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28 Sep 19
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Top 3. Feel free to add
#1 Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson (Johnny Cash does a great version too but the song writers version is the best imo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqGWTxwZEA
#2 When I drink - The Avett Bothers (fist fights with the air)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7dTtq_uiI
#3 The Fourth Night Of My Drinking - Drive By Truckers (and i was back the bar and i was wantin some more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UH1mHIFE0g
#1 Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson (Johnny Cash does a great version too but the song writers version is the best imo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqGWTxwZEA
#2 When I drink - The Avett Bothers (fist fights with the air)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq7dTtq_uiI
#3 The Fourth Night Of My Drinking - Drive By Truckers (and i was back the bar and i was wantin some more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UH1mHIFE0g
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#4 - "Old Red Eyes Is Back" - The Beautiful South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggJYJ9frSl0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggJYJ9frSl0
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
"What is wrong in my life that I must get drunk every night?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5Se-9XAVE
"What is wrong in my life that I must get drunk every night?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5Se-9XAVE
My choice has very bitter memories for me, my mate owned a bar in Spain when I lived there and he drank himself to death out of boredom when his wife left him and he would play that song on the jukebox laughing at himself. He died my age,53.
#5 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
You see my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrHwZyFN7M
You see my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrHwZyFN7M
I'm going to disqualify Tracy despite it being a wonderful song.
It has to be ostensibly about the demon drink.
Fine Young Cannibals is borderline.
It has to be ostensibly about the demon drink.
Fine Young Cannibals is borderline.
One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer - G Thorogood
here is a good one
#5 I Drink Alone - George Thorogood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0q8Oho_RjM
#5 I Drink Alone - George Thorogood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0q8Oho_RjM
Of course Chapman's song is about the demon drink, her mother went off and left him, so she's been left to look after him. She wants to get away from it all, get a nice job, live in a suburb.
Sep 28, 2019 -- 10:57PM, trilby22 wrote:
One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer - G Thorogood
a fairly tragic tale so totally Qualifies trilby and can't get enough of George & the Destroyers (she was luvvie dovvie_)
One Bourbon, one Scotch, one beer - George Thorogood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97ECZMvbLxg
I think 'Fast Car' is a valid choice in this category northanlite.
i love fast car i love the album but can't allow. it's not her drinking.
It may not be her drinking, but it's even worse for her, cuz she's the one who's having to put up with it and live with the consequences.
Jeez, she even had to give up school to look after him!
Jeez, she even had to give up school to look after him!
ok ok, jeezuz man you just wouldn't let it go.
#7 Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (happy now george?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrHwZyFN7M
#7 Fast Car - Tracy Chapman (happy now george?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrHwZyFN7M
i could stick about 100 C&W songs on here but none beat KK #1
tonight the bottle let me down -elvis costello -almost blue album -not sure who did original.
labelled with love -squeeze.
labelled with love -squeeze.
Sep 28, 2019 -- 11:46PM, sofiakenny wrote:
the piano has been drinking(not me)-Tom Waits
very good shout, Drunk on the moon as well. may have to be 8 & 9
#8 Drunk on The Moon - Tom Waits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NduqttXVKmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NduqttXVKmA
How about...
Neil Diamond: Love On The Rocks
Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies
Relationship broken down so he's hit the bottle.
Neil Diamond: Love On The Rocks
Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies
Relationship broken down so he's hit the bottle.
The Piano Has Been Drinking - Tom Waits (with the IQ of a fencepost)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUeKDtMV1gA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUeKDtMV1gA
Sep 29, 2019 -- 12:25AM, GEORGE.B wrote:
How about...Neil Diamond: Love On The RocksPour me a drink and I'll tell you some liesRelationship broken down so he's hit the bottle.
don't push it
my mum loved neil diamond so i really do know all his stuff.
never got better than solitary man for me, very early in his career
utterly brilliant. Johnny Cash did a good cover too
never got better than solitary man for me, very early in his career
utterly brilliant. Johnny Cash did a good cover too
Great song, northanlite
I fear I'm being too mainstream here, however...
Whiskey In The Jar, Thin Lizzy
I fear I'm being too mainstream here, however...
Whiskey In The Jar, Thin Lizzy
Charlie Rich: Nobody Knows What Goes On Behind Closed Doors
Obviously knocking the cans of 'bow back
Obviously knocking the cans of 'bow back
i let tracy go and again i say that i really like Thin Lizzy,
one of the best bands i ever saw live, and i have seen a lot,
but there may be whiskey in the jar, where i come from it would be whisky,
but there is no evidence of large volumes being consumed, in fact
the whiskey remained in the jar o for the entirety of the song,
i'm sure you see my dilemma
one of the best bands i ever saw live, and i have seen a lot,
but there may be whiskey in the jar, where i come from it would be whisky,
but there is no evidence of large volumes being consumed, in fact
the whiskey remained in the jar o for the entirety of the song,
i'm sure you see my dilemma
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/creedence-clearwater-revival/lodi
Drummer Doug Clifford claimed the band played a show in Lodi in their early days. Said Clifford: "There were nine people in there, they were all locals, they were all drunk and all they did all night was tell us to turn it down."
