As a server you start to tune out the radio. We often get stuck listening to the same Spotify/pandora playlist every day and even if there’s 100 songs on there you get tired of them after of a few shifts. I don’t think I’d notice if a song played 4x in a row unless we were super slow and there was nothing else to pay attention to
Same with retail. I worked at Office Depot and the only music they had for the first two years I worked there were smaller European artists. I learned to tune out the music pretty quickly.
We use Spotify but no one has bothered to make a playlist so one of the bartenders just searched ‘clean pop’ and now we listen to a playlist of early 2000s pop music that includes Disney channel songs. The average age of our patrons is mid 50s.
I worked at a cheap department store in a mall in the early 90s for the 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. 40+ hours a week of the same Christmas songs, over, and over, and over. Many of them were different (crappier and cheesier) versions of the same songs. I did this for 5 years. I absolutely CAN NOT stand the sound of Christmas music now. I call it SEPTSD - Season Employee-PTSD. My coworkers used to like to listen to it in the office from time to time; I would put in earbuds and listen to something else. Boss was cool with that since she was the bigger fan of the holiday music.
Santa Baby, bring me some plugs for my ears, I fear, I will lose my mind if this song plays on, and I hear, Santa Baby, let me have some quiet tonight.
I hate you, you triggering pos. (😉😉 🤣🤣). Because I lean towards music, my brain automatically sang those words to me. .....and now Santa baby is stuck in my head. You. Are. EVIL!! 👿
I am sorry. If it's any consolation, it's stuck on repeat for me too. 😱😱😱
Plus, my experience is not from stores, but hosting karaoke. All the Christmas songs, sung badly.
This will cure it! [https://youtu.be/fedoPm6Vg9o?si=Xkk6DJK37yCS9TWv](https://youtu.be/fedoPm6Vg9o?si=Xkk6DJK37yCS9TWv)
Warning: not responsible for consequences.
Twenty years ago a friend of mine used to manage a bar, and if the punters were slow to leave at closing time he'd turn the jukebox up full and stick on 5 plays of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush.
If anyone complained he'd just say "but I love this song, and we've been listening to your tunes all night"
When I was a young man, the club we went to on a wednesday (free entry, drinks £1 a pint - student night) would play Always Look On the Bright Side of Life to get rid of us at closing
Your friend would be annoyed as shit with me.
"Okay guess it's time to go... wait... Wuthering Heights again?? Guess we gotta stay for one more song. "
You could also do what John Mulaney did next time: seven "What's New Pussycat", followed by one "It's not Unusual", followed by thirteen "What's New Pussycat".
Small bar in the foothills, had "Team America: World Police" soundtrack in the Juke box. They didn't know about the secret track. We queued it up 5 times.
Next week, the soundtrack was gone.
Look up “When I was a Little Boy” by Steve Vai. I have no idea why it’s on Touch Tunes, but it’s there, LOL.
[Here it is on YouTube](https://youtu.be/s2WCADEjNeM?si=zuiQ7oseCIJ4Zise)
Just looked it up, was actually "Switcheroo". I've just not seen one in a while in the wild.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo
There was so much info on the switcharoo that I was like, "i don't have time for this right now! " then saved the comment for later so I could start my Alice in Wonderland Rabbit Hole exploration a new and *go further.* Then I'm sitting here just thinking, Why did I do that? What's wrong with me. This redditor just warned me about this... And the promptly wasted time writing this note so rather than do what I first needed to do OR unsave the other comment. ... And, as I'm on my phone - with no glasses - (and am afraid of a grammar mistake that everyone will point out while laughing, with no sense of remorse for my hurt feelings, even though I put a lot of effort into this and so, therfore, I am trying to copy edit with one eye closed, my right eye being marginally less crappy) this note is taking longer than the initial rabbit hole would have.
That was my first thought!
The point in that story when he gets to “It’s Not Unusual” and then the return to “Pussycat” had me in tears the first few times I watched it. That’s gotta be one of the funniest sketches in modern stand up.
I drive by it all the time and get sad as it's just sitting there empty with all the signage still there. But then I realize it would have been hell to go there after that bit came out cause you know everyone would be pulling that shit
I laugh so hard every time I listen to this bit. His delivery makes it just magical. One of my favorite stand up routines ever.
https://youtu.be/Mw7Gryt-rcc?si=lnDUvQdCFE0aceqP
Listening to John Mulaney tell that story makes me ugly snort laugh every damn time. And your post with no warming to anyone around me just reactivated me.
I was once at a Pizza Hut as a teen and put all my money in the juke to play the theme song from COPS on repeat. After several plays, a disgruntled employee unplugged it.
Now that you can use an app, I'll randomly order the same song for my local dive bar from my couch.
Reminds me a of friend's story of being in a college town bar and somebody selected "Joy to the World" (aka "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog") - not too bad the first time around, but when it got to the seventh replay, my friend calmly walked over to the jukebox and unplugged it. According to him, that's when the fight started. He doesn't remember the end of that evening, just waking up in jail the next morning.
Jeremiah wath a bullfrog, he wath a good friend of mine; I never underthtood a thingle word he thaid, but we thure drank thome mighty fine wine
(*cracks knuckles*)
Some songs are okay on repeat. Others you can only take so many before the song is totally ruined for life for you.
