Oh No I Did It Again Drunk
The l best drinking songs
Raise a toast to the greatest drinking songs ever recorded near beer, whiskey, wine and white lightning
Nosotros're e'er down to enhance a drinking glass during a nifty political party bop, but there's something special about killer drinking songs: the kind of tune that makes you stop what you're doing and beginning swinging your glass with zero regard for the dryness of the floor.
The greatest songs about drinking aren't limited to Irish folk music or weepy country/western ballads: from pop to punk, no genre is without a great ode to getting sloppy. In curating this list, we mostly skipped the songs that talk almost booze'south dark side (we'll leave the regrets – and Kendrick Lamar bangers — for the morning afterward). When the drinking songs on this list pop up, you'll take no pick but to sing along and make a bad pick 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
Information technology's an obvious observation, but this vocal came out earlier the Internet. Which means that I – like 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 almost. I'll acknowledge it: I thought 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. And then, in college, thanks to the Globe Broad Web, I discovered the source of that funk-skronk horn: Wild Carbohydrate'south deep-disco cut, 'Bring It Hither.'Rad. And they say friends are better than the Internet.
2. 'Streams of Whiskey' by The Pogues
In one of the folk-punk outfits peppiest (or at least whistle-iest) hits, Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan spins a yarn about a dream he had (presumably non while sober) of walking hand in hand with Irish poet Brendan Behan and learning of an afterlife where the brown stuff flows in rivers. (There'due south also talk of a xv-beer bough, because The Pouges are gonna Pogues). Forced to choose one Pogues song — this listing could have been nothing but Pogues songs — it's 'Streams of Whiskey' by a drinker'south olfactory organ.
3. 'Gin & Juice' by Snoop Dogg
This was the outset rap vocal to provide loftier-school parties with a cocktail recipe right in the title. Well, juice can be expensive. But 'Gin & Gatorade' but doesn't have the aforementioned mellifluousness. On a side annotation, when's the last time yous heard someone refer to weed equally 'indo'? 1994?
4. 'White Lightning' by George Jones
Beer and whiskey odes abound, simply there aren't as well many moonshine songs. Just this i, actually. Perchance that's because folks who drink methanol-laden Mountain Dew cease upwardly wearing overalls with one strap and having just as many teeth. Written by the Large Bopper, he of the Twenty-four hour period the Music Died, 'White Lightning' took George Jones to No. 1 in 1959. Substantially, 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 equally Eartha Kitt, Jeff Buckley and, er, Miley Cyrus. But but the High Priestess of Soul is able to give this moody ode to infatuation the drama and chill its lyrics and melody beg for. In her 1966 interpretation, her voice prowls around the vocal's deliciously dark lyrics like a true cat, and for the listener, intoxication is inevitable.
six. 'Whiskey River' by Willie Nelson
Some consideration was given to 'I Gotta Get Boozer,' a 1970 Willie melody covered wonderfully by Phosphorescent in 2009. But that was the brusque-haired, clean-shaven Willie. On principle, we went with this classic off of Shotgun Willie, from the dawn of his stoner-cowboy era. Even though it was written by Johnny Bush-league, the vocal belongs to Willie, as essential to him as long braids and a bandanna.
seven. 'Tequila' by the Champs
This two-minute instrumental – an ode to the magical elixir that needs simply a 1-word introduction – was recorded in 1958 by the Champs and written by Danny Flores, the vox behind the three mischievous utterances of 'tequila' spoken throughout and the human responsible for the tune's trademark 'muddied sax' solo. We'll say this – the vocal gets u.s.a. dancing fifty-fifty quicker than tequila does.
viii. 'Too Drunk to Fuck' by Dead Kennedys
Hey, information technology's happened to the all-time of u.s.. This 1981 surf-rock-heavy single was the fourth from the California punkers, who paint an exaggerated political party motion picture generally to offend music-industry prudes. Although the song reached No. 36 on the U.G. singles chart, information technology was oftentimes banned or censored, leading the Kennedys to supply a sticker for record shops reading 'Caution: You lot are the victim of yet another stodgy retailer afraid to warp your listen by revealing the title of this record, so pare slowly and see…' Nice touch on, Biafra.
9. 'Sippin' on Some Syrup' past Three six Mafia
Cough medicine plus Sprite, plus Jolly Ranchers. Holy shit, people beverage that? Sprite? Look, when you're broke, you lot have to become creative with your addictions. Annihilation tin become a habit. As Pimp C proclaimed in this song in 2000: 'We eat so many shrimp, I've got iodine poisoning.' So how did this Memphis hip-hop troupe go on to win an Oscar in 2006, for 'Information technology'due south Hard Out Here for a Pimp'? Even pharmacists would have a hard time finding rhymes for promethazine and hydrocodone.
