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[Paregoric Kid]

this list is in no order and there are a shit load of other bands and types of music I listen to, but I was bored and noticed that there isn't much in this forum so I thought I'd add something.

for the hell of it, list some bands, artists, music, noise, etc. that you like
Leftover Crack / Choking Victim
Sex Pistols
The Velvet Underground / Lou Reed
The Clash
At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta
Bauhaus
Jimi Hendrix
Iggy Pop / The Stooges
Johnny Thunders / New York Dolls
Nirvana
Marilyn Manson
Rammstein
Alice in Chains
Talking Heads
X
William Shatner
David Bowie
Germs
The Rolling Stones

[c0g]

In my player right now:
Merzbow - "Bariken"
Nurse With Wound - "Angry Eelectric Finger" - one
Hint - "Portakabin Fever"
Mum - "Finally We Are No One"
Tipper - "Surrounded"
Mirror - "Nightwalkers"
My Morning Jacket - "It Still Moves"

[red26]

what about the whole "stoner rock" catagory? Granted some of the musicians there dont want to be thought of as stoner rock but hey, if you've got the deep metal blues riff rock thing going on, your probably there.
Kyuss
Queens of the Stone Age
The Atomic Bitchwax
Monster Magnet(older stuff)
The Desert Sessions
Thulsa Doom
The Mushroom River Band
Classic Black Sabbath
Budgie
pretty much everything on the meteor city label
Turbonegro!!!???
the point is is that there is sooo much increadible music out there.So many undiscovered bands that only have a few e.p.'s out but their some of the most amazing songs you've ever heard.

[peacefulwarrior]

The Dead

[SuperJunky]

Why not list songs about heroin and other opiates
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Marcy Playground - Poppies
Opium
Wave Motion Gun
Johnny Fischer Ford
Alice In Chains - Junkhead
Sarah McLachlan - Angel
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge
Wolfshiem - Heroin she said
Sineaed O'Connor - Heroin
Life of Agony - Heroin Dreams
Gary Jules - Heroes and Heroin
Boshe Onklez - Heroin
Ever Clear - Heroin Girl
Jump Little Children - Do You Smoke Opium
Moe - Opium
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
Dead Flowers
Neil Young - The Needle and The Damage Done
Hey Hey My My (aka Out of The Blue and Into The Black)
Lots more songs
Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Nirvana - Dumb
Pretty much all of them
Pink Floyd - Comfortabley Numb

From what I've read the NIN version of hurt was originally about smack but was changed to not feed the media glamorization of heroin. The cash version holds true to the songs original intent.

Thats all I can think of for now, forgive any spelling errors and feel free to critisize my interpretation of the songs.

[c0g]

I only know about a few specifically about heroin

Megadeth - Use the Man
Cream (written by Willie Dixon) - Spoonful
The Velvet Underground - Heroin

[bi11i]

Why not list songs about heroin and other opiates
i tell you, that would be a great opiophile audo project; to get all those tracks on one cd.

[red26]

That sounds like a really fun project!Hey super junky, what ever happened to L.O.A.? Did kieth Kaputo move on to bigger and better things?Last time I saw him he was lookin pretty ragged.It'll happen to the best of us sometimes.

[Peripat]

i tell you, that would be a great opiophile audio project; to get all those tracks on one cd.

That would be one DVD full of music! The ones listed aren't even half the ones I could sit down and dredge up from memory (the ones that come to mind right now, though, are by Australian artists I daresay you've never heard of, but here goes)...

"Hammerhead" - James Reyne
"Close My Eyes" - the Clouds
"New Taboos" - Do Re Mi
"Choose Bad Smack" - This Is Serious Mum
"And the Ass Said to the Angel: Wanna Play Kick-to-kick?" - This is Serious Mum
"Heroine" - Helvelln

... there are others, but my mind's as scattered as my music collection right now.

Oh, not an Australian artist but... do we have any Jeff Buckley fans here? I always thought the track "Mojo Pin" was about heroin, but I'm not sure if that's a generally-held interpretation or just the thoughts of a couple of opiated lovers and dreamers on the wrong side of the planet ...

[Paregoric Kid]

The Velvet Underground - Heroin
The Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Too Much Junky Business
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - One Track Mind
New York Dolls - Pills
The Fiends - Asian White
Manic Hispanic - Mexican Tar
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
UK Subs - DF 118 <-[DF 118 is the UKs version of hydrocodone]
The Slits - New Town
The Slits - Instant Hit
X - Sugarlight
Alice in Chains - Junkhead
Alice in Chains - SickMan
The Exploited - Addiction
Ministry - Just One Fix [the "Inch Edit" has Burroughs]
Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs - The "Priest" They Called Him
Choking Victim - 500 Channels
Leftover Crack - Heroin or Suicide
Leftover Crack - The Drug Song
Morning Glory - Gimme Heroin
Guns N Roses - Mr. Brownstone
The Clash - Ghetto Defendant (with Allen Ginsberg)
The Clash - Junkie Slip
The Clash - Deny
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Cramps - Dopefiend Boogie
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
D.I. - Richard Hung Himself
Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids - Junk the Magic Dragon

there are more, I'll add some later perhaps

[blackdog]

hey sounds great, might i suggest a listing of all the great,fantastic singer's and band's who's lives have ended cause of o.d. on dope and such like ummm oh shit who know's the singer /band with the video of the litlle chubby girl in the yellow bumble bee costume danceing around trying to find her place. who's not accepted and ridiculed by people till eventually toward's the end of the song she finds the band all dressed up in bee suit's and join's them in song and dance .yeah i can relate to that alla and all.what a funnie sweet video and the lead singer was an up and coming artist. it's a shame that we lose so many beutiful folk's in this screwy world: all i can say is that my life is kinda plain,all i need is someone to come and save me da da da dah...it's just my point of view..ohh oh oh oh/peace/love......the dogg

