Presumably this was played in every K-Mart coast to coast in Nov. 1990. And obviously played several times each day, given the length of the cassette and how long the store was open. Of course the only people who would have noticed the repetitive background music were the employees. Nobody else is in the store long enough, and besides, who really pays close attention to background music when they shop? It's a subliminal thing.
When the lovin' goes out of the lovin' And there isn't a thing you can do But reminisce of yesterdays Second guess her changin' ways And fill your time with people just like you When the lovin's gone out of the lovin' And there isn't a thing you can say You bite your tongue and wonder why And then you watch your life flash by Hopin' things will turn around your way There isn't a lovin' thing I can say There isn't a lovin' thing I can do There isn't a lovin' way I can ever reach you How can I walk away and feel free When lovin' you means my whole life to me? There isn't a lovin' way I can ever leave you and be free When the lovin' goes out of the lovin' And there's no easy way to pretend That anythin' could ever be As good a thing as you and me It's hard to understand this is the end There isn't a lovin' thing I can say There isn't a lovin' thing I can do There isn't a lovin' way I can ever reach you How could I walk away and feel free When lovin' you means my whole life to me? There isn't a lovin' way I can ever leave you There isn't a lovin' thing I can say There isn't a lovin' thing I can do There isn't a lovin' way I can ever reach you How can I walk away and feel free When lovin' you means my whole life to me? There isn't a lovin' way I could ever leave you and feel free
This is exactly why people started to incorrectly call soft pop, "elevator music." Beautiful music stations and in store music started the shift from Elevator music to other types of music in the 80s and 90s by mixing in pop selections. So what you have is Pop and Muzak, if you will, on this tape.
He’s right about doing nothing actually being the act of doing something. The quality of nothingness and its quantity of zero are not real, because how can nothingness live up to its own definition if it HAS a definition? It has to be completely devoid of everything, including its own name. The concept of nothingness became false the moment it became a concept.
The world may have gone to hell in a handbasket, but this is just a reminder that it didn't used to be that way. RIP Kmart and 1990's. You were the last most beautiful decade the world will ever see.
Thank you for saving these from the trash. Can you upload more? Edit: Even the Kmart ads are somehow soothing. I can sleep to this. I remember hearing the Crowded House ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ song and stopping to listen to it. Today it’s loud music that rattles your cart in Walmart. The store changed, prices are through the roof and I hate it!! Thanks again.
Anyone have a full track list? This is SO GOOD. My mom worked at K mart from 1989-1990 and this takes me back. She was a struggling single mom with 3 of us kids. I was 13-14.
0:11: Hi-Five - "I Can't Wait Another Minute" 6:47: Bruno Bertone Sound Orchestra - "Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 23" 11:28: Hall & Oates - "Give It Up (Old Habits)" 15:57: Paul Mauriat - "She" 21:17: Garth Brooks - "What She's Doing Now" 26:28: Aaron Axton - 'Say You, Say Me (piano instrumental cover)" 32:04: Little River Band - "Cool Change" 41:48: Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over" 47:18: Rick Astley - "Cry For Help" 52:26: Unknown - "When A Man Loves A Woman (Instrumental Cover)" 1:00:55: Vanessa Williams - "Save The Best For Last" 1:05:12: Olivia Newton-John - "Have You Never Been Mellow" 1:08:41: Bruno Bertone Sound Orchestra - "Sailing" 1:14:16: Unknown - "The One That You Love (Instrumental Cover)"
This music is really our way of a time machine. How we can imagine ourselves back in time, shopping to this music and listening to the advertisements. 😎👍
0:12: Elton John - "You Gotta Love Someone" 6:18: Kenny G - "Midnight Motion" 11:29: Aaron Neville - "Everybody Plays The Fool" 20:15: Smokey Robinson - "Being With You" 24:38: Kenny Rogers - "Crazy" 28:13: Gheorghe Zamfir - "Your Song (Pan Flute Instrumental Cover)" 33:45: Glenn Medeiros - "Me - You = Blue" 38:01: Aaron Acxton- "The Power of Love (Instrumental Cover)" 43:06: Paul Mauriat Orchestra - "Love Is Blue" 46:18: Wilson Phillips - "Next To You (Someday I'll Be)" 56:13: Kim Carnes - "I'll Be There Where The Heart Is" 1:05:38: Extreme - "More Than Words" 1:10:28: Vanessa Williams - "Dreamin' " 1:17:05: Instrumental Cover: "Only You" 1:21:25: The Commodores - "Three Times A Lady"
0:11 - Richard Marx - "Keep Coming Back' 11:22 - Orchestral Version of "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" 17:01 - Instrumental Version of "Stand By Me" 20:01 - Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over" 24:11 - Instrumental Version of "Baby, Come To Me" 31:26 - Boyz II Men - "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" 45:33 - Bruce Hornsby and the Range - Set Me In Motion" 54:54 - Instrumental Version of "Take My Breath Away" 59:45 - Orchestral Version of "I Could Have Danced All Night" 1:02:43 - Bob Seger - "The Real Love" 1:10:57 - Orchestral Version of "Love Me Tender" 1:14:12 - Instrumental Version of "Mandy" 1:16:35 - Smoky Robinson - "Why" 1:20:58 - Instrumental Version of "She Works Hard For The Money" 1:24:30 - Instrumental Version of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart"
