I heard Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" today in my local garden centre as I was looking to buy some topsoil.

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heavinglory@reddit

The Cure came on while I was standing in line at Walgreen's pharmacy. I no longer needed my prescription filled!

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allothernamestaken@reddit

This sounds like a Steven Wright bit.

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Shouty_Dibnah@reddit

I heard New Order at Target once. I saw a girl in a Joy Division shirt at the same time. She was about 12.

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Awkward-Initiative28@reddit

They play early punk like Buzzcocks and The Jam at my local Trader Joe's. Makes me feel very old.

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marshallkrich@reddit

When I heard For Whom The Bell Tolls at Kroger, I was like....fuck, I'm old...

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

I'm not sure if this is something from a dream or what, but I swear I heard a Muzak version of Motörhead's "Ace of Spades" at the supermarket.

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--frymaster--@reddit

if you want some swinging muzak metal, may i recommend this pat boone covers album. the ‘crazy train’ cover is actually pretty brilliant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Metal_Mood:_No_More_Mr._Nice_Guy?wprov=sfti1

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DaoFerret@reddit

I’d also suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Swings

Best Crazy Train cover though is Iron Horse’s bluegrass cover https://youtu.be/Wmu6x5S7AbI

First heard it on Revolution and had to track it down.

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--frymaster--@reddit

that’s compelling. i mean “eyes without a face” would really lend itself to the lounge ballad treatment.

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DaoFerret@reddit

I actually found the album after hearing it as “store music” a bunch of years ago at a clothing store in Canada.

Most of it was just filtering through my brain as I walked around until they got to “black hole sun” and I literally stopped dead, realized what I was hearing, and went to the store employees to find out the album.

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--frymaster--@reddit

just a little while ago there was a show that had a lounge cover of ‘black hole sun’ on the extro credits (looked it up: “willow” ep 4) and it was astounding.

i was never a huge perl jam fan, but it reminded me of when nirvana’s second album came out and i was super dismissive of it as just being popular because of butch vig’s production, and then one day i heard a guy in the mall playing ‘teen spirit’ solo on the piano and it was a total tonne-of-bricks “holy hell this is a great song” moment.

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ElYodaPagoda@reddit

I liked that cover a lot! That’s rad!

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Thirty_Helens_Agree@reddit

Mel Brooks said he heard a Muzak version of Springtime for Hitler in an elevator.

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DoubleExposure@reddit (OP)

Like the elevator music version of it? LOL, that would have shook me to the core if I had heard that.

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Rotary_99@reddit

I heard Let’s Active pumping out of the sidewalk speakers in front of a Dollar Tree recently - “Room With a View.”

What the actual fuck.

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Glittering_Estate_72@reddit

21 year old at the bowling alley was listening to Iron Man, said to me: "Who is this?" I said "Ozzy" He said: "WRONG!! It's a band called Black Sabbath"

god help us.

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SingLyricsWithMe@reddit

Not going to lie, that's witty.

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Glittering_Estate_72@reddit

Would have been if he had known who Ozzy was. He didn't. It's why everyone at the table wanted to slap him.

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mazopheliac@reddit

Zoomer was technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

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EvolutionCreek@reddit

Speaking of…if he was “turned to steel / in the great magnetic field,” is he really “Iron” Man at all?

Alloy Man doesn’t have the same ring I guess.

(I’ve mentioned this before and no one else has ever been bothered by it.)

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mazopheliac@reddit

You’re not wrong

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Glittering_Estate_72@reddit

My team mates all looked it him like he had actually shit his pants. I was tempted to feed him my 10lb ball.

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Any-Perception3198@reddit

I heard Love Will Tear Is Apart at the gas station. Wept for my youth.

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classicsat@reddit

Same here, with one local store I frequent (small department/grocery store) always playing 80s rock/pop for some reason. That would get some granny's knickers in a twist if that music was played in that store when it was new.

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Tia-manzana@reddit

I hear all the lovely 80 music on the easy oldies station. I remember when my Uncle Preacher stood in the pulpit and bald face declared that the music was going to send the whole generation to hell!! I try to tell that too my younger coworkers, but they just can't see what could be so wrong about any of that music!! I just laugh.

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mazopheliac@reddit

Shit feels kinda hellish to me these days.

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Tia-manzana@reddit

Can't argue with that!

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CriticalStrawberry15@reddit

You don’t like classic rock?

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DoubleExposure@reddit (OP)

I don't dislike it, but in my youth, I tried listening to new music and even now I listen to a lot of new music. It is nice to listen to old music that you love, but it is always more exciting to find new music you love.

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CriticalStrawberry15@reddit

Those two songs are now classic rock.