[blahblahblah]

Opiate inspired music -

"Dirty Blvd." "Street Hassle" countless others
By Lou Reed Off New York [1989]


"Victim or the Crime"
By The Grateful Dead. Any version, "Patience runs out on the junkie the dark side hires another soul did he steal his fate or earn it? was he force fed , did he learn it? whatever happened to his precious self control?"


"Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around"
By The Silos. Off of the "Susan Across the Ocean" CD (Watermelon, 1993), this is a terrific version of the traditional American pop music car song, but at least one that's honest about what all the driving around is really all about...



"Cod'ine"
By Buffy Sainte-Marie. Off of that old hippie chick Buffy's "Best of" double LP (Vanguard, 1970), this is kind of a "House of the Rising Sun," written by Sainte-Marie and moaning the woes of that ol' codeine jones. Come on, a codeine habit can't be that bad!



"Sister Morphine"
By Marianne Faithfull. My favorite version of this song is on Faithfull's live CD, "Blazing Away" (Island, 1990). Faithfull supported her dope habit for years off the royalties she earned from the Rolling Stones cover of this haunting song.



"The Needle and the Damage Done"
By Neil Young. From the lovely "Harvest" LP (Warner Bros., 1972), this is one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I've heard about how a dope habit looks to someone on the outside, who might be unlucky enough to love someone who's in love with the needle.



"Heroin"
By The Velvet Underground. There are tons of different versions of this song: It originally appeared on the V.U.'s first LP, "The Velvet Undergound & Nico" (Polydor, 1967) along with that other Lou Reed dope classic "I'm Waiting for the Man" (though Reed actually was always more of an amphetamine freak than a junkie, per se). This is THE smack anthem for the generation of dope fiends who came of age in the 1960s.



"Comfortably Numb"
By Pink Floyd. Off of the Floyd's bombastic rock operetta, "The Wall" (Columbia, 1979), this song pretty much captures what dope does for a lot of us: "Hello, is there anybody in there/Just nod if you can hear me..."



"CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)"
By Steve Earle. This is a great song by one who knows of what he speaks. Country/rock/New Traditionalist Earle bottomed out on speedballs, and this tune is from his 1996 comeback CD, "I Feel Alright".



"Cold Turkey"
By John Lennon. This fantastic song first appeared on the Plastic Ono Band LP, "Live Peace in Toronto" back in the early mid-1970s. Some lyrics: "My feet are so heavy/So is my head/I wish I was a baby/I wish I was dead/Cold turkey has got me on the run."



"Chinese Rock"
By The Ramones. Most readily found on the Ramones compliation CD "Ramones Mania" (Sire, 198, this statement on the junkie worldview was also covered frequently by the late ur-junkie and former New York Doll, Johnny Thunders. Some lyrics: "I'm living on a Chinese rock/all my best things are in hock/I'm living on a Chinese rock/everything is in the pawnshop..Life is a bitch/I should have been rich/Instead I'm digging a Chinese ditch."



"Pills"
By New York Dolls. An anthem to their favorite pasttime by the grandfathers of glam; with the exception of David Johansen, most of the members ODed over the course of subsequent years. This can be found on the "New York Dolls" LP (Mercury, 1973). Lyrics: "Hold out your arm, boy, stick out your tongue/I've got some pills, boy, and I'm going to give you some."



"Too Much Junkie Business"
By The Heroes. Originally performed in 1983 by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers refugees and inveterate dope fiends. This has all kinds of great stuff on it. Thunders also did a number of covers of it, before his untimely overdose in New Orleans some years back.



Heroin Hates You
By Iggy Pop. This is a recording of a 1979 performance at the Stardust Ballroom in El Lay, remastered and released by Other People's Music in 1997. Has all the great Iggy standards and a wonderful title.



"Junkie Romance"
By Wayne Kramer. Kramer was a founding member of the seminal political rock band, MC5, who went on to do a big chunk of time in prison on dope charges. This puncturing of certain romantic heroin mythologies is from his solo album, "The Hard Stuff" (Epitaph, 1995).


"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth"
By The Dandy Warhols. Oddly, this song became the hit off of their first Capitol Records CD, "Come Down" (1997), which led to the filming of a wild video for MTV, involving dancing syringes. And, of course, what became the chorus: "I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passe."



"Smack Jack"
By Nina Hagen. This performance by the gravel-voiced East German rock chanteusse is found on her 1982 "NunSexMonkRock" LP. Some lyrics: "You are always running out/And you are always running short/Nothing matters any more/All you want is go and score/No one starts with two a day/But they all seem to end that way." (Seems to me that two a day ain't bad, as habits go!)



