UKC

Three candidates in order of how I personally rank them.

Mr Tamborine Man
The Needle and the Damage Done
Cocaine.

In reply to Al Evans:

Dandy Warhols: Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

Grand Master Flash and Melle Mel - White Lines

The Ent

In reply to Al Evans:
Or, thinking about it, the 1000 Homo DJs' version of Supernaut

In reply to Al Evans:

Another Girl, Another Planet..The Only Ones

Heroin...V.Underground.

In reply to Al Evans: lyrics include; and the drugs don't work.. by Oasis

In reply to Al Evans:

s'poz it has to do with something by blur or navarna ?

In reply to Al Evans:

sorted for Es and whizz, Pulp

In reply to Al Evans: 'White Rabbit' - Jefferson Airplane

In reply to belaybev:

'The drugs don't work' The Verve.

Oasis couldn't hope to create a song as good as that.

Not the best drugs song though!

In reply to Marc C: White Rabbit is a great song, but in my naivety I thought it was about Alice in Wonderland

In reply to belaybev:

not only have you got the band name wrong you've completely failed to listen to the lyrics. The song is about Ashcroft's dying father.

In reply to TMM: omg sorry, you're right, was the verve..

In reply to Al Evans:

Hurt - The Johnny Cash version (originally a Nine Inch Nails track)

In reply to Al Evans:

golden brown - the stranglers

In reply to SI A: There She Goes- the La's

There she goes
There she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

In reply to Barry Chocolate: also..
Amphetamine Annie- Canned Heat

I think the singer died from a drugs OD aswell.


Speed Kills!!

In reply to Al Evans:

The last time I took acid

Loudon Wainwright III

In reply to Al Evans: drugs dont work by the verve

In reply to Al Evans: oh and brown sugar

In reply to Al Evans:

The Top 5 (in reverse order)

5. Hurt - Johnny Cash
4. Golden Brown - Stranglers
3. There she Goes - The Las
2. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

and Number 1, Ladies & Gentlemen! IS (drum roll)....

'We are the Ovaltinies' by The Ovaltinies!

"We are the Ovaltinies, little girls and boys,
Make your request we'll not refuse you,
We are there just to amuse you,
Would you like a song or story?
Will you share our joys?
At work and play were more than keen,
Because we all drink Ovaltine,
We're happy girls and boys!"

In reply to Marc C:
Glad to see Golden Brown is there. If you like the Stranglers then Skin Deep is also noteworthy.

I would also agree with someone suggestion of Another Girl, Another Planet by The Only Ones.

In reply to Al Evans:
Soft Cell - Memorabilia (the Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing mix)
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine

In reply to Al Evans:

Lou Reed 'Perfect Day' -

(such a melancholy song really)

In reply to Hannah m: Perfect Day = Number 6 on the All-Time Drug Song Chart. But, hand on heart, it can't really compete with 'We are the Ovaltinies', can it?

In reply to Marc C: Hassan I Sabha- Hawkwind

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/8/hawkwind/hassan_i_sabha_assassins_of_allah.ht...

And Cocaine by Dillinger

http://www.tsrocks.com/0/4_dillinger_texts/cocaine.html

In reply to Al Evans:
The Drugs Dont Work ... by The Verve .. nuff said

In reply to Hannah m:


Also Lou Reed 'Waiting for the Man"

In reply to all the people who have said 'The drugs dont work':

are you sure, its not really what i would call a drug song. you do know what its about don't you ?

In reply to lost1977:

'They just make YOU worse'

'I know I'll see your face again'

Written about Ashcroft's father who died when he was only very young.

Interestingly though on the very earliest demo's Ashcroft sings 'They just make ME worse' so perhaps there is some ambiguity.

Ashcroft's intake of narcotics was legendary, the NME dubbed him 'Mad Richard' whilst Noel Gallagher called The Verve a bunch of Space Cadets led by Captain Rock.