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Vicodin-ES@reddit

That’s how you know for sure we’re getting old lol when Ozzy and Dr. Dre are playing in the garden center and arts and craft stores 😂

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NicInNS@reddit

I hear G n R while grocery shopping.

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zsreport@reddit

Your comment reminded of this great scene from Grosse Point Blank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcQzPqeHJA

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EvolutionCreek@reddit

Me at Home Depot:

“Mental wounds still screaming

Driving me insane

I’m buying all your nails and some some oil-based stain”

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MyriVerse2@reddit

These things are not really new. It's been happening since the 90s.

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fuxxwitclowns@reddit

Legit

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zsreport@reddit

I've heard 3 A.M. Eternal at a grocery store at about 7 on a Sunday morning

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Bennieplant@reddit

Just try and enjoy it

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DoubleExposure@reddit (OP)

I'm just happy it is not Bryan Adams.

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Bennieplant@reddit

I can’t stand that dude!

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mazopheliac@reddit

That comment cuts like a knife.

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Bennieplant@reddit

It’s just everything I do

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vqd6226@reddit

Heard depeche mode in the grocery store and almost melted 😱

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wonderbeen@reddit

Same, heard it in Walmart. Commenced Karaoke 🎤

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RomulanTrekkie@reddit

My daughter & I refer to it as a "Walmart Dance Party" when they play my old jams & then proceed to embarrass my husband! Depeche Mode, The Cure & The Fixx one after the other - yes!

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PistachioGal99@reddit

Immediately sang “one thing leads to another” inside my head while reading your comment. Did you do that on purpose!?!

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Brilliant_Park_2882@reddit

Some great bands there...

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techdevjp@reddit

Have you heard the Marilyn Manson cover of Personal Jesus? It's pretty damn good!

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PapaSmurfenburg@reddit

Heard Erasure 'Chains of Love' at Sam's Club today.

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SilverAgeSurfer@reddit

Love Ozzy getting his recognition. It was so ridiculous the amount of hate given from the likes of Al Gores wife. Before you reddit operatives loose your shit so some research into Ol Tipper Gore and the PMRC.

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CRI_Guy@reddit

To be fair, all Tipper was asking for was warning labels on inappropriate albums -- which we have today. And the world didn't end somehow. As a parent, I kind of appreciate them. It was all a big "todo" about nothing, really, and actually pretty reasonable. From what I recall anyway. I hope saying this doesn't mean I'm a reddit operative.

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SilverAgeSurfer@reddit

You sound like a Reddit operative. Your all about censorship now that your a parent? Your probably a helicopter Mom. You obviously forgot what it's like to be your kids who rail against authority. Guess you're ok with book burners too. All Artists who went and spoke at the hearings didn't seem to be ok with it.

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SubjectNet1874@reddit

Craziest one I've heard so far was Crazy Bitch in my local Kroger's was pretty shocked lol.

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Generally_Tso_Tso@reddit

I was at a Steins Garden Center a few days ago and heard Crazy Train too. Maybe they play the same songs on loop.

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BobcatBarry@reddit

“She’s Tricky” in my local grocery store threw me for a loop.

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Confident_Low_4554@reddit

Sounds like a cool garden center

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ShimmyxSham@reddit

I only heard “How Soon Is Now” at strip clubs?

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RepliesOnlyToIdiots@reddit

I once heard Prince’s Darling Nikki on the speakers in a Trader Joe’s. I strongly suspect it was already going to be the person’s last day there. Just… not a grocery store song.

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samuellbroncowitz@reddit

Heard Peace Sells about a year ago at a Sourdough & Co. while at lunch. Felt old AF and at the same time blew my mind that Megadeth was getting played at a corporate sandwich chain

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beaujolais98@reddit

Silver sea cruise line has a commercial out that has Freebird as the background music. We are only 10 years away from that, my friends.

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ImNotTheBossOfYou@reddit

You've mentioned two of the most popular songs of the 80s

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Powerful-Union-7962@reddit

Still waiting to hear Angel of Death by Slayer playing as I’m browsing the vegetables at the supermarket….

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CaptainKrakrak@reddit

I’d love a musak version of that song. Bonus points if the scream is done with a saxophone.

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hippie94@reddit

NIN "I want to f*** you like an animal." On FM radio. We are living in strange times.

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pirate_per_aspera@reddit

Takes me back every time - even if it is in the grocery store lol

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Theomniponteone@reddit

Remember when they sued Ozzie because of his song Suicide Solution?

Pepperidge Farms remembers

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FucktusAhUm@reddit

But do you remember the Styx incident?

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Theomniponteone@reddit

With the backward lyrics? Zepplin and Black Oak Arkansas got harassed about that shit too. I will hand to those anti satanic groups, without them I might have stayed a Christian for longer. It really opened my eyes about religion and lead me to becoming Agnostic as a young teen.

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