Best drug related songs of all time - Your submissions!

[Dhul Fiqar]

I´d have to say in no particular order:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles

Heroin - Velvet Underground

The Perfect Drug - NiN

Divine Moments of Truth - Sphongle

Waiting for the Man - Velvet Underground (or Lou Reed?)

...and many others I will mention during the course of this thread if it gets going ;)

--- G.

[Purple]

Well, this was a kind of easy task....

Marilyn Manson - Dope Show & I don't like the drugs(but the drugs like me)

Mystic Roots - Sweet Simsemilla

NoFX - Drugs are good

and I think all trance music is drug related, but I don't know why:)........

[187]

Hendrix - Purple haze

Nirvana - Aneurysm

Sublime - smoke two joints

[Soul Rebel]

Hits from the bong- Cypress Hill :)

[Hampton]

Legalize it- Peter Tosh

[Anonymous]

Snowblind - Black Sabbath (Covered by System)

[Comrade Ceausescu]

the good times a.k.a. i get high by styles p.

[Zombie]

Bad - U2

[truthaddict11]

Sweet Leaf-Black Sabbath
i love that song

[Vinny Rafarino]

Fuck Dhul...you nailed this one with the the two Velvet Underground tunes. I also enjoy Koka Kola by The Clash.

By the way 187, "Smoke Two Joints" is actually by the "the Toyes" however Sublime did indeed cover it quite well.

[synthesis]

The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women
Cypress Hill - I Love You Mary Jane
Rick James - Mary Jane
Cypress Hill - Yo Quiero Fumar
Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke
Linval Thompson - I Love Marijuana
Barrington Levy - Collie Weed
John Holt - Police in Helicopter
Bob Marley - Easy Skanking
Dr Hook - I Got Stoned And I Missed It
Pharcyde - Pack the Pipe
Bob Marley - Kaya
Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line

Now, all the non-marijuana drug songs...

Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
Andre Nickatina - Ayo For Yayo
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
Hmmmm...

Okay, a couple notes. I wanted to include "Panama Red" but I wasn't 100% sure whether or not Grateful Dead did it. I wanted to include "The Day I Tried To Live" by Soundgarden, but I'm not 100% sure it's a drug song.

Umm, what else? Pretty much anything by Cypress Hill is about drugs. Oh yeah, there's a compilation series of reggae songs called "Big Blunts" - and Big Blunts 2 & 3, respectively - with nothing but great marijuana related reggae songs.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Excellent submissions so far folks!

I downloaded a few that I hadn't heard in a while and were mentioned, like "Sweet Leaf"! :)

Dyermaker: You put down John Holt for "Police in Helicopter", is that the real name of Eek-a-Mouse or did Eek just cover it later? I was so sure that was his song, one of my favorites actually!

Oh, and "Needle and the damage done" is FANTASTIC, and I don't even like Neil Young that much after he left Crosby, Stills and Nash.

Most of my favorite songs these days are depressing heroin type songs, Velvet Underground and Neil Young and etc. Probably because I can't get strong drugs and am having seeeerious cravings for them ;)


Oooooh, I'm waaaiting for the man!! Twenty six dollars, in my hand! Yes I'M WAITIN FOR THE MAN!

No other song has so truely captured the feeling of coming down on drugs while you stand around with every last penny you could scrape together for the next fix, waiting for "the man", a person who can save you from hell and send you to heaven for one more day...

Oh man, Lou Reed kicks so much ass, and there's even a special thread on him now in Music :)

--- G.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Oooh, one more thing I must ask you Dyermaker, is Linval Thompson a Jamaican guy, and is his song "I love marijuana" the one that starts with:

"Na drink too much if can't take it, na drink too much if can't hold it!!" and then goes off into a fantastic screaming deep voiced vocal assault proclaiming how much he loves weed? Great song, but I never had the name of the guy who wrote it, got it from kazaa and I think it was labeled wrong.

--- G.

[Soul Rebel]

Quote: from DyerMaker on 10:26 am on June 11, 2003
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women
Cypress Hill - I Love You Mary Jane
Rick James - Mary Jane
Cypress Hill - Yo Quiero Fumar
Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke
Linval Thompson - I Love Marijuana
Barrington Levy - Collie Weed
John Holt - Police in Helicopter
Bob Marley - Easy Skanking
Dr Hook - I Got Stoned And I Missed It
Pharcyde - Pack the Pipe
Bob Marley - Kaya
Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line

Now, all the non-marijuana drug songs...

Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
Andre Nickatina - Ayo For Yayo
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
Hmmmm...

Okay, a couple notes. I wanted to include "Panama Red" but I wasn't 100% sure whether or not Grateful Dead did it. I wanted to include "The Day I Tried To Live" by Soundgarden, but I'm not 100% sure it's a drug song.

Umm, what else? Pretty much anything by Cypress Hill is about drugs. Oh yeah, there's a compilation series of reggae songs called "Big Blunts" - and Big Blunts 2 & 3, respectively - with nothing but great marijuana related reggae songs.


From what i hear Rainy day woman #12 and 35 actually isnt about drugs

[Politrickian]

Endless Struggle - Beer
Technoheads - I Wanna Be A Hippy

[Dhul Fiqar]

SenoraChe: If you believe artists from the sixties, they never wrote a single song about drugs. Even the Beatles deny Lucy in the Sky is about LSD, etc.

I'm pretty sure it's not ALL about drugs, but the laughing and screaming and "EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED!!!" parts are clearly drug related... imho of course :)

--- G.

[Irish Republican]

The Drugs Dont Work by The Verve :)

[Urban Rubble]

Dhul, I just made a special trip out to my car for you to look at my CD's, and yes, Linval Thompson did sing I Love Marijuana.

[canikickit]

John Holt sang "Police...", Eek probably did his DJ thing on top of the version.

Linval did sing that, but I don't recognise the intro you cited, Dhul. But the lyrics go;

"I love to smoke marijuana, it gives me a deep meditation. Maaaaaaarrrrrrriiiiiijjjjjuuuuuuaaaannnnna yeah!" and so forth. Well, the "deep meditation" bit should be the clincher.

[list]Free Up the Weed - Lee Perry
Bushweed Corntrash - Rick and Bunny - this is about when, in Jamaica, you leave your house for a few weeks and when you come back a cannabis plant has grown in your garden. The quality wouldn't be that great, because it hasn't recieved any love and affection, so you throw it onto the fire and just burn it in one vibration. Seen?
Herbsman Skanking - U Roy
Tired Fe a Lick Weed in a Bush - Jacob Miller
Take a Dip - Dillinger
Colombia Colly - Jah Lion[list]

[Soul Rebel]

Quote: from Dhul Fiqar on 5:45 pm on June 11, 2003
SenoraChe: If you believe artists from the sixties, they never wrote a single song about drugs. Even the Beatles deny Lucy in the Sky is about LSD, etc.

I'm pretty sure it's not ALL about drugs, but the laughing and screaming and "EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED!!!" parts are clearly drug related... imho of course :)

--- G.


Oh i know- i never believe when they say "Its not about drugs." We all know it is so they might as well come out and say it too. However, for the Dylan song i have also heard the alternative explanation: remember how Dylan got booed and lost a lot of fans for using an electric guitar? Well from what i heard that is what the song was talking about- the people reaction to it. I dunno- there is always too many explanations for everything.

[Dirty Commie]

Quote: from 187 on 3:29 pm on June 10, 2003
Hendrix - Purple haze




That was written while on alot of heroin, but about walking on the bottom of the ocean...I think, it said something like that inside a cd cover.

[Dirty Commie]

Rainy Day women 12 &35 was not about getting hight! It was about being a branded a musical heretic for the type of music he played...

"Well they stone when you try to be so good,
they stone like they said they would,
and I would not feel so alone, EVERYBODY must get stoned"

I'ts about being hated for his music, the use of teh word stoned was put in on purpose to make the song a bit more interesting, and funny.

[synthesis]

Drug-related or not, it's still fun to listen to while high :biggrin:


BTW, add "Purple Haze" to the list of "obviously-about-drugs-but-the-artist-denied-it" songs. Hendrix claimed he wrote it about a dream he had while sleeping. ;)

[synthesis]

By the way, I'll be perfectly honest here, I've found what little I've heard of Eek-A-Mouse to be very irritating. BUT maybe I just need to hear more of him.