Listen to 'Cast no shadow' (one of the better Oasis track) which is Noel's tribute to Ashcroft. 'Bound with all the weight of all the words he'd like to say'

In reply to Al Evans:

novocaine for the soul; the eels

In reply to Al Evans:

crystal ship; doors

In reply to Al Evans:

shoot speed kill light; primal scream

In reply to Al Evans:

blinded by the light; bruce springsteen

In reply to Al Evans:

Downer, Nirvana

In reply to Marc C:

Damn, got to hand it to those Ovaltinies (but I can't say I remember the song as vividly as you seem to, if at all...) but Perfect Day might just knock them off their no.1 pedestal on my list one of the few songs that could bring tears to my eyes - and the weirdest choice for a mass public sing-along (Lou Reed that is, not the Ovaltinies!).

In reply to Al Evans:

Purple Haze - Jimi

In reply to Al Evans:

Needle of Death by Bert Jansch,

White Rabbit by Janis Joplin.

In reply to Al Evans:

Easy Skanking - Bob Marley

In reply to Bruce Hooker:


Mmm. Not quite...as has been said already, the Jefferson Airplane song is magisterial.

Cream had been on the chemicals when they wrote 'Tales of Brave Ulysses' too.

T.

In reply to Al Evans: 'Shall we take a trip' Northside

In reply to Al Evans:

Smack my bitch up - Prodigy

Are you experienced? - Hendrix

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beetles

Clark Street: The Top/Homecoming/Antek's - Elmer Bernstein (Theme to The Man with the Golden Arm)

In reply to Al Evans:

Heroin - New Model Army

In reply to Bruce Hooker:

Errr wasn't White Rabbit by Grace Slack?

In reply to Al Evans:

Dr Hook. I was stoned and I missed it.

In reply to Al Evans: Anybody remember Afroman?

http://www.thelyricarchive.com/lyrics/becauseigothigh.shtml

In reply to Al Evans:
Charlie's Enormous Mouth: Zappa
Cocaine Decisions: Zappa
Junkie Jenny in Gaytown: Butthole Surfers
Junkies Promise: Sonic Youth
L Dopa: Big Black

In reply to jim robertson:

Yes!!! Lovely memories...

Mick

In reply to Al Evans:

Another vote for Golden Brown, thing was I thought it was about suntans for about 10 yrs :-0

In reply to kevin k: Really a drugs song ??????
And I'll bet your momma was the tent show queen, And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen, I'm no schoolboy but I'm doin' allright, You should have heard me just around midnight.
Are you sure?????

In reply to Al Evans: The Pusher (from Easy Rider)

In reply to Al Evans: Grace SLICK (of Jefferson Airplane). Maybe she was slack when you 'knew' her?

Anyone mentioned Puff the Magic Dragon yet?

In reply to Bruce Hooker:

Definitely - check those lyrics!

Also Candy Man. I suppose the Hey, Tambourine Man debate could also be reopened.

Who did a song called White Line Fever??

In reply to Al Evans: Cocaine in my Brain...Dillinger

In reply to Al Evans: Motorhead by Hawkwind/Motorhead:

http://www.hawkwind.com/lyr/mo.htm

In reply to Al Evans and others:


To tell the truth I dunno, I've just got an old cassette with this song on and it says it's sung by Janis Joplin... might well be a mistake though, the voice doesn't sound quite like her... anyway "Needle of Death" is my favorite, I just put the other one on as it's a bit iconic according to an USian friend who is old enough to remember She says it was their anthem at the time... I was less concerned by pills and stuff.

Despite the fact that the Chili Peppers have refused to lay down even though they've now been crap for far longer than they were ever good, Blood Sugar sex Magik is a awesome album, and under the bridge is a fantastic drug song, albeit totally devalued the 15 years of wank that followed, and a couple of dodgy covers.

In reply to Al Evans:

Pink: Get The Party Started

Not the best but was funny when M&S used it for their christmas advert.

In reply to Jon_83:

Er, haven't bothered to read it all, but:

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done
What was that one by The Band? About a private eye and a drug dealer?

Josh.

Cash - Cocaine Blues (As sung on the Folsom Prison Album)

In reply to Al Evans: i'm the scatman by the scatman. i can't imagine how many drugs he must have taken to write that...

In reply to Al Evans:

No one's mentioned Sister Morphine, a song that chills me to the bone every time I hear it.

In reply to Al Evans:

I thought that this was a thread about which are the best tunes to listen to whilst taking drugs.