"God Smack"
By Alice in Chains. I'm not much of a fan of this style of heavy metal/thrash/grunge, but this song is off of "Dirt" the 1992 theme CD (Columbia) that is basically all about getting over heroin. The album also includes "Junkhead," "Hate to Feel," "Sick Man," and "Down in a Hole."



"Cure for Pain"
By Morphine. CD titled "Cure for Pain" (Ryko, 1993). Lyrics: "Where is the cave where the wise woman went/and were is all the money that I spent/I propose a toast to my self control/You see it crawling helpless on the floor...Where is the cure for pain?/That's the day I throw my drugs away." Vocalist and songwriter Mark Sandman dropped dead of a heart attack during a Morphine concert in Italy.



"Drug Train"
By Social Distortion. The lead singer Mike Ness knows what he's singing about, his experience with needles goes way beyond all those tattoos. "It'll take you as high as the heavens/It'll take you to the depths of hell/It'll make you friends/It'll take your friends/Who will never live to tell." Amusingly, in the jacket design for Social D's subsequent CD, "White Light, White Heat, White Trash" the illustration for white trash is a white guy shooting up.



"Shooting Gallery"
By Mark Lanegan. The lead singer for the Screaming Trees, a Seattle band, this is from his solo album, "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" (SubPop, 1993). The song is not particularly explicit, but is all the stronger for its subtlety.



"Cop Shoot Cop"
By Spiritualized. Founded by Jason Spaceman, Spiritualized is the successor to the late, great Spacemen 3. Both of these groups have always been all about dope--and managed to produced some decent music as they went along. This long, long tune is from "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" (Arista, 1997), which is basically Jason's working through of a bad dope run following a break up.



"The Beast"
By The Only Ones. Off of the Only Ones LP, "Special View" (Epic, 1979). It's not hard to figure out what "the beast" is.


"Under the Bridge"
By Red Hot Chili Peppers. With only one exception I can think of, every member of this Southern California funk-rock band has had a long and difficult turn with heroin--fatally in the case of co-founding member Hillel Slovak. In this song off of the CD, "BloodSugarSexMagik" (Warner Bros., 1991), Anthony Keidis mourns the losses.



"Needle in the Hay"
By Elliot Smith. This dope song is off of "Elliot Smith," but his subsequent release "Either/Or" also has some drug numbers, including "Speed Trials." If you get a chance to see Elliot in concert, go.



"Cough Syrup"
By The Butthole Surfers. Off of the Surfer's 1996 CD, "Electriclarryland," the title of this song is pretty much self-explanatory. Dope fiend/music biz lore has it that the Butthole Surfer's Gibby Haynes gave River Phoenix the fatal snort of dope that ODed him at the Viper Club. Lyrics: "I can't walk/so I guess I'm going to stay at home..."



"DF-118"
By UK Subs. This is an ode to hydrocodone, in a British preparation called DF-118, by the UK punk band. "I get so stressed out/Pressure is my world/I want a squeeze of DF-118." Apparently, frontman Charlie Harper had a heart attack, was given a shot or ten of hydrocodone in the hospital and liked it so much he wrote a song about it.


"One Track Mind"
By Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. Yet another dope fiend anthem from the archetypal heroin rockers. In part this tune, is a complaint against Track Records, but the references to "tracks on my arms, tracks on my face" suggests where the real problem probably lies...



"I Like Drugs"
By The Simpletones. This punk song by the British band really couldn't be more straightforward: "Yesterday, I was at school dusted/Everybody tells me I'll soon bebusted/I like drugs/I like drugs/I like drugs/Don't ask me why/Don't ask me why/Don't ask me why."



"Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
By Traffic. Opiate Anthem, Beautifully descriptive tale of the inevitable outcome of the Dream Scene... Lyrics: "the Man on the street has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your Dreams"



"Ashes to Ashes"
By David Bowie. Bowie's story of Drug Addiction in the Outer Space Cosmos "a la Brian Eno".



"Kicks"
By Paul Reveere & the Raiders. Refections of Paul Reveere's real life endless cycle of chasing the High --Thinly veiled description of addiction for the benefit of the innocent virgin ears of 60's teens...



"Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll"
By Ian Drury & the Blockheads. Bouncy Ska influenced music, to the anarchistic lyrics of the early Punk movement. Drug induced & saturated...



"The Needle and the Spoon"
By Lynard Skynard. A southern rock tune I've listened to while rigging away.



"Been Smoking Too long"
By Nick Drake off of "Time Of No Reply". This tune is a lament on all the seemingly unimportent things that go rolling by while smoking Opium. A known opium user Drake died long before his brilliance was realizied by the public in a both unintentional and strange anti-depressent over dose.



Pool Shark
By Sublime.
So maybe this one is too obvious A must-hear for anyone who has ever been strung-out. I know I have listened to this countless times, and have good memories of tie'n off the dinosaur with my seatbelt...




"My life in a coffin" CD
By Spoonfed. This band in out of southern California, they're a mix of punk/ska. "Capo by the Sea", its about being strung out and in rehab, and having a severe needle fetish. Another cool song is "Deadworld", its about this junkie scrounger chick that ends up dying as usual.


"Jane Says"
By Janes Addiction. Classic dope song from dope addicts. Jam
"Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around"
By The Silos. Off of the "Susan Across the Ocean" CD (Watermelon, 1993), this is a terrific version of the traditional American pop music car song, but at least one that's honest about what all the driving around is really all about...



