# Best jukebox track for picking up a bar? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556 "2009-03-15T21:23:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/21 "2009-03-16T17:40:34Z")
I’ve seen Buffet’s “Why Don’t We get Drunk and Screw” do amazing things to a mellow bar crowd. ---
**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/22 "2009-03-16T17:52:12Z")
I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night by KISS ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/23 "2009-03-16T17:55:18Z")
“Paradise by the Dashboard Light” was always a favorite for me and my friends. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/24 "2009-03-16T18:19:19Z")
I would go with something a little more modern. [Probably this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCcEg0tok8o). ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/25 "2009-03-17T04:29:28Z")
Forgive me if it’s been mentioned before, but I’m not clicking on unlabelled Youtube links just to see what’s behind them. But it’s definitely [Mental As Anything’s “Too Many Times”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9LA-FOGEIk) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/26 "2009-03-17T07:07:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Living In America by James Brown Also [I Feel Good](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgDrJ5Z2rKw&feature=related). And check out those moves. Outkast’s [Hey Ya](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrr81SRhp_s) is another picker upper. ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/27 "2009-03-17T09:09:07Z")
[Smells Like Teen Spirit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ) If that song doesn’t get some heads bouncing, you shouldn’t be drinking at the morgue. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/28 "2009-03-17T09:15:49Z")
For picking up an entire bar? It’d have to be “Grazing in the Grass” by Friends of Distinction. The song contains a subliminal message - which is repeated thirty times - consisting of a voice whispering “everybody here needs to fuck me.” I played it once on the jukebox at the Crazy Horse, and the next morning I woke up in a wood-paneled, green-carpeted rec room, surrounded by nude bodies. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/29 "2009-03-17T10:58:10Z")
> [@some\_white\_dude](#): > > Speaking of Michael Jackson, “ABC” by the Jackson 5 is also a great choice. People who don’t like that song have issues. Apparently I have issues. :dubious: Steppenwolf - Born to be wild would be a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/30 "2009-03-17T14:30:49Z")
Tear the roof off the sucker - Parliment Funkadelic. I’d link it, but I think youtube shut down all the Warner. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/31 "2009-03-17T15:43:33Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > For picking up an entire bar? It’d have to be “Grazing in the Grass” by Friends of Distinction. The song contains a subliminal message - which is repeated thirty times - consisting of a voice whispering “everybody here needs to fuck me.” I played it once on the jukebox at the Crazy Horse, and the next morning I woke up in a wood-paneled, green-carpeted rec room, surrounded by nude bodies. Pics, or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/32 "2009-03-17T16:09:26Z")
Free For All - Nugent ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/33 "2009-03-17T16:25:33Z")
_Werewolves of London_. Just get everybody howling. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/34 "2009-03-17T16:40:42Z")
No love for “Sweet Caroline”? The original drunk singalong song? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/35 "2009-03-17T16:55:59Z")
Depending on the crowd, here are a few recent jukebox successes: Cameo - “Word Up” Jamiroquai - “Canned Heat” Primus - “Winona’s Big Brown Beaver” Bush - “The Chemicals Between Us” Vampire Weekend - “A-Punk” Kaiser Chiefs - “Never Miss a Beat” The Ramones - “The KKK Took My Baby Away” Bad Religion - “Infected” Smash Mouth - “Walking on the Sun” Cake - “I Will Survive” Simian Mobile Disco - “Hustler” David Guetta - “Love Is Gone” Cypress Hill - “Rock Superstar” Beastie Boys - “Pass The Mic” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/36 "2009-03-17T17:09:13Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Depending on the crowd, here are a few recent jukebox successes: > > Cameo - “Word Up” > Jamiroquai - “Canned Heat” > > Primus - “Winona’s Big Brown Beaver” > Bush - “The Chemicals Between Us” > > Vampire Weekend - “A-Punk” > Kaiser Chiefs - “Never Miss a Beat” > > The Ramones - “The KKK Took My Baby Away” > Bad Religion - “Infected” > > Smash Mouth - “Walking on the Sun” > Cake - “I Will Survive” > > Simian Mobile Disco - “Hustler” > David Guetta - “Love Is Gone” > > Cypress Hill - “Rock Superstar” > Beastie Boys - “Pass The Mic” GREAT choices!! I don’t know Simian Mobile Disco, but if it is good as your other choices, I really have to! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/37 "2009-03-17T18:50:41Z")
Isn’t the original drunk singalong, “We are poor little lambs who have lost our way, baa, baa, baa”? (Hic!) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/38 "2009-03-17T23:55:27Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > GREAT choices!! I don’t know Simian Mobile Disco, but if it is good as your other choices, I really have to! Thanks! I have more, but didn’t want to overdo it. If I’m making jukebox selections, I try to think of good songs that people may have forgotten. I’m a wannabe DJ, but just don’t have the time or work ethic. So I’m relegated to jukebox selections, which are generally limited. The Simian Mobile Disco song was one I discovered while surfing my digital TV music channels and was lucky to find on the jukebox at my regular after-work bar. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/39 "2009-03-18T00:01:00Z")
“Boom Boom,” John Lee Hooker ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556/40 "2009-03-18T00:12:09Z")
For context: [John Lee Hooker, Boom Boom](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg0cGVJJH7w&feature=related). If I really want to shake the place up, [Gay Bar](http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar) by the Electric Six. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-jukebox-track-for-picking-up-a-bar/489556.md?page=3)