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[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except right between the 7th and 8th playing of Rockstar, I put Photograph.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nickelback is the new Tom Jones.

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say that's Not Unusual at all...

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[–] thanevim@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's how you get a crowd of people to be happy with hearing Photograph!

[–] Waffles@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Well every time I do, it makes me laugh.

[–] eldoom@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] H2207@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Some people just want to watch the world burn...

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s new, pussycat? WHOAAAAAAOOOAAAOOOAAAAAAO

[–] lingh0e@lemmy.film 12 points 1 year ago

Bwap-Bwap-Bwaaaaamp!

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

https://youtu.be/_qMfQlVDGu0?si=gz8iyzfVG4E3eic1

[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the fuck designed that jukebox, Satan himself?! Both the prioritization function and having that Björk cacophony installed are downright evil.

Satan is corporate. Nothing better than getting people to fuck each other over for your profits.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

omg lmaoooo! I saved a note with the name of that song in case I'm ever in that situation.

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a physical remote control device for the touch tunes machine which can be used to control the volume and playback and stuff.

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[–] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Some bars, but not all. I have worked a few places where they don't let us skip the jukebox.

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 17 points 1 year ago

So...What's new pussycat?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

First thing that came to mind lol

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

For those of use that have not had the pleasure of this relevant skit.

[–] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] skooma_king@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That song is a banger, I'd chill for a while.

[–] LurkNoMore@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, the band gets their 10 cents, the jukebox gets its money, and the bar mutes the jukebox....

I don't see how this makes any sense.

[–] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

We have a skip button on the jukebox remote; somebody played Nickelback two separate times during one of my shifts last week, and I just skipped it both times.

This kind of thing happens periodically and you have to skip certain songs for the greater benefit of the bar. If somebody complains that I skipped Monster Mash or whatever I'll give them a dollar back.

[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mmmbop is a banger though

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed

over and over

[–] CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I did this with "The Final Countdown". It was a really popular and a bit repetitive.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Chenzo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

wait. is this some kind of programable universal remote? like those things that would shut off any tv within 20 feet or whathaveyou?

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Straight to jail.

[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I don't always hate Nickelback (I know, I know) but I absolutely hate Rockstar.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I once did that but with Fagget fairies - feed the horse, i was told to never come back 😅

Link for those who wants their ears to bleed

https://youtu.be/ra1mikwlEwY?si=_1D2FEULztsTZmTx

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I cannot fathom a bowling alley crowd complaining about Led Zep... ~sigh

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It was college students circa 1992.

[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I genuinely like this song. I wouldn't want to listen to it over and over, but I wouldn't with any song

[–] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well taste is subjective and i like some pretty weird shit too, so whom am i to judge 🤷

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've got an idead! brb...

Ok, I'm back...tadaaa!

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[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just need to queue up a Echoes like 5 times in a row.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For me, it's Crank That by Soulja Boy..

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Can you actually play a song back-to-back on a jukebox?

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