"Cod'ine"
By Buffy Sainte-Marie. Off of that old hippie chick Buffy's "Best of" double LP (Vanguard, 1970), this is kind of a "House of the Rising Sun," written by Sainte-Marie and moaning the woes of that ol' codeine jones. Come on, a codeine habit can't be that bad!



"Sister Morphine"
By Marianne Faithfull. My favorite version of this song is on Faithfull's live CD, "Blazing Away" (Island, 1990). Faithfull supported her dope habit for years off the royalties she earned from the Rolling Stones cover of this haunting song.



"The Needle and the Damage Done"
By Neil Young. From the lovely "Harvest" LP (Warner Bros., 1972), this is one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I've heard about how a dope habit looks to someone on the outside, who might be unlucky enough to love someone who's in love with the needle.



"Heroin"
By The Velvet Underground. There are tons of different versions of this song: It originally appeared on the V.U.'s first LP, "The Velvet Undergound & Nico" (Polydor, 1967) along with that other Lou Reed dope classic "I'm Waiting for the Man" (though Reed actually was always more of an amphetamine freak than a junkie, per se). This is THE smack anthem for the generation of dope fiends who came of age in the 1960s.



"Comfortably Numb"
By Pink Floyd. Off of the Floyd's bombastic rock operetta, "The Wall" (Columbia, 1979), this song pretty much captures what dope does for a lot of us: "Hello, is there anybody in there/Just nod if you can hear me..."



"CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)"
By Steve Earle. This is a great song by one who knows of what he speaks. Country/rock/New Traditionalist Earle bottomed out on speedballs, and this tune is from his 1996 comeback CD, "I Feel Alright".



"Cold Turkey"
By John Lennon. This fantastic song first appeared on the Plastic Ono Band LP, "Live Peace in Toronto" back in the early mid-1970s. Some lyrics: "My feet are so heavy/So is my head/I wish I was a baby/I wish I was dead/Cold turkey has got me on the run."



"Chinese Rock"
By The Ramones. Most readily found on the Ramones compliation CD "Ramones Mania" (Sire, 198, this statement on the junkie worldview was also covered frequently by the late ur-junkie and former New York Doll, Johnny Thunders. Some lyrics: "I'm living on a Chinese rock/all my best things are in hock/I'm living on a Chinese rock/everything is in the pawnshop..Life is a bitch/I should have been rich/Instead I'm digging a Chinese ditch."



"Pills"
By New York Dolls. An anthem to their favorite pasttime by the grandfathers of glam; with the exception of David Johansen, most of the members ODed over the course of subsequent years. This can be found on the "New York Dolls" LP (Mercury, 1973). Lyrics: "Hold out your arm, boy, stick out your tongue/I've got some pills, boy, and I'm going to give you some."



"Too Much Junkie Business"
By The Heroes. Originally performed in 1983 by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers refugees and inveterate dope fiends. This has all kinds of great stuff on it. Thunders also did a number of covers of it, before his untimely overdose in New Orleans some years back.



Heroin Hates You
By Iggy Pop. This is a recording of a 1979 performance at the Stardust Ballroom in El Lay, remastered and released by Other People's Music in 1997. Has all the great Iggy standards and a wonderful title.



"Junkie Romance"
By Wayne Kramer. Kramer was a founding member of the seminal political rock band, MC5, who went on to do a big chunk of time in prison on dope charges. This puncturing of certain romantic heroin mythologies is from his solo album, "The Hard Stuff" (Epitaph, 1995).


"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth"
By The Dandy Warhols. Oddly, this song became the hit off of their first Capitol Records CD, "Come Down" (1997), which led to the filming of a wild video for MTV, involving dancing syringes. And, of course, what became the chorus: "I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passe."



"Smack Jack"
By Nina Hagen. This performance by the gravel-voiced East German rock chanteusse is found on her 1982 "NunSexMonkRock" LP. Some lyrics: "You are always running out/And you are always running short/Nothing matters any more/All you want is go and score/No one starts with two a day/But they all seem to end that way." (Seems to me that two a day ain't bad, as habits go!)



"God Smack"
By Alice in Chains. I'm not much of a fan of this style of heavy metal/thrash/grunge, but this song is off of "Dirt" the 1992 theme CD (Columbia) that is basically all about getting over heroin. The album also includes "Junkhead," "Hate to Feel," "Sick Man," and "Down in a Hole."



"Cure for Pain"
By Morphine. CD titled "Cure for Pain" (Ryko, 1993). Lyrics: "Where is the cave where the wise woman went/and were is all the money that I spent/I propose a toast to my self control/You see it crawling helpless on the floor...Where is the cure for pain?/That's the day I throw my drugs away." Vocalist and songwriter Mark Sandman dropped dead of a heart attack during a Morphine concert in Italy.



"Drug Train"
By Social Distortion. The lead singer Mike Ness knows what he's singing about, his experience with needles goes way beyond all those tattoos. "It'll take you as high as the heavens/It'll take you to the depths of hell/It'll make you friends/It'll take your friends/Who will never live to tell." Amusingly, in the jacket design for Social D's subsequent CD, "White Light, White Heat, White Trash" the illustration for white trash is a white guy shooting up.



