Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Lost in Music - Asda style

For me to prolong this blog (perhaps I'm actually prolonging the agony) it will have to venture into new, if albeit tenuous areas. Although this post is categorically unrelated to UK-based free radio from the 1990s, to quote Sister Sledge - music is my salvation. 

Therefore, whilst it would be most agreeable (borrowed from John Major) if the Xenon Transmitting Company or even Radio Badger (other stations are though also available) took it upon themselves to air the following play list, they are of course expected to stay true to their own individual, and respective musical tastes.

Having long since becomes first disillusioned with then appalled by so-called legit FM radio, it is to curated or algorithm-based play lists I have turned to for satisfaction. There are, after all, some advantages to modern technology, although nowadays one's life never feels to be your own. Nevertheless, as I reluctantly trundled through Asda this morning, I could not fail but to be impressed by the catholic taste of those tasked with providing suitable background entertainment for reluctant shoppers in a well-known Lancashire resort. 

I will let you be the judge of the quality and variety, and whilst radio programming and musical tastes are always subjective - not everyone after all is averse to continuous music or Dutch stations whose names change with the wind - there was I thought a certain flair at play from I hope the human who chose Asda's aural entertainment:

Joyce Sims - Come Into My Life


John Newman - Come and Get It


Soul II Soul - Back to Life


Rag 'n' Bone Man - Put a Little Hurt on Me


Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love


Yazmin Lacey - Not Today Mate


Family Stand - Ghetto Heaven


Jonas Brothers - Only Human


and finally. and what a track:

Roxy Music - Same Old Scene



Next time you are doing the weekly shop in one of the UK's major supermarket chains, turn your attention away from shoppers wearing dressing gowns, White Fox and Represent hoodies, Crocs, and the obese in leopard print leggings, and listen to what is being played. You might just be pleasantly surprised. 

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