Apr 022013
My name is Rockodial Hunter. This here is me.
Greetings mates!
My specialty is hunting rock in the wild. I spot it, catch it with my ‘quipment and share the bounty with y’all. Caught one just the other night.
My name is Rockodial Hunter. This here is me.
Greetings mates!
My specialty is hunting rock in the wild. I spot it, catch it with my ‘quipment and share the bounty with y’all. Caught one just the other night.
As mentioned in a thread once long ago, I have my best success with this phenomenon while picking up burritos from Chipotle. I still need to see if I can track down their “music director,” if such a person exists for the chain. Maybe it’s just the Chipotle in my neighborhood that plays cool music whenever I make my pickup. Last time I was there “Working for the Clampdown” was playing. In a take-out burrito chain!
Me and the wife and kids were in FL visiting my mother in law last week for spring break. While sitting by the pool in a gated golf and tennis community for the retired set (not my choice for a ideal vacation but pleasant enough), I heard Teacher Teacher by Rockpile.
Later I was in a Kenneth Cole store at an outlet mall (not my ideal way to spend time and not particularly pleasant), I heard Hear Comes Your Man by the Pixies.
I expect these spottings in the wild will only become more frequent as the years roll by.
I was in a Starbucks last Sunday morning, way too early, in the middle of nowhere, preparing to head into a dreary wet outdoor activity, when I cheered up a little bit to hear Liz Phair’s “Explain It To Me” coming through the speakers.
I get take out from P.F. Changs’ every couple of months or so . I swear the place is partial to The Replacements and Paul Westerberg. Heard “Achin’ To Be” there the other day. I’ve also heard Paul solo stuff there before.
http://www.vh1.com/video/the-replacements/9829/achin-to-be.jhtml
Somewhat related– the heavily bearded Jayson Werth is now using “Werewolves of London” as his walk up music, which got a big rise out of our section on Opening Day. Unfortunately, the Nats are using A-ha’s “Take On Me “for their Sweet Caroline-type sing-along during the 7th inning stretch. I hope that does not stick. I thought we were done with that when they trade Michael Morse.
Trig — Have you listened to Colleen Green yet? Not as edgy as Liz, but she’s got a neat lo-fi thing going on — and a label mate of Liz-influenced La Sera.
http://youtu.be/h3ijKpQkHNA
While I’m always on the alert for songs spotted in unusual habitats, I don’t think that the playing any song over the end titles of a cable show quite qualifies. That seems to be the place for the music supervisor to comment on the episode without any dialog to compete.
On that subject, the show Californication seems to be using mostly cover versions of well known songs this year. Cheaper? Easier to get the performance rights?
Intrasting takes Mates. “In the wild” to me is spotting a song in a non-radio environ or more broadly an environ that isn’t “playing songs” for the benefit of song-listeners. So songs in pubs or coffee shops are barely wild to me. Walk-up songs in baseball are definitely wild as are songs in non-musical movies and tv. I’ll include commercials too.
Songs used to enhance a non music-based experience are wild.
Jayson Werth / Werewolves of London is a great catch mate.
I was in Florida last week, too. I heard enough oddities that I was going to write them down for a Songs in the Wild post. At the Embassy Suites we stayed at I heard The Clash – Spanish Bombs on morning when I went to breakfast. It was odd because they weren’t playing any other Rock songs. I also heard Donovan’s Epistle to Dippy in a Publix, and that’s one of those songs I never know the name of, but then I turned on 8-Tracks when we got home, which is a station on DirecTV that plays music. The first song was Epistle to Dippy, so then I knew the name of that song and told myself I should buy that album since I don’t have any Donovan.
But the song I heard the most in Florida was Madonna’s Borderline. WTF? Why, Florida? Why? You people listen to that like it just came out last week! And it SUCKS, man!
Dang 2kM, I wish I had known you were in FL. Maybe we could have talked Funoka and Trigmigigmo into flying down for the inaugural meeting of the Right Minded Music Caucus.
During the past week or so I keep hearing Billy Joel everywhere. I’ve heard Uptown Girl at least twice in public settings. This pisses me off in a big way and, as David Crosby says, increases my paranoia. Why are they doing this to me?
I agree that songs in shows don’t really seem to be “in the wild” because their being used to enhance the story.
Speaking of Califonication, I’ve never seen it, but my friend Neil Nathan’s cool acoustic version of ELO’s Do Ya appeared in an episode.
Hmmm. Honestly, I found the drum machine too painfully rudimentary to get past. Not otherwise unpleasant, but right off the bat that made it seem too much like a random home demo.
Just returned from my local, small town, old-school Super Market where I was able to catch an earful of one of my favorite Bowie songs, “Cat People.” This store is pretty much only frequented by locals of the senior citizen variety & in the past I’ve heard several different Sufjan Stevens cuts & some obscure Todd Rundgren. It’s quite odd.
This can’t be random dept. I am working at a huge multi-national pharmaceutical company and playing loudly in the atrium this afternoon was some polished, anthemic-type rock. I made some half assed joke that U2 was in the lobby. But after about 1/2 hour I realized it was U2 “Miracle Drug”.
Aren’t there PhRMA guidelines against that sort of playlist?