Marking his professional transition to full-time boozehound, we got this tip from former music editor-turned-bar owner Ezra Caraeff.
Need a little help with what you’re drinking? Try Drinkify, which pairs music with a beverage. Punch in what you’re listening to, and the handy database comes up with the ideal pairing.
A few kinks*, though: There’s a “turn music off” switch, but I don’t hear any music playing to begin with. And some of the drink choices are a little, uh, strange. Punching in “Thin Lizzy” doesn’t result in either Irish whiskey or stout, which is totally wrong; instead, Drinkify suggest a disgusting-sounding concoction of rum, elderberry liquor, and tomato juice. “Culture Club” results in a suggestion of one entire ounce of Red Bull (???). “Tom Waits” gives you a relatively mild suggestion of a whole bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. “Neil Young” results in red wine, garnished with a cucumber—weird. And “Frank Sinatra” results in a bottle of merlot, garnished with a maraschino cherry. Um, NO.
*Drinkify’s suggestion for the Kinks? Four ounces of sloe gin. Seems about right.
End Hits: The result for “Everclear”? Not what you think.
i just typed in three random bands and two of the recommendations were for a bottle of pinot noir. The third, to accompany a Japanese psych band, was a bottle of Sierra Nevada. (Product placement?) If I wanted random, I’d listen to John Cage while eating found mushrooms. Worthless, next!
I am not drinking any fucking pinot noir!
PBR for Pavement seems reasonable, but Pink Floyd: a box of wine? I’ll take the pinot noir over the box wine.
This doesn’t seem to be accurate at all.
Oh, hey – I got music on my third try – for Tsunami Bomb!
It suggested PBR for the Dollyrots (correct!), Bourbon-and-Red-Bull for the Tossers (passably correct!)…
But then for Tsunami Bomb, it suggested 8 ounces of Cocaine, 8 ounces of Egg, and 6 ounces of Coke. All in a highball glass. WTH?
You know what? I’d try that!
The Melvins
4 oz marijuana (uh… served on the rocks?)
This site is much more fun if you enter your or your friends’ old bands (assuming those bands ever released any recordings – that seems to be the condition for getting a result).
They pegged my nightly ritual, truly.
THE ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION”
12 oz. Canadian Club Whiskey
12 oz. Coke
8 oz. Raspberry Vodka
It keeps telling me to drink PBR with everything because I guess my musical is immature and watered-down and boring and gives me gas.
* musical taste, I mean.
I would buy tickets to your musical, Joneser.
The result for Syd Barrett is 6 oz. Marijuana, but entering one of my old bands yields 1 bottle LSD. That just isn’t right.
I typed in Willie Nelson and got 8oz of Makers’ Mark. Sounds good to me.
Lil Wayne. 4 oz. Glenfiddich Scotch. Serve neat. Garnish with wedge of pineapple. But that can’t be right because it does not include the worlds “purple”, “drank”, or “sizzurp”
Count me in for “Joneser: The Musical”.