# Most annoying song you could play on an actual jukebox? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058 "2017-11-19T07:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/41 "2017-11-20T00:51:33Z")
I can state from personal experience that about 8 or 10 repeats of _Kung Fu Fighting_ by Carl Douglas will really do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/42 "2017-11-20T01:00:13Z")
Neanderthal Man by Hotlegs far and away the leader of this pack for me followed by Crimson And Clover by Tommy James & the Shondells and Green Tambourine by The Lemon Pipers Honorable mentions for the 1910 FruitGum Company among others. And yes ------- I do know a diner with those and more still in the machine. Where the owner finds usable copies on 45s I’ll never know or ask. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/43 "2017-11-20T02:27:21Z")
MacArthur Park Richard Harris YOU will be left out in the rain! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/44 "2017-11-20T03:40:55Z")
What, no hate here for _Cattle Call_ ? There was (and for all I know, still is) a large bar / pizza joint in Berkeley, ½ block from campus, where somebody (or somebodies) played this nearly incessantly. Made me want to order my pizzas to go. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Terrific](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tom_terrific/32/342_2.png) [@Tom\_Terrific](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Terrific)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/45 "2017-11-20T03:51:43Z")
I expected to see Tiny Tim and Tiptoe through the tulips. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/46 "2017-11-20T04:08:36Z")
Damn! I was in a bar tonight. They had a jukebox thing that connected to the internet! (Total fucking hole in the wall, too) But no **Arbouretum** \*. Had to play **Foo Fighters** and **Drive-By Truckers**. \*Was gonna play _Sister Ray_. Fifty-one minutes of pure crunky joy! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lwuEVDB-sIU/hqdefault.jpg "Arbouretum - Sister Ray") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwuEVDB-sIU) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/47 "2017-11-20T04:36:10Z")
> [@Iggy](#): > > All Around the World by Lisa Stansfield. > > I remember one horrid night of a cram session finishing up lab reports in my notebook for Analytical Chemistry. I and another student set up in the television lounge in our dorm and turned on the cheesy pay-to-play video music channel on the lounge tv. And some s.o.b. must have paid a small fortune to them to play this same video over and over again. All. Night. Long. > > ♫ ♩♫ Been around the world and I I I > I can’t find my baby > I don’t know when I don’t know why > why he’s gone away ♫ ♩♫ > Aargh!!! I know YMMV but I don’t think it’s that bad a song. Granted, I might think differently after being forced to listen to it hour after hour. Also, since it was the _video_ that was being played, I’m guessing the inconsiderate student wasn’t so much into continuously listening to Lisa Stansfied as continuously [looking at](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c8/f6/bc/c8f6bc2463d5dad9249461527561835d.jpg)[Lisa Stansfield](http://cache.vevo.com/Content/VevoImages/video/08C0950A77234138F580B5D204441275.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/48 "2017-11-20T05:10:58Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Back in college, a friend and I used to like to go into the campus recreation center (pool tables, ping pong, etc.) and we’d plunk some change into the jukebox and enter “Jingle Bell Rock” 5 or so times in a row and then we’d walk out. I would think “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” might do the trick too. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/49 "2017-11-20T05:40:31Z")
“American Pie” ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/51 "2017-11-20T07:29:30Z")
No mention of “Cover of the Rolling Stone” by Dr Hook? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/52 "2017-11-20T08:22:56Z")
“Breakout” by Swing Out Sister. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/53 "2017-11-20T09:00:02Z")
One that would annoy me had it been played over and over: _I’ll Be There For You_ by The Rembrandts (_Friends_ title track; awful song, worse show, at least IMO) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/54 "2017-11-20T12:34:24Z")
I’m surprised nobody has said what I thought would be an obvious choice. Because The Doors’ Greatest Hits is on lots of jukeboxes I see, “The End” seems like a no-brainer. Just playing it 6 times will consume over an hour, and it’s got enough spoken word, Oedipal screams and meandering organ that you can’t just go with the flow the way you might with most other songs. Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/55 "2017-11-20T13:42:40Z")
Late 70s, I wasn’t 21 yet, but I was in a bar and in a foul mood (don’t remember why). I put all my change into the jukebox and punched in _Bellbottom Blues_ repeatedly. The bartender eventually came over to fix things, and I objected, trying to pick a fight. He gave me two dollars and apologized. I’d love to know what I was so grumpy about. Lately, anytime I’m at YellowBridge Brewing (a local brewpub) I play _Sweet Caroline_ and everyone joins in. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/56 "2017-11-20T15:43:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Although 5 rounds of \*Jingle Bell Rock \*is prank genius; I love it! I mean, I like that song, but five times would be too much. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/57 "2017-11-20T15:43:25Z")
[Caramelldansen](https://youtu.be/A67ZkAd1wmI) [Mi Mi Mi](https://youtu.be/nlt5Wa13fFU) ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/58 "2017-11-20T15:43:43Z")
A friend and I back in college discovered a jukebox with Sisters of Mercy - Floodland on it. We got through 4 plays of “This Corrosion” (at 11:00 minutes each) before getting yelled at by the bartender. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/59 "2017-11-20T15:53:32Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I mean, I like that song, but five times would be too much. You’re a better man than I. Once is about 10x the amount of that I need. Which is why it makes a good prank, not good entertainment. Pranks should be whimsical, not mean. Christmas songs not in Dec is whimsical. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/60 "2017-11-20T16:24:59Z")
[The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6c) ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-annoying-song-you-could-play-on-an-actual-jukebox/802058/61 "2017-11-20T16:31:54Z")
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