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03-27-2005, 03:21 PM
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What's the deal with music about drugs? I can think of a bunch off of my head, and i'm sure I can find more.
Primus- On the Tweak Again
Primus- Those Damned Blue Collared Tweakers
Primus- The Duchess and the Proverbial Mindspread
Black Sabbath- Killing Yourself to Live
Black Sabbath- Snowblind
Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath- Fairies Wear Boots (probably)
Metallica- Master of Puppets (not a negative drug connotation however)
I'm sure i've left out a few Black Sabbath songs. What do you guys think?
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03-27-2005, 03:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: London, UK | | | Grandmaster Flash - 'White Lines'
The Dramatics - 'The Devil is Dope'
Jefferson Airplane - 'White Rabbit'
The Sonics - 'Strychnine'
Nat Adderley - 'Quit It'
The Small Faces - 'Here Comes The Nice'
Dillinger - 'Cocaine In My Brain'
Donovan - 'Sunny Goodge Street'
Country Joe & The Fish - 'Bass Strings'
The Pretty Things - 'Defecting Grey'
The Flamin' Groovies - 'Slow Death'
Chris Bell - 'I Am The Cosmos'
Sebadoh - 'Too Pure'
Harry The Hipster Gibson - 'Who Put The Benzedrine'
Eric Clapton - 'Cocaine'
Funkadelic - 'Maggot Brain' |
03-27-2005, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | Haha how'd I miss Clapton? And hey, I love "White Rabbit," but I had no idea it was about drugs. I thought it was an anti-war song, but now that I see the lyrics, I don't know how I got that mixed up. 
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03-27-2005, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Petary791 What's the deal with music about drugs? I can think of a bunch off of my head, and i'm sure I can find more.
Primus- On the Tweak Again
Primus- Those Damned Blue Collared Tweakers
Primus- The Duchess and the Proverbial Mindspread
Black Sabbath- Killing Yourself to Live
Black Sabbath- Snowblind
Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath- Fairies Wear Boots (probably)
Metallica- Master of Puppets (not a negative drug connotation however)
I'm sure i've left out a few Black Sabbath songs. What do you guys think? | What deal? There are lots of songs and love and sex, too. What's the deal with that? Freddie Mercury wrote a song about his cat! What's up with that guy?!?!?  |
03-27-2005, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Petary791 What's the deal with music about drugs? I can think of a bunch off of my head, and i'm sure I can find more.
Primus- On the Tweak Again
Primus- Those Damned Blue Collared Tweakers
Primus- The Duchess and the Proverbial Mindspread
Black Sabbath- Killing Yourself to Live
Black Sabbath- Snowblind
Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf
Black Sabbath- Fairies Wear Boots (probably)
Metallica- Master of Puppets (not a negative drug connotation however)
I'm sure i've left out a few Black Sabbath songs. What do you guys think? | Black Sabbath-Fairies wear Boots is a song about when they got jumped by a bunch of skin heads. They were wearing boots. |
03-27-2005, 04:17 PM
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"Got To Get You Into My Life"
"Tomorrow Never Knows"...approximates an acid trip
"Doctor Robert"
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03-27-2005, 04:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Big Sound Central | | | Drugs are the shoddy inroad to creativity. They figure, why not pay tribute to them?
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03-27-2005, 05:15 PM
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03-27-2005, 05:30 PM
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03-27-2005, 05:48 PM
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Cure For Pain - Morphine
Damn near every Alice in Chains song is about drugs, depression or death. One song that many people think is drugs but actually isn't is the song Rooster. It is about Jerry Cantrell's father. |
03-27-2005, 05:55 PM
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As Bill Hicks said at the start of Tool's Third Eye "all those great artists that enhanced ur lifes throughout the years, reeeeaaaaaaaallllllllllll f-cking high on drugs." (something like that anyway). I only wish Jaco had never started taking drugs.
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03-27-2005, 06:30 PM
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Someone mentioned "Maggot Brain" Well that song is instumental!
But here are some tid bits about it. Guitarist Eddie "Maggot Brain" Hazel was told by George Clinton before recording the song to think of something really sad and then let his feelings show through the song, I believe he chose his Mother who had passed and thus the heartfelt rendition of a blues ballard guitar solo that Jimmy Hendrix would have been proud of ! Not doubt he was tore down when he recorded it though! 
RIP EDDIE 
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03-27-2005, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by bassmonkeee What deal? There are lots of songs and love and sex, too. What's the deal with that? Freddie Mercury wrote a song about his cat! What's up with that guy?!?!? | You like to flame?
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03-27-2005, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Uhm 70% of rock. | Songs about drugs?
I believe they were called "The intervening decades between 1959 and 2005."
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03-27-2005, 08:27 PM
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there are so many songs about drugs out there...  |
03-27-2005, 08:42 PM
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Rush - "Passage to Bangkok"
The Toys = "I Smoke Two Joints"
Genesis - "Carpet Crawlers"
Green Day - "Geek Stink Breath"
Eddie Money - "No Control"
Skid Row - "Monkey on Your Back (or whatever that tune is called)"
Guns & Roses - "Mr. Brownstone"
Scorpions - "China White"
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03-27-2005, 11:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | Talking Heads' "Drugs" on the "Fear of Music" record is the best! Eno and Fripp were in on the recording...if you haven't heard it you're missing out!!! Worth the price of the record alone; there's lots of other great stuff on that one too (Mind, Paper, Cities, Memories Can't Wait) |
03-27-2005, 11:16 PM
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03-27-2005, 11:24 PM
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VU pwn every other alt/punk/indie type band in the world! 
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03-27-2005, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by JamesM Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (L.S.D) - Beatles. Great song. | Yes, it's a great song, but it's about a picture that one of John Lennon's kids (I think Julian) drew when really young, I believe, not drugs.
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