Dive bar jukebox

Play ten songs. Go!

My way
Lawyers guns and money
Mack the knife
I heard it through the grapevine
Crawling King Snake ( JLH)
House of the rising sun
Werewolves of London
Dixie chicken
The thrill is gone
Freebird

Jim hit some of mine (2 Warren Zevon - yes!) so I'll pick 10 different ones (off the top of my head):

Why Don't We Get Drunk (I could have put this one twice; we played it a lot at our watering hole in college)
More Than a Feeling
Your Cheatin' Heart
Lovin Touchin Squeezin
Streets of Bakersfield
Suffragette City
Long Cool Woman
London Homesick Blues (alt: Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother)
Fat Bottomed Girls
Family Tradition

My dive bar juke box is Billy Idol's Rebel Yell 10 times in a row.

Layla (Derek & The Dominos)
Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
Soul Kitchen (Doors)
Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)
Dragon Attack (Queen)
Monkey Man (Stones)
Wheel in the Sky (Journey)
Stone Cold (Rainbow)
China Grove (Doobie Brothers)
Subdivisions (Rush)

And Jim, +1 on Lawyers, Guns and Money

Dowop
Elvis
Motown
Dowop
Elvis
Motown
Dowop
Elvis
Motown
Dowop

Secret Agent Man Johnny Rivers
Angie The Stones
Michelle The Beatles
Guitars, Cadillacs and Hillbilly Music Dwight Yoachum
Dead Babies Alice Cooper
Fat Bottom Girls Queen
Whipping Post The Allman Brothers
Come Monday Jimmy Buffet
You Can Call Me Al Paul Simon
That's The Way Billy Preston

Ahhh.

Whipping post!

George Jones - White Lightning
Ramblin' Jack Elliott- Cigarettes, Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women
Meat Puppets – Roof With A Hole
If You're Gonna Be Dumb - Roger Allan Wade
Mojo Nixon - She's All Liquored Up
Tom Waits - Drunk on the Moon
Ramrods - Ghost Riders in the Sky
Ween - **** Up A Rope
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Teenage Lust
The Cramps - Like A Bad Girl Should

Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat

NSFW language:

1. Iron Butterfly - In A Godda Da Vida

About halfway through this 17 minute trip down the psychedelic highway of the 60's, some wiseguy gets up and pulls the plug out of the wall, making the next 9 selections irrelevant.

Nirvana ~ Come as You Are
The Band ~ Up on Cripple Creek
Eminem ~ The Real Slim Shady
J. Geils Band ~ Centerfold
Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Sweet Home Alabama
Billy Idol ~ Mony Mony
Beck ~ Devil's Haircut
R.E.M. ~ It's the End of the World as We Know It
The Doors ~ Light My Fire
The Beatles ~ Twist and Shout

Well, I could happily give the jukebox money to any of you gents. Even Tele.

El Paso - Marty Robbins
I hope that I don't fall in love with you - Tom Waits
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Ain't that a kick in the head- Dean Martin
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
Luck Be A Lady - Frank Sinatra
Soul Kitchen - The Doors
What'd I say - Ray Charles
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Bright side of the road - Van Morrison

The dive bar I'm thinking of is dingy, dark as night on a sunny Tuesday morning, smoke filled, smells of beer soaked carpet and lysol, and has a bunch of hard-luck, hard-livin', hard-nosers belly up to the bar. There's a sullen camaraderie. Odd lengths of silence juxtaposed with heavy glass clunking the hardwood.

There were so many great songs in the above posts, that I had to spend some time on YouTube listening to a few. In case any of you want to listen to any of these, I've added links. Please note, I didn't read the comments sections in these youtube links. Sometimes there's salty language there, so view at your own discretion.

The Pogues: The Body Of An American HERE

Tom Waits: Train Song HERE

Creedence: Long As I Can See The Light HERE

Johnny Cash: Give My Love To Rose (recent ver.) HERE

Little Feat: Willin' HERE

Gram Parsons: A Song For You <couldn't find a good link>

The Beatles: Don't Let Me Down HERE

JR & The Modern Lovers: Hospital HERE

Neil Young: One Of These Days HERE

The Weight from The Last Waltz...The Band + The Staples Singers. Pops and Mavis just add something extra great to an already great tune. HERE

Too many songs to choose. I could make one for each genre, probably.

Walter Sobchak said:

The dive bar I'm thinking of is dingy, dark as night on a sunny Tuesday morning, smoke filled, smells of beer soaked carpet and lysol, and has a bunch of hard-luck, hard-livin', hard-nosers belly up to the bar.

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Wow - that's some dark stuff. I think your playlist could have been playing when Mickey Rourke met Faye Dunaway in Barfly.

Masterkova said:

Wow - that's some dark stuff. I think your playlist could have been playing when Mickey Rourke met Faye Dunaway in Barfly.

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Yeah, I'm a sucker for Bukowski.

Down on the corner - CCR
Piano Man - Billy Joel
California Dreaming - Mamas and Papas
Get by with a little help from my friends - Joe Cocker version
While my guitar gently weaps - Beatles
Angie - Rolling Stones
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplain
Loosing my religion - REM
The Superman song - Crash Test Dummies
Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Jim named my favourite "The house of the rising sun" and . . . by the way "Freebird" has got to count as three.

Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - Born to Loose
The Dictators - Stay With Me
The Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreak of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'
The Clash - Rudy Can't Fail
The Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
(For the hot chick across the bar) The Pixies - Cactus

1. Sly and the Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
2. The Rolling Stones: Honky Tonk Women
3. CCR: Fortunate Son (gotta have some politics, but with a great beat)
4. The Beatles: Got To Get You Into My Life
5. The Who: Magic Bus (or a dozen others)
6. Holly Cole: We're Having a Heat Wave
7. Gram Parsons: I Can't Dance
8. Emmylou Harris: Feeling Single, Seeing Double
9. The Grateful Dead: Me And My Uncle
10.Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues

jazzman said:

1. Sly and the Family Stone: Hot Fun in the Summertime
2. The Rolling Stones: Honky Tonk Women
3. CCR: Fortunate Son (gotta have some politics, but with a great beat)
4. The Beatles: Got To Get You Into My Life
5. The Who: Magic Bus (or a dozen others)
6. Holly Cole: We're Having a Heat Wave
7. Gram Parsons: I Can't Dance
8. Emmylou Harris: Feeling Single, Seeing Double
9. The Grateful Dead: Me And My Uncle
10.Johnny Cash: Cocaine Blues

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Fantastic song!