If he were a white guy with 20/20 vision, he'd be about as revered as Anthony Kiedis.
A huge amount of his work would be very suspicious coming from a white guy.
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I thought it was going to be a wasted trip to Giant when they started with Pearl Jam and (more) Stevie Wonder.
But then i saw that they were having three day sale on BJ's ($2/pint) and they played:
Cowboy Junkies-A Common Disaster
Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight
Then i went to Whole Foods, where i head
Pretenders-Middle of the Road
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Floyd-Another Brick in the Wall
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Floyd-Another Brick in the Wall
part 2, i assume? ("we don't need no education...")
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Floyd-Another Brick in the Wall
part 2, i assume? ("we don't need no education...")
Yes, played right after "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow, which was a close runner-up, and arguable a better grocery store song.
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9/29
Whole Foods
M. Ward-Rave On
Honorable Mention: Kacey Musgraves High Horse. This song is like Wilson Phillips with a nosering.
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Giant 10-13
Blondie "Heart of Glass"
TV On the Radio- I don't know the names of any of their songs but it was one of those fast, popular tracks
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Central Market S.Austin
BB King "The Thrill Is Gone"
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10/23 Giant
Kaiser Chiefs-I Predict a Riot
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The only thing that I am thinking at a grocery is how can I get out of here
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11/8 Giant
Pretenders-Back on the Chain Gang
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts- I Love Rock and Roll
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Whole Foods Tenleytown
Rufus Thomas: (Do The) Push and Pull (Part 1)
Looky here, push it, pull it, push it, pull it.
Get on up, get on down!
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12/21 Whole Foods
The Smiths-"Ask".
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1/11 H Street Whole Foods-The Cure-Friday I'm in Love
1/11 Giant- The Cure-Lovesong
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HEB South Austin EMF "Unbelievable"
Currently residing in the Where Are They Now File
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HEB South Austin EMF "Unbelievable"
Currently residing in the Where Are They Now File
We've been slowly making our way through the Netflix show of the same name, and though the song bears no resemblance to the show, the song has been residing in my head for weeks.
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Now I am the 1st one, to admit, that I post, horrible threads on here sometimes.
But I honestly don't understand this thread, or the point.
To me, it's almost like posting a thread, called, "songs that I heard, coming from other people's cars, at traffic lights."
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Trader Joes: J Geils Band-Love Stinks
I got my physical today. No comments about my hands from the doctor except that they felt really good on her.
Anyway, on the way home I stopped at Trader Joes. There was a slightly disheveled middle aged white guy going around telling everyone (me included) that “Hey did you hear the Redskins got a new coach. He’s Chinese. His name is Win One Soon.”
Then after he had my attention, he told me the Astros hired Dusty Baker as their manager. “Why can’t the Nationals get Dusty Baker as their manager?” (Um, Maybe because they just won a World Series with Dave Martinez?)
Then he asked what I thought about the impeachment hearings, and trying to be as unengaging as possible, I said "They're interesting." And he said "I'll tell you what I think. They shouldn't even be having them. That guy should be in jail."
Then he asked “Turkey in a can can’t possibly be healthy, can it? I tell you what’s not healthy, fruit in a can. I tell you what else is not healthy, fried foods. McDonalds? Not healthy (gives thumbs down). Burger King Not healthy (gives thumbs down). Papa John’s? Not healthy (gives thumbs down). Dominoes? Not healthy (gives thumbs down). Wendy’s? Not healthy (gives thumbs down). Hardees? Not healthy (gives thumbs down). That place down the street, Subway? Not healthy (gives thumbs down). I tell you what is healthy, Chipotle. That’s where I’m going right now.”
Ok, see ya.
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No comments about my hands from the doctor except that they felt really good on her.
i want to hear more about this. also, is your doctor accepting new patients?
I tell you what is healthy, Chipotle.
DUDE, ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL JULIAN?!? you need to give a TRIGGER WARNING on that kinda shit.
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I tell you what is healthy, Chipotle.
DUDE, ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL JULIAN?!? you need to give a TRIGGER WARNING on that kinda shit.
Me? Grateful probably ejaculated in his own pants somewhere out there in the world when Space hit "Post" and has no idea why.
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Dominos thin crust is completely under rated and has a very nice Space price point.
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No comments about my hands from the doctor except that they felt really good on her.
i want to hear more about this. also, is your doctor accepting new patients?
I tell you what is healthy, Chipotle.
DUDE, ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL JULIAN?!? you need to give a TRIGGER WARNING on that kinda shit.
I think I've mentioned my crush on my doctor before. God bless my sexy wife for tolerating it. Slim Indian woman, sexy accent, unconventionally attractive, a pleasing touch. Makes going for a physical less of a chore and more a pleasantry. Anyway, how about that impeachment trial?
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Dominos thin crust is completely under rated and has a very nice Space price point.
Is it any better/cheaper than Papa Johns? We do the Wizards/Nationals 50% discounted Papa Johns once in a while but frankly I'm sick of garbage pizza. Whole Foods has a half priced frozen pizza night, and I'm sure their pizza is better than PJ's.
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Do you know what Space, and creepy have in common?
This, place.
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Dominos thin crust is completely under rated and has a very nice Space price point.
Is it any better/cheaper than Papa Johns? We do the Wizards/Nationals 50% discounted Papa Johns once in a while but frankly I'm sick of garbage pizza. Whole Foods has a half priced frozen pizza night, and I'm sure their pizza is better than PJ's.
I don't think I've had PJ's pizza purposely since the 90's, but if it's as bad as it was then, then Dominos is MUCH better. All I know is that you can get two medium/two topping pies for $5.99 each and we participate in this luxury at least once a month.
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Do you know what Space, and creepy have in common?
This, place.
LOL, you're, one to talk.
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Dominos thin crust is completely under rated and has a very nice Space price point.
Is it any better/cheaper than Papa Johns? We do the Wizards/Nationals 50% discounted Papa Johns once in a while but frankly I'm sick of garbage pizza. Whole Foods has a half priced frozen pizza night, and I'm sure their pizza is better than PJ's.
