Anonymous wrote:

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I admit, I had not realized that Cinco de Mayo was the official start of summer here in the U.S. of A. Silly me, I always thought it had something to do with the Summer Equinox (June 21 this year).

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Summer Solstice.  Equinox means equal night.  There's the Vernal Equinox and the Autumnal Equinox.

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 Dammit, of course you are right, and I do know better. Thanks for noticing.

Sheesh, the fact that I got the date right meant that I had searched for "solstice", and somehow typed "equinox" in the post. I don't suppose I could claim I just got my fingers wrong on the keyboard, huh?

-- Edited by The Conditioner on Saturday 13th of May 2017 04:30:18 PM

I'm trying to figure out this song I really love it but can't figure it out lol.

It goes: it feels so strong and the fear is gone. or similar to that if anyone knows :D

As I said, more to come, so here is "Part Two" of "The Most Offensive Playlist"...

56. EMELI SANDE Next To Me
57. OCEAN PARK STANDOFF Good News
58. TRAIN Hey Soul Sister
59. ROBBIE WILLIAMS Love My Life
60. KATY PERRY Roar
61. SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE Naturally
62. AUDIEN feat. LADY ANTEBELLUM Something Better
63. COUNTING CROWS Amie
64. MARC BROUSSARD Lucky
65. BEFORE YOU EXIT I Like That
66. JAMES BLUNT Heart To Heart
67. NIALL HORAN This Town
68. THE CORRS Old Town (This Boy Is Cracking Up)
69. MATT NATHANSON Room At The End Of The World
70. JASON DERULO Want To Want Me
71. ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS High Dive
72. ALANIS MORISSETTE Precious Illusions
73. STING I Can't Stop Thinking About You
74. SHERYL CROW Real Gone
75. KELLY CLARKSON Heartbeat Song
76. ONEREPUBLIC Secrets
77. KUNGS VS. COOKIN' ON 3 BURNERS This Girl
78. LADY GAGA Million Reasons
79. JUSTIN BIEBER What Do You Mean?
80. HAILEE STEINFELD feat. DNCE Rock Bottom
81. ANDY GRAMMER Give Love
82. ANDY GRAMMER Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah)
83. OWL CITY & CARLY RAE JEPSEN Good Time
84. PARAMORE Rose-Colored Boy
85. WRABEL Ten Feet Tall
86. MAROON 5 Sugar
87. MUTEMATH Best Of Intentions
88. KATHARINE MCPHEE Over It
89. THE HEAD AND THE HEART All We Ever Knew
90. LADY GAGA The Cure
91. KNOX HAMILTON Washed Up Together
92. JOHN MAYER Still Feel Like Your Man
93. MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD Say Hey (I Love You)
94. INGRID MICHAELSON Maybe
95. ANNA KENDRICK Cups (When I'm Gone)
96. SAVING JANE Girl Next Door
97. FALL OUT BOY Uma Thurman (samples the "Munsters Theme")
98. THE WANTED Chasing The Sun
99. HOT CHELLE RAE Tonight Tonight
100. NEON TREES Animal

OK, you guys have been good! You deserve a "Part Four", so here are 30 MORE earworms that you have indeed heard, thanks to our infamous In-Store Audio Network, who wants to let you know their presence every hour of every day...So, here you are! ENJOY!

121. TONIC Release Me
122. JAMES BAY If You Ever Want To Be In Love
123. ROB THOMAS Mockingbird
124. FITZ & THE TANTRUMS The Walker
125. JOHN BARTUS Give Me A Sign
126. JESS GLYNNE Ain't Got Far To Go
127. ALESSO FEAT. TOVE LO Heroes (We Could Be)
128. TRAIN 50 Ways To Say Goodbye
129. SOULSEEKERZ FEAT. KATE SMITH Party For The Weekend
130. SARA BAREILLES Uncharted
131. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Can't Stop The Feeling
132. BEN RECTOR Brand New
133. ONEREPUBLIC Kids
134. JAMIE LAWSON Wasn't Expecting That
135. OLIVIA HOLT History
136. FAR EAST MOVEMENT FEAT. RYAN TEDDER Rocketeer
137. CHARLIE PUTH Up All Night
138. PARACHUTE Overnight
139. JP COOPER September Song
140. BAHARI Dancing On The Sun
141. ECHOSMITH Bright
142. OLLY MURS Years And Years
143. MATT NATHANSON FEAT. LOLO Headphones
144. THE CHAINSMOKERS FEAT. DAYA Don't Let Me Down
145. THE CHAINSMOKERS & COLDPLAY Something Just Like This
146. THE GOO GOO DOLLS So Alive
147. AIRPORT SOUNDTRACK Always Forever
148. BRUNO MARS Grenade
149. BRUNO MARS Count On Me
150. ROB THOMAS Pieces

can someone help me find this song it sounds like this:

Because of you it's a bright sunlight

because of you I can finally sleep at night

because of you I finally got it right

you know it's all because of you

because of you because of me.