Since it isn't i can't really help you.

In reply to Al Evans:

Wasn't there a song called (simply) 'Cocaine'?

has Lucy in The Sky with diamonds cropped up yet 9in spite of Beatles' protestations to the contrary)?

In reply to Al Evans:

Penicillin by Alex and the Flemmings.

In reply to Al Evans:

Oh aye, Banannas by Man.

"I like to eat banannas because they got no bones
I like marijuanna because it gets me stoned..."

In reply to Al Evans:

This is well worth owning:

http://www.amazon.com/Reefer-Songs-Various-Artists/dp/B000001LYJ

In reply to Greenbanks:

Yeah, by JJ Cale, and Clapton covered it, less effectively.

I used to know Julian Lennon pretty well when I was a teenager. He insisted that that track came from some childhood thing where John Lennon was holding him up and pointing at the sky, calling the moon 'Lucy' and the stars 'diamonds'. I dunno if it's true, and I suspect not, but that was his version.

In reply to Al Evans: Lee Perry's version of Long Bread Colly although any one of thousands of tracks from the '70s roots reggae scene could take the crown. But never mind a song, wot about a whole album Spacemen 3, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To.

In reply to Al Evans:

I stuck Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in my top tracks, but the story I heard was it was named after a picture by Julian Lennon and the LSD was just coincedence but it very obviously was describing a trip.

I put it in cause it describes a trip rather than just singing the praises.

In reply to Steve Parker:

Though the Wiki(etc) version has it thus "As a child, Lennon directly inspired the title of one of his father's most famous songs, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", a description he gave to describe a picture he had drawn, a watercolour painting of a girl (a classmate named Lucy) surrounded by stars"

I suspect we'll never know.

In reply to Greenbanks:

I imagine Julian Lennon was so young at the time that he doesn't really know what was going on. That was his version, but it's probably not very reliable.

In reply to Al Evans:

Slick not Slack

tut tut

In reply to Al Evans:

A great philosopher once wrote
Naughty, naughty, very naughty
Ha ha ha ha ha

In reply to Al Evans:
"Cold Turkey" (Plastic Ono)

In reply to Removed User:
Ditto....Another fine cut from Beggars Banquet:
Jigsaw Puzzle.

In reply to MikeTS:
I've got 2 mint lp copies of Great Society I've never listened to. Kinda scared to.

In reply to Greenbanks & others:

I remember hearing that it was a picture drawn by a child, possibly one of the Beatles' children, and when asked what it was she said it was "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" and the song came from there. Before reading that I thought it was to do with Professor Leakey's "Lucy", but this may have been because he had been my headmaster and left a very strong impression on me.

In reply to Al Evans: at the time of reading this there were 78 replies and "Sister morphine" - The rolling stones, has only been mentioned once, whats going on?!? Has to be one of the best of the stones drug ballads, along with:

Brown Sugar,
Dead flowers,
Mothers little helper,

JK

In reply to aln:

Very good call.

also:
Eight Miles High - The Byrds (although they disputed any drug references, it was still the 1st song to be banned by Radio1)
Amphetamine Annie - Canned Heat
Artificial Energy — The Byrds
Totally Wired — The Fall
Brown Sugar — The Rolling Stones
Angel Dust - Gil Scott Heron
OD Catastrophe — Spacemen 3
Some Candy Talking — The Jesus and Mary Chain
K-hole — Silver Jews
Coming into Los Angeles — Arlo Guthrie

The list is endless really

In reply to Al Evans:
I'm waiting for my man (24 dollars in my hand)
velvet underground

In reply to robw007:


Talking of which, has anyone mentioned 'Heroin' by the same?

Surely THE iconic drugs song?

In reply to Siward: Oh yes, post number five!

In reply to Al Evans:

There's a real lack of cut and paste lyrics in this thread.

Ian Dury - I want to be straight


I want to be straight
I want to be straight
I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late
I want to confirm
I want to conform
I want to be safe, I want to be snug and I want to be warm


...


Could be that straightness
dum dum didley
Might lead to greatness
dur yuh dum der
Owing to lateness
My chance has only just arrived, ha

In reply to Siward:

Don't you mean: Oh yes, its been mentioned five times!

