The Official Jukebox Terrorism thread

[Sommy]

Had a thread on the old board.

For those of you who don't remember, there is great pleasure in playing Sun Ra's "Space is the Place" on your local internet jukebox and watching the reaction.

Feel free to add tips.

Iron Butterfly seems to get on people's nerves, too, but not as badly as Sun Ra. Anything off of Bitches' Brew elicits a similar reaction.

There needs to be some kind of secret society for this.

[Mark.]

I used to love to play christmas songs in the middle of summer, or try and play the same song twice. Metallica's So What is good for a reaction as well.

[kitty]

there's a guy at my bar who plays the same like 17 minute long mars volta song all the time. i don't know which song it is because i don't listen to them, but i could just kill that guy.

[johnnyutah]

i wish we had those 'any song' jukeboxes here. I'd play whitehouse alot. And the cult too.

[whiteriot]

I recently noticed that Cheech & Chong's "Sister Mary Elephant" really pisses people off. I was at a bar and someone played it, everyone started clapping when one of the waitresses turned it off.

Tame compared to Sun Ra, but I find that playing anything off Angel Dust gets people irritated ("What's this faggot shit?", etc).

[supafuzz]

at my favorite bar the bartenders will give me the remote to there jukebox so i can play whatever i want for free. i usually play a mix of normal stuff and whatever i feel like at the time but one time i played "om." needless to say people were a mix of confused and pissed

[Sommy]

I wanna make t-shirts, but they'd be code or something. Like, "Jukebox Tourism." You can't really put "terrorist" on a shirt and expect not to be questioned about it. Plus, "tourism" sounds like "terrorism" if you say it fast enough.

[Squid]

In TN Bjork tends to get shitty reactions.

[mondrarytomic]

there's a guy at my bar who plays the same like 17 minute long mars volta song all the time. i don't know which song it is because i don't listen to them, but i could just kill that guy.

tetragrammaton?

i once played that on the jukebox at the irish pub in asheville

[bmfbooby]

i like to play every nickelback song i can find right as im leaving the bar in hopes that im ruining someones day

[AFHAERO]

I'd buy that.

At The Willew, we would pay the extra quarter to order up Ben Folds, "Ascent of Stan", and Every Time I Die as we would be leaving.

Ben Folds in falsetto quiets Bay City establishments.

[johnnyutah]

I wanna make t-shirts, but they'd be code or something. Like, "Jukebox Tourism." You can't really put "terrorist" on a shirt and expect not to be questioned about it. Plus, "tourism" sounds like "terrorism" if you say it fast enough.

jukebox terrorism is actually a half decent band/album name

[supafuzz]

i like to play every nickelback song i can find right as im leaving the bar in hopes that im ruining someones day

that's taking things too far. i'd probably break the fucking thing.

[mondrarytomic]

i like to play every nickelback song i can find right as im leaving the bar in hopes that im ruining someones day

FUCK

Last year my brother and I were at the Golden Tee Regionals and some asshole did this

[Sommy]

i like to play every nickelback song i can find right as im leaving the bar in hopes that im ruining someones day

If you don't stay, you're missing the fucking point.

That's like getting in line for a roller coaster, waiting for the front car, and then getting out of line and laughing at the people behind you who were "totally scared out of their minds going down the first hill."

[bmfbooby]

If you don't stay, you're missing the fucking point.

That's like getting in line for a roller coaster, waiting for the front car, and then getting out of line and laughing at the people behind you who were "totally scared out of their minds going down the first hill."

i make sure i do it when people i know are still there. so they can call me an asshole the next day.

if i were to stay, then that would possibly give people the impression that i like nickelback. thus giving me a vagina.

[Sommy]

There are really several pillars to the faith that fuels Jukebox Terrorism:

1) Best choice is always a long and repetitive track. Yeah, Converge probably freaks out the old folks at the local Country/Western bar, but it's over after a couple of minutes. At least play the Saddest Day if you're going to do so, because you're teetering on what, at least 8 or 9 minutes or whatever.

2) If you can't for whatever reason play a long ass track, at least keep it within the same genre for a succession of 20-30 minutes of music. This means playing the entirety of side A of Trout Mask Replica.

3) The "play next" button is your friend. Don't be a cheap ass -- it doesn't cost that much, and at a lot of places, if you don't use it, you're not going to hear your shit. And if you don't use the play next button and you're playing a laundry list of short annoying tunes, good luck hearing them all in a row. ALWAYS PLAY NEXT.

4) Scout the civilians you are targeting and be creative. If you're at your local white trash bar, any rap that doesn't include Digital Underground, Sir Mix Alot, and Young MC is great ammunition -- but remember the second pillar. Younger crowd that likes to dance? Jazz fusion. Rock club? Eh, either or will work (and classical is interesting in a different way).

5) NEVER LEAVE UNTIL YOUR SONGS HAVE PLAYED. Like I said above, you don't play a bunch of shit you don't want to hear and then bail. Watching the reactions is the best part. If you leave before you see the reactions, it's like bragging about the fight you COULD have won if the other guy weren't 100 pounds heavier than you. Fucking lame.

i make sure i do it when people i know are still there. so they can call me an asshole the next day.

if i were to stay, then that would possibly give people the impression that i like nickelback. thus giving me a vagina.

