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" Music sites fade pretty quickly these days. (Remember Turntable? Muxtape? Bueller? We didn&amp;#039;t think so.) But thanks to Music Hack Day, one has grabbed the attention of the Internet-listening public, at least temporarily: Drinkify, something of a sonic-based mixologist that can recommend an alcoholic drink for virtually any artist you type in, along with some tunes to go with. To which we said: Hey, cool. We like music, and we definitely like drinks. So why not run a test on this thing? Our subject, of course, was Esquire&amp;#039;s 75 Albums Every Man Should Own, which we thought would provide fairly straightforward inspiration. Though you can&amp;#039;t run specific albums through the app, we tried a sampling of the artists included, with increasingly varied results, below. (And since this is a food blog and all, we would like to warn you that many of these concoctions aren&amp;#039;t even drinkable.) Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town The Bruce fans I know (I&amp;#039;m from New Jersey, so there are many) are Budweiser guys through-and-through. But not according to Drinkify, which bizarrely recommends 6 ounces of Cognac, neat, for Springsteen&amp;#039;s masterpiece. On the edge of town, really? Iggy Pop, Lust for Life Somehow, 12 ounces of moonshine sounds more than applicable. The first hit. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust... For the most extraterrestrial of rock icons, Drinkify suggests 1 bottle of box wine. What exactly is a bottle of box wine? Also, wouldn&amp;#039;t absinthe be more apt? Marvin Gaye, What&amp;#039;s Going On Another hit: 8 ounces of Hennessy. We&amp;#039;re pretty sure Kanye would be okay with it, too. Pavement, Crooken Rain, Crooked Rain If the excitement over last year&amp;#039;s string of reunion shows turned you off, then a cold can of PBR is unlikely to change your mind about the &amp;#039;90s act. A little too on-the-nose. And too weak for a record that includes the line &amp;quot;so drunk in the August sun.&amp;quot; Grateful Dead, American Beauty Twelve ounces Sipsmith gin, 12 ounces lemon juice, and 6 ounces Blackwoods gin. No tab of acid? We&amp;#039;d also like to point out: This is by no means a cocktail. Minor Threat, Minor Threat Eight ounces bourbon, 8 ounces tomato juice, and 12 ounces energy drink in a highball glass. For the band that invented &amp;quot;straight edge,&amp;quot; this is just willfully ignorant. And even less of a cocktail. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin &amp;quot;In the days of my youth I was told what it meant to be a man.&amp;quot; I guess being a man might involve Canadian Club and coffee on the rocks, if you don&amp;#039;t plan on being around too long. Wilco, Being There Again, Drinkify runs afoul: one bottle of organic red wine garnished with sugar, though we imagine it&amp;#039;s describing later Wilco. We&amp;#039;ll take vodka and another listen of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Kiss, Destroyer One bottle of Blue Nun wine. Stolen from your parents&amp;#039; liquor cabinet three decades ago, hopefully. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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