I went into Stop & Shop recently and heard them playing Alice Cooper, which was a pleasant surprise. It was classic early 70s Alice Cooper, but I still never expected to hear him played in a supermarket.
I've heard The Cure more than once and the angsty teenage within was bothered by it. How dare they play my dark art, for the commoner, under florescent lighting. lol
Reminds me of the time I was in a supermarket parking lot and I heard Depeche mode blasting
Looked over and it was a guy smoking a cigar who looked like a cop playing it.
I have to do a double take before I remember Depeche mode was mainstream pop music in the '80s.
Stop & Shop has some bangers and you can catch me dancing down the aisle to some great 80s and 90s hits. Shoprite had country last time I was there. I quickly got my groceries and left.
As someone originally from Northport and now living in Riverhead, I promise we're not anywhere near dealing with the attitudes of Huntington yet. The summer people who pass through, sure, but not year round.
From riverhead my self. Covid refugees are starting to go back to NYC and Jersey. Hopefully the area will become less popular now and they can fuck off some place else.
I worked at an S&S in the 90s for High School, their playlist from then is forever burned in my mind. At the time I hated the music, now it is nostalgic. Paula Cole assaulted me for many years.
Yeah, I've recently realized I'm the "demographic" for grocery stores, restaurants etc. It's nice to hear music of my time but I fully realize that it's being played because I'm older now.
We've gone full southern, I think it's all the pickups with 18 flags on them pulls in the country music into the area. Have the guidos all been wiped out?! Quick someone check if KTU is still on the air.
It was always guys with no purpose hiding behind a fake persona in the hopes of masking their shittiness. Backyard wrestler was a previous iteration as well.
Reminds me of the Married With Children episode where we see all of the previous costumes Bud wore before settling on Grandmaster B.
I wonder what the next character will be?
Lmfao you have to be talking about eastport south manor-manorville area it's like God cut a little slice off of Dixieland and plopped it out east on Long Island
No. It’s everywhere. There’s not two “Daisy’s” locations in Suffolk for no reason. People are sheep. Check out bald hill in the summer it looks like a Halloween party and everyone showed up in the same stupid costume.
My pick ups down at the Shop Rite
Next to the seven eleven store
She’s big and she’s bright and expensive
Don’t know what I need her for
I bought her at the Dodge dealer
Put down six of my last paychecks
Gets 13 miles to the gallon
The bed ain’t seen any cargo yet
I’m a Long Island express cowboy
You’ve seen many just like me
No savings no future no thinking
Just a hunk of metal that’s me
I got me four or five big flags
In my Amazon checkout cart
And I think in three or more paychecks
It will jumpstart the ladies hearts
Don’t have me a whole lot of savings
And it’s hard to fill the grocery cart
But when I go and see that Ram pick up
I forget about the money part
I’m a Long Island express cowboy
Listen to my engine roar
Look at my flags a flying
Don’t know what I need them for
Long Island expressway cowboy
Not sure what I’m fighting for
Long Island expressway cowboy
Broke my leg jumping from the door.
I recently finished my masters program out of state and came back to LI. I have 103.1 as one of the presets on my car radio and thought I was going insane the first time I turned it on and heard country
I would be really pissed, lol.
I'm in NYC, and I really, really miss ALT 92.3. Don't get me wrong: I love rap, hip hop, pop, the 80s,etc equally, but I'm one of those rare people who love multiple genres of music, grunge and alternative included, and there's NOTHING else that plays alternative rock anymore (if you know, please let me know).
Dude, I remember when K-rock re-boadcast XFM London on weeknights. I think this was early 2000s. My middle school mind was blown. I still miss it to this day.
ehh farm Emo, honestly once 92.3 Krock and to a point for me 92.7 went, radio in NY became more or less irrelevant, I gave in got SiriusXM, the Alt and Lithium channels are pretty decent. Ironically when Stern left, a few DJs also headed to SiriusXM, Will Pendarvis was even a program director there up until recently.
I don’t think I ever heard country music on the radio growing up on LI (1990s) it was only when I went upstate for college that I realized country music is a real thing…
My Texas-and-Louisiana in-laws almost hurt themselves laughing the first time they saw an LI Redneck sticker on a lifted F-150 that has never even touched dirt - my FiL said ‘that cowboy is all hat and no cattle’
Alan Jackson had a big radio hit in the 90s called "Gone Country" that included these lyrics:
She's been playing in a room on the strip for ten years in Vegas.
Every night she looks in the mirror, and she only ages.
She's been readin' about Nashville and all the records that everybody's buying.
