15 songs about drinking that everyone needs in their playlist

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Apr eleven, 2018

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The best songs aren't all well-nigh heartbreak you know! Many-a-musician has made an ode to drinking too. Hither are 15 of our favourite drinking related songs...

1. Gin and Juice – Snoop Dogg

Heed to it: at your pre-party session.

The Dogg makes an ode to our favourite tipple – gin – and addresses our all-time beef: when people turn up to a political party without a bottle and end up drinking yours.

Best line:
'Everybody got they cups, merely they own't chipped in. Now this types of sh*t, happens all the time. You lot got to get yours but fool I gotta become mine'.

2. Cheers (Drink to That) – Rihanna

Listen to it: on Friday night!

Here Rihanna gets fuelled upwardly on Jameson and shots in celebration of the freakin' weekend – and she'due south 'putting everything on her menu'. A night out with RiRi sounds great!

Best line:
'It'due south getting Coyote Ugly up in here'.

3. Contumely Monkey – Beastie Boys

Heed to it when: you're in the mood to become messy.

Exactly what Brass Monkey is, is up for debate. Some say that MCA, Ad-Rock and Mike D were rapping about the Contumely Monkey cocktail – rum, vodka and orange juice. But it's more than likely that the melody was dedicated to a specific malt liqueur, Heublein's Brass Monkey, sales of which exploded after the song was released.

Best line:
'Considering I drink it anytime and anyplace
When it's time to get ill I pour it on my face'.

four. Cigarettes & Alcohol – Oasis

Heed to information technology: when you lot're chillin' in the sun with a beer.

Dorsum in the 24-hour interval, Noel Gallagher told Q magazine that there was an underlying theme for the anthology 'Definitely Maybe', which was: 'Let's have information technology'. All the songs dream virtually leaving Manchester and running away to the sunshine with a pint in hand.

Best line:
'Yous gotta make information technology happen!'

5. Boozer Girls – LCD Sound Organization

Heed to it: when you desire to political party HARD!

This LCD Sound System banger is confusingly not actually about boozer girls, only drunkard boys. LCD lead homo James White potato told Pitchfork mag that the song is nigh 'drunk people and fun things'. He also explained that all of the boys in the LA mansion they recorded the album in were called 'girls' past the big dominate.

Best line:
'Drunk girls cause a couple of heart attacks'.

half-dozen. Summer Vino – Nancy Sinatra

Listen to it: to remind your single mate about the untrustworthiness of boys/girls.

We can interpret the song equally being nearly a man who gets seduced past a woman after drinking copious amounts of wine with her. She takes his argent spurs, a dollar and a dime after they slumber together. But despite being robbed, he yet aches for more than of her 'summer wine'.

Best lines:
'She reassured me with an unfamiliar line
And then she gave to me more than summertime vino' .

7. Alcohol – The Kinks

Heed to it: when yous want to wallow.

After all of their fun songs, The Kinks decided to remind us of the perils of alcohol

Best line:
'Memories I cannot recall,
Who idea I would fall a slave to demon alcohol'.

viii. Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies

Listen to it: the morning after the night earlier, to make light of your God-awful hangover.

Best lines:
'Would y'all please ignore that you
Found me on the flooring
Trying on your camisole?'

9. Swimming Pools (Drank) – Kendrick Lamar

Listen to it: to get an insight into how the rich and famous (supposedly) party.

Let's just say that this song certainly doesn't promote responsible drinking

Best line:
'Start you go a swimming pool full of liquor, then you swoop in it'.

ten. Whiskey in the Jar – Thin Lizzy

This famous song, prepare in Ireland, tells the story of a highwayman robber who gets betrayed by a woman. Well, that'due south what people divulge from the lyrics anyway!

All-time line:
'Whack for my daddy, oh
Whack for my daddy, oh
In that location's whiskey in the jar, oh…'

xi. Escape (The Piña Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes

Heed to it: while y'all're sunbathing on a tropical beach, with a Piña Colada in hand.

The lyrics tell the tale of a bored married homo writing a lonely hearts ad, in the hope of finding a bit of excitement.

Best line:
'Yes, I similar Piña Coladas, and getting defenseless in the rain
I'm not much into health nutrient, I am into champagne'.

12. Moonshiner – Bob Dylan

Classic harmonica vibes and Mr. Dylan'south deep reflections on his long love thing with alcohol.

All-time line:
'If whiskey don't impale me
I don't know what volition'.

xiii. Ruby Wine – UB40

Listen to it: when you've only been dumped.

Man does heartbreak hurrrrrt. Music legends UB40 accept found the remedy in a canteen of juicy reddish wine.

Best line:
'Red ruby vino you give me whole heap of zing
Whole heap of zing brand me practise me own affair'.

14. Drinkable Yous Away – Justin Timberlake

Mind to it: when you need to relate to someone who is also going through an atrocious suspension upward.

JT has turned to Jack and Jim for condolement afterwards his suspension up, merely it seems to take done nil for his shattered middle.

Best line:
'All of these rocks, I can't swim out of the skin I'm living in'.

xv. Drunkard in Love – Beyoncé

Heed to it: when you want to get in the… ahem… mood!

No alcohol playlist is complete without Bey's kinky contribution!

All-time line:
*Blushes*…  we'll leave you lot to Google the lyrics…

So, whether you lot're looking to go into the political party mood or beverage away your sorrows, do it in true stone star mode with our favourite boozy tunes!

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