They don't have to know you played it, you know.

[Neckface]

Sommy, i truly appreciate the way you bask in others miseries. Sincerely

[Sommy]

Also, if you see a jukebox with the "eCast" logo on it, you're probably gold. Those typically have the biggest selection I've seen. It's harder to do this with a Touchtunes jukebox unless the guy who owns the place has expanded the stock music selection.

[AFHAERO]

Insert to sommy's list.

Rule No. 1- You don't talk about Jukebox Tourism.
Rule No. 2- You DON'T TALK ABOUT JUKEBOX TOURISM.

[Sommy]

Insert to sommy's list.

Rule No. 1- You don't talk about Jukebox Tourism.
Rule No. 2- You DON'T TALK ABOUT JUKEBOX TOURISM.

I'm not gonna lie; I'm a bit uncomfortable talking about this with the board being public and all.

[johnnyutah]

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[Bacon]

Bumped cuz this is fun as fuck to do. Played California in its entirety this weekend with Pinball Wizard in the middle. (right before Ars Moriendi, to give a false sense of relief)


Sommy, you must have some pretty tolerant bartenders in Michigan, cuz 9 times out of 10 that I try to pull this my songs get switched off within 30 seconds.

[Sommy]

Bumped cuz this is fun as fuck to do. Played California in its entirety this weekend with Pinball Wizard in the middle. (right before Ars Moriendi, to give a false sense of relief)


Sommy, you must have some pretty tolerant bartenders in Michigan, cuz 9 times out of 10 that I try to pull this my songs get switched off within 30 seconds.

Nah, just dumb bartenders that don't know how the jukebox works, or bartenders that know I'll get in their face and bitch for wasting my five bucks I just put in.

"Hey, I know you think your music selection is that much more important than mine, but I'd appreciate it if you'd respect that I'm overpaying your establishment to play the music I'm selecting."

[bmfbooby]

the scary thing is so much of the time the worst songs you hear on jukeboxes arent meant as acts of tourism. sometimes im afraid of going out cause i know theres a large chance that someone is gonna play journey

[Nate Dogg (not the rapper)]

I pull this shit all the time. Douchey post-grads NEED to hear Meshuggah ALL THE TIME. "Raining Blood" makes their little poker tournaments more exciting. For me.

Unfortunately, usually it just plays and people completely ignore it. This town is too laid back about its jukeboxes.

[kitty]

I pull this shit all the time. Douchey post-grads NEED to hear Meshuggah ALL THE TIME. "Raining Blood" makes their little poker tournaments more exciting. For me.

Unfortunately, usually it just plays and people completely ignore it. This town is too laid back about its jukeboxes.

my bar actually told me i couldn't play slayer anymore. on my birthday i was allowed to, but i forgot. i should start trying to play meshuggah though. good call.

[Nate Dogg (not the rapper)]

I should say that I usually like to throw in the extreme sounds in the middle of a more well-rounded set. I like to educate bar patrons on my personal taste. That may be why they don't get as pissy as I'd like.

[Sommy]

my bar actually told me i couldn't play slayer anymore. on my birthday i was allowed to, but i forgot. i should start trying to play meshuggah though. good call.

Again, perfect example of people who don't know how to work the technology they have.

If Slayer being played in your bar is really a problem (it's not), go into the OS and have it removed.

People find the dumbest shit to get pissy about.

[kitty]

oh they don't get pissy with me about it...they just kind of frown and give me a hard time. and another one of the regulars made me promise not to do it anymore.

on my birthday my two friends played a pretty good set of music i enjoyed so that was nice.

usually idiots always play don't stop believin and sweet caroline.

[Bacon]

My crowning moment with this actually involved a regular old jukebox, not a digital one.

There's a small dive bar/restaurant place out here with a cheap spaghetti special popular with families who want a cheap night out to eat.

The jukebox is mostly 90s alternative, but it has the uncensored version of Undertow. I put on Disgustipated and there were definitely a few parents who had to put down their forks and look pensively down at the tablecloth for awhile.


I come in the following week and the jukebox is unplugged.

[Sommy]

My crowning moment with this actually involved a regular old jukebox, not a digital one.

There's a small dive bar/restaurant place out here with a cheap spaghetti special popular with families who want a cheap night out to eat.

The jukebox is mostly 90s alternative, but it has the uncensored version of Undertow. I put on Disgustipated and there were definitely a few parents who had to put down their forks and look pensively down at the tablecloth for awhile.


I come in the following week and the jukebox is unplugged.

Brilliant.

[Sommy]

I'm thinking of organizing this where I get a ton of people to come with me to an "event" each week at a different bar, maybe taping it for YouTube or something. Could be entertaining.

