I'm looking to create a mixtape.
The two songs I have so far:
Swans - Goddamn the SunNick Cave - Brother, my Cup is Empty
― Nico, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Oqo_2ddq4
― This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'I Am Drinking Again'
― Ape Pagoda (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
There's also another Swans song on this subject, "Alcohol The Seed".
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Pancho and Lefty
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
This topic = 75% of every country song ever written, and here's one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X42MpSsaaQ
― Competent Cracker Barrel Manager (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
Excuse the syntax; 75% of all country songs... Anyway, "Just One More."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4CHFXXM-Q
― Competent Cracker Barrel Manager (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
you need:
Kris Kristofferson - From the bottle to the bottomGeorge Jones - If Drinking Dont Kill Me Her Memory Will
― jamiesummerz, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Agreed that it's around 75% of country music; probably the ur-example is Charlie Rich's "Sittin and Thinkin."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvQNzlD1SSQ#t=20
Elvis Costello's version is a bit more fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q7R_K_FVYY
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-jdQMI4UM
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
The gold standard of the genre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkkAsSd_Ns
Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
― Lee626, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xILm9Eohji4
magnetic fields - too drunk to dream
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 May 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
Gary Stewart - Drinkin' Thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2OuxsmPRU
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 18 May 2015 17:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0oXCsKrmHUsilver jews- buckingham rabbit
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvVVH0vkt0dock boggs- old rub alcohol blues
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_NOXty0Zoserge gainsbourg- l'alcool
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
The Kinks - Alcoholhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea-MVgC_jz4
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 May 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN-xtjDD9vorobert johnson- malted milk
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN-xtjDD9vo
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivQdWzvpQsAhank williams- there's a tear in my beer
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
There Stands the Glass - Webb PiercePints of Guinness Make You Strong - Against Me
― Zachary Taylor, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Chivalry - The Mekons
― Zachary Taylor, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0AZY-Hdx0louie lopez- corazón borracho
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onzdqFmbaGE
The Damned-Drinking About My baby
― kwhitehead, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMeVirQrEZs
― time trafel 2015 💨 2012 (wins), Monday, 18 May 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc08gY8wfVc
george jones hardly ever said it better than this.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 May 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUjGPrfA6Ulotte lenya (und “the three admirals”)- alabama song
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Jake Thackray - The Black SwanSqueeze - There's No TomorrowSqueeze - Labelled With LoveKirsty Maccoll - Teenager in Love
― soref, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
only two Squeeze songs mentioned so far, damn
― frogbs, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHcPojIS4Q
dwight yoakam - it won't hurt
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glkY_A
merle haggard - the bottle let me down
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJLZ2zL2Os
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
"Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" is another with a decent Costello version, though of course anyone is welcome to prefer Merle's.
What about "Don't Go Back to Rockville," the verse that goes "at night I'll drink myself to sleep and pretend that I don't care that you're not here with me"?
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:48 (eight years ago) link
The Prisoners - I Drink the Ocean
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udsJP_QANGY
The best
― H.P, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
hard to choose version of moonshiner, anyway fond of cat power'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtZBznKflc
― drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
nope, it's easy to choose one - Tim Hardin's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjALgg9TNFQ
― Lee626, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
I estimate at least 80% of mexican regional music is about drinking your sorrows.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 18 May 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Jacques Brel - L'Ivrogne
― Sharkie, Monday, 18 May 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NetKCTVFEA
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEWrT4Mg64
― rushomancy, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 00:23 (eight years ago) link
Naked Raygun - Wonder BeerMark Lanegan - Borracho
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
Lol no pogues entries yet
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Willie Nelson - Whiskey River. Uncle Tupelo - Whiskey Bottle.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 06:07 (eight years ago) link
Randy Newman - Rollin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBux4AlGQzM
― Bloody Snail, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:00 (eight years ago) link
M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlIB5ehDH4ccarlos gardel- la última copa
― drash, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Lee Hazlewood - If It's Monday Morning
― thono, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
Sally Mclennane - The PoguesStreams of Whiskey - The PoguesThe Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn - The Pogues
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link