Songs!

43 thoughts on “Songs!”

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpGp_J3z2AReport

   1. Unrelated to my choice, but its pretty incredible that I can check my phone and see that my eldest kid is currently hiking somewhere on Iveragh Peninsula in Southwest Ireland.Report

2. Brother, my cup is empty…
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR8J36fIa1wReport

3. Although this tends to be a genre I avoid, there’s no denying Uncle Tupelo’s “I Got Drunk”

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z17cGZXsUA0Report

   1. God, Uncle Tupelo was good. They also did my favorite version of Moonshiner:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppiol9oetOkReport

4. A classic:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUpF6atHEo

   Revisited:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNdOCQYOL8Report

5. a fun one

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4rY52SWklcReport

   1. My Dad used to sing that, mostly to irritate my Mom.Report

      1. There’s also this version, which gets extra credit for sheer weirdness

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

         1. The Muppets drink all kinds of stuff.

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

6. and a sad one

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

7. I mean…

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

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3eN6WvERaMReport

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvC638DINIQReport

10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI3yXg-sX5cReport

    1. I prefer this version:
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZEReport

11. When I was a kid, Red Red Wine was used as an example of a song glorifying self-harm. It wasn’t good that kids were listening to it.

    Now that I am old, it is a song for paper towel commercials.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_f5Q7OqRIwReport

    1. The first time I heard Carnivale Cruises use Lust for Life by Iggy Pop I couldn’t believe it. But then I noticed how Bolwderized it was and I was sad.Report

       1. Trainspotting came out 7 years prior (which gave me my first time hearing the song).Report

          1. And now I’ve been thinking about Trainspotting.

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12. Always a classic

    https://youtu.be/qYS732zyYfU
    [Mike: Ten points from Gryffindor for not following directions]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYS732zyYfU&feature=youtu.beReport

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk8vs1pKW5AReport

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inqL54q7aD4Report

15. The same week I bought this album, my boss and I were driving around and I said “Listen to this song!” and we listened and liked the song and he said “what’s the song about?” and we theorized… is it about a girlfriend who broke up? A girlfriend who is together but distant? A girl that he wishes were his girlfriend but isn’t? Maybe will never, ever be?

    We looked it up when we got back to the office.

    It’s about drugs.Report

16. Lord, I can smell the cigarette smoke in the rural dive bar my parents used to drag me to with them when I hear this song…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFsii2OOgp8Report

    1. This too.

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsQ97PEpOoReport

17. Not, Lennon insisted, a drug song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoknj1ebqIReport

    1. You beat me to it.Report

18. I’ve got a rough draft of an essay talking about the allure of self-destruction via drink or drugs and talking about songs that glorify such things because of the “authenticity” of destroying oneself compared to the Babbitry of showing up to a job week-in-week-out.

    But I couldn’t figure out a way to write it ethically.

    Anyway, here’s the song that I would have linked to at the top of the essay:

    Report

    1. I would really like to read that though.Report

       1. Eh. I’ve given short speeches on smoking that made some of my friends who had quit smoking say something to the effect of “man, now I want a cigarette” and I don’t want anybody who might say that about self-destructive behavior to say “yeah, man, I miss self-destruction!”

          That song is a really good song, though.Report

19. Bunch of drug songs in this. I’ll pick one.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTss9K0LXJ0Report

20. Seems like the morning crowd was about drinking, but by afternoon, the OT crowd turned more to harder stuff. For drugs . . .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa3ZQKOoqpoReport

21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQIvr2VpuRE

    The best purveyor of country music today.Report

22. The UB40 version of “Red, Red Wine” was, for some reason, popular among my classmates in elementary school, although it had already been out for some years at that point. I never cared much for it. It wasn’t until five or so years ago that I first heard the Neil Diamond original and realized that it was actually a pretty good song.Report

23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUt-hGSm2e0

    Easy.Report

24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUt-hGSm2e0

    Easy.Report

25. It’s not really ‘about’ drugs and alcohol as much as it is a snide remark on lumpenprole drinking culture, but this was the anthem of an age
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGcReport

    1. (also, if you’re tired of watching nazis on youtube, I discovered this guy who has a great series on one hit wonders. (some of which – many of which, actually technically aren’t))

       (for real, I don’t quite understand how people get nazis in their youtube feed. I don’t, and I’ve watched some weird stuff from time to time)Report

       1. Sometimes I get Richard Wagner.Report

26. A little crude, but I love the riff:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TWLxCIgwEReport

    1. It also works in this style:
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DElRqo8u1vQReport

27. I’d forgotten to post They Might Be Giants’ “Drink!”

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

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