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[โ€“] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I found out I can access the local bar's TouchTones from my house and my work. So on random evenings, I'll queue a song list up starting with Photograph (my calling card), then do a list of bizarre songs (Surfin' Bird, it's Not Unusual, a 20+ minute Sufjan Stevens song, Babymetal, etc), then close it out with Photograph again.

I'm going to give the bartender a Pavlovian response to hearing Nickelback

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
  • Photograph
  • Prince - Batdance.
  • OPM - Heaven is a halfpipe
  • NWA - Fuck the Police (radio edit)
  • Incubus - Aqueous Transmission
  • The Mandalorian Theme song
  • Aphex Twin - Bucephalus Boubcing Ball
  • Dre - Next Episode
  • The Broadside Band -Gathering Peascods
  • The Gourds - Gin and Juice
  • Steely Dan - Rikki don't lose that number
  • Slipknot - before I forget (or slayer raining blood - take your pick)
  • Lingus - Snarky Puppy
  • Nonpoint - in the air tonight
  • Cunninlynguists - the Light
  • Rush - la villa strangiato
  • Jethro Tull - cross-eyed mary
  • Photograph.

All are on Spotify, which you can link to Touch tunes. Load it up as a playlist, then select "smart shuffle".

Find a booth. Grab a pint. Enjoy the clusterfuck.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Could you do a solid prank for this random internet stranger and queue up the following:

8 x one favorite slightly annoying song ('moves like jagger', or 'we built this city' would be my suggestion)

1 x Photograph (pause for the unison sigh of relief from the patrons)

1+ x the same slightly annoying song played in a row already.

I'll bring popcorn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

So, from experience, I don't think it likes it if you play a song too close to itself. I had a short Playlist once with two or three songs bookended with Photograph, and it dropped the second Photograph. So I'm hesitant to do the same song over and over. Maybe a song that has a whole bunch of different versions might work!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You could at least credit John Mulaney if you are going to steal his jokes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How often do you do this? Do you ever go into the bar and innocently queue Photograph to see if you get a rise out of anyone?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's my plan for later. I want to get it really firmly established first.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You're a monster and I aspire to this level of trolling.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If they have it, Disco Duck is an all-time stupid song classic, highly recommend playing it anytime you want to be a musical troll.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Alright, that was great. I'm sure just the song is good for a troll, but the video made it at least 10x better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

A bad music classic, for certain