“The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway…I’ve started to make a tape… in my head…”
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Drunk-tober! Drunk-tober!!! Drunk-tober!!!!!! DRUNK-TOBER!!!!!! That’s right it’s Drunk-toberFEST here at EGPR and I had the 24oz cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon to prove it. In honor of the glorious German tradition of getting wasted in October I compiled a tape of punk rock drinking songs.
SHOW OPENER- “A Certain Romance” by The Arctic Monkeys
***SIDE A***
“I Only Drink Bud” by The Queers
“Alcohol” by Gang Green
“Drinking Beer And Rock N Roll” by The Wretched Ones
“Stinking Drunk” by Big Black
“Drunk Freak” by LARM
“Surfin’ In The Bars” by The Nomads
“Drunken Jocks” by The Suicide Machines
“Drinking And Driving” by The Business
“Drinking And Driving” by Black Flag
***SIDE B***
“Olde English 800” by Alkaline Trio
“I Drink” by L7
“40oz. To Freedom” by Sublime
“Pizza-N-Beer” by Adrenalin OD
“Plastic Cup Politics” by Less Than Jake
“I Wanna Be An Alcoholic” by NOFX
“I Can’t Puke” by The Dry Heaves
“Rhythm & Booze” by Buck Owens
“Barroom Hero” by Dropkick Murphy’s
“A Drunker Version Of You” by The Leaving Trains
I figured if we played a UK “Drinking And Driving” it would only be fair to play an American take on “Drinking And Driving”.
Every week Friday at 7:00pm Elitist Geezer Punk Radio on Tapdetroit.com will be providing you with a mixtape that pays due credit to the punk scenes of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and that’s it. If you were in a band or knew some bands or collected any CD’s of local punk bands please send us your shit at…
gogeezorgohome@gmail.com
…or even if you just have a great story from your days of Dr. Martens Boots and chain wallets jot it down in an email along with a song request and, who knows, I’ll probably play it.
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