great drug songs

[minorthreat]

Piggybacking on Footix' remark in the Depeche Mode thread:

My three favorite drug songs have to be New Order's "True Faith," Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down," and lost Beach Boys track "Hang Onto Your Ego", although for pure silliness I love Muddy Waters "Champagne and Reefer."

I mean, seriously, can anyone listen to the bridge of that song with a straight face when he starts wailing "EVERY TIME I GET HIGH..."?

[minorthreat]

First mention of Afro-Man will result in stabbing.

[Mattbro]

Mr. Brownstown of course, and my new favorite drug song by the Darkness:


My mamma wants to know
Where I'm spending all my dough
Honey, all she does is nag, nag, nag
But I won't apologise
I'd inject into my eyes
If there was nowhere else to stick my skag

All I want is brown
And I'm going into town
Shooting up as soon as I'm back
My friends have got some good shit
All I want is some of it
Gimme, gimme, gimme that smack

Well I've ruined nearly all of my veins
Sticking that fukcing shit into my arms

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Givin' up, givin' up givin' a fukc
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Givin' up, givin' up givin' a fukc

Getting off my face
There's a dragon I must chase
Honey, I'm the scourge of all mankind
And everyone but me
Is destined just to be
Slaves to the remorseless grind

But I found myself an easy way out
Sticking that fukcing shit into my arms
Into my arms

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Givin' up, givin' up givin' a fukc
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Givin' up, givin' up givin' a fukc

[Motterman]

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chilipeppers
The Bombudd - DJ Quick
Dopeman - NWA

[Footix]

Anytime I hear "My Drug Buddy" by The Lemonheads, the song stays in my head for days.

I love the lines:
"We have to laugh to look at each other.
We have to laugh ’cause we’re not alone."

and

"I’m too much with myself,
I wanna be someone else."

The Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man" is obviously an easy choice. The uptown NYC imagery and dirty guitars almost make you feel like an addict.

[carolinab]

Lemonheads Style
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions My Bag
D'Angelo Brown Sugar
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five White Lines
RHCP Knock Me Down

[Scoey]

Heroine Girl -- Everclear.

[cj herrera]

Originally posted by Footix
The Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man" is obviously an easy choice. The uptown NYC imagery and dirty guitars almost make you feel like an addict.

That and Lou Reed's "Heroin" were the first songs to pop into my mind.

I know mentioning a reggae song is bringing coals to Newcastle here, but an oft overlooked album is Rita Marley's "One Draw" with the great song "I Wanna Get High." (sampled by Cypress Hill on their track of the same name).

I mean, that song is so damn **happy**.

It doesn't sound like that Black Ark, get-so-high-you-burn-down-your-studio kinda high. It's more like a "My what a glorious and beautiful day -- well, hello gorgeous tropical maiden -- why, yes, I'd love to get lifted with you. Smashing idea," kinda high.

Know what I'm sayin'?

On a different note:

Wilco's "Shot in the Arm."

That refrain "There's something in my veins/Bloodier than blood" is freakin brilliant and catchy as hell.

[La China Poblana]

"Hateful" by the Clash. Brilliant song.

Great line in "White Man in Hammersmith Palais"

"I'm the all-night drug prowling wolf,
who looks so sick in the sun..."

"Carbona Not Glue" by the Ramones

Lisa

[billyireland]

Puff The Magic Dragon - I listened to it a lot as a baby:)

[Motterman]

"Hits From the Bong" - Cypress Hill
"Many Clouds of Smoke" - Total Devastation

[skipshady]

The Verve - "The Drugs Don't Work"

[655321]

Spiritualized have made a career out of drug songs. Cop Shoot Cop is a good one.

"Hey man there's a hole in my arm where all the money goes
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose

Cop shoot cop
I believe
I believe that I have been reborn
Cop shoot cop
I haven't got the time no more"

[Smiley321]

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles

Flowers of Evil - Mountain

[655321]

Originally posted by Smiley321
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles


John Lennon swears up and down this was not a drug song and that it didn't stand for LSD.

[Smiley321]

Originally posted by 655321
John Lennon swears up and down this was not a drug song and that it didn't stand for LSD.

Did he explain the true meaning of it?

He sure made it seem like an acid song by accident, then.

Purple Haze is another one from the golden age

[655321]

Originally posted by Smiley321
Did he explain the true meaning of it?

He sure made it seem like an acid song by accident, then.


He said Julian brought a drawing home from school when he was kid that had all of the imagery used in the lyrics and that he told him it was "lucy in the sky with diamonds". He said he never realised the LSD part until the record was out and someone pointed it out to him. Who knows if it's true, but it's not like he ever went to great lengths to disguise use before or after, so there's little reason to doubt him.

[Smiley321]

hmmm.....this gives me another flashback from the '60s, from the spy satire 'Get Smart'

An enemy agent is pretending to know nothing, and Maxwell Smart says to her "Don't play dumb with me sister, I'm an expert at that"

Julian was born in '62, the album was out in '67 so he was 4 years old or so when he came home from school and inspired the song. Maybe so, who knows?

[655321]

Originally posted by Smiley321
hmmm.....this gives me another flashback from the '60s, from the spy satire 'Get Smart'

An enemy agent is pretending to know nothing, and Maxwell Smart says to her "Don't play dumb with me sister, I'm an expert at that"

Julian was born in '62, the album was out in '67 so he was 4 years old or so when he came home from school and inspired the song. Maybe so, who knows?

It seems far-fetched, I agree...but like I said, when has John Lennon ever tried to hide drug use?? And he didn't say this until the early '70s, I believe, which would have been an even safer time to admit it.

Anyway, it probably is about acid.

[Rafael Hernandez]

I thought they said that the song and the lyrics where about drugs but that the title was a picture from his kid and that the title had no drug relations or was LSD but a coincidence.