Drunken Sing-Songs

Which personally I enjoy best alone. And anyone who's ever heard me sing prefers it that way too.

I'm talking about that moment on the cusp between being drunkenly happy and drunkenly maudlin when you start searching your music collection for those old friends who've been around for ever. The formative ones, the great ones and of course the cheesy ones. I'm not talking about dance tunes, I'm talking about songs to be sung with verve and gusto; like a karaoke American Pie; like a roll out the barrel boozer knees up; like a cowboy in the Mid-West sobbing into his beer over Ode to Billy Joe...

Well in the West-Mids last night we had:

Train in Vain - The Clash
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Knockin on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
What You Do With What You Get - Eddie Reader
Fallen For You - Sheila Nicholls
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Anchorage - Michelle Shocked

and if I could have found them I would have played two old Bristol, St George, Friday night standards:

It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones
Everybody's Talking At Me - Harry Nillsson

before laying on the floor for a quick burst of

I am...I said. - Neil Diamond

Kids, I wonder which songs you currently love will still be your soundtrack thirty years on. I hope it's better than one friend's obsession with ending each drunken evening with a lusty rendition of Ernie...



He said "Do you want it pasteurize, 'cause pasteurize is best "
She says "Ernie, I'll be happy if it comes up to my chest."


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