best wine song nomination poll

mmmm....wine

Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee?
Yesterday's Wine?
Red Red Wine (Replacements, obv, fuck ub40)?

Who Will Buy the Wine - Charlie Walker
Wine Me Up - Faron Young
Tears Will Be the Chaser For Your Wine - Kay Adams
In the Shadow of the Wine - Porter Wagoner
Drinking Wine Spodyody - Pere Ubu
Spill the Wine - War
Bottle of Red Wine - Derek & the Dominoes

"Wine Takes Me Away" Merle Haggard

a case of you. lock thread.

According to wikipedia, "Spo-dee-o-dee" is just "motherfucker" in disguese, btw.

The Handsome Family - So Much Wine

KMD - Sweet Premium Wine

"Oh Sherry" isn't about wine, btw.

"Me & My Wine" by Def Leppard

"She Conjures Me Wings" by the Mission (about Blue Nun, evidently)

"Lilac Wine" by Jeff Buckley (is it a cover? Can't remember)

The Nightcaps - Wine Wine Wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8mlticu6CY

Wine Colored Roses - George Jones

not sure if it is about wine. but it's grand cru. the durutti column's bordeaux.

"Red Red Wine" by Tony Motherfucking Tribe, bollocks to a Replacements.

for some reason what comes to mind is John Cale - Paris 1919 when he says, "How the Beaujolais is raining down on darkened meetings on Champs Elysee"

I always thought "A Case of You" was about beer... Joni's Canadian, eh.

The Fireballs - Bottle of Wine
Dean Martin - Lil Ol' Winedrinker Me
Nancy & Lee - Summer Wine
Gories - Thunderbird ESQ
Tommy James & The Shondells - Sweet Cherry Wine

and Red Red Wine by Neil Motherfucking Diamond.

Diamond's version is aight but pish compared to Tony Tribe.

But if you like a laugh you shd see how many Youtubes attribute the UB40 verzh to Bob Marley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIXFxulbGjI&feature=related

Come to think of it, a guy cd have a lot of fun wrongly attributing music vids on Youtube and waiting for the comment box feeding frenzy.

red vines - aimee mann
heart attack & vine - tom waits
the cask of amontillado - alan parsons (sherry is a wine variety!)

a case of you about beer? for me that's absolutely unthinkable. to connect the mundane germanic beer with perfect love. please don't destroy my last illusions about joni mitchell!

Steve Perry: Oh Sherry

nah, you're right - "you're in my blood like wine" is right there in the lyrics... all the canadian references in that song made me assume it was about beer

Guns N' Roses: Nighttrain

Two Dollar Wine: The Glands

"...and Red Red Wine by Neil Spo-dee-o-dee Diamond."

the piano has been drinking - tom waits. but what the hell does a piano drink? whisky or wine?

coming straight outta compton, a crazy spo-dee-o-dee named ice cube

straight out of itunes:
the days of wine & roses - dream syndicate
winter wine - caravan
wine - electric flag
wine - guillemots (a short experimentalish instrumental)
in the union of wine - the hidden cameras
weeping wine - lloyd cole
strawberry wine - my bloody valentine (sounds more like the cocteau twins)
all the wine - the national
wine wine wine - the nightcaps
bread and wine - peter gabriel
throw the wine - swell
devo & wine - times new viking (there's some weird stuff i didn't know about in my itunes)

ja, deine liebe ist süßer als wein - popol vuh
the grapevine will lie sometimes - roshell anderson
i heard it through the grapevine - the slits
another man's vine - tom waits
just another sucker on the vine - tom waits
one true vine - wilco

> i heard it through the grapevine - the slits

Not buyin' it. Gotta check on those other vine songs.

Also - "Red Red Wine" by the Replacements is an original that only has the title in common with Neil D, Tony D, UB40, etc.

You guys DID know that, right?

I guessed that but the Tony Tribe cut of "Red Red Wine" is this huge unstoppable monster of skapocalypse and I just wanted to continue the theme. Also the UB40 verzh is alright.

could we count the Dead's "Wharf Rat"?

champagne misery - saints
a glass of champagne - sailor (why do memories of your youth never bloody fade away)

"Lilac Wine" by Jeff Buckley (is it a cover? Can't remember)

It's an old old song I think. Nina Simone did a version of this, Elkie Brooks too.

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - Bongwater version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0axX1etZJA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo%2Egoogle%2Eca%2Fvideosearch%3Fhl%3Den%26source%3Dhp%26q%3Dalligator%2520wine%26um%3D1%26ie%3DUTF%2D8%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwv&feature=player_embedded#t=24

I was thinking all versions of "Drinking Wine Spo-dee-o-dee" belong together. Possibly I should do the same for Neil, etc's "Red Red Wine."

