The Bar Towel

dmits wrote:two pages on drinking music and no one has mentioned The Stones?! Classics: If it ain't broke don't fix it.

You mean that band that somehow turned 3 songs into a 50 year career? Pass.

For me, it is:

Pearl Jam
The Hip
Matthew Good
Band of Horses
Third Eye Blind

Also like me some Brit Pop as well, stuff like Travis, Elbow, Stereophonics, Athlete, etc.

I have 3 distinct drinking music memories.
While spending most of 1988 in Australia I learned about volume drinking. I drank a lot of XXXX and when ever this song came on the Aussies would slam down gallons of the stuff on their way to "getting legless"
The Angels - Am I Ever gonna see Your Face Again. It's been an Oz tradition to add lyrics as noted in the live version seen here. (there are better quality origininal recordngs on youtube). The Aussie still clearly react to this shit over 30 years after release.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSvo3taZT7E

My next moment was abusing my role as MC at a friends wedding to convince the DJ to playing RATM - Killing in the Name ..I may have inadvertently slammed into the groom's grandmother Can't even remember what was I was drinking. Sorry grandma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de2W3rtZsA

Lately I have been enjoying NQ Arbuckle for serious sitting around the table drinking. Awesome Canadian band who will be playing at the Session after show next weekend. They usually do a St Pats day show at the Jane Bond in Waterloo.
Amoungst my favs is this WW1 inspired ditty

NQ Arbuckle - Ypres 1915 - Jesse should be "right up you trench" history wise if not style wise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlzU3AWuY5o

Cheers!

Thanks for the link Terry. That's a cool song.

Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:

dmits wrote:two pages on drinking music and no one has mentioned The Stones?! Classics: If it ain't broke don't fix it.

You mean that band that somehow turned 3 songs into a 50 year career? Pass.

Three songs? You're joking right?

i thought Ale was talking about Kiss for a moment there.

mintjellie wrote:

Ale's What Cures Ya wrote:

dmits wrote:two pages on drinking music and no one has mentioned The Stones?! Classics: If it ain't broke don't fix it.

You mean that band that somehow turned 3 songs into a 50 year career? Pass.

Three songs? You're joking right?

Is three stretching it or are you suggesting there are many more than three? I am on the RS band wagon myself... right up to 1974.

I often like to listen to Flogging Molly, Great Big Sea and/or The Irish Descendants (plus whatever other trad Irish music is around). Having grown up on metal though, I really like me some Korpiklaani; Finish folk-metal:

Let's Drink


Beer Beer


Happy Little Boozer


Vodka


Roughly 1/3 of their songs are about drinking.

NRman wrote:

mintjellie wrote:

Ale's What Cures Ya wrote: You mean that band that somehow turned 3 songs into a 50 year career? Pass.

Three songs? You're joking right?

Is three stretching it or are you suggesting there are many more than three? I am on the RS band wagon myself... right up to 1974.

Suggesting there are many more than three. I'm not a huge Stones fan myself, but they do have a lot of very good singles.

When drinking at home playing mp3s off of my computer on my headphones I pretty much listen to the same things I do when I'm not drinking. The difference I find is that I listen to it MUCH LOUDER!

Really loving Hey Rosetta! right now. Excellent Canadian band.

Suprised no one has said the Dubliners yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVJK1Sl6My8

For me summer time beers call for the Ramones, the Riverdales, Chixdiggit etc. And for Fall and Winter beers, NomeansNo, Black Flag, and Leatherface

Totally depends on the day, just like what sort of beer I feel like.

Today I am enjoying some really old Who on YouTube. Other days it is The Clash, Social Distortion, The Pogues, The Clancy Brothers, Blue Rodeo, Stompin' Tom, Stan Rogers or even Gordon Lightfoot ( if I'm in a certain sort of mood there's really nothing like singing along with Early Morning Rain or Steel Rail Blues at the top of my lungs ).

My parents just moved and presented me with a couple dozen cassette tapes that had been in their basement for several decades so I am dusting off some (m)oldies lately. I found a bootleg that I made of The Who in Toronto in '89(?). Sound quality is terrible but it has brought back many memories. Turns out my wife and I were both at the show but didn't meet each other until a few years later in Thunder Bay.

Home for a rest! perhaps the greatest drinking song ever!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJD3qcIL7s