Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Songs for the Drunk




I don't know about you but there's nothing I enjoy more than having a few too many and heading home to sit on the kitchen floor to shout (I don't think you could actually qualify it as singing) songs at my friends.

Entirely different from going out and dancing like a maniac whilst screaming your head off (that's a whole other playlist), the magic is you can recline in a heap, preferably with candles and a guitar, horrible (delicious) warm cans or leftover neat spirits and copious amounts of cigarettes.
This method also works wonderfully on a beach with tinnies in the leftover hours of night- watching the sun rise afterwards gives you an enormous sense of accomplishment.

Older songs take precedence- this is a time for nostalgia, plus everyone knows the words. If you don't have a geetar, someone's gonna have to sing the riffs. The songs will come randomly into your drunk little head but I've tried to include a playlist of some of my favourites.

Before you listen: STOP, go get drunk then find a guitar and enjoy. :)

... I got a little carried away when I started this. Also Spotify don't have Beatles or Pink Floyd, wah.

Lola-The Kinks
Heart-Shaped Box-Nirvana
Where is my mind?- Pixies
All along the watchtower-Jimi Hendrix Experience (yesssssss)
Drinking in LA- Bran Van 3000
Golden Brown- The Stranglers
Under the bridge- Chili Peppers
Karma Police- Radiohead (you could pick loads, but this is great for shouting)
The Drugs don't work- The Verve
Maps- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Every Morning- Sugar Ray (classic)
Butterfly- Crazy Town (don't lie, you know you know ALL the words)
Gatekeeper- Feist (for quiet refrain)
Lover's Spit- Broken Social Scene
Everlong- Foo Fighters (teenage youf)
Sleepyhead- Passion Pit (works well acoustically, surprising but GREAT)
Senorita- Justin Timberlake
Jumpin', Jumpin'- Destiny's Child (might be a girls only one)
Music When the lights go out- The Libertines
Shiny Happy People- R.E.M (:D)
Roxanne- The Police (PUT ON THE RED LIIIGHT)
The Chain- Fleetwood Mac (I can still hear you sayyyyy)
White Rabbit- Jefferson Airplane (helps to have an Emily present to dance shapes at you)
Like A Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan (I would have so many better choices for this (Corrina, Corrina; It's all over now baby blue; One more cup of coffe) but Spotify cannot supply.... boooooo)
My, My, Hey, Hey- Neil Young
Light my Fire- The Doors
Hallelujah- Cohen
Skinny Love- Bon Iver
Molly's Chambers- Kings of Leon
Trouble- Coldplay (coldplay goes down well with everyone, as much as people slate them great first two albums)
Boy with a coin- Iron & Wine
The Blower's Daughter- Damien Rice
This Charming Man- The Smiths
There is a light that never goes out- The Smiths (mmmm)
Lovecats- The Cure
Someone Great- LCD Soundsystem (great end to a great night)

Here's a handy spotify playlist: Drink and Shout

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