"Shooting Gallery"
By Mark Lanegan. The lead singer for the Screaming Trees, a Seattle band, this is from his solo album, "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" (SubPop, 1993). The song is not particularly explicit, but is all the stronger for its subtlety.



"Cop Shoot Cop"
By Spiritualized. Founded by Jason Spaceman, Spiritualized is the successor to the late, great Spacemen 3. Both of these groups have always been all about dope--and managed to produced some decent music as they went along. This long, long tune is from "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" (Arista, 1997), which is basically Jason's working through of a bad dope run following a break up.



"The Beast"
By The Only Ones. Off of the Only Ones LP, "Special View" (Epic, 1979). It's not hard to figure out what "the beast" is.


"Under the Bridge"
By Red Hot Chili Peppers. With only one exception I can think of, every member of this Southern California funk-rock band has had a long and difficult turn with heroin--fatally in the case of co-founding member Hillel Slovak. In this song off of the CD, "BloodSugarSexMagik" (Warner Bros., 1991), Anthony Keidis mourns the losses.



"Needle in the Hay"
By Elliot Smith. This dope song is off of "Elliot Smith," but his subsequent release "Either/Or" also has some drug numbers, including "Speed Trials." If you get a chance to see Elliot in concert, go.



"Cough Syrup"
By The Butthole Surfers. Off of the Surfer's 1996 CD, "Electriclarryland," the title of this song is pretty much self-explanatory. Dope fiend/music biz lore has it that the Butthole Surfer's Gibby Haynes gave River Phoenix the fatal snort of dope that ODed him at the Viper Club. Lyrics: "I can't walk/so I guess I'm going to stay at home..."



"DF-118"
By UK Subs. This is an ode to hydrocodone, in a British preparation called DF-118, by the UK punk band. "I get so stressed out/Pressure is my world/I want a squeeze of DF-118." Apparently, frontman Charlie Harper had a heart attack, was given a shot or ten of hydrocodone in the hospital and liked it so much he wrote a song about it.


"One Track Mind"
By Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. Yet another dope fiend anthem from the archetypal heroin rockers. In part this tune, is a complaint against Track Records, but the references to "tracks on my arms, tracks on my face" suggests where the real problem probably lies...



"I Like Drugs"
By The Simpletones. This punk song by the British band really couldn't be more straightforward: "Yesterday, I was at school dusted/Everybody tells me I'll soon bebusted/I like drugs/I like drugs/I like drugs/Don't ask me why/Don't ask me why/Don't ask me why."



"Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
By Traffic. Opiate Anthem, Beautifully descriptive tale of the inevitable outcome of the Dream Scene... Lyrics: "the Man on the street has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your Dreams"



"Ashes to Ashes"
By David Bowie. Bowie's story of Drug Addiction in the Outer Space Cosmos "a la Brian Eno".



"Kicks"
By Paul Reveere & the Raiders. Refections of Paul Reveere's real life endless cycle of chasing the High --Thinly veiled description of addiction for the benefit of the innocent virgin ears of 60's teens...



"Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll"
By Ian Drury & the Blockheads. Bouncy Ska influenced music, to the anarchistic lyrics of the early Punk movement. Drug induced & saturated...



"The Needle and the Spoon"
By Lynard Skynard. A southern rock tune I've listened to while rigging away.



"Been Smoking Too long"
By Nick Drake off of "Time Of No Reply". This tune is a lament on all the seemingly unimportent things that go rolling by while smoking Opium. A known opium user Drake died long before his brilliance was realizied by the public in a both unintentional and strange anti-depressent over dose.



Pool Shark
By Sublime.
So maybe this one is too obvious A must-hear for anyone who has ever been strung-out. I know I have listened to this countless times, and have good memories of tie'n off the dinosaur with my seatbelt...




"My life in a coffin" CD
By Spoonfed. This band in out of southern California, they're a mix of punk/ska. "Capo by the Sea", its about being strung out and in rehab, and having a severe needle fetish. Another cool song is "Deadworld", its about this junkie scrounger chick that ends up dying as usual.


"Jane Says"
By Janes Addiction. Classic dope song from dope addicts. Jam

[Opiyum]

Currently in my ear.

*Shuggie Otis - Inspriration Information...The best Funk/Soul recording ever. From 1974 when Shuggie was 18. He played every instrument. Superfly times ten...Yeah I said it.
*Tool - 10000days
*Muddy Waters - Essentials
*Miles Davis - Kinda Blue
*Billy Bragg Wilco - Mermaid Ave 1
*Mountain Goats - We shall all be Healed
*The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robots
*Tom Waits - Mule Variations
*Mixes o' Beck

Much of which isn't about drugs at all. Oops.

[Cornburglar]

this list is in no order and there are a shit load of other bands and types of music I listen to, but I was bored and noticed that there isn't much in this forum so I thought I'd add something.

for the hell of it, list some bands, artists, music, noise, etc. that you like
Leftover Crack / Choking Victim
Sex Pistols
The Velvet Underground / Lou Reed
The Clash
At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta
Bauhaus
Jimi Hendrix
Iggy Pop / The Stooges
Johnny Thunders / New York Dolls
Nirvana
Marilyn Manson
Rammstein
Alice in Chains
Talking Heads
X
William Shatner
David Bowie
Germs
The Rolling Stones

In my car (most listening done there):

The Police 4 disc anthology
The Who: Who's Next
Hank Williams Greatest hits
System of a Down- Mezmerize
Mastodon - Leviathan
Slayer - South of Heaven
Bad Religion - Suffer
Metallica - And Justice for All
Stevie Wonder - songs in the key of life
Led Zeppelin IV
Fugazi - Repeater
Barkmarket - L.Ron


i gotta set this apart... if you've never heard of or heard Daniel Johnston's music, you simply have to pick it up... its so pure and unpretentious that you just won't know what to do with it.

