Songs about a person drinking to forget their sorrows.

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I'm looking to create a mixtape.

The two songs I have so far:

Swans - Goddamn the Sun
Nick Cave - Brother, my Cup is Empty

Nico, Monday, 18 May 2015 13:42 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Oqo_2ddq4

This comment was removed by a moderator because it didn't abide by (nakhchivan), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:43 (ten years ago)

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'I Am Drinking Again'

Ape Pagoda (Old Lunch), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:47 (ten years ago)

There's also another Swans song on this subject, "Alcohol The Seed".

anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:48 (ten years ago)

Pancho and Lefty

thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:51 (ten years ago)

This topic = 75% of every country song ever written, and here's one of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X42MpSsaaQ

Competent Cracker Barrel Manager (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:56 (ten years ago)

Excuse the syntax; 75% of all country songs... Anyway, "Just One More."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4CHFXXM-Q

Competent Cracker Barrel Manager (Dan Peterson), Monday, 18 May 2015 13:59 (ten years ago)

you need:

Kris Kristofferson - From the bottle to the bottom
George Jones - If Drinking Dont Kill Me Her Memory Will

jamiesummerz, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:02 (ten years ago)

Agreed that it's around 75% of country music; probably the ur-example is Charlie Rich's "Sittin and Thinkin."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvQNzlD1SSQ#t=20

Elvis Costello's version is a bit more fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q7R_K_FVYY

Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:11 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ-jdQMI4UM

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 May 2015 14:14 (ten years ago)

The gold standard of the genre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkkAsSd_Ns

Frank Sinatra - One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

Lee626, Monday, 18 May 2015 14:22 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xILm9Eohji4

magnetic fields - too drunk to dream

johnny crunch, Monday, 18 May 2015 16:01 (ten years ago)

Gary Stewart - Drinkin' Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2OuxsmPRU

the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 18 May 2015 17:38 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0oXCsKrmHU
silver jews- buckingham rabbit

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:40 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhvVVH0vkt0
dock boggs- old rub alcohol blues

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:42 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_NOXty0Zo
serge gainsbourg- l'alcool

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:45 (ten years ago)

The Kinks - Alcohol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea-MVgC_jz4

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 May 2015 17:48 (ten years ago)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN-xtjDD9vo
robert johnson- malted milk

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:50 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN-xtjDD9vo

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:51 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivQdWzvpQsA
hank williams- there's a tear in my beer

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:54 (ten years ago)

There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce
Pints of Guinness Make You Strong - Against Me

Zachary Taylor, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:55 (ten years ago)

Chivalry - The Mekons

Zachary Taylor, Monday, 18 May 2015 17:59 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0AZY-Hdx0
louie lopez- corazón borracho

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:13 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onzdqFmbaGE

The Damned-Drinking About My baby

kwhitehead, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:43 (ten years ago)

Between the Bars - Elliott Smith

flappy bird, Monday, 18 May 2015 18:52 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMeVirQrEZs

time trafel 2015 💨 2012 (wins), Monday, 18 May 2015 19:39 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc08gY8wfVc

george jones hardly ever said it better than this.

fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 May 2015 19:54 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUjGPrfA6U
lotte lenya (und “the three admirals”)- alabama song

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:06 (ten years ago)

Jake Thackray - The Black Swan
Squeeze - There's No Tomorrow
Squeeze - Labelled With Love
Kirsty Maccoll - Teenager in Love

soref, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:11 (ten years ago)

only two Squeeze songs mentioned so far, damn

frogbs, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:15 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJHcPojIS4Q

dwight yoakam - it won't hurt

fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:24 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVq27glkY_A

merle haggard - the bottle let me down

fact checking cuz, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:25 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtJLZ2zL2Os

Spencer Chow, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:35 (ten years ago)

"Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" is another with a decent Costello version, though of course anyone is welcome to prefer Merle's.

What about "Don't Go Back to Rockville," the verse that goes "at night I'll drink myself to sleep and pretend that I don't care that you're not here with me"?

Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 18 May 2015 20:48 (ten years ago)

The Prisoners - I Drink the Ocean

Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:07 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udsJP_QANGY

The best

H.P, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:16 (ten years ago)

hard to choose version of moonshiner, anyway fond of cat power's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtZBznKflc

drash, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:24 (ten years ago)

nope, it's easy to choose one - Tim Hardin's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjALgg9TNFQ

Lee626, Monday, 18 May 2015 21:50 (ten years ago)

I estimate at least 80% of mexican regional music is about drinking your sorrows.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 18 May 2015 21:55 (ten years ago)

Jacques Brel - L'Ivrogne

Sharkie, Monday, 18 May 2015 22:53 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NetKCTVFEA

rushomancy, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 00:11 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEWrT4Mg64

rushomancy, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 00:23 (ten years ago)

Naked Raygun - Wonder Beer
Mark Lanegan - Borracho

cock chirea, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 01:44 (ten years ago)

Lol no pogues entries yet

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 02:12 (ten years ago)

Willie Nelson - Whiskey River.
Uncle Tupelo - Whiskey Bottle.

that's not my post, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 06:07 (ten years ago)

Randy Newman - Rollin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBux4AlGQzM

Bloody Snail, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:00 (ten years ago)

M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien

p:s nerds know (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:59 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlIB5ehDH4c
carlos gardel- la última copa

drash, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:23 (ten years ago)

Lee Hazlewood - If It's Monday Morning

thono, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 11:58 (ten years ago)

Sally Mclennane - The Pogues
Streams of Whiskey - The Pogues
The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn - The Pogues

thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:26 (ten years ago)


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