• archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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    16 days ago

    For years, scientists have long wondered, can you make grown men and women weep tears of joy by playing Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual”, and the answer is yes, you can, so long as it is preceded by seven “What’s New Pussycat”'s.

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • Snailpope@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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      16 days ago

      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.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I hate these threads. Do people not get that bar tenders can skip whatever, or shut it down, or play whatever they want?

      • turdcollector69@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        The amount of times I saw posts on reddit saying “upvote this so the top Google result is this political meme” despite that being disproved years ago tells me that the average tech literacy of users is abysmal.

        Generally speaking most things that people interact with are black boxes to them. They only know that X output occurs with Y input, they no idea or care about what happens in-between.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Even before this touch tunes shit, the bar tenders would have some basic control over the machine. Or just simply unplug it if you pulled this kind of shit. And if you kept doing it, they would kick you out of the bar. And/or security or a group of regulars would make sure you had a very unpleasant time, and would not want to come back. What fantasy world do people live in, where they are so out of touch with real world consequences.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

    • OR3X@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      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.

      • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        16 days ago

        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.

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    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.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      16 days ago

      There was a pool hall/bar in lake Park called mizrack’s that had an old school juke box that would physically pull a cd like the record playing ones of yore. I played “supper’s ready” by Genesis 10 times with a $5 bill before getting one beer and leaving. I used to be a terrible person, I still am, but I used to be as well.