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Are your grocery stores finally playing 80s and 90s music? Mine is!

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I've been going to the same grocery store since 2016. When I first went, it was always 1960s and 1970s music, Boomer oldies that came out well before I was born. I finally started hearing occasional 1980s stuff about a couple of years ago -- Taco, Human League, Pebbles, Whitney Houston's 80s stuff. I thought that was as far as they'd ever go.

But whoa, the last several times I've gone, it's been all early 1990s GRUNGE, RAP and R&B! I've heard Pearl Jam, Arrested Development, Skee-Lo...then I realized it's been 30 years since that kind of music was big. I remember in the late 1990s when I started listening to oldies stations as a youngster, they played music up until about 1973. It's now been longer since 1990s grunge and rap came out, then the early 1970s "oldies" I heard when I was a teenager in the late 1990s.

So wow. Yeah, it's probably about time 1990s music 'oldies' are played at grocery stations now
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KevinLoveFan said:
I've been going to the same grocery store since 2016. When I first went, it was always 1960s and 1970s music, Boomer oldies that came out well before I was born. I finally started hearing occasional 1980s stuff about a couple of years ago -- Taco, Human League, Pebbles, Whitney Houston's 80s stuff. I thought that was as far as they'd ever go.

But whoa, the last several times I've gone, it's been all early 1990s GRUNGE, RAP and R&B! I've heard Pearl Jam, Arrested Development, Skee-Lo...then I realized it's been 30 years since that kind of music was big. I remember in the late 1990s when I started listening to oldies stations as a youngster, they played music up until about 1973. It's now been longer since 1990s grunge and rap came out, then the early 1970s "oldies" I heard when I was a teenager in the late 1990s.

So wow. Yeah, it's probably about time 1990s music 'oldies' are played at grocery stations now
:)
:)
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Tempus fugit, my friend. I listened to 'oldies' in the 60s when I was 12. They were hits from the 30s and 40s. I loved that music on my first exposure to it.
 
I was traveling in LA last weekend and went to several venues, restaurants,malls and a farmers market. I went four hours and every tune in the venue was on one of my playlists. I am thinkingbthisbis no coincidence..
 
The giant "Super" Kroger in Lewis Center (Northern Columbus) often surprises me with music... I have been in there stoned (without my children, obviously) and heard a ton of good indie music:

We're talking obscure (but good) Dinosaur Jr, Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Pixies, My Morning Jacket, Strokes, Radiohead, Doves, Death Cab, Grizzly Bear... Hell, I even heard an old Ween song... its crazy! I think one of the managers must be an old stoner. Other days it is your regular pop shit, but the music is usually muy bueno.
 
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I seem to remember retail stores at least playing 90s pop music in the 90s and 2000s. I worked third shift and Meijer one summer around 2005 and I still get PTSD whenever I hear that one Shakira song because it played roughly once an hour all night on the in store radio.
 
The Oi said:
Have to get in a mention for this indie kids station. Super cool dude runs it with his kids.

Check it out.

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child | indie music for indie kids

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I will never stop being entertained by the creators of SpongeBob introducing songs and references to Ween's The Mollusk into the minds of elementary school kids. I've watched two generations learn how to tie their shoes because of Loop de Loop.

Eventually, streaming services lead them to the drug- addled stuff. Love it all.
 
When I worked at BJs wholesale about 10 years ago they’d have a mix of old and modern. And then they’d play Sandstorm randomly and my hung over self would be super jazzed.
 
Deezus said:
The giant "Super" Kroger in Lewis Center (Northern Columbus) often surprises me with music... I have been in there stoned (without my children, obviously) and heard a ton of good indie music:

We're talking obscure (but good) Dinosaur Jr, Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Pixies, My Morning Jacket, Strokes, Radiohead, Doves, Death Cab, Grizzly Bear... Hell, I even heard an old Ween song... its crazy! I think one of the managers must be an old stoner. Other days it is your regular pop shit, but the music is usually muy bueno.
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+1 for Built to Spill…. Would be near the bottom of the list of bands I’d expect to hear at the grocery store, but at the top of the list of bands I’d like to hear at one.
 
ZooCrewDude said:
+1 for Built to Spill…. Would be near the bottom of the list of bands I’d expect to hear at the grocery store, but at the top of the list of bands I’d like to hear at one.
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I've seen them live 3 times now... Amazing concerts! Doug Martsch also refused to take a picture with me after a show on my 35th birthday, but that's ok. @Damage
 
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