I once did that on St. Patrick’s Day but with $20 worth of Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies. Except for I hit every bar in town.
Get there, get a pitcher of beer with green food coloring, order up $20 worth of Drunken Lullabies, then go on to the next bar once it starts playing. I think most of them were like 2-3 plays per dollar so 40-60 times…
By the time I had gotten to the last bar, there were a couple people crying. Like EVERY single bar in town was only playing Drunken Lullabies all day.
One time I went to a bar with one of these machines and I paid for like 3 songs. Well someone behind me paid extra to prioritize their songs so for 2 hours I heard nothing but Metallica and didn’t hear a single one of my songs.
So right before I left I also paid extra to have this song played immediately, six times in a row.
The prioritization feature is great because, at least on TouchTunes, not even the owner can skip a prioritized song. Unplug the machine and it’ll just resume the song when you start it back up.
Nothing took the wind out of obnoxious drunken revellers quite like what I called The Hard Reset: Miserere mei, Deus followed by Feels So Good followed by the 3 or 4 longest Allman Brothers Band songs available. It worked best when they had Mountain Jam.
I’m so confused why jukeboxes would even offer songs like those.
(Part of it might be that I’m not the kind of person who goes to the kinds of places that have jukeboxes in the first place. When I think of one, I’m still thinking of the kind of machine that has a bunch of CDs in it and an interface simple enough to be either one button per song, or reading a numbered paper list and typing in the number, so maybe 100 or so choices max.)
Yeah, I figured. But even then, letting people pick >10 minute songs seems like a bad idea – if not for the sanity of the other patrons, then at least for the profitability of the machine (e.g. preferring to charge for three 3-minute “radio edit” songs instead of one long one).
Waaaaaay back, I was at the student center bowling alley at NIU in DeKalb, IL. Dumped a $20 bill into the jukebox and played every Led Zeppelin song they had.
About twenty minutes later, I hear, "WHO THE FUCK PLAYED ALL THIS FUCKING ZEPPELIN?"
Fifteen minutes after that: "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"
This ranks as one of the proudest moments of my life.
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