History Main / OdeToSobriety

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrAAK9GLZ1g Cheap Whiskey]]" by Martina [=McBride=].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfEtO-zswdI "Kicks"]] by ''Music/PaulRevereAndTheRaiders''.

'Cause from what I can see, everyone's at it\\

[[AC:Deconstructed OdeToIntoxication]]

* "Drinking Song" by Moxy Früvous. It actually starts out seeming like [[OdeToIntoxication the exact opposite]], describing fond memories of hanging around the house and getting drunk with a close friend. Then the tone of the lyrics gradually starts getting darker, and it turns out the friend in question drank himself to death one day, which caused the narrator to quit.

* German example 1: "Alkohol" by Herbert Grönemeyer. Descibes the kick, but the message at the end ("Alcohol is the ship you are going down with") is rather obvious.

[[AC: DrugsAreBad]]

[[AC: Glad To Be Sober]]

[[AC: Parodies]]

[[AC: Aversions]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn7549lL90M "Straight Edge"]] by MinorThreat. Inspired the entire straight edge movement - though Ian MacKaye didn't intend to.

The "Deconstructed OdeToIntoxication" Ode to Sobriety would be an OdeToIntoxication except the song is about the singer's (or writer's) near-death from an OD, an addiction he or she actually wants to escape or has gone into treatment for, about someone's suicide from alcohol and/or drugs, or about anything else that is about the less fun side of intoxication.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwT492YDvg "White Lines"]] by GrandmasterFlash ([[CoverVersion and also by]] Music/DuranDuran.)

* [[http://youtu.be/nJ3ZM8FDBlg "Sober"]] by Music/{{Pink}}.

--> Ashes to ashes, funk to funky\\
We know Major Tom's a junkie\\
Strung out in heaven's high\\
Hitting an all-time low\\
Time and time I tell myself\\
I'll stay clean tonight\\
But the little green wheels are following me\\
Oh, no, not again\\
I'm stuck with a valuable friend\\
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too."\\
One flash of light\\
But no smoking pistol

-->So you've got a prescription\\
And that makes it legal\\
I find the excuses\\
Overwhelmingly feeble\\

Hitting an all-time low

* Beartooth's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUCGRu_DL4 I Have A Problem]]" has the vocalists admitting that he has a drinking problem, and screaming to God for help.

* [[http://youtu.be/ohf52vAPszM "I Want To Be Straight"]] by Ian Dury And The Blockheads -- could be this, could be parody.
* [[http://youtu.be/GpEOmZTYA4A "The High Cost Of Living"]] by Jamey Johnson.

* Music/EricClapton's [[CoverChangesTheMeaning cover]] of Music/JJCale's song ''Cocaine''.

* [[http://youtu.be/aAuWETNkVkA "Impact is Imminent"]] and [[http://youtu.be/M6NeDXTvbls "Dethamphetamine"]] by Exodus.
* [[http://youtu.be/Aq344ks1ieg "Cocaine Blues"]] by Music/JohnnyCash. Also a MurderBallad-- maybe even more than this trope.

* [[http://youtu.be/_uBjpyOLjsc "The Needle And The Damage Done"]] by Music/NeilYoung.
* [[http://youtu.be/C4Bp-68W-2c "Methamphetamine"]] by The Old Crow Medicine Show, although this might be a parody (they also did "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqRazTve7Io Tell It To Me]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZWckoOcOhA Cocaine Habit]]", which are rather more clearly tongue-in-cheek).

* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDB-yswOrzc That Smell]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmM7_z1cFA8 The Needle And The Spoon]]" by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSgNOlZhK4E Hand Of Doom]]" by Music/BlackSabbath is an anti-heroin song. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODLK9HLsvFw Methademic]]" is mostly about methamphetamine, but the mention of "hypodermic pistol" can serve as a mention of heroin too.

* "[[https://youtu.be/tQeae9z6gSk Everyone's At It]]" by Music/LilyAllen is about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs:

* [[http://youtu.be/ejV8eGY_emA "For The Love Of A daughter"]] by Demi Lovato, about her biological fathers alcoholism pleading with him to "put the bottle down, for the love of a daughter"

* Fellow Canadians Spirit Of The West, after drinking themselves through a tour of England, want to go [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJD3qcIL7s "Home For A Rest"]]

* Music/EricClapton's [[CoverChangesTheMeaning cover]] of JJCale's song ''Cocaine''.

The "Deconstructed OdeToIntoxication" Ode To Sobriety would be an OdeToIntoxication except the song is about the singer's (or writer's) near-death from an OD, an addiction he or she actually wants to escape or has gone into treatment for, about someone's suicide from alcohol and/or drugs, or about anything else that is about the less fun side of intoxication.

The "DrugsAreBad" Ode To Sobriety is usually engaged in by UsefulNotes/StraightEdge bands or artists, though others can occasionally do it (a common instance with non UsefulNotes/StraightEdge artists is generally focused on a specific substance). As opposed to the ambivalent, bitter reflections of the Deconstructed OdeToIntoxication, it is simply DrugsAreBad as a song. It's a condemnation/callout of a specific substance and/or its users, and/or of alcohol or drug use in general.

The "Glad To Be Sober" Ode To Sobriety results from an artist successfully overcoming an addiction or quitting an abusive pattern of alcohol or drug use -- and writing a song about how good being sober and free of said addiction is. It differs from the bitter Deconstructed OdeToIntoxication in that it's a LighterAndSofter topic (e.g. happiness about a drug-free life) as opposed to a GrimDark one (e.g. about almost dying from an OD) and from the DrugsAreBad song in that it's not a rant about how bad drugs are.

Given human nature, many an Ode To Sobriety is sung as a DrunkenSong. (The Irish folk song "The Wild Rover"--about a man giving up his wild drinking ways--is very popular in pubs.)

* "[[https://youtu.be/tQeae9z6gSk Everyone's At It]]" by Music/LilyAllen is about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs.

* "[[https://youtu.be/kY7jSesdxl0 Lacquer Head]]" by Music/{{Primus}}.

* [[http://youtu.be/WeYsTmIzjkw "Because I Got High"]] by Afroman.
* [[http://youtu.be/kZqp6YlCM9I "The No No Song"]] by Hoyt Axton and RingoStarr.
* [[http://youtu.be/OlUOBt5VXGE "Checking In"]] from ''TheSimpsons''.

* EricClapton's [[CoverChangesTheMeaning cover]] of JJCale's song ''Cocaine''.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAJOSCyTB0 "Alcohol"]] by BarenakedLadies. It similarly starts sounding like an OdeToIntoxication, until the POV character's intense self-loathing takes the forefront.

* [[http://youtu.be/-gwUtEEjZJ8 "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me!)"]] by Music/TomWaits from ''Music/SmallChange''.

* [[http://youtu.be/HBWFJ85n_w0 "Sunday Morning Coming Down"]] by Kris Kristofferson and JohnnyCash.