50 Best Rock Songs About Alcohol
Top Rock Tracks on Drinking and Wild Nights
There’s a certain mood tied to alcohol in rock music. It can swing reckless, sloppy, sad, or wild depending on the night. One track feels like a bar fight, another like that last call haze when no one wants to go home yet. Rock bands have used bottles, bars, and hangovers as shorthand for chaos or freedom, and sometimes both at once. Some of these songs lean literal, some bend it sideways, but they all spill into that blurry headspace where the room spins a little and the volume cranks up.
It’s never only about pouring another drink. The lyrics spill over into heartbreak, regret, and celebration, sometimes all inside the same chorus. These songs hang on the edges of parties that feel too loud, or mornings where the sun hits wrong through the blinds. The guitars sound loose and dirty, the drums stumble but keep charging ahead. You don’t need to be holding a glass to feel what’s in these tracks, because the mess, the swagger, and the fallout all fit inside the noise.
Plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs touch this territory, but the rock cuts carry a different punch. They don’t smooth the edges, they leave them jagged. A few of these songs may not be literally centered on drinking, yet the energy threads straight into that space anyway. Here are the best rock songs on alcohol.
Top 10 Drinking Rock Songs
1. 'One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer' by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
2. 'Have a Drink on Me' by AC/DC
3. 'Cold Gin' by Kiss
4. 'Whiskey in the Jar' by Thin Lizzy
5. 'Nightrain' by Guns N' Roses
6. 'Tubthumping' by Chumbawamba
7. 'Take Your Whiskey Home' by Van Halen
8. 'I Drink Alone' by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
9. 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)' by The Doors
10. 'Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers' by ZZ Top
Essential Rock Songs about Alcohol #11 to 20
11. 'Alcohol' by The Kinks
12. 'Spill the Wine' by Eric Burdon and War
13. 'Streams of Whiskey' by The Pogues
14. 'Red Red Wine' by UB40
15. 'Six Pack' by Black Flag
16. 'Poison Whiskey' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
17. 'Brass Monkey' by Beastie Boys
18. 'Have Another Drink' by The Kinks
19. 'Suicide Solution' by Ozzy Osbourne
20. 'Here Comes a Regular' by The Replacements
Well-Known Rock Songs About Liquor #21 to 30
21. 'Mas Tequila' by Sammy Hagar
22. 'Jockey Full of Bourbon' by Tom Waits
23. 'White Lightning & Wine' by Heart
24. 'Whiskey on the Rocks' by AC/DC
25. 'Demon Alcohol' by Ozzy Osbourne
26. 'I Wish You Were a Beer' by Cycle Sluts from Hell
27. 'Home for a Rest' by Spirit of the West
28. 'Gin and Juice' by Snoop Dogg
29. 'Drunken Lullabies' by Flogging Molly
30. 'Beer' by People Under the Stairs
Top Songs About Alcohol and Partying #31 to 40
31. 'Why Don’t We Get Drunk' by Jimmy Buffett
32. 'Milk and Alcohol' by Dr. Feelgood
33. 'Cigarettes & Alcohol' by Oasis
34. 'The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)' by Tom Waits
35. 'Booze Me Up and Get Me High' by Ween
36. 'Kiss the Bottle' by Jawbreaker
37. 'Monkberry Moon Delight' by Paul & Linda McCartney
38. 'The Drinking Song' by Electric Angels
39. 'Whiskey Rock-a-Roller' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
40. 'Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting' by Elton John
Popular Songs About Getting Drunk #41 to 50
41. 'S.O.B.' by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
42. 'Roadhouse Blues' by The Doors
43. 'These Times Have Got Me Drinking' by Flogging Molly
44. 'Whiskey Man' by Molly Hatchet
45. 'I Got Loaded' by Los Lobos
46. 'Captain Jack' by Billy Joel
47. 'Whiskey Heaven' by Fats Domino
48. 'I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink' by Merle Haggard
49. 'Champagne & Reefer' by Muddy Waters
50. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver
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