Post #792835 by Sandbartender on Thu, Jan 31, 2019 7:23 AM

On 2019-01-31 06:55, tikiskip wrote:
Ok so back to the tiki part, I don't like most of Yma Sumacs songs.
I guess Yma Sumacs - Mambo is ok and it does fit well in the tiki bar but damn on Friday or Saturday night I just don't want to be put to sleep with Quiet Village.

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I tend to like her best in very small doses. When she's mixed in with other exotica it's fine, but I personally think she gets a bit shrill when you're listening to a whole
album of just her.

On 2019-01-31 06:55, tikiskip wrote:

At my place we would play Dean Martin type slow stuff on rainy days and faster music on say Fridays.
The slow music grinded the place to a crawl and the fast music picked the place up,
People worked faster, people ate faster, and we made more money.
Plus we were not all dragging around half asleep.

Does slow music make you drink slower?

I donno. I've hosted a few ragers that were set to classic Deano and Frank. That said, it was more private entertaining than public spaces.

I think a lot of it depends on the crowd and what they are expecting. Like being in a college dive bar blasting alt-rock and all of a sudden some idiot puts a slow country ballad on the jukebox.
It's like dropping an iron bar in a church. Or the opposite situation, which will yield a similar result.

Mellow bars, mellow crowd need mellow tunes. A jumping place needs jumping music.