 

(song's driving me crazy)

OK, guys...To make it an EVEN 200, I have 50 more wonderful earworms for you...A "Part Five", if you will...I have to say that although I appreciate the newer songs and variety, there is nothing quite as utterly PATHETIC (Yes, PA-THET-IC!) as The In-Store Audio Network when it comes to obscurity and repetition, even within the same hour...Believe me, in the old days, to get a song played on the radio, there would be huge amounts of testing involved...If a song didn't pass muster with a focus group or sample of listeners, it wouldn't get played...If even an AVERAGE radio station played songs THIS obscure, they would be out of business within a week...But OH, somehow, through it all, our beloved In-Store Audio Network does not seem to care about that...Never mind that in this day and age of the Internet and I-Tunes, there are literally MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of songs out there worth hearing that no one will ever know about...Sad, ain't it? Even if they had a greater mix of past and present playlists, I wouldn't mind, but in any case, here are FIFTY more from the standard playlist that you have probably heard at least ONCE this week, if not more often...ENJOY!

151. NICK JONAS Jealous
152. KYLIE MINOGUE Better Than Today
153. HUNTER HUNTED Keep Together
154. WALK THE MOON Shut Up And Dance
155. BRIAN FALLON A Wonderful Life
156. ERIC HUTCHINSON Love Like You
157. JOSS STONE Free Me
158. LISSIE Hero
159. IAN VAN DAHL Where Are You Now?
160. SIA Cheap Thrills
161. ONEREPUBLIC Wherever I Go
162. CODY SIMPSON La Da Dee
163. AMY GRANT FEAT. TORI KELLY Baby Baby
164. ISAIAH FIREBRACE It's Gotta Be You
165. BLUE OCTOBER I Want It
166. LANY Good Girls
167. CAPTAIN CUTS FEAT. NATEUR Love Like We Used To
168. SHANE HARPER One Step Closer
169. IMOGEN HEAP Goodnight And Go
170. MAX FROST Be Who You Want To Be
171. ROB THOMAS Someday
172. CHARLIE PUTH FEAT. SELENA GOMEZ We Don't Talk Anymore
173. THE SCRIPT Breakeven
174. DALE EARNHARDT JR. JR. If You Didn't See Me (Then You Weren't On The Dancefloor)
175. AMERICAN AUTHORS What We Live For
176. MEGHAN TRAINOR Dear Future Husband
177. KATIE HERZIG Free My Mind
178. ROB THOMAS Hold On Forever
179. KIMBRA Cameo Lover
180. MEGHAN TRAINOR Me Too
181. OLLY MURS You Don't Know Love
182. NICK FRADIANI Beautiful Life
183. CASEY ABRAMS Get Out
184. ONEREPUBLIC Counting Stars
185. RACHEL PLATTEN Better Place
186. AVICII The Days
187. CAPITAL CITIES Vowels
188. A GREAT BIG WORLD When I Was A Boy
189. JEFF LYNNE'S ELO When I Was A Boy
190. ANDY GRAMMER Fresh Eyes
191. SKYLAR STECKER Only Want You
192. CAPITAL CITIES I Sold My Bed, But Not My Stereo
193. MAROON 5 Love Somebody
194. OH HONEY Be Okay
195. BOYS LIKE GIRLS Take Me Home
196. ZEDD FEAT. FOXES Clarity
197. ONE DIRECTION Perfect
198. MEGHAN TRAINOR I Won't Let You Down
199. PARAMORE Told You So
200. LUKAS GRAHAM You're Not There

And ONE more for good measure!

201. ONE DIRECTION Drag Me Down

Hope that clears up a few more headscratchers for you...More to come soon, my friends!

