The Greatest Drinking Song of All Time, Ever.
Beer and music go together like spaghetti and meatballs, ice cream and chocolate sauce, college and casual sex.
They’re two great tastes that taste great together.
And so we put it upon you, our loyal readers, to help us choose the Greatest Drinking Song of All Time, Ever.
Some songs are meant for the pregame, some are meant for the stadium, some are meant for the dive bar and some are meant for the house party.
Some you enjoy alone, others in the company of millions, and yet others when its just you and your loved one.
These songs can put you in the mood for love, lust, food, fighting or heck ... just more beer. That’s the power of music. It is the Tabasco Sauce that enhances whatever flavor you are.
When selecting, keep the following criteria in mind:
1. This isn’t a list of the Greatest Songs of All Time - We aren’t here to put six Beatles songs and four Stones songs in our Top 10. Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” can’t possibly be the only song post-1978 on this list. We aren’t here for that. Anything goes. Try your heart out and Be Original!
2. Any song that has another liquor or wine in the title is out! - So, no “Margaritaville,” “Pina Coladaburg,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” etc, etc. We won’t be having that. No drinking “Crunk Juice,” “Cognac,” or “Goose” either. You’re drinking beer! However, in “Friends in Low Places,” Garth chases his whiskey with beer, so it’ll be ooooookay.
3. We ARE going to select the best and most widely nominated songs from the field - So, if you want your vote to count, be sure to second anyone else’s nomination - and be sure your’s is awesome enough to gain some traction!
4. Wedding songs don’t count - We’re already disposing of “The Electric Slide,” “The Macarena” and “Mambo No. 5.” Those aren’t drinking songs ... those are the pox upon the music industry.
So, scroll down to the comment box and leave your suggestions. Deadline for submissions is this Sunday evening.
We’ll announce the best selections on Monday afternoon!!
Set that jukebox to stun, and lets give it a go.
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Well my first thought was “friends in low places” but you blew that one already…
How about Hank Jr.’s “Family Tradition” for the standard drinking night, Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” for a depressed drinking binge and my top choice, Willie Nelson/George Jones/Merle Haggard’s “I gotta get drunk”
There’s a lot of doctors that tell me
I better start slowin’ it down
But there’s more old drunks than there are old doctors
So I think that I’ll have another round!
Hmm. I have to give this some beer-thought. All I can say right now is: 100 Bottles of Beer better not be within 1B light-years of this list.
Beer, Beer, Beer...traditional drinking song. It’s pretty much the standard bearer on beer songs.
Greatest drinking song? Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” comes to mind:
Yes they’re sharing a drink they call lonliness/but it’s better than drinkin’ alone
-AND-
The piano sounds like a carnival/and the microphone smells like a beer/and they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/and say ‘Man, what are you doin’ here?’
Also, Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days”
Think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m going to drink ‘til I get my fill
And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it but I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of, but time slips away and leaves you with nothing, Mister, but boring stories of glory days
I could probably come up with 42819 other really good drinking songs, but I’ll quit now.
Kiss Me I’m Shit Faced by Dropkick Murphys
Heavy Fuel by Dire Straits.
Has a great beat, and fun but somewhat depressing lyrics, a staple of drinking songs.
Also I second Piano Man, with the right amount of beer in them, everyone in the whole bar will be singing along.
“Fuck You, I’m Drunk”. I have no idea who sings it, but its fantastic. If need be, I can offer the Mp3 as evidence.
“Killin’ Time” by Clint Black, “White Lightning” by George Jones, “The Highwaymen” by the Highwaymen.
Seconding the “Piano Man”. That’s the shit.
*U2 “Sweetest Thing” - slow enough for the drunkest drunkard to drunk-sing drunkenly, and the simple “whoa, whoa” chorus helps
*Elvis Costello “Alison” - everyone tries to do their best Elvis imitation. Badly.
*Backstreet Boys “I Want It That Way” - back when ‘Almost Famous’ came out, some reviewer mentioned that if they made the movie 20 years later and set it in 1999, they’d sing this instead of “Tiny Dancer”. It’s scary, but the guy is right. People do sing along to this, and it’s kinda scary.
I’m pleasantly liquid, and can now offer a somewhat cogent suggestion: Centerfield (Fogerty). Mostly because I spent so many years listening to that on the Cleveland Municipal Stadium PA system during batting practice. And batting practice = drinking practice.
Piano Man
You Never Even Called Me by My Name
Beer for my Horses
In Heaven There is No Beer
I don’t know if this counts, but I love listening to Dirty Deeds (done dirt cheap) and Back in Black when I get drunk.
“Beer"- Reel Big Fish
Piano Man is twice as awesome if someone in the bar happens to have a harmonica and knows the part.
“The Dirty Glass"- Dropkick Murphys (fun if you’re in a crowd that knows the song)- hell, “Spicy McHaggis Jig” and nearly anything else by them.
“Stuart and the Avenue"- Green Day (solely because the last line of the chorus is easily screamed)
“Bottles to the Ground"- NOFX
The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
Livin’ on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Roxanne - The Police
Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
Hands down, the best.
Don’t Stop Believing
Sweet Home Alabama
Love me some Garth Brooks with my drunkeness…
“Why Don’t We Get Drunk - And Screw” - although that breaks just about every rule
“I Wanna Know What Love Is” is fun to scream? I’m running out of legit ideas.
The Wild Rover by The Dubliners. Traditional irish drinking song that everyone knows.
Nothing says shithoused like “Dies Irae” by Anonymous, although I like Hector Berlioz’s cover of it better than the original.
4’33”
Gotta second Dies Irae-- me and my Brothers still sing it to this day.
Also, Tubthumping.
Big up for Dies Irae.
Tossing one back right now, singing Dies Irae. This song makes Mendel’s peas grow.
Dies Irae >> Vere Dignum >>> Don’t Stop Believing >>>>>>>>> Tubthumping
The Band: The Beatles
The Album: Abbey Road
The Song: Golden Showers
Got to be George Thorogood, “One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer”. Or maybe “I Like Beer” by the old country singer Jim Ed Brown (I think, could be Tom T. Hall?).
Piano Man is the hands down winner for this. Nothing beats being beyond hammered, hearing the little piano intro then singing your heart out.
Don’t stop believing, a close second. Although this could be hurt by the wedding song criteria
Sweet Caroline, sing this song about 30 minutes before bar closes in a karaoke bar, the house will be brought down.
I second the Wild Rover by the Dubliners, +1 for KevinB
Deserves consideration:
“San Francisco” by Alkaline Trio
“Reeko” by NOFX
And generally anything off GNR’s “Appetite for Destruction”
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Aside from drinking and listening to the music, I just love dancing to the tune of “i love rock and roll”.
I am kinda emotional when I’m drunk so the songs that I consider the best drinking song is a love song
-M from Mexico
Hands down Black Flag - Six Pack
Oh the amount I’ve invested over the years in beer starting from the inspiration of songs such as Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting “It’s gettin’ late haven’t seen my mates Ma tell me when the boys get here Its 7 O’clock and I wanna Rock wanna get a belly full of BEER. My Old mans drunka than a barrel full of monkeys...” to the post marriage days of George’s “I Drink Alone” if I need any inspiration to pop down to the pub.
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