Drinking Songs playlest... What am I missing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GHT7f_cIA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxevNhP7Yd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpuzE6t7_Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrs0KUHPeKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8avrOiI6F4

Shaboozey - Tipsy

@vitussl101  , I was doing a google trying to find the name of a song and it appears as if he did find a dentist before he died?  

Anyway, I was thinking that the title of the song I was looking for (what I thought would be a drinking song) was Christmas In The Drunk Tank, but actually it was titled Fairy Tale Of New York.

immatthewj  'I would probably put  almost anything by Shane MacGowan as a good song to get loaded while listening to'.

  Now that was a man in need of a dentist but death got him first.

I would probably put  almost anything by Shane MacGowan as a good song to get loaded while listening to.

 Here are two German beer drinking songs embedded to two German/Swiss musical beer steins with musical movements.  Notice something about the movements? 

https://i.imgur.com/8QwdnLA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IPAE2Uw.jpg

 https://i.imgur.com/vOEijHn.jpg

@thecarpathian , okay. I actually bought that on cassette in ’87 because one morning on my way to work the DJ played a Katrina And The Waves song from that CD or album titled "Mexico" that really stuck to me. However, I no longer have that cassette, or if I do I don’t know where it is.

It was the pilot song on their first album in 1985.

So sayeth the magic box.

Didn't Katrina And The Waves do a song titled Red Wine And Whiskey?

Stoned Soul Picnic - Laura Nyro/5th Dimension

Whiskey  - Jimmy D. Lane

Joan Armatrading  - Water With the Wine

Beastie Boys -  Drinkin' Wine

Lee Ritenour  - Wicked Wine

Eric Burden & War - Spill the Wine

Daily Terror - Kleine Biere [small beers]

Die Toten Hosen - Bommerlunder

The Silence Cries - Another beer

Rites of Spring - Drink Deep

Skyclad- Another Drinking Song

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Poison Whiskey 

Garth Brooks - Two Pina Coladas 

Kenny Chesney - No Shoes Nation  - Have Another Beer in Mexico

The Who - However Much I Booze 

UB40 - Red Red Wine

Eric Clapton - Red Wine 

I recommend throwing some of the "Parental Advisory:  Bastard and Bitch scumbag positioning content" into your mixes, just to make sure it has to be a fighter, for sure, since the guys people don't care about since they always think it's their good never think they'll have to care about that.  

You have to mix it up a little with Tone Loc’s Funky Cold Medina.

Lucinda Williams - "Drunken Angel"

The Derailers - "Bar Exam"

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez - "Must be the Whiskey"

The Handsome Family - "So Much Wine"

Gil Scott-Heron:  In the Bottle

Gary Stewart  I've Got This Drinkin' Thing

"Open" by The Cure.   A song about getting drunk after their own shows, at their own shows.  Pretty descript.

I really don't know what I'm doing here
I really think I should've gone to bed tonight
But "Just one drink and there're some people to meet you
I think that you'll like them
I have to say we do
And I promise in less than an hour
We will honestly go"

"Now why don't I just get you another
While you just say hello
Yeah just say hello
Just say hello"

So I'm clutching it tight
Another glass in my hand
And my mouth and the smiles
Moving up as I stand up
Too close and too wide
And the smiles are too bright
And I breathe in too deep
And my head's getting light
But the air is getting heavier and it's closer
And I'm starting to sway
And the hands all on my shoulders don't have names
And won't go away
So here I go
Here I go again

Falling into strangers
And it's only just eleven
And I'm staring like a child
Until someone slips me heaven
And I take it on my knees
Just like a thousand times before
And I get transfixed
That fixed
And I'm just looking at the floor
Just looking at the floor
Yeah I look at the floor

And I'm starting to laugh
Like an animal in pain
I've got blood on my hands
I've got hands in my brain
And the first short retch
Leaves me gasping for more
And I stagger over screaming
On my way to the floor
And I'm back on my back
With the lights and the lies in my eyes
And the colour and the music's too loud
And my head's all the wrong size
So here I go
Here I go again

Yeah I laugh and I jump
And I sing and I laugh
And I dance and I laugh
And I laugh and I laugh
And I can't seem to think
Where this is
Who I am
Why I'm keeping this going
Keep pouring it out
Keep pouring it down
Keeping it going
And keep pouring it down
And the way the rain comes down hard
That's the way I feel inside

I can't take it anymore
This it I've become
This is it like I get
When my life's going numb
I just keep moving my mouth
I just keep moving my feet
I say I'm loving you to death
Like I'm losing my breath

And all the smiles that I wear
And all the games that I play
And all the drinks that I mix
And I drink until I'm sick
And all the faces I make
And all the shapes that I throw
And all the people I meet
And all the words that I know
Makes me sick to the heart
Oh I feel so tired
And the way the rain comes down hard
That's how I feel inside

The way the rain comes down hard
That's how I feel inside

Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey

Chris Stapleton - Whisky and You

Chris Stapleton- Might As Well Get Stoned

Chris Stapleton - Was It 26

or just get his Traveler album and be done with it.

George Jones - This Bottle (in my hand)

Merle Haggard's "Back to the Barrooms" is pretty much a whole album devoted to this subject.

