Shock At The Local Drug Store...

[Shane]

Over the years, I've occasionally heard oddball Beach Boys songs played at shopping malls, restaurants, stores, etc.  But what happened today certainly takes the cake for me.   

I went to a local Walgreens today with my friend (for those non U.S. residents, that's a chain drug store we have here).  I was walking down the cold medication aisle, when I heard something very familiar playing over the closed circuit radio... "Shoot The Curl" by the Honeys!  I almost fell backwards and wiped out an entire display of antihistamines.

Speaking of this song, I've always wondered what the correct lyrics were.  What I hear is, "We're not being snobby, but we have to admit, the honeys' way of surfing is some terrible sh*t."  I'm sure those aren't the correct lyrics!  What are they?   

[donald]

It does rhyme with admit......

[jeffcdo]

I hear "the Honey's way of surfin' is the daring-est yet"

Clearly a reference to....Darian Sahanaja!!

[Wrightfan]

I heard "Wipeout" at the local Radio Shack a few weeks back 

[Sheriff John Stone]

Can't beat "Shoot The Curl" but I was just at a Weis market, getting some groceries, and heard "Your Imagination". I had to think for a second when I  heard those opening notes. That song's over ten years old already!

[Aegir]

Your Imagination's not so surprising. That's on a lot of retail store Adult Contemporary background music playlists.

[The Heartical Don]

I think Gary Usher's 'Add Some Music' CD should play in every store. It is sooo soooothing...

(oh, and I still wonder whenever I hear an old Elvis Costello song in the local superstore. Strange: buying groceries whilst hearing 'Chelsea'... there was a time when this song could be found in the 'punk'-racks in my record shop. It was considered quite subversive and revolutionary. And how many people will know that 'Golden Brown' by the Stranglers (a muzak classic) actually is about the joys of heroin? Or, what Lou Reed's 'Walk On The Wild Side' is about?

On the other hand, Nick Lowe proved once and for all that you can use any lyric for a pop song with his 'Jesus Of Cool' LP. Lovely dance pop, about the decaying corpse of Marie Provost (being eaten by her own dogs); breaking glass; alligators doing their thang in the heart of the city; having been born a woman; and being 36" high. And, um, about the strange topic of love.)

[c-man]

I just walked into a Walgreens three nights ago and was greeted by "Shoot The Curl".

[37!ws]

I can top allayas...

Some years ago in one of the local shops, they had a radio tuned to one of the local "music that won't offend your elderly relatives" kinds of radio stations.

I swear to God, I heard, from that radio: "Judy, Judy, Juuuudy boppa Judy...."

The woman behind the counter said that that station plays that song a lot for some reason...

[Shane]

"I just walked into a Walgreens three nights ago and was greeted by "Shoot The Curl"."


Sounds like somebody programmed that song onto their closed circuit radio, which is piped to all the Walgreens throughout the country.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I was shocked to hear 'I Get Around' on my local oldies radio station. Ok, maybe that is actually very common

[Eric Aniversario]

"I just walked into a Walgreens three nights ago and was greeted by "Shoot The Curl"."


Sounds like somebody programmed that song onto their closed circuit radio, which is piped to all the Walgreens throughout the country.

I recently found a CD comp online that included this song.  Maybe the songs from that comp are part of the rotation.

[WWDWD?]

While on the subject of obscure Beach Boys related music popping up unexpectedly... I swear I heard the intro (after all the drums) of Denny's Constant Companion at the start of a Billy Bragg boot once. I'll have to look it up.

[MBE]

Once at an airport I was at You're Welcome was looped to play over and over through the speakers. It must have played about ten min. Not kidding.

[37!ws]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread (well, not really), but...my wife and I were at a used book store a week or so ago...and darned if we didn't hear "Only With You" and "Holy Man" from the POB reissue...

[the captain]

A few months back, I walked into the grocery store down the street (an independently owned one, not a major chain) only to nearly pass out when I realized what I was hearing: the Surf's Up version of Surf's Up. I've since heard plenty of other cool songs there, too. I think they must just let employees plug in their iPods or something.

[slothrop]

Heard "Sail On Sailor" blasting at the Whole Foods across from my apartment. Thought that was pretty cool.

[MBE]

I recently heard Pray For Surf at Walgreens too. Must be a Honey's fan picking the music for the chain.

[Loaf]

I heard Lady Lynda on the radio at my local children's hospital. It took me a while to recognise it, but I was sure I knew it from somewhere because it was so familiar.

But then I guess LL was a hit over here (UK), so it makes sense.

It was followed by Life in the Fast Lane by the Eagarse (Eagles).

[runnersdialzero]

"I just walked into a Walgreens three nights ago and was greeted by "Shoot The Curl"."


Sounds like somebody programmed that song onto their closed circuit radio, which is piped to all the Walgreens throughout the country.

As a former (very poorly treated) Walgreens employee, I can confirm that this is the case.

[c-man]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread (well, not really), but...my wife and I were at a used book store a week or so ago...and darned if we didn't hear "Only With You" and "Holy Man" from the POB reissue...

Was "Holy Man" vocal or instrumental?

[markcharles75]

I heard...wait for it...lets go away for awhile...at my supermarket once.  Very odd to hear it in public.  Your brain takes a few seconds to adjust.

[Foster's Freeze]

At the local mega mall I heard "Add Some Music" and "This Whole World" about 8 minutes apart.

I will shop there more. 

[B-Rex]

I've recently heard Surf's Up, Your Imagination and Pet Sounds at the grocery store.  I'm always taken aback by out of the way BB songs.

[Alex]

I've heard the MIU christmas version of Peggy Sue at the grocery store where I work quite a few times this past December.