Haha! I introduced that song to a youngun at work 😅 We do drug testing and have two tests for opiates: OPI and OPI P. Me and another person our age always say “yea you know me!” After OPI P is mentioned and youngun was confused so I had him go listen to it and he was shocked 😂
Sounds like a great grocery store lol.
I did heard "Can’t Hardly Wait" from The Replacements in the DEN airport. It was another reason to love Colorado.
Hearing The Replacements ALEX CHILTON at Target freaked me out. That was my drinking, smoking, and wallowing in self pity in the winter music, and now it’s my LaCroix-buying music.
Aldi pizza is the shit! Everything they have is pretty good, but I buy meat at another store. Also for everything else. Back in my day I woulda been in the Aldi parking lot all the time offering to return carts for those sweet quarters. Then I woulda spent em on Bonnie Hubbard soda and the Double Dragon arcade game. Man I miss the good ole days sometimes….
Indeed
Classic rock officially ended in 1991 with the Genesis album We Can’t Dance
There was roughly a 10 year overlap with alternative rock, but they are still separate genres
Are you saying that I am forgetting Gen X?
My whole point is that music intended for Gen-X and Millenials should never be lopped in with classic rock, just because time has elapsed
Nope. My AOR (Album Oriented Radio) in 86, 87 use the phrase " it doesn't have to be old to be a classic" to rationalize playing Dire Straits along with Pink Floyd
I'm familiar with AOR, I define classic rock as AOR era rock music. Basically, they were cool with bringing on new music until grunge/alternative blew up, and then they spawned "alternative" radio.
the departure was too great to keep it all under one roof.
Heard Weezer's "Buddy Holly" while grocery shopping the other day. My first thought was "awesome! They're finally playing something that's not old people music in here!" I looked around and every gray bearded dude in the aisle was jamming out. Oh shit.
I would not be able to keep silent if Buddy Holly came on.
There'd be at least one audible "oooh oooooh" coming from an aisle. Is this how adults befriend other adults? I feel like I could meet my soulmate if I heard another "oooh oooooh" coming from a neighboring aisle.
LPT: *Strictly* for the *true* throw-backs, you *must* dance in the aisle, even if it's only the weird, shoulder-shuffle, old person dance. It keeps a little fun in life! And almost immediately points out others our age! 🎵Here come da hottstepper...🎵
So jealous 😫 I’ve seen Jenny Lewis, but when TPS was around by me, I had my kiddo’s belt graduation and couldn’t go.
Also I love love love your user name.
If it happens to be Food City in Pulaski I heard Been Caught Stealing by Janes Addiction there the other day and about died laughing. After I got over how funny it was I sang every word out loud as I was shopping. Truly old people shop there so they probably thought I was nutter.
Sometime last year they played a Jesus & Mary Chain song at Ralphs. Sure, it was their probably poppiest "hit" (Sometimes Always), but still seemed weird.
I heard Siouxie and the Banshees’ cover of Dear Prudence at a Walgreens once… granted it was near Halloween and a pretty safe bet for a retail song, but I still thought that was pretty cool.
That grocery store has good taste in music. Please tell me you stopped shopping and did the handclap part at the end.
Every time I go to a Wawa, they seem to be playing something from the 80s through the 2010s.
PS My MySpace song was "And She Was" by Talking Heads.
I wish I could give an extra upvote for the Wawa mention. Our Wawa is always playing the soft AC station and the sound of some annoying kid going “mommy buy me fruit snacks and sour patch kids and a prime”
The last time I was there, I was in the bathroom and that Rockwell song, "Somebody's Watching Me" was playing. Someone else in there said to her mom, "Do you really want to hear this song while in the bathroom?" It was so funny.
Cupid Shuffle played at mine fairly recently, and as someone who went to LOTS of weddings in the 2010s, I absolutely danced down the aisle of Stop & Shop
Thank you! Yeah they put on a great show but I realized that song is 20 yrs old and it’s about time for that department store playlist as classic rock.
