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The l best drinking songs
Enhance a toast to the greatest drinking songs ever recorded about beer, whiskey, wine and white lightning
We're always downward to raise a glass during a not bad party bop, but in that location's something special about killer drinking songs: the kind of tune that makes you stop what you're doing and start swinging your glass with zero regard for the dryness of the floor.
The greatest songs about drinking aren't limited to Irish gaelic folk music or weepy country/western ballads: from popular to punk, no genre is without a great ode to getting sloppy. In curating this list, nosotros generally skipped the songs that talk nigh booze'southward dark side (we'll leave the regrets – and Kendrick Lamar bangers — for the morning after). When the drinking songs on this list pop up, y'all'll take no choice but to sing forth and make a bad selection or two.
Written by Michael Chen, Brent DiCrescenzo, Sophie Harris, Oliver Keens, Andy Kryza, Hank Shteamer, Kate Wertheimer and Zach Long.
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Best drinking songs, ranked
ane. 'Brass Monkey' past Beastie Boys
It's an obvious ascertainment, but this song came out before the Internet. Which means that I – similar tens of thousands of 12-year-olds in 1986, I would imagine – was unable to immediately figure out what the hell the B Boys were whine-shouting most. I'll admit it: I idea the rap was about a monkey. Then, in high school, I learned from friends that a Brass Monkey was a sort of gutter mimosa – malt liquor and O.J. Gross. Then, in higher, thanks to the Earth Broad Web, I discovered the source of that funk-skronk horn: Wild Sugar's deep-disco cut, 'Bring It Here.'Rad. And they say friends are better than the Internet.
ii. 'Streams of Whiskey' by The Pogues
In one of the folk-punk outfits peppiest (or at to the lowest degree whistle-iest) hits, Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan spins a yarn about a dream he had (presumably not while sober) of walking paw in mitt with Irish gaelic poet Brendan Behan and learning of an afterlife where the brownish stuff flows in rivers. (In that location's also talk of a 15-beer bender, because The Pouges are gonna Pogues). Forced to cull one Pogues song — this listing could take been nothing simply Pogues songs — it's 'Streams of Whiskey' by a drinker's nose.
iii. 'Gin & Juice' by Snoop Dogg
This was the first rap song to provide loftier-school parties with a cocktail recipe correct in the title. Well, juice tin be expensive. But 'Gin & Gatorade' merely doesn't take the same mellifluousness. On a side note, when'south the last time you heard someone refer to weed as 'indo'? 1994?
4. 'White Lightning' by George Jones
Beer and whiskey odes grow, only in that location aren't besides many moonshine songs. Only this one, really. Perchance that's because folks who drink methanol-laden Mountain Dew end up wearing overalls with one strap and having merely as many teeth. Written by the Big Bopper, he of the Day the Music Died, 'White Lightning' took George Jones to No. 1 in 1959. Essentially, this was the 'Sippin' on Some Syrup' of the Eisenhower era.
5. 'Lilac Wine' by Nina Simone
Originally penned in 1950 for a theater revue, 'Lilac Wine' has been covered by such greats as Eartha Kitt, Jeff Buckley and, er, Miley Cyrus. Just but the High Priestess of Soul is able to requite this moody ode to infatuation the drama and chill its lyrics and melody beg for. In her 1966 interpretation, her voice prowls around the song'due south deliciously dark lyrics like a cat, and for the listener, intoxication is inevitable.
6. 'Whiskey River' by Willie Nelson
Some consideration was given to 'I Gotta Get Drunk,' a 1970 Willie melody covered wonderfully by Phosphorescent in 2009. But that was the short-haired, clean-shaven Willie. On principle, we went with this archetype off of Shotgun Willie, from the dawn of his stoner-cowboy era. Even though it was written by Johnny Bush, the song belongs to Willie, as essential to him as long braids and a bandanna.
7. 'Tequila' by the Champs
This two-infinitesimal instrumental – an ode to the magical elixir that needs but a ane-word introduction – was recorded in 1958 past the Champs and written by Danny Flores, the voice behind the three mischievous utterances of 'tequila' spoken throughout and the human being responsible for the tune's trademark 'dirty sax' solo. We'll say this – the song gets us dancing fifty-fifty quicker than tequila does.
