Secret God at Starbucks

lol....thanks for sharing Julie! I almost did the comic spray with my Gatorade on my monitor when I read about your near-comic spray with your Frappucino!! I LOVE hearing about it when Neil is heard in strange places.....it's kind of like a joke that only WE get, you know?

Gen

Not as cool, but I almost freaked when I heard Something So Strong at the KMart in NYC on Sunday, picking out a beach towel.

Good old Neil, always sneaking up on ya!

Don't Dream its Over is on every mall musak set in Vancouver now I think. It certainly perks me up to hear it (I don't enjoy shopping). I'll say hey that's Neil! And nobody will know who I'm talking about.....but that's okay.

Well, I was shocked when I heard Weather With You at my local Shop-Rite while I was doing my grocery shopping on Sunday. I actually took out my cell phone in the middle of the frozen foods aisle and called a fellow Finn fan to tell her! *laughs* What a pleasant surprise - it certainly made grocery shopping less drudgery.

I was shocked beyond words to hear Human Kindness in the elevator at work not too long ago. I also went--Hey! That's Neil!!! My colleagues know who I'm talking about now because I perk right up around 3 or 4 times a day with "Hey! That's Neil!!!" as we listen to an 80s & 90s radio station at work.

They've been playing a lot of Neil at the Starbucks I frequent in Manhattan on Madison Avenue. Too Cool!

How about this one?

"Throw Your Arms Around Me" at the Victoria's Secret in DC's Union Station.

--Heather

Throw Your Arms Around Me??? Was that just someone's tape on the store PA or was that being broadcast over the radio? TYAAM never made it to record as far as I know--hey are you sure it was CH? Maybe it was Hunters & Collectors?

I heard Neil and Tim sing Throw Your Arms Around Me on National Public Radio! They play short snippets of songs between news stories, and I flipped out when I heard it!! w00t!!

Gen

Imagine my surprise hearing "Sinner" on the mix CD that my spinning instructor was playing at a class at the YWCA here in downtown Vancouver.

Or rather should I call it, "Spinner"?

You can stop your groaning now

Sinner during Spinning? Isn't it a little slow for Spinning?

I work in a grocery store and I constantly here "weather with you" "don't dream it's over" and "fall at you feet". That's about the only good music our store plays!

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Sinner during Spinning? Isn't it a little slow for Spinning?

Bean:

Not to get too off-topic, but Sinner works quite well when you're doing the slow speed/high tension spinning, and imagining yourself pedaling up the North Shore mountains...

I gave the instructor a thumbs-up for musical selection, which seemed to surprise her. It's too bad she's not teaching anymore so it's back to Kylie-dance dreck

Cheers!

All of the places you guys mentioned use MUZAK, which is the satelite music service...so I am sure Neil makes a nice chunk of $$$$ off of the royalties. What I think is funny/ironic is that on this tour he seemed so anti-commercial, what with all the "sick cows" cracks at MCDonalds and the "they're evil" cracks at Disney, when he's making money by having his music played at Home Depot, Starbucks, JCPenney, Jewel/Safeway, etc....now, I love Neil, but let's not be hypocritical!
He gets my $22 a ticket plus the other $$$ I've spent on Finn-related stuff since 1982 due to my corporate/commercial paycheck!
Yikes...I sound like a Republican!!!!
Still, I smile while pushing my cart through Jewel and hearing "Weather with You"!

Wanderingmind, do you work at Kroger's? Cuz I hear those songs there quite often! Gives me a lift while I browse for Frosted Flakes!

my mom and i were at Smart&Final the other day where i heard, for the first time in its entirety, Sixpence None the Richer's cover of DDIO.

YIKES.

i pretty much abhor them, so i'd been avoiding their cover with much success. but i was trapped then.

my patience was rewarded, though. i stuck it out long enough to come across a large cheesecake in the frozen foods section. think i'll go have some now.

Yay! I finally heard a Neil song someplace. Yesterday I was at The Green Mill, which is a great pizza etc. place by my house and I heard "Driving Me Mad"! Who hoo!

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Originally posted by boarderGurl:
[qb]I heard Neil and Tim sing Throw Your Arms Around Me on National Public Radio! They play short snippets of songs between news stories, and I flipped out when I heard it!! w00t!![/qb]

I heard this too Gen -- did a definite double-take! It intrigued me as to where they could have found the clip, till I remembered that KCRW is an NPR station, and has the song in their "Morning Becomes Eclectic" archive.

My other "double take" moment lately was hearing "Something so strong" play in the background as I filled my hair stylist in on the events of Neil's Feb 5th concert in Chicago. Spooky timing!!!

