The 19 Best Songs About Coffee

Composers have been writing about this drink since the 1730s, and the pop charts still haven't run dry.

1. 1
   Espresso – Sabrina Carpenter

   Sabrina Carpenter's 2024 summer smash that won the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Cigarettes and Coffee – Otis Redding

   Otis Redding's 1966 soul ballad about talking until dawn over coffee.
   647pts
3. 3
   Black Coffee in Bed – Squeeze

   Squeeze's 1982 soul-tinged single about a coffee stain on a notebook and a lost love.
   624pts
4. 4
   Black Coffee – Peggy Lee

   The smoky 1953 jazz torch song of lonely late nights, also sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.
   624pts
5. 5
   Java Jive – The Ink Spots

   The Ink Spots' 1940 swing novelty hit about loving a cup of java.
   560pts
6. 6
   Cup of Coffee – Garbage

   A melancholy breakup ballad from Garbage's 2001 album Beautiful Garbage.
   560pts
7. 7
   Coffee Cantata – Johann Sebastian Bach

   Bach's comic cantata BWV 211, written around 1734 for Zimmermann's coffeehouse in Leipzig.
   560pts
8. 8
   One More Cup of Coffee – Bob Dylan

   The haunting Desire track from 1976, sung with Emmylou Harris.
   485pts
9. 9
   Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee – Irving Berlin

   Irving Berlin's cheerful 1932 Depression-era song from the musical Face the Music.
   485pts
10. 10
    Coffee – beabadoobee

    The 2017 bedroom-pop song later sampled in the viral hit Death Bed.
    485pts
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    Coffee & TV – Blur

    Graham Coxon's 1999 single, remembered for its walking milk-carton video.
    397pts
12. 12
    Coffee Blues – Mississippi John Hurt

    The 1963 country-blues recording that gave The Lovin' Spoonful their band name.
    397pts
13. 13
    Expresso Love – Dire Straits

    A driving love song from Dire Straits' 1980 album Making Movies.
    397pts
14. 14
    Coffee Shop – Red Hot Chili Peppers

    A funk-metal track from the band's 1995 album One Hot Minute.
    291pts
15. 15
    Coffee Cold – Galt MacDermot

    The 1966 jazz-funk instrumental by the Hair composer, a favourite of hip-hop samplers.
    291pts
16. 16
    The Coffee Song – Frank Sinatra

    Sinatra's 1946 hit about Brazil's endless supply of coffee.
    291pts
17. 17
    Coffee – Sylvan Esso

    The 2014 electro-pop single from Sylvan Esso's self-titled debut album.
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    Coffee – Miguel

    Miguel's 2015 slow-burning R&B single from the album Wildheart.
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    Tom's Diner – Suzanne Vega

    Suzanne Vega's 1987 a cappella snapshot of a morning at a Manhattan diner counter.
    0pts

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