While sitting in my office this afternoon, I was starring at my drums and thinking about music. I love music almost as much as I love a good IPA. Music and beer go hand in hand. I believe that music is better if you have a beer in hand, and drinking beer is better with some good tunes rocking.
It got me thinking about songs about beer and gave me an idea to make a beer drinking playlist to listen to while I work. After looking over the songs, I figure I would write a post on the top 10 songs about beer.
I’m sure this list will be different then yours. Read through it and add your thoughts below.
- Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer – Billy Currington
Yeah, he talks about drinking Bud Light, but this song reminds me of me.I’m not the type to work in a bank
I’m no good at slappin on things
Don’t have a knack for makin motors crank, no
But I’m pretty good at drinkin beer - Beer Run – Garth Brooks and George Jones (originally by Todd Snider)
I’m a sucker for Garth Brooks and George Jones, so had to add this one on the list.I guess half a dozen cases doesn’t last that long
Come tomorrow morning it’ll be all gone
Then, it’s turn around, leave town, sounds again
Like a B Double E Double R-U-N. - Beer Bottle Boogie – Koko Taylor
Great blues song, with a nice guitar solo.I drink good beer when I go home
- Beer – Asylum Street Spankers
Good catchy tune.Well I’ve tried ’em all and it might sound queer
But my favorite drug is a nice cold beer. - Who Spilt My Beer – The Adicts
A little English punk. Will someone please tell the truth, who spilt his beer?Come on in
Lets go buy me a beer
If one of you dosn’t own up pretty soon, I’m gonna be very angry
Who spilt my beer, who spilt my beer? - I Like Beer – Tom T. Hall
An oldie but a goodie.I like beer. it makes me a jolly good fellow
I like beer. it helps me unwind and sometimes it makes me feel mellow (makes him feel mellow) - Beer! – Psychostick
This wins my WTF award.I like beer ‘cos it is good
I drink beer because I should
if there was a song to sing
I sing it and beer you bring - Beer Beer Beer – Flogging Molly
Had to add an Irish drinking song to the list.A barrel of malt, a bushel of hops, you stir it around with a stick,
The kind of lubrication to make your engine tick.
40 pints of wallop a day will keep away the quacks.
It’s only eight pence hapenny and one and six in tax, 1 2 3 4 5 - Beer Thirty – Brooks & Dunn
I think a few people have covered this song, I like Brooks & Dunn’s version the best.Yeah life’s too short, let’s get to livin’ it
Let’s give it all we can give it
Let your hair down, turn the music up
We gonna paint the town flat, tear it up
The party starts here get in line
It’s beer thirty a honky tonk time - In Heaven There Is No Beer – Soggy Bottom Boys
From the movie Oh Brother Wear Art Thou.In heaven there is no beer (no beer!)
That’s why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
Our friends will be drinking all the beer
So what would you add to this list?
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Blitzkrieg Hops by the Hanson Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXsXjTlFMGA
Haha, nice video
Roadhouse Blues – The Doors
Ah yeah, that’s a good one.
Longneck Bottle – Garth Brooks
I was debating putting 2 Garth songs on the list. Longneck Bottle is a classic.
“Billy’s Got His Beer Goggles On” – Neil McCoy
My buddies gave me a lot of shit when that one came out lol.
Wow, that’s perfect. Maybe you should put that as the background music on your site. 🙂
“Hooray for Beer”- Bowling for Soup
Hooray for beer
I’m really glad you’re here
Let’s make this moment last
You feel so right, wanna be with you all night
Shout it out- hooray for beer.
“Beer”- Reel Big Fish (Think BASEketball)
And if i get drunk well, I’ll pass out
On the floor now baby
You won’t bother me no more
And if you’re drinkin’ well, you know
That you’re my friend and I say
I think I’ll have myself a beer
Hands down the greatest beer song of all time…The Pietasters – Maggie Mae from the Oolooloo album!
Lyrics & Song:
http://www.actionext.com/names_p/pietasters_lyrics/maggie_may.html
How can you leave out the greatest beer song of all time? 99 Bottles of Beer of course!
Haha, so many to choose from. Should have made it a top 100 list.
About a year ago, I blogged some of my fave drinking songs. Though 100% of them aren’t beer-related, hopefully they’re close enough to complement your list.
http://toomuchcountry.blogspot.com/2009/08/clanging-beer-mugs-and-stale-dish-rags.html
Great list. Thanks for sharing.
This one is half about fishing and half about beer:
Catch All The Fish – Brad Paisley
DUDE. George Thorogood, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”
Seamus Kennedy – The Barley Mow ftw!
Mine would have to be six pack by Black Flag with Henry Rollins.
Thirty-five dollars and a six pack to my name
Six-pack!
Spent the rest on beer so who’s to blame
Six-pack!
They say I’m f***up all the time
Six pack!
What they do is a waste of time
Six pack
Pretty good list. The first thing that popped into my head was the
George Thorogood “I Drink Alone” and his version of “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”
Next would be “Roadhouse Blues” – The Doors
Great drinking song Sublime – “40 Oz. to Freedom”
I think we’ve all been there. “Too Drunk to Fuck” – Dead Kennedy’s
And drum roll please…………..
the Duff Beer Song
I liked that list, but it´s missing tankard´s album named “kings of beer” and “the beauty and the beer”…
I would add my “guys love a beer girl” song….ck it out on my myspace page!!!
Ton Waits “Warm Beer and Cold Women”
“NO MORE BEER”! http://michaelkenzikproductions.com/track/no-more-beer
Fear “More Beer”
‘In Heaven there is no Beer” is sung by the University of Minnesota Duluth’s students every time our hockey team scores a goal.
Jimmy Witherspoon – Drinking Beer (Have a Ball)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiR-biBDwHI
A Pub with no Beer.
This list would have failed instantly if it didn’t have Psychostick’s Beer on it. But it did, so well done. I shall check out the other 9 songs on this list.
Hey Bartender from the Blues Brothers Live Album
“Draw 1, draw 2, draw 3 glasses of beer
I heard somebody call
Last round for al-kee-hol!”
The Old Dun Cow
East-bound And Down (Smokey and the Bandit, the whole point was beer!)
No one mentioned Aaron Prichett! ” hold my beer (while I kiss your girlfriend)”
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=remQ9rMf-E8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DremQ9rMf-E8
Warning: shameless self promotion ahead:
You left an essential beer song off your list: Until Then There’s Beer. Check it out at:
http://jeffkelley.net/until.html
A Six Pack to Go by Hank Thompson. Country Gold! https://youtu.be/SrIx76A4fxo
who drank my beer(while I was in the rear. Dave Bartholomew
Beer Bottle Goggles by The Dirty Hound Dogs
If you like a GREAT drinking song-check out my good Friend from Boston, Ma- JON Z. BOWSER with his Original Classic-written while attending ZOO MASS {U MASS AMHERST} giving him more than enough inspiration, with the song- BEER GOGGLE SONG!!!! Check it out on CD BABY.COM- You will not be disapointed!!!!!!!
six pack – black flag
alcohol – gbh
….and some 1980s country song possibly called 12 pack…it namedrops Lonnie Mack (possibly just to rhyme) and he doesn’t mind his real good friends stopping by to drink because they “brought their own 12 pack”
Power of positive drinking by Chris Jansen