Thai Airways had "Human Kindness" on one of their inflight entertainment channels last month.

Pity it was just the one track, but it was good to hear the studio version at last.

Now I might even try tracking down 'One All'...

The person who picks music for Starbuck's must be a Neil fan.

Last week I stopped into the Starbucks in Thunder Bay, Ont. and was quite shocked to hear Driving Me Mad over the speakers! Made me stop the conversation and say, 'Hey, that's Neil!'.

Did anyone else happen to catch Last to Know on Everwood last night?

It was very low in the background, but they played the entire song.

Albertsons' subscribes to a satellite muzak network that actually plays several Crowded House songs on an almost daily basis. I haven't heard any solo Neil stuff, though. I ripped into my packet of photos that had a few Neil in-store pictures from Music Millenium with great excitement the other day and showed the lobby checker who told me she didn't have a clue who Neil or Crowded House was. Sighing...just goes to show that you can be young and thin and cute but if ya don't know Neil...what's it worth???

What if you're in the youth of middle age, kind a overweight and your looks wouldn't exactly turn anyone to stone, but your chances of being on the cover of Vogue are pretty much somewhat nil and you DO KNOW about Neil? Does that count?

As you've just described me exactly, you bet it counts!

Cool,
We'll be the hippest chicks in the nursing home

Haven't posted in a lonnng time (around Neil's summer tour) but anyway, saw this topic and I thought I'd post as I heard "Last To Know" stepping out of the Monorail at Disneyland and into Disney Walks area this past Tuesday. I was very happy to hear it and wished Neil and band were playing up away at the OC HOB. Also saw Paul Hester making "Fruit Salad" on the Wiggles show while getting ready to head to the "Tragic Kingdom".

Cheers All.

I was in Starbucks here in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, and World Where Yoy Live came on. Then 3 songs later Wherever You Are came on! I was also sitting there with my boyfriend going, its Neil, its Neil!

Somebody out there likes Neil!

Does anyone out there with small kids have any of the Wiggles tapes or dvds that feature Pauls' performances? It'd be worth it just for that alone!

Hey, I just got back from Vegas, and guess what I heard at the Paris Hotel? Hey now, hey now DDIO.
With all the retro music they were playing I thought I would have heard more.

Tim is also on The Wiggles doing 6 months in a leaky boat!

Kroger and Publix has some good stuff in the evenings. I've heard DDIO, SSS, & WWY from CH, and a bunch of my favorite jazz from the Pat Metheny Group. BUT my favorite rare songs that I've heard there are from the Tim Finn album. Every now and then you get Not Even Close, How'm I Gonna Sleep, and I think I heard the tail end of Young Mountain once.

I was watching a movie on Lifetime network called "Homeless to Harvard" and I heard Neil "Last to Know" in the shoplifting scene... Imagine my surprise as I jumped out of the shower, and the first song I hear after singing to "Sinner" was "Last to Know" I felt like a teenager!!! Wooo Hooo!!! 0-)

Oi
I was totally held hostage in the changing room of a department store trying on a pair of pants last weekend when THAT OTHER version of DDIO came on. I'd been so good at avoiding it up til then!!!

Oh Martine...it hurts...it hurts! You have our complete and utter sympathy. Did you need a restorative drink after? I would have! Shelli

mmm.....like Vodka?? lol

Count me in now as one of those that has heard Crowded House at the grocery store! Last night I heard The REAL DDIO at Rainbow Foods! They usually play some gems there anyways (I often hum along to the songs that are played - yes, I'm a weirdo! )so it was especially great to hear it.

BoarderGurl, I'm thinkin' it'd take a fifth of Stoly PLUS a stiff whiskey chaser.....

Yes Shelli, it certainly did hurt!!! And a Long
Island Iced Tea might've eased the misery somewhat but I had to get out of there in a hurry in case I inadvertently ended up having to listen to the whole thing. Luckily, once safely ensconsed in the vehicle, I was able to "cleanse my palate" with an emergency listening to the original classic A major close call.

I was at an AUSTRALIAN grocery store (Safeway) the other day & to my complete & utter surprise, don't dream it's over came on their local radio thingy. Gee! I nearly fainted!

(I hope you all understood the "piss taking" of that little episode. Basically Crowded House are played to death here in Australia & I wouldn't blame anyone for getting sick of don't dream it's over).

And to make my story a little more credible, fall at your feet was also played within 30 minutes of DDIO which DID geniunely surprise me (not that fall at your feet was played - because it is all the time! - but because it was played so close to DDIO!).