"Knockin’ Lost John" -- The Band

"(Last Night) The Bottle Let Me Down" -- Merle Haggard

"John Barleycorn Must Die" -- Traffic

Stompin' Tom Connors, Sudbury Saturday Night

A while back ago I was doing youtube searches trying to find Jackson Browne singing Cocaine, and I came upon this guy named Jackson Taylor singing a different song titled Cocaine. There was a repeated line, "I like the cocaine, I like the whiskey too," but throughout the whole video he and the band were throwing back shots while they performed. It was enough to make me want to toss back a couple, but my gastrointestinal system doesn’t handle it well anymore.

I haven’t bought his CD and I won’t because I’ve subsequently heard him interviewed and although I appreciate his sentiments regarding drugs and alcohol,  he’s a bit to red for me, but on that CD there are also songs  titled Jack’s Drunk Again and Whiskey Drinking Song.

(Which also reminds me to mention Nazareth: Whiskey Drinking Woman and the title song of the album, Hair Of The Dog.)

The Rodeo Song by Garry Lee and Showdown

Van Morrison - "Here Stands The Glass"

@aldnorab ,

Just watched it on YouTube.

The irony was not lost on me. It made me think of ironic drinking toasts such as 

"To your health!" while the one giving the toast is destroying his. I suppose drinking is like anything else in life, you control it or it controls you.

Here’s one for you @thecarpathian. Hollywood Vampires - My Dead Drunk Friends. Couldn't figure out how to get YouTube link to post here.

Thanks,

aldnorab

Delbert McClinton - Two More Bottles Of Wine

Lot of songs here that are great to drink to but not necessarily about drinking--i assume that's what you meant so couple more:

Tom Waits--Jockey Full of Bourbon

Roy Eldridge and Hot Lips Page--They Raided the Joint (i prefer Asleep at the Wheel's version)

Avett Brothers--When I Drink

Roy Buchanan

"Beer Drinkin' Woman"

Nazareth

"Whiskey Drinkin' Woman"

@danager ​​​​@grislybutter ,

You guys are right, glorifying isn’t an apt description.

I needed to look at it from the message perspective, not the volume of works.

@thecarpathian I don't think it's glorified. But it would pretentious to not see the link between drinking, music, and musicians. I think historically, there was nothing else for the working class as a relief from the pain called life than to listen to live music and/or sing, drink, maybe dance too. A serious trend now is that Millennials and Gen Z are drinking way less than previous generations.

@bdp24 One of my closest friends is 76, drank and smoke his entire life 10+ beers and 15+ cigarettes a day. He has decent health, overall, may be better than mine and we are 20 years apart. He slowed down significantly though in the last few years and needless to say, he never ran half marathons.

Here’s Evan Johns’ tongue-in-cheek song "Dear Doc", in which he asks for a little help with his health issues (brought about by his drinking):

https://youtu.be/tGCr89_F38k?si=_hAc86gOTHH_vr70

And here’s a video made nine years ago, in which Evan discusses the real life consequences of his drinking. It’s pretty heartbreaking:

https://youtu.be/tEVbbgI8OaI?si=9-4agHPw0x8EG1m3

Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs - "Bottle of Wine"

Turnpike Troubadoors- “Gin, Smoke, Lies”

Gatlin Brothers - Midnight Choir (Mogen David)

Wilco - Passenger Side

The Siegel-Schwall Band.   "When I've Been Drinkin'"
                                             "I Think it was the Wine"
 

I'm a little late to this party but I suggest this, Zac Brown band song Castaway if you haven't heard it, give it a listen. Cheers

I just remembered "Whiskey Train" by Procol Harum.

Anything by the band Tankard.

I’ve known and played with a coupla guys who drank themselves to death. In 2001 I did an album (Moontan) with Evan Johns, recorded in Atlanta, Georgia. We (his band on the album) checked into the hotel a day after Evan had arrived, and the next morning we passed his room on the way to the studio, and outside his door were two empty 18-packs of Budweiser cans. I had heard about his drinking, but that’s a lotta damn beer! Evan drank Budweiser non-stop the entire week, eating a meal only once.

One day on a break between songs, Evan and I retired to the dirt lot behind the studio (to share a Jazz cigarette), and he said to me "Drinking’s not a problem, as long as you stay away from the hard stuff." Well, as the album was being mixed and a USA tour was being set up, Evan was one day not feeling well. He went to the emergency room in British Vancouver (where he was living), and after being admitted fell into a coma. The docs told his woman to start making funeral arrangements, Evan was in the final stage of liver failure.

Evan fooled them again! We learned this was the third time it had happened, and after a few weeks he just sat up one day and asked where his guitar was. He fully recovered, but made it to only sixty years of age, dying in Austin Texas in 2017. A maniac Telecaster player!

The other guy was also a talented guitarist (you wouldn’t recognize his name), from the Santa Cruz, California area. When his bassist (a member of Los Straitjackets for the past quarter Century) and I shared a house with him in North Hollywood in late-1978, I witnessed him start his days with a few Vodka’s-on-the-rocks for breakfast. At night it was the same for dinner. He made it to only his late-30’s. He was the orneriest SOB I’ve ever known, a real mean drunk.

The Country Side of Harmonica Sam, Sweden's (and maybe the world's ) greatest honky-tonk band:

A Double Shot of Heartache

Forbidden Wine

A Drink After Midnight

I Drink Because I Care

Commander Cody: Wine Do Yer Stuff, Lost in the Ozone

Ry Cooder: I’m Drinkin’ Again

Jimmy Buffet: God’s Own Drunk

Taj Mahal: Diving Duck Blues

Jerry Jeff Walker: Sangria Wine