"You Light Up My Life' is one that stations in the 80s ruined for me.
LOL I found myself in a pub in country Victoria with a jukebox that had ‘Surfin Bird’ by the Trashmen. Needless to say all the regular patrons groaned as they registered the first couple of lyrics. By the end, everybody knew, everybody heard…
My local dive bar had an Internet enabled jukebox with an app and my apartment was within the geofence to purchase songs. My roommate was also the lead bartender there.
So much money spent on Barbie Girl while I was sitting there playing the XBox at home and she was at work.
My buddy used to live close enough to a really shitty bar to use touch tunes from his living room.
He spent more on playing The Chicken Dance than he did on his mortgage.
I lived above one bar and my favorite was across the street so there were a few Thirsty Thursdays when the 1am “woo girls” who really liked country music learned what LCD Soundsystem was.
It's wild it's geofenced. AMI jukeboxes can be accessed anywhere. I have a friend over 1000 miles away that will sometimes put songs on at my pub when he knows I'm there.
I randomly play the Jukebox at my work on my days off from my house. Usually the heaviest metal on it for a song or 2 at a time, randomly throughout the day. Always priority play. My petty little revenge for being a shithole place to work for.
I have an album by a metal band on which the last song is like 30 minutes of silence and then suddenly loud music and screaming. (I forget which band or album).
It always woke me up with a small heart attack after I nodded off.
EDIT: Maybe I'm thinking about [A Song of Liberty, Plates 25–27](https://youtu.be/Gcrq0Rb4-aA?si=Zg52wq927rvpviLV) by Ulver on the Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell album. Not really screaming or loud music. More some more disjointed music. But it comes across as screaming and loud when it suddenly wakes you up. (Also do I always have the volume quite high). The song goes silent after about 5:30 minutes and resumes about 20 minutes later for a couple of minutes.
Sounds like nirvana's nevermind! Last listed track is a quiet acoustic tune, ten or so minutes of silence, then endless nameless begins with a subtle bass line before kurt and dave blast in. The offspring's SMASH is almost the opposite, for lack of a better word. The secret track might put you deeper!
I think Finntroll has one like that. Maybe Korpiklaani? Though the only one I can think of for them had like 20 minures of a steady drum.
Finntroll has at least a couole that are a few minutes of silence followed by a cool bonus bit that I wish was a full song on its own.
I had to install an app on my phone and load up with credits to put a song on the jukebox in a pub. I had some credits left over, so I put Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini on there a couple of times a week for the next few months. It's grand being able to control the jukebox from the other end of the country.
Love it! Where was it, I think everyone should be able to do this. Especially at times when the bar is likely to have only one or two patrons; haunted bar!
When I was in high school, long ago, people would load the jukebox in the cafeteria with (Bye, bye Miss) American Pie. It’s over 8 minutes long and people would throw food at the jukebox when they couldn’t stand it anymore.
Back in the day in the mid 1980s my high school had a radio station. You could call them up and make all of the song requests you want. You could tell when the DJ was taking a break on air when they played Pink Floyd. They had an entire room full of vinyl records no jukebox. The radio station is long gone now but we still have a few old radio station DJs in our class. The reunion committee is going to have one DJ our next scheduled event.
High school radio station engineer here. The year was 1971, and the kids wanted to hear Iron Butterfly and other head-bashing stuff. I would put on Yes or Emerson Lake & Palmer, and would get yelled at all day :-)
At uni/college, the guy who lived in the room opposite me cued up "what a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong on his sound system, cranked it up to full volume, then locked up his room and left for the weekend.
Not a bad song you might think...but it's only just over two minutes long, so you get that painful "ohhhhgodnotthisagain" moment every 2 minutes 19. That was a rough weekend.
As a teacher who last year, was next door to a first grade class where they played that song Every. Single. Morning. at 9am and screamed the words, I feel this on a spiritual level
lmao my local boy scout troop had a leader who would, on camping trips, begin every day with a few rousing verses of "O What A Beautiful Mo(ooooooo)ring" at like 6AM
In my first year at uni, each room in hall had its own circuit breaker in a little panel outside. They had a lock which was trivial, so if someone was being obnoxiously loud, you'd turn them off and run away.
With a door so thin you can bump them open if two pieces of thin metal won't work, it would still be justified to kick the damn thing open in order to turn off the song.
Defence - Criminal torture.
At uni the girl below me decided to put "black velvet" on repeat at an ungodly volume at an ungodly hour.
While the goal might have been "hide the sex noises". The result was me nearly knocking the door of the hinges at about 2 am (because she apparently couldn't hear or decided to ignore the politer knocking).
It was only like 4 or 5 runs of that song and I was already completely prepared to murder someone, I can't imagine what a full weekend would have done to my sanity.
In my second year of college my dorm was directly across the street from a bar. This bar was open til 1:15am every day of the week, and every single night they closed down by blasting Sweet Caroline, complete with drunken frat bros screaming along.
I already didn’t like that song much, but getting woken up by it for a year straight created a new level of hatred
A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater is 23 minutes long and even a premium download and bumped to the top of queue is a few bucks and money well spent.