8. 'Too Drunk to Fuck' past Dead Kennedys
Hey, it'due south happened to the best of us. This 1981 surf-stone-heavy single was the fourth from the California punkers, who paint an exaggerated party picture mostly to offend music-industry prudes. Although the song reached No. 36 on the U.K. singles chart, information technology was oftentimes banned or censored, leading the Kennedys to supply a sticker for record shops reading 'Caution: You are the victim of yet another stodgy retailer afraid to warp your listen by revealing the title of this record, so peel slowly and come across…' Nice touch, Biafra.
ix. 'Sippin' on Some Syrup' by Three 6 Mafia
Cough medicine plus Sprite, plus Jolly Ranchers. Holy shit, people drink that? Sprite? Expect, when you're broke, you take to get creative with your addictions. Anything can become a addiction. As Pimp C proclaimed in this vocal in 2000: 'We eat so many shrimp, I've got iodine poisoning.' So how did this Memphis hip-hop troupe get on to win an Oscar in 2006, for 'Information technology'southward Hard Out Hither for a Pimp'? Even pharmacists would have a hard time finding rhymes for promethazine and hydrocodone.
x. 'Alabama Vocal (Whisky Bar)' by the Doors
Penned by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for the incendiary 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, this song was originally performed by a chorus of prostitutes. This more famous encompass was recorded by the Doors in 1966 with a carnivalesque sound that perfectly illustrates what it's like to be smashed and along for the ride (which Jim Morrison very likely was).
11. 'Friends in Low Places' past Garth Brooks
You tin't help merely sing forth with the mutual people at the local watering hole when the jukebox starts playing Garth Brooks's 1990 ode to drinking the blues away. Y'all'll all of a sudden notice yourself line dancing with folks you've never met and seeing if your vocal annals tin become to those low places in the song's signature chorus. And, of class, there volition exist plenty of whiskey and beer flowing. Fun fact: In the perfect union of song to hapless sports team, the Kansas City Royals (two winning seasons in the last 19 years) adopted 'Friends in Low Places' equally their 6th-inning sing-along anthem. It serves as a abiding reminder to beleaguered fans that misery loves company…and booze.
12. 'All Nighttime' by Chance the Rapper (ft. Knox Fortune)
If you recollect it's difficult to stave off acquaintances asking for favors while you lot're drunkard, just endeavor existence famous. Backed by an effervescent Chicago house-inspired beat past producer Kaytranada, Chance pens a party anthem encapsulating all the excuses that tipsy friends volition use to bum a ride home. In his own words, 'You a goofy if you remember I don't know you lot need a Lyft.'
thirteen. 'Hither Comes a Regular' and 'Beer for Breakfast' (tie) by the Replacements
From what I've heard and seen on YouTube of their early on concerts, the Mats fabricated all their songs drinking songs. The gloriously shambolic punk stuff raged similar an adolescent who's seen a specter of his older self just ahead, slumped at a local bar and stamped with a gas-station name tag. Conversely, young Paul Westerberg'south ballads carried the sadness of a middle-aged nobody yearning for his salad days. Somehow, the Minnesotans shifted betwixt these ii gears without blowing the clutch, as heard in these corresponding cuts from 1985 and '87.
xiv. 'At that place'southward a Tear in My Beer' by Hank Williams Sr.
Though but i carried the title outright, all of Williams'southward songs were 'Long Gone Lonesome Blues' at center. The Alabama-built-in legend was tough as an sometime strip of donkey jerky, yet many of his songs revolved effectually crying. It made him more of a man – a man with a leather liver. 'These last nine beers,' he sings in that loftier hillbilly whine on this Nashville session, have just convinced him: 'I'yard gonna go along drinkin' until I'grand petrified.' A couple years later, in 1953, they pulled his body out of a Caddy littered with beer cans and lyric sheets.
fifteen. 'Drunken Lullabies' past Flogging Molly
When you're a few drinks in, there'due south something about driving rhythms and violin melodies that makes you desire to sing forth at the top of your lungs. Celtic punks Flogging Molly sympathise this phenomenon well, so it stands to reason that the title track of their 2002 record is a vocal about the songs you belt out later a few shots of whiskey.
sixteen. 'Why Don't We Go Drunk' by Jimmy Buffet
Seems sometime Jimmy stopped looking for that shaker of salt, shrugged and switched his focus to hooking up with another drunk at the bar. On a water bed, no less. Because of grade Jimmy Cafe – in his pre-Margaritaville country phase of the early on '70s – does gross things on a water bed.
