Music in Bars

[Guess]

The topic of music in bars continually crops up in any converstaions about bars.

Everybody has different taste. I have know to characters who only liked Tom Jones and the other Stevie Wonder. Anything alse at all was crap to them. I had another customer who only like Guns and Roses and only one track.

My taste is very diverese but I do have certain leanings. I even enjoy non-english music such as Spanish, Thai, Italian and Portugese and Japanese.

It would be could to here what the rest of you out ther like to hear when visiting a bar.

I am with JW on the Dance Hitz volune 13 being played. To me that bar becomes as enticing as one with girls outside "Wellcome come inside please".

At least you can tell the girls to bog oiff get me a drink and leave me alone.

My guess that in some bars a request for a change of music would be volume 13 being changed for Volume 7.

Other complete turn offs for me are Abba and Tom Jones despite the fact I have respect for their musical talents. It's though, as with Hotel California, there is only so much I can stand.

Anyway what does everybody else like?

[buksida]

I'm pretty sure there are a couple of other threads already discussing this but here is some of the stuff I quite like:

Rolling Stones
Paul Weller
The Who
The Jam
The Clash
Led Zeppelin
Placebo
U2
AC/DC
Nirvana

I like to rock on when I'm out, not get all sentimental to the dulcet tones of Michael Learns to Rock, Tata Young or Mariah Carey.

I recognise a lot of the stuff on these PC jukeboxes ... straight out of my own collection, MP3 flaws and all.

[Norseman]

I never experienced a better time, in any bar, as when they played music from the 70s by Danish Kim Larsen & his Gasolin group.
This happened some 6 months ago.
Swinging music by a great artist.

The place: Toro Bar.

[Jim]

Surely an impossible question. Music tastes vary according to degrees of sobriety. What is stomach churning during the first beer can equally induce raucous singing after half a dozen beer chang.

On the other hand, so matter how pissed I am, the music in the Hilton is still unmitigated shite.

[PeteC]

East of Eden here I would be happy to hear anything that wasn't "rap" or, thumping pole dancing music. Get's old after about the 3rd beer. These places compete with each other as to how fast they can drive away paying customers...at least those over 30. Pete

[lomuamart]

When I had my place years ago, I brought over a lot of indie music at the time. So :
Stone Roses
Happy Mondays
Charlatans etc etc.
Don't think anyone was playing that sort off stuff then. Not to everyones' taste, but it did attract a lot of younger folk simply because they'd not heard it anywhere in Thailand.
Still love good ol' rock music. Would add Deep Purple to Buksida's favs and probably plenty of others that I can't be bothered to list.
However, the days of seeing me shirtless (yes I know there have been threads on this before) running up and down Bintabart with a few others trying to impersonate Angus Young with our air guitars are long over. Promise.
It only happens occasionally at home now and the missus is quick to dispense my medication when it does.

[PeteC]

Still love good ol' rock music. Would add Deep Purple to Buksida's favs and probably plenty of others that I can't be bothered to list:

They do have some good places over here like that, usually free, no cover charge, with some very good Thai bands who play that style. Deep Purple, The Doors, and just about any request for music that was published about 30 years before the band was born. It's usually in a quasi open beer bar type building and they set all the chairs up facing the stage. Plastic bucket on the floor if you want to throw a tip in for the band. No hassle from the bar maids, if you want a drink, raise your hand and it will be there, AND most run a tab if they know you. These places are usually packed with both expats and tourists. Good taste is universal. Pete

[tuktukmike]

My God, you guys are Lost in Music.

The one thing i hate is people who have to pretend they like hip sort of music that will not embarass them. ie a few years ago every house had to have a Craig Daviv DVD, Yuk.

Me.

Mud,sweet,T Rex, Slade, Barry White, Styx, Beatmasters, ELO, Peter Frampton, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Maddona, Bob Dylan, Country Joe Mc Donald, Technotronic, Amen Corner, The Kinks, Queen, Quo, and of course for when you really have fun Bay City Rollers,

In fact the list is endless, I just like all sorts of music.

Mike.