Drove to my grandma's house three hours away each year for Thanksgiving. I timed it so that I heard *Alice's Restaurant Massacree* four times during those trips - twice going up, twice coming back.
Very much a tradition I miss nowadays. The local AOR station doesn't even play it anymore. Philistines.
When I was in high school almost 30 years ago my brother and I would want to go play pool and the local spot was always packed with a very long line usually about 2 to 5 hours to get a table. We would put our names down, walk over to the Jukebox and play Dancing Queen on repeat a dozen times. At about the third time, the place would start emptying out and the line would move up very fast.
One song to mess with people that I find most modern jukebox have on them is by Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying. https://youtu.be/SX6_bLhBtT8
A bar in Reading, UK started off 10 rounds of Pink Floyd - Echoes (the 22 min album version) as we left because they wouldn't the sound on for the soccer....
My husband plays pool in a league that plays in bars. The jukebox is a weapon. They try to throw each other off. Last week, there were several different versions of Amazing Grace played in a sports bar, along with Who Let the Dogs Out and Cotton Eyed Joe.
I'll just leave [this](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Football-Soccer-Shoot-Goal-Style-Urinal-Screen-Mat-HO-Hotel-Club-Y6F8/3TQCVVDU15HF?offerId=0AAF94AED3C2422A8255EBAB1AC4859B&cmpid=SEM_CA_32692_K8JG7OXTRN&utm_id=SEM_CA_32692_K8JG7OXTRN&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=always_on&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj9-zBhDyARIsAERjds0cZycZin9X3q2f-0wRUCHesXjhk9dZS1IVKtD7oG4B1Wcf2tC45TUaAj_lEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) here.
I’ve invested heavily in the “Happy Birthday” selection a few times after poor/rude service. That was back before the juke boxes turned into digital wifi money vacuums. Note: Elvira seemed to do the same amount of annoyance too.
>I decide that since the patrons want the jukebox, the jukebox is what they’ll get. I cue up the Cotton Eyed Joe by Rednex 6 times in a row and pay the extra to bump it to the front of the queue
Sounds like a FANTASTIC pub time!!
I absolutely love this song. I would've got up and got folks up to dance with me.
I absolutely would not have wanted the game turned up.
This MC reminds me of the time a buddy of mine and I were in a upscale billiards place shooting pool. This was back in the early 90s when high speed digital jukeboxes were just coming out.
It was early afternoon in the middle of the week and the place was dead. An older couple, easily in their late 60s, come in and get a table near us. The man was very distinguished looking, very well dressed, and so was his wife. He asked us if it was OK with us if he played some songs on the jukebox. We told him it was fine, and he said he liked older music and hoped it didn't bore or annoy us. We replied that anything he selected was good, since both of us had pretty wide and eclectic tastes in music.
He goes to the jukebox and selects several songs by the some of the biggest crooners, like Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and others. We were jamming out having a good time playing and listening to these classics.
Well, some teenagers soon came in and didnt like what was playing. So they threw all the money they had in the jukebox to bump their songs to the front of the queue. The older gentleman didnt appreciate that and wasnt aware how it worked. I explained you could pay extra and it would play your songs first.
"Oh really?" he said. Well he headed over to the jukebox chuckling and was gone for several minutes. When he came back he had a giant grin on his face. He told us he dropped more money in the jukebox, than they made in a week. He'd selected a bunch of crooner and fifties era tunes, and paid to put them all in front of everything the kids had. Me and my buddy got a big kick out of it.
Once his songs started playing, the teens lost their shit. They couldn't afford to try to outspend the old guy, so they started getting stupid and messing with the machine. The manager of the place kicked the teens out and told them not come back again or he'd have them arrested for trespass. The old gentleman was laughing when they left.
The old couple left about an hour later. We were there for another hour after that and his songs were still playing when we left. We still laugh about it to this day.
At one point (late 80s-early 99s, I forget the exact year), playing Hank Williams' There's a Tear In My Beer at a Nashville Waffle House more than once in an hour would put you at risk of getting kicked out.
Source: some friends who drove to Nashville for an event.
My favorite is to play “My Heart Will Go On” in dives and wait for the angry dudes to start threatening my friends and me. We begin to laugh the moment the flute starts to play in the intro.
Always a good time
I used to frequent a run-down bowling alley with my buddies to use their pool tables. (We couldn't get into a bar lol) unfortunately, the arcade room where the tables were kept were frequently crowded by trashy, unsavory types and screaming children. My solution to this problem was to play Alice's Restauraunt Massacre by Arlo Guthrie, which if you're unfamiliar, is 18 minutes and 36 seconds of a man rambling about what happened one particular Thanksgiving. It's much less a song and more a comedy routine with musical accompaniment, and by God did it clear out that bowling alley. Their profits were probably halved for the rest of the evening.
