But fuck music, coffee is more important...
the coolest thing about living in Western Mass is the quantity and quality of the diners. Of course that is just about the only cool thing about liviung here. The best booth juke boxes in town aren't in town, they're in Florence at The Miss Florence Diner on rte. 9. Three plays for two quarters with selections like these:
H-1 - "Moving right Along" by Kermit and Fozzy
E-4 - "In the Mood " Glen Miller
S-5 - "Mah Na Mah Na" The Muppets
A-8 - "Crazy" Patsy Cline
C-8 - "Rubber Ducky"
and T1 used to be the "Good the Bad and the Ugly" theme but they replaced it with POLKA MUSIC AAARGHH!
cool addition is R-5 "Rotary Eleven" by REM its the B-side of Loosing my Religion and its stupiddopefresh.
Miss Flo's prices are cheap but the food hell of sucks.
There's plenty of other cool hangin out kinda spots & just goofy general fun and free or cheap shit. but I can't think of any right now cuz it's rainin' out.
update...
I left Northampton in May of 1993. I've never been back.