In reply to mwerner: If you wanna get into it, you gotta get out of it

In reply to Siward: Puff the magic dragon

In reply to Al Evans:

Supernaut (as mentioned already) but the Ministry/Trent Reznor version.

Ether - Coil
Are You Shivering? - Coil
Sorted for Es and Whizz - Pulp (already mentioned too but such a fantastic song).

In reply to Al Evans: Waiting For My man

In reply to Al Evans:

1] 'Jimmy Jazz',
2] 'Julie's Been working for the Drug Squad',
3] 'Drug stabbing time'

All from The Clash London Calling.

In reply to Al Evans: Ever heard The Devil Went To Jamaica?
Dopehead parody of The Devil Went Down To Georgia...
ACE, gives the giggles, without anu substance abuse whatsoever.

The Devil went to Jamaica,
He was looking to deal some Weed.
He was doing fine, they were standing in line,
It was very fine weed indeed.

etc..

Also, The Wildwood Weed.

8^)

TTG

In reply to Al Evans:

Layla.....

In reply to O Mighty Tim:
the devil went to jamaica
he was lookin' to sell some weed
he was doin' fine
they were standin' in line
it was excellent weed indeed
when he came across a young man
who was likewise peddelin' pot
and the devil slid down the beach to the kid
and said "boy lemme tell you what"
i guess you kinda figured i'm a reefer head of course
and after all this time
i guess that i'm
a connoisseur of sorts
now your stuff smells ok
but this could tranquilize a horse
i'll bet a million in cash
against your stash
coz i think mine's better than yours
the boy said "my name's johnny and you ain't smoked nothin' yet"
one hit of this grass
will kick your ass
you got yourself a bet
johnny roll a ball of hash
and make sure it's the bomb
coz the devil's got the kind of stuff they smoked in vietnam
you'll get a million smackaroo's
in cash if you cash if you can cook,
but if you can't devil gets your dope
(Fiddle Break)
the devil packed a bong
with a little acapulco gold
and resin flew from his fingertips
as he fired up his bowl
he filled that chamber all the way
and he took a mighty hit
as they passed it back and forth
it gave'em both a coughin' fit
when the bowl was finished johnny said
"hey man that stuff was great"
but fill your lungs with some of this
and prepare to vegetate
cannabis,apeeva,sweet mary jane
the devil's in the back yard fryin' his brain
zig zag filled with a diggity dang
hold on tight it'll hit you like a tank
the devil nodded off because he knew that he was stoned
and he asked if he could buy an ounce
of the stuff that johnny owned.
johnny said "devil just come on back if you ever wanna catch a buzz"
i done told you once you son of a bitch,
mine's the best there ever was
then they fired up doobies one by one,
ain't gonna stop 'til the bag's done
green as a bullfrog,
sticky as glue
granted you'll get high,
yes i do

Seems to be some dispute as to who wrote it though...
Weird Al Jankovich get's credited on some sites, David Allan Coe on others.
Me, I don;t know, I just find it funny...

TTG

In reply to Al Evans:

"Here comes the nice" - The small faces

ian

In reply to Al Evans: Threshold of a Dream - Moody Blues.

In reply to Colin Barwell: What's the John Prine song with the line something like 'there's a hole in daddies arm where all the money goes' ?

In reply to Al Evans:

Heroin - VU

In reply to Al Evans:

Solid Air.

G

In reply to Jules King: Totally agree with your choices. It's an age thing and the Clash were at the top when I was into music.

By the way, of the 3, my favourite is "Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad", which was not from "London Calling" but from "Give 'Em Enough Rope", their previous Album. For those of you interested the subject of the song, not Julie by the way, has had a part to play in the Climbing world.

In reply to Al Evans:

The last time I did acid I went insane by Jeffrey Lewis

"The second rule of LSD :
The rooftop is not a good place to be"

In reply to Al Evans:
ebeneezer goode - shamen
cocaine - JJ
Kaya - Bob

In reply to Al Evans:

"Talking Vietnam Pot Blues" - Tom Paxton

In reply to Al Evans:

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd.

In reply to Doug:

"Sam Stone". Was surprised the list had got so long without it getting a mention.