17. 'Shots' by LMFAO featuring Lil Jon
Nosotros hate this song as much as you lot do. Of form we do. But the entire belly-shot community would beg to differ. And respond the states this: Has whatever piece of music amend fake the jackhammering headache of a Russian-form hangover?
xviii. 'Cheap Beer' by FIDLAR
'Beer'southward always better with a handbag effectually it,' the skater punks of FIDLAR (an acronym for Fuck It, Dawg, Life'southward a Adventure – actually) proclaim over polluted waves of crust-surf guitar in this 2013 burner. 'I! Drink! Cheap! Beer! And then! What! Fuck! You!' shouts the chorus. Gotta respect a ring whose entire raison d'être is to score shitty brews via tour riders. Would you lot really rather listen to Brute Commonage, hippie?
19. 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Downwardly' by Kris Kristofferson
Virtually of the songs on this list celebrate nights of debauchery, but only Kris Kristofferson thought to pour i out for the blurry forenoon after. The country troubadour'southward ode to forenoon beers, sleepy city sidewalks, fried-chicken envy and pounding headaches is ane of the loveliest state tunes always written (Johnny Greenbacks does a stellar have): Far from a Hangover- style (or Katy Perry's 'Last Friday Night') recap of a rowdy nighttime, Kristofferson's vocal is a serenity, cogitating number that pops with descriptive verse and introspection. Now somebody makes this man's wish come up true and get him stoned.
20. 'Pass the Courvoisier, Function II' by Busta Rhymes
Probable in constant rotation on Ladies Man Leon Phelps' playlist, this megahit for Busta came at the acme of hip hop's obsession with luxury items, just don't worry, information technology's only as polish if you lot're drinking Black Velvet while listening. Rhymes's signature rat-a-tat growl pairs nicely with the slick Neptunes beat, with Diddy and Pharrell even showing up to affirm that yes, they too would savour a glass of Courvasier.
21. 'Happy Hour' by the Housemartins
Is this 1986 Brit hit the chirpiest drinking song on our list? We're going to say yep, based on its jangly Smiths-esque guitars, 200 proof sing-alongability and the fact that it'due south officially impossible to sentinel the video without a smile on your face. Gear up in a proper British drunk (translation: 'pub'), the vid features a sweetly awkward trip the light fantastic routine and Claymation; plus, keen-eyed viewers volition notice that the Housemartins' bassist is a very immature Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim. Fancy that.
22. 'Tipsy' past J-Kwon
An infectious hip-hop commemoration of getting buzzed, 'Tipsy' has been setting off parties ever since it dropped in 2004. The claw couldn't be simpler: 'Everybody in the society gettin' tipsy' (followed by a Ying Yang–way whisper of the aforementioned line), repeated 4 times. St. Louis rapper J-Kwon may have been a fresh-faced 17-year-quondam when he released this dance-flooring classic (public service reminder: teen drinking is very bad!), only he proved wise beyond his years in following hip-hop's gilded rule: club + alcohol = success.
23. 'Beer Run' by Todd Snider
Snider, an Americana alt-country folk-rocker from Memphis, penned this jocular anthem, about underage frat boys looking to score some brewskies before a Robert Earl Peachy show, in 2002. It'south tongue-in-cheek storytelling at its all-time, and Snider's spell-information technology-out chorus has get a universal party cry for – you guessed information technology – more beer.