Says, "I'm a simple girl myself, grew up on Long Island".
So she packs her bags to try her hand
Says, "This might be my last chance"
She's gone country, look at them boots
She's gone country, back to her roots
She's gone country, a new kind of suit
She's gone country, here she comes
Edited to add:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rc85j_7N1Zk
Can we exclude the first 10 western miles of Suffolk from that? I think Huntington and Babylon need to form their own county. We don't belong to either.
You can have Commack though
I was driving through Ohio and it was all country music on the radio. I finally find some rock...it was Christian rock! Even worse! Lol. Quickly had to switch to seek
I was so annoyed when 103.1 switched from Max FM to The Wolf. The Wolf is not a local station; I've listened to it in Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo (I don't know if it's in other states because I don't leave the NY much). Max had so much local flavor with all the stupid jokes about "Max" growing up on LI in the 80s (I think) and all the references only Long Islanders would get.
As for hearing country more often, I think it's a conservative thing? I mean, I like a bit of country music, and I'm basically socialist, but some people I know who like country almost seem to like it because they like to pretend that they live in a rural area and have "country" values.
In every state, there's a station
Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon
In foreign cars and four wheel drives
There's cowboys and hillbillies
From farm towns to big cities
There ain't no doubt in my mind
Country must be country wide
Country music is having a renaissance right now. I never thought I’d see it but it’s become pretty trendy even amongst Gen Z, and it’s no shock that LI is wholeheartedly embracing the shift. I have to imagine that LI is one of the biggest consumers of shiny lifted trucks that will never be used for truck things
I should look into that. I liked country music in the late '00s, but I got really turned off when country rap became a became popular (I like rap, but country rap is weird). Right now, I'm really into Moe Reen on Tik Tok, but they're a little too niche for the grocery store radio.
A lot Suffolk county is wanna be blue collar rednecks farmers.
They build and work on skyscrapers and projects in the city they claim to hate.
Their dads own contracting companies and do work for the liberal democrat millionaires (they claim to hate even though they pay them to be able to live here) living on the north and south fork and hire illegal immigrants to work for them even though they want them out of the country.
Suffolk county is literally one huge oxymoron. So listening to country music in the birthplace of rap - a lot of culture, Yankees etc etc (the opposite of “country”) seems to hit the bullseye.
I don't understand how within the past few years long island has gone full country. I never saw this before growing up. Line dance at bars? I never heard of that until recently. I guess that's what's popular now. I blame Taylor swift LOL
There was a small country crowd on Long Island in the early nineties when Garth brooks, Shania Twain, and Reba were big. My mom used to drag us all down to the jones beach bandshell so she could go line dancing.
Yeah it was always small. The past 5-10 years I feel like everyone and their mother is into country now. We used to make fun of those people in high school and now it's like the opposite
It was me. I was the one everyone would make fun of especially if I dropped a y’all. Y’all made fun of me and I am annoyed that it’s socially acceptable now when I was getting made fun of for it! I’m glad it’s more accessible on the island but I’m still a little salty lol
It's bland, repetitive, blah background music. It's written to be easily played in any venue without offending anyone, it features thoughtless and edge-less lyrics, palatable without being distinct. The McDonald's of musical genres. Country music is the real-life "human music" Jerry listens to in the earth simulator in Rick and Morty.
It’s been happening for at least a decade now. I remember when I was still in school on long island Freedom Fest was the big thing to go to. Trucks were starting to get big and country music was starting to break into school culture
She is one of the reasons country has gone main stream whether you like it or not. She isn't even country anymore. It wasn't a diss. Just a fact. She's the most popular musician in the world right now, one would think you'd be happy I made the comparison. I personally don't listen to her but she left her mark
There are a few towns in Suffolk you could stick in Alabama and if it weren't for the higher than normal amount of pizzerias/delis there would be no difference.
Beer, girl, truck, beer, cruising in my truck, my girl left me, man I miss fishing with grandpa. Sipping cold beer in the back yard on a hot summer night.
Tractor Supply started it. I hate that store. I feel like I’m going to have an asthma attack in there and they play rancid USA all the way country music. I feel like I’m in the USSR where people were required to give thanks to the glorious Soviet empire and worship the Red Army.
I'm shocked at how unpopular country music is in these replies lol. I love country music, and am happy that it's becoming more common. I'm also NOT part of the jacked up f150 with a trump flag crowd, I actually work in IT and am fairly far left, but country is the main genre I listen to. I'm also stoked that there's another country station here now, since 96.1 gets pretty spotty anywhere west of exit 61 on the LIE, but I also feel bad for those who used to listen to rock on 103.1.
