99 Bottles of Beer” is beer bottle name song dating to the mid-20th century. It is a traditional reverse counting song in both the United States and Canada.
It is popular to sing on road trips, as it has a very repetitive format which is easy to memorize and can take a long time when families sing. The same verse is repeated, each time with one bottle fewer, until there is none left. No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer. If that one bottle should happen to fall, what a waste of alcohol! There’s nothing else to fall, because there’s no more bottles of beer on the wall. The boring and time-consuming nature of the “99 Bottles of Beer” song means that probably only a minority of renditions are done to the final verse.
The American comedian Andy Kaufman exploited this fact in the routine early in his career when he would actually sing all 100 verses. Atticus, a band from Knoxville, Tennessee recorded a thirteen and a half minute live version of the song in its entirety at a club in Glasgow, Scotland called The Cathouse. It was included in the 2001 album Figment. Donald Byrd has collected dozens of variants inspired by mathematical concepts and written by himself and others. A subset of his collection has been published. Byrd argues that the collection has pedagogic as well as amusement value.
Infinity bottles of beer on the wall”. Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall”. Numerous computer programs exist to output the lyrics to the song. This is analogous to “Hello, World! The program has been written in over 1500 different programming languages.