OPO: Songs about drinking yourself into an early grave

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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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