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Hearing the Eagles or solo songs unexpectedly!
Have any of you ever walked into a store and an Eagles or solo song was playing? That happened to me today, and I was grinning from ear to ear! :-D
I walked into Staples to return something with my husband, and "Heart of the Matter" was playing. Best of all, it had just started, so I got to hear the entire song!:yay:
I grabbed my husband's arm, and exclaimed, "Listen to what's playing!" He listened for second, and said, "Mmmm" and walked on! I am still not sure he even knew which song I was talking about!:wink:
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I had one experience in a supermarket when I heard True Love. I couldn't believe it, because the song was not a hit here.
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Oh yeah Stars - I love it when this happens. Shortly before Christmas, I was in Target and heard New Kid In Town. I am so pathetic that I have my own personal rule when this happens - I am not allowed to leave the premises until the song is finished. :wink:
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Ive always been a dreamer
Oh yeah Stars - I love it when this happens. Shortly before Christmas, I was in Target and heard New Kid In Town. I am so pathetic that I have my own personal rule when this happens - I am not allowed to leave the premises until the song is finished. :wink:
Great way to honor the song, Dreamer!
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It happens to me all the time Stars. I also have a policy that I must listen to the whole song before I leave the store!
My favorite time was either last year or the year before on my first Christmas shopping outing, I stopped at a cute shop and went in and Please Come Home For Christmas started playing. It just started the whole Christmas season out on the right 'note' for me. I'll never forget that.
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did you n=know the same thing happend to me thats creepy but a differt song.
Life's been good To Me So Far
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My most recent unexpected Eagles song moments, were Desperado (followed by Tequila Sunrise) in the music store, HMV, and New Kid In Town in Pizza Hut. I love the idea of all of us refusing to leave the shop until the track's finished, despite the fact we've heard the song a million times! It's somehow more exciting when it's played unexpectedly in public.
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I totally agree Troub. Now what would you do if the shop was playing a whole ALBUM, like what happened me in Borders last Summer??? They were playing the Complete Greatest Hits. :headscratch::headscratch:
Well I just HAD to head upstairs to the coffee shop and remain there until the album was finished.
Laura and I also have a policy of calling each other if an Eagles or solo song is played on the radio. Drives hubby nuts!!
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It happens rather often here. Just yesterday on a trip to the mall, I went into The Nostalgia Shop (which I do everytime I am there, and always purchase at least 1 Eagles or Eagles related pic) they were playing TITTL, then another and another. So when I went to checkout to buy my Eagles pic, I put my Eagles purse on the counter to get my wallet and told the girl that checked me out I liked the fact that they were playing Eagles greatest hits. She looked at what I was buying and my purse and started laughing and said she bet I did! :)
What's really bad is, like I posted a couple weeks ago in Things That Remind You Of, when you are setting in a restaurant and hear an Eagles song and someone from the kitchen opens the door and screams at you to ask if you are listening.:eyebrow: One of the advantages (or disadvantages) of living in a small town where people all know each other.
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There's a sandwich shop in West Lafayette that is always playing Joe solo songs, and I once heard Take It Easy in there. The local O'Charley's plays solo Don songs quite a bit, especially End of the Innocence and Heart of the Matter. There's a shopping center on Chauncey Hill where I regularly hear songs like Already Gone, Heartache Tonight, and other of the Eagles' rockers blasted over the loudspeakers.
The most memorable moment like that was when I was walking through a mall one day feeling down about something, and I heard the opening "oooohs" of Part of Me, Part of You. I stopped short, looked up, and got the biggest smile on my face. My spirits lifted immediately. That's the power of good music; that's why we love these guys.
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Can I move to Lafayette please Soda?
POMPOY always lifts my spirits as well when I hear it come on the radio unexpectedly. Makes me grin from ear to ear!
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Can I join you please, Lisa?
Maybe I go to the wrong stores, but all I ever hear is the older, well-known stuff, like Desperado, New Kid In Town & Life In The Fast Lane. Take It To The Limit seems to be a real favourite in the UK, too. I would die if I heard Heart Of The Matter when I was out shopping!
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sodascouts
That's the power of good music; that's why we love these guys.
That's right Soda.
I've already posted my story somewhere here too, but this past September 23, the day before my Chicago Eagles concert, I was shopping at the mall when New Kid In Town started playing. I wanted to shout out
"HEY, I'M GOING TO SEE THESE GUYS TOMORROW!!!!!"