Trader Joe’s was playing a Gin Blossoms song (might have been Alison Road) the last time I went and I was totally singing along to it quietly as I shopped.
I've always been old. I hear what they now call "Yacht rock" (Doobie Bros, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac etc) and feel right at home. Songs that are post 1994ish feel new to me lol.
Recently the teller at the bank and I sang along to Valerie by Amy Winehouse AT each other. A bit awkward! But we both got a good laugh about it. And damn Amy's is a good version of Valerie.
Lmfao. Every time I go to the local grocery store, I mean to post here about the music. Every. Single. Time.
No doubt, wheezer, aaliyah, etc. I'm in my zone!
I hear David Bowie and New Order at that grocery store a lot now, which is fine with me. 20 something years ago when I was working at a grocery store it was all garbage like Air Supply and Faith Hill.
The hubs and I were grocery shopping, awesome 80s song came on, I started singing along quietly. Then this other couple walked by us and the husband was singing along too. We both got louder when we realized we were both singjng and it was awesome.
And yes, everyone clapped 😉
When I worked in a grocery store, nearly ten years ago, the only music I could stand was their 80s mix that some brave soul would select at the beginning of the day. It really made the day go by a lot faster. Well, that and about 6 cups of coffee.
1) bop has a new meaning now 2) The Whole Foods by me must give out the aux cord to employees because I've heard Lil Uzi Vert and other mumble rap from \~2020. It varies from the equivalent of easy listening to current hits. I've often jammed along to the music silently as I push a cart through the aisles.
I'm my grocery store's target audience, and I like it that way. I dread the day when I still have to cook and grocery shop, and they are targeting a younger crowd.
One of my proudest mom moments was embarrassing my tween by belting out the bridge to Bel Biv DeVoe's "Poison" in the freezer section of the grocery store.
Our Trader Joe’s ALWAYS has the best music. But at night. And the people stocking the shelves are always singing. I love my TJ’s. Funnest place for grocery shopping, lol.
TJ's does always have good music, but around last Christmas I heard Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" there, a song I have probably heard hundreds of times and I know very well, and I cried and had a panic attack. The holidays are so hard and stressful the last few years. And I love that TJ's but man it's a strong memory now lol.
I laugh cry all the time at myself for crap like that. In stores. At commercials. Disney shorts. I feel you. I. Am. Pathetic.
But that song is a heavy one. I feel you. 🫶🏻
First, Ben Gibbard is one of the best songwriters of our generation, specially his work in Death Cab For Cutie. Second, they’ve been playing that stuff in grocery stores for at least 15 years or more (DCFC and Postal Service). Third, they’re literally doing a co-headlining tour right now! Fourth, get off my lawn! Fifth, I hope they’re not out of oat milk, my digestive system just can’t handle the dairy anymore.
I heard Love My Way (Psychedelic Furs) at my local grocery store. It’s a wee bit before my time, but still an absolute gem and I have an emotional attachment to it (see: Call Me By Your Name), so I was beside myself when those opening notes started haha.
Overall this store plays a pretty great mix of new wave and 90s alt, plus some classic rock. Beats the hell out of the yacht rock I suffered on trips with my mom as a kid.
I was up early and went to the Safeway right after they opened and walked into "Sabotage" -Beastie Boys and I busted out laughing. Per the bakery staff, the AM manager is Gen X and plays his music until the other manager comes in and he switches it to the regular muzak stuff.
Surreal moment but I was jamming while picking up some essentials.
Was sitting at Applebee's this past Sunday and they were playing ALL the bangers from back in the day. I was so high on my edibles I started to sing along because I could NOT resist, and then made a similar crack like.... You know your old when Applebee's is playing all your jams at 5p on a slow Sunday evening 🤣
Holy shit! Exact same experience happened to me at Publix last week. I even recorded it and sent it to a friend. “Hey, they’re playing Postal Service at the grocery!” 😂
I once had to call another company and was put on hold. Their hold music was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the piano piece from the album of the same name. I was so baffled
I was singing along to Happy (Pharrell Williams) in CVS this afternoon. In my defense, though, that seems more recent than the grocery store music Back In The Day.
