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Smoking ban? Think about the music! Smoking Band is more like it.
Written by Jimmy
Over the weekend, the press reported that a third of smokers who quit thanked the smoking ban in part for contributing to their decision (click here). I won’t comment on the pros/cons of smoking, although my vodka tonics sure taste better in smoke free pubs, but I will point out the a number of my favourite songs involve smoking (as always on line, there’s a number of Top 100 lists here) . My countdown:
10. Smoking in the Boys Room, Brownville Station. Not really a favorite but a rite of passage.
9. Tex Williams, Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette (gotta love a guy who hates cigarettes because it effects his gambling)
8. Cigarette Smoke, Artic Monkeys
7. Cigarettes and Alcohol: Oasis.
6. Three Cigarettes in the Ash Tray. Simple, and perfect, lyrics.
5. Cigarette Duet, Princess Chelsea. Best song in a hot tub since our own Agatha’s 18th
(Before we go on, her’es our hot tub song)
4. Smelling cigarettes, the Fiery Furnaces… A lost little Gem
3. Sly Cigarette, Tiny Tim. A very lost, little…gem.
2. Cigarettes and Coffee, Otis Redding
1. This is the main reasons to keep cigarettes in our lives, Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk, Rufus Wainwright:
Now, if we extended this to songs about pot or songs that mention cigarettes, then the list changes dramatically. That will wait for another day, but in each category, here is a song in top 5.
If this were about pot, ‘Don’t Bogart that Joint’, Little Feat:
And if it was songs mentioning smoking, my goodness, that is a long list, but we would feature: A Day in the Life, the Beatles (went upstairs and had a smoke, somebody smoke and I went into a dream). Might cover pot as well…