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stepinsidestepinside Posts: 31
edited January 2007 in Other Music
hi, i am building a compilation of themes songs for getting tanked with a friend of mine, can only fit about 16 songs on the disc... I want to start out fast , the way drinking nights do and then slowly ease into the more sentimental moody songs.. We both listen to a fairly broad range of music.. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

so far i have been thinking (in no particular order)

Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
Gomez - Fill My Cup - or - Dire Tribe
Gary Jules - Whiskey For Everybody
Cypress Hill - I Wanna Get High
The Doors - Alabama Song
Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up
Primal Scream - Loaded
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
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  • StoneG82StoneG82 Posts: 806
    Guided by Voices have pretty much built a career on drinking songs....

    A Salty Salute and Drinker's Peace are essential.
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • stepinsidestepinside Posts: 31
    ya know a lot of people have told me to check them out and i never knew where to start, thanks for the heads up, i am off to find them on itunes
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    stepinside wrote:
    hi, i am building a compilation of themes songs for getting tanked with a friend of mine, can only fit about 16 songs on the disc... I want to start out fast , the way drinking nights do and then slowly ease into the more sentimental moody songs.. We both listen to a fairly broad range of music.. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

    so far i have been thinking (in no particular order)

    Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
    Gomez - Fill My Cup - or - Dire Tribe
    Gary Jules - Whiskey For Everybody
    Cypress Hill - I Wanna Get High
    The Doors - Alabama Song
    Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up
    Primal Scream - Loaded
    Pixies - Where Is My Mind
    My friend bought a triple album of irish drinking songs. some of the funniest shit I've ever heard.

    you really need Whiskey in the jar (thin lizzy version) and also Pints of guiness make you stronger by against me! is really cool :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Footsteps in TorontoFootsteps in Toronto Posts: 28
    Definitley Home for a Rest by Spirit of the West, and most songs by the Dropkick Murphys
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  • esther1977esther1977 Posts: 540
    Well listeningto Let's dance from Bowie right now and it works for me!!
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    When all else fails, read the instruction
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtR4X6x5d7I&mode=related&search=
  • surferdudesurferdude Posts: 2,057
    stepinside wrote:
    hi, i am building a compilation of themes songs for getting tanked with a friend of mine, can only fit about 16 songs on the disc... I want to start out fast , the way drinking nights do and then slowly ease into the more sentimental moody songs.. We both listen to a fairly broad range of music.. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!

    so far i have been thinking (in no particular order)

    Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
    Gomez - Fill My Cup - or - Dire Tribe
    Gary Jules - Whiskey For Everybody
    Cypress Hill - I Wanna Get High
    The Doors - Alabama Song
    Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up
    Primal Scream - Loaded
    Pixies - Where Is My Mind
    Irish Rovers - Wasn't That a Party
    George Thorogood - I Drink Alone
    George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Whiskey, One Beer
    Guns n Roses - I Used To Love Her (But Had Tequila)
    Van Halen - Take your Whiskey Home
    ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers Are Hell Raisers
    “One good thing about music,
    when it hits you, you feel to pain.
    So brutalize me with music.”
    ~ Bob Marley
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    The greatest drinking song of all time is "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West. Nothing else even comes close:

    "You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a month, I've been drunk since I left
    These so-called vacations will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink I need home for a rest.

    We arrived in December and London was cold
    We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road
    We never saw nothin' but brass taps and oak
    Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats

    CHORUS:
    You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a week
    I've been drunk since I left
    And these so-called vacations
    Will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink
    I need home for a rest
    Take me home....

    Euston Station the train journey North
    In the buffet car we lurched back and forth
    Past old crooked dykes through Yorkshire's green fields
    We were flung into dance as the train jigged and reeled

    - CHORUS -

    By the light of the moon, she'd drift through the streets
    A rare old perfume, so seductive and sweet
    She'd tease us and flirt, as the pubs all closed down
    Then walk us on home and deny us a round

    You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a month
    I've been drunk since I left
    And these so-called vacations
    Will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink
    I need home for a rest
    Take me home....

    The gas heater's empty, it's damp as a tomb
    The spirits we drank now ghosts in the room
    I'm knackered again, come on sleep take me soon
    And don't lift up my head 'till the the twelve bells at noon

    You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a month
    I've been drunk since I left
    And these so-called vacations
    Will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink
    I need home for a rest
    Take me home...."


    Honorable mention: "Drunken Lazy Bastard" by The Mahones.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • sadprofessorsadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Most of the Flogging Molly catalog.
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • dont_go_on_medont_go_on_me Posts: 877
    It's not a drinking mix if it doesn't have a few Replacements or Paul Westerberg songs on it!

    Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements (perfect slow one to close the disc)
    Left of the Dial - The Replacements
    Psychopharmacology - Grandpaboy (Paul Westerberg)

    pretty much anything written by the Mats/Westerberg is the best for drinkin'
    "I'll do whatever the song dictates - if it doesn't need a real lead, then I won't do one. But if it does, then I'll fuckin' go off." - Mike

    "Japan is awesome; the fans there knew all the words to all the songs...at least phonetically." - Stone

    "I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version." - EV
  • sadprofessorsadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    don't_go_on_me wrote:
    It's not a drinking mix if it doesn't have a few Replacements or Paul Westerberg songs on it!

    Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements (perfect slow one to close the disc)
    Left of the Dial - The Replacements
    Psychopharmacology - Grandpaboy (Paul Westerberg)

    pretty much anything written by the Mats/Westerberg is the best for drinkin'

    Don't forget their most classic of b-sides: If Only You Were Lonely
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    The My Sharona shots game is always a winner.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    sadprofessor wrote:
    Most of the Flogging Molly catalog.
    my thoughts exactly

    Well I stumbled and I am all drunk and full of smoke,
    My wife said, "I've had enough, I'm sick, thats it, get out!"
    So I stumbled down to Kelly's Pub across the edge of town,
    And I told the boys me story, and we had another round.

    (One, Two, Three, Four!)

    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight! Hey!
    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight! Hey!
    And if I see a pretty girl, I'll sleep with her tonight!
    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!

    And mary McGregor, she was a pretty whore,
    She'd always greet you with a smile, and never lock her door,
    But on the day she died, all the men in town did weep,
    For Mary McGregor finally got some sleep.

    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight! Hey!
    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight! Hey!
    And if I see a pretty girl, I'll sleep with her tonight!
    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!

    Well I once loved a girl, a child I'm told,
    I gave her my heart, and she gave me a cold,
    So now I sit, standing here out in the pouring rain,
    I'll stumble back to Kelly's Pub and cry away me pain.

    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight! Hey!
    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight! Hey!
    And if I see a pretty girl, I'll sleep with her tonight!
    We'll drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink, and drink and fight!
    make sure the fortune that you seek...is the fortune that you need
  • off_the_recordoff_the_record Posts: 843
    bottle of wine - tom paxton
    Cheat the odds that made you
    Brave to try to gamble at times
  • dont_go_on_medont_go_on_me Posts: 877
    sadprofessor wrote:
    Don't forget their most classic of b-sides: If Only You Were Lonely
    beautiful song! Beer for Breakfast would be appropriate too :)
    "I'll do whatever the song dictates - if it doesn't need a real lead, then I won't do one. But if it does, then I'll fuckin' go off." - Mike

    "Japan is awesome; the fans there knew all the words to all the songs...at least phonetically." - Stone

    "I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version." - EV
  • Neruda25Neruda25 Posts: 266
    Charles Bukowski
    22 nov. Santiago
    23 nov. Santiago
    25 nov. Buenos Aires
    26 nov. Buenos Aires


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  • sadprofessorsadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Neruda25 wrote:
    Charles Bukowski

    Nice.
    The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced
    Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Another Drinking Song
    NoFx - Beer Bong
    Sham 69 - Hurry Up Harry
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    Can't believe that nobody has mentioned Seven Drunken Nights yet!

    Also, The Police' Roxanne can make a pretty good drinking game!
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  • The Big ManThe Big Man Posts: 25
    Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

    pissing the night away!
    Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution...


    Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
  • JellyrollsJellyrolls Posts: 523
    Anything by Hank III
  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,155
    Doors Road House Blues.....Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!!!
    Van 92.07.21 / Van 98.07.19 / Sea 98.07.22 / Tor 98.08.22 / Sea 00.11.06 / Van 03.05.30/ Van 05.09.02/ Gorge 06.07.22 & 23 / EV Van 08.04.02 / Tor 09.08.21 / Sea 09.09.21 & 22 / Van 09.09.25 / Van 11.09.25 / Van 13.12.04 / Pem 16.07.17 / Sea 18.08.10
  • whulmefwhulmef Posts: 176
    "Up on Cripple Creek" by The Band.
  • AndySlashAndySlash Posts: 3,246
    reeferchief wrote:
    Dropkick Murphys - Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced


    QFT



    I play in a band, we're the best in the land
    We're big in both Chelsea and France
    I play one mean guitar and then score at the bar
    There's a line of chicks waiting for their chance
    So come on now honey, I'll make you feel pretty
    These other gals mean nothing to me
    Let's finish these drinks and be gone for the night
    'Cause I'm more than a handful, you'll see