In reply to Doug:

And another good Prine drug sone is "Illegal Smile"

In reply to Rob Naylor: Thanks, can't remember when I last heard it, maybe more an anti war song ?

Sam Stone
©John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Repeat Chorus:

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

Repeat Chorus

In reply to Al Evans:

Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield

I'm your mama, I'm your daddy,
I'm that nigga in the alley.
I'm your doctor when in need.
Want some coke? Have some weed.
You know me, I'm your friend,
Your main boy, thick and thin.
I'm your pusherman.

Ain't I clean, bad machine
Super cool, super mean
Dealin' good, for The Man.
Superfly, here I stand.
Secret stash, heavy bread,
Baddest bitches in the bed,
I'm your pusherman

Andy

In reply to Al Evans:

Miguel came from a small town in northern Mexico.
He came north with his brother Louis to California three years ago
They crossed at the river levee, when Louis was just sixteen
And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin

They left their homes and family
Their father said, "My sons one thing you will learn,
for everything the north gives, it exacts a price in return."
They worked side by side in the orchards
From morning till the day was through
Doing the work the hueros wouldn't do.

Word was out some men in from Sinaloa were looking for some hands
Well, deep in Fresno county there was a deserted chicken ranch
And there in a small tin shack on the edge of a ravine
Miguel and Louis stood cooking methamphetamine

You could spend a year in the orchards
Or make half as much in one ten hour shift
Working for the men from Sinaloa
But if you slipped the hydriodic acid
Could burn right through your skin
They'd leave you spittin' up blood in the desert
If you breathed those fumes in

It was early one winter evening as Miguel stood watch outside
When the shack exploded, lighting up the valley night
Miguel carried Louis' body over his shoulder down a swale
To the creekside and there in the tall grass, Louis Rosales died
Miguel lifted Louis' body into his truck and then he drove
To where the morning sunlight fell on a eucalyptus grove
There in the dirt he dug up ten-thousand dollars. all that they'd saved
Kissed his brothers lips and placed him in his grave

In reply to Removed User:

"i love my drugs"

by the velvet underpants

I love my drugs
they do no harm
i love my drugs
i shove them in my arm

i love my drugs
coke speed and black
i drink benalylalyn
and bags bags bags bags bags bags of smack

cant remember the rest

In reply to Al Evans: ooo, i didn't know anyone else knew John Prine..llistening right now.

white line fever was motorhead as well

'Milk & Alcohol' Dr Feelgood

'Auntie Maggies Remedy' George Formby

'SEx & Drugs & Rock & Roll?' Blockheads

almost all of the happy mondays & black grape ?
'Waterfall' Stone Roses, allegedly.

'Hurdy Gurdy Mushroom Man' Steve Hillage

In reply to thin bob:
'Copperhead Road' Steve Earle

In reply to Al Evans:

White Rabbit by Jeferson Airplane "...feed your head..."

In reply to thin bob:

I must listen to that again. At full volume!

In reply to Al Evans:

Not the best by any means but a couple I like are:

Ganja Smuggling - Eek-a-Mouse
Shall we take a trip - Northside

In reply to Removed User:
it's bagpipe-tastic!
[am also listening to 'F the CC' and 'The Revolution Starts' at large volumes. recommended!]

In reply to Al Evans:pot head pixies or opium for the people by planet gong.

In reply to Al Evans:

Methamphetamine Blues - The Mark lanegan Band.

In fact, come to think of it, ANYTHING by Mark Lanegan!

In reply to BingoBangoBongo:

I haven't read this thread very carefully

BUT

it APPEARS

that none of you has mentioned EITHER

Kashmir by the Zep

OR

Copperhead Road by Steve Earle.

If not, the whole lot of you can go and stand in the corner for the rest of the lesson.

In reply to Al Evans:

Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)

by Roy Harper

I get up and I walk across the room
I get to the door - I've been there before
Wondering what I got up for
When all of a certain I remember
What I was going to say to you
Standing there watching my member
Hanging there squirting the loo

I'm really stoned
I'm really stoned
Permanently out my bone
I'm really stoned

I sit down on the phone I get the urge
To dump yesterday, flush it away
I hope the force is still with me
When sure enough the door flies off it's hinges
And there stands P.C. Bill Identikit
Saying "I've got trouble finding where I'm going
"Coz my backside is very badly lit
"Hello, hello, hello
"My bloody head no longer seems to fit
"Hello, hello, hello
"And you're under arrest...
...and...'ello?"

