OK, so I was going to be lazy and post a music video again.
I had one of those Monday’s where I just want to stay up until the wee hours, sipping whisky and writing. Alas, I cannot do that but one of the songs I would probably stick on, if I were to stay up until 4AM is Be My Downfall. Of course when I tried to stick it on here I discovered YouTube was having yet another spat with the record companies and it wouldn’t embed.
And so in true Nick Hornby style I thought I’d post my top five 4AM Whisky Songs:
5. Be My Downfall – Del Amitri (For the bad ones you know were no good but miss anyway.)
4. The Town that I loved – The Dubliners (Hey, they were banned once. For the morose, the-past-was-drizzled-in-honey-and-grease-and-I-liked-it stage.)
3. Need Your Love So Bad – Fleetwood Mac – original line up (To truly enjoy this you need a whisky in one hand and someone close on your arm dancing round a nearly empty bar, slow.)
2. God is in the House – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (For the I-think-it’s-whisky-but-I’m-not-sure, I-finished-the-other-bottle-and-this-was-at-the-back. As-long-as-I-have-both-ears-in-the-morning-I’m-good.)
1. Je n’en connais pas la fin – Jeff Buckley (Some would go for Hallelujah but you can practically taste the cigarette smoke on this one and of course that’s what it’s for. Sitting at a piano you can’t play, smoking cigarettes when you don’t actually smoke and nursing that last whisky that will send you to Dream.)
Actually, this could also easily be a top five songs to slit your wrists to. 4AM whisky music is a bit like that, fine lines. By way of lifting the mood of the list, I’ll point out that I Google You (written by Neil Gaiman for Peri Lyons – because she asked for a song not, as Neil points out, because he was googling her late at night – and recently covered by Amanda Palmer) narrowly missed out on making the list. Balls, that was a messy sentence.
Moving on. What’s your 4AM whisky music?
This list changes constantly. Tonight, my top five solitary drinking songs have been:
1) Time by Tom Waits
2) Rainy Night in Soho by The Pogues
3) Always on My Mind by Elvis Presley
4) Gotta Serve Somebody by Bob Dylan
5) Blue Jeans and Moonbeams by Captain Beefheart
I don’t drink, but let’s not let that ruin the story, eh?
– The Nips Are Getting Bigger, Mental As Anything
– Too Many Times, Mental As Anything
– Staring At The Sun, The Offspring
– Another Lonely Christmas, Prince
– You Got Nothing I Want, Cold Chisel
Now, 3 outta those are ones that maybe only Aussies have heard of… 😀 But I can provide Youtube links if your curiousity gets the better of you.
@GLP – The Pogues, The King and Bob…good choices sir.
@Naomi – It works with juice, the 4AM part is the important bit. Staring at the Sun, like that a lot and haven’t heard it in years. *Off I go to itunes*
Bring on the YouTube links. New ear candy is always welcome.
The Nips Are Getting Bigger (as a kid, I thought this song was nastily racist *chuckle*)
Too Many Times
(Mentals vids always give me a giggle)
You Got Nothing I Want
and I forgot the other Chisel 4am song:
Cheap Wine
Let me know what you think! 🙂
No Distance Left To Run by Blur (most defeatist break up song ever)
Millstone by Brand New (probably the most disturbing “there is no reason to exist and I’ve fucked up my whole life” song)
Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits (oh the futility of war)
Good Riddance by Green Day (it’s just such a melancholy, sweet song)
Blue Veins by The Raconteurs (it’s so obviously morose that you might decide to drown yourself in the whiskey)