New Bar Game - Exploding Ringo's Head

Some people, when they go to bars, like to play more traditional games: shuffleboard, pool, darts, bar brawl*, liar's dice, Frottage!, Is The Roofie In Your Drink Or Mine?.

I like to play a game that I made up called "Explode Ringo's Head." (mostly safe for work)
* I wanted to use this link, but it isn't entirely safe for work.  (And speaking of NSFW, all the links in this are safe for work unless stated otherwise.) 

This game originated at my place when Ringo and I were living together and neither of us worked in the morning.  I would attempt to play the most random song playlist in an effort to get Ringo to react in some way, shape, or form.  The only rule was that each song had to be the "polar opposite" of the previous song.

For example... (and by the way, if you think all of the below links are to the actual songs, well why don't you test out your little theory)

1. Gustav Holst - The Planets: Jupiter
2. Rebecca Black - Friday
3. Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet
4. Bonnie Raitt - Let's Give Em Something To Talk About
5. Deadmau5 - Ghosts N Stuff
6. Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
7. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You

Now if you get really ambitious, you can throw some subtlety into your playlist.  For example, instead of going from Deadmau5 to Billy Joel, you could have instead played Huey Lewis's Ray Parker, Jr.'s Ghostbusters to stay with a ghost theme.  Or if you wanted to get REALLY subtle, you would have chosen The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody, as a reference to what this is referencing.


Try this at a bar sometime.  It is fun... and a little bit scary because you might get your ass kicked.  Put about 10-15 songs in the jukebox with this pattern and wait to see how long it takes people to come up to put new music in the jukebox.  Here are two playlists that I've actually done in public...

With Toben on July 4th at Kennedy's:

1. Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
2. Daft Punk - Harder, Better,  Faster, Stronger
3. Charlies Daniels Band - Devil Goes Down To Georgia
4. LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
5. Willie Nelson - You Were Always On My Mind
6. Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
7. Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand
8. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
9. Metallica - Enter Sandman
10. Owl City - Fireflies
11. Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Strangely enough, there was no visible reaction at the bar.  We had failed.

At Kat's birthday back in 2010 at O'Greenberg's:

1. Lady Gaga - I Like It Rough
2. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
3. 2Pac - Gangsta Party (DEFINITELY not safe for work)
4. Air Supply - Makin Love Out Of Nothing At All
5. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
6. Edith Piaf - Hymne a L'amour
7. Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
8. James Brown - Get On Up
9. Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
10. Rage Against The Machine - Testify

People came up to the jukebox at #6.  WIN!!


(I am open to suggestions for other links to use in this post.)