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DPD: 023 - Drinking |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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? |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10: Suicide Solution Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz |
Selection by: diamond |
Representing the downside of the demon alcohol. This song is good though. |
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Cop Shoot Cop - Consumer Revolt |
Selection by: prokop |
this one's for the ones that got it better than i got
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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!
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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