The Worst Songs to Play in a Bar, According to Bartenders

[@Hamburgler6.9]

"boston is such a cheese factor" says the guy with the pube beard and man bun.

[@anderander5662]

EXACTLY...and bad teeth

[@Ojthemighty]

Boston are great

[@anderander5662]

@@Ojthemighty I agree, but like so many songs that have an actual melody and lyrics.......they are out of fashion now. Repetitive tribal grunting is the norm.

[@Ojthemighty]

@@anderander5662 mumble...

[@clutch1141]

@@anderander5662 Do we lay down and accept this mockery of music, or do we blow out their tone deaf ear drums with Boston?

[@outlaws9295]

CCR is the worst bar music? That's it, I'm hiring the hitman now.

[@sc100ott]

Me: What’s the worst music to play in a bar? Bartender: Anything customers actually enjoy. Me: So you hate your customers? Bartender: yeah, pretty much.

[@RoscoPColtrane17]

Career switch is needed

[@stephenkolman5727]

You can't call something a cheese factory when you have a man bun.

[@carlhicksjr8401]

The ghost of Toshiro Mifune wants his hair style back....

[@Rockhound1943]

Seriously Boston is cheese... zero understanding of reality.

[@arkady714]

Excellent point. Metrosexuality is a cliche that went out in the '90s.

[@kikeenriquez4436]

Creedence Clearwater Revival? Shoot me, CCR is the best bar music!!!

[@nocoffeenofun]

Have you ever seen the rain is one of my favourite song

[@gregoryfreeman9073]

Damn I agree. I play them sometimes lol. I dont play the overplayed stuff though.

[@jpb1231000]

@@nocoffeenofun LODI!!! Old Cottonfields back Home!!!

[@cpresto2]

People who criticize CCR just dont get it

[@Ojthemighty]

Ccr are good

[@ccubed7861]

There is nothing worse than hearing the 11 minute live version of Freebird for the 3rd time in one shift.

[@arkady714]

We used to have a kill switch on our jukebox. The unit would play random songs but patrons could pay and play songs, too. My boss would give me a hard time for killing Freebird stating that someone could have paid and put the song on. I told him that I didn't freaking care.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

But! That live version of Freebird from Atlanta's Fox Theatre is one of the most blazing live songs ever recorded.

[@luckysevens6852]

The title should be "Songs Bartenders are Sick of Hearing".

[@Huntrguy102]

I'm really surprised they didn't say Sweet Caroline

[@smellincoffee]

BUM BUM BUM

[@amest8913]

Beatbox Tutorials if I hear that song one more time in my pub I think I’ll have a stroke

[@TizzyTown]

EAT SHIT PITT!!

[@fritzmcgillacuddy2240]

B A B B A D A

[@kingkang6877]

I was thinking "Dance with somebody" - Whitney Houston

[@nickdoom5826]

Tom waits is a great way to keep me in a bar.

[@hankigoe829]

of course he's an aquired taste though, lol

[@yaroslavchichvarkin32]

Same here

[@Ogrematic]

Outstanding musician. So cool.

[@patrickcannady2066]

Tom's music drives out the sort who genuinely like all the worst songs mentioned in this video, though...which is not a bad thing IMO

[@Ogrematic]

@@patrickcannady2066 Those who tend to be amusica. Tasteless, if you will.

[@understabledave]

Alternate video title: Bartenders prove they have no taste in music

[@Nauctshea]

Seriously. If you don't like Don't Stop Believin' you have shit taste in music. See what I did there? I pulled a bartender but I swapped the subject of alcohol to music.

[@surfrat8884]

You mean douche bag hipster bartenders have no taste in music

[@JimJoness619]

journey fukin sux

[@organs]

It's REALLY easy to get sick of Don't Stop Believing.

[@tijmen131]

It's not per se because the songs are bad, but they don't like the effect it has on the crowd

[@arkady714]

I'm a former NYC and Baltimore bartender. My list? "I Will Survive," "It's Raining Men," "So Many Men So Little Time" or any other song that rallies the women into a hate men, defy the penis dance. It often ends badly.

[@timbrink]

Those are gay bar songs.

