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Booze music
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Message 1.Β
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Great tankards of refreshing foaming ale. The zesty fizz and tinkle of the G&T. The sweet and sour tang of a bourbon and coke. The immensely satisfying sound of the cork emerging from the second (and then third) bottle of luncheon wine. A warming bowl of Brandy & Lovage after a long winter walk. A stiff Bloody Mary or two with your poached egg. Vomiting cider behind the youth hostel on a school geography trip. Sneaking downstairs at 3 am with shaking hands to desperately down half a litre of vodka.
Yes, it's your friend and mine: Brother Booze.
And what goes best with alcohol? Well, yes, cigarettes. And yes, peanuts. But I was thinking more along the lines of MUSIC
So what are the tunes that best celebrate the act of boozing, which best accompany a night of relentless heavy drinking, which bring to mind the warm camaraderie of the saloon bar?
Howzabout "The Heart of Saturday Night" by Tom Waits, for starters. -
Message 2
Posted by Dr_Gonzo (U11268011) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Just the One - The Levellers
I'm just about ready to leap off the wagon straight into a barrel of cider. And I don't even like cider. -
Message 3
Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
The whole of Closing Time with the title track on repeat.
Strangely, Perry Como's Seattle always reminds me of taking ale on board.
Please contribute to this thread responsibly
2 days on the wagon. Fine thank you. Fine. -
Message 4
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
i'm praying for rain in california...
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Message 5
Posted by Dr_Gonzo (U11268011) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Three weeks without a drink - this is miserable.
I Gotta Get Drunk - Willie Nelson
Anyone for a nice game of scrabble? -
Message 6
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Reluctant as I am to pull you up a technicality, Dr G, the three weeks hasn't been *entirely* without booze has it, now?
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Message 7
Posted by Chicago Jeff (U13649238) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Why are you folks getting on the wagon during winter??
I would think it would be easier in the summer months...
You folks like a challenge... -
Message 8
Posted by the_roofdog (U9532299) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
British summers have to be spent in a deckchair quaffing Pimms. In the rain. On the other hand the winters are so dreadful that no amount of booze can help you.
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Message 9
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
It's true. In summer (all 3 weeks of it) booze is an essential accompaniment to all manner of sporting & social events. In winter, when there's nothing else to do but drink, I run the risk every year of killing myself with alcohol . Hence the annual dry patch.
Last year I lasted over three months. -
Message 10
Posted by Chicago Jeff (U13649238) on Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Ah...understood...that almost happened to several of my college classmates during our freshman years, during a particularly awful New England winter (if I recall, 110 inches of snow fell during that winter of 1991-92)...
I have drinking spurts, but have never approached drinking as a way-of-life...junk food, however, that's a completely different story... -
Message 11
Posted by JustAScarecrow (U11731936) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
I'll add to the Waits-fest - my favourite drinking song is 'I Never Talk To Strangers', ideally warbled in the rainy streets as you stagger home from the pub with your loved one joining in as Bette / Tom*. Blimey, I've even got the sheet music to it so I can play it at home when I'm one sherry over the yardarm. Or something.
A more hale and hearty one to sing is 'Johnny McEldoo' - an old Irish song by Tommy Makem and The Clancy Brothers about a group of fellas who go on a drinking spree. It starts off quite slowly, but as they get drunker it gets faster and faster and harder to sing. But it's great. Have you got that one in the archives, Gideon?!
*delete as appropriate. -
Message 12
Posted by CardiffGentleman (U13471703) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
I know the Pogues are obvious but this line sums up how I've felt at times over the years...
'When the world is too dark
And I need the light inside of me
I walk into a bar
and drink fifteen pints of beer'. -
Message 13
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
after six - lee hazlewood
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Message 14
Posted by Mozo (U10059077) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Depends on the situation. If I'm on my own I'll usually trot out the old faithful misery songs from way back when. I'm basically a morose solo drunk.
But in company usually anything I can sing to in an extremely untuneful and shouty way, which covers pretty much everything from the last 40 years but especially Freebird, most James Brown songs, My Way (the Sid Vicious version), YMCA or anything with hand actions.
I'm not getting dragged into the winter sobriety business though. I mean if you wait until its summer for a drink in this country you’re going to be very very ill on that one Wednesday afternoon in July, in between downpours.
The most I manage these days is about 2 days if I really put my mind to it and there haven't been any good half price case deals at my local Sainsbury’s. -
Message 15
Posted by Mozo (U10059077) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Oh I forgot..
Chaka Khan - Ain’t Nobody. Can't be beaten with a bunch of similarly inebriated mates, especially when coupled with a circular can-can and optional conga.
And one of the morose solo tracks I suppose would have to be Hollow Man off Marillion's Brave album. Sad I know but there you are. -
Message 16
Posted by purrmeister (U11445326) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Chaka Khan - shouldn't that be Chuckup Khan????
Mind you, Delilah - Tom Jones was a recent and good inebriated sing-song if I remember
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Message 17
Posted by Chicago Jeff (U13649238) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers...I Drink Alone...I know it's obvious, but still fits the mood...
A lot of people in my uni would tie one on and sing along to 'Piano Man' from Billy Joel...I hate that song...
To me, another good one would be 'Moondance' from Van Morrison... -
Message 18
Posted by Mozo (U10059077) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Lets be honest though, if its reasonably well known song, you know half the lyrics and your p**sed, ANY SONG is that great song that you've always loved and just have to get up and sing.
Or is that just me?
Mind you I'm often like that sober if truth be told. I don't get invited to a lot of funerals these days. -
Message 19
Posted by Chicago Jeff (U13649238) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
Well, you're invited to mine...such dreary affairs...I think people should be having a good time...
Spinal Tap quote: Have a good time...all...of...the...time...
I want one of those New Orleans-style ones...happy jazz music...people dancing... -
Message 20
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
I've left Castle Fist & the estates to Mrs Fist, but with the clause that she has to dig my grave herself, with a shovel, while the assembled funeral guests look on.
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Message 21
Posted by Mozo (U10059077) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
And cast herself in after your casket, bewailing and bemoaning?
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Message 22
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 4th February 2009
I'm thinking of having the servants buried with me too.
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Message 23
Posted by Lee1975 (U4412355) on Thursday, 5th February 2009
F_o_O, if you're not careful the good Doctor may well start work on your hole, (snigger), long before you've expired.
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Message 24
Posted by File-Under-Water (U13817253) on Thursday, 5th February 2009
I'd go for The Lost Weekend by "Paisley Underground" supergroup Danny and Dusty. I believe the various members of Green on Red, Dream Syndicate and Long Ryders may have taken on board copious amounts of refreshment while recording this.
I always feel the need to drink heavily whenever I hear the Kooks as well but that may be for different reasons. -
Message 25
Posted by mrGreen (U1431662) on Tuesday, 10th February 2009
Blues - it rhymes with booze and you can still play along half-cut.
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Message 26
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Tuesday, 10th February 2009
To paraphrase Bono, he was drinking to drown his sorrows, but his sorrows learned how to swim...
"Closing Time" - reminds me of when I got to San Francisco's touristy Pier 39 by bus after a business meeting one evening, got to the end of the pier, and ordered my beer ready for an interesting evening.
Then they started to play "Closing Time".
They were closing.
At 9pm.
As for a "boozy chorus", most things as sung by the Leningrad Cowboys would count, including "Delilah" and "Eloise" but, above all, their version of the 1000 Lakes Polka. I left a gig in the former Munich Airport once, and the audience were singing this in unison all the way back to their cars! (The passengers most loudly, as the drivers were not drinking and driving...)
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