I don't think I've had PJ's pizza purposely since the 90's, but if it's as bad as it was then, then Dominos is MUCH better. All I know is that you can get two medium/two topping pies for $5.99 each and we participate in this luxury at least once a month.
I just asked my 12 yo to compare Dominos to PJ, and she said "Dominos is bad."
While I'm inclined to believe you over my 12 yo, I'm also inclined to prefer my wife's homemade for taste and value, and my own pita pizzas for taste, convenience, and value.
Oh, yeah also stopped at WF to exchange some La Croix.
Camera Obscura-French Navy
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Dominos thin crust is completely under rated and has a very nice Space price point.
Is it any better/cheaper than Papa Johns? We do the Wizards/Nationals 50% discounted Papa Johns once in a while but frankly I'm sick of garbage pizza. Whole Foods has a half priced frozen pizza night, and I'm sure their pizza is better than PJ's.
I don't think I've had PJ's pizza purposely since the 90's, but if it's as bad as it was then, then Dominos is MUCH better. All I know is that you can get two medium/two topping pies for $5.99 each and we participate in this luxury at least once a month.
I just asked my 12 yo to compare Dominos to PJ, and she said "Dominos is bad."
While I'm inclined to believe you over my 12 yo, I'm also inclined to prefer my wife's homemade for taste and value, and my own pita pizzas for taste, convenience, and value.
Oh, yeah also stopped at WF to exchange some La Croix.
Camera Obscura-French Navy
Lots to unpack here...
1. You returuend La Croix?
2. There is no way your wife's pizza is cheaper than $5.99 when after all ingredients are procured.
3. How is anything more convenient than an app that sends a pizza to your door in less than 30 mins?
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Do you know what Space, and creepy have in common?
This, place.
LOL, you're, one to talk.
In,deed.
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Dominos thin crust is completely under rated and has a very nice Space price point.
Is it any better/cheaper than Papa Johns? We do the Wizards/Nationals 50% discounted Papa Johns once in a while but frankly I'm sick of garbage pizza. Whole Foods has a half priced frozen pizza night, and I'm sure their pizza is better than PJ's.
I don't think I've had PJ's pizza purposely since the 90's, but if it's as bad as it was then, then Dominos is MUCH better. All I know is that you can get two medium/two topping pies for $5.99 each and we participate in this luxury at least once a month.
I just asked my 12 yo to compare Dominos to PJ, and she said "Dominos is bad."
While I'm inclined to believe you over my 12 yo, I'm also inclined to prefer my wife's homemade for taste and value, and my own pita pizzas for taste, convenience, and value.
Oh, yeah also stopped at WF to exchange some La Croix.
Camera Obscura-French Navy
Lots to unpack here...
1. You returuend La Croix?
2. There is no way your wife's pizza is cheaper than $5.99 when after all ingredients are procured.
3. How is anything more convenient than an app that sends a pizza to your door in less than 30 mins?
1. $3.20 a 12 pk after sale and Prime discount. But I grabbed key lime, thinking it was regular lime. Though we like key lime stuff in general, the La Croix key lime has something offputting about it. You drink La Croix? Which do you recommend? BTW, our daughter was the one who turned us onto flavored water but now she refuses to drink it and prefers stevia soda. My kid is about the least healthy eating person I know. Anyway, it was an exchange, not a return.
2. Yeah I don't know what her pizza costs. But Dominoes would be $5.99 plus tax and delivery tip. So there's that.
3. I can make a pita pizza in less than 30 mins and get the self-satisfaction of DIY. If I'm going to eat food made by others, I prefer to get food that others clearly are superior to me at making, like Indian food and Other Half's ipa's.
But I'll give Dominos a shot sometime, based on your rec.
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You drink La Croix? Which do you recommend?
For the people.
I do. My top three:
1. Passionfruit
2. Peach Pear (not easy to find based on my experience)
3. Mango
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and get the self-satisfaction of DIY.
This has no appeal to Yada
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and get the self-satisfaction of DIY.
This has no appeal to Yada
I'm all about making my own pizza, but if anybody has some recommendations of where I can order some reasonably priced, fully constructed dressers that can be delivered, that's one I'll take.
I hate assembling furniture and DIY from scratch is above my mangrade.
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and get the self-satisfaction of DIY.
This has no appeal to Yada
I cook all of the time tough guy.
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Hey guys. Sorry I've been absent. I was just, uh...doing laundry.
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2/9 Giant
Hall and Oates-Family Man
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Seriously? That is a deep cut!
Respect
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Seriously? That is a deep cut!
Respect
I hate to be a contrarian, but it did reach #6 on the Billboards singles charts in 1983.
Nevertheless, it's a great cover.
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It’s definitely a minor track
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It’s definitely a minor track
I disagree, maybe not an encore track...or would make a 10 song best-of
but well known
not played every night on their 26 dates on their 2019 tour
they did play it 15 times in 2019
I never knew it was a Mike Oldfield cover
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It wasn’t on Rock n Soul!
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Pot Kettle Black - Wilco
Weis Mkt - Middle River, Md.
I usually hear a keeper when I visit this place.
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Right now 2-28
P street whole foods
Lucinda-Cant let go
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Right now 2-28
P street whole foods
Lucinda-Cant let go
Followed up by Kacey Musgraves-Higjh Horse
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Right now 2-28
P street whole foods
Lucinda-Cant let go
Followed up by Kacey Musgraves-Higjh Horse
Followed by the Byrds. They must know in headed to an alt-country show.
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Dude everything is going your way! Have a blast
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Sat 2/29 Giant
Proclaimers-500 Miles.
When I was 22 i lived in London for a summer. One night i went to a club and someone approached me to tell me that their Scottish friend fancied me and thought i looked like the Proclaimers, with my short hair and glasses.. I did try talking to her but i couldn't understand a word she was saying in a loud club and with her accent. Maybe she should have told me i looked like Bros.
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When I was 22 I shared an apartment on campus with three friends...one of them was named “Leith” and he had hundreds of CDs including The Proclaimers “Sunshine on Leith” so we listened to the 500 miles song...
