Comments on: Amazing dive bar songs

By: e

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:56:52 +0000

missed when you used to actually blog. also cursive / atd-i / hall & oates / forever. the jukebox at bbq bar is pretty awesome. except when someone plays in the aeroplane over the sea in its entirety. .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:55:00 +0000

Nick Cave – People Ain’t No Good
Replacements – If Only You Were Lonely
Tom Waits – I Wish I Was In New Orleans
Against Me – Baby I’m an Anarchist (Maybe it’s a bit too obvious, but what better song to sing along drunkenly too?)
Leonard Cohen – Closing Time
John Cale – Hallelujah
Guns N Roses – I Used To Love Her
Flogging Molly – If I Ever Leave This World Alive
Pogues – Dirty Old Town
Chuck Berry – Promised Land
Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant or, really, anything off of Bollocks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:42:49 +0000

The jukebox in the front room of the Cameron Public House in Toronto used to be loaded up with great stuff like Johhny Cash’s Big River, The Demics’ NewYork City, Hank Williams’ Lost Highway, Handsome Ned’s Put the Blame On Me, The Viletones’ Screamin’ Fist, Hank Snow’s Golden Rocket, and Gene Vincent’s Be Bob a Lula. Pretty Goddamn hard to pick a bad song on it. Throw in a few trays of cheap draft and an assortment of sad-eyed old drunks who lived upstairs and you got the perfect Saturday afternoon.

By: d.

d. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:31:00 +0000

wow. this list could be never ending.

I notice you’ve got tom waits on your updated list but the song that first came to mind was ‘Step right up’.

others that come to mind right now:

echo & the bunnymen – killing moon
the saints – Im stranded
ryan adams – to be young (is to be sad, is to be high)
you am i – berlin chair
ween – gabrielle
Nick cave – do you love me and probably a few others (nick the stripper maybe?)

i know you have lucero covered but what about ‘that much further west’ and ‘tonight ain’t gonna be no good’?

By: BonerEA

BonerEA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:01:15 +0000

I love to put on Hum – Stars at bars. It usually costs a mint to “download” the song and play it, but it’s worth it. Everyone always gets real pensive and says “I KNOW this song!” And then I get in their face and say “IT’S FUCKING HUM, THAT’S WHY!”