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Last week at work i was approaching my last hour of tables and I was so incredibly tired and sleepy. I'm still trying to adjust to working the nights. There weren't a whole lot of people playing blackjack at 3:30 in the morning and as I got to my last table I heard the beginning of Take It Easy. It's amazing how hearing one song can completely change your mood and wake you up.
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There is a station in the UK, was called Virgin but now Absolute ? if and when I work, these guys play Hotel almost every day, well if it is on, my pals at work know they will not get any sence from me for approx 8 Mins ? as for the other 10 hours in the day the same could be said ?
Cheers Gary:partytime:
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Hey I just posted this on my 'birthday' thread.....
My husband and I were waiting outside our hotel in Miami, Florida for the shuttle to take us back to the airport this morning and over the hotel sound system I heard "Bells will be ringing.... the sad sad news....." awh!!!! Don was singing me home! LOL So weird to see Christmas decorations and hear Christmas music when it's sunny and 78 degrees and palm trees everywhere!!!! But so good to hear the boys sing....:partytime:
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So weird to see Christmas decorations and hear Christmas music when it's sunny and 78 degrees and palm trees everywhere!!!! But so good to hear the boys sing....:partytime:
cm - I know exactly what you mean. In the late 90's, I was working in Florida for over a year. I was traveling back and forth from Virginia to various cities all over Florida. I just so happened to be working in Miami during November and December that year. Sometimes I would fly in on Sunday just so I could spend the day on the beach. It was very weird seeing Christmas decorations on the beach. Too bad they didn't pipe in Please Come Home For Christmas - that would've been perfect. :lol: I have to admit though - I had a very difficult time getting my Christmas shopping done that year. No way I wanted to leave that beach and head for a shopping mall!!! :nope: :nope:
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For the first time ever on Jan.1st, I also heard Funky New Year on the radio while in the car driving to a friend's house.
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Bob and I went to Harbor Freight and they had a radio on in the store and Already Gone came on, I never looked at so many tools in my life so we wouldn't leave until it was over. Then we went to the 99 Cent store and Heart of the Matter was playing. I've heard them play that song in there quite a few times. They must be Henley fans.:partytime:
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Hubby and I just got back from the restaurant around the corner (the one I have posted here that we heard How Long). Anyways, we were standing in the buffet line and PEF came on, hubby nudged me and said "they're playing them again!" I just stood there with a silly grin once again. Have I said how much I love this restaurant!
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I was in the bathroom doin' the girly thang with my hair and makeup and I heard "Life Of Illusion" come on in the other room. I asked Jenni what she was watching and she said "The 40 year old Virgin" It was the opening credits song! I didnt notice that when I saw it about 100 years ago (or when it came out.. *G*)
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Freypower
I had one experience in a supermarket when I heard True Love. I couldn't believe it, because the song was not a hit here.
That must have been really cool. I love your new signature Julie. It's so cool.
I was in Wally World a while back and I heard Sunset Grill and I went crazy. I was so happy to hear Don.
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I heard Sad Cafe at work tonight!!! I don't ever hear that song on the radio and it's the first time i heard it at work. I was on my way to the break room when I heard it. I made my friend walk slow with me just so that i could hear the whole song.
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Me and mom went to Taco House for lunch, and I heard on the way to the bathroom Peaceful Easy Feeling :lol:
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At the veterinary hospital I work at, there are 3 distinct areas that have music playing: the waiting room with either radio or CD (which I rarely hear); the treatment room where I spend most of my time working on hospitalized cases or the pets I admit from an appointment - (radio); and surgery where I spend most of my day on Thursdays - (radio). I usually let my technician decide the station du jour when we're in surgery...as long as it's not really hard rock or rap, I'm OK. The waiting room and treatment room stations are under 'whose-ever' control, and something I don't even think about...I just listen as I pass through or work within. Normally I might hear, at most, one Eagles song in my 3-day workweek. Yesterday, however, I heard a first...three Eagles songs in one day! The morning started off with Already Gone, and a couple of hours later I heard Don on Hotel Cal. Then, near the end of the night, Take it Easy came on. Although I was all smiles earlier in the day, it wasn't until TIE that I physically stopped in my tracks with the cat I was treating, grabbed a post-it, and wrote down the initials for the 3 songs. The treatment room tech looked at me kinda funny, so I just returned the look and said matter-of-factly, "What? I heard 3 Eagles songs today," as if that event would lead anyone to write it down on a post-it! She simply took the cat from me and waited till I was finished. :confused:
Only the other doctors (and maybe a few others) know about my Eagle fan-dom, and no one knows about the Borderhood (unless they're sneakin' a peak over my shoulder after hours when we should be writing up files...) :smile:
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Borderhood...I love it! EV, you do definitely have a way with words!