(Adding story about girl to make story more James Fordian) I had a crush on this girl Anne, introduced her to Leith, and of course they started dating and eventually got married! they live in Philly and we’ve hung out with the kids...can’t say I have kept in touch with many other people from college
Back to the song, it became a hit years later, I think, when it was included in Benny and Joon
Or I could have it all backwards
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When I was 22 I shared an apartment on campus with three friends...one of them was named “Leith” and he had hundreds of CDs including The Proclaimers “Sunshine on Leith” so we listened to the 500 miles song...
(Adding story about girl to make story more James Fordian) I had a crush on this girl Anne, introduced her to Leith, and of course they started dating and eventually got married! they live in Philly and we’ve hung out with the kids...can’t say I have kept in touch with many other people from college
Back to the song, it became a hit years later, I think, when it was included in Benny and Joon
Or I could have it all backwards
Yes, you do have the song story right. My story took place in 1989, though i was still well aware of who the Proclaimers were....guess we both lost the girl, but did ok anyway...
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Space.
Pre show drinks at whole foods.
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Space.
Pre show drinks at whole foods.
Free parking with a $10 purchase, an actual place to sit, 7 bucks for a 12 oz Abraxas, better music, and better people watching. I'm in
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Space.
Pre show drinks at whole foods.
Free parking with a $10 purchase, an actual place to sit, 7 bucks for a 12 oz Abraxas, better music, and better people watching. I'm in
#PeakSpace
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Space.
Pre show drinks at whole foods.
Free parking with a $10 purchase, an actual place to sit, 7 bucks for a 12 oz Abraxas, better music, and better people watching. I'm in
#PeakSpace
Well I did follow up my Whole Foods stop with a proper pre-show, stop, along with a fellow forum member. Right Proper.
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Harris Teeter located beside Downtown Crown.
Walking On Sunshine
How appropriate.
Also, my first post in this here thread.
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Harris Teeter located beside Downtown Crown.
Walking On Sunshine
How appropriate.
Also, my first post in this here thread.
Ah, my local HT. I miss it. Was it well stocked?
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Harris Teeter located beside Downtown Crown.
Walking On Sunshine
How appropriate.
Also, my first post in this here thread.
Ah, my local HT. I miss it. Was it well stocked?
It was empty of both people and anything of value... I ended up buying more things that aren't necessity vs. essential items but will probably be enjoyable to eat while I drink Other Half ipas from Downtown Crown.
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Harris Teeter located beside Downtown Crown.
Walking On Sunshine
How appropriate.
Also, my first post in this here thread.
Ah, my local HT. I miss it. Was it well stocked?
It was empty of both people and anything of value... I ended up buying more things that aren't necessity vs. essential items but will probably be enjoyable to eat while I drink Other Half ipas from Downtown Crown.
can confirm
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Harris Teeter located beside Downtown Crown.
Walking On Sunshine
How appropriate.
Also, my first post in this here thread.
Ah, my local HT. I miss it. Was it well stocked?
It was empty of both people and anything of value... I ended up buying more things that aren't necessity vs. essential items but will probably be enjoyable to eat while I drink Other Half ipas from Downtown Crown.
can confirm
Which part?
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Harris Teeter located beside Downtown Crown.
Walking On Sunshine
How appropriate.
Also, my first post in this here thread.
Ah, my local HT. I miss it. Was it well stocked?
It was empty of both people and anything of value... I ended up buying more things that aren't necessity vs. essential items but will probably be enjoyable to eat while I drink Other Half ipas from Downtown Crown.
can confirm
Which part?
The Harris Teeter part. And the IPA's part. Can't believe i risked my health for a gaggle of bananas and two jars of antacids. Hopefully, my wife has better luck tomorrow of Friday morning at our local Giant with a big stock up of essentials.
Best song i heard while at HT was REM-Losing My Religion, which seems a tad more appropriate.
My poor diet daughter has been begging to go to the grocery store with her mother (she doesn't beg to go with me because i refuse to give in to her demands for garbage food.) so she can nag her mom into buying a bunch of crap.
I'm being a good parent by saying only one person needs to go to the grocery store at a time, and it's not the one who had pneumonia when she was a toddler, right?
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You’re a good parent but I don’t get what you like about Harris Teeter!! That store does zero for me.
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You’re a good parent but I don’t get what you like about Harris Teeter!! That store does zero for me.
I actually never shop there. I just happened to be in the neighborhood and thought "Maybe they'll have some of the shit my local Giant is sold out of." They didn't.
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Go.to your local asian or latin market. They have everything.
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Go.to your local asian or latin market. They have everything.
No thanks. That's where this shit started in the first place.
But yeah, i did have a thought that it might be worth checking one out.
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
An asian supermarket, in the USA not same (or really even similar to) the Wuhan market that is at the base of this .... this is some Trump level "Chinese Virus" shit, that I am surprised you would take the bait on, but Space gotto be space I guess. Maintaining the character to own the libs.
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Space Troll
Just ignore him
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
An asian supermarket, in the USA not same (or really even similar to) the Wuhan market that is at the base of this .... this is some Trump level "Chinese Virus" shit, that I am surprised you would take the bait on, but Space gotto be space I guess. Maintaining the character to own the libs.
I have shopped at an Asian supermarket before in VA (though not the Wuhan market that you've obviously shopped at), but thanks for the mansplaining. Sorry you missed the nuance of the joke, and not offended if you didn't find it funny.
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
An asian supermarket, in the USA not same (or really even similar to) the Wuhan market that is at the base of this .... this is some Drumpf level "Chinese Virus" shit, that I am surprised you would take the bait on, but Space gotto be space I guess. Maintaining the character to own the libs.
I have shopped at an Asian supermarket before in VA (though not the Wuhan market that you've obviously shopped at), but thanks for the mansplaining. Sorry you missed the nuance of the joke, and not offended if you didn't find it funny.
seems like a backpedal to call it a joke now. :o :o
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
An asian supermarket, in the USA not same (or really even similar to) the Wuhan market that is at the base of this .... this is some Drumpf level "Chinese Virus" shit, that I am surprised you would take the bait on, but Space gotto be space I guess. Maintaining the character to own the libs.
