Songs About Beer

I'm afraid this will be one of my random musing posts rather than a helpful one, well unless you want to sing about beer, and why wouldn't you? 

I was just walking around Boultham Park in Lincoln earlier listening to my usual eclectic music selection, when I realised Frank Turner writes a lot of songs about drinking. This got me wondering about other songs about booze and beer. Naturally my thoughts turned to Pulp, because they nearly always do, but while Jarvis is sorted for Ez and Wizz, and the girl from Greece bought him a rum and Coca Cola there weren't many lyrics about beer. Most disappointing.

Anyway I only have two songs with beer in the title on my playlist, Beer by Reel Big Fish 'if you're drinking then you know that you're my friend, and I say I think I'll have myself a beer' and Hooray for Beer by Bowling for Soup. 'Hooray for beer, I'm really glad you're here, lets make this moment last, you feel so right, wanna be with you all night, shout it out hooray for beer.' I do have a t shirt with 'Hello Darkness my Old Friend' and a beer on but that's not really what the Simon and Garfunkel song is about.

The song that got me thinking about all this was 'Love Ire and Song'by Frank Turner, which is basically about planning the revolution from a pub and finishes 'leave the mourning to the morning, yea pain can be killed with aspirin tablets and vitamin pills, but memories of hope, and of glorious defeat, are a little bit harder to beat.' It's a great song from one of his good albums before he got all loved up and started writing about that instead.

Probably the first truly drink related song I came across was The Levellers 'Just the One.' It's about a guy tempted to go out for 'just the one' and ending up in a club taking a pill 'you know you shouldn't do it you see no reason why so blow you're mind.' It kind of reminds me of the Micky Flanagan are you out or are you out out? Sketch. 

When I started writing this piece I was thinking there needs to be more songs about beer, but then I Googled songs about beer and it turns out there's loads, so I'm going to go listen to them now. Feel free to comment your favourite beer, or drinking songs below. I guess for me the line from 'Bank Holiday' by Blur probably sums things up. 'Bank holiday comes just 6 times of year, days of enjoyment to which everyone cheers, bank holiday comes with a six back of beer, then it's back to work.' I've had my random musing for 20 minutes, best get back to writing something useful.

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