[@blahpunk1]

defy the penis dance? :-) I guess I haven't seen that one.

[@parnpichate]

@@timbrink Agreed. Those songs suck dick. And their equally as annoying to hear at karaoke night.

[@konami1979]

This video lost me at "Tom Waits." He's the godfather of barfly music.

[@martinXY]

Dive bar music, maybe.

[@Kamamura2]

Exactly. If I ever pass a bar and hear Tom Waits from the inside, it would convince me to enter. And I don't even go outside normally. Tom Waits rocks.

[@cathyshepard253]

Fleetwood Mac... my heart ; - ; Why would you say that?

[@wickedsleep8599]

Cathy Shepard right!?

[@thelaststand3560]

Cathy Shepard hurt me too

[@Ojthemighty]

Cos hipsters hate something solely cos many people like it

[@Chamomile369]

They are hipsters who hate fun. Notice how the songs they hate are the ones people in the bar will all collectively enjoy 😂

[@GemyniMoodJuice]

Instead of ripping out the jukebox cause the customers "can't be trusted", why don't you delete those songs you despise on the jukebox? If the songs aren't on there, they can't be played.

[@LazlosPlane]

This video is 90% horseshit. (NYC bartender 30 years)

[@Ojthemighty]

But that would be logical

[@nesk2011]

What I learned from this video is that bartenders apparently have really bad taste in music!!!

[@HuginMunin]

Nah, it's just they hear the same handful of songs over and over and they choices are really predictable (70's arena rock, novelty drinking songs, etc) and they're just sick of them.

[@andrewknaff9220]

“If you wanna empty out your” (SHITTY BAR), “Tom Waits”. Any bar that plays Tom is good in my book! Ignore that fool.

[@martinXY]

When I was a lad, at closing time my local would turn on all the lights and play American Pie. We'd all discover how ugly we were by that time of night, but we went out singing!

[@StillLivinginthewoods]

Too many pretentious hipster vibes, tone down the arrogance guys,... no tip for you!!! I don't think I would spend much time in any bar where these guys were working. You're not here to tell me what to drink or what to listen to, you're here to pour my drinks and take my money.

[@billmcglynn7417]

Amen to that.

[@Ojthemighty]

In other words "Shut up and take my money"

[@MaximumCarne]

Seriously. Just looking at these douchebags and you know how phoney they are. Man bun, fedoras, giant gross beards, stupid earrings, etc. fck whatever bars these clowns work at.

[@jeffpickering3716]

If I hear Achy Breaky Heart? I'm Achy Breaky leaving. Especially if everyone gets up to line dance.

[@ThatTransMuffinOfficial]

I was expecting one of them to say Piano Man.

[@ECWnWWF]

if I got the spare change and the jukebox is available for play, I like to take the bar to the extreme and play the ECW walkout songs like Big Balls, Perfect Strangers, Walk, War Machine, Real American, Man in the Box, Enter Sandman, Desperado (an Eagles song), and Natural Born Killaz

[@Wotenkeld]

Pretty spot on about Journey. It's played way too often. Thank the single moms who come in.

[@jonpowell4246]

Maybe if they kept their legs closed and their minds sober they wouldn't need to hear that song 1000 times a night just to blur reality and refuel their blissfully ignorant overly optimistic minds 😆😆😆

[@mogmason6920]

“Proud Mary” (The Ike and Tina version) is the Single Mom song in my area.

[@myby2888]

Tom Waits to EMPTY THE BAR OUT?! He is my #1 artist to play when drinking...

[@JoelPlamondon1967]

Lol, exactly their point.

[@lukewithann7256]

tom waits? fuck that i'm not leaving!

[@iankrasnow5383]

It would have to be something from his album "Closing Time"

[@Ogrematic]

@@iankrasnow5383 What about, "Hell Broke Luce?"

[@erikwolny1562]

*Sings horribly off-key* Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world. She took the midnight train going anywhere.

[@oliverandreasson3978]

Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit. He took the midnight train going anywhere.

[@jjDub331]

A singer in a Smokey room, the smell of wine of cheap perfume. For a smile they can share the night it goes on and on and on and on

[@psycold]

Cannibal Corpse is the best for clearing out bars.