I have shopped at an Asian supermarket before in VA (though not the Wuhan market that you've obviously shopped at), but thanks for the mansplaining. Sorry you missed the nuance of the joke, and not offended if you didn't find it funny.
seems like a backpedal to call it a joke now. :o :o
Well it was 100% intended as a joke. Sorry the internet isn't as transparent as I'd like it to be.
Jokes aside, I'm not Chinese, but I think this person's comment on another internet source sums it up well:
Our family emigrated from China. I'm okay with Trump calling it a Chinese virus.
Ignorant people can do with that label what they please, but this virus did originate in China, which makes the Chinese label entirely logical and appropriate.
That said, the world has far bigger things to worry about.
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
An asian supermarket, in the USA not same (or really even similar to) the Wuhan market that is at the base of this .... this is some Drumpf level "Chinese Virus" shit, that I am surprised you would take the bait on, but Space gotto be space I guess. Maintaining the character to own the libs.
I have shopped at an Asian supermarket before in VA (though not the Wuhan market that you've obviously shopped at), but thanks for the mansplaining. Sorry you missed the nuance of the joke, and not offended if you didn't find it funny.
seems like a backpedal to call it a joke now. :o :o
Well it was 100% intended as a joke. Sorry the internet isn't as transparent as I'd like it to be.
Jokes aside, I'm not Chinese, but I think this person's comment on another internet source sums it up well:
Our family emigrated from China. I'm okay with Drumpf calling it a Chinese virus.
Ignorant people can do with that label what they please, but this virus did originate in China, which makes the Chinese label entirely logical and appropriate.
That said, the world has far bigger things to worry about.
as a joke it was mediocre, but okay. but i called it out as such, and you seemed to (by asking me a question) saying it was not.
i agree that there are bigger things to worry about, but one anecdotal chinese person saying that it is okay does not make it okay ..... there's gonna be lingering hate-based bullshit going on and calling it a "Chinese virus" is not helpful.
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allright Georgen!
burying Space's xenophobic seeming (or joke?) post....
I heard that the virus was traced to a food market in Wuhan, China. Is that incorrect?
An asian supermarket, in the USA not same (or really even similar to) the Wuhan market that is at the base of this .... this is some Drumpf level "Chinese Virus" shit, that I am surprised you would take the bait on, but Space gotto be space I guess. Maintaining the character to own the libs.
I have shopped at an Asian supermarket before in VA (though not the Wuhan market that you've obviously shopped at), but thanks for the mansplaining. Sorry you missed the nuance of the joke, and not offended if you didn't find it funny.
seems like a backpedal to call it a joke now. :o :o
Well it was 100% intended as a joke. Sorry the internet isn't as transparent as I'd like it to be.
Jokes aside, I'm not Chinese, but I think this person's comment on another internet source sums it up well:
Our family emigrated from China. I'm okay with Drumpf calling it a Chinese virus.
Ignorant people can do with that label what they please, but this virus did originate in China, which makes the Chinese label entirely logical and appropriate.
That said, the world has far bigger things to worry about.
as a joke it was mediocre, but okay. but i called it out as such, and you seemed to (by asking me a question) saying it was not.
i agree that there are bigger things to worry about, but one anecdotal chinese person saying that it is okay does not make it okay ..... there's gonna be lingering hate-based bullshit going on and calling it a "Chinese virus" is not helpful.
Was it a big deal to you when Don Lemon, Sanjay Gupta and Mika Brezezinski, all called it the "Chinese Coronavirus", or just when Trump did?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/china-trolling-world-and-avoiding-blame/608332/
The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government censored and detained those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity of what was to come.
Some American commentators and Democratic politicians are aghast at Donald Trump and Republicans for referring to the pandemic as the “Wuhan virus” and repeatedly pointing to China as the source of the pandemic. In naming the disease COVID-19, the World Health Organization specifically avoided mentioning Wuhan. Yet in de-emphasizing where the epidemic began (something China has been aggressively pushing for), we run the risk of obscuring Beijing’s role in letting the disease spread beyond its borders.
China has a history of mishandling outbreaks, including SARS in 2002 and 2003. But Chinese leaders’ negligence in December and January—for well over a month after the first outbreak in Wuhan—far surpasses those bungled responses. The end of last year was the time for authorities to act, and, as Nicholas D. Kristof of The New York Times has noted, “act decisively they did—not against the virus, but against whistle-blowers who were trying to call attention to the public health threat.”
This is what allowed the virus to spread across the globe. Because the Chinese Communist Party was pretending that there was little to be concerned about, Wuhan was a porous purveyor of the virus. The government only instituted a lockdown in Wuhan on January 23—seven weeks after the virus first appeared. As events in Italy, the United States, Spain, and France have shown, quite a lot can happen in a week, much less seven. By then, mayor Zhou Xianwang admitted that more than 5 million people had already left Wuhan.
If that weren’t enough, we can plumb recent history for an even more damning account. In a 2019 article, Chinese experts warned it was “highly likely that future SARS- or MERS-like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.” In a 2007 journal article, infectious-disease specialists published a study arguing that “the presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored.” It was ignored.
The political scientist Andrew Michta has drawn controversy and accusations of racism for stating what any measured overview of the evidence makes clear. “The question about assigning agency and blame is pretty straightforward to answer,” he writes in The American Interest. The Chinese state, he says, is culpable.
But is this a time for blame? Yes, it is. Accounting for responsibility when a disaster happens—particularly one likely to devastate entire countries, leaving thousands dead—is not beside the point, particularly as Chinese officials move to take advantage of the crisis and launch a disinformation campaign claiming that the U.S. Army introduced the virus.
Well before the new coronavirus spread across American cities, the Chinese regime was already rather creatively trolling U.S. publications, expelling American journalists, and “weaponizing wokeness” over anything it perceived as critical of China’s role in mishandling the epidemic. To hear Chinese spokespeople use the language of racism and prejudice is somewhat surreal, considering this is a regime that has put more than 1 million Muslims and ethnic minorities in “reeducation” camps.
