Last night when I stopped to gas up my car I could hear "Sweet Caroline" being sung very loudly (and drunkenly) from the bar next door to the gas station. It reminded me of the times I had heard that song from their perspective, with a beer in my hand, and I STILL couldn't stand it. That song gets my vote for this - it should not be allowed at bars, parties...anywhere.
What song gets your vote? And are there any songs that are a must?
2007-10-12 03:11:33 · 27 answers · asked by Sookie 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Awww...but I love Boston! They deserve better than that.
2007-10-12 03:38:45 · update #1
lovnrckets - good call on Margaritaville. That song is pretty tough to take.
2007-10-12 03:40:01 · update #2
Joe - LOL! The DJ's around here will turn down certain parts of the chorus for "Livin' On A Prayer" so everyone can hear themselves scream it. It's been deafening at times!
2007-10-12 03:44:22 · update #3
sylvia - that's a good one. Definitely.
2007-10-12 03:45:00 · update #4
I'm typing through tears, jmike. That was awesome! :)
2007-10-12 03:47:16 · update #5
Right on, bettie - it is!
2007-10-12 03:54:06 · update #6
Prof - good one! Having a drunken guy look you in the eye and sing, "I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree" is an experience like no other.
2007-10-12 04:28:43 · update #7
Yeah, it was a long time ago but I will never forget it. Ewww...
2007-10-12 04:35:15 · update #8
Oh no! Good luck out there, Dani! :)
2007-10-12 05:15:35 · update #9
huevo - *giggle*
2007-10-12 06:40:40 · update #10
MachPen - ugh...I totally agree about Zep.
I've never heard any Mandy tunes, but you bring up a good point about songs from shows or musicals. Most of the songs from "Grease" are coming to mind...
2007-10-12 08:12:09 · update #11
BuzzKill - ugh! It would be tough to keep the beer down with Bryan Adams playing.
2007-10-12 11:01:18 · update #12
Spooky - LOL! No explanation needed. :)
2007-10-12 11:02:00 · update #13
I live in Alabama. I'm a Crimson Tide fan. I moved away and came back because I knew it would be a great place to raise my son. I have a very healthy amount of Southern pride, but I swear to God of Thunder, if I ever hear "Sweet Home Alabama" again, no matter how drunk I am (and I must admit to being rather hung over this morning), I am liable to burn the damn establishment to the ground. "Freebird" falls in the same category.
Oh, and while we're at it, get rid of "Brown-Eyed Girl". I appreciate that all the drunk little sorostitutes love the song, and hey, I'm not going to lie, being in a band and playing that song live got me into a lot of dorm rooms and apartments that I wouldn't have normally gotten into back in my day. I also appreciate that the guys that have green-eyed girlfriends feel obligated to sing the words with the new color inserted at the top of their lungs. That's great... once a night.... not 378 times in a 8 hour drinking period.
One more (I think). "You Shook Me All Night Long" is a great song. It's very catchy. It's loaded with innuendo. It's awesome when a bunch of pretty young girls are grinding up on each other in what would amount to a twelve year old's wet dream while reciting the lyrics in a very loud (and poor) example of a censored version of Girls Gone Wild. However, for every scenario like this, you also have women and girls in clothes that they should not be allowed to buy, let alone wear, because they aren't large enough to cover their inproportionately large bodies doing the same thing that all the other girls are doing, and in the process, causing sober men and women to strongly reconsider that tuna salad they had for lunch because it's not going to taste very good coming back up. Sorry AC/DC, but that song has got to go.
Okay... stepping down from the soapbox and going back to work now.
NP: "You're So Real" - Starwood
2007-10-12 03:34:49 · answer #1 · answered by Mike AKA Mike 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Oh man, more so just because they're bar standards and I, though I have no religion, pray every day that I can make it through another day without hearing them.
Sweet Home Alabama
The Joker
They are always greeted with such boisterous joy too. Makes me absolutely ill.
Bring on the hate.
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Oh wow, I answered before I read, I guess I have a litle support here. I didn't think of it before, but I'm really glad that You Shook Me All Night Long was brought up. I need at least a 5 year break from that song. And JMike painted the scenario perfectly.
It's funny, I've actually never heard Sweet Caroline at a bar before. I don't mind the song, but I could definitely see absolutely despising it if it was played to the same frequency as ACDC and Skynyrd out here..
and Lovenrckts, I'll sing in that chior, Marley and Buffet must go. For some reason, you get someone drunk and put on Bab Marley and all of a sudden the douche bag factor increases exponentially, and honestly it's never a good time for Jimmy Buffet.
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Sookie, I never thought about that aspect of it. I honestly cringed when I read that. Gross.