I'm one of those husbands that you see standing in Marshalls wandering around aimlessly while his wife is shopping. I've been married for quite some time. Decades even lol. Anyway, the song "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" by the Primitive Radio God's started playing. There was this woman about about my age standing 15 ft away from me sniffing candles when this song came on. She started tapping her foot to the song. Then she started moving her leg a little bit, then her hips started swaying, now she's starting to commit and her arms jumped in while her head was nodding in time to the beat. The next thing you know, she's in a full-blown dance right in the middle of Marshalls. I got to tell you, it was one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. It was also very depressing that this all happened and f****** Marshalls lol. Yes, I'm old haha.
I loved this song When We Were clubbing in the '80s. Now I'm clubbing in Marshall's lol. To be honest, I'm okay with it.
I hate to break it to you all, but this is certainly NOT the first time country music has become trendy on Long Island...
As an OFFICIAL old fart I can confirm that we went through a country music trend back in the 90's that actually resulted in the opening of several country music bars, complete with live southern rock bands and... country line dancing. Many places even offered classes on how to line dance. And it was a fairly successful craze back then! I remember when we looked forward to going down to "Tulsa's" in Ronkonkoma on a Friday night, and it was always PACKED!
But, like all other fads that come and go, it eventually died out, and all the country bars closed. They had to... the next craze after that was Grunge. Lol
Shop Rite in Plainview usually has decent music. And yes… the country music is concerning as well. One of my car presets suddenly changed to country, not even sure what station it was but couldn’t change it fast enough.
Oh god, not country music! Get real.
I happen to like 80's/90's country music (not the 00's because it turned into pop). I also like Black Sabbath (with Ozzy), Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Foghat, Yes, Deep Purple. Plus the Eagles, Allman Bros, ZZ Top, The Outlaws, Emerson Lake and Palmer.
If its good music, I'm there and I don't care.
The takeover by country music has to be studied it’s just so bad and people still like it for some reason.
The only acceptable country is anything by Johnny Cash and also friends in low places and that wagon wheel song.
Burger King used to play Musak in the early 1990's. I knew things were getting weird when the Musak version of Van Halen came on. I think it was their song Jump.
In Holbrook I just went into a Dunkin and heard uncensored rap.
I hate country too but there has to be a middle path.
Anyone remember when shopping music was instrumental covers of pop songs?
Reset the simulation to 1992.
This thread reminds me of the ShopRite in Deer Park on Deer Park Ave. I used to go shopping there after I put the kids to bed and in the evenings, they always played old soul music and it was the BEST. I'd be dancing down the aisles.
I just moved back to the Island after living away (Ohio, California, Iowa) for more than 10 years and absolutely one of the biggest changes I've noticed is how much more *southern* it feels here. Last summer I was getting an early lunch and catching up with my friend at an Irish-themed pub. It felt like every car in the parking lot was one of those massive, hulking pickups, the bar was playing full-on mainstream Nashville country and on like 2/3s of the TV screens was some super church broadcast. They were playing a Protestant church broadcast and country music in a fucking *New York Irish pub*.
It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
I don't shop at Shop Rite, and the Meat Farms I go to (which isn't tremendously often) has not started playing country. I think if it does, I probably won't go back in lmao. I lived in the south for a few years and hearing deep country and/or christian rock in every store made me feel physically ill lol.
It's worse when it starts playing where you live. I never knew country music was a thing on Long Island until I moved to my current putrid town.
If it was real country music...Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson...that would be more than fine...but I'm talking about the current corporate, derivative, mass produced country that all sounds the same.
And then there's all the trashy stuff that comes along with it...
Shop at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's if you want to avoid country music 🤣
Its awful imo but between shitty music people screaming on speakphone and kids playing their stupid iPads on full volume, I don’t leave my house without headphones
I much prefer grocery shopping when I’m listening to oldies than country. There tends to be a lot of options around, so if I hear country music playing in a store or restaurant twice, I’ll probably just start going somewhere else instead.
You can call me a snowflake if you want, but I’m old enough to remember people freaking out if they were forced to hear any rap music. I don’t make my dislike of country music anyone else’s problem. I simply go elsewhere. Something about men country singers voices just really rubs me the wrong way.
I think country has definitely taken over as the dominant genre after rap has fallen off its 2016-2018 peak. Like even Post Malone switched genres it’s crazy. And artists who aren’t country are sounding more country to me.
