We have a skip button on the jukebox remote; somebody played Nickelback two separate times during one of my shifts last week, and I just skipped it both times.
This kind of thing happens periodically and you have to skip certain songs for the greater benefit of the bar. If somebody complains that I skipped Monster Mash or whatever I’ll give them a dollar back.
If Toby Keith sang it and threw in a line or two about killing Muslims while waving a flag they’d still play it 4 times a day on every country station.
I prefer to do this with “Do you believe in life after love”. We call it a Cher bomb.
Best part is it’s basically a bell curve of how into it people get. Starts off alow, maybe one or two. By the third play, most of the bar is feeling it. And then all downhill from there
I hate to be that guy, but all the stories in this thread are fake because the bartenders can just skip the songs. For exactly this reason. As if the people who designed these machines didn’t think of this exact thing.
I don’t know about these modern things like shown in the meme, but all the juke boxes in my area when a place has one at all, is old as fuck (most of them still use 45’s) and can’t skip songs. At least, not without unplugging and resetting the whole machine.
And they all have this? I’ve seen bartenders go all the way up to the machine and use and pay like a regular customer when I’m sure they would’ve used the remote if they had it
I was with a group years ago where one guy did this at a Pizza Hut. He put in about $10 and played Happy Birthday repeatedly. But it wasn’t just some normal version of the song. Instead it was some crazy, jazzed up version with multiple singers, firecrackers, etc.
Just incredibly obnoxious.
After about the 8th play through, the manager unplugged the jukebox. The guy who put in the money started an argument with the manager about how now he’s lost his money. After some back and forth, the manager gave up and refunded him $5 … but also made the mistake of plugging the jukebox back in.
Well you can guess what happened next.
We got loudly kicked out after that.
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