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Re: papa don't hike

NowhereMan — Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:16:15 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 08/07/2014 16:16

philbutrin wrote:

there were another couple guys who carried their bicycles all the way up and rode them back down (there was a separate path for the downward trip). all in all it was a very interesting experience, although we missed the sunrise because it turned out to be a cloudy morning :-/

At least you can recollect that memory and share it with us!

Re: papa don't hike

philbutrin — Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:15:14 GMT

Author: philbutrin

Posted: 08/07/2014 16:15

NowhereMan wrote:

Medal for lugging the boombox up there!

Re: papa don't hike

NowhereMan — Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:12:29 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 08/07/2014 16:12

philbutrin wrote:

in 1986, i spent the summer studying in japan, and our class made a trip to hike up mt. fuji. it's not as rugged as it sounds -- you take a bus to a dropoff point, and there's a wide, well-worn path all the way to the top, and it is pretty much a solid line of people the whole way. other than having to climb over a rock once or twice, it was a pretty low-impact hike. we started hiking about 10pm so that we would reach the top in time to watch the sunrise.

at one point a couple japanese guys carrying a big boombox came up behind us and as they walked past, the boombox started loudly playing "Papa Don't Preach" by madonna. it was definitely surreal to be hiking up a sacred mountain accompanied by the strains of the material girl herself...

Medal for lugging the boombox up there!

papa don't hike

philbutrin — Thu, 7 Aug 2014 12:06:46 GMT

Author: philbutrin

Posted: 08/07/2014 16:06

in 1986, i spent the summer studying in japan, and our class made a trip to hike up mt. fuji. it's not as rugged as it sounds -- you take a bus to a dropoff point, and there's a wide, well-worn path all the way to the top, and it is pretty much a solid line of people the whole way. other than having to climb over a rock once or twice, it was a pretty low-impact hike. we started hiking about 10pm so that we would reach the top in time to watch the sunrise.

at one point a couple japanese guys carrying a big boombox came up behind us and as they walked past, the boombox started loudly playing "Papa Don't Preach" by madonna. it was definitely surreal to be hiking up a sacred mountain accompanied by the strains of the material girl herself...

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Anonymous — Thu, 7 Aug 2014 00:13:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/07/2014 04:13

I believe that I heard "Sour Times" by Portishead at a store at the mall once.

Oh! Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" was playing at some non-musical event I was at.

Maybe a James Blake song or two somewhere, too.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

denmarkman — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:47:32 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 08/07/2014 03:47

Like, the place is strange, or just a strange place to hear music?

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Anonymous — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 22:51:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/07/2014 02:51

Heard Joy Division's "Isolation" in a sushi restaurant, and a Portishead song (I forget which one, but I wanna say it was off the self-titled album) playing at a restaurant where I dropped $500+ for two. Odd choices for restaurants.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

NowhereMan — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:57:46 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 08/06/2014 22:57

SilverWalrus wrote:

Sounds like an unbelievably massive faggot.

That caught me by surprise. Laugh out loud.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Anonymous — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:55:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/06/2014 22:55

Antonio-Pedro wrote:

I know a dude that listened to In the Aeroplane Over The Sea while he was in an aeroplane over the sea. lol

Sounds like an unbelievably massive faggot.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Antonio-Pedro — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:26:02 GMT

Author: Antonio-Pedro

Posted: 08/06/2014 22:26

Necharsian wrote:

I was once at this university sports bar and they played In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in its entirety. It was very weird.

I know a dude that listened to In the Aeroplane Over The Sea while he was in an aeroplane over the sea. lol

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Necharsian — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:22:13 GMT

Author: Necharsian

Posted: 08/06/2014 22:22

I was once at this university sports bar and they played In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in its entirety. It was very weird. I was looking for the dj but it didnt seem like they had one. I guess someone just put in the cd and went with it haha who knows

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Jimmy Dread — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 18:05:41 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 08/06/2014 22:05

Got to be when I heard The Slits version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine in a branch of Superdry (that's a trendy but now a little bit passé clothes store for teens and twenty somethings for any non-UK readers, like an Abercrombie and Fitch without the half-naked models by the door).

Either that, or when I was about to have an MRI scan and I heard Dying For It by The Vaselines, which I thought the machine's operator was playing. Turns out as I was whacked out on morphine (I had meningitis) that this was just my brain playing tricks. Would have been cool as fuck if it were true, but the NHS don't tend to promote indie-pop as much as they should.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

zdwyatt — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:36:56 GMT

Author: zdwyatt

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:36

Kiki wrote:

- 'We Are Young' by fun. playing in Forever 21.

This is like the perfect song to play at Forever 21.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

benpaco — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:34:20 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:34

Once upon a time, my dad shared with me the story of a law firm whose hold music was "Danger Zone" by Kenny Rogers. I didn't believe him so we called them. Yup. It was.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

craola — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:22:12 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:22

I had a friend recommend me a dubstep album he'd heard while browsing a toy shop.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Anonymous — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:20:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:20

Kiki wrote:

Sometimes you may have to get off the computer and go outside to the place where there is no BEA.

wtf

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Cymro2011 — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:13:59 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:13

Went on holiday to Florida and as soon as I walked into our hotel I hear Tom Jones. Can't escape the guy.

Kiki wrote:

- 'Slash N Burn' by Manic Street Preaches in now defunct HMV

Always good music in HMV. The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was playing in the last one I went to.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

Anonymous — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:12:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:12

Kiki wrote:

Sometimes you may have to get off the computer and go outside to the place where there is no BEA.

Re: Strangest places you have heard songs.

NowhereMan — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:05:02 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 08/06/2014 20:05

Was having a dinner date with my girlfriend at a lovely local country pub who I had to interrupt without apology - to her bemusement - as Venus In Furs was heard from afar in the next room. Quality. Safe to say she didn't quite get the appeal of it all.

Strangest places you have heard songs.

Anonymous — Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:58:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/06/2014 19:58

Sometimes you may have to get off the computer and go outside to the place where there is no BEA. In these times you may find yourself in buldings and places which play music. Sometimes the music is nothing out of the ordinary. I mean fancy food places with expensive things on the menus play light jazz and calm relaxing music. A record store may play an old David Bowie or Captain Beefheart record while at work you may have a radio tuned to some easy going radio station like Smooth Fm or what ever they are calling BRMB now.

Sometimes you may hear a song which feels like a total unexpected choice for the place you are in. I mean the supermarket could be playing something which would of fat perfectly on The Poe's chart or a dance club could make a very left field or dangerous choice when they could have easily stuck to Get Lucky or Blurred Lines.

So places you have heard songs being played which you would never have expected to hear there or struck you as particually rare. The unexpected song choices.

Also don't include songs you are playing or listening to on a phone, Mp3, Ipod. It will make it far too easy.

Some of mine:

- 'We Are Young' by fun. playing in Forever 21
- 'Slash N Burn' by Manic Street Preaches in now defunct HMV
- 'Sleeping Satellite' by Tasmin Archer in a Co-op Express.
- 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash while eating at a Sizzler pub.