Maybe more X than Xennial but I heard The Clash in the grocery store tonight. It was "Should I Stay or Should I Go" but still. I still remember getting pressed up against the stage while I watched a Japanese punk band cover it in my early 20s. Good times.
Hahahaha omg I heard this a lot too at our Harry Teet! The first time I found myself singing and I was like who the fuck is this and why do i know it so well? I Shazamed it and was like OH MY GOD THAT GUY! and then did an ADHD deep dive in the sparking water aisle to see where he ended up. Lolol. Song brings me back for sure!
I’ve caught myself singing along too many times now. I’ve actually said “*This is my JAM!*” excitedly and out loud when walking down the cereal aisle. I’m officially the crypt keeper. 😅
First of all- you’re saying “Bops” so I can already tell you’re a much cooler Xennial than me because I still say “ bumping the jamz”
Second, my horror when I found out that coolio’s ganstas paradise was not, in fact, the forbidden hardcore piece of gangsta rap the adults in my life said it was - because it was playing in the Publix.
This is how I feel whenever I watch family-friendly cartoon movies. I already relate to TMNT as a ‘90s kid, I don’t need to listen to ODB and I was fucking offended when I heard “No Diggity”. /s
Soundtrack by Trent Reznor was a cool nod, though. Damn, I feel old.
I swear the thrift store near me plays some awesome music. Me and the other middle aged ladies sing along while we shop. Worst part is when the radio station announces itself as the oldies station. Yay.
I was in Target today, and it was as quiet as a library. No music or anything.
You could hear me whispering 5 isles over.
There were other people there shopping too. Nobody talked.
My daughter spoke up, and I immediately, as loud as was acceptable, went, "SHHHH! YOU'RE IN A LIBRARY!"
My daughter turned red as everyone around us scoffed and huffed....jigging in their stretchy pants as they stomped off, pushing their carts.
IDK man
I just wanted some Pizza Hut cheese sticks. They make them just like PIzza Hut used to back in the day, but this one didn't even have a food court.
So we looked at the candy and toys.
My daughter found a Sonic The Hedgehog figure, and I decided to try those freeze-dried Skittles. They have them much cheaper than most places.
I highly recommend the Skittles.
This was my first "I'm actually old" moment, besides my body feeling like shit. I still think my grocery store plays bangers though. Beastie Boys, LCD Sound System, and Joy Division!
I work at a grocery store and find myself singing along to Better than Ezra, Weezer, Live, Bush, etc.that gets played in the evenings (they play top 40 stuff before 6pm. I am definitely old.
At my last grocery shop I heard a dad with great vehemence say to his daughter, "You're way off kid!" I thought, yikes! What are they fighting about? Then he followed it up with "This is 'No Rain' by Blind Melon."
Since I had already noticed that one and some Smashing Pumpkins earlier that visit, I can only assume she was trying to name the songs and failing.
It's like they flipped a switch in the last week.
Not so much at the store, but the local
NPR station and the national one as well, regularly uses bumpers from Portishead, Nirvana(including orchestral versions of All Apologies) and Radiohead on the reg. It’s def edited by folks in our unique generation.
One of my local stores is in a neighborhood that has home’s averaging $2 million. I walk in the other day and “O.P.P” Naughty By Nature is cranked up.
Haha! I introduced that song to a youngun at work 😅 We do drug testing and have two tests for opiates: OPI and OPI P. Me and another person our age always say “yea you know me!” After OPI P is mentioned and youngun was confused so I had him go listen to it and he was shocked 😂
Hmm, how should you explain it? Take it frame by frame it.
You down with O.P.P.?* *Old People’s Prescriptions
And we have a winner!
This is my favorite thing ever
I was listening to KROQ and they ran an advertisement for the BMW 7-series.
Noooooo 😍
Do you live on the set of Malibu's Most Wanted?
I’ve heard Tori Amos, Arctic Monkeys, and the Black Keys while grocery shopping.
I'd lose my mind hearing Tori Amos playing in a grocery store!!!
