I prefer to do this with “Do you believe in life after love”. We call it a Cher bomb.
Best part is it’s basically a bell curve of how into it people get. Starts off alow, maybe one or two. By the third play, most of the bar is feeling it. And then all downhill from there
Can you actually play a song back-to-back on a jukebox?
Except right between the 7th and 8th playing of Rockstar, I put Photograph.
Nickelback is the new Tom Jones.
I’d say that’s Not Unusual at all…
What’s new, pussycat?
So that’s how you get a crowd of people to be happy with hearing Photograph!
Well every time I do, it makes me laugh.
I once did that but with Fagget fairies - feed the horse, i was told to never come back 😅
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I genuinely like this song. I wouldn’t want to listen to it over and over, but I wouldn’t with any song
Well taste is subjective and i like some pretty weird shit too, so whom am i to judge 🤷
same! I added it to my playlist.
thanks, @Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world!
Waaaaaay back, I was at the student center bowling alley at NIU in DeKalb, IL. Dumped a $20 bill into the jukebox and played every Led Zeppelin song they had.
About twenty minutes later, I hear, “WHO THE FUCK PLAYED ALL THIS FUCKING ZEPPELIN?”
Fifteen minutes after that: “JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!”
This ranks as one of the proudest moments of my life.
I cannot fathom a bowling alley crowd complaining about Led Zep… ~sigh
It was college students circa 1992.
One time I went to a bar with one of these machines and I paid for like 3 songs. Well someone behind me paid extra to prioritize their songs so for 2 hours I heard nothing but Metallica and didn’t hear a single one of my songs.
So right before I left I also paid extra to have this song played immediately, six times in a row.
Who the fuck designed that jukebox, Satan himself?! Both the prioritization function and having that Björk cacophony installed are downright evil.
The prioritization feature is great because, at least on TouchTunes, not even the owner can skip a prioritized song. Unplug the machine and it’ll just resume the song when you start it back up.
Nothing took the wind out of obnoxious drunken revellers quite like what I called The Hard Reset: Miserere mei, Deus followed by Feels So Good followed by the 3 or 4 longest Allman Brothers Band songs available. It worked best when they had Mountain Jam.
The touch tunes we have always allows you to skip songs.
Then this might be an older version, or else my establishment had fucked theirs up
I’m so confused why jukeboxes would even offer songs like those.
(Part of it might be that I’m not the kind of person who goes to the kinds of places that have jukeboxes in the first place. When I think of one, I’m still thinking of the kind of machine that has a bunch of CDs in it and an interface simple enough to be either one button per song, or reading a numbered paper list and typing in the number, so maybe 100 or so choices max.)
They’re fully digital now and stream their songs from an internet connection, with a small amount of local storage as well.
Yeah, I figured. But even then, letting people pick >10 minute songs seems like a bad idea – if not for the sanity of the other patrons, then at least for the profitability of the machine (e.g. preferring to charge for three 3-minute “radio edit” songs instead of one long one).
But I paid a whole quarter, I should be able to listen to the FULL version of Alice’s Restaurant
Only if it’s Thanksgiving, you Group W degenerate!
Satan is corporate. Nothing better than getting people to fuck each other over for your profits.
omg lmaoooo! I saved a note with the name of that song in case I’m ever in that situation.
Man that was awful. I thought I’d force myself to listen to the whole thing but I bailed before a minute passed. That’ll empty a bar.
Holy mother of all things evil that was bad 😂
So right before I left I also paid extra to have this song played immediately, six times in a row.
Calm down Satan.
Just need to queue up a Echoes like 5 times in a row.
I used to do this as a kid at Pizza Hut except with Cher’s “Do you believe in life after love” song. Made ‘Book It’ trips that much better.
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So…What’s new pussycat?
Straight to jail.
I once did that on St. Patrick’s Day but with $20 worth of Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies. Except for I hit every bar in town.
Get there, get a pitcher of beer with green food coloring, order up $20 worth of Drunken Lullabies, then go on to the next bar once it starts playing. I think most of them were like 2-3 plays per dollar so 40-60 times…
By the time I had gotten to the last bar, there were a couple people crying. Like EVERY single bar in town was only playing Drunken Lullabies all day.
My God it was glorious.
Some people just want to watch the world burn…
Can’t bar tenders usually skip that shit?
wait. is this some kind of programable universal remote? like those things that would shut off any tv within 20 feet or whathaveyou?
kinda,
btw my old phone had a programmable ir blaster, had a ton of fun with it!A tomagachi for hackers. Runs nfc, rfid, subghz, etc.
Gold
I hate to be that guy, but all the stories in this thread are fake because the bartenders can just skip the songs. For exactly this reason. As if the people who designed these machines didn’t think of this exact thing.
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Some bars, but not all. I have worked a few places where they don’t let us skip the jukebox.
Do they know they can? I’m guessing they need the app to do it. I’m guessing, because I’ve successfully done this twice.
There is a physical remote control device for the touch tunes machine which can be used to control the volume and playback and stuff.
That just ruins the fun
And they all have this? I’ve seen bartenders go all the way up to the machine and use and pay like a regular customer when I’m sure they would’ve used the remote if they had it
I don’t know about these modern things like shown in the meme, but all the juke boxes in my area when a place has one at all, is old as fuck (most of them still use 45’s) and can’t skip songs. At least, not without unplugging and resetting the whole machine.
I m the bartender and I will not skip the song I want to see them suffer.
Also there is no other bar around so they will come back. With fear.
They might even skip songs they don’t like. If you don’t want me playing Lamb of God why the fuck is it available in the jukebox?
I was with a group years ago where one guy did this at a Pizza Hut. He put in about $10 and played Happy Birthday repeatedly. But it wasn’t just some normal version of the song. Instead it was some crazy, jazzed up version with multiple singers, firecrackers, etc.
Just incredibly obnoxious.After about the 8th play through, the manager unplugged the jukebox. The guy who put in the money started an argument with the manager about how now he’s lost his money. After some back and forth, the manager gave up and refunded him $5 … but also made the mistake of plugging the jukebox back in.
Well you can guess what happened next.
We got loudly kicked out after that.