Daniel Johnston - Fun <-- GET THIS RECORD!!!

[BiGbOi]

hey sounds great, might i suggest a listing of all the great,fantastic singer's and band's who's lives have ended cause of o.d. on dope and such like ummm oh shit who know's the singer /band with the video of the litlle chubby girl in the yellow bumble bee costume danceing around trying to find her place. who's not accepted and ridiculed by people till eventually toward's the end of the song she finds the band all dressed up in bee suit's and join's them in song and dance .yeah i can relate to that alla and all.what a funnie sweet video and the lead singer was an up and coming artist. it's a shame that we lose so many beutiful folk's in this screwy world: all i can say is that my life is kinda plain,all i need is someone to come and save me da da da dah...it's just my point of view..ohh oh oh oh/peace/love......the dogg


Hey i know the band's name is blind melon, and the singer's name is shannon hoon. It was a tragedy it alway's is to lose someone to the big H.

Edit- sorry he died of a cocaine overdose but was also on heroin.

[slugbone]

the one that gets me the most is Layne Staley from Alice In Chains. my all time favorite artist. as he wrote on his song "Wake Up" when he was with Mad Season, slow suicide's no way to go, but that is exactly what happened to him.

[skeletontea]

Some of my favorites (years indicate concerts I've gone to.) The big gap between 98 and 04 is from finishing up high school, and going to college during which time I couldn't go to concerts (I graduated 05, but slacked off a bit in 04).

Bauhaus (98, 05)
David Bowie (04)
The Cruxshadows
Death in June
X
Foetus
Ministry (I see them tommorow :D )
The Velvet Underground
mc chris (05, 06)
Cranes (04)
Sex Pistols
Johnny Cash
The Tossers
KMFDM
The Sisters of Mercy
Rasputina (04, 05)
Clan of Xymox
Skinny Puppy
Tom Waits
Christian Death
Lycia

[ZodiacKiller]

I only listen to one band, the greatest on earth: The Electric Hellfire Club.

ZK

[HistoryofMadness]

I only listen to one band, the greatest on earth: The Electric Hellfire Club.

ZK

Hey they are a bad-ass band... didn't the guy from My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult play for them (or doesn't he?)...

[Rent]

i tell you, that would be a great opiophile audo project; to get all those tracks on one cd.


I already have most of these songs downloaded in my computer. Well most of the more known ones. I think I have over 400 songs now, another addiction, music!! I could burn them if anyone would like me too.

[skeletontea]

I only listen to one band, the greatest on earth: The Electric Hellfire Club.

ZK
Hmm, now MR. 44 is stuck in my head. I've never met another fan of their's, ever.

[zombiewoof23]

In the CD player now:

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Grateful Dead - Egypt - 9/16/1978 Set II
Ween - Mix
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick
Keller Williams - Bogarts Cicinnati, OH - 3/31/2006 (I have a ton of memories at Bogarts, I love that venue).


Heroin influenced songs not previously mentioned:

Any Mad Season

We Die Young - Alice in Chains

Cold Turkey - John Lennon

Digable Planets has all kinds of Smack induced poetic lyrics -
Butterflies funk induced highs,
I gain a better reason to smack me up a five,
Bald caps pleasurable naps,
Time and space is fake and that's the real haps. From: Time & Space

Maybe only we was hip to strechin out the brain,
I felt like Bird Parker when I shot it in my vein,
I toss these major losses on a Mingus jazzy strum,
Flip off into a nod and dig myself for dying young. From: Last of the Spiddyocks

[ZodiacKiller]

Hey they are a bad-ass band... didn't the guy from My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult play for them (or doesn't he?)...

Yes, that is true....and I'm the guitar player. I tried keeping it secret but I couldn't resist.

ZK

And, btw, ZombieW----Ween is one of my all time favorite bands in the entire world; I have everything they've released and the live DVD. They are unbelievably diverse and talented.

[ZodiacKiller]

Hmm, now MR. 44 is stuck in my head. I've never met another fan of their's, ever.

See my above post....:cool:

ZK

[zombiewoof23]

And, btw, ZombieW----Ween is one of my all time favorite bands in the entire world; I have everything they've released and the live DVD. They are unbelievably diverse and talened.

I just bought that DVD on ebay a couple of weeks ago. It is freaking awesome. They put on a damn fine live show. I haven't seen them live for about 3 years now. They have their own style, but remind me of sorta a continuous of Zappa's antics and humor.

[HistoryofMadness]

Yes, that is true....and I'm the guitar player. I tried keeping it secret but I couldn't resist.

ZK

And, btw, ZombieW----Ween is one of my all time favorite bands in the entire world; I have everything they've released and the live DVD. They are unbelievably diverse and talened.