[@akugdlek]

been there, done that

[@seanswift1072]

well sure, but what about music?

[@inflamesfan03091993]

I've literally had people be so drunk, they just kept going as if there wasn't death metal blasting at full volume. Just two really stubborn people that didn't want to go home lol.

[@LittIeRoo]

agreed. then again the bartender did ask to put whatever i was listening to in the bar on the speakers..... he didnt even regret it

[@jimfarrar4925]

Slayer

[@AFanOfCinema]

As someone who's lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for 10 years when they said that they were sick and tired of hearing Sweet home Alabama I felt that. That song is fucking everywhere.

[@bobcloughjr]

Note to self: Anytime at a bar play Journey- Don't stop believing , 5 times in a row.

[@Ojthemighty]

Better make it 10

[@munenex]

Now I have my next jukebox playlist.

[@hardybobby]

Diabolical

[@billnolastname5078]

You can't go wrong with Johnny Cash.

[@davetv7533]

Bill Nolastname I was literally thinking that

[@seancurran1725]

Used to frequent a pub nearby, and every time I would put on "Ring of Fire" the whole bar would sing along with the chorus.

[@danvitale1642]

Now we can talk about cheese.

[@pullinslack5600]

If your friends are bartenders and they are absolutely never allowed to have a fucking oxide any parties because they have the absolute worst taste in music and get being mad about overplayed songs but they always are listening to some crazy fucking bullshit that nobody really listens to but their bartenders and I got this cool music they listen to that’s always how it is every time

[@Epsilondrako]

Why you hating on Tom Waits man?

[@pbindulgence]

He likes Tom Waits, it's just it can be a little bit of a downer at the bar. Ha!

[@Epsilondrako]

Indulgence Haha fair enough then, I don't think it would work in the bars I worked at but if it works for him I completely understand where he is coming from. Love your channel by the way!

[@alphabetsoup342]

No, he doesn't. He even said so in the video.

[@richgweil]

The worst song in a bar is the one where it's a bunch of bartenders telling customers what they should or shouldn't like. I hate that song.

[@Satsujintekisuito]

id go into a bar playin tom waits or the cure, damn

[@Crunch_Buttsteak]

Satsujintekisuito I've played The Smiths & Depeche Mode before.

[@Ogrematic]

All good, guys.

[@seththomas9105]

I've played Tom Waits in a bar a 5 PM on a Friday. Fuck em'

[@heyricksander]

I've been watching these "...according to bartenders" vids and I now think all bartenders are lame - oh.

[@DiggityDawgDiggity]

All ive gathered from most of these guys is dont go to their bar ever

[@zachfeder9415]

Precisely

[@roberts.8389]

Good stay home

[@nesk2011]

@Ian Robertson You sound like the type of person that when you enter a room everybody else stands up and leaves the room!!!!

[@rustybearden1800]

I used to hang out at the end of the night (after my shift working as a line cook in another restaurant) at a nightclub in my hometown, waiting for my roomates (who worked there) to get off work so we could go party (?) somewheres else. Usually, after raising the house lights (duh, GO HOME), last calls for alcohol, thank yous, etc, trying to get the drunk idiots to go home the big guns would come out - they always had two or three CDs (with "In Case of Emergency" scrawled across them in black Sharpie) that would get popped into the CD player - either Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits or Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" or the nuclear option, ABBA's "Dancing Queen" with a random skip every five to ten seconds that would play endlessly. Within five minutes the bar would clear out, the staff would close and button up and we'd be out the door - so fucking funny!

[@BatCaveOz]

"Relax" is an excellent album.

[@rustybearden1800]

@@BatCaveOz I do not disagree - however, drunk, redneck bumpkins don't always find it particularly pleasant listening material

[@aperson22222]

When “Friends in Low Places” comes on I ask the bartender to skip it, and if they can’t I go outside and walk around the block. That one brings back unhappy memories.

[@krisandersen8695]

So, this article should be called "Songs that these bartenders don't like to hear while they are working".