[mentalbunny]

Well most of the LP "Dirt" by Alice in Chains isn't really about drugs but it is about Layne Staley's heroin addiction. Fucking awesome album, everyone should at least listen to it a few times.

[Son of Scargill]

Damn,lots of good choices already.

Legalise It-Tosh
Koka Kola-The Clash
Kaya-Marley
Purple Haze-Hendrix
Hassan i Sabah-Hawkwind
Fungus among Us-Inner City Unit
and my personal all time favourite when stoned:
Oily Way-Gong(but you've got to include the next 2 tracks,Outer and Inner Temple,for for your complete aural enjoyment;)

[Invader Zim]

Nirvana: - Lithium

Placebo: - Nancy Boy... In parts at least.

[SwedishCommie]

Puff the magic dragon! I cant remember the bands name

[GWF]

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Cypress Hill - Hits from the bong
Sean Paul - Ganja Breed
Xzibit - Shroomz
Ska-P - Cannabis

[mentalbunny]

Oh yeah, Special K by Placebo, and their first album's all sex and drugs.

[Soul Rebel]

Quote: from Dirty Commie on 6:20 am on June 12, 2003
Rainy Day women 12 &35 was not about getting hight! It was about being a branded a musical heretic for the type of music he played...

"Well they stone when you try to be so good,
they stone like they said they would,
and I would not feel so alone, EVERYBODY must get stoned"

I'ts about being hated for his music, the use of teh word stoned was put in on purpose to make the song a bit more interesting, and funny.


Yeah! Another person who also heard the same explanation about the song (i described in the 2nd page). I thought that maybe i made it up in my head at some point- like i was going crazy.

[canikickit]

You've already gone there.

[Soul Rebel]

thanks cani :) its sad but true- i have losted it.

[truthaddict11]

Cuz I Got High- Afroman

[Dhul Fiqar]

That song gets on my nerves in SO many ways! He had another song that I quite liked, though, it's called "Colt 45". It has a really funky feeling to it.

--- G.

[canikickit]

"colt 45 and two zig zags, baby that's all we need, we can go toe to toe..." etc.

Yeah, that was pretty good.
"Because I got High" was nice enough also. I remember some girl played it for me over the internet when I was stoned off my ass and I loved it to bits.

[ComradeRiley]

Golden Brown - The Stranglers

[mentalbunny]

Yeah, that was pretty good.
"Because I got High" was nice enough also. I remember some girl played it for me over the internet when I was stoned off my ass and I loved it to bits.


Well you weer stoned, of course you're gonna like it!!!

I liked Cos I got High, to begin with at least, but it got sooooo overplayed.

[hillofthedead]

EVERY HAWKWIND SONG IS THE BEST DRUG SONG. MAGMA also. Best Band for specific drugs:
LSD-Hawkwind, Magma, Black Sabbath("Sabotage" LP), Stooges, Doors, Parliament("Mothership Connection" LP)
Dead Kennedy's(Seriously!!!) early Grand Funk Railroad.
WEED-Trouble, ALL Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Radio Birdman, early Scorpions(Ulrich Roth era), early Blue Oyster Cult(first four albums), Black Flag
COCAINE-Iggy Pop("The Idiot" and "Lust For Life" LP's), Mahogany Rush(first four albums only), 70's era Funkadelic. Robin Trower(especially live).
PCP-ALL Hawkwind and Zappa
NARCOTICS(Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Morphine)- Velvet Underground, Stooges, Radio Birdman, Lou Reed(first four solo albums)
JUST AS THERE ARE ALOT MORE DRUGS, THERE ARE ALOT MORE COOL BANDS TO LISTEN TO WHEN YOUR MESSED UP!!!!! I won't give out all my little secret music-drug recipes.

[Danton]

"Pusherman" Curtis Mayfield"



"Creemos en Fidel y en la revolucion"

[truthaddict11]

Listening to Dead Kennedys on LSD?? Now thats wierd, any particular album?

[Rastafari]

SoS is fucking genius
Bushdoctor- Tosh (warning, surgeon general warns, cigarrette smoking is dangerous, hazard to your health)
White Rabbit-Jeff. Plane
Cocaine-Clapton
"Puff" is by an act called Peter, Paul, and Mary

[truthaddict11]

Quote: from Rastafari on 8:15 pm on June 20, 2003

"Puff" is by an act called Peter, Paul, and Mary


Puff The Magic Dragon oh yeah lol


(Edited by truthaddict11 at 8:49 pm on June 20, 2003)

[Rastafari]

you a pothead fokker!?

[synthesis]

Here's a good one: Happy Pillz - Murs ft. Aesop Rock

[Uhuru na Umoja]

Quote: from Rastafari on 1:15 am on June 21, 2003

Bushdoctor- Tosh (warning, surgeon general warns, cigarrette smoking is dangerous, hazard to your health)

A great drug song - perhaps my favourite weed related song.

[Rastafari]

absolutely correct

[Danton]

"Reefaman cometh" The Woodshed
"Ode to a blunt" Men with sticks
"Smoke rings" Django Reinhardt
"Deep shit" Kruder & Dorfmeister
"Under me Sensi" Barrington Levy
"Indian rope man" Phaze
"Feed me weird things" Squarepusher"



"Creemos en Fidel y en la revolucion"

[Dhul Fiqar]

I can't believe I forgot Squarepusher! He kicks so much ass :)

BTW, are you sure "Smoke Rings" is about weed? I don't doubt that Django was a weed smoker, and it may have double meaning, but I guess I always assumed it was cigarette related.

Anyway, good list :)

[Danton]

Not sure but had to have Django on there, he was clearly a dope fiend... ooh forgot Charlie Parker, will draw up new list..

I was thinking Squarepusher might be too obscure, Tom J is an aquaintance (mad as a satchel of badgers) Dhul, respect....



"Creemos en Fidel y en la revolucion"

(Edited by Danton at 12:53 pm on June 23, 2003)

[Dhul Fiqar]

Holy fucking shit, you KNOW him?!?! The man is my GOD, next to Aphex twin there is no music as insane as his!

I think it's the instruments that set him apart, it sounds like he plays a lot of them (or samples, I dunno) as opposed to synthing it all. Or maybe he just has the world's best Synth, I dunno, but it definitely has a personal touch to the sound that is almost unmatched (well, there is Richard D. James of course...)

He was sort of a cult hit among people taking psychedelics and stimulants back in Iceland, I only heard him being played at coke/acid parties and such strange venues :)

I remember riding around in my friend's car on acid and he put Budakan Mindphone on, I had never heard any of his stuff before but this guy's brother was a cokedealer/DJ and was always giving us these wicked mixtapes.

I spent like 45 minutes going: "HOLY SHIT, WHAT IS THAT?!?!" and he couldn't get me to calm down, haha. Good times :)

Music Is Rotted One Note is another favorite, it's a bit different but the instrumental sound on it is truly fantastic.

If you see him in the near future, tell him he changed a lot of lives of some very tripped out people with his tunes :)

--- G.

[Dhul Fiqar]

BTW, your personal taste in music kicks ass! Not a lot of people listen to Django or Squarepusher, let alone both! :)

--- G.

[Danton]

Yeah man! in Iceland!

Doubt if I'll see him anytime soon but if I do.....

He plays bass, piano some drums and bugger's about with loads of other shit, have you seen him live? fucking fruitcake!

I met Tom a few years ago and then bumped into him a few times also Luke Vibert/Wagon Christ - James Lavelle, Mr Scruff, Patrick Forge, I dont know if your aware of them, never met Aphex though - I think he's a recluse - ark at me I sound like a big name dropper. I DJ a bit and write some stuff but I dont want to go into that....
Cheers for knowing good tunes mate!




"Espana, Espana Aznar es una Arana"

[Rastafari]

Oh yeh, forgot MY personal favorite high times song- "Natural Mystic"
It may not really be 100% about the herb, but DAMN is it a good song!

[Politrickian]

I think Seasons In The Abyss by Slayer is about a drug... It has to be!

