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I know I've bitched about general stupidity in the choices made by casino entertainment directors once or twice before. This one's about the idiotic music selections in a vegas casino on a recent occasion.

This casino plays some great music, but they mix it up with some of the most vomitous chunks ever spewed forth in the history of man. This night's choices really friggin' cracked me up tho...

Beck - "loser" (I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me)

Followed by a DOUBLE SHOT of...

Enya

I'm pretty sure playing that particular beck song ON GRAVEYARD IN A CASINO got the guy fired.

Still chuckling days later about that one.

Al

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Stuck, I took a bathroom break. As I walked into the mens' room, I was greeted by that old Beatles song:

"I'm a loooooooOOOOOOooooooooser! And I'm not what I appear to be..."

I thought to myself, "That's one song they should never play in a casino."

Later that night, i heard a similar example, but I can't recall it just now.

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I was considering a laydown... It wasn't even a huge decision just mulling it a bit when the Riverwind's sound system filtered into my conciousness with Aerosmith singing a chorus of "Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go"

Thank you Steven Tyler

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Followed by a DOUBLE SHOT of...

Enya

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that funeral song has been played in my home casino a few times as well. made me wanna leave a juicy 2-5 nl game to see my kids. gotta wonder what they're thinking.

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For about a week the PB Kennel Club played the Godfather soundtrack non-stop. It was good for about 30 minutes; the next 4 hours were torture.

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I am happy that I am able to change the music at my current job.

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I was in Vegas in June 2006, and during my marathon sessions at Bally's I must have heard "So you had a bad day" about 2 times an hour. I know the song was popular, but it just really struck me as an unwise (although fitting) song for the casino to be playing.

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"We are the champions" to pump up the players

"I want to hold your hand" just to see the smiles

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I heard "Another one bites the dust" at Foxwoods a while back

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Mmmm, don't the casino's just pump in music from the satellite? I don't think they put their own music together...

So you get what the system plays, positive or not.

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Mmmm, don't the casino's just pump in music from the satellite? I don't think they put their own music together...

So you get what the system plays, positive or not.

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This is probably true, but you would think that casinos would want to have more control over this aspect of the experience. Heck, Starbucks even uses customized music in their coffee shops.

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When RR and I were at the Stratosphere, they had the greatest music mix in casino history. Imagine a current hit, followed by a Led Zepellin song, then Sinatra, then Springsteen, then a current hit, then Aretha Franklin, then an 80's song, then Johnny Cash, then...you name it, it might pop up.

The only rule was, every song was awesome.

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"Had a bad day" is so friggin' bad those idiots who both made it, like it and choose to play it should be flogged, then fired. Casinos that don't have control over the music played in their house have idiots running them. IDIOTS. You can quote me on that.

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French Lick plays the same 40 or 50 "oldies" over and over. Including "These Boots Were Made For Walking":

...
You keep lyin'
When you oughta be truthin'
You keep losing
When you oughta not bet
You keep samin'
When you oughta be
A'changin'
What's right is right
But you ain't been right yet
...
You keep playing
Where you shouldn't be playing
And you keep thinking
That you'll never get burnt
...

GENIUS. It's like an intervention for a problem gambler.

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"Had a bad day" is so friggin' bad those idiots who both made it, like it and choose to play it should be flogged, then fired.

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Bad as in inappropriate? Because the song itself, as far as unambitious light-hearted popsy music goes, is actually very good.

On another note, every tournament player should have Mark Knopfler's "Donkeytown" on his Ipod.

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I heard "Another one bites the dust" at Foxwoods a while back

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Yeah, that's what I thought of as well.
Heard that playing blackjack at the Grand-Tunica which plays a lot of so-so to half-decent 80s stuff.

It was almost comical because every time they came to the chorus it was almost perfectly timed with another player losing their last hand and getting up and leaving. And I commented that it really wasn't the greatest song to be playing in a casino imo.

Similarly, I had no idea why the Grand would play whatever satellite station they were playing. Some of the 80s new-wave songs were relatively obscure and I could swear I might be the only one in the place who was even vaguely familiar or appreciative of the song. Seriously, you have a typical Memphis/Mississippi crowd and you're playing the Psychedelic Furs or even The Cure? C'mon. That's just weird.


Then I would head down to Gold Strike and be bombared by Whitney Houston "I will always love you", Enya etc and other sleep/vomit-inducing songs.
You walk in there and you kind of HOPE for the place to be alive. It's all brightly lit with some amount of action going on at various slots and tables, etc.
It's like it's screaming a big WELCOME...come gamble with us!!! at you.
And then you are slapped in the face with Celine Dion squealing something hideous.
The music is just so overpoweringly awful and just excitement-draining. GF and I would always laugh when we would step in there solely because of that.
It's like they are purposefully TRYING to drain the life out of their players with the worst music ever.

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"Had a bad day" is so friggin' bad those idiots who both made it, like it and choose to play it should be flogged, then fired.

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Bad as in inappropriate? Because the song itself, as far as unambitious light-hearted popsy music goes, is actually very good.


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Oh c'mon, that song is crap. And I like fluffy light hearted pop music(can't get enough of "Accidentally in Love" by Countin Crows).

"Had a Bad Day" is pure awfulness in every sense. Just dumb lyrics, crap melody.....bad, bad, bad.

Clear Channel has really effed things up. VH1 too. I don't know what the heck those guys are thinking, but I can listen to MAYBE 5 minutes of non talk celestial radio a day. And its not like I won't listen to new stuff. I love the Killers and I've bought both Velvet Revolver CD's. And those of a few other lesser known bands that started up in the last 5 years. But Clear Channel broadcast top 40 stations(which brought us "Had a Bad Day") are miserably horrible. I'm gonna barf if I ever hear that retarded Amy Winehouse "Rehab" song ever again. I hope for the firing of Clear Channels music programmers to come soon as possible.

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They've played this at my local casino:
Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin' it ain't really smart
The joker ain't the only fool
Who'll do anything for you

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"Had a bad day" is so friggin' bad those idiots who both made it, like it and choose to play it should be flogged, then fired. Casinos that don't have control over the music played in their house have idiots running them. IDIOTS. You can quote me on that.

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When they first kicked us downstairs at Foxwoods, they played that song incessantly. I didn't like hearing it BEFORE I have the bad day.

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Bad as in inappropriate? Because the song itself, as far as unambitious light-hearted popsy music goes, is actually very good.



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the song is pure drivel. absolutely meaningless tripe. it's not even close to a good song.

you want good POP music, play some beatles or beach boys or michael jackson...

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They've played this at my local casino:
Playing with the queen of hearts
Knowin' it ain't really smart
The joker ain't the only fool
Who'll do anything for you

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Sir, the joker IS the only fool who'll do anything for you.

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you want good POP music, play some beatles or beach boys or michael jackson...

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Or some Matthew Sweet, right? Right?

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Well I nearly did blow chunks walking through Caesars and getting audibly abused by Celine Dion. Now THAT is enough to make a person change casinos.