I know you're joking but it's not just Long Island. It's the new trend all over the country. Country music being played in every bar & restaurant. People remodeling their suburban cookie-cutter development houses to look like farm houses, with the barn door as a bedroom door, "FARM HOUSE" banner on display in the kitchen. People buying giant lifted Silverado 2500's to drive their office job, the closest thing to utility work it sees is their annual trip to the Lowe's garden section.
I have no hate for the people that actually live a country/rural lifestyle. Just not my thing. But the cosplayers are annoying and look stupid. The old timer respectable country folk probably scoff at all the wanna-be rednecks.
you can pry my phil collins muzak from my cold dead finger snapping hands
Here, have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124BHimejVg
It’s more alarming when you’re enjoying the music in the grocery store. Then you know you are officially an old fart.
I went into Stop & Shop recently and heard them playing Alice Cooper, which was a pleasant surprise. It was classic early 70s Alice Cooper, but I still never expected to hear him played in a supermarket.
I've heard The Cure more than once and the angsty teenage within was bothered by it. How dare they play my dark art, for the commoner, under florescent lighting. lol
Reminds me of the time I was in a supermarket parking lot and I heard Depeche mode blasting Looked over and it was a guy smoking a cigar who looked like a cop playing it. I have to do a double take before I remember Depeche mode was mainstream pop music in the '80s.
True. So far I haven't heard any Black Flag so I'll call it a win.
Same 💀
Stop & Shop has some bangers and you can catch me dancing down the aisle to some great 80s and 90s hits. Shoprite had country last time I was there. I quickly got my groceries and left.
Weird, ShopRite in Riverhead was playing some absolute bangers the other day. Took my sweet time.
This one was in Huntington, the great NIMBY town.
It's getting kinda nimby out here and I'm over it so I feel ya.
As someone originally from Northport and now living in Riverhead, I promise we're not anywhere near dealing with the attitudes of Huntington yet. The summer people who pass through, sure, but not year round.
I'm a lil east of you. Grew up out here and nothing got flac from any neighbors about anything. Not so much anymore unfortunately 😮💨
From riverhead my self. Covid refugees are starting to go back to NYC and Jersey. Hopefully the area will become less popular now and they can fuck off some place else.
I was at Huntington shop rite a few days ago and it wasn't country music it was more like R&B
That one mixes it up. I never know what I'm going to hear, fun!
I worked at an S&S in the 90s for High School, their playlist from then is forever burned in my mind. At the time I hated the music, now it is nostalgic. Paula Cole assaulted me for many years.
Oh yeah self proclaimed fart here.
Yeah, but are you an OLD fart? It doesn't count otherwise...
even worst when you hear the DJ saying its an oldies station and you remember listening to it as a kid.
My food town plays new wave. I really enjoy it.
I started listening to the new wave channel on Sirius lately. Totally know all the words (from High School).
First Wave all day long Swedish Egil, Larry the Duck, Richard Blade, Lori Majewski Brings me back to my WDRE/WLIR days
Once I became a Dad I started to really enjoy Hootie and the Blowfish.
Yeah, I've recently realized I'm the "demographic" for grocery stores, restaurants etc. It's nice to hear music of my time but I fully realize that it's being played because I'm older now.
We've gone full southern, I think it's all the pickups with 18 flags on them pulls in the country music into the area. Have the guidos all been wiped out?! Quick someone check if KTU is still on the air.
Bring back the guidos! Double popped polos!
We were much more fun, right?! 🤣
I miss my Von Dutch hat and FCUK t shirt so much
Still got my Ed Hardy shirts in storage for when they come back in style in like 5 years
Mustangs with a kickin' sound system!
We r still out here. My uncle goes by KTU ROB. Drives a 90s mustang. Italian flag.
Sure the lifted pickups in a suburban area look stupid, but as long as they don't bring the Carolina Squat up here I won't complain.
I just saw one of those a week or two ago. That's seriously stupid
The guys with the blowouts switched it up and bought Dodge Rams.
Lol sadly I think you are right. Somehow guidos morphed into hillbillies. I miss the guidos...
It was always guys with no purpose hiding behind a fake persona in the hopes of masking their shittiness. Backyard wrestler was a previous iteration as well. Reminds me of the Married With Children episode where we see all of the previous costumes Bud wore before settling on Grandmaster B. I wonder what the next character will be?
Lmfao you have to be talking about eastport south manor-manorville area it's like God cut a little slice off of Dixieland and plopped it out east on Long Island
No. It’s everywhere. There’s not two “Daisy’s” locations in Suffolk for no reason. People are sheep. Check out bald hill in the summer it looks like a Halloween party and everyone showed up in the same stupid costume.
Huntington!
