Top 10 Drinking and Driving Songs

!!!!!!!DISCLAIMER!!!!!!! First off, let’s be clear that the authors in no way condone drinking and driving, unless it’s done on a closed course by professionals while filming a car commercial or approaching a club house where you’re not a member and the descent isn’t too steep. Drunken go-karting is to be judged on a case-by-case basis.

The same could’ve been said about our other lists, The Top 10 Cocaine Songs of All Time or the litany of other vices we’ve chronicled here, however unlike someone who’s taken to the nose candy like an anteater grazing, who can at least be forgiven for the occasional indulgence, drinking and driving, or as it’s sometimes called, ‘how the hell else am I gonna get home, walk?’ is quite rightly considered a very serious offense (unless you’re an actor or some kind of celebrity). However, this doesn’t prevent us from hopefully one day earning a Wikipedia entry on the subject of DUI Songs and cornering our little piece of pop culture real estate by tracking down a few of these and saving you restless nights poring over Time Life hits compilations from the 1970s–or hours that could’ve been better spent finding novel ways to waste your company’s time.

In this list, we focus on songs whose origin (much like our Top 10 Bar Songs of All Time) came about when someone put pen to paper, mused ‘hmm, maybe I should write what I know’, and thought about that time they tossed a can of Schlitz out onto the interstate. We figured brunch reservations with Pol Pot or whatever else would be on the itinerary should a place be set aside for us in hell, would be our just desserts if we were to say, compile a list of songs TO LISTEN TO WHILE DRINKING AND DRIVING; but since we aren’t, it seems the road ahead is clear (unlike that same road if you’ve been pulled over and trying to explain to the arresting officer that you’re not really drunk, you’re heavily medicated and having one of your ’spells’).

Without further ado, in hopes of being handed editorial reins for Blender’s ‘Moral Decay’ issue, or at least landing a free monthly subscription here are the Top 10 Drinking and Driving Songs of All Time!

[!!!! Disclaimer!!!! Again, we advocate that NOBODY get drunk and get behind the wheel, unless you're on the set of a Michael Bay movie in which case feel free to take out the director's chair and use a fruit stand for brakes]

10. Lovin’ Cup as performed by the Rolling Stones

During the recording of their seminal Exile on Main St album, apparently so much heroin was flowing through the French mansion where recording sessions were taking place that Keith Richards had to direct his creative energies elsewhere–to songs extolling the virtues of heavy alcohol abuse. What he left us is arguably one of the finer songs on the album and a great one to kick off our list here.

“Yes I’m fumbling and I know my car won’t start.
Yes I’m stumbling and I know I play a bad guitar.
Give me a little drink, from your lovin’ cup. Just one drink and I’ll fall down drunk.”

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