Best Drug Song?

[SweetZombieJesus]

Poll question: Best Drug Song?

I picked "Slow Death" by the Groovies, because it just plain kicks ass. Your milage may vary.

[populistmom]

1. How about

"Cocaine" by Eric Clapton (first song that came into my head).

[SweetZombieJesus]

6. Eh, not a Clapton fan

So it didn't occur to me.

[The Lone Liberal]

35. Don't Bogart that Joint

My Friend. Country Joe :hippie:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. JJ Cale Wrote Cocaine

I heard the No No Song by Ringo Starr the other day for the first time in nearly twenty five years but it's funny....

[hippiechick]

2. This is becoming a monthly poll

"Cocaine" ... Eric Clapton's version.



:hippie:

[populistmom]

5. Yikes

We posted this at the same time.

[zekeson]

3. I think a best Neil Young Drug song poll woulda been cool. too

nice choices (flaming Groovies). With my train of thinking I went with N&tDD, but would've loved to see Tonights the Night.

good post.

[4_Legs_Good]

16. How about Homegrown?

.

[arcos]

4. Semicharmed Life by Third Eye Blind... n/t

[SweetZombieJesus]

7. That song's about drugs?

I thought it was about Third Eye Blind sucking and being lame, like all of their songs. ;-)

[Cush]

10. lol

true, but I think it's about meth or coke or something

[SweetZombieJesus]

11. I wish they'd start taking drugs

Best case scenario, they record something as druggy and wonderful as Exile On Main Street. Second best, they overdose. Either way, we all win.

[roughsatori]

27. I wished they ODed before their first CD

SZJ you and your pop-culture threads will be the death of me. I will probably get more hate PMs. Whenever I cast aspersions on pop culture in your threads some philistine attacks poor little me.

[arcos]

12. I used to love Third Eye Blind!

At least their first CD and half of the second one. I didn't like the latest.

But yeah, that's a song about drugs... and a lot of the others in that CD are too. ;-)

[arcos]

13. an excerpt from the lyrics...

The sky was gold, it was rose
I was taking sips of it through my nose
And I wish I could get back there
some place back there
Smiling in the pictures you would take
Doing crystal meth
will lift you up until you break
It won't stop, I won't come down
I keep stock
With a tick tock rhythm
A bump for the drop
And then I bumped up
I took the hit that I was given
Then I bumped again

[tjdee]

22. The first album is DELIGHTFUL.

That's one of my top albums of all time.

I can't vouch for the actual talent displayed, or the actual "goodness" of the band, but every damn song on that album is catchy as hell. Something about it is so summery and irresistible.

Narcolepsy..God of Wine...Semi-Charmed Life...In the Background....Burning Man...lost my copy, I gotta get me a hold of that CD again. Only like three songs on the second album, the third I've not heard.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Grace Slick.

WHITE RABBIT (G. Slick)
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.

Call Alice
When she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"

[jfxgillis]

9. "Walking in Space"/"Three Five Zero Zero"

Medley from the Original-cast production of "Hair: The American Tribal Love/Rock Musical," music by Radno and Ragni, book by McDermott.

Nothing else even comes close!!

[rock]

14. I liked "Sam Stone"

but that's just me.

[underpants]

19. A hundred dollar habit ........without overtime

Yes a great anti-drug song.

[Rowdyboy]

20. Absolutely....Sam Stone

does it for me

[FarLeftRage]

15. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (LSD)

is my first choice.
"White Heat, White Light" is another good one...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. The Song's Not About Drugs...

I think it's about one of Julian Lennon's playmates...

[stlsaxman]

43. It was about a drawing Julianne made for his dad and when John asked...

"Who's that?" Julian said "That's Lucy in the sky with diamonds".

Christ- is anyone on DU over thirty???

[FarLeftRage]

52. I was 9 when that song came out

My older brother, who got that album in June, 1967 told me that song was about LSD.

If you listen, really listen to this song, you'll picture John describing a trip....

[tjdee]

17. Is "Cloud Nine" by the Temptations a drug song?

I've always wondered that.(partial lyrics below) I voted for Heroin, love that Lou Reed.

"Folks now they tell me.
They say, give yourself a chance and don't let life pass you by.
But the world around you is a rat race.
Where only the strong survive.
It's a dog-eat-dog world and that ain't no lie. (Ain't no lie)
Listen, it ain't even safe no more, to walk the streets at night.

Eddie: I'm doing fine on Cloud 9.
Dennis: Let me tell you about Cloud 9.

(Cloud 9)Paul: You can be what you wanna be.
(Cloud 9)Dennis: You ain't got no responsibility.
(Cloud 9)Eddie: Every man, every man is free.
(Cloud 9)Dennis: You're a million miles from reality.

(Reality) I'm gonna sail (up, up) higher (up, up... up, up and away) Cloud 9."

[ProudGerman]

18. How about a song that speaks truth to drugs?

Hurt by NIN is what I vote for. Don't know which version I like better, Trent's original, or Johnny Cash's cover.

