History Main / OdeToIntoxication

* It seems like [[OnceAnEpisode every single book]] of the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series includes somebody getting drunk and singing about it.

* ConversationalTroping in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', when Nanny Ogg claims that light opera is when everyone sings in foreign and it means "Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!" In ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' we're given an example; Nanny has a beer stein that plays "Ich Bin Ein Rattarsedschwein" (I Am A Rat-Arsed Swine) from ''The Student Horse''.

* Music/TessaViolet's "Wishful Drinking" is about using alcohol to escape one's demons and to help with "focus", as well as the distant, yet constant fear of drowning under addiction and denial that this is what's starting to happen.
-->''This is not a problem if I don't want it to stop\\
Can't call it a problem if I never let a play drop\\
This is not a problem if I don't want it to stop\\
Don't call it a problem; it's the only thing that I still got''

* Music/{{Styx}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3FhLVlAP0 Light Up]]" and Music/{{Boston}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUFZC7uXQZc Smokin']]" aren't about tobacco.

See also ButLiquorIsQuicker, DrugsAreGood, LoveIsADrug and WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs.

* Way too many FolkMetal songs to cover here, with (as mentioned above) Music/{{Korpiklaani}} being a major offender. They have at least one song about drinking on each album and pretty much all with only Korven Kuningas, their fifth studio album, having no song that have to do with drinking. Also, Manala only contains a song that's only partially about drinking, since it's about witchcraft and making someone eat, as the title says, "Soil of the corpse" which seems to be slipped into their drink. And the lyrics only mention drinking in passing, with more focus being on the witchcraft.

* Music/BuckTick loves this. ''Speed'' (which was originally going to be named ''Acid'' with different lyrics, but since ''Acid'' and its lyrics were verboten, Sakurai and Imai rewrote it and renamed it to be about an even more dangerous drug) and ''Heroin,'' and those are just the too obvious ones. There's plenty more less obvious such as ''Candy'' and ''My Fuckin Valentine'' and ''Machine'' and ''Jonathan Jet Coaster.''

* Classic Swedish trobadour Music/CarlMichaelBellman wrote ''lots'' of songs about partying with pretty girls and getting drunk.

* ''Sä kuulut päivään jokaiseen'' is one of the best-loved Finnish tangos and love songs of all time, with its lyrics (translated) including: ''You belong to sunrise and moonlight / you're the morning dew, the golden sunset, the song of a bird at night / I see a shooting star and think of you / Even if I left everyone else, I would never abadon you.'' Written by a heavy-weight alcoholic, the target of its affections is thought to be alcohol and not a person.

* The British comedy duo Music/HaleAndPace did a comedy version entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNLpQqlKn8 "The Drugs Song"]]. Some tropeworthy moments:

* Music/TheBeastieBoys' first albums ''Music/LicensedToIll'' and ''Music/PaulsBoutique'' are full with lyrical references and praisals of beer and marihuana.

** Though the sixth album Karkelo (older Finnish for a celebration or a party) by having a record number of four songs about drinking (though the last one, Kohmelo meaning hangover in slang, is an instrumental song. But by the virtue of it's name it does kind of show the negative side of drinking, even if not musically.

* Likewise "Saufen" by the other German fun punk band[[note]][[CaptainObvious Actually, Germany has more than two.]][[/note]] Music/DieArzte ...although them being more meta, you might suspect it's sarcasm.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUSolxv9EUM Get High]]" by Brandy Clark.

* Another Irish folk song example is "Seven Drunken Nights": a man comes home drunk each night and finds things that don't belong to him, and his wife calls him a drunken fool -- can't he see it's not a horse/coat, it's a sow/blanket her mother sent her? The last two verses are rather explicit, so the ''Literature/{{Dubliners}}'' version cuts off at five nights.

** China's Tang Dynasty had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Immortals_of_the_Wine_Cup Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup]]. "Bring in the Wine" by Li Bai was featured in ''[[Film/DrunkenMaster]]'' with Wong Fei-hung and Beggar So trading verses.

* OlderThanFeudalism: Horace's [[http://www.adnax.com/poems/h01.htm Ode to a Wine Jar.]]

* "Jack, I'm Mellow," a 1938 song by Trixie Smith, which appears as the theme tune for the Netflix series ''Disjointed''.