arent there any bars that play ambient / drone music?

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has nobody ever thouhgt of that? ambient provieds the "sound curtain" that seems to be necesary in bars, and amplifies the good efects of booze better than any other music i can think of. except for motown maybe. nb not saw85-92/orb but sawii/ stars of the lid type ambient. yet most bars i know play lame ass formulaic downtempo that becomes super anoying after three drinks. so, what is the matter with them bar owners? dont they know whats good? are they indebted to a stale 90s idea of cool? or is it the typical bargoer that wants to hear music with a beat, no mater how lame it is?

― :|, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

there are always bars in movies where it sounds all ethereal like some fripp/eno stuff, and people drink colored drinks.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to go to these "formulaic downtempo" bars you speak of, but I think I must be too poor or unkempt or something. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ambient music dosent really inspire binge drinking as say, thin lizzy does.

― ALLMUSIC.COM (ddb), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a weekly gig at a formulaic downtempo bar. Cinematic Orchestra and Amon Tobin every week, and a bunch of generic stuff I don't recognize.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

fill up my black &decker blender with ice cubes & the motor flanges like no other

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

perfect bar music: early nick cave, the cramps, johnny cash, buzzcocks, undertones, the clean, swell maps, ramones, can, neu!..

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a good question. If there was a bar that played ambient Eno or that Keith Fullerton Whitman album or whatever, I would go there. It would be cool. Though the bar I was in on Friday was having a Fela Kuti night, that was cool too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i would fall asleep in a bar like that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 October 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that is all music (that I love) that is ruined by people talking and having a good time, and is simultaneously ruinous of conversation and good-time-having. so to speak.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

also, as much as I hate to say it or bring it up at all, it would be a total sausage party.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ambient music doesn't work too well in bars. and venues where such dj's can perform often have difficulty finding their audience.

sara jaffe and friends has been doing ambient dj'ing at Adobe Books in San Francisco on the occasional wednesday night. I wish I could say I've already been there twice...

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that I think of it, for a while DJ Luv was doing 8-hour dj sets at the SAT in Montreal - not really a bar - on Sunday afternoons once a month with some talented folks mixing video. Certainly a lot of ambient and drone stuff, but really a mixed bag. It was a nice thing, but I'm not sure it would work during prime boozing hours.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there's a bit in Eno's Year With Swollen Appendices where he goes on about his idea for a 'quiet club', so you're in good company with this whole idea.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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