My brother's a Pink Floyd fan (we both work at a Kroger store), and one song that plays at my Kroger Store is this extremely short spacey-style slide guitar song that sounds like it's from David Gilmour. It's entirely instrumental and the song length can't be more than 1:30. It seems so out of place among the other In-Store Audio Network songs (which is saying something). Would you know what that is?

Having a hard time identifying this song with a girl singer: Sun shines all day, Maybe we only have today, Come with me away, Maybe we'll take a train, Don't come a moment too late, It'll never be the same. Search engines do nothing with any of these lines. Does anyone just happen to now what it is?

I found the one from two posts ago: RYE HOLLOW Wonderland

So you may can help me find a song or have heard it at kroger. The song says something you're my last thought at night and my my first thought in the morning or something like that a guy singer

An average Kroger pee-on wrote:

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I despise the In-Store Audio Network.

 

Most of the newer, obscure songs sound very much the same to me, especially since most of them are "cheating" by using the Auto-Tune software (because song producers no longer hold modern singers to a high standard of being perfectly, if not "reasonably" in-tune when recording their songs), as was expected by the talented musical artists of years gone by. 

Not sure if our store playlist is anything like what is playing in other stores, but when you are somewhat farther away from a speaker (and the sound system in this store is horrible, tinny, bad in the first place) what you can hear loudest in most of the songs is something that is either a faintly wailing, moaning, whining, screaming or shrieking noise from a so-called "hot" "singer".  

 

One of my pet peeves...............basically, very few of the older, classic easy listening/pop/soft rock/adult contemporary songs (esp from the 1970s) are "allowed" on the Kroger playlist ...............so the playlist will include one token song from Olivia Newton John (Please, Mr. Please), Two token songs from Helen Reddy (Angie Baby and You and Me Against the World), one or two songs from Stevie Wonder, very little (or nothing) is played from great artists like Carpenters, Foreigner, Stylistics, Gordon Lightfoot, Glen Campbell, Bread, John Denver, B. J. Thomas,  Maxine Nightingale,  Elvis Presley,  ABBA,  Barbra Streisand, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka,  Carly Simon (one song-You're so vain),  Nilsson, Roberta Flack,  Lobo, Simon & Garfunkel,  Eagles, Chic, Commodores, REO SPeedwagon, Queen,  Air Supply,  Spinners,  Blue Magic,  John Mellencamp,  Willie nelson, Journey, KC & the Sunshine band, Fleetwood Mac (maybe a song or two),  Bee Gees,  Mariah Carey,  Neil Diamond,  Kenny Rogers,  Whitney Houston(well, maybe one song), Elton John (with the exception of a couple of his crappier songs like Island Girl, about a prostitute). the list goes on and on ................

Have the Kroger company hotshots realized there is a whole wide world of choices out there when playing music for their stores?  Ever heard of Pandora?  I-Heart Radio?  I guess Kroger can't 'afford' anything better than I S A N  for their customers.  

 

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 I agree with you on ALL of that, Kroger Pee-On...They COULD do a much better job...And promote more artist diversity at the same time! I'd hate to be the poor saps who work for ISAN, as they have no clue what people want to hear, which is why you hear the same 20 songs every hour...That just shows how (un)creative they can be...In my store, they DID play "Merry Christmas Darling" during the Christmas season and previously "Poems, Prayers & Promises" and "Fly Away" from John Denver, "Lead Me On" from Maxine Nightingale, "How Long" from The Eagles (which I still hear on occasion) and that's about it...You might hear Christopher Cross or Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" on occasion, or that one song from Huey Lewis & The News...There are plenty of old AND new songs they could be playing like stores used to do in the old days...In this day and age, you would think they could utilize better technology, so as to NOT be so repetitious! I hear the same playlist in other stores, too, that they play in Kroger...The EXACT SAME SONGS! And yet, there are places you can go to where you never hear the same song twice...For what the nutjobs at ISAN are doing, THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!

I have good luck here, so maybe? Girl singer, guitar chord on the 1st and 3rd beat "We go on, on into the night" "Daybreaks buy I'll (goes falsetto) stay here" "No one can hear you" "... save the day" "yeah, yeah"

Who knows the lyrics to the Kroger song? It sounds like: Let's go Krogering, Krogering, Krogering. Let's go Krogering, a better way to shop! (Most cuts of meat? Sweet values in every aisle?) With Kroger plus card, the saving's (great?) (Savings with a smile?) LGKKK, LGK, a better way to shop.