10. 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)' by the Doors
Penned past Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for the incendiary 1930 opera Ascension and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, this song was originally performed by a chorus of prostitutes. This more than famous embrace was recorded past the Doors in 1966 with a carnivalesque sound that perfectly illustrates what information technology'due south similar to be smashed and along for the ride (which Jim Morrison very likely was).
11. 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks
You can't assist just sing along with the mutual people at the local watering hole when the jukebox starts playing Garth Brooks'southward 1990 ode to drinking the blues away. You'll suddenly notice yourself line dancing with folks you lot've never met and seeing if your song register can get to those low places in the song's signature chorus. And, of class, there volition be plenty of whiskey and beer flowing. Fun fact: In the perfect marriage of song to hapless sports team, the Kansas Urban center Royals (two winning seasons in the last 19 years) adopted 'Friends in Low Places' as their sixth-inning sing-along anthem. It serves equally a constant reminder to beleaguered fans that misery loves company…and alcohol.
12. 'All Dark' by Chance the Rapper (ft. Knox Fortune)
If you lot think it'south difficult to stave off acquaintances asking for favors while yous're drunkard, just try beingness famous. Backed by an effervescent Chicago firm-inspired vanquish by producer Kaytranada, Take chances pens a political party canticle encapsulating all the excuses that tipsy friends will use to bum a ride dwelling. In his own words, 'Yous a goofy if y'all call back I don't know you need a Lyft.'
thirteen. 'Here Comes a Regular' and 'Beer for Breakfast' (tie) past the Replacements
From what I've heard and seen on YouTube of their early concerts, the Mats made all their songs drinking songs. The gloriously shambolic punk stuff raged similar an adolescent who's seen a specter of his older self merely ahead, slumped at a local bar and stamped with a gas-station proper name tag. Conversely, immature Paul Westerberg'due south ballads carried the sadness of a middle-anile nobody yearning for his salad days. Somehow, the Minnesotans shifted betwixt these two gears without bravado the clutch, as heard in these respective cuts from 1985 and '87.
14. 'There's a Tear in My Beer' past Hank Williams Sr.
Though only 1 carried the championship outright, all of Williams's songs were 'Long Gone Lonesome Blues' at heart. The Alabama-born legend was tough as an old strip of donkey hasty, yet many of his songs revolved around crying. It made him more of a man – a man with a leather liver. 'These terminal nine beers,' he sings in that high hillbilly whine on this Nashville session, take only convinced him: 'I'm gonna go along drinkin' until I'thousand 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' by Flogging Molly
When you're a few drinks in, at that place'southward something about driving rhythms and violin melodies that makes you want to sing along at the summit of your lungs. Celtic punks Flogging Molly understand this phenomenon well, so it stands to reason that the title track of their 2002 tape is a song about the songs you belt out after a few shots of whiskey.
sixteen. 'Why Don't We Get Drunkard' past Jimmy Cafe
Seems quondam Jimmy stopped looking for that shaker of salt, shrugged and switched his focus to hooking upward with another drunkard at the bar. On a water bed, no less. Considering of course Jimmy Buffet – in his pre-Margaritaville country stage of the early '70s – does gross things on a water bed.
17. 'Shots' by LMFAO featuring Lil Jon
We detest this song equally much every bit you lot do. Of class we practice. Just the unabridged belly-shot customs would beg to differ. And answer us this: Has whatever slice of music improve faux the jackhammering headache of a Russian-class hangover?
eighteen. 'Cheap Beer' by FIDLAR
'Beer'south ever better with a bag around it,' the skater punks of FIDLAR (an acronym for Fuck It, Dawg, Life'due south a Risk – really) proclaim over polluted waves of crust-surf guitar in this 2013 burner. 'I! Drinkable! Cheap! Beer! So! What! Fuck! You!' shouts the chorus. Gotta respect a band whose entire raison d'être is to score shitty brews via bout riders. Would you really rather listen to Animal Commonage, hippie?
xix. 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Downward' past Kris Kristofferson
Most of the songs on this list gloat nights of immoderacy, simply just Kris Kristofferson thought to pour one out for the blurry forenoon after. The state troubadour's ode to morning beers, sleepy city sidewalks, fried-chicken envy and pounding headaches is one of the loveliest land tunes always written (Johnny Cash does a stellar have): Far from a Hangover- style (or Katy Perry's 'Concluding Friday Nighttime') recap of a rowdy dark, Kristofferson's song is a serenity, cogitating number that pops with descriptive verse and introspection. Now somebody makes this man's wish come true and get him stoned.
xx. 'Pass the Courvoisier, Part Two' past Busta Rhymes
Likely in constant rotation on Ladies Human being Leon Phelps' playlist, this megahit for Busta came at the peak of hip hop's obsession with luxury items, but don't worry, it'due south just as smooth if y'all're drinking Black Velvet while listening. Rhymes'due south signature rat-a-tat growl pairs nicely with the slick Neptunes shell, with Diddy and Pharrell even showing up to affirm that yeah, they too would enjoy a glass of Courvasier.