[lomuamart]

Still love good ol' rock music. Would add Deep Purple to Buksida's favs and probably plenty of others that I can't be bothered to list:

They do have some good places over here like that, usually free, no cover charge, with some very good Thai bands who play that style. Deep Purple, The Doors, and just about any request for music that was published about 30 years before the band was born. It's usually in a quasi open beer bar type building and they set all the chairs up facing the stage. Plastic bucket on the floor if you want to throw a tip in for the band. No hassle from the bar maids, if you want a drink, raise your hand and it will be there, AND most run a tab if they know you. These places are usually packed with both expats and tourists. Good taste is universal. Pete

I'd definitely go along with that. Spent many an enjoyable night in places like that all over Thailand.
After the requisite amout of beer, the only thing differentiating the music from the original to me are the vocal accents.
Mind you, I'm tone deaf

[Guess]

My God, you guys are Lost in Music. Sister Sledge 1974)

The one thing i hate is people who have to pretend they like hip sort of music that will not embarass them. ie a few years ago every house had to have a Craig Daviv DVD, Yuk.

Mike.

I agree with that in principle. Some people (the younger and more insecure they are mentally) seem to think they have to like a certain kind of music in public but listen to something else or wattch TV in private. Mu gues is that people like that do not actually like music at all.

As for Craig David he must the one of the most talented artists that Britain has turned out since Robert Del Naja whom in my opinion ranks alongside the greatest artistic talents in recorded history.

I am not alone in this opinion as both those guys have rooms full of awards.

As for Lomu, that is exactly the music that I was listening to at the time it was current. I have a few tracks of eighties Indie but also like the mainstream Indie (if you forgive the contradiction) such as the Thompson Twins, Talk Talk and Tears for Fears, not forgetting of course the Goths, Mission, Cult and Cure.

Still though the old stuff gets to me especially the Bay Area stuff from the seventies along with the LA superbands. (The Doors and Santana)

Someone mentioned Country Joe, brilliant stuff but hard to get hold of. I think I have about ten tracks at most.

Could go on for ever.

I agree with you Jim about mood but surely you must like something you can name.

[Jim]

OK. Stuff I like at the moment when sober and drunk: Maroon 5, Eagles, Leo Sayer (!!), Cream, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, The Who, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Monty Python, Beyonce, Steely Dan.

Typical saddo sort of stuff, but I become a lot younger and trendier when pissed. At least I think I do.

[Guess]

OK. Stuff I like at the moment when sober and drunk: Maroon 5, Eagles, Leo Sayer (!!), Cream, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, The Who, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Monty Python, Beyonce, Steely Dan.

Typical saddo sort of stuff, but I become a lot younger and trendier when pissed. At least I think I do.

Thank you Jim, you have just reminded me of a couple of bands that I had forgotten.


Beyonce? Are you sure that you would not just like to [edited by admin]
while listening to her sing.

[caller]

Folk and jazz anyone? Watching a great series on BBC4 on folk as I type.

Okay, you need to go to a club or concerts for folk, but what about Jazz - the greats, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Adderley, Sonny Clark, MJQ etc. Or Scando type Jazz - Tomasz Stanko, Jan Garbarek and their ilk.

Also when I'm out, although I don't know why I can't hear the above, I still want to hear, apart from lots of names featured above - ELP, Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Traffic, Focus, Kate Bush, Joan Armatrading, Eurythmics, Johny Clegg from SA (ripped off by Paul Simon), Steve Winwood.

If I want to rock, nothing better than Paranoid from Black Sabbath, The Who, the Stones and someone somewhere mentioned Juicy Lucy?

For fun, Slade, Hot Chocolate, singalong pop.

You can see why most people avoid me?

I do.

[caller]

Just saw the reference to Leo Sayer - Moonlighting is one of my all time favourite albums.

[Jaime]

I have bought the following CD's in the last couple of weeks:

Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
The Doors
Led Zeppelin (4)
Katie Melua (Call off the Search)
Keane (Hopes & Fears)

The first three are replacements for vinyl and the last two are a couple of contemporary performers that I really like.

Also bought a couple of DVD's:

Queen Live at Milton Keynes Bowl
AC/DC Live at Donnington

Both real nostalgia trips!

Think I'll go for a Coldplay CD next as I like their chart stuff.

Other stuff I play alot:

REM
Pink Floyd
Eagles
Marvin Gaye
Otis Redding
Gladys Knight
Stevie Wonder
Elton John

We also get a lot of LOSO & Carabou played in this house so am quite familiar with them too!

The list is endless really and quite eclectic.

PS - I haven't got any of his stuff but agree with Guess that Craig David is a very talented singer & performer.

Oh, and I forgot to include Sir Tom in the list!