I'm really stoned
I'm really stoned
Permanently out my bone
I'm really stoned

So come on, let go
Let your feelings show
There's something inside you
The person beside you really needs to know
Come on, change your mind
You never know what you might find
Break out the rizlas
And roll up a place to unwind

Well you can bust me once
You can bust me twice
But you'd have to top me
To finally stop me from loading my dice

'Coz I'm really stoned
I'm really stoned
Permanently out my bone
I'm really stoned

In reply to Al Evans:

I think we need

White Punks on Dope - The Tubes
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
and
The Needle and the Spoon - Lynyrd Sknynrd

In reply to Al Evans:

simple...

Snowblind... Black Sabbath

E

In reply to Tim Chappell:

You can use the 'Find' command in your browser to check stuff without having to read every post. I just saw that thinbob mentioned Copperhead Road on Tuesday
Just throwing you a handy tip...

In reply to Al Evans:

Is that songs about drugs or songs to listen to during recreational use

For the latter, IMO:

- Anything by Early Pink Floyd, notably stuff thats on Live in Pompei

- Bowie
- Zappa
- Led Zep
- Roy Harper
- The Who
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Later stuff from the Beatles

Not in that particular order either.. Can you guess I was a hippy child and took influence from my parents collection?

z-)

In reply to Al Evans:

If we can give the lyrics, try this one, hard not to feel, your eyes get moist if it reminds you of anyone:

"NEEDLE OF DEATH
Bert Jansch

When sadness fills your heart
And sorrow hides the longing to be free
When things go wrong each day
You fix your mind to `scape your misery

Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death

How strange, your happy words
Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone
How tears have filled the eyes
Of friends that you once had walked among

Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death

One grain of pure white snow
Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain
In peace your mind withdraws
Your death so near your soul can't feel no pain

Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death

Your mother stands a'cryin'
While to the earth your body's slowly cast
Your father stands in silence
Caressing every young dream of the past

Your troubled young life
Had made you turn
To a needle of death

Through ages, man's desires
To free his mind, to release his very soul
Has proved to all who live
That death itself is freedom for evermore

And your troubled young life
Will make you turn
To a needle of death"

Here's a link to the song:

http://www.windmillweb.info/Music/Bert%20Jansch-%20Needle%20of%20Death.mp3

In reply to Al Evans:

Sloop John beat- The Beach boys

In reply to Al Evans:

Pink Floyd by far with Dylan close behind, I personaly think great gig in the sky is about scoring with heroin, just listen

In reply to Al EvanS:

Cop Shoot Cop by Spiritulazied - actually that whole album (music and packaging) is really very elegant, clever and wonderfully made, (though not especially practical, and opening my copy nearly broke my heart) and very telling as to the main influences of its creation.

In reply to Al Evans:

"White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane

In reply to Al Evans: "Tonights the Night", the song & the whole album, by Neil Young.

In reply to Bruce Hooker: Wow that's not cliched at all. I find it better if you imagine it performed by Slipknot or similar.

Plus, YOU COPYRIGHT VIOLATING SWINE. THAT'S COPYRIGHT THEFT, ASSHOLE. YOU'RE FUNDING TERRORISM AND DRUGS (HOW IRONIC) BY DISTRIBUTING THAT STUFF OVER THE INTERNET YOU ILLEGAL HIPPY SON OF A COWHERD.

DO NOT F*** WITH THE RIAA AND FACT, YOU SCURVY SHYSTER BASTARD. STEPS WILL BE TAKEN. YOU HOLY HAIRY FREE LOVE LEFT WING SODOM AND GOMORRAH FREE LOVE TURDS WILL BE FLUSHED FROM THE SERIES OF TUBES OF THE INTERNETS OF ALL GOD LOVING, FREEDOM FEARING PEOPLE.

INTERNETS = SRS BUSINESS.