21. 'Happy Hr' by the Housemartins
Is this 1986 Brit hit the chirpiest drinking vocal on our list? We're going to say yes, based on its jangly Smiths-esque guitars, 200 proof sing-alongability and the fact that it's officially incommunicable to watch the video without a grinning on your confront. Set in a proper British boozer (translation: 'pub'), the vid features a sweetly awkward dance routine and Claymation; plus, corking-eyed viewers will notice that the Housemartins' bassist is a very young Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim. Fancy that.
22. 'Tipsy' past J-Kwon
An infectious hip-hop celebration of getting buzzed, 'Tipsy' has been setting off parties e'er since it dropped in 2004. The claw couldn't exist simpler: 'Everybody in the club gettin' tipsy' (followed by a Ying Yang–style whisper of the same line), repeated four times. St. Louis rapper J-Kwon may have been a fresh-faced 17-year-old when he released this dance-floor classic (public service reminder: teen drinking is very bad!), but he proved wise beyond his years in following hip-hop'southward golden rule: gild + booze = success.
23. 'Beer Run' by Todd Snider
Snider, an Americana alt-country folk-rocker from Memphis, penned this jocular canticle, virtually underage frat boys looking to score some brewskies before a Robert Earl Swell show, in 2002. Information technology's natural language-in-cheek storytelling at its all-time, and Snider's spell-it-out chorus has become a universal party cry for – you guessed it – more beer.
24. 'Buss the Bottle' past Jawbreaker
With this, punk's most heartwrenching tune about alcohol, the Bay Area trio made living nether a bridge and eating dumpster burritos seem utterly romantic in 1992. Hyperliterate squatter-bard Blake Schwarzenbach's vocals rasp and scratch like a human being intimately acquainted with liquor and smokes: 'I kissed the canteen / I should accept been kissing yous.' Aww, my tears are gonna smear the ink on my 'zine.
25. 'One Beer' past MF Doom
On an album devoted to his favorite foods (Mm.. Food), British MC Daniel Dumile finds the time to admit his favorite potable. Beginning with a boast nigh drinking other MC's under the table, the masked rapper goes on a stream of consciousness tear atop a Madlib vanquish. It'due south a rails that'southward meant to be savored, just similar the terminal tin of beer in the fridge.
26. 'Lived in Bars' by Cat Ability
Our drinking list oscillates between the celebratory and the cocky-loathing, between songs for drinking and songs about drinking. Frankly, I'g not sure where to file this precious stone from 2006. Chan Marshall's backstory and the languid first half suggest the latter. Just so at that place are the lyrics – 'There'due south nix like living in a bottle!' – and the shoo-wop swing of the upbeat climax, not to mention the bittersweet dazzler of her voice. But I guess that's what makes this song, and Cat Power, great: Y'all can accept information technology both means, and typically practice.
27. 'Pop Bottles' by Birdman (ft. Lil Wayne and Jadakiss)
Back when Lil Wayne and Cash Coin Records co-founder Birdman were on proficient terms, the pair teamed upwardly for this champagne-soaked canticle built on the back of a Jadakiss sample. While it'south fun to hear the duo describing their expensive jewelry, shoes and Marc Jacobs drinking glass, the existent takeaway for hither is 'start with straight shots and so pop bottles.'
28. 'En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza (In Heaven There Is No Beer)' by Flaco Jiménez
Ah, the existential justification for drinking beer. Originally equanimous for a German picture 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 Castilian. In our favorite version, 2003's 'En El Cielo No Hay Cerveza' by Flaco Jiménez, we go to celebrate the earthly pleasance in all iii languages.
