Great shopping experience

[bsten]

I was passing by a clothing store today (mostly young people' s clothes). They had a speaker outside and out of it came........... You're so good to me!! It's a busy street in the mid of my home town, Halmstad (on the sunny side of Sweden, we call it California of Sweden...  ), lots of shops and restaurants, and lots of passers by... I went into the store and on came........ Wild honey!!! It was almost a religious experience... It felt like the 60's again. Then came....... Darlin'!!! Wow... But unfortunately I had to move on. Certainly not your everyday shopping experience...

It wasn't until I got home I realized it was from 50 Big Ones. So if they played the whole cd people must have heard All this is that, Friends, Heroes, I just wasn't and more goodies...

/Bengt

[alf wiedersehen]

I've always found it odd that more stores and restaurants don't play The Beach Boys. They're a pretty nice, soothing band and most of their songs have a certain charm to them, yet for some reason, it always seems so rare to hear them over the speakers.

I remember reading another story here where they were at an airport or casino and it was playing a muzak station, when all of a sudden "Surf's Up" poured out of the speakers.

[Fall Breaks]

I entered a 50s/60s diner in rural Gotland, Sweden, two weeks ago as Darlin' was pouring out of the cd jukebox speakers.

[zachrwolfe]

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[wantsomecorn]

My local Half-Price books played "The Little Girl I Once Knew" the other day. Props to them.

[Micha]

Some years ago, I heard Little Saint Nick in a supermarket during the christmas season.

[Bhw]

I have never been to a Walmart and NOT the Beach Boys being played

[PaulTMA]

A pub in Glasgow allowed me to hear 'Match Point Of Our Love' in public, for what may be the only time ever.

[c-man]

I had the pleasure of hearing "Sloop John B." piped into the Spaghetti Words restaurant here in Omaha when I was having dinner with Scott Totten in 2009.  Very appropriate!

[Freddie French-Pounce]

My local Morrisons supermarket played a cover of Little Saint nick followed by the BB version on Santa's Beard. Odd.

HMV was also playing TWGMTR when the album came out, but I only heard Bill And Sue. I friends weren't impressed by my reaction. They don't like the Beach Boys.

[BergenWhitesMoustache]

Was in a pub yesterday and Farewell My Friend came on the jukebox...not sure if someone put it on (probably not, there was a hip hop night out back) or if it just randomly popped up, but it was pretty cool

[leggo of my ego]

I was in a walmart this morning and heard a bunch of contemporary rubbish  - Worst: some whiney woman with a stutter I guess, she goes

Forever! Ever! Ever! Ever!     Had to put on some Jan & Dean when I got to the car to drive that hideous excuse for music outta my head!@

[alf wiedersehen]

I was in a walmart this morning and heard a bunch of contemporary rubbish  - Worst: some whiney woman with a stutter I guess, she goes

Forever! Ever! Ever! Ever!     Had to put on some Jan & Dean when I got to the car to drive that hideous excuse for music outta my head!@

I"d be careful if I was you. SIP Mike might sue for authorship credit on that signature of yours.

[leggo of my ego]

I was in a walmart this morning and heard a bunch of contemporary rubbish  - Worst: some whiney woman with a stutter I guess, she goes

Forever! Ever! Ever! Ever!     Had to put on some Jan & Dean when I got to the car to drive that hideous excuse for music outta my head!@

I"d be careful if I was you. SIP Mike might sue for authorship credit on that signature of yours.

  - Good observation!

Well, I don't particularly agree with the quote - that thread got locked so rather than let all of it sink into obscurity I rescued some of
the more ridiculous bits.

[Amy B.]

I was passing by a clothing store today (mostly young people' s clothes). They had a speaker outside and out of it came........... You're so good to me!! It's a busy street in the mid of my home town, Halmstad (on the sunny side of Sweden, we call it California of Sweden...  ), lots of shops and restaurants, and lots of passers by... I went into the store and on came........ Wild honey!!! It was almost a religious experience... It felt like the 60's again. Then came....... Darlin'!!! Wow... But unfortunately I had to move on. Certainly not your everyday shopping experience...

It wasn't until I got home I realized it was from 50 Big Ones. So if they played the whole cd people must have heard All this is that, Friends, Heroes, I just wasn't and more goodies...
/Bengt

I'm kind of disappointed that this wasn't about running into Brian at the supermarket, singing to you, "the world's a zoo, what can we do, but try some, buy some..." 

[Shady]

I hear the Beach Boys everywhere. It's never a surprise unless I hear something like "Time to get alone", which I heard in a shopping center once.

[Margarita]

Oddest public BB listening experience - "Child of Winter" in a liquor store in Toronto in 2011.

[Shane]

I wasn't going to post this, but since one of these threads popped up today, I'll join along.


I went to a yard sale today.  I picked out a split second of music from around the corner... the sound of an accordion.  "Great, they're playing Mexican music," I thought.

It turned out to be Wouldn't It Be Nice.  Then the next song started- "Getcha Back". 

That was surprising.  I don't know what BB CD has those two songs in a row...