EMI Offers Music To Accompany Beer Drinking And Poker Playing

03/21/06 7:00pm

by Eva Lampert (CHARTattack)

EMI Music Canada will add to their "Best In The World Ever" CD series with the April 4 release of The Best Beer Drinking Album In The World... Ever! Volume III — Poker Night.

The compilation follows 2004's The Best Beer Drinking Album In The World... Ever! and last year's The Best Beer Drinking Album In The World... Ever! Volume II — The Second Round.

The current popularity of poker has hit tables and televisions everywhere, so EMI has come up with 18 songs that it believes relate to the trendy card game and also make a solid soundtrack for the multiplying poker nights going on across Canada.

EMI has teamed up with The Party Poker Canadian Poker Championship to market the album. The tournament, featuring the best players from Canada and around the world competing for the title of Canadian champion, was shot on location at the Atlantis Resort And Casino in the Bahamas. The television show began a 10-week run on Global Television, CH TV and The Men's Channel on March 5 and will run for another 10 weeks through July and August.

Canadian band Idle Sons will further bridge the connection by being featured on both the TV show and the album.

Here are the songs that you can crack a couple of cold ones and do some bluffing to from The Best Beer Drinking Album In The World... Ever! Volume III — Poker Night:

The Verve — "Lucky Man"
George Thorogood — "I Drink Alone"
Yellowcard — "Ocean Avenue"
Sum 41 — "In Too Deep"
Marcy Playground — "Sex & Candy"
Caesars — "Jerk It Out"
The Alarm — "Sold Me Down The River"
Blink-182 — "All The Small Things"
Sublime — "What I Got"
Idle Sons — "Tell Me"
Billy Idol — "Rebel Yell"
The Vines — "Ride"
Dandy Warhols — "We Used To Be Friends"
Cracker — "Low"
Blind Melon — "No Rain"
Billy Squier — "The Stroke"
Concrete Blonde — "Joey"
Kenny Rogers — "The Gambler"