What's a good song to play on a bar's jukebox if you wanted to annoy everyone?
What's a good song to play on a bar's jukebox if you wanted to annoy everyone?
Inspired by this post: https://lemmy.world/post/5832584?scrollToComments=true
What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
3921 times in a row.
14Woah woah woah woah woah
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What’s new pussycat - John Mulaney has a bit about doing just that
36If I were to throw a guess I'd say that's what inspired the question.
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Echoes by Pink Floyd. Mostly because it’s 23 minutes long. So if the jukebox doesn’t take total track time into account when leering you pick, you can eat an entire hour of playtime with only three credits.
People will be okay with the first play. The song is dynamic enough that it doesn’t feel overly repetitive. Then the second one starts, and people start to go “wow I don’t remember the song being this long.” By the time the second one has wrapped up, some people have clued in. Then the third one rolls around, and people are ready for something that isn’t Echoes, but you still have another 23 minutes to go.
23It also lines up perfectly with part 3 of 2001 Space Odyssey.
3Well, I know what I'm doing Friday night.
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Call me maybe, that shit is a massive ear worm and seems to annoy a whole generation.
16The 20 minute track of Arlo Guthrie talking about Alice's Restaurant might be a decent pick.
15If you do that on the night before thanksgiving, it’ll just make me happy
4A fellow Coloradoan I assume? Only learned about the tradition over the radio my second winter in the state.
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🎶You can get anything you want....🎶
2The fact I want to downvote this means it is a good choice. Well done.
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I've put a lot of work into this, over the years.
What you're trying to do is build an expectation that you can subvert, and make the transition between songs as jarring as possible.
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what you need is a quiet song first, something like "Total eclipse of the heart" or Taylor Swift's a "Tim McGraw", something that ends on a quiet, wistful, note.
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then Karma by Wacka Flocka.
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then something else quiet, maybe a ballad.
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then Karma again.
You don't get exasperated sighs, and people looking around the bar angrily without the second repetition.
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If I wanted to annoy an entire bar, I wouldn't limit it to a single song. You gotta judge the vibe of the bar first. Biker bar? Death metal might be welcomed there. Some young college bar with a bunch of yuppie-barely-legal-to-drink kids, they might not enjoy it. With that, pick a theme. Biker bar? Hit 'em with the full Kidz Bop compilation. Young college bar? Maybe the death metal, or something classical.
9something like Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex?
8Surfing Bird
8Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts by by Manowar
A 28-and-a-half-minute hair metal song that is a retelling of The Iliad. It even has an extended drum solo.
If someone can hang with this track, they are a true gem of a person.
8Honestly if it's not too loud it sounds like ok background music.
3I unironically love the song. But I have actively trolled a bar with an internet juke box using it several times.
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Of course you have to follow it with The Odyssey by Symphony X, a 24-minute symphonic metal track.
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I was bouncing at a bar in college when Lady Gaga was first getting huge, and we had a touchtunes that would play two songs for a dollar. So, sorority girls would come in put a dollar in, and play one lady gaga song and one other popular song at the time. It seemed like every third or fourth song was lady gaga. Being a sober person amongst drunk people playing the same songs all night long was getting on my nerves.
Lucky for me, there was a bar top game machine that also had touch tunes worked into the system. And, even luckier for me, I could play next for a dollar instead of the usual two dollars.
Every time lady gaga played, I'd put a dollar into the bar top console and I'd play next Hall & Oates "Rich Girl". Yes, I'd probably lose money most of my tip out doing this, but it was worth it for me.
Took a couple nights for my manager to catch on, and he got a kick out of it. And it went on like this for a month or so until he got annoyed with it and told me to knock it off. Which I mostly did, but I'd still do it a couple times a night.
The best part for me was some sorority girl who asked her group of friends when my song came on, "what's with this song playing all the time?"
7Was having dinner in Janesville, WI one night. Someone pulled up Kid Rock's All Summer Long on repeat, it had played like 20 times by the time we left. Every time it started again, someone in the bar would shout "FUCK!"
7That reminds me of when I was in college and my friend tried to put Bjork, Human Behavior on. Touch screen kiosks in the 90s didn't work so well and it wouldn't start so he kept putting it in.
After the 2nd time it played he waved apologetically at everyone.
After the 4th time it played, he said we had to leave.
It started again on our way out.
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Play a whole album in a row. One time my buddy and I queued up all of Dark Side of the Moon at a pool hall. Obviously some people loved it and some didn't... :-)
6Even better: half of an album followed by the final half of a different album by the same artist.
9That would only annoy people who hate the artist. To fans, it would just be a rock block.
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I once pissed off the owner of a bar who was being a dick to my friend who worked there by playing "Hammer Smashed Face" by Cannibal Corpse 5 times in a row. It's really heavy death metal and was abrasive to most of his customers.
6I felt bad about doing Meathook Sodomy from Cannibal Corpse...Hammer Smashed face was fun
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Alternate between tracks of Oasis's (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and a chronological listing of Weird Al polka medleys.
6Don't threaten me with a good time (and I guess I could tolerate Oasis, too).
2Aside from the short instrumental tracks, WtSMG is a great album. Hello has a better chord progression than like 99% of rock songs
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Elvira - The Oakridge Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGKatCAQed0
I know this from experience because when this song was fairly new, we were eating in a Pizza Hut and a kids Little League team came in after their game and proceeded to occupy a good portion of the restaurant. I swear every damn one of those kids had a quarter for the jukebox and every one of them picked that song. And if that wasn't bad enough, they all just had to frickin' sing along with it on top of that! I remember a couple of those little turds waving their arms like conductors...
5Sweet Caroline - play it 4-5 times on repeat, then give someone false hope by throwing something in the middle before you hit them with another 4x repeat. We did this at a local ice cream shop in high school and it convinced the staff the machine was defective. They unplugged it for a few months afterward.
5Ahh yes. The Mullaney Maneuver.
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Fagget fairies - feed the horse, a lot of people hate that song with a passion.
4I normally put on Englebert Humperdinck please release me as I'm leaving.
4Permanently Deleted
3I'm Too Shy Hush Hush Eye to Eye
3Clarence Carter - Strokin'
Karaoke isn't a competition but, if it were, you would win singing this one.
3If it's a jukebox linked up to Spotify, Rock and Roll McDonalds
3RIP Wesley Willis.
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Goodbye Sober Day by Mr. Bungle. That ending usually turns some heads.
3The Closing Song - Red Peters
3Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin: Je t'aime
3Achy Breaky Heart or The Macarena would be my go tos!
3Anything by abba
2Don't bother with dancing queen, that's overdone. Try something like Arrival.
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Meathook sodomy
2Duel of the Fates from Star Wars Episode I.
2Hey now…
2Hey now, don't dream it's over
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My friend the witch doctor
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1Democratic Order of Planets?
1Damn some Neutrals!
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Underworld Rez/Cowgirl
1They asked for annoying, not awesome.
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This one
https://youtu.be/x_xFS-05XUc?feature=shared
The lyrics are: i know a song that can drive you mad. But i imagine its even more annoying if ypu dont understand the lyrics
Good luck finding it on a jukebox though
0Achey Breaky Heart
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