Now, if that doesn't earn full kudos for being bad!
Drummer Doug Clifford claimed the band played a show in Lodi in their early days. Said Clifford: "There were nine people in there, they were all locals, they were all drunk and all they did all night was tell us to turn it down."
Now, if that doesn't earn full kudos for being bad!
The Dubliners...
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDBPH1o5rAw
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDBPH1o5rAw
whiskey lullaby, Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gV3g9LCvPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gV3g9LCvPc
Bob Dylan...
"Moonshiner"
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7TFs53J7A
"Moonshiner"
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7TFs53J7A
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
It was Christmas Eve, babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me
"Won't see another one"
It was Christmas Eve, babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me
"Won't see another one"
UB 40
"Red Red Wine"...
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOxIO2Fx1Q
"Red Red Wine"...
.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUOxIO2Fx1Q
Brilliant thread and can't argue with the number 1 apart from the fact I love the Johnny Cash version. Brilliant.
Just surprised a tad that nobody has put Chumbawumba up!
Just surprised a tad that nobody has put Chumbawumba up!
but there is no evidence of large volumes being consumed, in fact
the whiskey remained in the jar o for the entirety of the song,
i'm sure you see my dilemma
eh, you got the right song, northanlite?
He turned up at Molly's chamber drunk and weary, and when Captain Farrell's men tried to ambush him, he pulled out his pistols and let Farrell have it with both barrels!
the whiskey remained in the jar o for the entirety of the song,
i'm sure you see my dilemma
eh, you got the right song, northanlite?
He turned up at Molly's chamber drunk and weary, and when Captain Farrell's men tried to ambush him, he pulled out his pistols and let Farrell have it with both barrels!
Battle of the Booze - The Proclaimers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MostRt31A8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MostRt31A8
Wide Eyed And Legless - Andy Fairweather Low
Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson
What made Milwaukee famous..Rod Stewart,not sure who did the original.
Superb, dunlaying! I'd not heard that before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz-XizAEmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djz-XizAEmI
I have not heard this song for about 20 years but northanlite's thread got me searching for it and it's a bit of a classic.
Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks.Enjoy gents, it's on full blast in my house right now, she had a great voice did Elkie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0RfTsZvk4M
Lilac Wine - Elkie Brooks.Enjoy gents, it's on full blast in my house right now, she had a great voice did Elkie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0RfTsZvk4M
It is indeed a wonderful song akabula, I'm glad you like it as well.
Listening for a second time tonight
Still touring and looking great for her age (74).
Still touring and looking great for her age (74).
Does two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please count?
What about the Johnny Cash version of Drink to me only with thine eyes. Does that count?
that womans got me drinking.. 1 of many from.. Shane macgowan
Doors - Road House Blues
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To ...
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To ...
Great thread this, found some great songs I have never heard before, particular mention to Elkie Brooks
While I'm here I'll suggest :
Prince in a Paupers Grave - Carter USM
While I'm here I'll suggest :
Prince in a Paupers Grave - Carter USM
Dr. Feelgood - Milk And Alcohol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbzyqr0TRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTbzyqr0TRo
Bluehorses - Waes Hael
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gSuykRcGU
Turn down your volume, it's rather loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9gSuykRcGU
Turn down your volume, it's rather loud.
I ruined my liver in San Francisco Tony bennett
I ain't gonna drink in Maggie's bar no more. Bob dylan
If you want to be an alcoholic clap your hands
Show me the way to go home Im drunk and I want to go to bed
Your drunk your drunk you silly old c*.nt Dubliners
My friend Stan is a drunken old man oh yeh. Slade
It's not unusual to get drunk with anyone Tom jones
Knock knock knocking on the the weatherspoons front door. Eric Clapton
18 and Life - Skid Row
Piano Man - Billy Joel
We Are The Road Crew - Motorhead
Emperors Lounge - Callow Saints
Chandelier - Sia
Notice Me - NewModel Army
I Don't Want That Phone Call - The Dirty Nil
Piano Man - Billy Joel
We Are The Road Crew - Motorhead
Emperors Lounge - Callow Saints
Chandelier - Sia
Notice Me - NewModel Army
I Don't Want That Phone Call - The Dirty Nil
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0hlbWpa1w
Drinking In LA - Bran Van 3000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWhCbXBKe0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0hlbWpa1w
Drinking In LA - Bran Van 3000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWhCbXBKe0E
I like that Bran Van song Denzil, also a good shout by Hanx with 'Piano Man' by Billy Joel.
Love this line from Whiskey Lullaby....
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory"
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory"
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road.
But I do like Do wah Diddy's efforts. How about Procul Harems A Whiter Shade of Pale Ale
But I do like Do wah Diddy's efforts. How about Procul Harems A Whiter Shade of Pale Ale
songs that just reference booze don't count. ideally the central theme should be booze
and any protagonist a hopeless drunk. hth
and any protagonist a hopeless drunk. hth
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