Win Nick’s Esteem [Extended]

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Thank Fachtna it’s Friday.

As the pubs get ready to impose an 8pm shutdown, there can only be one theme this week for our voucher-free music chin-wag.

What’s your favourite song about or referencing drink?

Here’s mine.

Please include video links if possible.

Lines MUST close at Midnight on Sunday!

Nick says: Good luck!

Nick adds: Hic.

Meanwhile…

Eek-A-Mouse – Ganja Smuggling

Last week, I asked you to post your favourite reggae song in honour of the late Robbie Shakespeare. Reader Flawless won my esteem with this entry:

“My favourite Eek-A-Mouse song. The Irish-Jamaican connections go back hundreds of years and I think his songs are a striking example of Irish traditional music permeating through to reggae music. The airs, the metre, the lilting, etc.”

Nick says: Thanks Flawless and to all who entered.

Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem

Pic: Freebird, Dublin

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63 thoughts on “Win Nick’s Esteem [Extended]

  1. eamonn

    Dr Jimmy, Mr Jim
    The Who
    https://youtu.be/KqltoZG83BE

    Mother’s ruin what more to say.

    It is a tenuous link, could 5.15. fit here also out of my brain on the 5.15 – the train home from the 5.00 closing bar?

    great winner last week too – congrats flawless

  2. Tarfton Clax

    The Mighty AC/DC Have a drink on me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_IrXsEHZxM

    “So don’t worry about tomorrow
    Take it today
    Forget about the check
    We’ll get hell to pay

    Have a drink on me
    Have a drink on me
    Yeah, have a drink on me
    Have a drink on me (on me)
    Come on

    Dizzy, drunk and fightin’
    On tequila white lightnin’
    My glass is getting shorter
    On whiskey, ice and water
    So come on and have a good time
    And get blinded out of your mind”

  3. Hank

    Two and a half minutes of glorious Irish maudlin boozery from the late Bap Kennedy, brother of Brian and lead singer of the old London pubrockers Energy Orchard, with a surprise guest singing the third verse.
    Simple but sobering.

    https://youtu.be/XyusT-P6Eq4

  4. Rosette of Sirius

    Cracker’s version of the hilarious Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother…

    https://youtu.be/BohTuZPHVMY

    I always get a huge laugh from this verse…

    And it’s up against the wall Redneck Mother,
    Mother, who has raised her son so well.
    He’s thirty-four and drinking in a honky tonk.
    Just kicking hippies asses and raising hell.

  5. Fergalito

    Savage winner of last week’s competition – love it ! Esteem well deserved …

    My choice for this Friday’s drink-centric theme is “Les Savy Fav” and “Raging in Plague Age.”

    The song is from the point of view of a medieval King trapped is his castle as a plague scourges the land! Don’t worry, the “monks have tapped the finest cask!” The song is perfectly formulated to encourage maximum losing of one’s shit on the dance floor (or living room floor or on the DART or in the kitchen or wherever you are).

    Who couldn’t but love the careless abandon and wild excesses inherent in the hedonism of:

    “Draw up the drawbridge, draw down the blinds
    Everyone inside is getting high tonight
    Waiting for the plague to move on
    No one’s getting sober till the liquor’s all gone”

  6. Micko

    Mike Got Spiked – Whiskey For Me Tae

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Y5DxxMAWs

    Irish band that were around a few years ago – they were more of ‘Faith No More’ style band and this is their only foray into traditional Irish music.

    “If you wonder why us Irishmen are in this terrible fix…
    it’s coz the Pope wouldn’t let us wear the condoms on our d**ks!” ;-)

      1. galaxiapolizia

        “Pulque, Mescal y Tequila, Cuba Libre y Cerveza…”

        deceptively seductive live version of a 1995 H.F. Thiefaine song
        about a harrowing dash to catch a plane out of Mexico City…
        whilst far-gone-buckled on the above local delights,
        (and haunted by the ghost of Malcolm Lowry…)

        “Otro Cuba Libre…!”

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeThyai_GW0

      1. Fergalito

        Oh lovely, nothing but the best of memories associated with that tune and their “Second Toughest in the Infants” album too.

        Ahhh!

  7. ce

    Daddy Needs a Drink by Drive-by Truckers –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GdEjMv1Ms

    Apologies for the bit of a downer for the day that is in it…

    Daddy needs a drink to deal with all the beauty
    To deal with all the madness
    To keep from blowing up
    Daddy needs a drink to calm down his badness
    To execute his gladness on the fullness of his cup

    Daddy needs a drink to keep the wheels from rubbing
    To compensate for nothing or nothing going on
    Daddy needs a drink so Mama fix one quick
    Pour it nice and strong with your cleaning outfit on

    Daddy needs a drink to hem in his demons
    To hear through babies screaming or the TV set turned on
    There ain’t nothing on the radio like the wave my transmitters on
    Put that drinking jacket on and enjoy a little fog

  8. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

    probably my favorite word
    Debauchery, always liked these sweet sad gentle lyrics
    https://youtu.be/fENirTpH-64