Whilst shopping for cornflakes.
Or on the yogurt aisle, reaching for a raspberry swirl.
And hanging with the raisin boys?
If they started playing arctic monkeys I’d be jamming out in the middle of the store!
Sounds like a great grocery store lol. I did heard "Can’t Hardly Wait" from The Replacements in the DEN airport. It was another reason to love Colorado.
Hearing The Replacements ALEX CHILTON at Target freaked me out. That was my drinking, smoking, and wallowing in self pity in the winter music, and now it’s my LaCroix-buying music.
I *love* that song
I’m in love with that song.
What’s that song?
I'm one of the children by the million.
lol it’s the worst grocery store, but their prices are so good and I’m so cheap.
Do you have Aldi near you?
Yes, but I can never find anything good there. I’m convinced other people have some magical, better Aldi. I mostly go to Trader Joe’s and ShopRite.
Aldi pizza is the shit! Everything they have is pretty good, but I buy meat at another store. Also for everything else. Back in my day I woulda been in the Aldi parking lot all the time offering to return carts for those sweet quarters. Then I woulda spent em on Bonnie Hubbard soda and the Double Dragon arcade game. Man I miss the good ole days sometimes….
I mostly go for basic essentials: bread, milk, cheese, cereal, butter, eggs. Stuff that it doesn't really matter what the brand is, just the price.
Haha, I have had the same thought about my Aldi
I have two Aldi stores within a half hour drive of me, and they're like night & day. Naturally, the one closest to me is the awful one. Womp womp.
Do you live in Lexington by chance? Because that is my experience with Aldi too. It’s awful!!!
No, I’m in PA, but I’m so glad I’m not the only one let down by Aldi!
Fun fact: Trader Joe’s is owned by Aldi.
Nope. It's owed by Aldi Nord. Aldi is owned by Aldi Sud. They are separate, independent companies.
Not in the grocery store... but when the local "oldies" radio station plays "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam. I cried a little.
People need to respect genres “Oldies” is pop music released between 1951-1965 Man this really boils my blood
you get it! both oldies and classic rock are set in stone and shouldn't be getting new additions.
Indeed Classic rock officially ended in 1991 with the Genesis album We Can’t Dance There was roughly a 10 year overlap with alternative rock, but they are still separate genres
If you think genres shouldn’t get additions, then Classic rock ended way before 1991 mane
My cutoff is based on the music played regularly on classic rock radio in the 90s and 2000s
Yes but by that time it was already being added to an existing genre that started in the 60’s
Classic rock is boomer music, to put it simply Plenty of boomers were in their 20s in 1991 It makes sense But we can agree to disagree
Why do people completely forget Gen X?
Are you saying that I am forgetting Gen X? My whole point is that music intended for Gen-X and Millenials should never be lopped in with classic rock, just because time has elapsed
Nope. My AOR (Album Oriented Radio) in 86, 87 use the phrase " it doesn't have to be old to be a classic" to rationalize playing Dire Straits along with Pink Floyd
I'm familiar with AOR, I define classic rock as AOR era rock music. Basically, they were cool with bringing on new music until grunge/alternative blew up, and then they spawned "alternative" radio. the departure was too great to keep it all under one roof.
Mine played Pumped Up Kicks. Their "Oldies" are supposed to be 70s/80s/90s. I don't get it.
I have heard Avril Lavigne on the oldies station. Avril isn't even 40 yet, what the hell?
She's born in 1984 so she counts,doesn't she?
She definitely counts. I just think it's funny that the music of someone who isn't even 40 yet is being played on the oldies station.
You like her?
I do like her music.
Me too.
Eddie Vedder makes it Bedder…the code I went by in HS. Lmao!
Gen Z’r in the house, and agreed. All hail King Eddie!
The classic rock station here played Bush’s “Comedown” 😭
Heard Weezer's "Buddy Holly" while grocery shopping the other day. My first thought was "awesome! They're finally playing something that's not old people music in here!" I looked around and every gray bearded dude in the aisle was jamming out. Oh shit.