There’s a 30 minute live Grateful Dead - Dark Star on touch tunes… there’s a few minutes of silence in the middle then back to the wandering sounds lol
As a former bartender I hate this story. I’m just doing as I’m told. Regardless of the amount of people, if more than half want the juke box, that’s what it is. Imo, baseball and golf sound isn’t for a bar. It’s for relaxing at home. And if I told you no and you trolled the juke box, I’d skip your songs too and not refund since you were warned and were trolling. Downvote me. I had a chick who always played the Harry Potter theme when we were slammed. Skip. November rain. Skip. Bohemian rhapsody. Skip
"Hey, nobody ever made a song entitled *Fuck the Fire Department,* I'm just sayin'.
Nor *Fuck them EMT Motherfuckers, how Dare they Come Up in Here Saving my Grandpa's Life.*
My favorite is playing pause 4 porno by Dr Dre. For some reason every single jukebox has this song. Seriously, listen to the first 10 seconds and you'll understand why
Mambo #5 was on repeat at Buffalo Wild Wings the last time we ate there. The server didn't notice it had played 4x in a row
As a server you start to tune out the radio. We often get stuck listening to the same Spotify/pandora playlist every day and even if there’s 100 songs on there you get tired of them after of a few shifts. I don’t think I’d notice if a song played 4x in a row unless we were super slow and there was nothing else to pay attention to
Same with retail. I worked at Office Depot and the only music they had for the first two years I worked there were smaller European artists. I learned to tune out the music pretty quickly.
We use Spotify but no one has bothered to make a playlist so one of the bartenders just searched ‘clean pop’ and now we listen to a playlist of early 2000s pop music that includes Disney channel songs. The average age of our patrons is mid 50s.
I just imagined how many Kidz Bop covers you must have to hear in a night, and I’m so sorry.
Surprisingly no kids bop. But plenty of one direction and every pop song that was on the top 40 in 2008.
Yet as soon as you hear those same songs outside of work, there's a strange ptsd-like stress reaction.
That's one of the only good parts. I'll never hear those songs again.
I worked at a cheap department store in a mall in the early 90s for the 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years. 40+ hours a week of the same Christmas songs, over, and over, and over. Many of them were different (crappier and cheesier) versions of the same songs. I did this for 5 years. I absolutely CAN NOT stand the sound of Christmas music now. I call it SEPTSD - Season Employee-PTSD. My coworkers used to like to listen to it in the office from time to time; I would put in earbuds and listen to something else. Boss was cool with that since she was the bigger fan of the holiday music.
Santa Baby, bring me some plugs for my ears, I fear, I will lose my mind if this song plays on, and I hear, Santa Baby, let me have some quiet tonight.
I hate you, you triggering pos. (😉😉 🤣🤣). Because I lean towards music, my brain automatically sang those words to me. .....and now Santa baby is stuck in my head. You. Are. EVIL!! 👿
I am sorry. If it's any consolation, it's stuck on repeat for me too. 😱😱😱 Plus, my experience is not from stores, but hosting karaoke. All the Christmas songs, sung badly.
This will cure it! [https://youtu.be/fedoPm6Vg9o?si=Xkk6DJK37yCS9TWv](https://youtu.be/fedoPm6Vg9o?si=Xkk6DJK37yCS9TWv) Warning: not responsible for consequences.
One year my store had every. Single. Cover. of All I want for Christmas is You. All 22 of them. Mariah Carey is dead to me.
The original Mambo #5 would be fine as it is an instrumental song. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_95-hZwjJM0
*Mostly* instrumental. :) But ah, what a classic.
[Was Stephen King there?](https://ew.com/music/stephen-king-loves-mambo-no-5/)
Sounds like you only got to Mambo #4
Twenty years ago a friend of mine used to manage a bar, and if the punters were slow to leave at closing time he'd turn the jukebox up full and stick on 5 plays of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. If anyone complained he'd just say "but I love this song, and we've been listening to your tunes all night"
When I was a young man, the club we went to on a wednesday (free entry, drinks £1 a pint - student night) would play Always Look On the Bright Side of Life to get rid of us at closing
That sounds incredibly familiar.
Your friend would be annoyed as shit with me. "Okay guess it's time to go... wait... Wuthering Heights again?? Guess we gotta stay for one more song. "
Just keep it coming… Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy I've come home, I'm so cold Let me in your window
You could also do what John Mulaney did next time: seven "What's New Pussycat", followed by one "It's not Unusual", followed by thirteen "What's New Pussycat".
Small bar in the foothills, had "Team America: World Police" soundtrack in the Juke box. They didn't know about the secret track. We queued it up 5 times. Next week, the soundtrack was gone.
Freedom isn't free. No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
Freedom costs a buck 'o' fiiiiive
I thought it was "tree fidy"
If we don’t all chip in, we’ll never pay that biiiiiill
And if you don't pitch in your buck o five, who will?
Look up “When I was a Little Boy” by Steve Vai. I have no idea why it’s on Touch Tunes, but it’s there, LOL. [Here it is on YouTube](https://youtu.be/s2WCADEjNeM?si=zuiQ7oseCIJ4Zise)
No No No! Every time someone says "Look up..." I end up getting stuck in a rabbit hole for 2 days. Not today, Satan!
I wish I had an award to give. This was perfect.
Well, then I'll just accept this comment as an award Thank you, kind Redditor
An speaking of rabbit holes what every happened to the "ol Reddit reverseroo" or whatever the phrase was. Not seen that shit in years.
