Drinking Songs. Just Drinking Songs.

Hey, look, pineapple-shaped mugs that you drink things out of. Hmm. Meh contributor @JasonToon here. If you’ve seen many of these weekend playlists, you know I like to shy away from the most obvious connections to the product - or, if you prefer, overthink the whole damn thing. Not this week. “Drinking songs” makes too much sense for even me to overcomplicate this weekend playlist (also compiled as an autoplaying a YouTube playlist so you don’t have to keep stumbling to your mouse to hit play after every drink- er, song).

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - “Whiskey, You’re the Devil” (1959)
Whiskey is not only “the devil” but “my darling drunk or sober” (I’m guessing mostly drunk) in this kind of mashup of great Irish whiskey singalongs: there’s also a nod to “whiskey in the jar”.

Snoop Dogg - “Gin and Juice” (1994)
Snoop was never an adherent of the Courvoisier and Cristal faction of hip-hop bling-drinkers. Keep it simple, Snoop.

Hank Thompson - “Smokey the Bar” (1968)
The kind of pun that seems hilarious when you’re four Wild Turkey and Cokes into another depressing evening of heartland liver abuse.

Bee Gees - “Indian Gin and Whiskey Dry” (1968)
They like their tipple in small-town Britain (or maybe Australia), too. Me, I like this stupid video of the Gees bouncing up and down in those whiskey glasses.

Beastie Boys - “Brass Monkey” (1986)
Hands up, all you middle-'80s middle-schoolers who knew this song had something to do with alcohol. Nope, me neither.

Toby Keith - “Red Solo Cup” (2003)
I’ll hand it to Tobe, that drunken vocal delivery is pretty funny. And the lyrics are a funnier exploration of the redneck drinking ethos than the likes of “I Love this Bar”. I wouldn’t have thought he had it in him.

Gary Portnoy - “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” (1982)
The extended lyrics of the Cheers theme cast some doubt on whether “troubles are all the same”. I’ve had my lights shut off, sure, but can’t relate much to a cat “strung up by the tail” or a “husband (who) wants to be a girl.”

Gang Green - “Let’s Drink Some Beer” (1985)
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Boston, skate-punk brats Gang Green were drinking beer as a protest against society’s rules. It must have been crushing when they realized who sponsors, like, half of the Super Bowl commercials every year.

Jerry Lee Lewis - “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me” (1968)
Wow, 1968 was a big year for songs of booze-soaked regret. Jerry Lee had a late-career hit with this play on the then-ubiquitous Schlitz ads.

Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends - “Last Call (for Alcohol)” (1948)
Listen up, drunks! Kansas City blues queen Julia Lee is belting out your fifteen-minute warning and bringing this weekend playlist to a suitable shutdown.

It’s been fun hoisting a few choice musical brews with you in honor of these 10 Strawberry Street Rose Gold Pineapple Mugs. Slide your favorite alcoholic anthems down the bar at me in the forum. Until next weekend, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Belly up to the weekend playlist archive, where the tap never runs dry:

• Pour This in Your Ear: A Wine Playlist
• Turn On Country Style: Psychedelic Country Nuggets
• Hot, Black, and Strong: A Coffee Playlist
• Ahhhhhh: 12 Shades of Musical Relaxation
• Weekend playlist archive