Of course, Americans will have to be vigilant against scapegoating Asians in general or the Chinese people in particular. With one of the highest infection rates and death tolls, Chinese citizens have suffered enough. The Chinese leadership, however, is another matter. A government is not a race. It’s a regime—and easily one of the worst and most brutal in our lifetime. Criticizing authoritarian regimes for what they do outside their own borders and to their own people is simply calling things as they are. To do otherwise is to forgo analysis and accuracy in the name of assuaging a regime that deserves no such consideration.
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dude, either it was a joke or it wasn't. Pick one.
I was unaware of the media using that name for it. I don't really media much. But they are still not the government.
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dude, either it was a joke or it wasn't. Pick one.
I was unaware of the media using that name for it. I don't really media much. But they are still not the government.
It was a joke.
But on a serious note on the same topic, I think it's dumb to play social justice warrior and try to downplay the origin and the cause of the spread of the virus, when it's clearly the CHINESE government who is to blame.
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dude, either it was a joke or it wasn't. Pick one.
I was unaware of the media using that name for it. I don't really media much. But they are still not the government.
In the early day of the AIDS epidemic, they called it the Gay Virus. Once science stepped in and gave it a better name, nobody ever used the term again.
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dude, either it was a joke or it wasn't. Pick one.
I was unaware of the media using that name for it. I don't really media much. But they are still not the government.
It was a joke.
But on a serious note on the same topic, I think it's dumb to play social justice warrior and try to downplay the origin and the cause of the spread of the virus, when it's clearly the CHINESE government who is to blame.
Thank god for jokes.
you made me laugh into my bowl of pangolin/bat stew.
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"WHO CRITICIZES STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE At yesterday’s WHO COVID-19 press conference, a senior WHO official denounced the use of stigmatizing language and terminology with respect to COVID-19 and other diseases. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, noted the importance of adhering to the accepted and appropriate terminology for infectious diseases in order to reduce the stigma and negative connotations for individuals and populations associated with slang terms. The comments follow recent pushback against the repeated use of unofficial and stigmatizing terms, including by US President Donald Trump. The official and accepted terms are SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) when referring to the virus or infection and COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) when referring to the disease or symptoms. These terms were selected based on existing WHO guidance, which aims to reduce stigma associated with a particular place, group of people, animal, or others that was common under historical virus and disease naming practices that often referred to how or where they were first discovered."
-Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
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Yeah, I'm done with that conversation.
Thanks for the tip on Latin grocery stores. Just got back and made some valuable purchases. No music playing though.
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"WHO CRITICIZES STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE At yesterday’s WHO COVID-19 press conference, a senior WHO official denounced the use of stigmatizing language and terminology with respect to COVID-19 and other diseases. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, noted the importance of adhering to the accepted and appropriate terminology for infectious diseases in order to reduce the stigma and negative connotations for individuals and populations associated with slang terms. The comments follow recent pushback against the repeated use of unofficial and stigmatizing terms, including by US President Donald Drumpf. The official and accepted terms are SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) when referring to the virus or infection and COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) when referring to the disease or symptoms. These terms were selected based on existing WHO guidance, which aims to reduce stigma associated with a particular place, group of people, animal, or others that was common under historical virus and disease naming practices that often referred to how or where they were first discovered."
-Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Heilung, he's done with that conversation.
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Too bad we all know what he wrote....,
Next time keep it to the conspiracy thread Space
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Trump's gonna stick with Chinese on this. From the WaPo staff photogtapher instagram....
https://www.instagram.com/p/B97LwdDppQE/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/B97LwdDppQE/)
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Anchorage Daily News: Alaska congressman downplays coronavirus as 'beer virus,' says pandemic caused by media 'hysteria'
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Getting back on topic, the last time I was at Trader Joe's Glover Park, I heard "Pale Shelter" by Tears for Fears and had to go home and listen to the entire album for the first time in at least a decade. It was nice.
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Was a weird grocery store trip
I wore a mask for the first time... that was actually way harder to do than I thought
I opened freezer cases with my sleeve
People all walked as far as humanly possible away from each otherwise
No one made eye contact
Staff was overly friendly and squirmish
I don’t even think there was music playing
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(https://i.ibb.co/dMDXP5d/kfwj-d.png) (https://twitter.com/keithfwhitman/status/1246117031805628416)
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6/12
Giant:
INXS-Don't Change
Pat Benatar-Invincible (I had to hold back on belting this one out myself)
Whole Foods:
Walkmen- unknown song
Rolling Stones- Loving Cup
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I think you now have to add a tag if or if you did not wear a mask
I was scooting around Arlington tonight and it was packed out side and it’d say about 25% of people had masks on
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I think you now have to add a tag if or if you did not wear a mask
I was scooting around Arlington tonight and it was packed out side and it’d say about 25% of people had masks on
I always wear mask at any indoor establishment. I give the dirty eye to any who aren't.
Yesterday, we hiked at a trail on VA that was not very crowded. Like maybe we encountered 15 people in 4+ hours, none of whom we came closer than six feet to.
Then we went to Powers Farm Brewery. Outdoor table service. Picnic tables set apart very well. Most people not wearing masks. We put ours on when the masked server came to our table. Altogether, pretty comfortable.
THen we went to an outdoor ice cream place. Takeaway service only. Markings on ground where to stand, so parties 6 feet away from each other> Most people weren't masked. Wife and I were, daughter wasn't.
We drove through downtown Warrenton. Outdoor tables were too close together, and very few people walking around with masks. We had no plans to stop anyway, but probably too crowded and germy for our comfort.
Not sure why i typed all that. No grocery store music. Our first day out in VA since 2019. Was fairly comfortable.
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7/13/20
Trader Joe's was rocking today.
