New York is My Home

18
Nov

Suberban Funk is coming, unplug the jukebox

Author: hailey, Category: art & culture, night life

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Your music taste is questionable if a bartender returns your money on your jukebox picks, pressing that magic stop button to end your pre-paid marathon of bad jazz on a Saturday night. Yes, such a button does exist.

 Unfortunately, magic button’s life span is short. -Thanks to over-enthusiastic trigger fingers and mass insistence on hearing ‘Achy Breaky’ one more time.

While in theory older juke boxes are good indications of a bar with character, i.e. delicious grit on every glass, make sure you have a fall back in case some fool gets the urge to express his funk.

Now that internet jukeboxes are starting to appear in my some of my places, it bares repeating:

Do not download Achy Breaky Heart on a jukebox unless you are willing to buy the whole bar a round and beg forgiveness.

Other songs not to download include:

Tears in Heaven

Macarena

that Delilah song