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Pub music?

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  Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Saturday, 16th January 2010

  My local pub is a traditional boozer but, as happens at gyms etc., can suffer from music turned up loud, and what's even worse is that no-one actually necessarily likes or "owns" the music if it is all on an MP3 player.
  
  Quite often in mine it is set to stuff I recognise.
  
  Today it was Hits of the Eighties and I found myself playing "Beat the Intro"...
  
  I have added the years as I wasn't too sure at the time:
  
  "Living on the Ceiling" - Blancmange, version with swearing that I am unfamiliar with (1982)
  
  "Twilight Café" - I said "SUSAN!"
  
  I'm going for Susan Fassbender, 1985.
  
  (Looks it up: yes Susan Fassbender but 1981 (I wasn't in the UK at the time). I also learn that she committed suicide in 1991...
  
  "If I was" - Midge Ure. (I had forgotten this was Number 1 in 1985)...
  
  Playing "Beat the Intro" on this, I had first thought it might be Queen...
  
  A Luther Vandrossy number I didn't recognise, something like "Every Time You Break My Heart". Can't be that because no google match.
  
  Do they play unusual music in your pub / gym etc.?

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  Posted by hank plankton (U4792100) on Saturday, 16th January 2010

  My old haunt in trendy Crouch End had a great scouse landlord with a very eclectic collection of tunes. Many was the time I would ask "Who's this"? as he passed collecting glasses.
  
  Aaaaahhh, for another evening in the 'Hope and Anchor'. Plenty of other pubs are available except they've all been gastrofied.
  
  Where I live now the pubs are shite, so I don't bother.
  
  Two of the songs I got from drinking in the H&A..
  
  
  
  Sixto Rodriguez - Sugarman
  
  
  
  Beachbuggy - Killer Bee

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  Posted by RichardW (U1168137) on Tuesday, 19th January 2010

  My regular of haunt, of sorts, in Carlisle has a reasonably good CD jukebox. Last week, I managed to get The Blue Nile ('Tinseltown....'), Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, some early U2, Marillion (not for me, mind....) and Smiths on, amongst others.....
  
  I also admit to putting on 'Baker Street', for old times sake - it was a regular player in my first proper local, 20 years ago, on the vinyl jukie. God rest The Friars Tavern......

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  Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Tuesday, 19th January 2010

  Here are some selections from the Bell and Crown Jukebox, Palace Street, Canterbury in the days of Charlie Passey RIP as Landlord.
  
  The laughing Policeman
  Al Jolson - California Here I come
  Dean Martin - Little Old Wine Drinker Me
  Commodores - Just to be Close to You
  Nat King Cole - Too Young/Rambling Rose
  Love Affair - Everlasting Love
  Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
  Billie Jo Spears - Blanket on the Ground
  Walker Brothers - Make it Easy on Yourself
  Perry Como - For the Good times/Seattle
  
  And more that instantly take me back there. Cider 80p a pint. Cheese and onion rolls the wrong side of stale. Or the right side depending on your viewpoint. But for that jukebox (and the amount of time spent there in my "late teens") I might not have heard some of those records.
  
  Wistful now.

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  Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Tuesday, 19th January 2010

  But for that jukebox (and the amount of time spent there in my "late teens") I might not have heard some of those records.   As for "Pretty in Pink", I could recommend a radio station that now plays it several times a day...

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  Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Tuesday, 19th January 2010

  At least the internet mega-jukebox seems to be being phased out now. A great idea in theory, a terrible one in practice. A quid gets you 'Albatross' by PiL, 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 7, 8, 9 & 10)' plus anything you like off 'The Drift'... Too much freedom can be a bad thing.

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  Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Tuesday, 19th January 2010

  Always jukebox responsibly, is what I'm saying. Especially if you're p*ssed at the same time.

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  Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Thursday, 21st January 2010

  ye cracke in liverpool, was a favourite haunt, can’t remember what was on the jukebox. can remember sitting in the war office or the beer garden. the philharmonic and the everyman didn’t have a jukebox. the swan inn did. you couldn’t spend an evening there without hearing lynyrd skynyrd’s free bird.
  these days i like noising up the locals in the village pub, putting on donald where’s yer troosers just as i’m about to slope off.
  

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  Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Thursday, 21st January 2010

  The idea of turning up at Edinburgh Waverley Station at 5am to hear Ultravox's "Vienna" echoing round the station and wondering if there was "freezing breath on the window-pane" (Coe) is an apposite extension of this idea.
  
  Mind you, had BR been making any announcements at that unearthly hour about the available connections they would surely have been "lying, waiting".
  
  For me, going into work in the City of London evokes John Foxx's "Touch And Go" ("well we stepped out in the shatterlight, and I watched as we blew away - through a sea of suits and the tangled-up streets and the cities in a grey-blue haze" and XTC's "Towers of London" ("when they had built you, did you watch over the men who fell?")
  
  And that's before I wake up in the moving windows...

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