24. 'Kiss the Canteen' by Jawbreaker
With this, punk'due south most heartwrenching melody near alcohol, the Bay Area trio fabricated living under a bridge and eating dumpster burritos seem utterly romantic in 1992. Hyperliterate squatter-bard Blake Schwarzenbach's vocals rasp and scratch like a human intimately acquainted with liquor and smokes: 'I kissed the bottle / I should have been kissing you.' Aww, my tears are gonna smear the ink on my 'zine.
25. 'One Beer' by MF Doom
On an album devoted to his favorite foods (Mm.. Food), British MC Daniel Dumile finds the fourth dimension to acknowledge his favorite drinkable. Beginning with a boast about drinking other MC's under the table, the masked rapper goes on a stream of consciousness tear atop a Madlib beat. It'south a track that's meant to be savored, just like the last can of beer in the fridge.
26. 'Lived in Bars' by True cat Ability
Our drinking listing oscillates between the celebratory and the self-loathing, between songs for drinking and songs about drinking. Bluntly, I'one thousand not sure where to file this jewel from 2006. Chan Marshall'south backstory and the languid showtime one-half propose the latter. Merely and then there are the lyrics – 'In that location's nada like living in a bottle!' – and the shoo-wop swing of the upbeat climax, not to mention the bittersweet beauty of her vox. Just I estimate that's what makes this song, and Cat Power, great: You tin can have it both ways, and typically practise.
27. 'Pop Bottles' past Birdman (ft. Lil Wayne and Jadakiss)
Back when Lil Wayne and Greenbacks Money Records co-founder Birdman were on good terms, the pair teamed up for this champagne-soaked anthem built on the back of a Jadakiss sample. While it's fun to hear the duo describing their expensive jewelry, shoes and Marc Jacobs drinking glass, the real takeaway for hither is 'outset with directly shots and so pop bottles.'
28. 'En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza (In Sky There Is No Beer)' by Flaco Jiménez
Ah, the existential justification for drinking beer. Originally composed for a German language film in 1956, this song (also known every bit 'The No Beer Polka') has been covered by a plethora of polka bands, translated into both English and Spanish. In our favorite version, 2003's 'En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza' by Flaco Jiménez, we get to gloat the earthly pleasure in all three languages.
29. 'What Expert Tin Drinkin' Do' past Janis Joplin
Why practice they telephone call it the 12-bar dejection? Considering information technology sounds similar Mama Miss Pearl hitting a dozen watering holes before recording this – at the age of nineteen. 19! We were picked on in high schoolhouse too, but it drove u.s.a. to novels almost dragons, not howling soul music that tugs at your liverstrings. Joplin's song cords already audio like a public service announcement here. In retrospect, you tin hear her speeding to oblivion. It'southward a cold splash on the spine, enough to both bulldoze us to beverage and scare us off it forever.
30. 'Take Some other Potable' past The Kinks
'Has everybody got problems?' Ray Davies rhetorically asks like a carnival barker greeted by a chorus of 'yeahs' on this Kinks classic. Here, booze is a cure-all for everything from low to shitty jobs, media-based fears and general colorlessness. Information technology'southward a rollicking number with a hint of nihilism that makes Davies sound similar he might take been the inspiration backside the bartender from The Shining.
31. 'One Bourbon, 1 Scotch, 1 Beer' past George Thorogood and the Destroyers
This drinkin' blues song was first recorded in 1953, becoming one of several of its kind to reach the Meridian Ten on the Billboard R&B nautical chart. John Lee Hooker popularized the tune with his 1966 cover, but Thorogood took it to a whole new level of bitching and moaning in his 1977 version, borrowing another of Hooker'southward songs, 'Business firm Rent Boogie,' to serve as a backstory to explain the distressing singer's situation. Someone delight give the homo his drinks and close him upwards already.
32. 'The Blarney Stone' by Ween
Ween's nautically themedThe Clam is packed with unexpected twists and turns, none more raucus than this satirical Irish bounding main shanty so disarming in its chants of 'Aye, yes aye, acuminate your boots and bludgeon your eyes' that you tin can practically olfactory property the stale beer wafting from the speakers. Information technology's glorious nonsense in the best way possible.