[Lndrs]

This one place I go to in Toledo doesn't have an internet jukebox per say, but it has a lot of stuff on it. The place usually plays typical stuff that you'd expect from people my age. When I'm there I always try to piss people off via Jukebox, sometimes I'll do a run of "Siberian Kiss" "Hurting and Shoving, and "Babe". Other times I'll bust out some "Close to the Edge" or some random Yes. I remember even playing 40 below Summer's "Step into the Sideshow" once which got shut off at the end.

Good times.

I put on Disgustipated

That's fucking awesome.

[bmfbooby]

my sister was mc hammered the other night so i was playin dd.
she was bitchin about the wwf that the bar was playing and rightly so.
since people there were watchin, they wouldnt change it.
so she goes to the jukebox and plays stuff like girls just wanna have fun, footloose, dancing with myself/ basically a bunch of gay 80s songs. it synced up rather nicely to shaved steroided men rolling around on a mat and pawin eachother

[Sommy]

Tomorrow is the first official meeting of the order of the jukebox terrorist -- we'll be having an impromptu free jazz night at a local bar that we don't normally frequent. Look for video evidence on YouTube soon.

[AFHAERO]

Play anything related to this:
http://theprpboard.com/showthread.php?t=12049

[Sommy]

Play anything related to this:
http://theprpboard.com/showthread.php?t=12049

Not gonna be on the jukebox. Besides, tomorrow is free jazz night. JBT nights have to be themed. Only Sun Ra, On the Corner-era Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman will be played.

[Synthesis]

Last night, Frantic by Metallica was played 8 times in a row.

Internet jukeboxes tend to carry BTBAM, so White Walls is always preferred in a young professional/chad bar.

Edit: For those unfamiliar with Metallica's only good song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1yrxbgr8M

[johnnyutah]

the second half of 'My War' would get the folk riled up. Sadness Will Prevail too

[Thrash!]

on the last US tour I was on, after stopping at a Waffle House in Alabama I decided to check out the jukebox. it was 8 AM, and all the hunters who were either about to go hunting or just coming back from hunting were eating their breakfast. two songs really stood out to me, so i played them 8 times in a row. a) "Gettin Jiggy Wit It" by Will Smith and b) "What Would You Do" by City High.

Needless to say, the faggot northerner got a lot of evil stares from patrons and management alike.

[jar]

as a kid there was an arcade down the street from our cottage, and we used to play Gimme the Loot on repeat as much as possible since it had the most swearing of any song in the jukebox.

lately there aren't many places with jukeboxes, but if i see one i'll usually force some Def Leppard on the establishment.

[CBC]

One time I cued up Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl album in its entirety at a really swank Italian restaurant. The point where the Sinatra was cut off and Abdul started her shitty yelping was priceless. Everyone at the wine bar looked at me with disgust and another guy actually yelled at me. We were on our way out, so it wasn't a problem.

[Logg]

My local jukebox is the worst only thing, I can ever find is Machine Head they don't even have Clipse.

[CBC]

My local jukebox is the worst only thing, I can ever find is Machine Head they don't even have Clipse.

In my opinion Wamp Wamp should be readily, accessible to everyone all the time.

[Sommy]

Tried taping everything tonight, but we were too obvious about it and got no appropriate reaction as such. Going to try it again next week.

[incubushaggy]

a few weeks ago, this dude put on a 27 minute dream theater song. that was good times. much appreciated.

[gotknives]

I used to love doing this when my friends and I used to hang out regularly around town...we'd usually go through and pick a bunch of good songs and they'd let me make the "annoying" pick. definitely did coltrane and miles a few times. my favorite was finding boredoms - seadrum/house of sun and playing that for the bw3 crowd.

[dalb3]

Jukebox terrorism seems to be at an all time low due to the "skip song" feature the bartenders use when enough people bitch. Can't even play more than 2 metal songs in a row these days.

[flipp jackson]

fight the power dalb

[mondrarytomic]

Jukebox terrorism seems to be at an all time low due to the "skip song" feature the bartenders use when enough people bitch. Can't even play more than 2 metal songs in a row these days.

This bar here called Diesel actually wants us to play metal. We put on Chimaira and they loved it.

It was when we played "Stand Here With Me" by Creed did they turn it off

[Cunt Banana]

Oh man, I totally played Motograter on the jukebox tonight, and the bartender got so pissed. It was too heavy for them. Pussies.

[sexy penguin meat]

the residents 'constantinople' is probably my favorite song to play at a bar

[Ganglor]

I always used to play Blur's Song 2 constantly at my local Godfather's Pizza just to drive my friend who worked there insane. Now I can't find a jukebox at any of my local bars or restaurants, quite the downer.

Anyway, shortly after buying my house I ended up going into a C&N Sales and bought an old Rowe jukebox for $250 (Thanks Bush tax rebate!). Probably the best purchase I've made in a long time. If you've ever thought of buying a jukebox do it now while they are making the transition to internet/hard drive based jukeboxes and still make parts for the older models. The song my friends abuse on my jukebox is Joe Nichols - Tequila Makes Her Clothes Come off. I would pull the record but I just don't have the heart to disappoint that many people.