I was out in Gothenburg in Sweden last night and I ordered a beer. Then I heard a familiar sound, Prince's song Guitar started to play. It was rather surprising to hear a song from Planet Earth and I really enjoyed it because it's a very good song. It made me wonder who was in charge of the music and that's an unanswered question, but someone with good taste.

Which unexpected Prince songs have you heard out in public?

A few months ago I was in a fancy restaurant in San Francisco when Lavuax came on.

i once heard 1999 at a new years party at the start of 1999

About a week and a half ago I was at a Cititrends (Clothing) store and some Prince song started to play. I don't know what song it was but it sounded like it was live and a performance with The Time.

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A few days later when I went back this time Butterflies was playing, Marsha Ambrosias version of it. Because I'm a huge Michael fan I was all like YAY!

So the first time I went there a Prince song was playing and the second time, a Michael Jackson one. It was all like Coincidence? How'd they know!

"7" at a bowling alley a few nights ago.

Wildboy said:

A few months ago I was in a fancy restaurant in San Francisco when Lavuax came on.

interseting! it wasnt even released in the us, or am i wrong?

trickster said:

Wildboy said:

A few months ago I was in a fancy restaurant in San Francisco when Lavuax came on.

interseting! it wasnt even released in the us, or am i wrong?

But you do have internet over there.

I heard Adore in walmart a few months ago

They play most of the "Musicology" album in the Kroger grocery store where I live. It's kind of cool hearing "ICPAC" while comparing prices for apples, LOL.

ludwig said:

trickster said:

interseting! it wasnt even released in the us, or am i wrong?

But you do have internet over there.

internet is dead, didnt you know?

trickster said:

ludwig said:

But you do have internet over there.

internet is dead, didnt you know?

*Christopher Tracy voice* If the internet is dead...watcha doin on it?

Wildboy said:

A few months ago, in a supermarket -> Hot Summer

Skylightt said:

trickster said:

internet is dead, didnt you know?

*Christopher Tracy voice* If the internet is dead...watcha doin on it?

i am just looking for 77 $ and than i am out

I recently heard the PR album being played in a Sydney shopping mall (Roselands). Not in a shop, but on the PA throughout the entire mall. I can't say if they played the whole album or not but upon my arrival I heard, 'I would Die 4 U' into 'Baby, I'm A Star' into 'Purple Rain', complete with the long strings outro.

That is not enough to get me back to that shit mall.

KISS in Goodwill

The Only Way I would Ever hear a Prince's Song In a Public Place, Here In venezuela... It's me Playing It with My Phone or something...

I think that Here In venezuela the Only Two People who Know What Funk Is... Is my dad And Me.

Wildboy said:

I was having a Hot Choc with a friend last week at Gloria Jean's Penrith, Sydney when I started singing along to Controversy, My friend asked if that was the song in my head & I replied, " No, It's playing on the radio here" She was like , We can't go anywhere without hearing your man ( after Little Red Corvette was playing in Big W) & I said, "Nope & I don't mind either!!!!

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Just heard "Delirious" at a Bojangles.

I was at the mall with a friend and walked into a store. When I got in there the first thing I heard was I Wanna Be Your Lover. I looked around and asked my friend if he heard it too, he replied "Yeah, I can hear squiggle too (his nickname for Prince)". It was weird because it looked like I was the only one there that knew the lyrics...

mzsadii said:

KISS in Goodwill

I heard it on the radio on my way home after a Morris Day and the time concert last Saturday.

Walked into a record store a while ago and they were playing the Parade vinyl, heard it from beginning to end. A couple weeks later this site was abuzz that Andy Allo took Prince to that very same store. Kinda cool.

Nivivrus said:

I was at the mall with a friend and walked into a store. When I got in there the first thing I heard was I Wanna Be Your Lover. I looked around and asked my friend if he heard it too, he replied "Yeah, I can hear squiggle too (his nickname for Prince)". It was weird because it looked like I was the only one there that knew the lyrics... hey may i inquire as to how that nickname came about?

vvluvfunk said:

Nivivrus said:

I was at the mall with a friend and walked into a store. When I got in there the first thing I heard was I Wanna Be Your Lover. I looked around and asked my friend if he heard it too, he replied "Yeah, I can hear squiggle too (his nickname for Prince)". It was weird because it looked like I was the only one there that knew the lyrics... hey may i inquire as to how that nickname came about?

Its because of the whole name change to the symbol in the 90's. I was watching an interview from that era and he overheard that Prince's name used to be an unpronounceable symbol so he started calling him The Artist Formerlly Known As Squiggle, then just Squiggle. It's gotten old to me, really fast

Out shopping on the weekend I heard 'Insatiable' playing in a store in Sydney city. It was loud too.

Llanishenlad said:

I've heard Lolita in a tk maxx store, which was weird, but that was not half as weird as hearing Space in a maplin computer store, bellowing out a sound system