The Ultimate Stag-Do Playlist
Let’s get one thing straight: the stag-night playlist should be the polar opposite of the wedding playlist. At the wedding it’s all about smooching and kittens and true love. At the stag night, it’s all about boobs and booze and Jeremy Clarkson. Try slipping a few of these on the iPod for stag success, or if you Spotify (and you should because it’s good and it’s free) you can hear most of the tracks on the Staggered Ultimate Stag-Night Playlist.
WARMING UP
The Replacements – Beer For Breakfast
The lyrics say, “All I wanna do is drink beer for breakfast/All I wanna eat is them BBQ chips.” Really? Well today’s your lucky day, my friend!
Sure, it’s a horrible, horrible song, but it’s also an intense, five-minute drinking game. Line up a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager, er, ‘drink’ and a cider drink and sup along with the lyrics to kick the party off in style. Things are gonna get messy…
The Libertines – What Became Of The Likely Lads
It’s a song about male bonding, plain and simple, and that’s what a stag night is all about. The Libertines wrote it after Pete Doherty broke into Carl Barat’s flat, a testament to the enduring power of the bromance.
A taste of realism among the madness. The protagonist in Up The Junction never thought it would happen with the girl from Clapham. It did, they married, and baby made three. Two years later, wife leaves him for a soldier and he’s left with nowt but a bad booze habit. Just sayin’.
PEAK TIME
In keeping with the drinking theme, you can’t beat this former Ibiza anthem with its catchy lyric, “Lager, lager, lager, lager, lager.” Guaranteed to get groups of men jumping up and down in sweaty, sloppy abandon.
It’s unlikely going to get played at the reception, so now’s the time to unleash Billy Idol’s sneering ode to matrimony.
Queen can stick their fat bottomed girls, this is the best ever song about butts. And there’s no better time to celebrate the majesty of the female derriere than with your man-pals on a stag night. Free shot for anyone who can do the whole rap.
The Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right
It’s dumb, macho and fun, so it encapsulates everything a good stag night should be. The lyrics are fairly pertinent too – in the future, the groom will frequently find himself fighting for his right to party. One day he’ll realise he signed away that right while wearing a top hat, and look back dewy-eyed on this moment.
There comes a time when a group of drunk guys feel the need to curl off a few licks on the ol’ air guitar. Strap on an imaginary Les Paul and feel the power of the riff in AC/DC’s most rockingest moment.
END OF THE NIGHT
Whiskey In The Jar – Thin Lizzy
More alcohol, sir? This ones a sloshingly good booze song from the booziest band ever. Enjoy it with a fine whiskey from the top shelf.
This song is practically hardwired into a man’s psyche. It begins as a power ballad for arm-linking, singing-in-the-face moments, then bursts into a kick-arse riff for like, five minutes. The sentiment’s perfect too: “This bird you cannot change.” Right on, bro.
Dead Kennedys – Too Drunk To Fuck
You will be by now.
Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
The simple formula (says gang of lads) + Oasis = (male bonding). Really, any pre-2000 Gal-bros song will do, but for sheer singalonga value, you can’t beat Don’t Look Back In Anger. Continue singing chorus all the way home.
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