2007-10-12 04:19:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have to go with two songs from my college days of attending my morning classes, stopping to grab a quick burger and then heading to the campus pub the second it opened for dollar pitcher day. It was a Wednesday ritual. We started the day with the same two songs every week: I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones A Girl Like You - The Smithereens. No, I don't know why. We just did. But because of that, I think they need to be on every jukebox everwhere. Honorable Mention to Add It Up by the Violent Femmes. :) ******* Thanks, guys! After reading some of these answers, if there were a bar with this Jukebox, I'd definitely want to go drinking there! :) Can Wednesday be dollar pitcher day? ******* Sweet! Pool tables and dollar pitcher day(s)! Yesssss!!!! :)
2016-04-08 05:06:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That song, maybe called "Dead Or Alive" by Bon Jovi, everything else by him but especially him.
As I'm not of legal age to drink and wouldn't care to go to bars anyways, please don't take this as a judging comment, just a personal preference, but this thread isn't encouraging me to ever visit anywhere with a jukebox.
But the top of the list of terribles has to be "Free Bird" and I live in Florida where a lot of people adopt the southern lifestyle from the states just north of us so saying you don't like "Free Bird" is high treason, tell no one I said this. But it is so over played and over popular the fact that it's mediocre and the solo is 5 or 6 minutes too long, repetitive and unimpressive isn't even the main reason I can't stand it.
"Margaritaville" also deserve mention for being so overplayed as to kill any appeal it might have.
I find "Start Me Up" by the Stones irritating for the same reasons, plus that I love so many of their other songs so much more I can;t understand why this one is so popular.
I luckily was born long after all these songs were at the peak of their popualrity and listen to little to no radio so some songs like "Stairway To Heaven" haven't been killed through over-exposure to me yet. I actually quite like "Stairway To Heaven", and I don't like Led Zeppelin that much at all.
2007-10-12 10:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Brown-Eyed Girl and especially Friends in Low Places. When I bartended people would have the most god-awful sing-a-longs to that. I'd have much perferred to pour hydrochloric acid down my earholes and burn out any auditory mechanisms.
I'll throw in any Eagles songs as well. Mojo Nixon captured it in a song title best, "Don Henley Must Die."
Along with Margaritaville, add in Cheeseburger in Paradise. That's the stupidest ******* song I've ever heard and I still don't know or care what it's about.
Thank you JMike for taking the stand on the ACDC issue and it's contents. Never before have there been truer words spoken.
I'll admit though, I do have a man-crush on Neil Diamond's catalog......
2007-10-12 06:11:05 · answer #5 · answered by Huevo 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
You are very lucky to NOT live in Boston. Even if intoxicated that song would still suck as does the rest of the Neil Diamond catalog. I'll cast my vote for anything by Bob Marley or Jimmy Buffet. Margaritaville is another drunkards anthem.
Prof - Those two artists stood out the most for me during the college years. Once they got played on jukebox, the night always went steadily downhill.
Dani G - "I'm a sailor peg and I lost my leg I climbed up the topsails I lost my leg!" Blame it on Papelbon, lol.
2007-10-12 03:17:33 · answer #6 · answered by Rckets 7 · 11⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to Led Zepplin fans out there -- but "Stairway To Heaven" is a selfish 8 minute slot wasted ...when maybe three of four other really good songs can be played (edit: also agree with the guy who mentioned Freebird).
"Don't Fear The Reaper" by The Blue Oyster Cult
Oh - and anything by Mandy Pantinkin -- whoever said Broadway can be played at bars should be clobbered with their own tap shoes
2007-10-12 08:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
To Hell with Ya'll and the Skynyrd Ripping.
Sweet Home is pretty overplayed though I'll admit.
Old Time Rock And Roll-Bob Seger gets my vote
Along with
Rockstar-Nickelback (Dog Vomit)
Margaritaville-Jimmy Buffett
Don't Stop Believing-Journey
Picture-Sheryl Crow/Kid Rock (If I hear it one more time I may commit suicide or go postal!)
You Shook Me All Night Long-AC/DC
All should be permanently banned from bar jukes.
To hell with the ripping on Freebird and Brown Eyed Girl though.
2007-10-12 06:38:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's been a while since I've been subjected to the crap jukebox songs of a bar but I remember "Jack and Diane" by John Mellencamp was one that got terribly overplayed.
I'm also up for banning all soft rock ballads from bar jukeboxes. Nothing ruins my pool playing abilities like Bryan Adams singing "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" - Blechhh!
2007-10-12 10:30:41 · answer #9 · answered by Buzzkill 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As somebody from Alabama, I have to say absolutely NO Skynard. Any of their songs should be banned.. Nothing is more torturous than a bunch of drunk rednecks singing it at the top of their lungs, it's happened to me on several occasions. If you go to any bar that has a jukebox in Birmingham, it will be played every hour on the hour. I also want to vote to ban, I'm too sexy by Right Said Fred.. I don't think I have to explain why on that one.. I think you just know. lol
2007-10-12 10:52:37 · answer #10 · answered by ♫ՖքØØķ¥♫ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