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DPD: 023 - Drinking


Track Listing:

1

Six Pack - Black Flag

2

Somebody Put Something In My Drink - The Ramones

3

Hurry Up Harry - Sham 69

4

Stinking Drunk - Big Black

5

Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys

6

Gin - Too Hectic

7

Have a Drink on Me - AC/DC

8

Whiskey In The Jar - The Pogues & The Dubliners

9

15 Pints (and I'm Still Standing) - Forced Reality

10

Suicide Solution - Ozzy Osbourne

11

Down Come The Mickey - Cop Shoot Cop

12

My Martini - Girls Against Boys

13

Last Cup of Sorrow - Faith No More

14

Captain Jack - Billy Joel

15

Alcohol - Butthole Surfers

16

In Heaven There is No Beer - Anonymous

Date: January 30th, 2003  


Prokop We here at DPD have been known to put a few back now and again. And again, and again. In fact, the DPD concept was born while drowning our sorrows during yet another Red Wings Stanley Cup win at our favorite neighborhood jaunt, Fox & Hounds. So this theme seemed a natural.

Diamond We've had some good times together when alcohol was involved. It's certainly not the basis of our friendships, but it does make for some good times. Here's to many more nights in dark bars with DPD selections playing on the jukebox. A big hurrah goes out to The Big Hunt and Fox & Hounds.

Darpino This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I love to drink. I love the stories and adventures born out of drinking. I love the great drunks of the past with their triumphs and tragedies. I love the random encounters when drunk. I love the unexpected outcomes of a night out with the gang. I love not knowing where I'll end up in the morning, how I'll get home, or how we'll pay for this tab. I love the camraderie born out of it and the misery it can create. Drinking brings out the best and worst in us. And on any given night of drinking we have no idea which it will turn out to be. Drinking is one of the original unqualified uncontrollable adventures left to the everyman. That's why I love to drink. The fellas beat me to it but, three cheers for "Fox and Hounds" and "The Big Hunt"!


1: Six Pack

    Black Flag - Damaged


Selection by: diamond

Back in the olden days, there were but few concerns. The man coming down on you for skateboarding in the wrong place, some cash in pocket to go to the Annex on Friday and/or Saturday night, and the procurement of liquid entertainment. It seems like those were the needs that surpassed all others as necessities for sustaining life. This is the first and only song I ever learned how to play on the bass guitar in my short-lived attempt at becoming a rock star.


2: Somebody Put Something In My Drink

    The Ramones - Animal Boy


Selection by: prokop

For all those times when you swear you only had just a few, but still find yourself rolling around in broken glass.


3: Hurry Up Harry

    Sham 69 - Kings and Queens


Selection by: darpino

It's a fact of life: The older you get the longer the hangovers last and the harder it is to get your buddies out for a night on the town. Whether these two things are related I'm not sure. But I do know that everything from the weather to work, girlfriends to video games seems to get in the way of rounding up the boys for a night of good old fashioned havoc these days. Being an adult sucks and adult life almost always seems to get in the way of having a good time.

It sounds to me that ol' Jim Pursey was facing the same crap back in the day whenever he tried to round up the lads. Maybe that's why he wrote this classic.

This song is a klaxon alarm to cut through the bullshit of life and summon up the gang for a rare night of drunken adventure.


4: Stinking Drunk

    Big Black - Atomizer


Selection by: diamond

What's the point of life if you don't add some staggering home from a bar; I don't remember that; every girl in this place is beautiful; I think we should fight those guys; waitress will you take me out back and beat the shit out of me; you look like the sailor from the village people; fuck you, Alice in Chains rules; have you ever fought a lion with your bare hands fun?


5: Too Drunk To Fuck

    Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death


Selection by: prokop

The classic. Every punk growing up knew and loved this song. People that don’t know DKs still know this song, it’s that good.


6: Gin

    Too Hectic - Viva Chez Slack!


Selection by: darpino

There's having a few beers with the guys drunk and then there's drinking all day alone drunk. Just you, a bottle, a shot glass and a gripe. God help anyone who gets in the way.

"Don't fuck with Buck. Buck will fuck you up."


7: Have a Drink on Me

    AC/DC - Back in Black


Selection by: diamond

I don't want to sound like a cheap beer commercial, but this is what it's all about; going out with the fellas and throwing back a few in one of your neighborhood drinking establishments.


8: Whiskey In The Jar

    The Pogues & The Dubliners - The Dubliners 30 Years A Greying


Selection by: prokop

What compilation of alcohol songs would be complete with out an Irish barroom favorite? They are all fun, and here we have the Pogues with the Dubliners, a classic new and old Irish pairing. This particular song is about a man that robs a soldier and takes the money back to his lady. She promises to stay with him, then while he sleeps she fills his gun charges with water and calls for the army to come and kill him. He narrowly escapes with the help of his brother and they roam the hills together. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is the juice of the barley and courting pretty ladies.