Roxy Music-The Thrill of it All
Tom Petty-I Need To Know
Led Zeppelin- Ramble On
Then at Total Wine:
Pretenders-Middle of the Road
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I was thinking about Eric Crapton this morning...god since about 1971 he has sucked and yet people worship him
BTW read his autobiography....you will loathe him after doing so...a horrible person
well your in good company...Phoebe Bridgers says Eric Clapton makes “extremely mediocre music” (https://www.nme.com/news/music/phoebe-bridgers-says-eric-clapton-makes-extremely-mediocre-music-2727105)
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Yes... some artists music has aged very poorly... Crapton is one...
I think Phoebe is wrong to call him a racist
Frankly she sounds kind of like an idiot
Crapton was in pretty rough shape in the 70s and drunkenly made some racist comments which he has apologized for dozens of times
Elvis Costello has done something similar
This whole cancel culture is idiotic
A smarter person could have said something about all the work he has done with Crossroads...how he has disowned those statements about Enoch Powell...how he has come a long way
But Crapton is an easy target..just read his autobiography...it’s all there.....like I said his music has aged so poorly it’s hard to envision anyone under 40 being into him...
I don’t like his music and he seems like a pretty fucked up guy but I wouldn’t take a shot at him publicly if I were a musician
Kind of reminds me of Crapton’s friend Phil... why does everyone feel like taking a shot at him?
It might just be generation vs generation thing
Glad to see the twins giving Phil some love
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Frankly she sounds kind of like an idiot
This whole cancel culture is idiotic
Well can't argue there...she does go a little overboard and the music press loves click bait
like I said his music has aged so poorly it’s hard to envision anyone under 40 being into him...
Kind of reminds me of Crapton’s friend Phil... why does everyone feel like taking a shot at him?
It might just be generation vs generation thing
Hey her Boygenius bandmate Lucy Dacus did a cover of In the Air tonight on her covers ep
but PC doesn't seem to get the respect he deserves
The only reference he gets is from that scene in American Psycho
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdufmg0Oz31qgmm5z.gif)
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But you saw the twins right?
In the air tonight was like number 2 on iTunes earlier this week!
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But you saw the twins right?
In the air tonight was like number 2 on iTunes earlier this week!
I didn't get your Twins ref, meant to ask
no didn't see that
Oh that reaction video thing...I hate that stuff
I guess that is good for Phil's bottom line and legacy
I will say, I really don't love any Genesis stuff before and after
never did it for me
I do love Illegal Alien, but that's about it
This line is funny
in 2009, journalist Mark Lawson told how Collins's media profile had shifted from "pop's Mr. Nice guy, patron saint of ordinary blokes", to someone accused of "blandness, tax exile and ending a marriage by sending a fax".
Phil phatigue has really set in.
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Phil fatigue did set in but nevertheless it remains a fact that he might be the best triple threat - singer, songwriter and instrumentalist-of the past 50 years.
I don’t think people realize what a body of work the guy put together 1970ish-1990
One may hate the gated snare drum sound he pioneered but it is arguably the sound of the 1980s
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N6L_BG0Qhg0
His session work is everywhere...he has a whole box set focused on it “Plays well with others”...production work...You name it...you may not dig him but everyone you do dig wanted him on drums
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Getting back on topic, at Trader Joe's Glover Park:
Spandau Ballet "True"
I appreciate this song a lot more now than I did when it came out.
TJ's was rockin' the '80s, I also heard
The Smiths "How Soon is Now"
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I just bought a German LP pressing of the True album...German presses are best
The other song on it that is pure gold is Gold!
Tony Hadley really had some great pipes
It’s such a great 80s tune...
Never a huge Spandau fan...the guitarist who wrote all the songs wa touring with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets so Sidehatch and I saw him
That’s all I got Twangirl!
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Hats off to richwdc for the tix to nick mason! So glad I could see that
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Hats off to richwdc for the tix to nick mason! So glad I could see that
Yes thanks Rich....that was awesome and was soo glad I got to catch that too!
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I'm currently getting drunk in New Hampshire but just wanted to stop by to say agree with Twangurl about the SB song but wondering what Hutch must be smoking with his Phil post.
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Too much?
I haven’t smoked anything in more than a month having made a real effort to temporarily stop doing so...
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My mundane Spandau Ballet story is during the Twitter Listening Party for "True" I tweeted out "True by @SpandauBallet is the perfect final song for any 80s inspired DJ setlist." and Gary Kemp liked it... that's all I got...
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Giant, Frederick Md
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats "You Worry Me"
Dan Auerbach "Shine On Me"
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Bang, bang...I am the warrior!
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Bad News, Aaron Frazier
Maybe my favorite album this year so far.
3/6 Whole Foods
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Ask, The Smiths
3/11, Whole Foods
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Bad News, Aaron Frazier
Maybe my favorite album this year so far.
it is pretty good, but this retro stuff has a short shelf life for me
almost should just listen to smokey, Otis and Sam...and skip the middle man
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Bad News, Aaron Frazier
Maybe my favorite album this year so far.
it is pretty good, but this retro stuff has a short shelf life for me
almost should just listen to smokey, Otis and Sam...and skip the middle man
I listen to the old stuff too. It's one style of music that i like that I'm allowed to play around the house.
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Giant, Frederick Md
"It's My Life" --the original Talk Talk version, not the No Doubt remake. It was nice to hear it again.
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Whole Foods, 4/12
Bowie, Young Americans
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Giant, 4/17
Rick Springfield, I've Done Everything For You
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Poco - Call it Love
Bauer Drive Safeway
Followed by
J Geils Freeze Frame
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4/24 Whole Foods
Wilco, can't remember which song
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4/24 Whole Foods
Wilco, can't remember which song
do they have more than one song?
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Trader Joe's Glover Park
Devo Beautiful World
I love Devo! Had to dance around a bit.
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All I want
Toad the wet schprocket
Giant colesville
Currently
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At the orthodontist office right now:
Devo-Freedom of Choice
Psychedelic Furs- All that Money Wants
The Clash- London Calling
Siouxie and the Banshees- Cities in Dust
INXS- Don't Change.
