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OK it's like this - we all have a favourite drinking establishment, and say they had a thing for playing customers CD's - what would you put on a CD to hear while you are partying the night away with your mates? You know something that will get the party going ....
I am lucky that my local will accomodate customer CDs and play them (If they like you) so here's my top ten:
Darkness - I believe in a thing called love Janes Addiction - Just because Antiproduct - Going where the action is The Donnas - Pass it around Therapy - Hail Satan! You Rock! Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Billericay Dickie Electric Six - Gay Bar The Wildhearts - Cheers Theme The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop Plan A - hey Ho [/list]
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On a related note the best two pub dukeboxes I know in London are to be found in Bradley's Spanish Bar (off Oxford Street) and The Approach (Bethnal Green, not far from Museum of Childhood). Both of these places are top quality drinking establishments, but they are raised to even greater status by the quality of their respective dukes. The Approach gets a great deal of credit for having a Gil Scott Heron CD on theirs, but I think Bradley's edges it. Apart from anything else it features both 'Waterloo Sunset'(a particular fave at this time of year - "Chilly, chilly is the evenin' time" etc) and 'Uptown Top Rankin'. It is virtually impossible to make a bad trip to the dukebox in Bradley's.
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Yes DUKEbox. As in a box of dukes. They are powered by lots of little Royal types, wearing restoration wigs, and running on cogs and things. Well known fact that.
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Corbieres in Manchester is a shithole dive that also happens to have one of the best dukeboxes I've encountered. It rather quaintly eschews the modern CD for seven inch records, so the fact that The B52's Rock Lobster is on there also means that the ace B-side Planet claire is also on.
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When duckboxes used to have records instead of cds, as mentioned by StevieX, there were a couple of e.p.s on the one in our local cafe and these would go on for extra value. One I remember as being extra value and good was the b-side of The Animals House Of The Rising Sun which had We've Got To Get Out Of This Place and Let The Good Times Roll. These two songs together probably added up to about half the length of a Girls Aloud single, but some 800 times the value.
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I remember in my local in Danbury where I spent most of my younger years - my best mates dad was the Landlord of the local and the juke box had been "possessed" between number 68A through to 82B.
The particular favourite had to be "See Emily Play" by the Floyd - no matter who we were talking to, every time that record came on and the manic bit in the middle started, we always did the apoplectic dance. Really quite bizarre and ridiculous, but it made for happy memories of the Bakers Arms. A top pub.
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My college bar at uni used to have Cotton Eye Joe by that band that was dead famous aeons ago. Then the bar rep smashed it to smithereens in front of my disbelieving eyes. I think it was something to do with the fact I insisted on playing it quite often. It only cost 10p per song. Ah, sweet student nostalgia.
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the best dukebox in the world is the barman who looks like frodo at the union in greenwich. he will put on your ceedees on a sunday afternoon when you are all still drunk from the night before, even though those ceedees include "broken wings" by mister mister. soft rock ceedees plus microbrewery beer plus roast parsnips plus loved ones = perfect happiness.
i am super homesick now.
i introduced boy racer to the joys of the bradleys dukebox. he would not know about it if it wasnt for me. introducing people to the bradleys dukebox is the best thing ever.
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Ronnie Wood's pub on the canal by Trellick Tower has a good jukebox. It gets refilled every few weeks by the Rough Trade shop in Portobello. The pub's a bit pricey, though. And it tends to fill up with ponces at the weekend. Still a good jukebox, though.
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