260: Let’s Get Drunk!

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260: Let’s Get Drunk!

A friend of mine who is a Little Records listener texted me last night (and I’m paraphrasing) — “I’m exhausted from all this shit. I’m getting drunk!” — and gave me the idea for a podcast featuring some of the many songs from this era that feature alcohol as a possible solution. I skipped one of the most popular, The Housemartins’ “Happy Hour”, because it’s mostly about bitching about having to be out with your boss after work. I’m after some downright LET’S GET SHITFACED—THE WORLD SUCKS! vibes, so The Pogues are the best place to start. We’ll hear a couple from them, plus tunes from Giant Sand, The Replacements, Young Fresh Fellows, Nikki Sudden, The Damned, Mudhoney, Palace Brothers, Fear, Scud Mountain Boys, The Jayhawks, Black Flag, Mojo Nixon, X, The Creepers, and many others.

Playlist

  1. The Pogues — Sally Maclennane
  2. Green On Red — Hair Of The Dog
  3. The Damned — Drinking About My Baby
  4. Gang Green — Alcohol
  5. The Suburbs — Drinking
  6. Mick Farren — Half Price Drinks
  7. X — Drunk In My Past
  8. The Jayhawks — The Liquor Store Came First
  9. Giant Sand — Mad Dog A Man
  10. Fear — More Beer (live in LA, 1985)
  11. The Junk Monkeys — One More Drink
  12. Big Black — Stinking Drunk
  13. Husker Du — First Of The Last Calls
  14. Nikki Sudden And The Jacobites — When I Cross the Line
  15. Codeine — Broken-Hearted Wine
  16. The Jazz Butcher — Soul Happy Hour
  17. Squeeze — Slightly Drunk
  18. Spent — Excuse Me While I Drink Myself To Death
  19. Great Plains — Drunkard’s Blues
  20. Freakwater — Drunk Friend
  21. Palace Brothers — (I Was Drunk At The) Pulpit
  22. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper — Gin Guzzlin’ Frenzy
  23. The Creepers — Sweet Retreat
  24. Shop Assistants — What A Way To Die
  25. Mudhoney — Twenty Four
  26. Scientists — This Is My Happy Hour
  27. Black Flag — Six Pack
  28. Artless — Beer
  29. Classic Ruins — Labatt’s
  30. Young Fresh Fellows — Beer Money
  31. Surf Punks — Beer Can Beach
  32. Kaos — Alcoholiday
  33. Dead Kennedys — Too Drunk To Fuck
  34. Oasis — Cigarettes & Alcohol
  35. American Music Club — Bad Liquor
  36. Uncle Tupelo — Moonshiner
  37. Scud Mountain Boys — Liquor Store
  38. The Replacements — Here Comes A Regular
  39. Treat Her Right — King Of Beers
  40. The Pogues — Boat Train