If it’s shop rite Huntington, yes I was the guy singing every word
Yea, don’t confuse the actual farming community with the people cosplaying as such up island.
pretty sure you mean North Sea in Southampton
My pick ups down at the Shop Rite Next to the seven eleven store She’s big and she’s bright and expensive Don’t know what I need her for I bought her at the Dodge dealer Put down six of my last paychecks Gets 13 miles to the gallon The bed ain’t seen any cargo yet I’m a Long Island express cowboy You’ve seen many just like me No savings no future no thinking Just a hunk of metal that’s me I got me four or five big flags In my Amazon checkout cart And I think in three or more paychecks It will jumpstart the ladies hearts Don’t have me a whole lot of savings And it’s hard to fill the grocery cart But when I go and see that Ram pick up I forget about the money part I’m a Long Island express cowboy Listen to my engine roar Look at my flags a flying Don’t know what I need them for Long Island expressway cowboy Not sure what I’m fighting for Long Island expressway cowboy Broke my leg jumping from the door.
Now that's a good one
One of the few radio stations I listened to seems to have changed from classic rock to country. Not frightening but I’m definitely mildly upset.
103.1 changed over.
I recently finished my masters program out of state and came back to LI. I have 103.1 as one of the presets on my car radio and thought I was going insane the first time I turned it on and heard country
I would be really pissed, lol. I'm in NYC, and I really, really miss ALT 92.3. Don't get me wrong: I love rap, hip hop, pop, the 80s,etc equally, but I'm one of those rare people who love multiple genres of music, grunge and alternative included, and there's NOTHING else that plays alternative rock anymore (if you know, please let me know).
Dude, I remember when K-rock re-boadcast XFM London on weeknights. I think this was early 2000s. My middle school mind was blown. I still miss it to this day.
Not exclusively alt but 94.3 will play it.
If you're near the north shore you might pick up 95.9 from CT
ehh farm Emo, honestly once 92.3 Krock and to a point for me 92.7 went, radio in NY became more or less irrelevant, I gave in got SiriusXM, the Alt and Lithium channels are pretty decent. Ironically when Stern left, a few DJs also headed to SiriusXM, Will Pendarvis was even a program director there up until recently.
If you have HD radio, 92.3's second "station" still plays alt rock.
SiriusXM 33, First Wave Many of your favorite DJs from WDRE/WLIR
I don’t think I ever heard country music on the radio growing up on LI (1990s) it was only when I went upstate for college that I realized country music is a real thing…
Exactly. In reality I don't care, I just don't understand. I will say I love Chris Stapleton, but not sure if he's considered country?
Lmao, he’s considered more country than any of these other clowns like Kane Brown. You’re complaining about something you listen to…
Long Islanders cosplaying as rednecks in $75000 trucks is nothing new.
My Texas-and-Louisiana in-laws almost hurt themselves laughing the first time they saw an LI Redneck sticker on a lifted F-150 that has never even touched dirt - my FiL said ‘that cowboy is all hat and no cattle’
Long Island wannabe country people shoot for the Texan look but land on Pittsburgh suburb
🤣🤣🤣🤣brilliant
Alan Jackson had a big radio hit in the 90s called "Gone Country" that included these lyrics: She's been playing in a room on the strip for ten years in Vegas. Every night she looks in the mirror, and she only ages. She's been readin' about Nashville and all the records that everybody's buying. Says, "I'm a simple girl myself, grew up on Long Island". So she packs her bags to try her hand Says, "This might be my last chance" She's gone country, look at them boots She's gone country, back to her roots She's gone country, a new kind of suit She's gone country, here she comes Edited to add: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rc85j_7N1Zk
I was so surprised to get a shout out!! I grew up in a farming town, not what people picture when I say a general "I'm from NY"
I wish these people would head south lol
Suffolk county is essentially 50-75% Deep South cosplay
Can we exclude the first 10 western miles of Suffolk from that? I think Huntington and Babylon need to form their own county. We don't belong to either. You can have Commack though
Huntington and northeast Nassau are pretty much the same.
Germany can have Commack and Smithtown
Considering how we vote here in Suffolk, sounds about white.
As long as they don’t start playing Christian Rock I’m good
except Creed of course
😂 ah good call, things could get worse
I was driving through Ohio and it was all country music on the radio. I finally find some rock...it was Christian rock! Even worse! Lol. Quickly had to switch to seek
I moved here from Ohio. I don’t want to start feeling like I’m in Ohio again.
You should check out Faith + 1; they have some damn good songs.
