# Jukebox Fury

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 16, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667 "2006-11-16T13:24:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667/1 "2006-11-16T13:24:11Z")

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With many pub jukeboxes, if no-one puts any money in, then every ten minutes or so a tune will be automatically played. Now it seems to me that these free ‘filler’ tunes are very often grating and ghastly enough to persuade me to invest in five of my own choosing.

Does anyone know whether the ‘filler’ tunes are selected for their irritation factor to encourage sales? Can the landlord select filler tunes; tailor them to cause disgust amongst their clientele?

I know it may be just be that I only notice them when they are especially repellent, but I can’t ever recall a Great Pool Tune coming on without payment…

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667/2 "2006-11-16T14:27:35Z")

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I asked the manager of my local Buffalo Wild Wings, and he claims they’re set at “random”.

The one used at this bar and grill really piss me off, so I don’t throw any money in there.

1st, they tell you “3 Songs for a Dollar”. Okay, so you give the damn thing a buck and choose two songs, but what one _doesn’t_ know is that the third song sometimes won’t fit, because it’s 50 cents _more_ .

The other way they get you is “for a quarter more, we’ll play **your** selection next!”

What’s up with that? Just let me put in a buck, choose three songs, and let me get back to my girl and my brew! I’m not gonna stand there and negotiate with a goddam **machine** , fer Chrissakes!!! :mad:

Q

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**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667/3 "2006-11-16T15:09:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Quasimodem]  
I asked the manager of my local Buffalo Wild Wings, and he claims they’re set at “random”.  
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Oh but he would say that, wouldn’t he?!? I feel they may be ‘randomly’ selected, maybe from the pool of least played songs in the venue - then they could be guaranteed unpopular.

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> The other way they get you is "for a quarter more, we’ll play **your** selection next!

And this seems to be entirely against pub spirit - isn’t part of the joy the ability to wipe away the memory of someone else’s Meatloaf with your Stones?

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667/4 "2006-11-16T15:13:52Z")

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[QUOTE=Staggerlee]  
And this seems to be entirely against pub spirit - isn’t part of the joy the ability to wipe away the memory of someone else’s Meatloaf with your Stones?  
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Point taken. I just hate to have to keep chunking in quarters when they’re just used to block the next song and are not going toward the purchase of one of mine! 🙂

Also, I have to tell you that your nick is one of my top ten juke box tunes, followed by “Matilda” by Cookie and The Cupcakes.

Thanks for a pleasant “earworm”! Lloyd Price was one of my faves!

Quasi

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**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jukebox-fury/380667/5 "2006-11-16T15:33:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Quasimodem]  
Point taken. I just hate to have to keep chunking in quarters when they’re just used to block the next song and are not going toward the purchase of one of mine! 🙂  
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Sorry, you misunderstand - I would never pay to erase someone else’s choice - everyone should have to suffer their choice for the duration, if only to make your own choice even better in comparison. 😉