I just bought that DVD on ebay a couple of weeks ago. It is freaking awesome. They put on a damn fine live show. I haven't seen them live for about 3 years now. They have their own style, but remind me of sorta a continuous of Zappa's antics and humor.

Well, Ween will be in Ausin, Texas for Austin City Limits this fall (I think its in September) and I will be there with bells on! If anyone else is going hit me up... and I've heard the drive / flight / travel is worth it to go to ACL (I've never been)... and to me no better time than to see Ween!

-H

[zombiewoof23]

Well, Ween will be in Ausin, Texas for Austin City Limits this fall (I think its in September) and I will be there with bells on! If anyone else is going hit me up... and I've heard the drive / flight / travel is worth it to go to ACL (I've never been)... and to me no better time than to see Ween!

-H

Austin City Limits has a reputation for having the best freaking musicians show up. I can't believe Ween is playing there. I've seen Medeski, Martin & Wood play there, Bruce Hornsby w/ Ricky Skaggs ( I always wondered about his name), and Vince Gill. They covered Going Down the Road Feeling Bad. I'm a huge Hornsby fan, so I thought it was cool. I don't know if traveling to Red Rocks or Austin would be better for Ween. Red Rocks is hard to beat. Both venues have their own history and feel. 5 years ago I would have done both. That just blew my mind, Ween at ACL. They never cease to amaze me.

[ZodiacKiller]

That just blew my mind, Ween at ACL. They never cease to amaze me.

Well, they do have their album "12 Golden Country Greats" which was recorded with some of country music's best session musicians. And the album has only 10 tracks, which is Ween humor all the way.

BTW, has anyone checked out "Ween Radio"? It's 24-7 continuously streamed Ween, mostly live stuff, but it's also by request, so I've heard almost everything on there at one point or another.

ZK

[ZodiacKiller]

I just bought that DVD on ebay a couple of weeks ago. It is freaking awesome. They put on a damn fine live show. I haven't seen them live for about 3 years now. They have their own style, but remind me of sorta a continuous of Zappa's antics and humor.

Oh, shit just saw this---don't get me started on Zappa...I am a huge fan for like 25 years now...

ZK

[zombiewoof23]

I'm a freaking Zappa nut myself, hence the username. Ween radio is freaking awesome. They play tons of killer live Ween. I'm not blessed enough to own any of their bootlegs, so that is my only source at the moment. I recommend it if you're into Ween. I forgot about the Ween country album. "Booze me up and Get me high" is one of my favorite songs by them, pretty sure that's on that album. The DVD encore version is way better though. I noticed my error on one of the last post. I meant to say I always thought of Ween as a sort of continuation* of Zappa's humor and antics. Also how either of them can/could adapt to any style of music they decided to write. Alright enough of my Zappa/Ween rant.

[Frontier Psychiatrist]

I'm a musical encyclopedia. It's one of the only hobbies that I have, and it's completely useless. Right now I'm real into my 2-Tone ska/skinhead reggae phase taht seems to re-enter into my head every beginning of summer. Punk is my personal specialty. Paregoric(sp?) and I have very similar music tastes.

[ironmaiden]

Megadeth and SLAYER and ofcourse IRON MAIDEN

[defenestrate]

i couldn't possibly do justice to trying to make a complete list, so i'll just spit out a bunch of things that i've listened to and loved recently:
sepultura, slayer, fear factory, tool, alice in chains, patty griffin, led zeppelin, the beatles, days of the new, james taylor, simon & garfunkel, converge, curl up and die, coalesce, between the buried and me, godflesh, nine inch nails, system of a down, anthrax, the police, megadeth, metallica, the manhattan project (local defunct band), soundgarden, pearl jam, stone temple pilots.. i guess i'll stop there for brevity's sake.

[zombiewoof23]

http://users.stargate.net/~holliday/LAYSHA.JPG


Pic of Shannon Hoon kissing Layne Staley.

[RxQueen]

gotta mention my current favorite musician here..... jerry joseph. i didn't see any mention of him here, so i thought i'd chime in..... LOTSA really good songs, a lotta them about dope, bein an ex-junkie and all. in fact, a friend of mine likes to say that ALL of this guys tunes are about heroin, and i guess he's kinda right in a way....

[PRIZEFIGHTERINFERNO]

Coheed and Cambria. Good Stuff. I dont know if anyone knows about this band but they have done something i have never heard before. They are a conceptual band, what i mean is Everyone one of there songs from all three albums are part of a story. I know the Who and Pink Floyd have concept albums but EVERY FREAKIN SONG makes the story for Coheed. They also have graphic novels for the songs and stuff. The fans of this band hang on every word of the songs and talk on the net tryiing to figure out the story. I dont know its cool, and the music is really good, killer guitars. I saw these guys live and it seriously rocked. Coheed and Cambria Rock. Peace

[hero 1]

movin to montana soon gonna be dental floss tycoon

[hero 1]

one more thing the mad season song I m above is about jerry cantrell not herion

[DaOxyMan]

Listenin to:
The Mars Volta
Mr. Bungle (all mike patton actually)
Meshuggah
Dog Fashion Disco
Deftones (white pony cd-SERIOUSLY)
Pink Floyd


for fans of heavier shit:

Cryptopsy
Between the Buried and Me
Nevermore
The Red Chord
Dillinger escape plan

[ZodiacKiller]

^ Nevermore is one of my favorite bands. Jeff Loomis is breaking new ground with his guitar playing--awesome band!


