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I'm lucky enough to have a local bar where I spend too much time, and one of the reasons I like it so much is because it has and has had a fantastic jukebox for the 2+ years I've been drinking there. After spending a copious amount of time in this place, the duty has fallen upon me to keep the jukebox awesome, and it needs a bit of an overhaul.
Being you're all so opinionated about music, I'm asking for your help; specifically, I'm looking for 3 record suggestions each for these categories:

60's classic rock
70's classic rock
hip hop
new music (new artists/records, preferabl from the last year or so)

if you're curious, this is a neighborhood bar in a hip part of brooklyn. the clientele tends to be young, ranging from pratt students (artholes), but mostly twenty and thirtysomethings with decent taste in music.

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I'm lucky enough to have a local bar where I spend too much time, and one of the reasons I like it so much is because it has and has had a fantastic jukebox for the 2+ years I've been drinking there. After spending a copious amount of time in this place, the duty has fallen upon me to keep the jukebox awesome, and it needs a bit of an overhaul.
Being you're all so opinionated about music, I'm asking for your help; specifically, I'm looking for 3 record suggestions each for these categories:

60's classic rock
70's classic rock
hip hop
new music (new artists/records, preferabl from the last year or so)

if you're curious, this is a neighborhood bar in a hip part of brooklyn. the clientele tends to be young, ranging from pratt students (artholes), but mostly twenty and thirtysomethings with decent taste in music.


ok which bar, please, for us bklynites

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For the 70's stuff, Ziggy Stardust?

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For the 70's stuff, Ziggy Stardust?

bowie is on my shortlist for the seventies, he's been off the jukebox for about a year and it's time for him to come back. i've heard that he's got a great live at the bbc record which could be good for this purpose, but i'd not feel bad about throwing ziggy on.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.


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hip hop: Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Digable Planets (old, I know, but still good to drink to), Roots, Outkast

Can't go wrong with Dylan and Springsteen, although those can make you suicidal after a few shots of Jameson.

My favorite Chicago bar has a lot of Yo La Tengo and Belle & Sebastian to choose from. That's why it's my favorite.

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I drank at some dive in NYC that had this and it was awesome. I also stole all their glasses as an apartment warming gift for my friend.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.


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hip hop: Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Digable Planets (old, I know, but still good to drink to), Roots, Outkast

Can't go wrong with Dylan and Springsteen, although those can make you suicidal after a few shots of Jameson.

My favorite Chicago bar has a lot of Yo La Tengo and Belle & Sebastian to choose from. That's why it's my favorite.


i'm definitely throwing on Digable Planets (blowout comb) as they're from the neighborhood, and namecheck the next streetcorner down in several songs. kanye's actually getting axed because no one plays his record...

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THIN LIZZY!!!!!!!


yes.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:24 pm 
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60's classic rock

The Standells "Have You Ever Spent A Night In Jail?"
Paul Revere & the Raiders "Kicks"
Goldie and the Gingerbreads "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat?"

70's classic rock

Lee Micheals "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Pagliaro "Lovin' You Ain't Easy"
Hawkwind "Motorhead"

hip hop

Um, yeah... I'll get back to you on that...

new music (new artists/records, preferabl from the last year or so)

Anything that isn't listed in this thread


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60's:

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Otis Redding - Otis Blue


70's:

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Hip Hop:


Dre - The Chronic
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Oukast - Stankonia (for the sole reason of drunken Bombs Over Baghdad sessions)


Newer:

New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm


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A jukebox has to have some:

Rolling Stones (with sympathy for the devil)
CCR (with Heard it thru the grapevine)
Pearl Jam (preferrably vs.)


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Recent stuff...

I second Twin Cinema
Strokes' last one
even Green Day - American Idiot has good stuff (ignoring a few popular patty's)

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:33 pm 
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60's classic rock

The Standells "Have You Ever Spent A Night In Jail?"
Paul Revere & the Raiders "Kicks"
Goldie and the Gingerbreads "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat?"

