For years, scientists have long wondered, can you make grown men and women weep tears of joy by playing Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual", and the answer is yes, you can, so long as it is preceded by seven "What's New Pussycat"'s.

My friends and I used to do this with a song by drum and bass dj Goldie. For some reason touch tunes had a set of his that lasted 45 minutes, we would throw that in 3+ times in a row and bounce. Worst part, the beginning and end would bleed together really well so you really couldn't tell it restarted. So for $4 the bar would have 2+ hours of drum and bass.

Eventually the bartenders caught on and would shut off the touch tune when we would show up.

3 seconds later the bartender clears the queue and OP wasted $20 to annoy nobody.

I found a ten hour loop of in the air tonight that never gets to the drum break. Takes surprisingly long before anyone notices.

That face when your sister just gave you a sloppy kiss and then went upstairs to her room

I grew up surfing in the late-90s early-00s, and we'd always paddle in to go to the same place for lunch. They had a jukebox and we always put on Yellow Submarine simply because one time flicking through someone thought it sounded funny, and turns out the song's a bit of a joke. The owner hated the ritual, but he knew we'd put on Stairway To Heaven next and leave.

We chose Stairway To Heaven as loosely as we did Yellow Submarine. Never heard it before, but we had heard of it. Those two songs covered scoffing down lunch and then we'd paddle back out for the afternoon session.

This occured for years until we grew up and left town pursuing adult things as newly born adults now out of highschool.

The owner was a great guy. Told us as much as he hates Yellow Submarine, he was going to miss us as much as he loved Stairway To Heaven (along those lines anyway). We never learned each other's names, but he always gave us shit when we walked in and told us to enjoy our surf when we left. Those two songs and that jukebox remind me of him all these years later and I'm sure they remind him of us punk ass surfer brats.

So hating Nickleback become a meme which actually managed to keep the band alive for way longer then other bands in the same category. They still managed to get concerts with great reception for a very long time after their prime with Photograph.

I saw one interview where they said that once the "hate" dies they'll not know what to do.

I'm through with standing in line to clubs I'll never get in,

It's like the bottom of the 9th and I'm never gonna win,

This life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be...

(That's right. Fuck y'all; I like Nickelback 😤)

When I was a kid my buddies and I would stop in a burger joint and play I Touch Myself as many times as we had quarters and leave.

We would also play Scatman at this little diner we would go for breakfast. The juke selection was in all the booths.

My go-to is always Cottoneye Joe

Touchtunes figured out people were doing this kind of thing and gave bars the ability to skip songs.

I can't remember the band or the song, but there was a jam band song that went in for 40ish minutes at a bar I used to go to. You could play it four times for a dollar.

What's New Pussycat twenty times, with one It's Not Unusual dropped somewhere in the middle.

Edit: and pour one out for the Salt & Pepper Diner.

Jon Mulaney has poisoned an entire generation in regard to jukeboxes.

Well you know what they say:

I'm through with standing in lines to clubs I'll never get in,
It's like the bottom of the ninth and I'm never gonna win,
This life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be

I read that as 12 straight days

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.

The more I learn about Nickelback, the more I realise they are not as bad as everyone says.

/foundsatan

weezer buddy holly

I like to play songs from Star Wars but it turns out the bar can override it. :(

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.

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 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.

I like Nickelback..I just think they were overplayed back in the how you remind me / someday days.. But the band is pretty decent

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

Only 12?

You're a monster.

Me, with a flipper zero: SkipSkipSkipSkip...

Eternal Jukebox