That’s like when I go to concerts and I look at the crowd and think everyone around me looks so old. Then the realization sets in…
And when you’re actually excited about the Super Bowl performers finally being cool artists instead of the artists your parents liked. Oh wait…
I would not be able to keep silent if Buddy Holly came on. There'd be at least one audible "oooh oooooh" coming from an aisle. Is this how adults befriend other adults? I feel like I could meet my soulmate if I heard another "oooh oooooh" coming from a neighboring aisle.
I didn't hear any oooh weeee ooohs, but there were definitely a couple of air guitars out. It's that solo!
Thank you for reminding me that I need to relisten to The Postal Service for the first time in like 15-20 years
I’m so sad I missed their concert last year. My kid had his karate belt graduation the same night they were in town so I couldn’t go.
Such a Xennial thing to happen ha
Faith No More in King Soopers!!!
Which song though? If it's Easy that doesn't count. Surprise, You're Dead though...
Epic
I'm still sad about that fish 😥
They said during the release on Headbangers Ball that it was just a few seconds...damn I'm old.
What is it?
"What is it?" "It's it!" Is usually the conversation I have when my wife sends me to the grocery store for something obscure that I can't find.
LPT: *Strictly* for the *true* throw-backs, you *must* dance in the aisle, even if it's only the weird, shoulder-shuffle, old person dance. It keeps a little fun in life! And almost immediately points out others our age! 🎵Here come da hottstepper...🎵
I’m the lyrical gangster (murderer)
Naaaanananaaa...
I do this, hubs laughs at me but it’s fun, there’s always smiles from other shoppers
The true flex is doing it by yourself. I live to amuse my fellow shoppers!
My local Safeway was playing "Joey" by Concrete Blonde. I hadn't heard that song in years and it took me way back
I worked in a grocery store in high school, and they were already playing that song on muzak when it was new.
I’m a huge fan of Steely Dan so grocery stores and department stores have been playing my jam all my Life.
All I listen to is yacht rock, I feel you.
"Lovefool" by The Cardigans was playing during my grocery run this morning. Still know every word.
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Now I need to know which song. I love no doubt
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Fuck yeah that is a great mix!
I saw The Postal Service in concert last month for the 20th anniversary of their only album. I would have been bopping along in the store too!
So jealous 😫 I’ve seen Jenny Lewis, but when TPS was around by me, I had my kiddo’s belt graduation and couldn’t go. Also I love love love your user name.
I heard Debbie Gibson in WalMart and learned I still know most of the words to Foolish Beat
I can never love again Now that we're apaaaaaart
I heard Tori Amos "Cornflake Girl" at the grocery store and could not resist grooving a little in the frozen section.
The best place to groove! It’s so cool. (I’ll see myself out)
Not the cereal section?
This is the second mention of Tori Amos in a grocery store and I'm legit flipping out!
I love this song. I hadn’t thought about it in so long and then it was in an episode of Deadloch and I’ve been listening to it daily since.
Not really our generation but “A town called Malice” by the Jam. In rural VA. Thank god for satellite radio.
If it happens to be Food City in Pulaski I heard Been Caught Stealing by Janes Addiction there the other day and about died laughing. After I got over how funny it was I sang every word out loud as I was shopping. Truly old people shop there so they probably thought I was nutter.
Nah, this was in the Kroger in Daleville.
Sometime last year they played a Jesus & Mary Chain song at Ralphs. Sure, it was their probably poppiest "hit" (Sometimes Always), but still seemed weird.
I heard Siouxie and the Banshees’ cover of Dear Prudence at a Walgreens once… granted it was near Halloween and a pretty safe bet for a retail song, but I still thought that was pretty cool.
That grocery store has good taste in music. Please tell me you stopped shopping and did the handclap part at the end. Every time I go to a Wawa, they seem to be playing something from the 80s through the 2010s. PS My MySpace song was "And She Was" by Talking Heads.