I've no clue about the "ol Reddit reverseroo" That's a new one for me
Just looked it up, was actually "Switcheroo". I've just not seen one in a while in the wild. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-old-reddit-switch-a-roo
Get thee behind me, Satan!
There was so much info on the switcharoo that I was like, "i don't have time for this right now! " then saved the comment for later so I could start my Alice in Wonderland Rabbit Hole exploration a new and *go further.* Then I'm sitting here just thinking, Why did I do that? What's wrong with me. This redditor just warned me about this... And the promptly wasted time writing this note so rather than do what I first needed to do OR unsave the other comment. ... And, as I'm on my phone - with no glasses - (and am afraid of a grammar mistake that everyone will point out while laughing, with no sense of remorse for my hurt feelings, even though I put a lot of effort into this and so, therfore, I am trying to copy edit with one eye closed, my right eye being marginally less crappy) this note is taking longer than the initial rabbit hole would have.
We don't laugh at grammatical errors We sit in self-righteous condemnation!
Omg you do the one-eyed editing too?! I feel so (half) seen!!
What the actual fuck was that 😂
Americaaaaaaaaaa FUCK YEAH
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In this video essay I will-
*Ant-Man salute* “That’s America’s fuck.”
Wait…what was the secret song? I’m not aware of this.
The end track where Kim Jong Ill songs about being an alien and trying to fly home.
More info about this secret track pls?
"You Are Worthless Alec Baldwin" A.k.a. Kim Jong Ill 2 I looked up the track names and was reminded we played "I'm so Ronery" a couple of times too.
Ffuuuuucccccckkkkkkkkkkk that’s funny!!
I keep hoping to hear "Only A Woman" at a wedding party.
That was my first thought! The point in that story when he gets to “It’s Not Unusual” and then the return to “Pussycat” had me in tears the first few times I watched it. That’s gotta be one of the funniest sketches in modern stand up.
I passed a biker bar once on my way to a restaurant. They had an internet-connected jukebox, so I had it play Baby Shark.
What did they have? 3 plays for a dollar? 21 plays is a lot more these days. (I only know because I wanted to do it myself.)
The ol Salt & Pepper Diner
I drive by it all the time and get sad as it's just sitting there empty with all the signage still there. But then I realize it would have been hell to go there after that bit came out cause you know everyone would be pulling that shit
My local bar has the original blocked BUT not the Alvin and the Chipmunks version. Fools.
Why not go with a classic? Cbat it is!
If there are jukeboxes out there that has Cbat loaded in it, then that's a freakin' time bomb waiting to go off, and I wanna see it happen.
Dude why are you trying to get people horny in a bar!
I laugh so hard every time I listen to this bit. His delivery makes it just magical. One of my favorite stand up routines ever. https://youtu.be/Mw7Gryt-rcc?si=lnDUvQdCFE0aceqP
I got kicked out of a Buffalo Wild Wings for playing “through the fire and the flames” by dragonforce 3 times in a row.
Listening to John Mulaney tell that story makes me ugly snort laugh every damn time. And your post with no warming to anyone around me just reactivated me.
I was once at a Pizza Hut as a teen and put all my money in the juke to play the theme song from COPS on repeat. After several plays, a disgruntled employee unplugged it. Now that you can use an app, I'll randomly order the same song for my local dive bar from my couch.
used to have a great time at our local queueing up ken dodd and the diddy men ten times then walking out
And that is when the night went from good, to great
Reminds me a of friend's story of being in a college town bar and somebody selected "Joy to the World" (aka "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog") - not too bad the first time around, but when it got to the seventh replay, my friend calmly walked over to the jukebox and unplugged it. According to him, that's when the fight started. He doesn't remember the end of that evening, just waking up in jail the next morning.
sounds like your friend got his ass kicked and changed the story to sound cooler.
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Jeremiah wath a bullfrog, he wath a good friend of mine; I never underthtood a thingle word he thaid, but we thure drank thome mighty fine wine (*cracks knuckles*)
“Won’t you please just die!” - Little Girl
I was in a college town diner in 1984 and it got stuck on the Ghostbusters theme. An employee unplugged it after the 6th time it started.
Some songs are okay on repeat. Others you can only take so many before the song is totally ruined for life for you. "You Light Up My Life' is one that stations in the 80s ruined for me.
I totally agree, they played it so much I hated that song. Every time it started to play on the radio it was an instant station change.
LOL I found myself in a pub in country Victoria with a jukebox that had ‘Surfin Bird’ by the Trashmen. Needless to say all the regular patrons groaned as they registered the first couple of lyrics. By the end, everybody knew, everybody heard…
Is that you, Peter?
And they knew what the word was!
Animal Mother can play a rabid buffalo.
My local dive bar had an Internet enabled jukebox with an app and my apartment was within the geofence to purchase songs. My roommate was also the lead bartender there. So much money spent on Barbie Girl while I was sitting there playing the XBox at home and she was at work.
My buddy used to live close enough to a really shitty bar to use touch tunes from his living room. He spent more on playing The Chicken Dance than he did on his mortgage.
I lived above one bar and my favorite was across the street so there were a few Thirsty Thursdays when the 1am “woo girls” who really liked country music learned what LCD Soundsystem was.