29. 'What Proficient Can Drinkin' Do' by Janis Joplin
Why do they call it the 12-bar blues? Because it sounds like Mama Miss Pearl striking a dozen watering holes before recording this – at the age of xix. Nineteen! We were picked on in high school besides, but it drove us to novels most dragons, non howling soul music that tugs at your liverstrings. Joplin's vocal cords already sound like a public service announcement here. In hindsight, you lot can hear her speeding to oblivion. Information technology'south a cold splash on the spine, enough to both drive us to drink and scare us off it forever.
thirty. 'Have Some other Drink' by The Kinks
'Has everybody got problems?' Ray Davies rhetorically asks like a carnival barker greeted past a chorus of 'yeahs' on this Kinks classic. Here, booze is a cure-all for everything from depression to shitty jobs, media-based fears and general boredom. It'southward a rollicking number with a hint of nihilism that makes Davies sound like he might take been the inspiration behind the bartender from The Shining.
31. 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
This drinkin' blues vocal was first recorded in 1953, condign ane of several of its kind to reach the Height Ten on the Billboard R&B chart. John Lee Hooker popularized the tune with his 1966 comprehend, but Thorogood took it to a whole new level of bitching and moaning in his 1977 version, borrowing some other of Hooker's songs, 'Firm Rent Boogie,' to serve equally a backstory to explicate the pitiful vocalizer's situation. Someone please give the homo his drinks and close him up already.
32. 'The Blarney Stone' by Ween
Ween'due south nautically themedThe Mollusk is packed with unexpected twists and turns, none more raucus than this satirical Irish sea shanty and so disarming in its chants of 'Aye, aye aye, acuminate your boots and bludgeon your eyes' that you can practically odour the stale beer wafting from the speakers. It's glorious nonsense in the best way possible.
33. 'Sweet Lucy' by Michael Hurley
Greenwich folk scene weirdo Hurley is known for his surreal lyricism, but this drinking ballad is fairly straight-forward: The vocaliser drinks too much wine, goes to jail and his mom doesn't accept the money to pay bail. It's more than of a cautionary tale, only that doesn't make the refrain of 'Sweet Lucy' any less infectious.
34. 'Afterward 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, simply Charli XCX and her pal Lil Yachty meet no problem with keeping the political party going... forever. This supremely confident pop tune is one for the folks who don't know when to stop (for amend or worse), consequences, weeknights and pesky neighbors be damned.
35. 'I Similar Beer' by Tom T. Hall
Gee, this stein-swinging sing-forth from 1975 makes drunks seem quaint and adorable. Like commercials with horses falling in honey with puppies. Not like raging douchebags who become into fights about football game and fall in the street.
36. 'Beer' by People Under the Stairs
This Fifty.A. rap duo is inappreciably a household name. That seems to be somewhat intentional, every bit Thes One and Double One thousand never had greater aspirations than to throw a ridonkulous business firm political party, and no desire to accept hip-hop beyond the scratch heyday of ii turntables and a microphone. God bless 'em. 'To my liver and kidneys, your time is near / You like hangin' on Twitter, and nosotros similar beer,' proclaims K. The 2009 video is an homage to Laverne & Shirley. These dudes would brand a great sitcom, too.
37. 'Milk and Booze' past Dr. Feelgood
The Big Lebowski may take cornered the market on White Russian references in pop culture, but this (rhythmically) chugging delight from bluesy Brits Dr. Feelgood gives dairy its sonic due. Written past Nick Lowe (after a dark spent drinking Kahlúa and watching John Lee Hooker perform), its seedy stomp and heavy riffing positively ooze the illicit joys of a night on the town. Warning: may non be suitable for the lactose intolerant.
38. 'I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drinkable' by Merle Haggard
Drinking until your bug disappear probably isn't audio advice, but coming from Haggard it almost sounds like wisdom. Recorded in 1980 on the heels of the Hag's third marriage, this whiskey-soaked state carol probably works all-time when you're wallowing in heartbreak, just anyone should be able to appreciate the cheesy saxophone solo.
39. 'Bank Holiday' by Blur
As an American, the closest affair I have to a depository financial institution holiday is Presidents' Day, which is inappreciably a rousing crusade for shouting 'Prost!' (Note: If Abe Lincoln is an excuse for you to drink, you are a raging alcoholic.) Simply this 1994 Britpop punker gave me a snapshot of U.K. rampage civilisation in 1 minute and 42 seconds. 'Bank holiday comes with 6-pack of beer! Then information technology's back to work! Ay! Ay! Ay!' Albarn barks in a hops-soaked slur. Funny how Blur and Oasis fans fought. They all wanted a beverage.
twoscore. 'Accept a Drinkable on Me' past AC/DC
Some might find it morose to include artists like Janis Joplin and Elliott Smith – who died young later wrestling with their demons – on a list most alcohol. And then there's AC/DC. Frontman Bon Scott attended his final recording session with the group in Feb 1980, working with Malcolm and Angus on this track. Days later, he was dead from alcohol poisoning. What did the ring do? Mope? No, it hired a new singer and threw this cutting on Back in Blackness .
