The Best Pisshead Album In The World..... Ever!
I'd have this one played at every party. I mean, they're all going to be popular, we all like to sing along to them and the party just isn't the same without a rambling singalong.
So what if we don't know the words? Who cares? In the state most people reach at - say - New Year's parties, it makes not one jot of difference, does it?
I'd love the packaging too - you simply have to have a lyric sheet. You wouldn't need much apart from the occasional chorus, because everyone's singing 'Nur-nur lalalala' in any case.
But what tracks would make the cut?
For my money, the ultimate pisshead tune is Jeff Beck's 'Hi-ho Silver Lining'. You know the first line or two, and then it's indeterminable mumbling until you get to the point when a roomful of beered-up rugby fans suddenly burst into a bellowed chorus. Odds are that that's also the only time in the whole song that more than two of them have managed to keep to the same tempo.
Other such tunes would be:
'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy' - Rod Stewart
'My Way' - Frank Sinatra
'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life' - Monty Python
'American Pie' - Don McLean
'Ebeneezer Goode' - The Shamen
'Going Underground' - The Jam
I know you could also call this 'The Worst Karaoke Album In The World..... Ever!'
Anyhow - over to you. Any more suggestions? I know there must be hundreds.
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How about
"Now That's What I Call a Wedding Reception" Volume 1
Many teenage
nights out in the 80s ended up with Sinatra's New York, New York, with everyone doing a strange cross between a knees up and a can-can.
More recently, Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis usually gets everyone, including me, singing along (although maybe not in these parts).
For the laydees...
'I Will Survive' of course.
Get on someone's shoulders
COME ON EILEEN surely
Ooops...
...missed that one...
I recommend
A trip to Club Beer. Their manifesto? "We play music that only sounds good when you're drunk."
Aaaaaaa...
ga-do-do-do...
Aaaaaa....
...aaaaaaaaggghhhhh!
Vienna
God knows how long Ultravox's Vienna was at No. 1 but it seemd to be a significant part of my formative years. Yet, despite the age that it dominated the charts, no-one I knew could give any of the lyrics apart from "It means nothing to me....Oh Vienna".
The other thing I remember about it is that it was undanceable......until the middle 8 where New Romantics desperately try to cram an entire track's dancing into the 15 second before being consigned back to the tedium of the rest of the track. Oh Vienna!!
Um...
I hate to say this, but you seem to be the only person that doesn't know 'Vienna' only reached No. 2 - it was kept off the top by Joe Dolce's 'Shaddap A You Face'.
Now that was crap.
As an inveterate Saturday night suburban pub DJ
this is my specialist subject.
Kids In America / Living On A Prayer / Live And Let Die / Don't Stop Me Now / Road To Nowhere / Whole Lotta Love / Nutbush City Limits / Born Slippy / London Calling / pretty much any Madness song / Higher Ground / Sweetest Feeling are all great drunken chantalongs
but my secret weapons are three that people always seem to have forgotten how much they love: Fleetwood Mac's 'Everywhere', Paul Simon 'Call Me Al' and 'Bare Necessities' either in the Jungle Book version or Michelle Shocked's brilliant country/swing cover version ALL get pissed people up on their seats and singing along (and in the case of 'Call Me Al' playing "air bass" to the bass solo to boot) every single time!
My wife also suggested
'Tubthumping' - pretty obvious, really. Dunno why nobody managed to think of it before... including me.