Songs/Bands With Booze Content

JustJames

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We've had a thread about favourite alcohol highs, and we've had a thread about songs referencing bands or musicians.

Listening to a Joe Bonamassa performance of a Rory Gallagher song this weekend, I realised that there's a lot of music about booze. It's slightly ironic, and a bit sad when you realise how many people who sang about demon liquor were carried off by it.

Sloe Gin - Rory Gallagher
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse (references Tanqueray gin and Stella Artois beer)
Tequila - The Champs
Red Red Wine - Neil Diamond/UB 40
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow ("I like a beer buzz, but it's early in the morning")
Have Some Madeira M'Dear - Flanders and Swann (I'd bet money that Madge knows this one!)

Bottoms up!
 
Whiskey In The Jar - A trad. Irish favourite made famous by Thin Lizzy (and later Metallica)
Too Many Times and The Nips Are Getting Bigger - Mental As Anything
Too Drunk To F*@K - DK
Cold Gin - Kiss
Black and Blue - Chain (I miss my whisky and I miss my beer)
Half of Hank Williams' back catalogue.
Night Train - G 'N R
Numerous Lynyrd Skynrd tracks. (Poison Whiskey, Ballad of Curtis Lowe)
Take A Long Line - The Angels
Have A Drink On Me. AC/DC
 
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My favorite booze song is "I Drink Alone" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
All the lyrics are essentially a hilarious play on words of various booze brands.

Other songs:
"Suicide Solution" by Ozzy (oddly, a song about trying to give up booze)

"Jack" by AC/DC which while about STD, also doubles as an ode to Jack Daniels.

"How Ever Much I Booze" by The Who (also about trying to stop drinking)

"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty.

"Mas Tequila" by Sammy Hagar

"Cabo Wabo" by Van Halen.

"High and Dry" and "Me and My Wine" by Def Leppard.

Led Zepplin "Gong to California" (Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine)

The Doors "Roadhouse Blues" (I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer)
 
An oldie:

Bottle of Wine - Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs
 
"Whiskey River" - Willie Nelson
"One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer" - George Thorogood
 
"Champagne and Reefer" - Muddy Waters

"Bad Bad Whiskey" - Buddy Guy

"Scotch and Soda" - Various

"Two More Bottles of Wine" - Delbert McClinton
 
Piano Man by Billy Joel is loaded with booze references, my favorite being "and the microphone smells like a beer".
 
The most famous has to be."Don't Bogart That Joint My Friend",with covers by The Grateful Dead,and Little Feat.Deffinate campfire song.

Rainy Day Women ..everybody must get stoned.///Bob Dylan

Bob Marley....too many to name

New Riders of the Purple Sage..."Paname Red"

Steppenwolf.."Don't Step On The Grass Sam" and "The Pusher"

Tom Petty.."You Don't Know How It Feels"

Rory Gallagher..."Too Much Alcohol"

Steve B
 
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Thought of some more...

"Hey Hey What Can I Do" - Led Zep (I got a woman, stay drunk all the time...)

"I Ain't Drunk" - Albert Collins

"Soulshine" - Warren Haynes

"30 Days In The Hole" - Humble Pie

"Lola" - The Kinks

"Shooting Star" - Bad Co. (Should also receive bonus points for qualifying for "Well-known songs that name other groups/artists in the lyrics")

"Why Don't We Get Drunk" - Jimmy Buffett

"Blue Coat Man" - Eddie Boyd

"Baby It's Cold Outside" - Everyone...

"Cold Duck Time" - Les McCann/Eddie Harris

"They Raided The Joint" - Helen Humes

"If You Don't Start Drinking" & "I Drink Alone" - George Thorogood

"Gin & Juice" - Snoop & The Gourds

"The Days of Wine and Roses" - Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer

"Hail Hail" - Truth & Salvage Co.

"Snortin' Whiskey" - Pat Travers
 
I was in a band a few years back that was called My Favorite Drunks. That's all we played: songs about drinks, drinking, drunks... whatever. We played a number of songs that have already been mentioned. There is is no shortage of material, if that's what you want to play.

When I first auditioned, they described the band as "the perfect bar band", because that's all they played. I thought it was a good idea at the time. But I remember playing in a bar one night, and the singer was doing his typical patter between songs, basically acting like he was a drunk (which he wasn't), and kinda glorifying that lifestyle. Meanwhile, I could see the real-life drunks sitting at the bar drinking. They weren't there to hear our band. They were there to drink. And I bet they were there on those same stools night after night drinking. That's when I realized that what we were doing was actually pretty effed up, and shortly after that I quit the band.
 
The Cuervo Gold, the fine Colombian make tonight a wonderful night. - Hey Ninteen

Drink Scotch whiskey all night long and die behind the wheel. - Deacon Blue
 
Don't forget Sir Mick's Honky Tonk gin-soaked bar room queen!

Heart Attack and Vine - Tom Waits ... plus most of his repertoire

What's the Use in Getting Sober - Louis Jordan, and covered by Joe Jackson

More Trouble Every Day - Zappa ... "Listened to reports about the whisky passin' 'round"

Another Steely Dan tune - Show Biz Kids ... "They got the booze they need. All that money can buy"
 
100 bottles of beer on the wall, take one down, pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
 
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers - ZZ Top.

well, I'll be here around suppertime
with my can of dinner and a bunch of fine.
 
Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand
Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine - Frampton

Wake up late, honey put on your clothes and take your credit card to the liquor store - G-n-R
 
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