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become ?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become ?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

[Wickerman]

21. Rollercoaster by 13th Floor Elevators

also covered well by Jesus and Mary Chain to stay topical and one of the greatest drug bands ever, the Spacemen 3.

Rollercoaster
Well I met someone some time ago
His eyes were clear to see
He showed me things in my own mind
That I wish all the world could see
He stopped me from living so insane
I can be just what I wanna be
Things appear as they really are
I can see just what I want to see

Well come on, and let it happen to you
Well come on, and let it happen to you
You gotta open up your mind and let everything come through

Well it starts like a rollercoaster ride
So real it takes your breath away
It slides you through your point of view
You look back to where you thought you’d stay
When your ride changes you
Exactly like a neon ray
You don’t have to search for words anymore
There’s nothing you need to say

Well come on, and let it happen to you
Well come on, and let it happen to you
You gotta open up your mind and let everything come through

After your trip, life opens up
You start doing what you wanna do
You find out that the world that you once feared
Gets what it has from you
No-one can ever hurt you
Because now you know more than you thought you knew
You’re looking at the world with brand new eyes
And no-one can ever spoil the view

Well come on, and let it happen to you
Hey, hey, hey well come on, you gotta let it happen to you
You gotta open up your mind and let everything come through

Just open up your mind
And let everything come through

[DrBB]

40. 13th Floor Elevators! Thought I was the only person alive

...who still (or ever?) knew that band. Didn't know J&MC had covered them--they just went up in my estimation. Long live the forgotten kings of Texas psychedelia!

And what WAS that weird sound they had in the background of ALL their songs....?

Answer (on edit): an electrified jug (as in jug band). I thought I'd remembered that, but had to check. Great picture here, ca. 1965:


Dig that groovy band logo on the bass drum!

[Bridget Burke]

45. Tommy Hall played the electric jug

He was also the "theorizer" of the Elevator. He's been found living & San Francisco & not doing well (still dropping every Friday):

www.popeye-x.com/antippx9/0000011f.htm

Roky Erickson was the voice & soul of the Elevators. The cover of "Reverberation" comes from "Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: Tribute to Rocky Erickson". The CD includes some of Roky's post-Elevator songs ("I Walked with a Zombie"/REM) along with Elevator classics ("You're Gonna Miss Me"/the late great Doug Sahm).

[DrBB]

48. Found this Roky Erickson website

http://www.erickson.com/

Not much there--discography mainly. Interesting that "creator & owner" of the site is credited to Eric Erickson--son? relative? Copyright is 1998 so it's not the most actively updated site on the web, but the guestbook pages have messages from as recent as a couple of days ago. Gotta love the web--bringing people together (and reminding us of bands we haven't thought about in 30 years!).

[Wickerman]

54. Run, don't walk

to the nearest cool music store in your area and find a copy of the most likely tribute record, Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye, a tribute to Roky Erickson. Where you will find that I am an idiot and the song that Jesus and Mary Chain covers is Reverberation, NOT Roler Coaster. That aside, it is an exceptional tribute disk. The T-Bone Burnett take is incredible and Two-headed dog is amazing. Sahm's You're Gonna Miss Me is God.
1. Reverberation (Doubt) -- ZZ Top
2. If You Have Ghosts -- John Wesley Harding
3. I Had To Tell You -- Poi Dog Pondering
4. She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) -- The Judybats
5. Slip Inside This House -- Primal Scream
6. You Don't Love Me Yet -- Bongwater
7. I Have Always Been Here -- Julian Cope
8. You're Gonna Miss Me -- Doug Sahm
9. It's A Cold Night For Alligators -- Southern Pacific
10. Fire Engine -- Richard Lloyd
11. Bermuda -- Vibrating Egg
12. I Walked With A Zombie -- R.E.M.
13. Earthquake -- Butthole Surfers
14. Don't Slander Me -- Lou Ann Barton
15. Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog) -- Sister Double Happiness
16. Burn The Flames -- Thin White Rope
17. Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) -- Chris E Thomas
18. Nothing In Return -- T-Bone Burnett
19. Reverberation (Doubt) -- The Jesus & Mary Chain

[mitchum]

57. Spaceman 3 covered "Rollercoaster" that may be where the confusion arose

[DrBB]

59. Yes--I was just reading about that CD

I"m truly stunned. Another guy in my band discovered these guys in 1972--we had a copy of their 1st album (Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators). For years (and years) they've been the band I could be sure no one else would have heard of if I mentioned them at a party or whatever.

I guess if you wait long enough, everything gets churned up and gone over again.

[xJlM]

23. Almost anything off of the Sticky Fingers album by the Stones

Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll...

[tjdee]

24. "Blinded by the Light" by Bruce Springsteen?

I don't know if it's a drug song, but I suspect the only way that song makes sense is if you're high. Ah, what fun with rhyming that song is!