Here's the lyric:
Razors edge
Outlines the dead
Incisions in my head
Anticipation the stimulation
To kill the exhilaration

Close your eyes
Look deep in your soul
Step outside yourself
And let your mind go
Frozen eyes stare deep in your mind as you die

Close your eyes
And forget your name
Step outside yourself
And let your thoughts drain
As you go insane... you go insane

Inert flesh
A bloody tomb
A decorated splatter brightens the room
An execution a sadist ritual
Mad intervals of mind residuals

Close your eyes
Look deep in your soul
Step outside yourself
And let your mind go
Frozen eyes stare deep in your mind as you die

Close your eyes... and forget your name
Step outside yourself... and let your thoughts drain
As you go insane... you go insane

Innate seed
To watch you bleed
A demanding physical need
Desecrated, eviscerated
Times prostrated

[Lefty]

I was thinking of a good song, but I forgot it because I am stoned. I will just say the obvious "Legalise it" By Lee Perry.


Edit: I was obviously pretty high. Legalise it was by Peter Tosh. Maybe smoking and posting isn't the best idea...nah.

(Edited by Lefty at 7:55 am on July 19, 2003)


(Edited by Lefty at 8:04 am on July 19, 2003)

[Gregorio Allemagna]

I can't believe no one got this:

1. Tamborene Man - Dylan

2. I Ain't Gonna Piss In No Jar - Mojo Nixon

3. Ooh Ooh That Smell - Lynerd Skynerd

4. Stange Brew - Creme

[Inti]

Again.. Tiro de Gracia - Maria:D

[Fabi]

Coil's third album 'Love's Secret Domain' is pretty much an all drugs album. (hence the LSD reference... although they were mostly on Ecstasy while doing the album)

Another one of theirs would be 'Time Machines' an album with four long droning tracks to sort of simulate and support drug experiences. The tracks don't have real names, either... They're called
7-Methoxy-ß-Carboline: (Telepathine)
2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate)
5-Methoxy-N, N-Dimethyl: (5-Me0-DMT)
and
4-Indolol, 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl]' Phosphate Ester: (psilocybin)

... I am not sure if Venetian Snares or Autechre do drug-related songs, but they are at least in a relatively similar genre as Richard D. James' and Squarepushers stuff...

And how come all other Velvet Underground's shit was mentioned, but not 'Heroin', or did I overlook that?

[Fabi]

Oh, and Manson's 'Coma White' could be on the list, too.

[Rastafari]

Number 1.), "Legalise It" was not a Lee Perry work, rather a Peter Tosh (and more of an advocacy song anyway, but its all good, Lefty)

2.) Strange Brew, by Cream, has nothing to do with drugs, as does none of the songs from "Disreali Gears," oddly enough, which is probably the best single album ever created :)

[MiNdGaMe]

DOA - Marijuana Mother Fucker, good song you'll enjoy it

(Edited by MiNdGaMe at 7:33 am on July 18, 2003)

[honest intellectual]

Heroin - The Velvet Underground
Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground
The Hardest Thing in The World - The Stone Roses
Ebeneezer Goode - The Shamen (not that it's any good, but it is funny)
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Crystal Ship - The Doors

[the SovieT]

Boikot- Legalizacon


almost all Planet Hemp musics... (hehe heres a good band for you Dhul :D )

[Lefty]

Yup, I kinda realized that after I posted. Lol, I might want to edit that one...

and another one...
"Burn one down" by Ben Harper- Best song to smoke a joint to, ever.

[the SovieT]

"Bong song" by Butholle surfers is cool too...

[Rastafari]

Mama told me not to come-Three dog night
One toke over the line- I fucking Forgot, ok!?

[Beautiful Day]

The punk rock group Leftover Crack (ex. Choking Victim) mentions drugs in almost every song.

The Dwarves also have several drug related songs.

[Rastafari]

"Big Spliff" Black Uhuru

[Lefty]

I chanced to find the "Best of Black Uhuru" at my library today, and I'm listening to it right now. You have good taste in music, Rastafari.

[Lefty]

And I almost forgot another great one:
"Casey Jones" By the Grateful Dead

I like how it begins with a sniff...:-D

[Rastafari]

Ah well...;)
some of Black Uhuru's stuff is almost to "pop" for roots-reggae, but its all solid stuff.

I just want to know how 20 people on 9 pages of threads could pass up one of the greatest songs of all time, "Casey Jones"

Drivin' That train, High on Cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed.


I just had a thougt...aren't most songs from the Rock genre (and reggae, of course) Drug Related in that they were written ON some sort of mind-altering substance?