Entertainment For Lively Minds
Queen of the supermarket
Posted by adze thuggery on 21 January 2009 - 8:11am.
NPR in the States is streaming Bruce Springsteen's new album ahead of release next week.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99173117
I listened to it and was struck by the track about the queen of the supermarket.
My brain switched into word association football mode and remembered an early Tyrannosaurus Rex song called Grace Fat Sheba (she works with a meat cleaver, sweating behind the meat counter).
Those of you who do not know this gem can hear it at last.fm
http://www.last.fm/music/T.+Rex/_/Graceful+Fat+Sheba
What are all the other tracks about shop workers I should have remembered? (And no, the Miracles' 'Shop Around' does not count.)
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Closer to home...
...how about "I'm In Love With The Girl Who Works On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout desk" The Feelies wasn't it??
shop songs
Why She's a Girl from a Chainstore - Buzzcocks
The Man in the Corner Shop - The Jam
She Sells Sanctuary (£9.99 from Argos) - The Cult
And the chip shop, of course
The wonder of........
Woolies. I forget whether any of the protagonists worked there, but Nanci griffith's rather good "Love at the 5 and dime"
Somehow, I own a song called
Hello Allison (Aisle 10) by Scapegoat Wax - an act I've heard nothing of before or since. It's about falling in love with a girl in the supermarket - does that count?
Grocer Jack
Retail truism: you only appreciate shops when they’re not there anymore. While they’re around you just take them for granted.
How about
"There's an abominable snowman in the supermarket" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers?
It started at the supermarket
Pulp's Common People not only started there but wasn't a flat above a shop also involved somewhere?
Grunge Entry
"Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town" - Pearl Jam
Mr Dury
On Mr Love Pants Ian Dury sang of Geraldine:
"I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre,
If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her"
Genesis were there too
"I don't belong here," said old Tessa out loud.
"Easy, love, there's the Safe Way Home."
- and, thankful for her Fine Fair discount, Tess Co-operates
(Selling England By the Pound)