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3 seconds later the bartender clears the queue and OP wasted $20 to annoy nobody.
As a former bartander / bar manager, we skipped bad plays ALL the time.
I bet. I’ve seen karaoke night, it’s brutal how many shitty renditions of “fuck her gently” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” you have to sit through.
The trick is to play one thing inexplicably awful that the bartender won’t realize is so just by looking at the name.
Like Ram Ranch. Like, sure they’ll probably cancel it after about 20 seconds when they realize what the fuck is going on. But you still got everyone in the bar to hear about gay cowboys for 20 seconds.
My goto is Good Lookin’ - such a generic title and sound that almost nobody recognizes it even if they’ve heard it before. Takes at least a solid minute before someone notices over the bar background noise and complains about it.
Definitely learned that lesson, but I just wanted to listen to Dillinger Escape Plan in a college bar.
My friends and I used to do this with a song by drum and bass dj Goldie. For some reason touch tunes had a set of his that lasted 45 minutes, we would throw that in 3+ times in a row and bounce. Worst part, the beginning and end would bleed together really well so you really couldn’t tell it restarted. So for $4 the bar would have 2+ hours of drum and bass.
Eventually the bartenders caught on and would shut off the touch tune when we would show up.
Outstanding. It’s like picking stuff like November Rain and Free Bird to make the most of your money.
In a similar vein, one of my old haunts had a jukey, but the button under the bar to skip tracks was fucked. So, we’d get towards the end of our drinks, put two quid in the jukey, pick two decent songs to give us six or seven minutes to finish our drinks, then queue up a load of Christmas songs… in June.
We’d drink up, fuck off, and sit smugly in the next pub knowing there was half hour of Mariah Carey & co. blaring out at the previous pub which couldn’t be skipped. Good times.
We can’t accept drum and bass. We need jungle, I’m afraid.
So hating Nickleback become a meme which actually managed to keep the band alive for way longer then other bands in the same category. They still managed to get concerts with great reception for a very long time after their prime with Photograph.
I saw one interview where they said that once the “hate” dies they’ll not know what to do.
I actually enjoy a number of Nickleback songs. The “hate” was meme’d to the heavens but the band isn’t really that bad and Chad Kroeger legit has a good singing voice.
His singing voice is pretty polarizing I’d say, a lot of people don’t like it.
I slot them right next to Imagine Dragons; commercial pop rock, all their shit sounds the same, it’s scenery, I don’t need to go watch em for two hours or buy an album but it doesn’t bother me.
I file them under “constipated rock,” because that voice sounds like he’s laboring on the toilet as he “sings.”
I can’t stand his singing.
“What is an Imagine Dragon, anyway?”
“Imagine Dragon deez nutz across your face.”
I found a ten hour loop of in the air tonight that never gets to the drum break. Takes surprisingly long before anyone notices.
I think I found it
Nah that just does the drum loop for ten hours.
I couldn’t find a version that never gets to the drum fill. Yours is good.
Also this one is pretty great (drummer’s version with a 99 tom drum fill): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tnaZw-uTE
I grew up surfing in the late-90s early-00s, and we’d always paddle in to go to the same place for lunch. They had a jukebox and we always put on Yellow Submarine simply because one time flicking through someone thought it sounded funny, and turns out the song’s a bit of a joke. The owner hated the ritual, but he knew we’d put on Stairway To Heaven next and leave.
We chose Stairway To Heaven as loosely as we did Yellow Submarine. Never heard it before, but we had heard of it. Those two songs covered scoffing down lunch and then we’d paddle back out for the afternoon session.
This occured for years until we grew up and left town pursuing adult things as newly born adults now out of highschool.
The owner was a great guy. Told us as much as he hates Yellow Submarine, he was going to miss us as much as he loved Stairway To Heaven (along those lines anyway). We never learned each other’s names, but he always gave us shit when we walked in and told us to enjoy our surf when we left. Those two songs and that jukebox remind me of him all these years later and I’m sure they remind him of us punk ass surfer brats.
Touchtunes figured out people were doing this kind of thing and gave bars the ability to skip songs.
There’s a bar close enough to my place that I can sit on the patio and listen to the music. I regularly use touch tunes to change the music because some people over there just have bad taste.
What’s New Pussycat twenty times, with one It’s Not Unusual dropped somewhere in the middle.
Edit: and pour one out for the Salt & Pepper Diner.
Hmm, What’s New Pussycat is a lot longer than I thought it was…
The more I learn about Nickelback, the more I realise they are not as bad as everyone says.
I can’t remember the band or the song, but there was a jam band song that went in for 40ish minutes at a bar I used to go to. You could play it four times for a dollar.
Me, with a flipper zero: SkipSkipSkipSkip…
Well you know what they say:
I’m through with standing in lines to clubs I’ll never get in,
It’s like the bottom of the ninth and I’m never gonna win,
This life hasn’t turned out quite the way I want it to beSearch your feelings, you know it to be true.
A group of my friends used this technique differently. We used this to get rid of assholes. The group of assholes all liked techno for some reason. So when there were too many in the bar, we chipped in for the jukebox and played around 20 metal songs in a row. The assholes were all gone after 15 min when they realized, they’ll be hearing Rammstein for the next 2 hours.
weezer buddy holly
No that one’s cool—but no more than three times
Back when the song was super popular, I had a friend catch a ride with another friend on a 4ish hour drive to another city. How You Remind Me the entire ride