The Pogues must have had a decent wine song surely? Help me out someone...

brio, is that wine song by a zen master? the white wine song in white ink on a white screen. looks good. how does it sound? like the clap of one hand?

devo & wine - times new viking (there's some weird stuff i didn't know about in my itunes)
LOVE this track, fwiw.

the zen post was supposed to be a link to Screamin Jay Hawkins doing Alligator Wine from Youtube.

re: Pogues - "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday" prominently features the filling of glasses with brandy & winebut I don't know if it could be called a wine song per se

My itunes is giving me:

John Fahey - Wine and Roses
Anne Briggs - Fire and Wine
Syd Barrett - Wined and Dined
Peter Gabriel - Bread and Wine

Would nom the Syd outta that lot.

x-post: thanks Brio - yeah, not much of a wine song that

Pogues in general more about grain than grape, I think.

This is shaping up nicely - whiskey song and beer song polls will prob. be forthcoming.

I'm sure Lightning Hopkins has a tune about wine, but can't remember the name....

he did spo-dee-o-dee for sure

Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond

"Sports & Wine" by the Ben Folds Five

Alex already nominated this, but I want to post the video anyway because it's the best one they ever did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irgYeDM2qU&feature=PlayList&p=E986D7A4462D04B3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11

zappa - wino man
run dmc - papa crazy ("drinkin wine all the time/ never earnin a dime")

cheers brio, maybe that is the one i'm thinking of.
i think john lee hooker does one just called "bottle of wine"

coloma - strength of wine

hymn for the alcohol by hefner has a wine verse

so what's the best version of spodeeodee?
i'm liking the malcom yelvington one on sunrecords, cos he sounds crazy drunk.

I'm pretty sure the Aimee Mann song is about Red Vines licorice

so what's the best version of spodeeodee?

I've only ever heard Stick McGhee's, but it's so freakin' great I can't imagine a better one.

Beastie Boy's "Johnny Ryall" is about a wino. Pretty sure there is a Thunderbird reference, at least.

"Mexican Wine," Fountains of Wayne, underrated among their drinking songs.

Shrimp Boat, "River of Wine"

zappa - wino man

"Wonderful Wino," but yeah

Thunderbird by ZZ Top !

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - Gimme that wine

My wife got tired a' me runnin 'round, so she tried to keep me home-
Well, she broke my nose and hid my clothes, but I continued to roam.
Then she finally hit my weak spot - threatened to throw my bottle out
Well, from the basement to the rooftop, everybody could hear me shout...

Gimme that wine (Unhand that bottle)
'Cause I can't cut loose without my juice.
Gotta have hot lucy when I go walkin' y'know.

Well, one day while crossin the avenue, a big car knocked me down.
While I was stretched out tyin' up traffic and crowds came from blocks
around
Now the po-lice were searchin my pockets, before they sent me to the
funeral parlor,
But when one o' those cops took my bottle, Jack, I jumped straight up
and commenced to hollar

Gimme that wine (Unhand that bottle)
'Cause I can't get well without Muskatel
I only drink for medicinal purposes anyway

Well, now, one real dark and dreary night as I was staggerin' home t'
bed,
Well, a bandit jumped from the shadows and put a blackjack 'side my
head.
That cat took my watch, my ring, my money, And I didn't make a sound,
but when he reached 'n got my bottle, you could hear me for blocks
around

Gimme that wine (Unhand that bottle)
Beat m' head outta shape, but leave my grape.
Watch, ring and money ain't nothin' but don mess with my wine, JIm.

Well one day my house caught fire while I was layin' down sleepin' off a
nap
An' when I woke up everything was burnin' with a pop an' a crackle an' a
snap.
Now the fireman chopped up my TV set and tore my apartment apart,
But when he raised his axe to my bottle, I screamed with all my heart...

Gimme that wine (Unhand that bottle)
So I can drink one toast before I roast.
No sense goin' out half baked, Might as well be Alll tore up

You can take all those Hollywood glamor girls- Lana Turner, Rita
Hayworth,
Bridget Bardot, n' Lucille Ball,
and all them chicks 'n line 'em upside the wall
Put a GIGANTIC jug beside 'em, n' tell me to take my choice.
Well, there'd be no doubt which one I chose, the minute I raised my
voice.

Gimme that wine (Unhand that bottle)
Well those chicks look fine, but I love my wine.
Now some folks like money, some like to dance and dine,
But I'll be happy If you give me that wine

"WINE DO YER STUFF" -- Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

"WINE" - Bill Anderson

"BROKEN-HEARTED WINE" -- Codeine

"INTRAVINO" -- Hall and Oates

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