ZK

[DaOxyMan]

Loomis shreds with the sickness..for sure. 2nd fave next to Dime....

holy shit i just realized someone else mentioned Between the buried and me...awesome band..their new cover cd is good as hell...however the covers stick very close to the originals...like, exactly..

also, Cephalic Carnage...Devin Townsend Band...

[hero 1]

seasons in the sun
good bye to you my busted freind
you were the one who turned me on to herion
toughter we scored chunks of cheese
scabed our arms like junkies
we had joy we had fun we had herion to love
but like every thing in time the herion clouded our mind
good bye paw pa please pray for me
thank you for making me a junkie
to much wine and to much song
remember when you put herion in my bong
we had joy we had fun we had herion to love
but like every thing in time the herion clouded our mind
good bye michell my girly with a gun
the sex we had was oh so fun
remember when i nodded off in you bum
we had joy we had fun we had herion to love
but like every thing in time the herion clouded our mind


my verison of seasons in the sun

[PoppyHeadStoner]

The Velvet Underground - Heroin
The Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - Too Much Junky Business
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers - One Track Mind
New York Dolls - Pills
The Fiends - Asian White
Manic Hispanic - Mexican Tar
The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
UK Subs - DF 118 <-[DF 118 is the UKs version of hydrocodone]
The Slits - New Town
The Slits - Instant Hit
X - Sugarlight
Alice in Chains - Junkhead
Alice in Chains - SickMan
The Exploited - Addiction
Ministry - Just One Fix [the "Inch Edit" has Burroughs]
Kurt Cobain and William Burroughs - The "Priest" They Called Him
Choking Victim - 500 Channels
Leftover Crack - Heroin or Suicide
Leftover Crack - The Drug Song
Morning Glory - Gimme Heroin
Guns N Roses - Mr. Brownstone
The Clash - Ghetto Defendant (with Allen Ginsberg)
The Clash - Junkie Slip
The Clash - Deny
The Beatles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Cramps - Dopefiend Boogie
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
D.I. - Richard Hung Himself
Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids - Junk the Magic Dragon

there are more, I'll add some later perhaps
damn you listen to some good music.

[kyuss]

all drug related...

For Your Life-Zepplin
Glamour Profession-Steely Dan
Master Of Puppets-Metallica
Time Out Of Mind-Steely Dan
Hurt-NIN
Real Thing-AliceInChains
Methamphetamine Blues-Mark Lanegan
Snowblind-Black Sabbath
Hand Of Doom-Black Sabbath
Junkie-Ozzy Osbourne
Opium Trail-Thin Lizzy
Sugar Blues-Thin Lizzy
White Slavery-TON
Lust For Life-Iggy Pop
Ashes To Ashes-David Bowie

[WarmCyanide]

what REALLY bothers me is when ASSHOLES use good songs for car commercials on TV. i cant listen to Lust for Life or Rock and Roll by Led Zep without having a vision
of some goddamned sedan flying through green meadows.

new Ween CD just came out BTW

[ChristianP]

Currently one of my fav's is The Hold Steady.

Also- if you're into punk and haven't heard The Bronx (LA punk band), you're missing out.

Totally unrelated- but does anyone play videogames?

I'd have to say of my many addictions, xbox 360 ranks up there as one of my most shameful ones. I've spent so much time in the virtual world I'm fairly positive I can drive a tank. (I know where the knobs are!).

So- if anyone wants to hook up on xbox live, PM me! I'll send you my gamertag.

God....I feel so dirty saying that.

Current steady play-

Guitar Hero 3 (I rock the tiny toy guitar!!!)
COD 4
Halo 3 co-op

[clinton]

fred mcdowell,
new york dolls,
ramones,
skip james,
aphex twin,
dj shadow,
depeche mode,
flaming lips,
beach boys,
rolling stones,
bjork,
son house,
memphis jug band,
huddie ledbetter (leadbelly),
air,
blind willie mctell,
carter family,
david bowie,
pulp,
blur,
television,
richard hell,
fear,
talking heads,
the ventures

[blueduck3187]

by far my favorite track to take my shot of heroin to is...

shinedown -- "save me"


sic-transit-gloria ...till that day - b.d.

[irish]

Wow, paregoric kid and skeletontea have almost the same taste in music as me. Here's what I've been listening to for the past couple of days.
nirvana-bleach
nirvana-incesticide
ministry-kenatoh(that's the closest translation I can figure out)
deadsy-commencement
steve earle-copperhead road
cradle of filth-midian
cradle of filth-thornography
avenged sevenfold-city of evil
him-dark light
marilyn manson-the golden age of grotesque
marilyn manson-mechanical animals
static x-wisconsin death trip
nirvana-with the lights out(box set, it kicks ass)
ministry-land of rape and honey
atari teenage riot-60 second wipeout
leadbelly-good morning blues
afi-december underground
nine inch nails-pretty hate machine
nine inch nails-broken
nine inch nails-the downward spiral
coal chamber-chamber music
gomez-out west

[WarmCyanide]

jerry garcia acoustic version - drifting too far from the shore

and bobby singing lost sailor

Venetian snares -