what is the most obscure song you've ever seen on a pub jukebox?

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or failing that, best/longest/most surprising song..

our union jukebox has devo's version of satisfaction and ALL of Come On Die Young.

― Wyndham Earl, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A mate of mine told me that in the mid 70's when "Love Is The Drug" by Roxy Music was in the charts, he used to love pissing everyone off in pubs by filling the jukebox with 10p coins and playing it's B- side "Sultanesque" repeatedly for hours on end (or usually until the landlord switched it off)........

And if you know what Sultanesque sounds like you'll know why this is funny.

― baxter wingnut, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The double CD of X:Los Angeles/Wild Gift = best I've seen...

― Ron Hudson, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does it have to be a pub in the strict sense? The bar/restaurant I've been going to lately for Arkestra concerts has possibly the best jukebox I've ever seen. For instance, it has the Ash Ra Temple CD that has a song I taped off the radio years ago and have wanted to identify since. Last time I was there, someone else seemed to have already selected some of the songs I wanted to play ("Human Canonball" by the Butthole Surfers, for instance). It also has more mainstream oldies like Bill Withers.

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THE PUB I GO TO HAS 4 FELA RECORDS IN THE JUKEBOX

― chaki, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The place I am thinking of also has a song that my neighbor used to listen to a lot (including one instance when he disturbed my sleep with it). I don't know who it's by, but I have never heard it anywhere else. The singer has a sort of gravely voice and it has a kind of unrelentingness about it, as it goes on saying something or other about life. Kind of reminds me of a cross between Laibach and Tom Waits. (It's not "Life is Life.")

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the jukebox in the poolroom at reed has everything from clarence carter's "patches" to dinosaur jr.'s cover of "just like heaven."

― brains, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, the Revolver bar in Glasgow is getting a bit of a name for itself for having squillions of tunes on their spangly touchscreen MP3 jukebox, which has the current elpee by Ladytron as well as some more obscure 70s/80s stuff (Gang of Four?!?!? Japan's "Gentlemen Take Polaroids"?!?!?!"), inbetween the usual Kylie/Robbie/NME-Indie-Band-Of-The-Minute faves. Finding a jukebox with early 80s near-hit "I'm in love with a German film star" by the Passions was certainly an acheivement, I can tell you!

― Old Fart!!!!, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There used to be a fine juker in a pub in Plymouth which had the June Brides and Fire Engines... odd to see the Pop: Aural label with the big hole cut into it.

I recall a jukebox in a Student bar in London which had the first two Champion Doug Veitch singles (Lumiere Urban / Not the Heart) on it. That's fairly obscure I suppose.

― Tim Hopkins, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to see a jukebox with "Ventolin" on it.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan: Your best shot would be an empty pub. Or otherwise, one in which all the patrons are collectively turned towards the speakers with an eyebrow raised.

― Vinnie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Last year, I went to see Wesley Willis at Nyabinghi, a bar in Youngstown with the most un bar-like jukebox ever... King Crimson's Red, Spiderland by Slint, and Echo and the Bunnymen, for starters.

― matthew m., Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to see a jukebox with "Ventolin" on it.

There was one in Seattle with lots of caustic electronic/punk stuff at a video game arcade that had Aphex's "i care because you do" in it..but it closed down. (Not because of the jukebox selections, hopefully)

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Hall of Residence bar jukebox featured Emerson Lake and Palmer's 'Brain Salad Surgery'. It was the b-side to Fanfare For the Common Man.

― dan, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow! Someone from Reed College on ILE! I spent many happy hours in that poolroom in 1990/91.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bradley's Spanish Bar off Oxford Street has Jackie's 'White Horses', btw.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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