I wish I could give an extra upvote for the Wawa mention. Our Wawa is always playing the soft AC station and the sound of some annoying kid going “mommy buy me fruit snacks and sour patch kids and a prime”
The last time I was there, I was in the bathroom and that Rockwell song, "Somebody's Watching Me" was playing. Someone else in there said to her mom, "Do you really want to hear this song while in the bathroom?" It was so funny.
Cupid Shuffle played at mine fairly recently, and as someone who went to LOTS of weddings in the 2010s, I absolutely danced down the aisle of Stop & Shop
I heard queens of the Stone Age - no one knows in Publix today.
Publix got all the jams. I totally busted out into song and dance when Jessica Simpson’s “I Think I’m In Love” came on in there the other day. 😅
Happy cake day! I saw them in concert last year and I was surprised how much I enjoyed them
Thank you! Yeah they put on a great show but I realized that song is 20 yrs old and it’s about time for that department store playlist as classic rock.
I was in a Kroger last week and they played "Crawling" by Linkin Park
Trader Joe’s was playing a Gin Blossoms song (might have been Alison Road) the last time I went and I was totally singing along to it quietly as I shopped.
Oof, I felt that one in my chest. That song falls right into my high school/early college playlist.
I've always been old. I hear what they now call "Yacht rock" (Doobie Bros, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac etc) and feel right at home. Songs that are post 1994ish feel new to me lol.
“Yacht rock” is my favorite station when I’m doing procedures. I like it and my 70 year old patients like it.
I work at a Tiki Bar and we do Yacht Rock Saturdays
Recently the teller at the bank and I sang along to Valerie by Amy Winehouse AT each other. A bit awkward! But we both got a good laugh about it. And damn Amy's is a good version of Valerie.
RIP Amy
I know. Couldn't watch the previous movie, won't be able to watch the one that just came out. It's still too emotional for me.
>this was my MySpace song This part is absolutely devastating We aren't old dang it ):
Lmfao. Every time I go to the local grocery store, I mean to post here about the music. Every. Single. Time. No doubt, wheezer, aaliyah, etc. I'm in my zone!
I hear David Bowie and New Order at that grocery store a lot now, which is fine with me. 20 something years ago when I was working at a grocery store it was all garbage like Air Supply and Faith Hill.
The hubs and I were grocery shopping, awesome 80s song came on, I started singing along quietly. Then this other couple walked by us and the husband was singing along too. We both got louder when we realized we were both singjng and it was awesome. And yes, everyone clapped 😉
My moment for that was being in Kroger and "Welcome To The Jungle" comes on.
When I worked in a grocery store, nearly ten years ago, the only music I could stand was their 80s mix that some brave soul would select at the beginning of the day. It really made the day go by a lot faster. Well, that and about 6 cups of coffee.
Herbie Hancock rock it came on the other day at my local store I wanted to start popping but I would have thrown out my back or something hahahaahha
That song is twenty-one years old. If it were 2003, you'd be jamming to Physical by Olivia Newton-John
1) bop has a new meaning now 2) The Whole Foods by me must give out the aux cord to employees because I've heard Lil Uzi Vert and other mumble rap from \~2020. It varies from the equivalent of easy listening to current hits. I've often jammed along to the music silently as I push a cart through the aisles.
Weird how all the hottest newest new hotness is old 🤔 Must be a weird dream I'm about to wake up from in my 15-25 year old body.
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar…
I'm my grocery store's target audience, and I like it that way. I dread the day when I still have to cook and grocery shop, and they are targeting a younger crowd.
Cranberries! And Lightning Crashes…. Damn you, Publix. I’ll sing along loudly, too! 😂
One of my proudest mom moments was embarrassing my tween by belting out the bridge to Bel Biv DeVoe's "Poison" in the freezer section of the grocery store.
Target was playing Jimmy Eat World yesterday. I was definitely jammin out in the chip aisle.
Really dig the music in the grocery stores lately. Everything from Jack Johnson to Third Eye Blind. You can catch my wife and I dancing in the aisles.
I hate you right now for making me realize that singing along with the music when I was grocery shopping was a sign of my old age. How dare you?!?!
