Showing posts with label Too Much Joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Too Much Joy. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

King of Beers

Last week I made a CD of songs about booze and/or drinking for a friend. Today Paste posted a fun list of 21 Songs About Booze, in honor of the retirement of 95-year-old bartender Angelo Cammarata. Interestingly, our playlists only overlap by one song.

Paste's 21 Songs About Booze
1. The Replacements - "Beer for Breakfast"
2. The Minus Five - "Cigarettes, Coffee and Booze"
3. Courtney Jaye - "Box Wine"
4. Jerry Lee Lewis - "Jack Daniels Old No. 7"
5. Todd Snider - "Beer Run"
6. The Champs - "Tequila"
7. The National - "Bitters & Absolut"
8. Gogol Bordello - "Alcohol"
9. Allstar Cashville Prince feat. Yo Gotti & Lil' Wayne - "Grey Goose"
10. Fear - "I Believe I'll Have Another Beer"
11. Willie Nelson - "Whiskey River"
12. Kiss - "Cold Gin"
13. Oasis - "Champagne Supernova"
14. Luke Doucet - "It's Not the Liquor I Miss"
15. Snoop Dogg - "Gin & Juice"
16. Johnny Russell - "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer"
17. Eric Burdon & War - "Spill the Wine"
18. Beck - "Beercan"
19. Tom T. Hall - "I Like Beer"
20. The Doors - "The Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)"
21. John Lee Hooker - "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"

Rockstar Aimz Drinking Mix
1. The Steeldrivers - "Drinkin' Dark Whiskey"
2. Emmylou Harris - "Two More Bottles of Wine"
3. Drive-By Truckers - "Women Without Whiskey"
4. Two Dollar Pistols - "Wine Me Up" (Faron Young Cover)
5. Willie Nelson - "Whiskey River"
6. Hank Williams, Jr. - "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound"
7. Hayes Carll - "Knockin' Over Whiskeys"
8. The Devil Makes Three - "Old Number Seven"
9. Uncle Tupelo - "Whiskey Bottle"
10. Eilen Jewell - "High Shelf Booze"
11. Phosphorescent - "I Gotta Get Drunk" (Willie Nelson Cover)
12. Those Darlins - "Glass to You"
13. Lucero - "Drink Till We're Gone"
14. The Replacements - "Here Comes a Regular"
15. Tom Waits - "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart"
16. Whiskeytown - "Too Drunk to Dream"
17. The Sadies - "The Horseshoe"
18. Too Much Joy - "King of Beers"
19. The Hold Steady - "Party Pit"
20. Corb Lund Band - "Time to Switch to Whiskey"
21. Reverend Horton Heat - "Baby, I'm Drunk"
22. Dropkick Murphys - "Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced"
23. Asskickers - "Goddamn Bad" (song about being hungover)

Too Much Joy - King of Beers.mp3
Buy (MP3 only): Cereal Killers (1991)

My best friend and I would listen to this song all of the time in college.

A man's bar is his castle, and this stool is my throne.
Why am I such an asshole? And why am I here alone?


So many drinking songs, so little time to get drunk. Burp.