70's classic rock

Lee Micheals "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Pagliaro "Lovin' You Ain't Easy"
Hawkwind "Motorhead"


you're making me feel young, i don't know any of these records.

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60's:

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
Otis Redding - Otis Blue


70's:

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Hip Hop:


Dre - The Chronic
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Oukast - Stankonia (for the sole reason of drunken Bombs Over Baghdad sessions)


Newer:

New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm


a surprising amount of these are already in the jukebox, most of which staying, a few i have to switch out. well done mr. derris.

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Mr. Mister Wrote:
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60's classic rock

The Standells "Have You Ever Spent A Night In Jail?"
Paul Revere & the Raiders "Kicks"
Goldie and the Gingerbreads "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat?"

70's classic rock

Lee Micheals "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Pagliaro "Lovin' You Ain't Easy"
Hawkwind "Motorhead"


you're making me feel young, i don't know any of these records.

Just sayin' - you want the jukebox to be cool, don't you?


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Radcliffe Wrote:
60's classic rock

The Standells "Have You Ever Spent A Night In Jail?"
Paul Revere & the Raiders "Kicks"
Goldie and the Gingerbreads "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat?"

70's classic rock

Lee Micheals "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Pagliaro "Lovin' You Ain't Easy"
Hawkwind "Motorhead"


you're making me feel young, i don't know any of these records.

Just sayin' - you want the jukebox to be cool, don't you?


haha. i do want a few obscure records, for the occasional super music dork that does come in. and they occasionally do; some obscure records that i loved happened to be in the jukebox when i first started hanging out there, one of the reasons i'm still hanging out there.

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a surprising amount of these are already in the jukebox, most of which staying, a few i have to switch out. well done mr. derris.



Well a lot of em are pretty much staples that any good jukebox must have.

For me, listening to a jukebox at a bar should be fun. I don't have to know every song but I don't want it so obscure that I don't know ANY songs.


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a surprising amount of these are already in the jukebox, most of which staying, a few i have to switch out. well done mr. derris.



Well a lot of em are pretty much staples that any good jukebox must have.

For me, listening to a jukebox at a bar should be fun. I don't have to know every song but I don't want it so obscure that I don't know ANY songs.


agreed, which is the reason i'm getting a rid of a lot of good records; in a perfect world, folks would know them and play them, but instead they do niether. but one or two super-music-dork discs is reasonable, as long as they sound good

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for chrissakes, please fill it with some punk rock. dive bars are lackin' in the punk dept.


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Mr. Mister Wrote:
Rick Derris Wrote:
For me, listening to a jukebox at a bar should be fun. I don't have to know every song but I don't want it so obscure that I don't know ANY songs.


agreed, which is the reason i'm getting a rid of a lot of good records; in a perfect world, folks would know them and play them, but instead they do niether. but one or two super-music-dork discs is reasonable, as long as they sound good

I say the key to a great jukebox is filling it with songs that people recognize but don't quite know. You play a song like Lee Micheals "Do You Know What I Mean" (for example) and people will perk up, because somewhere in the back of their mind they'll remember it.


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for chrissakes, please fill it with some punk rock. dive bars are lackin' in the punk dept.


it's not exactly a dive, and we've got the punk dept covered pretty nicely. the owner fucking loves punk.

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Mr. Mister Wrote:
Dalen of the Corn Wrote:
for chrissakes, please fill it with some punk rock. dive bars are lackin' in the punk dept.


it's not exactly a dive, and we've got the punk dept covered pretty nicely. the owner fucking loves punk.


ahh, beautiful, you're all good then.


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Wesley Willis. That first greatest hits should do the trick. It sounds crazy, but when I worked a bar (we played our own shit), people would request it.

Mary Prankster :: Roulette Girl for the chicks.

Hip-hop is tough. I like the Stankonia rec, and I'm also gonna throw out some "I'm Bad" era LL Cool J.

We used to play the hell out of that Replacements twofer "All for Nothing / Nothing for All".

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