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A contest! (Because it's my blog and I'll do what I want.)

3/17/2014

OK. Chicago winter is dragging on and has killed my inspiration and hope, so I need something fun and different!

Here goes- In the comments to this post, name your favorite songs with wine in the title or lyrics. You may submit as many songs as you like, but try to do selections you actually thought of on your own, not something Google found for you. It can be a song from any genre. Please list the song title and artist.

I'll cut the submissions off on Wednesday, March 26th (you have over a week to brainstorm.)

Once I've collected the responses, I'll do another post with a poll listing all the submitted songs and the person who originally suggested song that wins the most votes will win a wine-related gift from me! A prize, if you will. (And if only one awesome person posts a bunch of songs- I'll still do the poll, and then that person will get a prize as closely related to the winning song as I can think of/afford on a shop-girl's pay. I've thought this through!)

OK. That's it! Brainstorm, submit ideas, and don't let me down- it snowed here this past weekend- again. I NEED THIS TO BE FUN.

Cheers!

23 Comments

Sara

3/17/2014 10:04:56 pm

Red Red Wine by UB40 of course!!!

Kimberly Logan link

3/18/2014 12:03:28 am

Sara stole my first choice!

Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter
Save the Wine - The Congregation (local band - awesome EP!!!)

I'll be back after I've thought some more (and after I do some actual work here at work!)

Corey

3/18/2014 12:08:37 am

Lady on the Water - Blitzen Trapper! :)

Corey

3/18/2014 04:30:39 am

PS - since folks might not be familiar with this song, here's a link to the lyrics. Lots of allusions to wine/viticulture!

http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858739601/

Kimberly Logan

3/18/2014 12:14:00 am

We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart (full-disclosure, I did have to look up the artist cuz I couldn't remember for the life of me - and I though the title was "Cherry Wine")

Leslie

3/18/2014 12:54:20 am

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - a lot of people, since it's a folk song
Lilac Wine - also a lot of people, since it's a jazz standard

Jenna Rabideaux

3/18/2014 01:05:22 am

"Time Out of Mind" by Steely Dan ("...the water may change to cherry wine")

Mark Ward

3/18/2014 01:24:36 am

Spill the Wine - War

An oldie but a goodie.

Kate Coates

3/18/2014 01:49:35 am

Sooo... I do not know if this one counts since he never says the word "wine" but I will throw it in there:

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel.
"A bottle of red, a bottle of white, perhaps a bottle of rose instead..."

My dad LOVES Billy Joel. I know most of his songs, by heart now... ;) Good luck with the contest and I love your blog!!

Adrianne Cury

3/18/2014 06:00:45 am

Great tune; gotta count.

Rebecca Cox

3/18/2014 02:14:15 pm

Totally counts!

Elinor Westfold

3/18/2014 02:47:59 am

As a California girl who ALSO loves Oregon, I have to suggest
California One/ Youth an Beauty Brigade by the Decemberists

"Take a long drown with me of California Wine

And the wine it tastes so sweet
As we lay our eyes to wander
And the sky, it stretches deep"

Elinor Westfold

3/18/2014 02:51:49 am

While we rest our heads to slumber Beneath the vines of California wine?
Beneath the sun of California one"

(I pressed submit too soon - it's important to get al the lyrics in there)

Danny Steyer

3/18/2014 02:50:19 am

Here's one that nobody will vote for:

"I drink the wine" by Murder City Devils

Corey

3/18/2014 04:28:45 am

I thought of another one! "Poison and Wine" by the Civil Wars.

I love Elinor's suggestion of California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade. My favorite Decemberists song!

Elinor Westfold

3/18/2014 04:54:05 am

Haha - I wanted to get there first :)

Adrianne Cury

3/18/2014 05:59:48 am

Seasons in the Sun, originally Jaques Brel, oui?
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun, but the wine & the song, like the seasons have all gone...
I did not double-check these, so forgive any error, but it def has wine in its lyric.

Danny Steyer

3/18/2014 04:43:53 pm

Another we thought of:

"Champagne from a paper cup" by Death Cab for Cutie.

Sonja

3/18/2014 10:48:08 pm

Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry! I was determined not to look at Google (as instructed), and I woke up this morning with it stuck in my head.

Dave voted for Billy Joel's Scene from an Italian Restaurant, which I see Kate has already mentioned. :)

Sonja

3/18/2014 10:50:32 pm

Two mentions!

"You and me, and a bottle of wine..."

"So take this wine and drink with me / And let's delay our misery..."

Scott

3/19/2014 01:07:07 am

I'd like to pretend Start Wearing Purple by Gogol Bordello is about drinking a ton of red wine.

I googled it so it doesn't count for the contest, but this is a very uplifting song.
Wenn das Wasser im Rhein goldner Wein wär (If the water in the Rhine was golden wine) - Willy Schneider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-9N9B0DvlM

If the water in the Rhine were golden wine,
Yes, then I'd really like to be a little fish.
Well, how I could guzzle,
Wouldn't need to buy any wine,
Because Father Rhine's cask would never become empty!

Alli

3/21/2014 10:56:40 pm

Well, I was going to say Red, Red Wine and Strawberry Wine, but those are already listed! How about Lady Marmalade!

Dave S.

3/26/2014 09:55:45 am

The song's almost universally reviled at this point. But...

The Eagles - Hotel California:

"So I called up the Captain,
"Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine"

and later...

"Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"

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