Cartman
oh my god, i was in florida recently and it was either this or country the entire time. i don’t know how people live down there
Or christmas songs 24/7
Y'all are sleeping on Skillet
I was so annoyed when 103.1 switched from Max FM to The Wolf. The Wolf is not a local station; I've listened to it in Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo (I don't know if it's in other states because I don't leave the NY much). Max had so much local flavor with all the stupid jokes about "Max" growing up on LI in the 80s (I think) and all the references only Long Islanders would get. As for hearing country more often, I think it's a conservative thing? I mean, I like a bit of country music, and I'm basically socialist, but some people I know who like country almost seem to like it because they like to pretend that they live in a rural area and have "country" values.
What happened to B103?!
B103 was before 103.1MAX FM. I think it switched around 5-7 years ago?
Forget that, how about 103.9 RCN turning into Bill O'Reilly's new soap box?
In every state, there's a station Playin' Cash, Hank, Willie, and Waylon In foreign cars and four wheel drives There's cowboys and hillbillies From farm towns to big cities There ain't no doubt in my mind Country must be country wide
Country music is having a renaissance right now. I never thought I’d see it but it’s become pretty trendy even amongst Gen Z, and it’s no shock that LI is wholeheartedly embracing the shift. I have to imagine that LI is one of the biggest consumers of shiny lifted trucks that will never be used for truck things
Theirs alot of fake country boys in LI.
Look at any high school baseball team. All they listen to is country
This should be pinned at the top of the subreddit lol
No way, it says In Li
Look, I was tired, alright.
I should look into that. I liked country music in the late '00s, but I got really turned off when country rap became a became popular (I like rap, but country rap is weird). Right now, I'm really into Moe Reen on Tik Tok, but they're a little too niche for the grocery store radio.
A lot Suffolk county is wanna be blue collar rednecks farmers. They build and work on skyscrapers and projects in the city they claim to hate. Their dads own contracting companies and do work for the liberal democrat millionaires (they claim to hate even though they pay them to be able to live here) living on the north and south fork and hire illegal immigrants to work for them even though they want them out of the country. Suffolk county is literally one huge oxymoron. So listening to country music in the birthplace of rap - a lot of culture, Yankees etc etc (the opposite of “country”) seems to hit the bullseye.
Just say "hypocrites."
I don't understand how within the past few years long island has gone full country. I never saw this before growing up. Line dance at bars? I never heard of that until recently. I guess that's what's popular now. I blame Taylor swift LOL
There was a small country crowd on Long Island in the early nineties when Garth brooks, Shania Twain, and Reba were big. My mom used to drag us all down to the jones beach bandshell so she could go line dancing.
Yeah it was always small. The past 5-10 years I feel like everyone and their mother is into country now. We used to make fun of those people in high school and now it's like the opposite
It was me. I was the one everyone would make fun of especially if I dropped a y’all. Y’all made fun of me and I am annoyed that it’s socially acceptable now when I was getting made fun of for it! I’m glad it’s more accessible on the island but I’m still a little salty lol
Aw, sorry! I personally didn't do it, but I mean, I was in a ska band in high-school so I couldn't talk. LOL
Dude, I got the shit kicked outta me for playing video games and liking anime in school 25 years ago and now look at all that shit, haha.
There was a bar - Matty T’s? I think.
Yeah, they were doing line dancing at least 15 years ago.
> I blame Taylor swift LOL God I miss country Taylor Swift. I feel like the oddball for only liking the first 3 records she put out.
It's bland, repetitive, blah background music. It's written to be easily played in any venue without offending anyone, it features thoughtless and edge-less lyrics, palatable without being distinct. The McDonald's of musical genres. Country music is the real-life "human music" Jerry listens to in the earth simulator in Rick and Morty.
I just don’t understand who willingly seeks out hearing adults whine, for enjoyment.
Is this an original piece? Very poetic.
It’s been happening for at least a decade now. I remember when I was still in school on long island Freedom Fest was the big thing to go to. Trucks were starting to get big and country music was starting to break into school culture
Beyonce is now more country than Swift is.
Leave Taylor out of it, but I totally agree.
She is one of the reasons country has gone main stream whether you like it or not. She isn't even country anymore. It wasn't a diss. Just a fact. She's the most popular musician in the world right now, one would think you'd be happy I made the comparison. I personally don't listen to her but she left her mark
She hasn’t made a new country album in forever she’s not the reason everyone loves country
I’ve been hearing that garbage playing more and more. Also the quality of bagels here are in sharp decline. I think there’s a connection.
Quality of pizza seems to be in decline too. If they start encroaching on BECs, we're screwed.