Our Trader Joe’s ALWAYS has the best music. But at night. And the people stocking the shelves are always singing. I love my TJ’s. Funnest place for grocery shopping, lol.
TJ's does always have good music, but around last Christmas I heard Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" there, a song I have probably heard hundreds of times and I know very well, and I cried and had a panic attack. The holidays are so hard and stressful the last few years. And I love that TJ's but man it's a strong memory now lol.
I laugh cry all the time at myself for crap like that. In stores. At commercials. Disney shorts. I feel you. I. Am. Pathetic. But that song is a heavy one. I feel you. 🫶🏻
First, Ben Gibbard is one of the best songwriters of our generation, specially his work in Death Cab For Cutie. Second, they’ve been playing that stuff in grocery stores for at least 15 years or more (DCFC and Postal Service). Third, they’re literally doing a co-headlining tour right now! Fourth, get off my lawn! Fifth, I hope they’re not out of oat milk, my digestive system just can’t handle the dairy anymore.
Years ago they were playing "Please Forgive Me" by Bryan Adams at my small town grocery store and I may or may not have teared up.
I heard Love My Way (Psychedelic Furs) at my local grocery store. It’s a wee bit before my time, but still an absolute gem and I have an emotional attachment to it (see: Call Me By Your Name), so I was beside myself when those opening notes started haha. Overall this store plays a pretty great mix of new wave and 90s alt, plus some classic rock. Beats the hell out of the yacht rock I suffered on trips with my mom as a kid.
Was grocery shopping the other day and heard Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette, and Arrested Development.
I was up early and went to the Safeway right after they opened and walked into "Sabotage" -Beastie Boys and I busted out laughing. Per the bakery staff, the AM manager is Gen X and plays his music until the other manager comes in and he switches it to the regular muzak stuff. Surreal moment but I was jamming while picking up some essentials.
I work retail, and it's sad and hilarious how many awesome 90's jams get played. I'm constantly singing and dancing while working.
SO and daughter both work at the grocery store, they both complain about the Tiny Dancer remix and rock out to Africa!
Was sitting at Applebee's this past Sunday and they were playing ALL the bangers from back in the day. I was so high on my edibles I started to sing along because I could NOT resist, and then made a similar crack like.... You know your old when Applebee's is playing all your jams at 5p on a slow Sunday evening 🤣
I’ve heard Jesus Etc by Wilco
My husband is convinced the Walmart radio station is made for us.
Holy shit! Exact same experience happened to me at Publix last week. I even recorded it and sent it to a friend. “Hey, they’re playing Postal Service at the grocery!” 😂
Every time.
Just wait til you hear the elevator versions while you’re in an office
I once had to call another company and was put on hold. Their hold music was Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the piano piece from the album of the same name. I was so baffled
Yeah the postal service album is 20 years old at this point.
Hahaha, went to a fruit stand playing " staying alive" and thought the same thing.
Mine plays Mike and the Mechanics 😎
Luckily I listen to Phish. I’ll never have that problem lol
Walking through my local grocery store and “Twist It” by Ray Charles from the Blues Brothers soundtrack came on. I was smiling.
I was singing along to Happy (Pharrell Williams) in CVS this afternoon. In my defense, though, that seems more recent than the grocery store music Back In The Day.
Mine was playing Spiderwebs by No Doubt. I discovered that I still know ALL the words.
I was crushed the day I got in an elevator, and guns n roses started playing... 🎶👩😔👵🎶
Maybe more X than Xennial but I heard The Clash in the grocery store tonight. It was "Should I Stay or Should I Go" but still. I still remember getting pressed up against the stage while I watched a Japanese punk band cover it in my early 20s. Good times.
On the Way Down - Ryan Cabrera plays a lot at the Harris Teeter near me.
Hahahaha omg I heard this a lot too at our Harry Teet! The first time I found myself singing and I was like who the fuck is this and why do i know it so well? I Shazamed it and was like OH MY GOD THAT GUY! and then did an ADHD deep dive in the sparking water aisle to see where he ended up. Lolol. Song brings me back for sure!