The Cars Candi O
And a patient with a 930 Club mask
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Good Intentions
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Giant Colesville
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Just the Way It Is, Baby
The Rembrandts
Giant colesville
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Kill me
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Kill me
You should have heard they songs that didn't make the list!
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Istanbul / Constantinople
Colesville Giant
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she's playing at Songbyrd...
Kill me
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Giant Colesville:
Pure (and Simple) - Lightning Seeds
Dancimg in the Moonlight - King Harvest
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(https://i.ibb.co/4WCxsbJ/Screen-Shot-2021-08-22-at-6-14-35-PM.png) (https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1429556488578666504)
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Trader Joe's Fairfax
Journey-Separate Ways
Then they argued into Dream On by Aerosmith and about a minute in the cut it and instead played You Can't Touch This by Hammer.
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Talk to Me - Stevie Nicks
Colesville Giant
To be fair, I only stopped in for a minute...
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Have heard some good ones lately at Trader Joe's Glover Park.
Today, Blancmange "Blind Vision"
Last time, The Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night"
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I swear, yesterday was Covidiot day at the Springfield Giant. I would estimate that 1 out of every three customers was not wearing a mask. Come on people, I know it's not mandatory, and I know the rates are starting to fall again, but the case numbers are still really, really high right now.
Anyway, the best song I heard is dedicated to those people.
Save a Prayer by Duran Duran
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I swear, yesterday was Covidiot day at the Springfield Giant. I would estimate that 1 out of every three customers was not wearing a mask
Just go a little bit south and it's rare to see people wearing masks inside
Down on the northern neck, I was 1 of 1 in the entire Food Lion, including staff
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Once mask wearing became linked to “freedom” we were done for… how wild is it how that thisgreat word (actually “Liberty” too) is so misused …
I guess we will just have to keep dying
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Old people jokes
Yawn
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Old people jokes
Yawn
I get that...but we have a whole thread dedicated to this...oh yeah we're all old ;)
how old to you think 24hourpartypooper is?
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Old people jokes
Yawn
exactly what an old person would say.
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Sure man
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Giant, Frederick
Prince "Kiss"
What a groove! I was unable to convince the person stocking produce to dance with me though.
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Giant, Frederick
Prince "Kiss"
What a groove! I was unable to convince the person stocking produce to dance with me though.
My wife for some reason tried to turn the kids onto one of her favorite childhood movies… pretty woman ( I know, gag me with a spoon)
And I didn’t recall juilia’s brutal destruction of Kiss… literally a crime against humanity
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Prince
Raspberry Beret
Giant Springfield
This was actually my wife, she said she had to restrain herself from singing it loudly.
Did Giant just acquire the Prince catalogue?
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Catalogue? What are we all fancy now?
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Catalogue? What are we all fancy now?
That's my fancy phone typing again. Cheers.
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personally i would add 10 years to each of the age groups, but the point stands:
(https://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/funny-tweets-about-30s-and-40s-9.avif)
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OMD - if you leave
Falls Church BJs
I love this song but hearing it at BJs made me realize I might be getting sick of it
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OMD - if you leave
Falls Church BJs
I love this song but hearing it at BJs made me realize I might be getting sick of it
BJs as in the brewpub chain? do they have one in falls church, and if so can you do shopping there? or did you mean TJs?
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It’s a wholesale club like Price Club
You know…buy 96 rolls of TP save a buck
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Power Station- Some Like It Hot
Safeway
Hallandale
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Message in a Bottle
Colesville Giant
Currently
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Maybe We Need Space
Becky Hill
H-Mart Wheaton
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Me now: this proctologist is playing my song
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I just unironically heard Ricky martin
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The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
Walmart - Weaverville, NC
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Bittersweet Symphony, Safeway
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Maneskin - Beggin
Giant Colesville
Just ended.
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Trader Joe's Rockville
Deee-Lite "Groove is in the Heart"
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6BAgDE9HWowt4ZH0RMH7VG?si=wjHm2AlSRvKL824dBFXIzA&nd=1
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Springfield VA Giant-Welcome Back Kotter theme song
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heard "Enjoy the Silence" for the first time in a while while grabbing beer, milk and bananas yesterday.
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making a smoothie?
heard "Enjoy the Silence" for the first time in a while while grabbing beer, milk and bananas yesterday.
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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6BAgDE9HWowt4ZH0RMH7VG?si=wjHm2AlSRvKL824dBFXIzA&nd=1
If you need a 17 hour playlist for getting groceries, you need to re-examine your life.
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making a smoothie?
heard "Enjoy the Silence" for the first time in a while while grabbing beer, milk and bananas yesterday.
ha! indeed, i could have... no, just grabbing household staples.
wait - beer smoothie???
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edit: "I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)"
Oops upside your head
Snider's Super Foods
yesterday afternoon
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If you are going to get a song stuck in my head kindly use the actual song title thanks
I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up And Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head)"
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Oops upside your head
TIL about The Gap Band's "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops, Up Side Your Head))"
also...where the "uptown funk' jam really comes from
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Brand New Cadillac by the Clash at an IGA in PA. Stopped me in my tracks next to the candy cigarettes, which are apparently still a thing in very rural Central PA.
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Welcome back legend!!
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Let's Go to Bed, the Cure
Downtown Crown
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Brand New Cadillac by the Clash at an IGA in PA. Stopped me in my tracks next to the candy cigarettes, which are apparently still a thing in very rural Central PA.
Welcome home, leaf.
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Steve Miller rockin me va Sting We’ll be together
Latter is garbage…former sooooo overplayed
At TJs Tysons
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The Smiths-The is a Light that Never Goes Out, Giant, 1/29
Edit: Whole Foods
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Love Shack
Safeway
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Some Fleetwood Mac song
LIDL
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Squirrel Nut Zippers-Put a Lid On It, Fairfax Trader Joes
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It sure was nice to hear Thin Lizzy "Cowboy Song" in Trader Joe's Glover Park
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Popeye’s Adelphi, MD
Smithereens “Only A Memory”
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Who said I would - Phil Collins
On a radio station, not in a store, but was such a deep cut I had to share
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I feel like I research all of our songs when I go to buy toothpaste at CVS. Who knew that we were going to make perfect music for retail shopping? I’m picking through ripe tomatoes and I get a journey of our recorded history! (https://wtop.com/entertainment/2023/07/after-blockbuster-push-revival-in-barbie-matchbox-twenty-rocks-jiffy-lube-live/)
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I was at a local Walmart a couple of weeks ago and they were playing joy division love will tear us apart
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I was at a local Walmart a couple of weeks ago and they were playing joy division love will tear us apart
Maybe my favorite song….