[@michaeldehart8620]

Fat Bob's in Buffalo actually had a hand written sign behind the bar: "Just because Journey is on the jukebox doesn't mean you have to play it"

[@andrewbattle7384]

I turn 21 in January and I wanna play Family Tradition by Hank Williams Jr. I'm gonna have a Jack neat while singing along to old Hank

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Half these "Tenders" I wouldn't want them to make my drink. I'd go to another Bar. "America’s best bartenders"? Yea right.

[@richardgrier8968]

Exactly. The only reason I'd patronize some of these guys is if I wanted beard hair in my drink.

[@timothygu3]

I just walk into a random bar, go to the jukebox and play Freebird three times in a row. Everyone tolerates it the first time. The 2nd time everyone is confused and frustrated. The 3rd time it comes on people flip their shit.

[@sixuk902]

Nearly every single one of these songs is on my playlist at work....

[@MarrowEternal]

Bad music adds to the fun of working in a bar. The worst music in a bar is a repeat of the same playlist over and over. If there's variety anything can be dealt with.

[@Ogrematic]

You ever work in a mall or a grocery store? Around friggin' Christmas?!?

[@QuickQuips]

Come On Eileen is perfect for a bar.

[@mattiasjp]

If you put on Tom Waits in your bar, you just became my new favorite place. 😄

[@dtpugliese318]

Nobody said “I’m No Angel” by Gregg Allman. I’m gonna keep playing it at every bar I go to

[@scottharmon709]

The SNL bar skit with Amy Poehler and Josh Brolin with "I'm No Angel" playing is a classic

[@SOffenbach]

Should change the title to Worst Bartenders.

[@scottharmon709]

I'm not a bartender, but... I went to a bar with some friends of mine a few months after Guns N Roses came out with their Sweet Child of Mine. If you don't remember those heady days, all radio stations seemed to play it every seven minutes every single day 24 hours a day. We went to the bar because there was an awesome live band playing, and the lead singer was hot. Of course, at some point the band had to take a break, so someone plugged in the juke box - and Sweet Child of Mine started blaring. Then the second song came on, and it was Sweet Child of Mine. So I got up and unplugged the juke box, turned to the booing crowd, flipped out my middle fingers and yelled, "I hate that F-ing song!" Then I passed out. Tequila was involved.

[@hotrox2112]

I'm the guy on the last barstool that applauded you, and doubled down with a couple shots of Don Julio for us. Salute!

[@sdot13tube]

RIP John 😢, I wasn’t even watching .. just listening at first and heard your voice. Immediately overwhelmed

[@dhjet2000]

Friends in low places --- I worked in a pizza joint and I would go unplug the jukebox when someone put that crap on.

[@yoFmamaPROZ]

boston is great ?

[@stevendeluca4458]

1:31 DID HE JUST TALK SHIT ABOUT BOSTON????

[@jimhuber]

I’m ready to move to his city so I can boycott his bar for that blasphemy.

[@antthomas7916]

I can attest to the Tom Waits thing. I played Anywhere I lay my head and it dod in fact, completely clear the bar. Scott Walker will also do that as well.

[@zenos.5315]

If I see a song I want to play,I play it I don’t give a flying F**k if upsets the bartenders. My next bar visit I’m playing everyone of these songs non stop

[@Filmation77]

When people throw on crappy songs,it's pretty much trolling the bar

[@thedudeabides3930]

Poor Tom Waits! But that whole thing was HILARIOUS.

[@ThaPABproductions]

0:47 no one knows the lyrics? Are you serious?

[@bartenderzzz]

Some of my all time favs I like to play at my bar is Promises Promises by Naked Eyes. Cruel Summer by Bananarama. September by EWF. Hold the Line by Toto. Get Down On It by Kool and the Gang.

[@dave9928]

Once I'm drunk....5$ of only classic willie nelson

[@s2pidmonkey]

so basically all classic rock is a no go? lol fuck that

[@chrisrenaldo643]

I've been on the stick for nearly 30 years - give or take. pretentious, hipster, bartenders will empty a bar faster than any music. It's very simple, if you choose to work in a place with a jukebox, deal with it. If you don't like your employer's taste in music, find another job. You're a bartender. You're NOT a music critic. I worked at a place that had a steady loop of Taylor Swift and Michael Bouble. It was like being waterboarded, but I showed up, clocked in, and mixed drinks.

