Favourite Drinking Song

[hank00001]

I thought it might be good to talk about the music that we like to listen to while enjoy a nice ale or wine or spirit or whatever it is you like to drink.

Whether you have a particular song or band/artist let us know here.


For me it is Dire Straits or Pink Floyd.

Just a bit of Floyd trivia I actually live just down the road from a bit of a country retreat that one of the Pink Floyd band members used to own. I would like to own it, it is very nice.

[johnfromoz]

Err... "Ein, Zwei, Drei, Vier...." ("The Student Prince")? Dire Straits are good. Floyd might be helpful if we associate drinks with apparent deep insights into life, the universe and everything!

All depends, back when I used to stay up later, and drink more, usually with whoever I was spending the night with, it was often Meat Loaf. Which is not an innuendo, it just happened to be right, and "Rock and Roll Dreams" seemed to get "whoever I was with" in a romantic frame of mind (though maybe it was partly my immense charisma ). Other times it was Celtic music. A matter of mood.

I don't often sit and drink, except if a friend or two calls on a Friday evening. One in particular is a muso so we sometimes stick on a bit of music. Nowadays it tends to be nostalgic stuff like Queen or the Beatles, whereupon my mates and I chuckle and swap tales about what we were doing back then. Though if the song is "Rock and Roll Dreams", I of course remain discretely silent!

Since (apart from some Friday evenings) I don't drink so much, I tend to associate special occasion drinks with any incidental music.

Last time music and drink mattered, I was in Kirkland, Wash. and my son and I decided to sit down and see if American beer really was like sex in a canoe. We went into the "Time Out" saloon, just because it seemed like a non-tourist bar, and had an Alaskan beer. The Stones were playing at the time. A guy with one of the few US accents I had trouble with asked what music I liked. I rattled off a few bands and he set up the sound system to work through a selection of Stones, U2 etc. A pity we didn't stay long enough for it to work. And there was nothing wrong with the beer.

On another day I was in a bar on Pioneer Sq., Seattle, waiting to start the Underground Tour. The bar had a nice late 1800s decor and the music was Johnny Cash. I don't often listen to him, but it seemed perfect.

[Azhria]

With me it's not so much putting music on when I drink as hearing music that makes me want to go drinking LOL

Marilyn Manson makes me want to go out and get drunk. I never take myself up on the inclination though.. it's been years and years since I last got drunk. But rock music normally does the trick for me.

[Francisck]

Really any song by the bloody Irish boys! (you know, not that I drink)

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