Rolling Stone: Readers? Best Drinking Songs

[Smoking Guns]

Rock List: Readers? Best Drinking Songs

3/17/08, 5:25 pm EST

To honor St. Patrick?s Day, we asked our readers to tell us their favorite drankin? tunes. We went through the picks and came up with the top ten, because $3 will buy you ten songs on any respectable jukebox. Without further pregaming, here are your picks for the Best Drinking Songs:

1. Tom Petty ? ?Free Fallin??
2. Guns N Roses ? ?Paradise City?
3. Billy Joel ? ?Piano Man?
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd ? ?Sweet Home Alabama?
5. Beastie Boys ? ?Fight For Your Right?
6. The Kinks ? ?Lola?
7. Elton John ? ?Tiny Dancer?
8. Journey ? ?Don?t Stop Believin??
9. Bon Jovi ? ?Livin? On a Prayer?
10. Jerry Lee Lewis ? ?What Made Milwaukee Famous?

Rolling Stone

Wow..another bad RS list.  Don't get me wrong...there are a lot of good songs here.  But "Tiny Dancer"?  I love Elton, but that's no bar song.  And Journey?  C'mon.  For pure sing-a-long appeal, "American Pie" should be on there, and probably "Rock 'n' Roll All Night." 

i would think "Nightrain" is more appropriate...

While I personally agree, it's less likely to get sing-a-long from the less serious fans. 

Girls love Journey.

[ppbebe]

Girls love Journey.

as far as I know, NO.

[alejoyp]

How can nobody named Thin Lizzy's "Whisky in the jar" The fav song from the irish drunkers...

also maybe some John Thoorogood like "If You don't start drinkin'", "I drink alone" or "a scoth, a bourbon and a beer"

Hanoir rocks "cigarettes and a beer" would be fine too... 

[1987]

How can nobody named Thin Lizzy's "Whisky in the jar" The fav song from the irish drunkers...

also maybe some John Thoorogood like "If You don't start drinkin'", "I drink alone" or "a scoth, a bourbon and a beer"

Hanoir rocks "cigarettes and a beer" would be fine too... 

I think the list was more about songs that fire you up while drinking.. rather than songs about drinking..
i agree thoorogood.. has some gems about drinking..
acdc have a drink on me
buckcherry  whiskey in the morning... the refrain in this gem goes something like.. drinkin smokin snortin highs.. can't stop drinking gonna die.. haha  i might be missing some words there but that is the gist of it.

[Shoco]

thats the worst paddys day song list iv ever seen

none of them songs should be on it

[lost in the garden]

I think Don't Want To Miss A Thing would be the last aerosmith drinking song in there, put in Back In The Saddle or Train Kept A Rollin' (or dude like's like a lady, for the tranny lovers)

Classic rock did a list like this recently, but it was a lot better. 

In no order;;

Judas Priest - Livin' After Midnight
Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
Steppenwold - Born To Be Wild
Kiss - Rock n' Roll All Nite
Guns N' Roses - Nightrain
ZZ Top - Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
Scorpions - Blackout
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
Tank - Blood Guts and Beer
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
AC/DC - Big Balls  (classic choice lol)
Pogues - Any Song
Van Halen - Panama
Electric Angels - The Drinking Song
Alice Cooper - Public Animal Numer 9
Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck
Def Leppard - High N' Dry

got the ELECTRIC ANGELS on the list !!!. Nice to see someone remembers this great 80's band