[@arkady714]

LMFAO! Excellent!

[@hotrox2112]

Christ...that is some hard time. Respects on your next gig man.

[@paulcook735]

Good analogy. I actually have you beat by a few years. 5 to be exact. Started in 1985. Was watching the infamous Bill Buckner error live. Even saw Mike Tyson get his start on ESPN. Good Times. As for me we had live Irish entertainment so I had those earworms in my head forever like the unicorn song, wild rover etc. But in between sets we'd be playing some playlists that consisted of the usual 80s crap, U2, Bon Jovi and the like. Watched myself evolve from a young punk who thought he was hot shit to the old grumpy guy everyone liked and was respected. Age and the virus finally caught up with me. I refused to wait tables and was able to retire to my one daytime job. I wish you luck my friend. It's a tough way to make a living and wears on you. It got to the point I'd need 1-2 to take the edge off while working, then the occasional Addy to help me thru. I knew the end was near. But I wouldn't trade it for the world.

[@Ogrematic]

How about, "What's new pussycat" by Tom Jones, 17 times, with one "It's not unusual" after like the 5th time? I.e. Salt and pepper diner, a la John Mulaney?

[@idontwantahandle567]

Haha 😆

[@jimhuber]

Hahah I like thinking it’s a real story.

[@censusgary]

So the worst song to play in a song is any song you’ve ever heard.

[@xatarskoftespie8844]

Guess what I don’t go to a bar to be loved and praised by the bartender, I go there to have fun, which might not apply to what the bartender likes to hear...

[@BKetch]

My friends are at a bar right now and I'm playing every song on this list from my living room.

[@beeragainsthumanity1420]

Hahahaha...

[@jonpowell4246]

I scared the hell out of an old drinking buddy of mine when I lifted him off the floor by his coat lapels and begged him not to play don't stop believing by journey because just like the bartenders I've already heard it too many times in one night before I was drunk enough to forget how many times I'd heard it. So yeah, NO MORE DON'T STOP BELIEVING BY JOURNEY EVER AGAIN! Please and thank you.

[@davidbroughall3782]

It would be nice if they played no music, so you could actually hear the person you're talking to without them having to scream at you.

[@johnmills2678]

That’s why I always avoided bars that had a live band scheduled.

[@olliehays3206]

Not one of those bartenders is as cool as they think they are being.

[@bcarss1970]

I am surprised none of them said "I Love This Bar". Grant it, it is not for all bars.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

Just watched the video of that song, lot's a fun and not too bad of a song.

[@coopboulton]

I think I hate all these bartenders more than I hate those songs... Just shut up and pour my drinks.

[@sapporo1832]

I'm old enough to remember the first time "Don't Stop Believing" was popular, and I'm young enough that I'll be around the third time it becomes popular. I'll hate it then, too.

[@darkstormy1545]

I used to love going to a classic rock or country music bar and flood the juke with Irish folk/punk like Dropkick Murphy's and flogging molly. The new jukeboxes have apps on your phone, with enough money you could jump your song to the head of the line. Watching the locals scanning the crowd and muttering to themselves was priceless.

[@seththomas9105]

I love doing shit like that too!! Go into a "Country" bar and play Johnny Paycheck, or Billy Jo Shaver et al. and watch the Larry the Cable Guy crowd get pissed that its not Tractor Rap. Good times.

[@Trapper50cal]

None of these guys actually get it...The worst song to play is any song that mentions blender drinks because blender drinks take forever to make...sets efficiency at stand still. So Piña Coladas, Frozen Margaritas, etc.

[@seththomas9105]

Just work at shot and beer bars like I have. Reeeeal simple. LOL.

[@benvasilinda9729]

All of these bartenders are to young to appreciate all of the bands they are complaining about. They grew up with mumble rap and crappy wannabe rock bands. Majority of the bands they grew up to won’t be on jukebox’s 30-40 years later like the bands they all named. Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Eagles, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Tom Petty, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who and that whole generation cemented rock music forever. These artists were masters of their instruments and not just producers sampling noise to have someone half ass sing over.

