Strangest Place I have ever heard PJ

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So the other night I was at my local Shoppers Drug Mart picking up some meds for my sick little girl. I think it was close to midnight and I probably was the only customer in the store. I'm walking around the store humming to White Christmas playing overhead.
My mind drifts a bit but comes back to the sweet sounds of "Let Me Sleep" being played for my ears. It totally caught me off guard and I just blurted out "holy fuck" getting strange looks from the cashier.

Strangest Tribe

Alive was playing over at the Shady Acres nursing center last summer.

TransplantedNewf

That's funny. My friends and i always says that's how you know you're old...when you can sing along with the music they play in Shoppers Drug Mary.

releaselauren

My husband and I were at an Applebee's or Bennigans (whatever, they are all the same) in Madison, WI after a horse show (Sept. 06). I heard the beginning of "Army Reserve" which distracted me from the extensive wine list and I exclaimed "hey, that is Pearl Jam!" to which my husband replied "hmph, great." :cool:

"Army Reserve" is not one of my favorite songs from the Avocado but I found it interesting to hear it in a chain-restaurant.

PickUptheLeash

I was in Rome, Italy for spring break last year and the first night we go out and at the first bar we walk into (i think it was called the sunkin ship or drunkin ship something like that) Evolution is being played. We knew it was gonna be a good trip after that. By far the weirdest place Ive heard Pearl Jam.

PJamGrunge10

I heard I Am Mine in a small gym in Barstow once. Quite surprising.

Viggo

He is a rockstar with no money? What is his name? Kim Rock?

slightofjeff

Let Me Sleep and Army Reserve are both odd songs to hear over any public radio system.

so that's cool

glasshouse

this one time i heard pj on the radio. i still can' believe it.

uklukin

We were incredibly hungover one Sunday afternoon. We went to a favourite Thai restaurant in Dublin to recuperate with fishcakes. Heard Throw Your Arms Around Me. Got talking to the Australian waitress by the MP3 PA system. She was a fan of Pearl Jam and MMJ. Excellent. This was just before the Wembley show, so I made her jealous.

Also Light Years came on local radio on Sunday night whilst I was making dinner and it really sorted me out. Thought it was a great choice for the radio.

Thought I'd share. Seems to be a large Pearl Jam contingent in Dublin, which is great.

pjfan31

I was at a big supermarket chain (coles)and i heard you've got to hide ur love away.....

urbanhippie

My friend was going to have her stickman tattoo done in an awesome tattoo place in Birmingham. As we walked through the doors Jeremy came on over the sound system....
I still don't know if it was by design or accident but we both just stared at each other in shock. It was so weird. I think it was their taste in music 'cos while we were there they played half a dozen PJ songs, but to walk through the doors to the first notes of Jeremy was SO strange.

magdyl

I heard black last summer in Biograd (Croatia) in a typical tourist cafe at the promenade pier...

Beav

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Alive was playing over at the Shady Acres nursing center last summer.

Now that's funny

Hitch-Hiker

I once heard Come Back playing in a Spanish Restaurant when I was out with work before. It was followed bt Africa by Toto to which everyone sang along. It hink I started a thread about it at the time

Tombourine

I heard Immortality once as I walked by a shop (and then stood outside and listened). Then about an hour later I was walking by another shop in another part of Dublin and heard it again, at the exact same point in the song. It was a bit weird.

Aside from pubs, those are the only two times I've heard PJ in a shop.

smile05

mtv

NY PJ1

the back of an undercover police car as i was getting arrested

oh nothingman ,,ill never forget that

and i was singining BURN BURN LOUD LOL

yield2me

I heard Against the 70's at a Dallas Stars hockey game once

jammergirl

i was in safeway late at night a few years ago, and in between the lite rock "lady in red" type crap, they played leaving here!! i freaked out!

Anon

I would have to go with hearing Yellow Ledbetter in a Walmart at about 1 in the morning. Had the "Holy shit" moment myself.

||Release_Me||

Earlier this year, i was in Copenhagen with friends because we were going to see PJ play. Anyway, the day before the show we were in the city and in a clothes shop, and all of a sudden 'Let Me Sleep' started playing We all stopped and smiled at each other and then just sang along.

I guess it makes sense that they were playing PJ seeing as the band were in town, but such a random song choice!

Local Crew

i have gone into a Papa Murphys pizza twice and they have had pj cranked.

Drop The Leash 10

they put the radio on in my school during gym and i heard In My Tree. dont know what station it was. im pissed. i never found out.

i like matt.c

pjfan31 wrote:

I was at a big supermarket chain (coles)and i heard you've got to hide ur love away.....

My friend heard Betterman in Coles and messaged me cause she was so shocked/excited. I think she may have danced in the isles.

illegal pants

i heard oceans in a ladies shoe store... :eek:

nkobik

i was diving the other day in the great barrier riff, australia, when i suddenly saw a big fish singing "man of the hour".

i stopped drinking that day.

gorene

It's not exaclty relevant but I was swimming at Miami Beach one summer and suddenly everyone ran out of the water screaming: SHARK.

turned out to be Stone Gossard backstrocking with only his nose peeping out of the water.

I often think about that summer, and though I still do not know the answer to "Who'se got the brain of JFK" , I learned who got the nose of JAWS.

TooMuchBlood

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Alive was playing over at the Shady Acres nursing center last summer.

Just classic.

tkepearljamn

We'll... I lost a friend last weekend to a heart condition. It was pretty sudden. So after the services last week a bunch of my friends met back at our college. We went to our local watering hole and drank for about 8 hours. WE had a snow storm so the cabs stopped running. At last call I had to walk 2 miles home.

here's where the PJ kicks in....

My friend and I stumble into an Irish pub that was open an extra hour. When we get there they are playing only irish music.... then in my drunken stupper I here the intro to "U"... I thought it was in my head. Then it dawned on my to look around and find the people rocking out to the song. It was cool to hear and meet pearl jam fans, especially when having a somber evening.