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The topic's far too wide for a poll. And I was thinking about three or four when the idea popped into my head; until I realised tgat every time I thought of a classic 'drug song' two more would start playing in that invisible stereo somewhere in my addled brain.
On top of which, if anyone asked me this in a year's time, the answers and the order in which I gave them would probably be completely different!
Anyway, I want to encourage people to use whatever little grey cells they have left to contribute their own wee lists. No real need to explain your choices - that should be pretty obvious. You'll probably be able to tell a poster's age by the songs they choose. Well, here goes nothing, my top ten.
1. 'There She Goes', The La's (by miles)
2. 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space' - Spiritualized
3. 'Cold Turkey' - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
4. 'Golden Brown' - The Stranglers
5. 'Mother's Little Helper' - Rolling Stones
6. 'Purple Haze' - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
7. 'I'm Waiting for the Man' - Velvet Underground
8. 'The Needle and the Damage Done' - Neil Young
9. 'Sister Morphine' - Rolling Stones
10. 'Tomorrow Never Knows' - The Beatles
11. 'Heroin' - Velvet Underground
12. 'Here Comes the Nice' - The Small Faces
Well hell, I tried to keep that to a Top Ten but I really couldn't leave out those last two now, could I? Now I've suddenly got Brian Wilson somewhere in the theatre of my mind playing 'Good Vibrations', and... who's that?... OMG It's Bob Dylan, Everybody MUST get stoned, what was THAT CALLED? 'Rainy Day Women nos. 12 & 35', of course. I haven't forgotten the numbers! I was EIGHT yrs old when that came out. 'Blonde on Blonde' was the album, out the same time as 'Revolver' by the Beatles, who could easily have had three or four other songs in there, like 'Rain' and 'Doctor Robert' and 'She Said She Said' but they didn't really have all that many 'drug' songs, did they? 'Got to Get You Into my Life' was Sir Paul McCartney's desire in the spring/summer of 1966 to make acid a much bigger part of his life. There are a lot of songs there which date to the 1965-67 period; I reckon EVERYONE was doing a LOT of grass, hash and acid then, really in my list the songs from that sort of 18 month period were all cannabis & LSD except the Stones and the Velvet Underground who were already getting into different kinds of stuff... Eric Burdon and the Animals had a song out called 'A Girl Named Sandoz' (that company actually made decent drugs then - they have a 'new' alprazolam on the market in Western Europe this past year. They had to, really, since the meds they're making at the moment are generally garbage. I've seen the feedback from their flunitrazepam and oxazepam as sold by MM and everybody knows how crap their 'GG249' 2mg alp bars are; they've GOT to do SOMETHING to stop the decline in what used to be a quality company). But I think that Animals song refers to DELYSID, their patented brand of LSD which was legal, in the UK anyway, right up to (correct me if I'm wrong, it's probably on Wikipedia) Oct/Nov 1967. A friend still owns a bottle (empty of course)from then, tiny little 2565ml bottle, 200mcg/ml, came with a calibrated little oral syringe which people used for making 300 - 500mcg sugar cubes.
Phew! Some topic-starter there, I really honestly intended just to do a quick Top Ten! So let's be seeing what the rest of you think are the best 'drug' songs around. I could do without lists of punk bands from '76 & '77 going on about sniffing glue though, even if it WAS the thing to do with your speed at that time. Now Sid Vicious. He was a REAL punk. Psycho, but punk for sure. Let's be seeing your lists. Bet we see some pretty unexpected things. Looking back, my list's quite conservative, if that's the right word for it.
Thanks for putting up with the absorbaloff again, folks. See ya soon around the site.
On top of which, if anyone asked me this in a year's time, the answers and the order in which I gave them would probably be completely different!
Anyway, I want to encourage people to use whatever little grey cells they have left to contribute their own wee lists. No real need to explain your choices - that should be pretty obvious. You'll probably be able to tell a poster's age by the songs they choose. Well, here goes nothing, my top ten.
1. 'There She Goes', The La's (by miles)
2. 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space' - Spiritualized
3. 'Cold Turkey' - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
4. 'Golden Brown' - The Stranglers
5. 'Mother's Little Helper' - Rolling Stones
6. 'Purple Haze' - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
7. 'I'm Waiting for the Man' - Velvet Underground
8. 'The Needle and the Damage Done' - Neil Young
9. 'Sister Morphine' - Rolling Stones
10. 'Tomorrow Never Knows' - The Beatles
11. 'Heroin' - Velvet Underground
12. 'Here Comes the Nice' - The Small Faces
Well hell, I tried to keep that to a Top Ten but I really couldn't leave out those last two now, could I? Now I've suddenly got Brian Wilson somewhere in the theatre of my mind playing 'Good Vibrations', and... who's that?... OMG It's Bob Dylan, Everybody MUST get stoned, what was THAT CALLED? 'Rainy Day Women nos. 12 & 35', of course. I haven't forgotten the numbers! I was EIGHT yrs old when that came out. 'Blonde on Blonde' was the album, out the same time as 'Revolver' by the Beatles, who could easily have had three or four other songs in there, like 'Rain' and 'Doctor Robert' and 'She Said She Said' but they didn't really have all that many 'drug' songs, did they? 'Got to Get You Into my Life' was Sir Paul McCartney's desire in the spring/summer of 1966 to make acid a much bigger part of his life. There are a lot of songs there which date to the 1965-67 period; I reckon EVERYONE was doing a LOT of grass, hash and acid then, really in my list the songs from that sort of 18 month period were all cannabis & LSD except the Stones and the Velvet Underground who were already getting into different kinds of stuff... Eric Burdon and the Animals had a song out called 'A Girl Named Sandoz' (that company actually made decent drugs then - they have a 'new' alprazolam on the market in Western Europe this past year. They had to, really, since the meds they're making at the moment are generally garbage. I've seen the feedback from their flunitrazepam and oxazepam as sold by MM and everybody knows how crap their 'GG249' 2mg alp bars are; they've GOT to do SOMETHING to stop the decline in what used to be a quality company). But I think that Animals song refers to DELYSID, their patented brand of LSD which was legal, in the UK anyway, right up to (correct me if I'm wrong, it's probably on Wikipedia) Oct/Nov 1967. A friend still owns a bottle (empty of course)from then, tiny little 2565ml bottle, 200mcg/ml, came with a calibrated little oral syringe which people used for making 300 - 500mcg sugar cubes.
Phew! Some topic-starter there, I really honestly intended just to do a quick Top Ten! So let's be seeing what the rest of you think are the best 'drug' songs around. I could do without lists of punk bands from '76 & '77 going on about sniffing glue though, even if it WAS the thing to do with your speed at that time. Now Sid Vicious. He was a REAL punk. Psycho, but punk for sure. Let's be seeing your lists. Bet we see some pretty unexpected things. Looking back, my list's quite conservative, if that's the right word for it.
Thanks for putting up with the absorbaloff again, folks. See ya soon around the site.
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