In reply to Al Evans:

"Junkies Christmas" by Disposable Heroes feat the late great William Burroughs

This is the hands down winner. a classic.

In reply to Al Evans:

My Hamster just ate my Asprin - by the Nostrums of course.

In reply to Al Evans: 'transparent day' by
'the west coast pop art experimental band'

In reply to Al Evans:
"Does your Heroin lose it's glamour on the bed post over night" - Half Man Half Biscuit

Sublime - Badfish is a good drugs song.

Happiness is a warm gun by the beatles is widely acknowledged to be about drugs. Fantastic song.

In reply to Al Evans:

A couple by Country Joe and the Fish spring to mind-- Flying High, and I Feel like I'm Fixing to Die

In reply to Al Evans:

Don't boggart that joint my friend !

In reply to Al Evans: just listening to Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne , which has heavy acid refs, man

In reply to Al Evans:
Haven't seen (after a brief squizz)
In the white Room - Cream/ Clapton
Eezer good - The Shaman
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Megadeath(?)
We Call it Acieeeed - Richard Claydermore(?)

In reply to Al Evans: Best ever drug song..I've always been too hi to remember one

In reply to Jacques: Pass it over to me! Strange (not really) nobody has mentioned 'Pass The Duchy On The Left Hand Side'

In reply to Al Evans:
Indelicates, "Good Heroin":

My heroine is on heroin
But not bad heroin, the good heroin
That rockstars take
And that heals the ache
Of the pain she's in
She's not dirty; she's past thirty
She plays acoustic guitar and the flute
And the harp and the theramin
On heroin
My heroine

And oh, in this dead town
The dead kids hang around
This must be Zion, they promised us Zion...

My heroine is so beautiful
Her cheeks are hollowed out, God, She's beautiful
She orders jugs of wine
And wastes all her time
At the wishing well
She's a dreamer
I'm a dreamer
We are not like the others
We're the best of our brothers
We dreamers, We dreamers
You should see us

And oh, in this dead town
The dead kids hang around
This must be Zion, they promised us Zion...

My heroine believes in something
Because something big must be happening
She carries books
That belie her looks
And the pain she's in
She sees singers
Who sing protest songs
That she already agrees with
She has afternoon teas with
Them, looks at the world
And the unthinkable wrongs

She sings, damn this dead town
Where the dead kids hang around.
Bored to tears with the infinite peace
The chosen one, like everyone
She raises her eyes
Raises her eyes
Raises her eyes and succumbs

In reply to Rob Naylor:

'King Heroin' (early James Brown on an album - I think - called 'roots of a revolution' - well worth checking out) .

also 110th street by bobby womack.

two songs that make your throat dry

In reply to Al Evans: "A Passage To Bangkok" by Rush:

Our first stop is in Bogota
To check Colombian fields
The natives smile and pass along
A sample of their yield
Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams
Golden Acapulco nights
Then Morocco, and the East
Fly by morning light

[Chorus:]
We're on the train to Bangkok
Aboard the Thailand Express
We'll hit the stops along the way
We only stop for the best

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon
We burn the midnight oil
The fragrance of Afghanistan
Rewards a long day's toil
Pulling into Katmandu
Smoke rings fill the air
Perfumed by a Nepal night
The Express gets you there

[Chorus]

Weedtastic

Andy F

In reply to Al Evans: these drugs don't work, jimmy eat world

In reply to Al Evans:

At Bournemouth University open mic night in the SU last year there was a great song that one guy sang about his whole family being on different drugs, in went on to say his dog was on propane, even though propane isn't actually a drug.
Most amusing. espically the dog bit.

In reply to Al Evans: The best drug song ever has gor to be The Stranglers - Golden Brown. To hear Tony Blackburn on radio one singing along and saying " at last the Stranglers have come along with a realy melodic tune that we can all sign along with." - Priceless

In reply to Al Evans:

Mr Brownstone - Guns n Roses
Brown Sugar - The Stones
Comfortably Numb - Floyd
Cocaine - Neurotek
I Wanna be a Hippy (Bring the Bells Back Mix)- Technohead
The Power of XTC - Sigma 909
Easy Skankin - Bob

In reply to andy farnell:
Like it

Gonna have to try download a copy of that one!