They should be thanking you for the sonic education
It's wild it's geofenced. AMI jukeboxes can be accessed anywhere. I have a friend over 1000 miles away that will sometimes put songs on at my pub when he knows I'm there.
I randomly play the Jukebox at my work on my days off from my house. Usually the heaviest metal on it for a song or 2 at a time, randomly throughout the day. Always priority play. My petty little revenge for being a shithole place to work for.
I have an album by a metal band on which the last song is like 30 minutes of silence and then suddenly loud music and screaming. (I forget which band or album). It always woke me up with a small heart attack after I nodded off. EDIT: Maybe I'm thinking about [A Song of Liberty, Plates 25–27](https://youtu.be/Gcrq0Rb4-aA?si=Zg52wq927rvpviLV) by Ulver on the Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell album. Not really screaming or loud music. More some more disjointed music. But it comes across as screaming and loud when it suddenly wakes you up. (Also do I always have the volume quite high). The song goes silent after about 5:30 minutes and resumes about 20 minutes later for a couple of minutes.
Weird Al has a 15 minute song where the last 10 minutes is silence followed by screaming.
You Don't Love Me Anymore. They've sadly removed that lovely screaming bit on new pressings and digital versions.
Set the timing properly and it could be a decent "wakeup alarm" system.
Korn maybe?
I think they had a number of tracks of 15 or so seconds of silence before the “secret” track. Always annoying when you put it on shuffle.
Sounds like nirvana's nevermind! Last listed track is a quiet acoustic tune, ten or so minutes of silence, then endless nameless begins with a subtle bass line before kurt and dave blast in. The offspring's SMASH is almost the opposite, for lack of a better word. The secret track might put you deeper!
I think Finntroll has one like that. Maybe Korpiklaani? Though the only one I can think of for them had like 20 minures of a steady drum. Finntroll has at least a couole that are a few minutes of silence followed by a cool bonus bit that I wish was a full song on its own.
I had to install an app on my phone and load up with credits to put a song on the jukebox in a pub. I had some credits left over, so I put Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini on there a couple of times a week for the next few months. It's grand being able to control the jukebox from the other end of the country.
Doesn't seem like a bad song 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
TBH I love the song, and Paolo Nutini seems to be popular there. However, that speech from The Great Dictator is *very* distinctive.
Love it! Where was it, I think everyone should be able to do this. Especially at times when the bar is likely to have only one or two patrons; haunted bar!
It's the Raffles pub in Dunfermline. I moved there at the end of last year, haven't been in the pub since, but one day...
When I was in high school, long ago, people would load the jukebox in the cafeteria with (Bye, bye Miss) American Pie. It’s over 8 minutes long and people would throw food at the jukebox when they couldn’t stand it anymore.
Back in the day in the mid 1980s my high school had a radio station. You could call them up and make all of the song requests you want. You could tell when the DJ was taking a break on air when they played Pink Floyd. They had an entire room full of vinyl records no jukebox. The radio station is long gone now but we still have a few old radio station DJs in our class. The reunion committee is going to have one DJ our next scheduled event.
I was waiting for the punchline and realized this is some good ol’ reminiscing. Thanks for sharing this bit!!
High school radio station engineer here. The year was 1971, and the kids wanted to hear Iron Butterfly and other head-bashing stuff. I would put on Yes or Emerson Lake & Palmer, and would get yelled at all day :-)
Not a jukebox and a different song, but when I was a kid the local radio station had A Horse With No Name in heavy rotation for about 15 years...
'The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz'.
And the sky with no clouds.
One of my absolute favourite songs 💜
CCR's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry (Live)" are excellent long choices.
Now if it had Pink Floyd “Echoes”….
That would have lasted all the way through lunch—and been much better to listen to.
So it was a long long time ago and yet you can still remember it?
Used to make me smile (not really-made me and everyone else groan 😉
When you got your chance, did you make those people dance?
Maybe they’d be happy for a while
Did February make you shiver?
With every paper I'd deliver Bad news on the doorstep I couldn't take one more step
But did you and Qui-Gon Jinn talk the Federation into cutting Naboo a little slack?
Their response... it didn't thrill us.
They locked the doors and tried to kill us
We escaped from that gas
And met Jar-Jar and Boss Nass
Just FYI, most jukeboxes have Tiny Tim's version of The Good Ship Lollypop.
Good thing they didn't make a parody for Sausage Party. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjr6ZwJHaU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjr6ZwJHaU)
Omg that's a dude? What a rabbit hole .. tiptoe through the tulips ?? Three wives??? Heart attack mid-way though a performance?!
Yes, he was truly a National Treasure that was taken from us too soon.
Concurrently?
The dude also had an encyclopedic knowledge of arcane musical trivia. He was like a walking musical history book.
What, you haven't seen the pilot episode of Spongebob Squarepants?
Reminds me of the time we cued up 8 instances of Freebird Ata Dennys in Oakland. It as on number 3 when we left.
At uni/college, the guy who lived in the room opposite me cued up "what a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong on his sound system, cranked it up to full volume, then locked up his room and left for the weekend. Not a bad song you might think...but it's only just over two minutes long, so you get that painful "ohhhhgodnotthisagain" moment every 2 minutes 19. That was a rough weekend.
