Merrick
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 24, 2004, 23:57
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Trojan Records have brought out the Ganja Reggae Box Set, 50 tracks about Da Weed.
Tracks include I Love Marijuana, Marijuana In My Soul, Half Ounce, Herbsman, and - only one genre could produce this title - Babylon Don't Touch My Sensi (Dub)
http://www.trojan-records.com
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TomBo
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 00:21
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Aren't Trojan notorious for ripping off reggae artists, though? Please correct me if I'm wrong...
I do own some of their box-sets, mind, and they're excellent. Its terrible that you have to buy from such greedy bastards in order to hear this wonderful music.
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Dog 3000
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 02:26
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As long as this one's back . . .
Hawkwind (or Motorhead) "Motorhead"
Amboy Dukes "Down on Philips Escalator (D.O.P.E.)"
Dukes of Stratosphear "You're My Drug"
Jungle Brothers "I'm In Love With Indica"
Jefferson Airplane "Lather" or "Wont You Try / Saturday Afternoon"
The Knickerbockers "High on Love"
The Standells "Try It"
The Move (or Blues Magoos version) "I Can Hear The Grass Grow"
Strawberry Alarm Clock "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow"
The Seeds "Rollin' Machine"
Pink Floyd "Candy & A Currant Bun" (original title: "Let's Roll Another One" -- sing that over the chorus and the song makes more sense!) ;-)
(Plus of course too much reggae to mention!)
Lots of great old Fats Waller tunes as well: When You're A Viper, The Joint is Jumping, and I think he even had one called "The Reefer Song" -- that was back before it was illegal(!)
And some "cautionary tales":
Royal Trux "Shadow of the Wasp"
Public Enemy "Night of the Living Baseheads"
Curtis Mayfield "Freddie's Dead"
The Cramps "Dope Fiend Boogie"
Iggy Pop & James Willamson "Kill City"
Nick Drake "Smokin' Too Long"
The Deviants "Deviation Street"
KISS "Shock Me" (for the ultimate in coked-out-70's-ism courtesy of Mr. Ace Frehley!)
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Lugia
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 02:43
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Oh, hell, Dog...you forgot the GREATEST cautionary tale drug nightmare song of all time...!
Sonny Bono: "Pammy's On A Bummer"
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Merrick
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reefer madness
Apr 25, 2004, 03:03
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"I think he even had one called "The Reefer Song" -- that was back before it was illegal(!)"
There's a Cab Colloway song from the 30s called The Reefer Man, and also a song from the 90s by Mindless Drug Hover called Reefer Song.
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Dog 3000
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Inner Views by Sonny
Apr 25, 2004, 07:12
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Hah!
That is a great song . . . and a pretty great album. Well, "Pammy" & "I Just Sit There" are great anyway . . . . someone's gotta review that one at Unsung. (Think I'm a put it on right now in fact!)
Sonny Bono's single "Laugh At Me" is super-bitchin as well.
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Tonight Matthew
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 11:46
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we gotta have,, Purple haze- Jimi Hendrix
first acid I ever took was called purple haze but which came first the acid or the song
TM
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Severin
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 13:39
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>>The Move (or Blues Magoos version) "I Can Hear The Grass Grow"
And now The Fall as well..saw them the other night and the song is part of their set
(not sure if they have put it on a cd yet)
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Jasonaparkes
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 14:57
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Apologies for any repetitions:
Ulcragyparacetemol (or something like that)- Associates
I've Got My TV and My Pills- Julian Cope
From a Silver Phial- Gene Clark
Smokin'- Super Furry Animals
Just One Fix- Ministry
Glass Onion- The Beatles (a dovetail joint?)
Sister Morphine- Marianne Faithful
Casey Jones- Grateful Dead (probably Truckin' too- both namechecked in the book Snowblind)
Cocaine Sex- Renegade Soundwave
Smack My Bitch Up- The Prodigy (from a Kool Keith song I think...)
A Better Tomorrow- Wu-Tang Clan
Juarez- Mark Lanegan ("fire up the crack boys & tie off my arm"!)
Tired Eyes- Neil Young
Waves of Fear- Lou Reed (was this about the drug LR took to quit booze & drugs?)
Chinese Rocks- Johnny Thunders etc
OD Catastrophe- Spacemen 3
L. Dopa- Big Black
E.M.F. - EMF (ecstasy mother fuckers apparently...)
Pink Turns to Blue- Husker Du
Animal Nitrate- Suede
Some Candy Talking- The Mary Chain
Mr Tambourine Man- Dylan (twas quoted at the start of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas...)
L'Esquilata, Soft Cell ("we could go out for dinner, but we're always on drugs", when Almond was hanging with Nick Cave and Anita Lane)
Special-K, Placebo (crap song alert!)
Never Let Me Down Again, Depeche Mode (it has to be about drugs!!!)
England Made Me- Black Box Recorder (mentions tripping)
Yellow Cellophane Day- The Shamen
anything by X?
Halycon- Orbital
Station to Station- David Bowie
Cocaine Eyes- Neil Young & The Restless (about Steve Stills)
Meltonin (sp?)- Radiohead
Red Eyed & Blue- Wilco
Revolution- Mudhoney (their cover of Spacemen 3 that uses something nasty about S3 from Melody Maker or NME)
Hotel California- The Eagles (its MOR, but authenticlly created in coke-hell)
Snow in Mexico- Mark Gardener
Kotton Krown- Sonic Youth (meant to be quite LSD, from their Philip K Dick obssessed Sister LP)
Country House- Blur (nods to Prozac and David Balfe)
Sign'O'the Times/Play in the Sunshine- Prince (nod to heroin and ecstasy respectively)
Everything Begins with an E- E-Zee Possee
Summer in Siam- The Pogues (sounds like Shane's hols in Thailand...)
Genius of Love- Tom Tom Club (mentions cocaine)
Higher Than the Sun- Primal Scream (though Movin' on Up is the ecstasy-one)
Cold Turkey- John Lennon
Criminology- Raekwon (complete with Scarface-samples)
Gold Dust Woman- Fleetwood Mac
Mother's Little Helper- Rolling Stones
Downs- Big Star
Feel Good Hit of the Summer- QOTSA
And This She Knows- Billy Mackenzie (refers to smoking)
Diamonds...Champagne, Suicide (refers to cocaine)
All I Know- Screaming Trees ("bite the thorn that pierced the skin/come back down to earth again")
Hurt, Johnny Cash (rather than NIN)
Strychnine- The Cramps
Amphetamine- Rocket from the Tombs
etc...
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Dog 3000
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Re: Drug songs
Apr 25, 2004, 18:34
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"Smack My Bitch Up- The Prodigy (from a Kool Keith song I think...)"
"Change my pitch up / smack my bitch up" is a line from the Ultramagnetic MC's track "Give the Drummer Some" (off the stone classic 1988 album "Critical Beatdown") -- Kool Keith was indeed the rapper.
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