but when I was absolutely obliterated I always used to play Wings Greatest. My poor flatmate Dave had the patience of a saint.

*sticks out tongue*

Great for air mandolin on the tube whilst 3 sheets to the wind

that your inebriated favourite and your most played are one and the same.

playlist on my phone especially for the last train/bus slightly refreshed revere . goes like this
Wilco - California Stars
Bettye Swann – Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
John Cale – All My Friends (John Cale's Version)
Elbow – Running To Stand Still
The Byrds – She Don't Care About Time (single version)
Groove Armada – Come Back Home
Richard Hawley – I'm on Nights
Rodd Stewart – Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Bryan Ferry – Carrickfergus
Damien Jurado – Everything Trying
Efterklang – Modern Drift
Dolly Parton – My Blue Tears

I recall a fun evening years ago when my friend and I put on The Doors 'The End' whilst in a state of advanced inebriation and sang along/shouted along to the whole thing. All together now -'He took a face from the ancient gallery and he...he walked on down the hall'. That's the great thing about rock music. You can see and mock it's preposterousness and absurdity whilst thoroughly enjoying it, all at the same time. I wouldn't really recommend this track when alone though. The Pixies 'Monkey Gone To Heaven' is good - you can really shout it out - 'and God is seven and God is seven! 'I suppose I am thinking being a bit more than mildly refreshed and being at home rather than en route. Hendrix 'All Along The Watchtower' would be my choice for a milder state whilst in transit.

every time.

It has to be Such a Night by Doctor John every time.

- Rock and Roll,

or if I'm really pissed, Foghat - Slowride.

Blame guitar hero.

...but then so am I when the wine's been drunk, the malt has been poured and the headphones are on in the early hours.

Which means that the song on repeat when I finally wake up at 4am, slumped in my chair with a thin line of drool leading from my mouth to my shoulder, is inevitably...

"Heart as Big as Liverpool" by The Mighty Wah!

I know it's really bad when I start singing along, headphones still in place, in the early hours...and Mrs W appears in the den doorway with that look on her face...that's when the spare room beckons...

I don't have a favourite song per se, but if I've consumed a few beverages, I tend to head for Nat King Cole, Julie London, or The Prodigy. Go figure.

Still think this is a funny essay, see Robert Crampton's piece at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article6937491.ece

Shameful scenes. Trying to recapture something, the feeling of first hearing these songs, of being 16, of having had just enough to drink but not too much. Something.

Still in the Seventies, scrolling through YouTube, ripping CDs from their cases, plastic skittering across the floor, I’ll play Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight, not forgetting the Pips, and then perhaps If You’re Looking for a Way Out by Odyssey off my Heartbreakers compilation. More swearing then with The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn by the Pogues.

“Robert you’ve chosen your eight, or possibly more than eight, records,” says Kirsty. “So tell me, will you cope with the combination of total isolation and relentless alcohol abuse that Drunk Island demands? How do you view the prospect of getting utterly hammered every day while tunelessly singing along to poor recordings of questionable songs from 30 years ago?” “Kirsty, sweetheart,” I say, “I’ll be fine.”

tends to be The Bends but just lately I've noticed a predilection for Saxophone Collossus by Sonny Rollins and I'm buggered if I know why the sudden change of direction.

it's The YCAGWYW hitmakers, with 'Loving Cup'

but Angel Of Harlem is one I like to belt out when under the influence.

Or, you can't beat a bit of Elvis - oldies like Hound Dog, Teddy Bear or if at the maudlin stage of drunk, Just can't Help Believing and In The Ghetto

for a night of achieving refreshment I tend towards The Pogues and especially 'Hells Ditch' - the whole album - it takes a while to prepare myself these days. On returning from said expedition I do like a good blast of Lynyrd Skynyrd - most likely the live album 'One From The Road'.

My typing skills have diminished, or emusic has got quicker, just downloaded new Wire album whilst posting this

All from his(and mine come to think of it...) handsome phase. "Solid Air", "Bless the Weather", "Grace and Danger" etc

obviously.
Sweet Caroline with the added brass sections.

He's got that fabulous sloppy drunk feel. Got to be on vinyl.

Swordfishtrombones is also a late night favourite when I've been getting fu' and unco happy.

Consideration by Reef
Stay by Bernard Butler
Sugar Kane by Sonic Youth

or stuff by Hole since my drunken yodelling sounds not unlike the vocal stylings of Ms Love

always All Around the World by Oasis

"All AROUND the WOO UHHH RRRLLLDDDD
You gotta SPREAD the WURRRRRRRHHHHD
TELL 'EM WHAT YOU HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRDD
IT's GONNA BE OK

My version goes on even longer than the album version.

Shack for me.

Comedy or Undecided.

OK so scanning through people's lists, when I saw the heading three things popped into my head:

1) Most things by Suede, particularly Heroine, Another No-one and Metal Mickey - what are the odds?
2) The Bends (particularly that song)
3) Okkervil River, the stand ins.
4) anything by Ryan Adams

There must be something scientific going on here then about 1) and 2).