Songs about drugs: A tribute to Doperty and Wino

Cramps - Drug Train

Talking Heads - Drugs
NOFX - Drugs are Good

Spiritualized are a band missing from this list. Their whole entire catalog could pass for songs about drugs.

A few others I'd add to the list:

1. Pulp - This is Hardcore
2. Blur - Song 2 or Beetlebum
3. Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze (actually drinking inspired that one oddly enough)
4. The Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
5. Marilyn Manson - Dope show, and I Don't Like The Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)
6. My Bloody Valentine - anything from Loveless could easily pass as drug music
7. Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
8. Apollo 4-40 - Electro Glide In Blue
9. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar
10. Massive Attack - Karmacoma
11. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
12. Huey Lewis and the News - I Want a New Drug
13. The Cure - Anything from Pornography. A friend told me that album was written while Robert was doing drugs. Makes sense!
14. The Pixies- Where is my Mind?
15. NIN - Hurt

That's all I can think of that hasn't been stated yet.

Originally posted by MattWithABeard:
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Iggy Pop - Love for Life

Don't you mean Lust for Life?

Oh and also, add Iggy Pop - Night Clubbing to the list.

Lust for Life is really just about a modern guy who has a lust for life.

Originally posted by Mobius:
Lust for Life is really just about a modern guy who has a lust for life.

Actually, it could be considered an anti drug song.

Here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And a flesh machine
He's gonna do another strip tease

Hey man, where'd you get that lotion?
I've been hurting since I bought the gimmick
About something called love
Yeah, something called love
Well, that's like hypnotising chickens

Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
'Cause of a lust for life
'Cause of a lust for life

I'm worth a million in prizes
With my torture film
Drive a G.T.O.
Wear a uniform
All on government loan

I'm worth a million in prizes
Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With the liquor and drugs
With the liquor and drugs

Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in my ear before
'Cause, of a lust for life (lust for life)
'Cause of a lust for life (lust for life, oooo)
I've got a lust for life (oooh)
Got a lust for life (oooh)
Oh, a lust for life (oooh)
Oh, a lust for life (oooh)
A lust for life (oooh)
I got a lust for life (oooh)
Got a lust for life

Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in my ear before
'Cause I've a lust for life
'Cause I've a lust for life.

Well, here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And a flesh machine
I know he's gonna do another strip tease

Hey man, where'd ya get that lotion?
Your skin starts itching once you buy the gimmick
About something called love
Oh Love, love, love
Well, that's like hypnotising chickens.

Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
And I've a lust for life (lust for life)
'Cause I've a lust for life (lust for life)
Got a lust for life
Yeah, a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Oh, a lust for life
Got a lust for life
Yeah a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Lust for life [repeat and fade]

Who's Got the Crack - Moldy Peaches

Janes Addiction - Jane Says

Lou Reed - I'm Waitin For the Man

Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers/Ramones - Chinese Rocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-HR3R72hc

David Allan Coe - Jack Daniel's, If You Please

David Allan Coe - Tennessee Whiskey (doubles as a love song)

David Allan Coe - This Bottle (In My Hand)

Willie Nelson - Whiskey River

The Pogues - basically their whole catalogue, no?

Oh,and how could I forget:

Beck - MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack

Originally posted by saintangelsin:
Pulp - This is Hardcore

I always thought this was about porn.

Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me

and then !!!'s cover of the same song which they said they wrote specifcally to listen to while on drugs.

There is another !!! song where he's talking about doing acid but I can't remember the name, off their first full length.

Sgt Pepper, etc.

Talking Heads - Lifetime Piling Up

Ween - Mushroom Festival in Hell, Strap On That Jammy Pac, Weed Whore, and well, pretty much their entire catalog

Steely Dan - Through With Buzz

What's that Lou Reed song where he's singing about one last shot?

James Brown - King Heroin

Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 35

Stephen Malkmus - Water and a Seat

The Streets - Prangin' Out + tons of others

Soulwax - E Talking

Wilco - Handshake Drugs

Sun City Girls - Opium Den

Tom Petty - You Donâ??t Know How It Feels

could go on and on…

Storm the Legion is that !!! song.


Rick James - Mary Jane

Originally posted by cale:
What's that Lou Reed song where he's singing about one last shot?

The Last Shot, from Legendary Hearts. It may be harder NOT to find a drug reference in most of Lou's earlier material. Wise man though, and still buff I hear ;)

"Lust for Life" is the best and best-known song from your days with Bowie in Berlin. How much of it is autobiography?

It's William Burroughs, from The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. I loved that Dr. Benway line: "Love, what is it anyway? It's just like when you hypnotize a chicken." And there was Johnny Yen, the Venusian green boy – he's gonna sell you the love con. He'll go through your closet while you're staring into space. I was mixing that with personal experience.

Master of Puppets - Metallica
Night of the living baseheads - Public Enemy
The entire 13th step album - A Perfect Circle
Junk Head - Alice in Chains
God Smack - Alice in Chains
Rehab - Amy (duh)
Needles - Despwa
Crack Hitler (sorta) - Faith No More
Junkies Prayer - Fishbone
Freddie's Dead - cover done by Fishbone forget who the original is
Wilma's Rainbow - Helmet
Dirty High - Curve
Liar - Megadeth
Addicted to Chaos - Megadeth
JUST ONE FIX - Ministry
Pharmaecopia - Mudvayne
Good Friends and a bottle of pills - Pantera
The Needle Lies - Queensryche
Knock Me Down - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Marijuana - Horton Heat
Bails of Cocaine - Horton Heat
Indigo Friends - Horton Heat
Needlefeast - Soilwork
Needles - System of a Down
Tool - well I'll leave those songs up for interpretation ;)

The Simpletones - I Like Drugs

Originally posted by smakawhat:
Knock Me Down - Red Hot Chili Peppers

i interpret that song as being about someone who wants to be kept in check and doesn't want to get too full of himself: "if you see me getting mighty, if you see me getting high - knock me down, i'm not bigger than life".

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer

Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
Lou Reed - Kicks
The Telescopes - The Perfect Needle
The Association - Along Comes Mary
Peter, Paul & Mary - Puff The Magic Dragon
The Smoke - My Friend Jack
Bob Marley - Legalize It (I think that's the title)
Caravan - Magic Man
The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
Keith Canisius - Opium Pop Ballad
Cream - Spoonful
John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band - Cold Turkey
Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation
Lupine Howl - The Jam That Ate Itself
(the sounds of) Kaliedoscope - Funny Cigarette

Bob Marley - Legalize It (I think that's the title)

That was Peter Tosh.


Also:

Peter Tosh - Bush Doctor
Bob Marley - Easy Skankin
Barington Levy - Under Me Sensi
Sebadoh - Smoke a Bowl