Show me, the way,...to the next whiskey bar

[Baclava]

Oh, don't ask why

Oh, don't ask why

[geardaddy]

1. There's whiskey in the jar?

[Orrex]

2. God damn I hate that song.

The only thing worse than the song itself is David Bowie's cover of it.


Horrible.

[JVS]

4. I hate the Doors' cover of it

[Orrex]

7. That's another bad one

I heard Bowie's version first, oddly enough, so it always ranks "most worstest" for me.

[mitchum]

14. That's the only song where Ray Manzarek's stupid Vox organ actually sounds appropriate

they were making money, why didn't he buy a Hammond?

[Baclava]

13. It's a test

I said, don't ask why.

[mitchum]

15. For a really bad imitation Bowie version check out Richard Butler's version

but that describes pretty much all of Butler's output

[DoBotherMe]

3. Jane Horrocks does Yitta Hilberstam

starts at 2:05.:evilgrin: Dana ; )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akw7yknLlvE

[JVS]

5. I drank at a place called Whiskey Bar

I wish there were a chain of bars specializing in whisk(e)y called that.

[trof]

6. I give you : The Whiskey bar in Amsterdam.

Just off the Leidseplein.


ALL Scotch whiskeys.
That's just a portion of the menu on the wall.
They have a three panel 'individual' menu that lists each Scotch with a description of it's origin and taste.

VALHALLA!
That's where I want to go when I die.
:-)

[Baclava]

8. Best response yet

I was just feeling sad because my favorite bartendress just left me and got married and is moving to Boston.

[trof]

12. I've spent some very enjoyable hours in that bar.

Even fell in love there, once.
:-)

[KamaAina]

9. Thanks for the earworm

NOT!

:grr:

[IcyPeas]

10. It originally comes from this opera:

“The Rise and Fall of the City Mahogany,” Bertolt Brecht’s sharply satirical 1930s opera.

[Baclava]

11. Thanks...very nice

Scene 16: Drinking.

In an effort to shake off the gloom of Joe’s death, Jimmy invites everyone to have a drink on him. The men sing "Life in Mahagonny", describing how one could live in the city for only five dollars a day, but those who wanted to have fun always needed more.

Jim, increasingly drunk, dreams of sailing back to Alaska. He takes down a curtain rod for a mast and climbs on the pool table, pretending it is a ship; Jenny and Billy play along. Jimmy is abruptly sobered up when Begbick demands payment for the whiskey as well as for the damage to her property. Totally broke, he turns in a panic to Jenny, who explains her refusal to help him out in the song "Make your own bed" – an adaptation of the ideas he proclaimed at the end of Act One. Jim is led off in chains as the chorus, singing another stanza of "Life in Mahagonny", returns to its pastimes. Trinity Moses assures the crowd that Jimmy will pay for his crimes with his life.

[femmocrat]

16. OMG I love that song!

Lots of great memories.....