My cousins run a pub in The Beaches area of Toronto. It's a franchise of the Firkin chain, but as far as chains go pretty cool, with regular customers and whatnot. My cousins are all Deadheads, and would probably leave the Grateful Dead channel on uninterrupted if Firkin didn't supply music. Regardless they want to sidestep that playlist, so have asked me for playlists to the tune of, you know, "classic rock hour", "contemporary youngster music", "lunchtime listening", etc. A mixture of feels for various pub vibe occasions.

I know what I know but I'm not sure I can do this effectively. I have multiple gigs of Neil Young that would be perfect if every pub-goer resembled me. Do you have any thoughts for current and classic albums or, better, playlists that I could send their way?

Pub rock comes to mind...

Brinsley Schwarz
Frankie Miller
Tenpole Tudor
J. Giles Band
Ducks Deluxe

stuff like that.

You want me to create a playlist to send your way?

the fuck?

I would definitely accept a playlist, Todd, thanks.
Good current "hip" music does also apply, too.

THIS

And, I'll def. try to put something together to send your way.

Yeah thanks, I know what the J. Geils Band is, and I also know they released an album or two. But what do they have to do with pub rock, exactly?

Maybe they weren't from the English "Pub Rock" scene, but they play that kind of music.
At least, they did earlier on; or, what I think of as "pub rock": straight up rock with a hard boogie and RnB-influence. Songs like "Wait", "Cry One More Time", and "Must Of Got Lost". And, hell... even "Centerfold" could pass for pub rock, if you nasty up the production a bit.

You don't hear it that way. I do.

I love you anyway.

he finally did it
second predictable death in as many days

May I help you?

just jockstrappin ya

good lord. i'd bottle the jukebox if any of these came on and i had a decent amount of Scotch in me.

yea, i don't know who those bands are really. i think the idea is to locate a variety of unconventional pub music that would work in a pub setting...

There is a subgenre of mid 70s music commonly referred to as "Pub Rock" Jonathan. Todd took you very literally.

Tell them to mash it on The Little Steven's Underground Garage channel and call it a day.

Yeah that'd work.

Yeah not bad
They can throw on some Bmore Pub when shit gets a little nasty on Dirty Bingo nights...

Jay - you should find some of Bloor's old Bingo Night playlists. Those used to ruin people's lives (in a good way)

Todd, I don't which is worse...that list, or that it only took you 4 minutes to compile it.

translation: where's the Collective Soul and the Cult?

I don't know how Canada works it, but they might want to research ASCAP rules before compiling playlists.

I don't know if these answers are valid, because I don't know how Canada compares to the American South, but these are always popular.

Tom Petty
CCR
Led Zepplin
Bob Seger

Not saying that this is the stuff that I would like to listen to in a pub, but I doubt that most people in a pub would want to hear what I would want too. Stuff like Dropkick Murpheys and Flogging Molly would be good, what with the whole Irish thing.

J. Geils Band is not pub rock. It is best heard in those really dark and ugly bars where they only have red vinyl chairs that are ripped open and the padding is falling out, but they decided not to even bother taping it up.

that description is what i think of when i hear the term "pub rock"

Really? We have vastly different definitions of both what a "pub" is and what "pub rock" is supposed to be.