41. 'Thank you (Drink to That)' by Rihanna
A toast to our interns, who chided u.s.a. for overlooking this my-beginning-reggaetón chillaxer from 2010. 'Don't let the bastards get you downward,' RiRi sings in her patois. Basic Rihanna rule: The more Caribbean she sounds, the better. Jameson Irish whiskey gets plugged heavily over a sample of Avril Lavigne, which reeks of production placement (at that place's a shout-out to Ray-Bans, too, official hangover concealer of Rihanna), but at least it's not Malibu.
42. 'Warm Beer and Cold Women' by Tom Waits
…makes the rankings on championship solitary. But this creaky weeper from 1975'due south Nighthawks at the Diner manages to rhyme v ermouth with Naugahyde booth, too. Admit it: Young-barfly Tom Waits totally destroys erstwhile-man-in-a-rusty-shed-with-a-mule Tom Waits.
43. 'Drunk Girls' by LCD Soundsystem
Is 'Drunk Girls' LCD Soundsystem'due south finest hour? No, of course not. Only does it feel similar a night of reckless boozing in New York City? Absolutely. James Murphy himself has described the 2010 unmarried as 'impaired.' But, he added, 'I like impaired, short stuff.' More reasons to dig 'Boozer Girls'? The wince-inducing video, codirected by Fasten Jonze, shows Murphy and the LCD crew being manhandled by malevolent pandas. Dumb 'n' short iv evah.
44. 'Shot For Me' past Drake
If this alcohol-soaked R&B ode to former flames sounds like something that the Weeknd should be singing, that's merely because Abel Tesfaye actually wrote it. 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 only how great he was when they knock dorsum a glass of Canadian Club, 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 then times, with Buck Owens, Jim Croce and Ron Wood all offering up solid versions. The best, though? It'southward the version performed past Peter Sellers and a cadre of felt hillbillies in covered-railroad vehicle times during his hosting stint on The Muppet Prove . And no, we didn't but make that up because nosotros've been drinking 'whuskey' while writing.
46. 'Drunk in Love' past Beyoncé
Yeah, ostensibly information technology's a love song, just c'mon, Beyoncé was likely deep in her cups last year when she blurted the non sequitur hashtag 'Surfbordt!' Ditto for Jay-Z, who could not accept been sober when he wrote, 'Your breastesses is my breakfast.' I think he stole that from Bukowski?
47. 'Whiskey Girl' past Gillian Welch
In that location are drinking songs to quaff to, and there are drinking songs to listen to at 4am while y'all pour out another whiskey and your heed turns over what could've been, or where you could get cigarettes at this hour. Taken from Gillian Welch's exquisite, bleak 1998 album, Hell Amongst the Yearlings, 'Whiskey Daughter' falls into the latter category – and how.
48. 'I Mint Julep' by Louis Prima
Fleeting happiness in the haze of a drunken 60 minutes: Many songs have trod this path, just in the words of this jazz-pop standard, 'I mint julep / Was the start of it all.' Originally a hitting for '50s doo-wop group the Clovers on Atlantic Records, the tune tells of stealing an intoxicated buss from a woman afterward one sweet, minty cocktail, only to get hitched (at her father's demand) and end upwards dislocated, hungover and the father of six kids. Quite the tipple. Though Ray Charles's 1961 instrumental cover made it a hit, Louis Prima's unmistakably comic tone gives his version the border.
49. 'Bubbles in my Beer' past Bob Wills
Eventually covered by the likes of Willie Nelson and George Jones, this 1947 Western swing standard may well have started the sub-genre of woeful country songs virtually drinking away your sorrows. It's bit antiquated and a trivial depressing, but it'southward one of the jauntiest tunes virtually self-absorbed contemplation you'll ever hear.
fifty. 'Yous and Me and the Bottle Make Three' past Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Dorsum in the '90s, the universe alleged that what America needed was a big-ring swing revival, and BBVD led the charge with this boozy canticle that ensured a whole subculture would suffer concussions due to ill-advised swing dancing afterwards several drinks. (Whether information technology besides resulted in a fasten in dancefloor-based concussions is unknown.) The song got huge via the filmSwingers... then disappeared from the commonage consciousness along with the Cherry ' Daddies. Merely when it resurfaces, information technology's a stealth hitting for anyone who always used 'that's then coin' in coincidental conversation.
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