Why do they play such a big amount of downers in bars and pubs?
 

Fucking hell, the amount of depressing music that they play in bars and pubs is spellbinding. It's a trend, trust me. I mean, if you were about to slit your wrists, wouldn't you rather do it to something a little more upbeat?

For example?

Snow Downer Patrol, to name one whiner alone.

id be happy for my pub to play something nick drake particulary on weekend when all the suburban destroyers come to the city for a big night out and take over my pub

Perhaps you're one of the happy ones?

You're going to the wrong bars.

This happens on the weekend in my town too.

Perhaps I am, the thing is that in a lot of pubs they tend to play stupidly sentimental music, which I find generally depressing. There is a time for that, sure, but I hear a lot of what you call music for bedwetters around.

i say stick with downtempo.

There is a lot of bedwetter music around generally. So they're bound to be playing it in bars, I suppose.

And the male castrato vocals stretch longer and longer, and the female voice reaches new heights of pain.......

don't go to bars with neon around the pool table and jukeboxes in the corner

Well, if the boat is sinking, we might as well go for something that will make it feel like it is fun to drown.

That's why I always go to spanish salsa bars.

Depressing music = despressed customers = more drink purchased = higher profits

Yeah, but they do that with loud music, not specifically depressing tunes.

Love it :O)

I think a better question would be why do they always play such shit music in pubs?

Maybe research has found that there are more fights when upbeat music is playing?

Then again, people do things faster to faster music. So fast music = drinking faster = more drink purchased?