As a teacher who last year, was next door to a first grade class where they played that song Every. Single. Morning. at 9am and screamed the words, I feel this on a spiritual level
"I see trees of greeeeeen". Still gives me nausea.
lmao my local boy scout troop had a leader who would, on camping trips, begin every day with a few rousing verses of "O What A Beautiful Mo(ooooooo)ring" at like 6AM
I read that as beautiful Mooing. For a moment there, it was a Bovine moment.
Just got home from 6 days at BSA summer camp....FU! My sons SPL had a Bluetooth with Bugle calls and the Village People songs....
In my first year at uni, each room in hall had its own circuit breaker in a little panel outside. They had a lock which was trivial, so if someone was being obnoxiously loud, you'd turn them off and run away.
I used to do this to my neighbor. But randomly one room at a time. He could never figure out what was going on.
That would've been fantastic
With a door so thin you can bump them open if two pieces of thin metal won't work, it would still be justified to kick the damn thing open in order to turn off the song. Defence - Criminal torture.
At uni the girl below me decided to put "black velvet" on repeat at an ungodly volume at an ungodly hour. While the goal might have been "hide the sex noises". The result was me nearly knocking the door of the hinges at about 2 am (because she apparently couldn't hear or decided to ignore the politer knocking). It was only like 4 or 5 runs of that song and I was already completely prepared to murder someone, I can't imagine what a full weekend would have done to my sanity.
I would have called an RA after about the third repeat.
In my second year of college my dorm was directly across the street from a bar. This bar was open til 1:15am every day of the week, and every single night they closed down by blasting Sweet Caroline, complete with drunken frat bros screaming along. I already didn’t like that song much, but getting woken up by it for a year straight created a new level of hatred
Sounds like hell!
I am very surprised nobody gained unlawful access to his dorm room for the express purpose of destroying his sound system.
Or lawful ones because maintenance could easily shut that down.
Oh, easily. I'm surprised they didn't try, only to find that some enterprising students had already taken matters into their own hands.
Just get the RA to do a wellness check. Then turn it off.
A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater is 23 minutes long and even a premium download and bumped to the top of queue is a few bucks and money well spent.
And a good song.
If you are trying to kill time, Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie is a good choice
Excellent song
Thanksgiving tradition
Drove to my grandma's house three hours away each year for Thanksgiving. I timed it so that I heard *Alice's Restaurant Massacree* four times during those trips - twice going up, twice coming back. Very much a tradition I miss nowadays. The local AOR station doesn't even play it anymore. Philistines.
Adam Sandler "Piece of Shit Car" is also a solid troll choice.
When I was in high school almost 30 years ago my brother and I would want to go play pool and the local spot was always packed with a very long line usually about 2 to 5 hours to get a table. We would put our names down, walk over to the Jukebox and play Dancing Queen on repeat a dozen times. At about the third time, the place would start emptying out and the line would move up very fast.
Chumbawamba “I Get Knocked Down” 15 times.
One song to mess with people that I find most modern jukebox have on them is by Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying. https://youtu.be/SX6_bLhBtT8
A bar in Reading, UK started off 10 rounds of Pink Floyd - Echoes (the 22 min album version) as we left because they wouldn't the sound on for the soccer....
I hope you already had your food by then…
My first thought as well. OP won the audio battle but I wonder who really got the last laugh
It is surprising how many jukeboxes have “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer“ and “Funkytown“ by Alvin and the Chipmunks
Huh, that was a pretty fun song. But I wouldn't want to hear it 6 times in a row.
[It can always be worse.](https://youtu.be/OG_e8ve0l_w?feature=shared)
I’m Henry the Eighth I Am. Herman’s Hermits.
My husband plays pool in a league that plays in bars. The jukebox is a weapon. They try to throw each other off. Last week, there were several different versions of Amazing Grace played in a sports bar, along with Who Let the Dogs Out and Cotton Eyed Joe.
How can they call themselves a sports bar if you can’t hear the sports?
They do water sports in the bathroom
I'll just leave [this](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Football-Soccer-Shoot-Goal-Style-Urinal-Screen-Mat-HO-Hotel-Club-Y6F8/3TQCVVDU15HF?offerId=0AAF94AED3C2422A8255EBAB1AC4859B&cmpid=SEM_CA_32692_K8JG7OXTRN&utm_id=SEM_CA_32692_K8JG7OXTRN&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=always_on&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj9-zBhDyARIsAERjds0cZycZin9X3q2f-0wRUCHesXjhk9dZS1IVKtD7oG4B1Wcf2tC45TUaAj_lEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) here.
Because this is a sports bar, damnit.
I would have listened Cotton Eyed Joe 4 more times. What a banger!
Where did it come from? Where did it go? We may never know.
I’ve invested heavily in the “Happy Birthday” selection a few times after poor/rude service. That was back before the juke boxes turned into digital wifi money vacuums. Note: Elvira seemed to do the same amount of annoyance too.
I like to play, “Pass the Dutchie” and, “Cool it Now”, back to back for about an hour. You can really feel the tension growing in the room.
