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Friday, December 5, 2008

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Happy Repeal Day!

Posted by Jason Harper on Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM

December 5 isn't widely celebrated as a landmark date in our nation's history, but d-d-d-ammit it sh-sh-should be (sorry, got the sh-shakes). Because on this day in 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and ending Prohibition.

Happy Repeal Day, Kansas City!

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Go ahead, celebrate with a drink on me at Plaza III. Ask for Smitty. Have'm put it on my tab. Just to tide you over, here a are a few drinking related classics, good and bad, via YouTube. Maybe some of you more enterprising and patriotic MP3 bloggers could make us a Repeal Day mix?

Tom Waits, "Tango 'Til They're Sore" (Letterman broadcast, 1986)

Straight to the master. Tom's intro says it all: "This is about a guy who fell out of the window on New Year's Eve, and the only thing that broke is fall was the fact that he had a little confetti in his hair. Needless to say, he doesn't go anywhere without a little ... confetti in his hair." (By the way, if you were thinking "The Piano Has Been Drinking," then you're probably the type of person who ruins Tom Waits for me every chance you get. Please stop.)


Chumbawumba, "Tubthumping"

To thosewho have been knocked down, this is that annoying "he drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink..." song. To those who have been knocked down but gotten up again, it's still bloody annoying. Blar!

George Thorogood & the Destroyers, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"

Another song that features one person consuming a series of different drinks (see above), which the surgeon general does not recommend you do. However, if you're George Thorogood and your guitar sounds like a bunch of strings stretched over an electrified metal box and you could crack open a beer bottle on your teeth and you're out of a job and bad to the bone, well, you can drink whatever you damn well want. Just be epic about it, and make sure your sax player is equipped with maracas.

Metallica, "Whiskey in the Jar"

I remember when Metallica's cover of the classic Irish drinking song came out on the radio, but I had no idea the video for it was some lameass Girls Gone Wild slutty extras houseparty. Awful. Oh well, we're too drunk to care. WHISKEY IN THE JAR-O-AH!

Frank Sinatra, "One For My Baby"

We can't have a discussion of drunk songs without an entry from the Chairman. This may be his best bibulous ballad ever. Set 'em up, Joe.

David Frizzell, "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home"

"We'll take out the dining room table/Put a bar along that wall/And a neon sign that'll point the way/To the bathroom down the hall." To quote the Band: a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

George Jones, "If Drinking Don't Kill Me, Her Memory Will"

Oh, the days when a man could wear his collar on the outside of his jacket and sing publicly about drunkeness and be applauded for it. You can't even get away with that at Dave's Stagecoach Inn (albeit, for good reason).

Oasis, "Cigarettes & Alcohol"

Yeah, it's a T-Rex ripoff, but that just makes this song easier for mom to remember on karaoke night.

Mac Lethal, "Pound that Beer"

"Oh my goodness who the hell is blowin' up my phone/This better be important don't you understand I'M DRINKING BEER!?" Yes and yes.

Alright, there are many other noteworthy drinking songs, but we'd be at this all day, and it's lunch beer time.

-- Jason Harper

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Posted by SeekersISeek on March 2, 2009 at 4:32 AM

I love Flogging Molly's "Drunken Lullabies."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

You also forgot AC/DC's "Have a Drink on Me."

Ooh, and Metallica's cover of "Whiskey in the Jar" may be the last time I liked a song that they played.

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Posted by Ginger Man on December 8, 2008 at 2:02 PM

I have been looking fot that wino song for years. I never could find it because I only heard it once and I remember it as "I'm going to get a drunkard to make our house a bar." I was drunk as fuck when I heard it obviously.

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Posted by Lefty on December 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM
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