[@geraldofbolivia3968]

I know this is 4 years old but I would definitely get hammered listening to Tom waits or ccr

[@razorbackfan2011]

So basically any song that everybody else in the bar wants to sing along to These better-than-you-loons think is the worst song ever.

[@jjDub331]

I'm hoping to become a bartender in the upcoming months and every time "small town girl" comes on I'm gonna sing.

[@Nonakame]

"What's up pussycat" by Tom Jones 15x in a row on the jukebox!

[@Ogrematic]

John Mulaney, man!

[@still34u]

yop... gotta agree - sweet home alabama and hotel california should be illegal in any and all bars and restaurants..

[@still34u]

and red solo cup

[@danielbowman3864]

Bartender here, and yes those are the worst....living on a prayer and don't stop believing.

[@beeragainsthumanity1420]

I guess it depends on what kind of bar it is...right? What a bunch of hipster doofuses.

[@CatJabZ]

3 things... 1. If you were in Chicago in 2005 when the Sox won the World Series, ya woulda fucking killed yourselves. Don't Stop Believing was Goddamn EVERYWHERE! 2. Hey. Back off of Tom Waits man. He's the best bar bard ever. 3. "I had a rough night and I hate the fucking Eagles, man."

[@beeragainsthumanity1420]

I can't disagree with the Tom Waits. If I'm day drinking, it's perfect.

[@timmooney6910]

The “empty the bar” king has to be Leonard Cohen. Anything but Hallelujah. It’s all fantastic stuff to listen to at home, but it will suck the energy out of a room like Dracula at a blood bank.

[@zitools]

thanks for giving me a reason not to tip.

[@joeywho534]

I used to do Motörhead see me burning to see how many people I could get to leave.

[@johnwillis7674]

I get it, I hate Christmas music now because the grocery store I worked at played the same songs over and over just different singers

[@sfitzcarroldo629]

All these BTs are just too cool for school 😒

[@alexvanoverSlashTraxNetwork]

These bartenders need to worry more about showering, than what's being played on the jukebox.

[@tryingcake101]

To me, this is like them saying, "I'm tired of pouring beer. Why do people keep requesting the same old beer?"

[@samuelrodriguez6576]

I could always tell when my dad was drunk.. besides the right hook, it was heaven and hell by dio blasting on repeat at 3 am.

[@seththomas9105]

Your dad sounds like somebody I need to party with.

[@cearta6379]

Sweet Caroline, come on Eileen, mr bright side or anything by oasis

[@randyc5650]

Wheel in the Sky?

[@emmanuelgarza7149]

What's Up Pussycat 27 times with one It's Not Unusual.

[@krypticeye2126]

Wow, not one reference to John Mulaney & 21 plays of What's New Pussycat with 1 It's Not Unsual ? By Tom Jones???

[@SnizzySnazz08]

Sounds like I need to swing by with Tom Jones's "what's new pussycat" with 5 repeats and then hit you with "it's not unusual".

[@michaelreed9652]

I like “100 bottles of Beer on the Wall”

[@QuadropheniacTed]

Welcome to the Jungle, it's as overplayed as Don't Stop Believin'.

[@usdave2115]

Get yourself a bunch of twenty somethings and ask their opinion on anything and they will hate on what came before them.

[@razorbackfan2011]

Hummmmm, bartenders. I play in a band and have played in a few bar bands, we always got asked to play... Well some of those songs. My view on it is, we was there to keep the patrons happy which is what a thought the bar tenders was there for also. So give the people what they want. CCR, Sknard, any old Rock, some stones, seger, and eagles? As a band we want everybody to be singing along because we know they are into it and having a good time, good time means buying more drinks which, that is your job, sell more drinks make the bar money equals keep your job.

[@GallifreyanGinger]

Dude, every time I go to a bar and a band is playing, my friends and I play "what is the band gonna play next." We're happy if we lose.

[@JoelPlamondon1967]

There are two kinds of people who go to bars for music: Those who care only about wild drunk dancing to pathetic repetitive cheese and honest hard working citizens who enjoy a certain level of quality and intellect. Guess who these bartenders are talking about?