    So kiss me, I'm shitfaced
    I'm soaked, I'm soiled and brown
    in the trousers, she kissed me
    And I only bought her one round

    I can bench press a car, I'm an ex football star
    with degrees from both Harvard and Yale
    Girls just can't keep up, I'm a real love machine
    I've had far better sex while in jail
    I've designed the Sears Tower, I make two grand an hour
    I cook the world's best duck flambe
    I'll take the pick of the litter, girls jockey for me
    I don't need these lines to get laid

    So kiss me, I'm shitfaced
    I'm soaked, I'm soiled and brown
    in the trousers, she kissed me
    And I only bought her one round

    I'm a man of the night, a real ladies delight
    See my figure was chiseled from stone
    One more for the gal then I'll escort her home
    Come last call, I'm never alone
    I've a house on the hill with a red water bed
    That puts Hugh Heffnor's mansion to shame
    With girls by the pool and Italian sports cars
    I'm just here in this dump for the game

    So kiss me, I'm shitfaced
    I'm soaked, I'm soiled and brown
    in the trousers, she kissed me
    And I only bought her one round

    So kiss me, I'm shitfaced
    I'm soaked, I'm soiled and brown
    in the trousers, she kissed me
    And I only bought her one round

    Ahh, fuck it. Who am I shitting?

    I'm a pitiful sight, and I ain't all that bright
    I'm definitely not chiseled from stone
    I'm a cheat and a liar, no woman's desire
    I'll probably die cold and alone

    But just give me a chance, 'cause deep down inside
    I swear I got a big heart of gold
    I'm a monogamous man, no more one night stands
    Come on, honey, let me take you home

    So kiss me, I'm shitfaced
    I'm soaked, I'm soiled and brown
    in the trousers, she kissed me
    And I only bought her one round

    ...
  • rcsrcs Posts: 711
    direwolf74 wrote:
    The greatest drinking song of all time is "Home For a Rest" by Spirit of the West. Nothing else even comes close:

    "You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a month, I've been drunk since I left
    These so-called vacations will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink I need home for a rest.

    We arrived in December and London was cold
    We stayed in the bars along Charing Cross Road
    We never saw nothin' but brass taps and oak
    Kept a shine on the bar with the sleeves of our coats

    CHORUS:
    You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a week
    I've been drunk since I left
    And these so-called vacations
    Will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink
    I need home for a rest
    Take me home....

    Euston Station the train journey North
    In the buffet car we lurched back and forth
    Past old crooked dykes through Yorkshire's green fields
    We were flung into dance as the train jigged and reeled

    - CHORUS -

    By the light of the moon, she'd drift through the streets
    A rare old perfume, so seductive and sweet
    She'd tease us and flirt, as the pubs all closed down
    Then walk us on home and deny us a round

    You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a month
    I've been drunk since I left
    And these so-called vacations
    Will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink
    I need home for a rest
    Take me home....

    The gas heater's empty, it's damp as a tomb
    The spirits we drank now ghosts in the room
    I'm knackered again, come on sleep take me soon
    And don't lift up my head 'till the the twelve bells at noon

    You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best
    I've been gone for a month
    I've been drunk since I left
    And these so-called vacations
    Will soon be my death
    I'm so sick from the drink
    I need home for a rest
    Take me home...."

    That's the one! Hands down. Just thinking of this song makes me thirsty.
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • The Big ManThe Big Man Posts: 25
    Semisonic - Closing Time

    great song
    Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution...


    Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    The Big Man wrote:
    Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

    pissing the night away!
    i get knock down, then i get up again, your never gonna keep me down
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Most of the Pogues catalog would fit nicely. Their lead singer, Shane MacGowan has been known to have a drink now and then.

    Thousands are Sailing, White City, Whiskey in the Jar, Whiskey You're the Devil, Dirty Old Town, Fairytale of New York, If I Should Fall From Grace with God, The Irish Rovers.

    And that's only a start...

    Others?

    One Scotch, One Burbon, One Beer - John Lee Hooker
    Too Drunk to F**k - Dead Kennedys
    Dead, Drunk, & Naked - Drive By Truckers (who have a great drinking catalog too)
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

    http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
    spotify:user:merkinball
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    Have A Drink On Me - AC/DC
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • JPS79JPS79 Posts: 148
    GnR - you ain't the first from uyi 1
    The Urge- we're going to the liquor store (not sure if that's the title but it's repeated throughout the song and i'm too lazy to dig the cd out)
    Seems the more you make
    equals the loneliness you get
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