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Went to the restaurant around the corner for breakfast again this morning and they were playing How Long again! My husband says since we never hear any commercials, it must not be a radio station they are listening to but someone must have a cd or ipod playing over the speakers. We always hear at least 1 Eagles song while there. No one pointed it out to me today tho like they usually do.
Then we went on into the city to get a few groceries (and to get me the heck out of the house after a week being snowed in with kids) and the radio station we listen to has "block party weekends", they played 3 in a row, Lyin' Eyes, Hotel California and Witchy Woman. It's been an Eagles day for me and I wasn't the one playing them.:-)
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Prettymaid
Borderhood...I love it! EV, you do definitely have a way with words!
lol - I thought the same thing!
Willie - an Eagles block - sweet!
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I'm really enjoying reading about everyone's Eagles encounters. Coming back from one of my recent errands HC came on the radio, and latterly hubby and I have been listening to a station called Arrow Rock at night - Heartache Tonight and Already Gone most recently.
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Prettymaid
Borderhood...I love it! EV, you do definitely have a way with words!
Thanks...I really liked that one when it hit me! Kind of like Boyz in the Hood, or JLo's 'Jenny from the Block'--we could refer to you as Cathy from the 'Hood!:laugh:
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Borderhood...I love it! EV, you do definitely have a way with words!
Actually, I realize I am using it to make up for my lack of a way with pictures! Hmm, :hmm: I wonder what that means for me if a picture is indeed worth a thousand words? Do I get extra points if the words are REALLY good ones (ref. above post)--- like in Scrabble?
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I mentioned this in my birthday thread but it probably belongs here. I was at work the other night and just as the clock struck midnight and into my birthday, I was walking out of the breakroom and onto the casino floor and heard Dirty Laundry playing. I love that it was the first song that i heard on my birthday. :)
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We have a radio at work which has a broken antenna and that's why it only receives two radio stations. Since a few weeks only one radio station is available. The one I hate :roll: because they mostly play music I don't like (I'm not so into rap and beat or Brittney and Bushido). So most of our working time the radio (which sits on my desk) is playing very quietly.
But from time to time I start smiling from one ear to the other and turn the radio louder. Because sometime, on rare occasions, they play the Eagles, Glenn Frey or Don Henley.
Last time that happend our boss came in and said: "Why are you turning the radio louder?? Do you want me to leave, I don't like it that loud!!". My co-worker turned around and said: "Don't worry. That won't last long, just a few minutes. She always turns the volume up when they play the Eages".
Hehe :rofl:
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I work at a Verizon store in our local mall....we have a little kiosk in the middle. It's always funny because they tend to play the Eagles or Don quite a bit (especially "I Can't Tell You Why") and naturally if I'm speaking to a co-worker I will stop mid-sentence and listen. They give me the oddest looks. :lol:
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Hahaha!
Sometimes when I'm at college the radio will play a lot of Eagles or Don Henley (usual Eagles, because The Netherlands just know 2 songs of Don Henley :worried: I've got to make some change to that!) and that's usual when we're having a lunch break or whatever, so I'm sitting there with my friends trying not to turn red because Don is on the radio. And sometimes it won't work and they ask: "What's wrong with you? Did Don passed you or something?" Uh... :oops:
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Don can pass me anytime he wants :twisted:
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I was waiting to board my flight at the Tampa airport yesterday evening and just as I was about to make my way to the restrooms (i hate having to use the lavatory on the plane) Heart Of The Matter came on over the speakers. So of course i waited till the song was over to go to the restroom.
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I got in the car today after a tiring shift at work, and the first chords of Busy Being Fabulous started as soon as the radio came on! Funny how something like that can completely change your mood.
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I still have yet to hear BBF on the radio.