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" The best Christmas gift I&amp;#039;ve ever received was the AeroPress coffee maker and case of Illy espresso that I got last year from my girlfriend. That probably speaks more to my addiction to coffee than it does me being a cheap date, but I know I&amp;#039;m not alone. We live in a world where coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry, with a Starbucks on nearly every corner and grocery aisles full of blends that dwarf those dedicated to cereal, potato chips, or even fruits and veggies. &amp;quot;Coffee is definitely the acceptable addiction for the go-go guy,&amp;quot; Murray Carpenter, the author of the fascinating new book Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us, told me recently. &amp;quot;You couldn&amp;#039;t have two or three glasses of Scotch over the course of the workday, but coffee is totally acceptable.&amp;quot; So much so that in no time at all Carpenter and I were able to cobble together a playlist of some great tunes to go along with your morning Joe or afternoon jolt in no time flat. It probably didn&amp;#039;t hurt that as musicians get older, and they trade sex, drugs, and rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll for more tolerable vices, many turn to coffee. &amp;quot;There are a lot of good coffee songs,&amp;quot; Carpenter says. &amp;quot;There are certainly more songs about alcohol, but musicians do seem to love to drink coffee, and compose and play while they drink coffee. Coffee has an enduring association with people who are getting things done \u2014 I mean the workplace would just grind to a halt without it \u2014 but in writing my book I found that there are also a lot of fun stories about coffee and caffeine, and I think these performances really capture that well.&amp;quot; Listen to the playlist on Esquire Spotify. To start off the day: Frank Sinatra, &amp;quot;The Coffee Song&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This is a great song to get you going, and it&amp;#039;s the feeling I wanted to have in my book. It&amp;#039;s one of the best coffee songs, with a lively, really caffeinated feel. It cuts across generations, and even though it&amp;#039;s a bit old-fashioned it still sounds great today.&amp;quot; To mellow you out: Freedy Johnston, &amp;quot;Coffee, Coffee, Coffee&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This is a Tom T. Hall song. It&amp;#039;s not a pick-me-up song, it&amp;#039;s a wistful song about how good coffee can make you feel. It really praises coffee, and is a great mellow song at the same time.&amp;quot; Traveling song: Todd Rundgren, &amp;quot;Espresso (All Jacked Up)&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This song really gets across the manic thrash of being super-caffeinated and traveling. This song just screams road trip.&amp;quot; Back from lunch song to focus you: Bob Marley, &amp;quot;One Cup of Coffee&amp;quot;         &amp;quot;This is a funny one. You don&amp;#039;t associate Bob Marley with coffee, and that&amp;#039;s probably because this is one of his earliest songs and not as well-known as his big hits. Not every song has to make you feel like a double shot of espresso, and this one is certainly a little offbeat from the rest. But it&amp;#039;s a great song with a great vibe.&amp;quot;  To go with your blended coffee on a Sunday afternoon: Bob Dylan, &amp;quot;One More Cup of Coffee&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This is another wistful song. I love Dylan&amp;#039;s Desire era. There&amp;#039;s a solitary nature to a lot of the coffee songs, but this speaks to the social nature of drinking coffee. &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s just have a cup of coffee and I&amp;#039;m off.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Coffee to set the scene: Uncle Tupelo, &amp;quot;Truck Driving Man&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t just think about coffee as a beverage. We associate certain experiences with it. This is a classic song, but I love this version the best. It makes you feel instantly like you&amp;#039;re sitting in a truck stop.&amp;quot;  Coffee with friends: &amp;quot;Coffee Break&amp;quot; from How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying        &amp;quot;This is another old-fashioned song, but it really expresses the communal nature of having a cup of coffee. It proclaims our love for coffee really loudly, and it refers to the social aspects of coffee and how we&amp;#039;ve integrated it into our daily routines.&amp;quot;  When you just need a jolt: Humble Pie, &amp;quot;Black Coffee&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This one will really wake you up! It&amp;#039;s a bluesy, driving song with a great groove. This one is great if you&amp;#039;re on your way out the door for a fun night, or even after you get home and you want the celebration to keep going.&amp;quot;  The hangover song: Carroll Gibbons and Marjorie Stedeford, &amp;quot;Black Coffee&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This is a perfect song as the antidote to Humble Pie&amp;#039;s song of the same name, when you&amp;#039;ve overindulged the night before. It&amp;#039;s got some great lines about trying to get straight and face the day, and in a lot of ways is the quintessential coffee song because we do associate coffee with getting us through when we don&amp;#039;t want to face things.&amp;quot; The best caffeine song you&amp;#039;ve never heard: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, &amp;quot;Black Caffeine&amp;quot;        &amp;quot;This one is pretty rare, but it&amp;#039;s a great song. It&amp;#039;s folky, with a great country vibe. But it&amp;#039;s cool also because it refers to caffeine rather than just coffee. It&amp;#039;s an addict&amp;#039;s song as much as anything else, but it&amp;#039;s a fun one.&amp;quot;        "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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