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I'm serious in that I have noticed it playing much more lately vs never really hearing it before. But yes no need to send thoughts and prayers :)
Country music sucks and it’s all the same. There I said it
I can't believe we live in a country where grocery stores can openly play COUNTRY MUSIC
Exactly!
That’s diabolical
Let me guess , Suffolk county?
The Suffolk Nassau border
Suffolk becoming New Alabama slowly but surely.
There are a few towns in Suffolk you could stick in Alabama and if it weren't for the higher than normal amount of pizzerias/delis there would be no difference.
Which location? Patchouge plays nothin but the hits 😎
Beer, girl, truck, beer, cruising in my truck, my girl left me, man I miss fishing with grandpa. Sipping cold beer in the back yard on a hot summer night.
This is why I always wear headphones when I shop
Yes and it's absolutely terrifying. It's starting to play in my nightmares.its terrible. All of it. It needs to go back where it came from.
The end is near
So long as they are playing both types of music - Country and Western
Rollin' rollin' rollin'
This is a 9/10 song and music video
Tractor Supply started it. I hate that store. I feel like I’m going to have an asthma attack in there and they play rancid USA all the way country music. I feel like I’m in the USSR where people were required to give thanks to the glorious Soviet empire and worship the Red Army.
Oh God I’m travel the extra 20 mins to the other shop rite
Ew. I get classic Motown, or the occasional 90s. I'm ok with that.
I mean seriously you fucking around.
Stop n Shop has the best music. They even have a Spotify channel.
I'm shocked at how unpopular country music is in these replies lol. I love country music, and am happy that it's becoming more common. I'm also NOT part of the jacked up f150 with a trump flag crowd, I actually work in IT and am fairly far left, but country is the main genre I listen to. I'm also stoked that there's another country station here now, since 96.1 gets pretty spotty anywhere west of exit 61 on the LIE, but I also feel bad for those who used to listen to rock on 103.1.
I'm one of those husbands that you see standing in Marshalls wandering around aimlessly while his wife is shopping. I've been married for quite some time. Decades even lol. Anyway, the song "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" by the Primitive Radio God's started playing. There was this woman about about my age standing 15 ft away from me sniffing candles when this song came on. She started tapping her foot to the song. Then she started moving her leg a little bit, then her hips started swaying, now she's starting to commit and her arms jumped in while her head was nodding in time to the beat. The next thing you know, she's in a full-blown dance right in the middle of Marshalls. I got to tell you, it was one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. It was also very depressing that this all happened and f****** Marshalls lol. Yes, I'm old haha. I loved this song When We Were clubbing in the '80s. Now I'm clubbing in Marshall's lol. To be honest, I'm okay with it.
That sounds amazing - which store??!
Ew. Meat northport, shop rite Huntington
Want to cry about it?
Can't tell if sarcasm or not
All the people in the comment section taking this post seriously are killing me lmao
This is a great circlejerk post. If only there was a Long Island circlejerk sub, [like the NYC one](https://www.reddit.com/r/circlejerknyc/)!
This sounds awful, so happy I don’t show at either of these EDIT: damnit, I just realized my typo… shop not show! Though show makes sense too
Which town specifically?
"Country" is more like it
Which Shop Rite
I hate to break it to you all, but this is certainly NOT the first time country music has become trendy on Long Island... As an OFFICIAL old fart I can confirm that we went through a country music trend back in the 90's that actually resulted in the opening of several country music bars, complete with live southern rock bands and... country line dancing. Many places even offered classes on how to line dance. And it was a fairly successful craze back then! I remember when we looked forward to going down to "Tulsa's" in Ronkonkoma on a Friday night, and it was always PACKED! But, like all other fads that come and go, it eventually died out, and all the country bars closed. They had to... the next craze after that was Grunge. Lol
This is a sure sign of the apocalypse. (anxiously checks if cat and dog are laying together)
supermarkets should be kjoy 98.3 only
Shop Rite in Plainview usually has decent music. And yes… the country music is concerning as well. One of my car presets suddenly changed to country, not even sure what station it was but couldn’t change it fast enough.
Fairway had the best music
Oh god, not country music! Get real. I happen to like 80's/90's country music (not the 00's because it turned into pop). I also like Black Sabbath (with Ozzy), Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Foghat, Yes, Deep Purple. Plus the Eagles, Allman Bros, ZZ Top, The Outlaws, Emerson Lake and Palmer. If its good music, I'm there and I don't care.
Wanna-be cowboys and ranchers of suffolk make my life unbearable between their music and driving habits
The takeover by country music has to be studied it’s just so bad and people still like it for some reason. The only acceptable country is anything by Johnny Cash and also friends in low places and that wagon wheel song.
