Pub Play Friday is Chocula Hunt's new feature to hilight songs that should be played in the Pub (no Journey will be discussed here as they are always obvious pub choices). "Why can't I just play the normal music I listen to?" you ask. Because the pub is not the time or the place for your favorite Shins song. The pub jukebox is not your personal ipod set to deliver some whiny shit into your private headphones. The pub is a *pub*lic place, and while jukebox choices should be personal, they should still have some general appeal (unless you're at the Thalassa in which case I say you play whatever you want). In addition to presenting a song, you'll also get crucial information about when and where its most appropriate to play and what you should be drinking at the time. Let the games begin...
Song: The Smiths, "How Soon is Now"
Time of Day: after 11am; before 5pm
Type of Bar: dive; irish pub; hipster joint without the hipsters
Your mood: triumphantly depressed / proud of being an alcoholic / getting over "something"
Your appearance: disheveled, red-faced from excessive drinking
Drink: whiskey, neat. and a beer.
The Oakland A's are ... losing.
Hats off to The Smiths: you've got that pulsing guitar, and that cool noise that comes in every few bars, and some really ill, downer vocals. This is a great song for those of you who express your angry frustrations and emotional distresses by wallowing in self-pity and drinking. The power of this song is that allows you to transform that wallowing into something far more exultant. This song is guaranteed to have not only you, but the drunk old man next to you as well (the two of your are probably the only ones at the pub at this time of day anyways), thrusting your hands into the air for the chorus: "You shut your mouth! / How can you say / I go about things / the wrong way? / I am human / and I need to be / lo-o-o-o-ved / just like everyone else does".
(not recommended for play during happy hour)
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