Mar 042014
To celebrate Mardi Gras, let’s conduct a timed Last Man Standing on songs of excess. The last comment in by midnight New Orleans time will win a prize direct from the city of New Orleans, albeit this time next week, when I’m back from a coming trip there. [It turns out I was the last to add to the list before midnight New Orleans time on Mardi Gras, so I win/we lose. We’ll let the LMS carry on as nature intends.]
Do I have to explain what I mean by “songs of excess?” I hope not. If so, perhaps you might want to sit this one out. I’ll kick things off with “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.”
Live it up!
Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters.
LMS!
Too Drunk to Fuck – DKs
More More More – Andrea True Connection
300 Pounds of Heavenly Joy — Howlin’ Wolf
I gotta go w/”Alcohol” by the Kinks, preferably the live versions from 1972 (“Everybody’s In Show Boz”) & 1977 (BBC Christmas Concert)
That’s “Biz”, not “Boz”. See, I’m already affected!
Streams of Whiskey — the Pogues
One toke over the line.
“What a Way to Die” — the Pleasure Seekers (featuring Suzi Quatro)
http://youtu.be/ddDHPWJIfEY
Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band – Dare to Be Fat
Havin’ a ball, with cholesterol!
http://youtu.be/tqnD11rjrtc
Lucinda Williams “Drunken Angel”
“Cigarettes and Alcohol” — Oasis
A swamp pop classic, I Got Loaded by Little Bob & the Lollipops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSH5I13Fhu0
Covered very nicely by Los Lobos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqdMGRFKnow
Hall & Oates “Possession Obsession”
Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind) – Loretta Lynn
“Eat It,” Weird Al.
Might as Well Get Juiced – The Stones
Mary Gauthier — “I Drink”
“Fish swin, birds fly . . . I drink”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1aPaP1_Ew
‘Dose of Thunder” — The Replacements
“Only takes a little ’til you want a ton”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6IQbHaFDcU
Dylan and The Band, “Too Much of Nothing.”
Obviously, “I Got Drunk” by Uncle Tupelo.
How ’bout Bob Weir’s “I Need a Miracle?” Bobby sings that he needs a women twice his age (“a lady of nobility, gentility and rage”), twice his height (“statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night”) and twice his weight (“a ton of fun who packs a gun with all her freight”).
Best line: “too much of everything is just enough.”
Rockpile “A Knife and Fork”. “Girl, you let a knife and fork dig your grave.”
I missed that prize deadline thing, sorry. I sometime run these LMS questions through my head while trying to get back to sleep and came up with the few I’ve used today. Play on!
Squeeze – Labeled with love
Buzzcocks “Orgasm Addict”
The Swingin’ Medallions — “Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love)”
Lynyrd Skynyrd “That Smell”
Hotel California
Black Flag – “Wasted”
Stones, “Mother’s Little Helper”
What You Need – INXS
Tex Ritter – “Rye Whiskey”
Sinatra “One More for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”
More Beer – Fear
http://youtu.be/d9gkhdOFTpI
Serious Drugs – BMX Bandits
GOOD ONE!
Drunk & Fucked Up (Like The Twilight) – Ryan Adams
Fine Young Cannibals “Johnny Come Home”. “What is wrong in my life / that I must get drunk every night?”
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll – Ian Drury
However Much I Booze – The Who.
Last Man Standing Unsteadily.
Grateful Dead “Truckin”
“Woo woo whee, liquor set me free.”
Lou Reed, “Underneath the Bottle.”
Pretty much the entire short career or Doug Hopkins of the Gin Blossoms. I’ll go with “New Horizons”, “I’ll drink enough of anything / to make this world seem new again / Drunk drunk drunk in the gardens and the graves”.