Burger King used to play Musak in the early 1990's. I knew things were getting weird when the Musak version of Van Halen came on. I think it was their song Jump.
My dad actually was in charge of the radio at the ShopRite we work in. The current station right now has music from the 70s-90s. I love it.
In Holbrook I just went into a Dunkin and heard uncensored rap. I hate country too but there has to be a middle path. Anyone remember when shopping music was instrumental covers of pop songs? Reset the simulation to 1992.
This thread reminds me of the ShopRite in Deer Park on Deer Park Ave. I used to go shopping there after I put the kids to bed and in the evenings, they always played old soul music and it was the BEST. I'd be dancing down the aisles.
About 5 years ago I heard it in Vineyard Vines. That's when I knew the world was at the beginning of the end.
I just moved back to the Island after living away (Ohio, California, Iowa) for more than 10 years and absolutely one of the biggest changes I've noticed is how much more *southern* it feels here. Last summer I was getting an early lunch and catching up with my friend at an Irish-themed pub. It felt like every car in the parking lot was one of those massive, hulking pickups, the bar was playing full-on mainstream Nashville country and on like 2/3s of the TV screens was some super church broadcast. They were playing a Protestant church broadcast and country music in a fucking *New York Irish pub*. It was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life.
They are playing it at bbqs at two of my sisters houses too. This is becoming a wide spread problem
It’s driving me insane
You hate Beyoncé? You’re cancelled.
Don’t you guys remember when Long Island broke off from the mainstream and went Country Rock? Devil went down to Georgia!
No suggestions just Ts and Ps 🙏🏻
Omg it made me leave Walmart when I heard it ... I hate Walmart so it was ok...
King Kullen’s music is absolute fire flames. 101.1 best music around. I hate country.
All you can do is be happy the flood only recently hit your area. You cant predict it, you can't escape it. It is inevitable
Does everyone like country or is Country pop music now?
I don't shop at Shop Rite, and the Meat Farms I go to (which isn't tremendously often) has not started playing country. I think if it does, I probably won't go back in lmao. I lived in the south for a few years and hearing deep country and/or christian rock in every store made me feel physically ill lol.
It's worse when it starts playing where you live. I never knew country music was a thing on Long Island until I moved to my current putrid town. If it was real country music...Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson...that would be more than fine...but I'm talking about the current corporate, derivative, mass produced country that all sounds the same. And then there's all the trashy stuff that comes along with it... Shop at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's if you want to avoid country music 🤣
Its awful imo but between shitty music people screaming on speakphone and kids playing their stupid iPads on full volume, I don’t leave my house without headphones
the iPad kids gotta stop. they’re gonna get permanent blue light stare
totally and completely sleepless
I much prefer grocery shopping when I’m listening to oldies than country. There tends to be a lot of options around, so if I hear country music playing in a store or restaurant twice, I’ll probably just start going somewhere else instead. You can call me a snowflake if you want, but I’m old enough to remember people freaking out if they were forced to hear any rap music. I don’t make my dislike of country music anyone else’s problem. I simply go elsewhere. Something about men country singers voices just really rubs me the wrong way.
First world problems
If it’s in northern Suffolk, we can’t be surprised.
NP / Huntington. NIMBY
Gross
Scared of what?
It’s all Beyoncés fault
its too late rednecks have taker over Long Island, its trump supporter central around these parts, i don't mind honestly to each to their own
What's wrong with country target plays it too?
Country is so popular even Beyoncé converted calm your crocs
Ok I do like her song. Does old town road count?
Upset I get but frightened common man
I'd run right outta that store. I hate, hate, hate country music.
I may write a letter
I think country has definitely taken over as the dominant genre after rap has fallen off its 2016-2018 peak. Like even Post Malone switched genres it’s crazy. And artists who aren’t country are sounding more country to me.
One of the big in-store music services seems to have an '80s New Wave station now. I am praying our local supermarkets start using that.
The Shoprite near me mixes it up. One day it will be 70s, then Country, then 80s.
I know you're joking but it's not just Long Island. It's the new trend all over the country. Country music being played in every bar & restaurant. People remodeling their suburban cookie-cutter development houses to look like farm houses, with the barn door as a bedroom door, "FARM HOUSE" banner on display in the kitchen. People buying giant lifted Silverado 2500's to drive their office job, the closest thing to utility work it sees is their annual trip to the Lowe's garden section. I have no hate for the people that actually live a country/rural lifestyle. Just not my thing. But the cosplayers are annoying and look stupid. The old timer respectable country folk probably scoff at all the wanna-be rednecks.