"And now in Zanzibar a shootin' star was ridin' in a side car hummin' a lunar tune
Yes, and the avatar said blow the bar but first remove the cookie jar, we're gonna teach those boys to laugh too soon
And some kidnapped handicap was complaining that he caught the clap from some mousetrap he bought last night
Well I unsnapped his skull cap and between his ears I saw a gap but he'd figured he'd be all right

He was just blinded by the light. Cut loose like a deuce
Another runner in the night. Blinded by the light
Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun
Oh but mama that's where the fun is"

Like that version by...whatever band that was in the 70s.

[Wickerman]

25. Manfred Mann's Earth Band

MM has had a 35 year career by doing nice covers of Dylan and Springsteen covers - though a lot of his own songs have been pretty damn good.

[FarLeftRage]

26. 70's version

was done by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
I like their version better tho...

[mitchum]

28. "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" allegedly written by Algernon Swinburne...

or maybe not

[ET Awful]

29. Sandoz by Eric Burdon and the Animals or . . .

White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane.

Sandoz was just a cool blatant LSD song :)

[mitchum]

30. all of the above +...

3/4 of the Rolling Stones' work 1967-1974
"White Light/White Heat" Velvets
"Last Days of May" BOC
"Tired Eyes" NY
"Let Me Get Off On Your Porch" PsychoDaisies
"Temporary Thing" Lou Reed

[baldguy]

31. PUFF the Magic Dragon

[leftbend]

32. Have a Marijana

by David Peel and The Lower East Side

[are_we_united_yet]

33. Lets not forget

Purple Haze and Are you experienced by Jimi.

[Eat_The_Rich]

34. Sorry but

Rainy Day Woman is not about drugs.

[The Lone Liberal]

36. or, I got stoned and missed it

Dr. Hook. :hippie:

[BGAL1965]

37. Waiting For My Man

By the Velvet Underground

[MrScorpio]

39. Where the F#*@ is "Under the bridge" by the RHCPs

or even "White Rabbit" or "Purple haze"

The list is too short

[DrBB]

42. La Cucaracha

La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
Ya no puede caminar;
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marijuana que fumar.

Ya murio la cucaracha,
Ya la llevan a enterrar,
Entre cuatro zopilotes
Y un raton de sacristan.

Con las barbas de Carranza,
Voy a hacer una toquilla,
Pa' ponersela al sombrero
De su padre Pancho Villa.

Un panadero fue a misa,
No encontrando que rezar,
Le pidio a la Virgen pura,
Marijuana pa' fumar.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. I'm Suprised Nobody Mentioned Cold Turkey

by John Lennon...

[jayfish]

46. "Junkhead"

By Alice In Chains.


"What's My Drug Of Choice?
Well, What Have You Got?
I Don't Go Broke
And I Do It Alot"

RIP - Layne Staley

Jay

[Kat45]

47. "Mr. Brownstone" by Guns 'N' Roses

A good one about heroin addiction

[DrBB]

49. Ah Feels Like Ahcid--Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Well, maybe not the BEST--nor my favorite Beefheart song. But I felt like he needed to be in here somewhere....

[stlsaxman]

64. THANK YOU!!!!

ah got up this mornin
how do you think red
red blue green hoooo
all thru mah head
licked a stamp
saw a movie
dropped a
stamp....

ah ain't blu no more... hoooo
's like heaven, ahcid!

[Deja Q]

50. "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane, naturally!

:D

[jumptheshadow]

62. I second that

One of the best songs of all time.

[dolo amber]

51. Green Velvet

"La La Land"

Somethin' 'bout those little pills
Unreal, the thrills they yeild
Until they kill a million brain cells ;)

[PittPoliSci]

53. wonderin' what i'm doin' tonight...

CARBONA NOT GLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i don't do drugs, but i love that song.

[CanuckAmok]

55. Chop a line now!

Cocaine decisions...

you are a doctor or a lawyer,
you got a office with a foyer...

[Mz Pip]

56. White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane

MzPip
:dem:

[FloridaJudy]

60. White Rabbit

OmiGoddess!

Best "head" song of all time!

[Spirochete]

58. Illegal Smile

or Sam Stone. both John Prine tunes.

[RebelOne]

61. Hey, you forgot "Cocaine."

I don't remember who does it. Anybody else know?

[Cheswick2.0]

63. I there one about what scum sucking leeches on society drug dealers are?

that would be my favorite.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

67. God Damn The Pusher Man

by Steppenwolf

[stlsaxman]

65. "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" by the Ramones

hey what a great lyric-

Now I wanna sniff some glue
now i wanna have something to do
all the kids wanna sniff some glue
all the kids want something to do

[Lost4words]

66. Jamie Brocketts Ballad of the USS Titanic

Shit,...aint gonna make rope no more.

[ET Awful]

68. Don't Bogart That Joint - originally by Fraternit of man, covered by

Little Feat

(Down to) Seeds and Stems Again - Captain Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen

[MaineDem]

69. "Shanty" by Jonathan Edwards

Fill it, light it, shut up, and close the door
Cause we're gonna lay around the shanty and put a good buzz on.

Every night and every day if we can help it.
We're gonna lay around the shanty and put a good buzz on.

Man, that brings back memories. I think! :evilgrin: