anyway I was out with two friends last night and turns out neither had heard of I Played ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out, which I consider to be a foundational text of the internet, so here it is again: www.vice.com/en/article/i... - ThreadSky

youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com • 112 days ago

anyway I was out with two friends last night and turns out neither had heard of I Played ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’ on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out, which I consider to be a foundational text of the internet, so here it is again: https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832/

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jaimenorman.bsky.social•112 days ago

That is a great read and deserves the widest possible audience!

xiane.bsky.social•112 days ago

If you're a fan of that, you'll probably enjoy this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7Gryt-rcc

felixleinemann.bsky.social•112 days ago

📌

matthewblo.ch•112 days ago

I had never read that and I loved it.

I'm similarly bowled over when people haven't read The Snake Fight Portion Of Your Thesis Defence, and it has never disappointed.

dmepham.bsky.social•106 days ago

When working in a small town in upstate New York in the 90s, I put Puff The Magic Dragon on the juke box for as many times $20 would get me. Then left the bar. Apparently it played seven times before the Barman ripped the plug out of the wall.

madam-im-adam78.bsky.social•111 days ago

We may have once tried the with Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm by The Crash Test Dummies.

londonlee.bsky.social•112 days ago

Jailbreak is a great album though

gregwtravels.bsky.social•112 days ago

My Uni housemate's parents ran a pub. One punter would come in each day, buy a half and pop in his quarter in the jukebox for 3 plays of The Gambler by Kenny Rogers.

Everyone would suffer through the three plays, when the man, finished his half, would get up and leave.

Same again the next day.

onelifestand87.bsky.social•112 days ago

He’s right about Holy Diver too

markhillen.bsky.social•112 days ago

Once did that to Shanice’s I Love Your Smile in the QM Union at Glasgow Uni, and The Smith’s How Soon in Now at a pub in Deansgate, Manchester. At Christmas Time.

After about the 4th time in both locations, a switch got flipped… and a further 6 quid - and 6 reps - were lost.

alskicav.bsky.social•112 days ago

35 years ago my friend did something similar in our local pub.

The song was Within You Without You by the Beatles.

First time, I think, that a pub of afternoon drinkers in Liverpool despised the Fab Four

https://youtu.be/HsffxGyY4ck?si=Qb1Icwxi33jOxxT7

fflint101.bsky.social•111 days ago

My mum once told me about a pre Internet version of this, she was a teacher and told me that if you wanted to mess up another teachers day, you'd go early into their classroom and write 'all things bright and beautiful' on the blackboard and then feel smug when you watched them hum it all day

afrofilmviewer.bsky.social•111 days ago

That's a thing of true beauty that article

btnstu.bsky.social•112 days ago

It's only truly fun if the bar can be described as "a bit stabby".

rhigarthjones.bsky.social•112 days ago

Damn I love this piece so much

cunabula.bsky.social•112 days ago

I once barred two guys for playing "You'll Never Walk Alone" three times in a row. At least they walked out together.

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