Well, the wonderful In-Store Audio Network is at it again...Playing the same songs three times within the hour...If you're looking to identify a song you've heard in a Kroger (or a Target...or a Walgreen's...or your local coffee shop, etc.) LOOK NO FURTHER than this thread! Here are 32 more earworms you've most certainly heard on repeat in the recent past!

1. ALESSIA CARA Outlaws
2. TROYE SIVAN FEAT. ALESSIA CARA Wild
3. TRAIN Valentine
4. KEITH URBAN FEAT. CARRIE UNDERWOOD The Fighter
5. PHILIP PHILLIPS Miles
6. MATT HIRES Restless Heart
7. JON MCLAUGHLIN Above The Radio
8. SAM SMITH Too Good At Goodbyes
9. JOSEPH - SOS (Overboard)
10. GAVIN JAMES I Don't Know Why
11. LIGHTS Giants
12. PAOLO NUTINI New Shoes
13. JONAS BLUE FEAT. DAKOTA Fast Car
14. ANDY GRAMMER Crazy Beautiful
15. HEY VIOLET Hoodie
16. KARMIN I Want It All
17. TAYLOR SWIFT Ready For It?
18. JESS GLYNNE Hold My Hand
19. MATT WERTZ Hold On To Me
20. ECHOSMITH Let's Love
21. KING & COUNTRY Priceless
22. FIVE FOR FIGHTING Chances
23. BEBE REXHA FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE Meant To Be
24. KELLY CLARKSON Catch My Breath
25. ANDREW MCMAHON IN THE WILDERNESS Cecilia And The Satellite
26. KATY PERRY Rise
27. ELIZA DOOLITTLE Let It Rain
28. ASHLEE SIMPSON L.O.V.E.
29. JAMES HERSEY Miss You
30. ROB THOMAS Trust You
31. MEGHAN TRAINOR I'm A Lady
32. JAMES ARTHUR Can I Be Him

You think they could be a bit more original, no???

Apparently not...

More to come, my friends!

I'm really not sure why there's so many songs on youtube about Kroger...

-- Edited by 4hourrush on Friday 19th of January 2018 05:11:55 PM

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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How about one more for good measure?

33. JORGE BLANCO Summer Soul

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 Is it really necessary for you to post the same thing in two almost identical threads?

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 Better than playing it twice in the same hour!

HEArd the song twice today. Cant tell if its is saying i Anit leaving with out you or its I aint thinking about you. Anyone happen to possibly know that song?  And it sounds kinda like the guy who does the Im only human song. He hasnt that same like slow raspy voice.

There's a song at Kroger I've been trying to identify for the past couple years but haven't had much luck.

It's a slower song with electric guitars/synthesizers sung by a woman and the main refrain sounds like either "I reach, but I can't grasp" or "I itch, but I can't scratch". I try to make out the other lyrics but she's singing so softly compared to the music..

I worked for Kroger back in the early 1990s in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Back then... the music and in-store ads/jingles were delivered via c-band satellite by POP Radio Corp. (The In-Store Broadcasting Network). The music played in the same order every 2 -3 hours (in a 3 week rotation) with ads and a jingle every 15 minutes ('You're listening to the In-Store Broadcasting Network", "You're listening to Kroger Radio... part of the In-Store Broadcasting Network", "Kroger Radio-o-o", "P-O-P Radio-o-o", "The In-Store Broadcasting Network... The Only Radio-o-o", etc.). Some of the songs on the rotation back then were:

Air Supply - Even the Nights Are Better

Kenny G - Sentimental, What a Wonderful World

Natalie Cole - Unforgettable

Rita Coolidge - I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love

Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control, All By Myself

Paul Davis - Cool Night, I Go Crazy

Helen Reddy - Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady

Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman to Me

Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better, All I Want Is You

The Stylistics - Betcha By Golly Wow, You Are Everything

Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker

Barbra Streisand - Somewhere, Woman in Love

Carole King - So Far Away, It's Too Late

Glen Medieros - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You

Neil Diamond - Love on the Rocks

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Were Made for Walking

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Neil Sedaka - Laughter in the Rain

Billy Preston - Nothing from Nothing

Irene Cara - What a Feeling

Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only

Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It

REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore, Keep on Loving You

Petula Clark - Downtown

Herb Alpert - No Time for Time

Cowsills - The Rain, The Park, and Other Things

There were songs from the Carpenters and other great artists as well.