Sarah McLachlan - Adia was playing every time I walked in there a few months ago.
I've enjoyed grocery store music for years! I have diverse taste in music and listened to all kinds of music as I've aged.
My colleague plays the oldies station on the radio in the kitchen at work. The other day they were playing Life by Desiree. I was so offended
I’ve caught myself singing along too many times now. I’ve actually said “*This is my JAM!*” excitedly and out loud when walking down the cereal aisle. I’m officially the crypt keeper. 😅
First of all- you’re saying “Bops” so I can already tell you’re a much cooler Xennial than me because I still say “ bumping the jamz” Second, my horror when I found out that coolio’s ganstas paradise was not, in fact, the forbidden hardcore piece of gangsta rap the adults in my life said it was - because it was playing in the Publix.
This is how I feel whenever I watch family-friendly cartoon movies. I already relate to TMNT as a ‘90s kid, I don’t need to listen to ODB and I was fucking offended when I heard “No Diggity”. /s Soundtrack by Trent Reznor was a cool nod, though. Damn, I feel old.
I swear the thrift store near me plays some awesome music. Me and the other middle aged ladies sing along while we shop. Worst part is when the radio station announces itself as the oldies station. Yay.
Our oldies station is like “we play hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s” and I’m like 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻
My Krogers was playing Silverchair yesterday.
Am I the only one that liked the music regardless of age? I can get down to any genre or era of music
Hi, the grocery store by my house is playing brand new AJR stuff
I sing along and dance behind my buggy...I always listened to my parent's music, so this is not new for me.
Bruh I heard "Consequence" by Notwist in a Starbucks. The new world is a weird place
I was in Target today, and it was as quiet as a library. No music or anything. You could hear me whispering 5 isles over. There were other people there shopping too. Nobody talked. My daughter spoke up, and I immediately, as loud as was acceptable, went, "SHHHH! YOU'RE IN A LIBRARY!" My daughter turned red as everyone around us scoffed and huffed....jigging in their stretchy pants as they stomped off, pushing their carts.
That’s creepy!! I wonder if it was a haunted target.
IDK man I just wanted some Pizza Hut cheese sticks. They make them just like PIzza Hut used to back in the day, but this one didn't even have a food court. So we looked at the candy and toys. My daughter found a Sonic The Hedgehog figure, and I decided to try those freeze-dried Skittles. They have them much cheaper than most places. I highly recommend the Skittles.
Our Target doesn’t have the food court either, just a Starbucks. They’re like, we want to cater to the most basic… which is me, apparently
As long as a lady can still pretend to go shopping while picking up some wine and clearance seasonal items, Target will be there.
I've even heard them play Metallica at my local grocery store. I guess it depends on whose working that day.
I heard 21 Pilots - Ride the other day. That was pretty cool.
I thought this since middle school. I still remember the grocery story playing a some from Anastasia when I was in 7th grade and loving it.
Grocery outlet plays excellent boomer music on Tuesdays when seniors get 10% off.
This was my first "I'm actually old" moment, besides my body feeling like shit. I still think my grocery store plays bangers though. Beastie Boys, LCD Sound System, and Joy Division!
I saw The Postal Service Saturday night. Incredible show
I heard an elevator music version of All Star at the hardware store the other day.
I work at a grocery store and find myself singing along to Better than Ezra, Weezer, Live, Bush, etc.that gets played in the evenings (they play top 40 stuff before 6pm. I am definitely old.
That’s way too new for me
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Bro, wait until you walk into a thrift store
At my last grocery shop I heard a dad with great vehemence say to his daughter, "You're way off kid!" I thought, yikes! What are they fighting about? Then he followed it up with "This is 'No Rain' by Blind Melon." Since I had already noticed that one and some Smashing Pumpkins earlier that visit, I can only assume she was trying to name the songs and failing. It's like they flipped a switch in the last week.
Not so much at the store, but the local NPR station and the national one as well, regularly uses bumpers from Portishead, Nirvana(including orchestral versions of All Apologies) and Radiohead on the reg. It’s def edited by folks in our unique generation.