    Drunken ferry boat woman
    Swayin’ on your sea
    If I turn on the gas fire
    By the rain rattled window
    Won’t you sail over to me
    The hail storm tumbles
    The rail line rumbles
    You move in the porch with me
    On an overcast day
    The pale winter city
    An afternoon’s debauchery
    Your blouse your skirt
    I’ll undo them so gentle
    With beautiful care
    I’m a lonely man
    With five bottles of wine
    I’d like you to share
    The hail storm tumbles
    The rail line rumbles
    You move through the doors with me
    On an overcast day
    The pale winter city
    An afternoon’s debauchery
    Orange street light
    Afternoon becomes night
    You drink your wine from a mug
    There’s cats at the backdoor
    The snow is two inches
    You roll down your tights on the rug
    The hail storm tumbles
    The rail line rumbles
    You lie on the floor with me
    Come closer my love
    I’m badly in need
    Of an afternoon’s debauchery

  9. Sarah Walshe

    Loose enough link but because it’s Christmas I have to go with The Pogues, Fairytale of New York

  10. goldenbrown

    The Pogues & The Dubliners – The Irish Rover

    a great drinking song about the drink
    and a great tale…I wanted it to be a true story lol….and it’s my party trick when I’m out on the jar, take it away:

    On the fourth of July, 1806
    We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
    We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
    For the Grand City Hall in New York
    ‘Twas a wonderful craft
    She was rigged fore and aft
    And oh, how the wild wind drove her
    She stood several blasts
    She had twenty-seven masts
    And they called her The Irish Rover
    We had one million bags of the best Sligo Rags
    We had two million barrels of stone
    We had three million sides of old blind horses hides
    We had four million barrels of bones
    We had five million hogs
    Six million dogs
    Seven million barrels of porter
    We had eight million bails of old nanny goats’ tails
    In the hold of The Irish Rover
    There was ol’ Mickey Coote
    Who played hard on his flute
    When the ladies lined up for a set
    He was tootin’ with skill
    For each sparkling quadrille
    Though the dancers were fluther’d and bet
    With his smart witty talk
    He was cock of the walk
    And he rolled the dames under and over
    They all knew at a glance
    When he took up his stance
    That he sailed in The Irish Rover
    There was Barney McGee
    From the banks of the Lee
    There was Hogan from County Tyrone
    There was Johnny McGurk
    Who was scared stiff of work
    And a man from Westmeath called Malone
    There was Slugger O’Toole
    Who was drunk as a rule
    And fighting Bill Treacy from Dover
    And your man, Mick MacCann
    From the banks of the Bann
    Was the skipper on The Irish Rover
    For the sailor it’s always a bother in life
    It’s so lonesome by night and by day
    That he longs for the shore
    And a charming young whore
    Who will melt all his troubles away
    Oh, the noise and the rout
    Swillin’ poitin and stout
    For him soon the torment’s over
    Of the love of a maid, he is never afraid
    That old salt from The Irish Rover
    We had sailed seven years
    When the measles broke out
    And the ship lost its way in the fog
    And that whale of a crew
    Was reduced down to two
    Just myself and the Captain’s old dog
    Then the ship struck a rock
    Oh Lord, what a shock
    The bulkhead was turned right over
    Turned nine times around
    And the poor old dog was drowned
    And the last of The Irish Rover

  11. Otis Blue

    “There’s some take delight in the carriages a rolling
    and others take delight in the hurling and the bowling
    but I take delight in the juice of the barley
    and courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early…”

    The Dubliners – Whiskey in the Jar

    https://youtu.be/41GtRF4aPAE

  12. Otis Blue

    “He became drinker and she became mother
    She knew that one day she’d be one or the other
    He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy
    Proud of her features, she kept herself pretty…”

    Squeeze – Labelled With Love

    https://youtu.be/hgtfehKvzSk

  13. Otis Blue

    “I ain’t about to go straight
    It’s too late
    I found myself face-down in a ditch
    Booze on my hair, blood on my lips
    A picture of you, holding a picture of me
    In the pocket of my blue jeans…”

    Ray La Montagne – Jolene

    https://youtu.be/PMQkszQVJo4

  14. Gearóid

    Thin Lizzy: I’ve got to give it up
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG7lPyQI1fY
    I’ve got to give it up
    I’ve got to give it up that stuff
    I’ve got to give it up
    I’ve got to give it up that stuff
    Tell my mama and tell my pa
    That their fine young son didn’t get far
    He made it to the end of a bottle
    Sitting in a sleazy bar
    He tried hard but his spirit broke
    He tried until he nearly choked
    In the end he lost his bottle
    Drinking alcohol
    Got to give it up
    I got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    I got to give it up that stuff
    Tell my brother, I tried to write and
    Put pen to paper but I was frightened
    I couldn’t seem to get the words out right
    Right, quite right
    Tell my sister, I’m sinking slow
    Now and then I powder my nose
    In the end I lost my bottle
    It smashed in a casbah
    Got to give it up
    I got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    I got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    I got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    I got to give it up that stuff
    I’ve been messing with the heavy stuff
    For a time I couldn’t get enough
    But I’m waking up and it’s wearing off
    Junk don’t get you far
    Tell my mama I’m coming home
    In my youth I’m getting older
    And I think it’s lost control
    Mama, I’m coming home
    Got to give it up
    Give it up
    Got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    You know what I am talking about
    Got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    Got to give it up that stuff
    Got to give it up
    Give it up
    Got to give it up that stuff

  15. Clampers Outside

    Gang Green – Alcohol

    https://youtu.be/H1oHgM2ZNNI

    Proper punk rockin’ fun this is :) Saw these guys in Dublin one Paddy’s night with only about a hundred people there… Great craic divin’ and slammin’ :)

    “I’d rather drink than f—,
    No doubt about it,
    I can’t* live without it,
    Alcohol!”
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    *It took a while before I found I can :) Still love the song though!

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