OPO: Songs about drinking yourself into an early grave

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The Kinks - Alcohol

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 4 April 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

trad. by way of bob dylan and everyone else - "moonshiner"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 4 April 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

"Alcohol" by Suggs
"Alcohol" by Howlin' Maggie
"Alcohol" by GangGreen
"Drukard's Lament" by Firewater
"Hung Again" by Cop $hoot Cop
"The Bottle" by Rise Robots Rise
"Suicide Solution" by Ozzy Osbourne

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, duh, whoops...OPO. I must be drunk.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link

everyreplacementssongi'veheard

― duke easter, Sunday, 4 April 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link

"Fairytale of New York"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

"Driving Nails in My Coffin"

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

Robyn Hitchcock's "Sleeping Knights Of Jesus" :

Dyin' of starvation in the gutter (in the gutter)/
That is all the future holds for me (holds for me)/
Or alcoholic poisoning in the toilet of my choice/
That's all there is, as far as I can see/

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 4 April 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Replacements - "The Last"

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Sunday, 4 April 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

Beautiful South - Old Red Eyes Is Back

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Sunday, 4 April 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

American Music Club - Outside This Bar

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Sunday, 4 April 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

"Knock'em Down" by Firewater

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 4 April 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Rev. Horton Heat, "Liquor, Beer, and Wine"

― subgenius (subgenius), Sunday, 4 April 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

Jerry Lee Lewis- "What Made Milwaukee Famous"

― earlnash, Sunday, 4 April 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

not to forget- George Jones- "If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will" and at least dozen other songs he cut in the seventies. "A Man Can't Be A Drunk",etc.

― Bill Mills (dialecticbricks), Monday, 5 April 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

"and we get down to the end/we drink on the job" -Earlimart
I could be wrong, though,
cause I'm drunk

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 5 April 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

Wonderful song on the 'Seed IV' punk compilation. Don't know the name of the band or the song though.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 April 2004 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

More needed! Making a comp.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 November 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

oh good, i already said "moonshiner."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Any preferred version or would I be better off sticking with the Dylan?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Hinted at in "that woman's got me drinking" by Shane McGowan and the Popes.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Songs about drinking a lot in general work too.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 27 November 2004 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

some people like catpowers cover of moonshiner

there has got to be a tindersticks song for this thread...

― ke[hm (kephm), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

sinking-the cure

― ke[hm (kephm), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The New Pornographers - "Slow Descent Into Alcoholism"

― pinder (pinder), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

cat power's "moonshiner" is pretty good but i'm sure there's a version out there that's really heart-wrenching. anyone?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"Why I Love Country Music," Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
"Yessirree," "Louise Is in the Blue Moon," "One on the House," Allison Moorer
"The Lord Loves the Drinkin' Man," Mark Chesnutt

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Carter USM! Prince in a pauper's grave! Wow, it feels good to suggest Carter for something...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Too Drunk to Dream"

― giboyeux (skowly), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

'Sunday Morning Coming Down'!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Best song ever!

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm pretty sure the most heart wrenching versions of moonshiner are unrecorded.
the only other version i've heard is from the smithsonian folkways anth.
so not heart wrenching, but it is titled 'moonshiners dance'. so if you can be happy about your early grave, put it on.

― ke[hm, Saturday, 27 November 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't stand it anymore, but ...
Spirit of the West -- Home for a Rest !

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Beautiful South - "Liars' Bar"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Pogues - 'The Sickbed Of Cuchulainn'

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 27 November 2004 09:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Nick Cave - "Jangling Jack"

Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (Bar Room Version)

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 27 November 2004 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking

― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link

I posted it in the other drinking songs thread, but Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'I Am Drinking Again' is probably a better fit here.

― Ape Pagoda (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link

Lou Reed - The Last Shot or Underneath The Bottle

The former is his greatest "glad to be sober" song which contains the vivid lyric, "I shot a vein in my neck and I coughed up a quaalude."

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link

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