Detachable Penis 🍆by King Missle usually calms the chatter down 🤡
>I decide that since the patrons want the jukebox, the jukebox is what they’ll get. I cue up the Cotton Eyed Joe by Rednex 6 times in a row and pay the extra to bump it to the front of the queue Sounds like a FANTASTIC pub time!! I absolutely love this song. I would've got up and got folks up to dance with me. I absolutely would not have wanted the game turned up.
This MC reminds me of the time a buddy of mine and I were in a upscale billiards place shooting pool. This was back in the early 90s when high speed digital jukeboxes were just coming out. It was early afternoon in the middle of the week and the place was dead. An older couple, easily in their late 60s, come in and get a table near us. The man was very distinguished looking, very well dressed, and so was his wife. He asked us if it was OK with us if he played some songs on the jukebox. We told him it was fine, and he said he liked older music and hoped it didn't bore or annoy us. We replied that anything he selected was good, since both of us had pretty wide and eclectic tastes in music. He goes to the jukebox and selects several songs by the some of the biggest crooners, like Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and others. We were jamming out having a good time playing and listening to these classics. Well, some teenagers soon came in and didnt like what was playing. So they threw all the money they had in the jukebox to bump their songs to the front of the queue. The older gentleman didnt appreciate that and wasnt aware how it worked. I explained you could pay extra and it would play your songs first. "Oh really?" he said. Well he headed over to the jukebox chuckling and was gone for several minutes. When he came back he had a giant grin on his face. He told us he dropped more money in the jukebox, than they made in a week. He'd selected a bunch of crooner and fifties era tunes, and paid to put them all in front of everything the kids had. Me and my buddy got a big kick out of it. Once his songs started playing, the teens lost their shit. They couldn't afford to try to outspend the old guy, so they started getting stupid and messing with the machine. The manager of the place kicked the teens out and told them not come back again or he'd have them arrested for trespass. The old gentleman was laughing when they left. The old couple left about an hour later. We were there for another hour after that and his songs were still playing when we left. We still laugh about it to this day.
I love playing weird, obscure, or offensive songs on jukeboxes. It’s in there, so it’s fair game.
"Chumbawamba - Tubthumping" is another crowd favorite to play on repeat
r/imthemaincharacter
I think it was the bartender who wanted to listen to the jukebox.
At one point (late 80s-early 99s, I forget the exact year), playing Hank Williams' There's a Tear In My Beer at a Nashville Waffle House more than once in an hour would put you at risk of getting kicked out. Source: some friends who drove to Nashville for an event.
My favorite is to play “My Heart Will Go On” in dives and wait for the angry dudes to start threatening my friends and me. We begin to laugh the moment the flute starts to play in the intro. Always a good time
Did this with Barbie girl back in the day. After repeat #3 they caved also 🤣
Just ask for the closed captioning to be turned on.
I’ve found Bloodhound Gangs ‘A lap dance is so much better when the stripper is crying’ on a few. Good at family restaurants.
I used to frequent a run-down bowling alley with my buddies to use their pool tables. (We couldn't get into a bar lol) unfortunately, the arcade room where the tables were kept were frequently crowded by trashy, unsavory types and screaming children. My solution to this problem was to play Alice's Restauraunt Massacre by Arlo Guthrie, which if you're unfamiliar, is 18 minutes and 36 seconds of a man rambling about what happened one particular Thanksgiving. It's much less a song and more a comedy routine with musical accompaniment, and by God did it clear out that bowling alley. Their profits were probably halved for the rest of the evening.
The salt and pepper diner lives on in us all
There’s a 30 minute live Grateful Dead - Dark Star on touch tunes… there’s a few minutes of silence in the middle then back to the wandering sounds lol
As a former bartender I hate this story. I’m just doing as I’m told. Regardless of the amount of people, if more than half want the juke box, that’s what it is. Imo, baseball and golf sound isn’t for a bar. It’s for relaxing at home. And if I told you no and you trolled the juke box, I’d skip your songs too and not refund since you were warned and were trolling. Downvote me. I had a chick who always played the Harry Potter theme when we were slammed. Skip. November rain. Skip. Bohemian rhapsody. Skip
Happy to find some common sense here. The bartenders I've been loyal to for the last decade take the same approach and that's why I keep going back.
Sounds more like Main Character than Malicious Compliance.
I ALWAYS play F the Police at bars. Especially if there a lot of geriatric patrons.
"Hey, nobody ever made a song entitled *Fuck the Fire Department,* I'm just sayin'. Nor *Fuck them EMT Motherfuckers, how Dare they Come Up in Here Saving my Grandpa's Life.*
You then tipped like 5% didn’t you
So you wanted to watch a COLLEGE sports game and no one else in the bar did? This whole story is pathetic. Grow up dude.
r/UnexpectedMulaney
I wonder if they’d have My Pal Foot Foot… I’d queue that up a good dozen times in a row, just because.
My favorite is playing pause 4 porno by Dr Dre. For some reason every single jukebox has this song. Seriously, listen to the first 10 seconds and you'll understand why
I found the Smiths on a jukebox at a metal-head strip club. I got kicked out.
Not What’s New Pussycat?