Time Out Ranks the 10 Best Drinking Songs, From Snoop Dogg to Brecht-Weill

Key facts

• Time Out published a ranking of the 50 best drinking songs, with the top 10 including Snoop Dogg, Julie London, The Pogues, Cherub, Nina Simone, Beastie Boys, Willie Nelson, Dead Kennedys, Three 6 Mafia, and Brecht-Weill.
• Snoop Dogg released "Gin & Juice" in 1994 on his debut album, one of the first mainstream rap songs to name a drink recipe in its title.
• Cherub's "Doses and Mimosas" went viral in 2013, gaining over a million YouTube views in a week and leading to a deal with Columbia Records.
• Dead Kennedys' 1981 single "Too Drunk to Fuck" charted in the UK despite bans, and the band included a defiant sticker mocking record stores that refused to stock it.
• Three 6 Mafia's "Sippin' on Some Syrup" (2000) featured Pimp C and documented Southern codeine culture; the group later won an Academy Award in 2006 for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
• The Doors covered "Alabama Song" in 1966; the song was originally composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for their 1930 opera "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny."
• Willie Nelson's "Whiskey River," written by Johnny Bush, appeared on his 1973 album "Shotgun Willie" and became a staple concert opener.
• Nina Simone's 1966 version of "Lilac Wine" is considered the definitive interpretation of the song, which was originally written in 1950 for a theatrical revue.