Luckenbach, Texas. There’s a little ice house down by the Ship Channel that has the best chili cheeseburgers around, but every time I go there, I’m bound to hear that goddam thing three times inside of an hour.
Agreeing with American Pie and Hotel California, and adding…
BROWN-EYED GIRL.
Sha la la la la la la… oh shut up!
Before I get to the question of the thread: A friend and I were trying to have a nice dinner at a pizza place, not a kids place, and it was full of 13-16 year olds who were loud, obnoxious and looked like they were going to sit there for hours sipping their remaining soft drinks until ejected by management.
It was intolerable and so I went to the jukebox and found the magic solution.
Five plays of “The Hawain Love Song” by Don Ho. After play 4 they got the message and cleared out. The three other groups of adults gave me a standing ovation.
To be banned:
Forget the band: “Loving You is Easy Cause You’re Beautiful - Making Love to You is All I want to do” The screech is enouch to kill small pets. Maybe Minnie Riperton.
Almost anything Rap, unless I am in a Rap Community, then the When you’re in Rome Rule applies. Some exceptions apply such as Black Eyed Peas.
Evergreen by Babs Streisand. Sorry Babs, like lots of your other work, my sisters played that a billion times when it came out. You can come over with hubby and sing Love Theme From Eyes of Lara Mars Anytime (Really) - We’ll have Dinner.
Sorry Clay, for now, you’re out. R.S. and C.K. can stay in the pond as long as they are not overdone.
OH - Sidethread - This 2020 thing about Paula Abdul sleeping with one of the IDOL wannabees -
-
Who blames the guy - c’mon really? Really? Allright how many GUYS blame the guy?
-
How many think Paula was totally out of line to fall for this guy given that he clearly did his level best to er, charm the pants off her when singing to her and there was clearly real time live sparking on her part the very first time she saw him.
-
Hasn’t it been obvious from the beginning that they have all had their favorites for the last few seasons? Been very complimentary to those and less to others?
Sorry about that, just had to get it out.
Absolutely no Barney at any time.
Peter
Having tended bar, I think I need to say that every song should be banned until at least a year after it is no longer popular. The same dozen or so songs every night is a form of torture to the people who actually have to work there (sober).
Maybe jukeboxes should have a zillion MP3s in them, and any given track could be blocked until, say, five days after it was last played - for everyone’s sanity.
How also could I forget the Billy Idol version of Mony Mony? Yes, that chant that the whole bar must do was amusing…15 years ago!!!
Oh you people are lucky to have some of those pearls on your boxes.
The bar I work at once in a while has an old 45 playin’ 2 for a quarter beauty. The songs on there can make you chuckle or cry, depending on how many $2.00 pints you are down. The best tunes are Delta Dawn and The Gambler.
Pretty much every Patsy Cline tune is there (NTTAWWT!), YMCA (great for an Olympia/Harley/Big Truck bar), Righteous Brothers, Small Town–and songs when John Mellencamp still used the Cougar, New York, New York (which should only be played at weddings so the bridesmaids can prove how drunk they are with an awkward kickline) and Southern Nights. Oh lord. That one gets me.
My own personal hell is any Don Henley and Dire Straights…and any of the Alice in Chains, SoundGarden sort of songs that irk me (and I live outside Seattle so we here them all the time).
I used to do the same thing at a bar where I was a regular, mostly just to fool with the bartenders. They’d let it go for about 5 minutes before hitting the kill switch.
Can I strike a pre-emptive blow for Gretchen Wilson’s “Rednack Woman?”
I can see that one (and that “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy” crap) getting overplayed in jukeboxes, as the radio has overkilled them, anyway.
I call that the “Maroon 5” syndrome.
“redneck”
:smack:
Note to self: move to Indianapolis
All worthy choices. However, I am showing my age, nothing, and I mean nothing deserves banishment not only from Jukeboxes, but from reality itself, as much as
Copacabana by Barry Manilow
He has many other worthy nominees, but this auditory horror is beyond any sense of civility. It should be an open invitation to anyone to take baseball bat in hand and eliminate the offending patron and machine.
Horrors of horrors.
I also want to nominate Conway Twitty for most offensive song of the 20th century:
Tight Fittin’ Jeans
and place it in contetion as the second most deadly thing ever recorded.
Just thinking about these two songs make me want to take an ice pick to my ear drums.
Bleah! Bleah! Bleah!
Yeah, the Cat pretty much rules all bars. And we have several incredible local metal bands that play regularly at some of the other bars. I think the most overplayed song on the Cat’s jukebox is Ace of Spades, but I would never want it taken off. That would be blasphemy. 
Oops, sorry for the hijack.
Anything by Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, or Starship.
“Born to Be Wild” and “Magic Carpet Ride” by Steppenwolf.
Proposed rule re. “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer”: the Amos Milburn version is a keeper, but ban the other versions.
Second that. And it should also be banned from karaoke books.
"If your doorbell plays “Freebird,’ you might be a redneck!” – Jeff Foxworthy
The Rodeo Song.
No, wait - that one HAS been banned…
Homer: Now, all we need now is an awesome theme song. Whatever plays next on the jukebox.
“Do That To Me One More Time” by Captain and Tennille starts playing
Man… all these posts and no Mustang Sally? Hang your heads in shame people. That song will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
I think we’ve already had a vote for Old Time Rock and Roll… I’ll go along with that and add a few more from Bob Seger… Night Moves, Against the Wind and Like A Rock. Gone, gone, gone.
Oh yeah, Cocaine by Clapton can take a walk too.
And don’t even get me started on ABBA…
Speaking of Rednecks I’d just like to point out that the world would be a better place if more bars had Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Up against the wall Redneck Mothers” in their Jukeboxes, a more singable, stompable song it is harder to find.
Can I trade it for “I will survive”?
<a href=“http://ThePeterFiles.blogspot.com”>The Ultimate Beer Processor</a>
I Fall To Pieces by Patsy Cline. From bartending experience, if you hear that song 5 times in a row, you do fall to pieces. Even remembering makes me cringe.