..well at least some of us do. Which leads me to this top five. Without delving into my own past lets just say this was a hard list to make because it could have be a top twenty or thirty easily and with that your top 5 topic for this post is “What are your top five favorite songs about drugs”. It can be songs against drugs like Social D’s Drug Train or songs about enjoying drugs. It’s up to you. By now everyone knows how this goes but just in case you’ve been under a rock: I post this little top five, you listen to it, while you are listening to it you share your top five songs on the topic with the rest of us…
Track Archive
AUTOPSY IV’S ANSWERS:
Lynyrd Skynyrd – That Smell
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Old Crow Medicine Show – Tell It To Me
Kenny Rogers – Just Dropped In (to see what condition my condition was in)
Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
romeosidvicious
Quick and dirty list:
1. The Takers – Friends In Bottles
2. Drive-By Truckers – Zoloft
3. Whiskey & Co – High Tonight (could pretty much list this whole album)
4. Holly Golightly & the Brokeoff – Gettin’ High for Jesus
5. Cory Branan – Girl Named Go (duh)
Honorable Mention: Uncle Tupelo – Cocaine Blues (J. Cash cover)
1. Bright Eyes & Britt Daniel – Spent on Rainy Days
2. Fraternity of Man – Don’t Bogart That Joint
3. Shotgun Jimmie – Mind Crumb
4. Against Me! – T.S.R. (This Shit Rules)
5. Cheap Girls – Parking Lot
another quick and dirty (fitting for the subject i think):
Maggot Brain – Funkadelic
The Needle and the Damage Done – Neil Young
Sunday Morning Coming Down – Kristofferson/Cash (but the Handsome Family version ain’t bad)
Cocaine – JJ Cale
Legalize It – Peter Tosh
Damn… that was a hard one with only five so i have to cheat and toss it the entire Hold Steady catalogue…err wait, are these songs ‘about’ drugs or best for ‘doing’ drugs–now my head hurts
The Needle and the Damage Done – Neil Young
good call.
CCKMP – Steve Earle
ZZ Top- Brown Sugar
Steve Earle- CCKMP
Dan Stuart- La Pasionaria
Lonsome Bob- Dying Breed
Supersuckers- Non-Addictive Marijuana
Oughh
For now:
Heartbreakers – Chinese Rocks
Love – Signed DC
Speed Glue & Shinki – Mr. Walking Drugstore Man
The Gun Club – She´s Like Heroin To Me
The Byrds – Eight Miles High
Chinese Rocks – Johnny Thunders / Ramones
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Heroin – Lou Reed
The Terrible Sunrise – Bobby Bare Jr.
My Drug Buddy – Stan Ridgeway
No particular order and trying not to repeat any already mentioned. I’m with alex_supertramp considering The Hold Steady catalogue. There are just so many good songs about drugs. I wonder why? heh
Cocaine Blues – as done by Johnny Cash
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Sister Morphine – The Rolling Stones
Needle and The Damage Done – Neil Young
Kid Charlemagne – Steely Dan
White Punks On Dope – The Tubes
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – The Beatles
Coming In To Los Angeles – Arlo Guthrie
Carmelita – Warren Zevon
Willin – Little Feat
1 Extra..
Hash Pipe – Weezer
The Drugs Don’t Work…The Verve
Alabama High Test…Old Crow Medicine Show
We Are All On Drugs….Weezer
We’re Only In It For The Drugs…Ebba Gron
Whiskey And Maryjane…The Scissormen
Hillbilly Heroin & Codeine- Two from the Whipsaws
Women Without Whiskey- DBT
Dead Flowers- As performed by TVZ on Abnormal
Chips Ahoy- The Hold Steady
Well, I’ve never really done drugs, but a friend of mine used to do cocaine and whenever I hear ‘Cocaine’ by Jackson Browne, I think of him.
“Says here you’re 27, but that’s impossible. You look like you could be 45.”
Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night
The Velvet Underground – Heroin
Steve Earle – Goodbye
U2 – Running To Stand Still
Ryan Adams – To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Nirvana – Dumb
To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
How did I let that one slip by??
Rick Danko – Java Blues