Booze and Vinyl celebrates a past when people would actually get together and listen to a music LP while sipping on drinks. Andre and Tanya Darlington present 70 classic albums and for each selection suggest drinks that might make it sound better to the listener. For the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers (1971) the Darlingtons recommend a Tequila Sunrise or a Jack and Coke (and Coors). For Frank Sinatra’s In the Wee Small Hours (1955), the recommendations are for a Manhattan or a Tuxedo Cocktail. Drink recipes are included. Booze and Vinyl is a fun book to browse through. Do you have a favorite drink? GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1 is Rock and features albums ranging from Led Zeppelin to the Beastie Boys.
Chapter 2 is Dance and opens with James Brown and closes with Lady Gaga.
Chapter 3 is Chill. And chill you will with everything from Elvis to Wilco.
Chapter 4 is Seduce and it opens with Frank Sinatra and finishes with Bon Iver.
Gag me with a spoon!
Bob, I thought you liked booze.
No, I don’t like booze! I used to have an occasional mixed drink but alcohol and I are nearly strangers!
I remember when a few of us used to get together to hear the latest Dylan or Beatles, though we were more likely to guzzle beer or cheap wine than mixed drinks. George, you probably had similar get-togethers for the latest Ray Conniff singers or Jack Jones.
Dan, believe it or not I hosted a couple of “Listening Parties”: when Simon and Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence came out in January 1966 and when Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde was released in June 1966. No alcoholic beverages were served (I was only 17) but we did have Coke and potato chips.
If I had to listen to Jack Jones, it would have been Thunderbird or MD 20/20.
Otherwise, no.
Jeff, I was never a Jack Jones fan…or a Thunderbird fan.
Not a drinker these days, but back when it would have been beer or white wine. I don’t really see any connection between what you drink, alcoholic or not, and music.
Rick, I suspect the BOOZE AND VINYL theme is a marketing scheme. It worked with me: I bought the book!
my favorite drink is an amaretto sour though I also like Chambord or amaretto straight
used to drink one called skip and go naked (early 70’s) which as I recall was Vodka, grenadine, sweet and sour, and a splash of beer (I usually didn’t want the beer)
there was also one called a jelly bean – anisette and blackberry brandy just like a black jelly bean
Maggie, back in my College years, I used to drink Black Russians (Kahlua and vodka) and Rusty Nails (Scotch and Drambuie over ice). Now, I just drink one glass of sweet red wine per day (doctor’s orders!).
Yuck!
Like George, I drank Black Russians. Also Harvey Wallbangers (basically, a screwdriver with a little Galliano on top). In earlier (late 60s) days, a vodka Collins. Mateus Rose in the early ’70s.
Jeff, I actually preferred Rusty Nails to Black Russians. Now, I’m a red wine guy.
This is as dumb a concept as the TCM Wine Club. Skip the book entirely, go to the “Happy Hour” section of lpcoverlover.com and browse the LPs that offer drink pairings right on the cover!
Art, thanks for the heads up on lpcoverlover.com!
Aside from a very occasional beer, I don’t drink. I am a fuddy-duddy.
Jerry, I never got into beer. I like root beer, ginger beer, and birch beer, but not the alcohol stuff.
I’ve been a beer fan since I was 16 – yes, in Germany you’re allowed to go into a bar at that age!
My friends at school and me used to go to a bar regularly to do that – beer on tap is still better than in bottles – or even cans, horrible!
Later at university we often had music parties in one of our rooms – everybody had a different music taste, we didn’t have too much money so we bought only the “absolutely necessary” records.
Wine was too expensive for us – and spirits too.
Later of course I started on wine (dry!) to go with a good meal.
PS:
I hope you don’t get angry – American beer is not for me, especially the big brands. So on my/our holidays there I always tried to find a bar that had some craft beer – if not, then a Coors might do – but absolutely no Bud or Miller!
Wolf, the trend in beer here in the U.S. is for micro-brewing beer. There are hundreds of small producers that make thousands of variations for beer lovers. The Big Brands–like Budweiser and Coors–market to the vast middle of beer drinkers.