And remember, god created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.


9: 15 Pints (and I'm Still Standing)

    Forced Reality - 13 Years of...


Selection by: darpino

Work hard all week, put in lots of overtime, cash that paycheck and it's straight to the bar. I've lost count of how many times I did this in the bad old days. When all you do is work at some back breaking job and you're so low on the totem pole it's impossible to have hope of life improving, you've got to have some goal to look forward to. Blowing a third of your paycheck drinking yourself into oblivion seems like a pretty good one at the time.

I hear you boys.


10: Suicide Solution

     Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz


Selection by: diamond

Representing the downside of the demon alcohol. This song is good though.


11: Down Come The Mickey

     Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt


Selection by: prokop

this one's for the ones that got it better than i got
and this one's for the ones that got it worse
and this one's for the ones that took it hard with a cheap shot
this one's for him that wrote this verse


12: My Martini

     Girls Against Boys - Cruise Yourself


Selection by: darpino

Drinking's not all shots and beers with the guys. There are those upscale nights, dressed to kill and sipping down Martini's at the local posh spot. Hunting for tail and sipping down a few more. Late into the night, get a few numbers, impress the scene and now you're slurping instead of sipping. Before you know it, it's last call and you're smashed. The club's clearing out, you haven't scored and you've got way too many drinks under your belt. Now you're so drunk you don't even know what's happening and you want another Martini damn it!

You maybe puke in a potted plant, smile at some chick leaving the club, try to find a phone to call a cab. Realize you should've left on the high of getting that chick's number, instead of lingering around hoping for a last call hook-up. Now you're too drunk to take care of yourself, you're a mess and you keep forgetting it's too late to order another Martini.


13: Last Cup of Sorrow

     Faith No More - Album of the Year


Selection by: diamond

It's time to get on with it; living, dying, working yourself to death or whatever you do to subtract another day from your lifeplan. Before you get on with it, have one more drink of sorrow.


14: Captain Jack

     Billy Joel - Piano Man


Selection by: prokop

This was always a childhood favorite of mine. Written in ’73, it shows that people have been drinking their problems away for years. I sometimes like to daydream about people in the middle ages hitting the local tavern to keep their mind off how horrible things are. I guess the real question is what kind do as a parent when your 10 year old son’s favorite song is about an alcoholic with no life.


15: Alcohol

     Butthole Surfers - independent worm saloon


Selection by: darpino

When we are all way to drunk too be moving from one bar to another, when we are racing across town in a cab to beat last call when we could've stayed where we were and drank in peace. When I'm slumped in a chair in the corner of the club and my eyes are closed to slits and my mouth doesn't seem to be working right. When all I can see are flashes of colored light and the occasional blurry cute chick. When I need food to soak up the booze or I'm going to die. When I exit the men's room wiping my chin for bile and assuring people I'm alright but really I'm thinking I need help. When I'm having random conversation with people I could care less about. When my neck doesn't want to hold up my head anymore. When my legs want to have lives of their own. When my dick wants to leave with some girl it met. When I'm so drunk I'm not thinking about any of the world's problems or my own. When I'm blind stinking drunk, surrounded by the best friends a guy could wish for.

When all of these things are happening, this song is what I'm hearing. God I love it.


16: In Heaven There is No Beer

     Anonymous - ???


Selection by: DPD Unanimous Choice!

Without a doubt one of the best drinking sing-alongs of all time. It's been interpreted as an Irish jig, a Polka, a Punk song, a Ska song and (my favorite) an Oi! song. My buddy Josh and I picked up on this one back in the days of drunken revelry and have been forcing on all our buddies ever since. Nothing beats a gang of 6 or 7 drunken hooligans roaming the streets harmonizing this one at the top of their lungs.

My favorite rendition has got to be when my brother Marcus, Josh and I went to a Dropkick Murphy's/Agnostic Front show at the Capital Ballroom. We arrived shit-faced and plowed through another case of Red Stripe before the bands even started. Between the Murphy's set and Agnostic Front the three of us sat on the floor, drunk as shit and realized the club wasn't playing any music between bands. So Marc, Josh and I decided then and there to provide some. We screamed this song at the wall of Punks and Skins for about 20 minutes. We alienated every last mother-fucker in there. Dirty looks, shouts, tossed beer cans all came our way. Every female within 30 feet disappeared and the more hostile the Skins got, the louder we sang. We sang til' the band finally came on. We were hoarse as shit, but we found enough voice left to curse out all the posers (wouldn't know a good time if it hit them in the face) as we stumbled out of the place. We'd seen the band we wanted to see and we managed to open up for Agnostic Front in the process.