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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
I used to study in a cozy little cafe that was a row of houses turned into business. Next door was a bar that could get a bit rowdy sometimes. They had one of those jukeboxes with an app. I would load up Hotel California every chance I got. I could barely hear the music but I could hear the patrons groan every 30 minutes or so. One day the song option wasn’t there, so I switched to American Pie by Don McLean.
I’m sure they hated me.
American Pie by Don McLean
Radio version or album version?
The one that was like 10m long 😆 I’m assuming that’s the album one.
I'm now imagining american pie sung by nickelback. Thank you...
I like to play songs from Star Wars but it turns out the bar can override it. :(
/foundsatan
weezer buddy holly
Paradise by the Dashboard Light gives you a lot of bang for your buck. I'm not sure if it's 20 minutes long or if it just seems that way.
The version I have on my downloads is about 8-9 minutes long. Do people not like it?
Maybe it's just me. Years ago, my friends and I would meet at Buffalo Wild Wings for a weekly trivia night, and somebody would play it several times a night every week. Enough that it has led to a lifelong aversion to that song in particular and Meat Loaf in general.
No that one’s cool—but no more than three times
I have a friend who is unapologetically a weirdo (really that describes most of my friends and myself I suppose, but this story is about one of them in particular)
We're at a bar for his birthday. This place was formerly a real dump of a dive/biker bar but has cleaned itself up a bit. Still kind of a dive, but it's a nice dive. It's located practically right on the border of a really shitty town and one that's generally pretty nice, so it gets an interesting selection of patrons there.
He's a regular there, he actually lived in a small motel attached to the bar for a bit while his house needed some major repairs.
Again, he's a bit of a weirdo, it's his birthday, he's been drinking, and he wants to listen to some Disney song (I'm pretty sure it was "part of your world" from the little mermaid) so he goes and queues it up on the jukebox
And the song never plays
So he does it again. And again it never plays.
Eventually he figures out that the bartender (what was new and didn't really recognize him as a regular) was skipping it when it came up.
We ask her to just let it play for him for his birthday, she refused
So he queues it up about 10 times in a row, she can't skip them all fast enough, it finally starts playing, she's getting mad at us,some asshole dudebros in the bar are getting annoyed that this song is now playing twice, and we're all politely yet firmly asked to leave.
So we fuck off to another bar owned by the same person, we're welcomed in, they let us play the damn song, they mention to to the owner who apparently told the bartender who was giving us issues to chill and there hasn't been any issue since.
I like Nickelback..I just think they were overplayed back in the how you remind me / someday days.. But the band is pretty decent
I did that with three Nightwish songs once, a half hour straight of symphonic metal. People were pissed when they couldn't override my paid-for selections.
Ghost Love Score intensifies
That one and Romanticide made the list, and I think there's a good chance the last song was The Islander, but this was a decade ago.
Back when the song was super popular, I had a friend catch a ride with another friend on a 4ish hour drive to another city. How You Remind Me the entire ride
A group of my friends used this technique differently. We used this to get rid of assholes. The group of assholes all liked techno for some reason. So when there were too many in the bar, we chipped in for the jukebox and played around 20 metal songs in a row. The assholes were all gone after 15 min when they realized, they'll be hearing Rammstein for the next 2 hours.
You're a monster.
Amateur! REAL cultural vandalism should include The Beatles "Revolution 9", Lou Reed's "Metal Music Machine" and/or, of course, the particularly dense bits of Robert Wyatt.
Well... I don't know if they still have those internet jukeboxes with no manual override like they did in the UK about fifteen years ago, and the phenomenon known as wyatting surfaced.