Not sure I want to hear it in a super market
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I was at a local Walmart a couple of weeks ago and they were playing joy division love will tear us apart
Maybe my favorite song….
Not sure I want to hear it in a super market
At a Target maybe, but definitely not at a Walmart.
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And neither is a grocery store.
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Oh really?!? There is a grocery store within Walmart
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Yes, and there's a Ticketmaster in Hecht's
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So you are saying it’s a Ticketmaster outlet?
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Yes, and there's a Ticketmaster in Hecht's
What year is it? How long have I been asleep?
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So you are saying it’s a Ticketmaster outlet?
I'd say it's a department store that also sells tickets, rather than a ticket seller that sells ladies undergarments.
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Ok 👍
I think I wrote grocery store cause of the thread 🧵 title
My apologies
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Winner
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctm3n3tPmkB/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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The Georgetown Safeway:
Gotye "Somebody that I Used to Know"
it was the only song I even recognized while I was there.
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Fotos y recuerdos
by Selena
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Did you Shazam it?
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Name the store or I call shenanigans
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Name the store or I call shenanigans
well there was some shenaging going on (what is the active verb for this)
I was in a guapos (takeout?) in Potomac Mills and was like...that's "back in the chain gang", but that is not Chrissy
so that is how I got there and how I was not in fact shopping for groceries
it's all lies and the threads are unraveling
Did you Shazam it?
you ask that like you don't already know the answer
I'm not even sure I'd spell y right
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Was it this epic cover?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDhw5wo1TtY
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HEB, South Austin
Gin Blossoms "Found Out About You"
Reminded me of the show we put together in 1992 (?). King Missile had the date, Gin Blossoms and The Rev. Horton Heat were looking for the same date, so we put 'em all together. Gin Blossoms played first, probably their first time in, then the Rev Horton Heat, they'd never played the club before. Kind of a weird lineup, but it all worked out and all went on to have long careers. King Missile may have been touring on the album with "Detachable Penis", it was certainly around that time. Gin Blossoms and The Rev came back as headliners not long after.
Good times!
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Mitski 'The Only Heartbreaker'
Olney Giant
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With my wife out of town, my daughter asked me to take her clothes shopping.
Annandale Goodwill - The Specials-Ghost Town
Fairfax Goodwill -Blue Oyster Cult -Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
Lots of good thrift finds, my wife is going to hate is bringing more clutter into her house.
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Make sure you wash that stuff
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With my wife out of town, my daughter asked me to take her clothes shopping.
Annandale Goodwill - The Specials-Ghost Town
Fairfax Goodwill -Blue Oyster Cult -Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
Lots of good thrift finds, my wife is going to hate is bringing more clutter into her house.
*not grocery stores
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With my wife out of town, my daughter asked me to take her clothes shopping.
Annandale Goodwill - The Specials-Ghost Town
Fairfax Goodwill -Blue Oyster Cult -Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
Lots of good thrift finds, my wife is going to hate is bringing more clutter into her house.
*not grocery stores
They are if you’re hungry enough.
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Make sure you wash that stuff
Affirmative.My kid is a bit of a germaphobe, so yes that will happen.
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Make sure you wash that stuff
Affirmative.My kid is a bit of a germaphobe, so yes that will happen.
FFS we dont need to bring the Germans into this, do we?
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Make sure you wash that stuff
Affirmative.My kid is a bit of a germaphobe, so yes that will happen.
FFS we dont need to bring the Germans into this, do we?
We do if anyone is hungry enough.
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With my wife out of town, my daughter asked me to take her clothes shopping.
Annandale Goodwill - The Specials-Ghost Town
Fairfax Goodwill -Blue Oyster Cult -Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
Lots of good thrift finds, my wife is going to hate is bringing more clutter into her house.
*not grocery stores
They are if you’re hungry enough.
interesting variation on bill murray's “every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself”
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Kevin Morby-Rock Bottom- Trader Joe's Springfield, a few days ago
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With my wife out of town, my daughter asked me to take her clothes shopping.
Annandale Goodwill - The Specials-Ghost Town
Fairfax Goodwill -Blue Oyster Cult -Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
Lots of good thrift finds, my wife is going to hate is bringing more clutter into her house.
*not grocery stores
They are if you’re hungry enough.
interesting variation on bill murray's “every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself”
Are you telling me people have never boiled boots and shoes to eat when they’re hungry enough? Are you denying the Holocaust? In this economy!?
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Touch of Grey - Kensington Safeway
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"Ooh La La" by Faces
Central Market South Austin
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Such a great song…always find it hard to believe Ronnie Wood then in Faces sings it and not Ronnie Lane who wrote it because only a few years later on his solo albums his voice sounds so much more ragged.
We added it to the playlist for my father in law’s memorial about a month ago.
Rod Stewart who was in Faces sang it- finally - a while back and Ronnie’s version is still the best.
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Run, Run Rudolph
Dave Edmunds version
Olney Harris Teeter
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Run, Run Rudolph
Dave Edmunds version
Olney Harris Teeter
That's a Xmas song that doesn't suck.
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But is it Rockpile.
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Greenbelt Target today 4pm: Hall & Oates "You Make (a)My Dreams Come True"
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I went to two Trader Joe's today. The first one had Blondie (One Way or Another), the second had Feist.
There was another good one too, but I'm forgetting what it was.
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This was a pleasant surprise!
The Jam, Going Underground
Central Market S. Austin.
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“Naked Eye” Luscious Jackson. Whole Foods Towson
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“Naked Eye” Luscious Jackson. Whole Foods Towson
Great song.
Hi truslow