A perfect bar jukebox

Mr. Mister · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:17 pm

Elvis Fu Wrote:

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".

replacements is aboslutly going in
i'm leaning more towards Bigge Smalls than LL cool j, but haven't made up my mind yet. outkast is also going in, but i can't decide on which one

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:42 pm

Some of these one-hit wonders from this thread would be cool: http://www.audioasylum.com/scripts/t.pl?f=rock&m=64319

Freakster · **Joined:** Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:00 pm **Posts:** 71

the wipers - is this real?
the kinks - something else or village green
crooked fingers - crooked fingers
t.rex - electric warrior
love - da capo
the exploding hearts - guitar romantic
the futureheads - the futureheads
mf doom - anything

you're welcome!

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:57 pm

spill the wine - eric burdon & war
christmas (baby please come home) - darlene love

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

johnny cash comp
exile on main st
prince (comp or album, i dunno)

tribe - low end theory
nas - illmatic
jay z - vol 2, 3 or the black album

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:00 pm

wu-tang enter the 36 chambers
ultramagnetic mc's critical beatdown
the black keys thickfreakness
the undertones true confessions
andre williams silky
slayer reign in blood
bombay the hard way guns cars & sitars
turbonegro ass cobra
hot snakes suicide invoice
archers of loaf vee vee
ice cube amerikkka's most wanted
mudhoney every good boy deserves fudge
al green greatest hits

i'd love to be able to do this.

Dalen · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:29 pm

you've gotta have some Oasis.

shiv · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:47 pm

Dalen of the Corn Wrote:

you've gotta have some Ogaysis.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:47 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

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.

Very, very true.

There's a local radio dj who also books at a club down the street where I play a lot. He's the KING of that. Between sets, he goes over to the jukebox and pulls shit out that makes me go "...ohhhh Yeah. THAT song."

Dalen · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:54 pm

belial Wrote:

Dalen of the Corn Wrote:

you've gotta have some Ogaysis.

fak off twaaaaat!

you're lucky you chose slayer "reign in blood."

i woulda went with "altar of sacrifice."

telescope · **Posted:** Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:54 pm

Lots of recs I agree with. Only other one I can come up with is Avalanches

seafoam · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:11 am

Radcliffe Wrote:

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.

I agree. I always look for the tunes that probably don't get hit much but get people goin' "oh yeah." And, "You know what I mean" is a perfect example.

Then again its been a long time since I've been in a bar long enough to pick a tune.

That being said, I'm still a sucker for "I Fought the Law" and "Runaway."

shiv · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:53 am

Dalen of the Corn Wrote:

belial Wrote:

Dalen of the Corn Wrote:

you've gotta have some Ogaysis.

fak off twaaaaat!

you're lucky you chose slayer "reign in blood."

i woulda went with "altar of sacrifice."

that's not even an album dummy. :lol:

Mr. Mister · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:12 pm

thanks for the recs folks, keep them coming, it's proving to be pretty handy as i'm making my choices

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:24 pm

Probably too obvious, but..

Doors - S/T or Morrison Hotel
Band - Music from Big Pink or S/T
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?

Television - Marquee Moon
Sly & the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

Public Enemy - Nation of Millions..., Fear of a Black Planet
DJ Shadow - Entroducing..., Private Press, Preemptive Strike
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, Check Your Head

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head

puma · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:12 pm

Mr. Mister Wrote:

i'm leaning more towards Bigge Smalls than LL cool j, but haven't made up my mind yet. outkast is also going in, but i can't decide on which one

ATliens or aquemini.

as far as hip-hop goes, nothing like classic 90s era at your favorite dive: tribe (low end theory), digable, das efx, de la soul (3 ft high & rising), biggie (ready to die but life after death is good too), etc.

newer:
modest mouse - the lonesome crowded west
yyy's - fever to tell
hot chip - the warning

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:29 pm

I vote Skee-lo or Montell Jordan

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

I don't dislike hip hop, but I really don't want to hear it in a bar any more than I want to hear jazz in a bar

FT · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:17 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

spill the wine - eric burdon & war

bad.

ass.

Mr. Mister · **Posted:** Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:26 pm

so, i finished this yesterday, and the bar owner took nearly all of my suggestions. meaning that about 1/3 of my bar's juke box is now mine. fuck yeah.

thanks for the help, i did pull some things from this thread!
and if anyone's a super dork and wants to see what i did, i'll post or send the list of what i changed/added.

fuse · **Posted:** Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:53 pm

billy g Wrote:

I don't dislike hip hop, but I really don't want to hear it in a bar any more than I want to hear jazz in a bar

Depends on the bar. Had a neighborhood bar as a lad that had Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" and it was perfect. Especially cause four of the songs on there are around 10 minutes long.

You gotta have some soul. Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield - all essential.

And I would burn any bar to the ground that played the fucking Doors.

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