33. 'Sugariness Lucy' past Michael Hurley
Greenwich folk scene weirdo Hurley is known for his surreal lyricism, but this drinking ballad is adequately straight-frontward: The vocalizer drinks too much wine, goes to jail and his mom doesn't have the coin to pay bail. It's more of a cautionary tale, but that doesn't make the refrain of 'Sugariness Lucy' any less infectious.
34. 'After the Afterparty' past Charli XCX (ft. Lil Yachty)
You've already closed down one bar, taken the crew to a friend's place and had a few too many drinks, only Charli XCX and her pal Lil Yachty see no problem with keeping the party going... forever. This supremely confident pop tune is one for the folks who don't know when to stop (for better or worse), consequences, weeknights and pesky neighbors be damned.
35. 'I Similar Beer' past Tom T. Hall
Gee, this stein-swinging sing-along from 1975 makes drunks seem quaint and adorable. Similar commercials with horses falling in love with puppies. Not similar raging douchebags who become into fights near football and fall in the street.
36. 'Beer' by People Under the Stairs
This L.A. rap duo is hardly a household name. That seems to be somewhat intentional, equally Thes One and Double K never had greater aspirations than to throw a ridonkulous business firm party, and no desire to take hip-hop beyond the scratch heyday of two turntables and a microphone. God bless 'em. 'To my liver and kidneys, your time is well-nigh / You like hangin' on Twitter, and we like beer,' proclaims K. The 2009 video is an homage to Laverne & Shirley. These dudes would make a dandy sitcom, too.
37. 'Milk and Alcohol' past Dr. Feelgood
The Big Lebowski may have cornered the market on White Russian references in pop civilisation, only this (rhythmically) chugging please from bluesy Brits Dr. Feelgood gives dairy its sonic due. Written by Nick Lowe (subsequently a night spent drinking Kahlúa and watching John Lee Hooker perform), its seedy stomp and heavy riffing positively ooze the illicit joys of a nighttime on the town. Warning: may not exist suitable for the lactose intolerant.
38. 'I Call up I'll Just Stay Hither and Beverage' by Merle Haggard
Drinking until your problems disappear probably isn't sound advice, but coming from Haggard it almost sounds like wisdom. Recorded in 1980 on the heels of the Hag's third spousal relationship, this whiskey-soaked country ballad probably works all-time when you're wallowing in heartbreak, simply anyone should exist able to capeesh the cheesy saxophone solo.
39. 'Banking concern Holiday' past Blur
As an American, the closest thing I accept to a bank vacation is Presidents' Day, which is hardly a rousing cause for shouting 'Prost!' (Note: If Abe Lincoln is an excuse for you to potable, you are a raging alcoholic.) But this 1994 Britpop punker gave me a snapshot of U.K. binge culture in 1 minute and 42 seconds. 'Bank holiday comes with six-pack of beer! Then information technology'southward back to piece of work! Ay! Ay! Ay!' Albarn barks in a hops-soaked slur. Funny how Blur and Haven fans fought. They all wanted a drink.
twoscore. 'Accept a Drink on Me' by AC/DC
Some might find it morose to include artists similar Janis Joplin and Elliott Smith – who died young after wrestling with their demons – on a list nigh booze. And then there'due south Air-conditioning/DC. Frontman Bon Scott attended his final recording session with the group in February 1980, working with Malcolm and Angus on this track. Days later on, he was dead from alcohol poisoning. What did the band do? Mope? No, it hired a new singer and threw this cut on Dorsum in Black .
41. 'Thanks (Drink to That)' by Rihanna
A toast to our interns, who chided us for overlooking this my-showtime-reggaetón chillaxer from 2010. 'Don't permit the bastards get you down,' RiRi sings in her patois. Bones Rihanna rule: The more than Caribbean she sounds, the better. Jameson Irish whiskey gets plugged heavily over a sample of Avril Lavigne, which reeks of product placement (there's a shout-out to Ray-Bans, likewise, official hangover concealer of Rihanna), but at least it'south not Malibu.
