Strangest places you have heard songs. - Music

Anonymous · 2014-08-06T15:58:27-04:00

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.

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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
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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.

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SilverWalrus wrote:

Sounds like an unbelievably massive faggot.

That caught me by surprise. Laugh out loud.

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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.

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

Precedent

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.

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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...

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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!

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NowhereMan wrote:

Medal for lugging the boombox up there!

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 :-/

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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!