42. 'Warm Beer and Common cold Women' past Tom Waits
…makes the rankings on title alone. But this creaky weeper from 1975'southward Nighthawks at the Diner manages to rhyme v ermouth with Naugahyde booth, likewise. Admit it: Immature-barfly Tom Waits totally destroys old-man-in-a-rusty-shed-with-a-mule Tom Waits.
43. 'Drunk Girls' by LCD Soundsystem
Is 'Drunk Girls' LCD Soundsystem's finest hour? No, of form not. But does it experience like a dark of reckless boozing in New York City? Admittedly. James Murphy himself has described the 2010 single as 'dumb.' But, he added, 'I similar dumb, short stuff.' More than reasons to dig 'Drunk Girls'? The wince-inducing video, codirected by Spike Jonze, shows White potato and the LCD coiffure being manhandled by malevolent pandas. Dumb 'n' brusk four evah.
44. 'Shot For Me' by Drake
If this booze-soaked R&B ode to one-time flames sounds similar something that the Weeknd should be singing, that'south just because Abel Tesfaye really wrote information technology. Released back when Drake was extremely in his feelings and fancied himself a singer (as well as a rapper), 'Shot For Me' finds the Canadian star spitefully reminding his exes to recollect just how nifty he was when they knock back a glass of Canadian Society, or whatever folks shoot in Toronto.
45. 'Cigarettes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women' by Sons of Pioneers
A sing-songy ode to the insanity-inducing allure of tobacco, brown liquor and the fairer sex, this old-timey barn-burner has been covered a billion or and then times, with Buck Owens, Jim Croce and Ron Wood all offering up solid versions. The best, though? It'due south the version performed by Peter Sellers and a cadre of felt hillbillies in covered-wagon times during his hosting stint on The Muppet Show . And no, we didn't just make that upward because we've been drinking 'whuskey' while writing.
46. 'Drunk in Love' past Beyoncé
Yes, ostensibly it's a love song, just c'monday, Beyoncé was probable deep in her cups concluding year when she blurted the non sequitur hashtag 'Surfbordt!' Ditto for Jay-Z, who could not have been sober when he wrote, 'Your breastesses is my breakfast.' I recollect he stole that from Bukowski?
47. 'Whiskey Girl' by Gillian Welch
There are drinking songs to quaff to, and there are drinking songs to heed to at 4am while you pour out another whiskey and your mind turns over what could've been, or where you could get cigarettes at this hour. Taken from Gillian Welch'southward exquisite, bleak 1998 album, Hell Among the Yearlings, 'Whiskey Daughter' falls into the latter category – and how.
48. 'One Mint Julep' by Louis Prima
Fleeting happiness in the haze of a drunken hour: Many songs have trod this path, only in the words of this jazz-popular standard, 'One mint julep / Was the offset of it all.' Originally a hit for '50s doo-wop grouping the Clovers on Atlantic Records, the tune tells of stealing an intoxicated kiss from a woman after i sweetness, minty cocktail, only to go hitched (at her father's demand) and end up confused, hungover and the begetter of half dozen kids. Quite the tipple. Though Ray Charles'southward 1961 instrumental cover fabricated it a hit, Louis Prima'southward unmistakably comic tone gives his version the edge.
49. 'Bubbles in my Beer' past Bob Wills
Eventually covered past the likes of Willie Nelson and George Jones, this 1947 Western swing standard may well take started the sub-genre of woeful country songs virtually drinking away your sorrows. Information technology's fleck antiquated and a trivial depressing, just information technology's ane of the jauntiest tunes about self-absorbed contemplation you lot'll e'er hear.
50. 'You and Me and the Bottle Brand Three' by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Dorsum in the '90s, the universe alleged that what America needed was a big-band swing revival, and BBVD led the charge with this boozy canticle that ensured a whole subculture would endure concussions due to ill-advised swing dancing after several drinks. (Whether it as well resulted in a spike in dancefloor-based concussions is unknown.) The song got huge via the motion pictureSwingers... then disappeared from the collective consciousness along with the Cherry ' Daddies. Simply when it resurfaces, it's a stealth striking for anyone who ever used 'that'southward so money' in casual conversation.
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