Currently loving this track by rapper ASAP Rocky which is called L$D. Actually, I think it sound like a lost House of Love single.
Anymore songs that reference drugs in the title? (yes it was Friday night when I posted this).
Songs with drugs in their title?
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A little Thea Gilmore?
The Fabs – Lucy in the sky with diamonds
In between the one above and the below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1U-doJEmns
And without question the worst Beatles song, bar none. Thank god Lennon’s plan to release it as a single was overruled
Thoughts Of Mary Jane?
The Velvet Underground
Julian Cope, out of his mind…
Pulp, sorted…
The Tubes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGpE2oXf0aE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MhXbCXT2Y4
The old Welsh goat blindsided everyone with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-yKq-FsFyk
Sublime Oz pop, circa 1969
Cypress Hill – Hits from The Bong
So long, Marianne.
Eels: Novocaine for the soul
What larks:
Here’s King Tubby dubbing the Skatalites: “Herb Dub Collie Dub”
Black Uhuru – Sensimilia
dilinger – cocaine in my brain
The Lat-Teens – Mary Wanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj1Ng70AFg4
Alegre All Stars – Manteca
A packet of Codine please Mr. Chemist.
From the man who invented drugs (probably), Donovan with a Buffy Sainte-Marie song
If you listen to what I say / You will try strychnine some day …
Best not, eh lads?
Here’s Roy Harper extolling the virtues of Acapulco Gold. He sounds very much under the influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TS8DfNDlQI
The Cramps – Drug Train
Macy Skipper – Bop Pills
Harlem Underground – Smokin Cheeba Cheeba
“E” is a bit sly for a song title but nevertheless…
“E (Ecstasy)
M (Motherfucker, Motherfucker)
F (From us to you)”
And as we know, E’s are good
Anyone Got A Ladder
To Climb Over Nick’s Stash ??
The Heartbreakers – Chinese Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3gPaSsCAiI
Tea Anyone
All Round To Nicks For Cup Of Cha!!
Ramones – Carbona Not Glue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyEEdcow2vE
Velvet Underground – Heroin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZseqKBMq4c
Is it a song about getting a suntan, or how to cook toast?
Stranglers – Golden Brown
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Mary Janes Last Dance
Love/Hate – Why Do You Think They Call It Dope
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
How Much Ya Got?
Venom P. Singer
Anyone For PCP
Venom P. Stinger
Many versions of Cocaine Blues – here’s one:
Beasts Of Bourbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IR5DykkpnE&index=2&list=RDIsjA9HdrHfY
Doin’ It Tough
More chasing of said dragon here:
Very true. But the drugs aren’t in the title.
Ah yes. My bad.
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze
By the way. Loving the song in the OP. His latest album is a cracker.
OK, clue me in. What is the drug in this song?
If it is a drug song it’s one that passed me by for 40 odd years.
That intrigued me , too.
According to Wiki: Speculation that the song’s lyrics are drug related has been largely dismissed. Lamm himself says that the title is “just a reference to the time of day” and that “the song is about writing a song. It’s not mystical.” The title serves as an answer to a concurrent Chicago song: “Does Anybody Really Know what Time it is?” The answer is 25 or 26 minutes to 4 O’clock.
This was probably the first song about drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7xZKXwyR0
Oh yeah, all those banana skins we used to bake in the oven and then smoke, maaaan…
Cab Calloway – Reefer Man
…and the way things are going, it won’t be long before…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nE2spOw_o&list=RDh9nE2spOw_o
Donovan (who invented drugs) with Candy Man
James Brown – King Heroin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-62QgzmcDQ
And its B side, Lady Jane
http://youtu.be/2yd8X2EnajU
more Stones drug reference – Sister Morphine
Bomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust
Grandmaster Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t, Don’t Do It)
http://youtu.be/Z49bfaXGX78
Weezer – Hash Pipe
Guns n Roses – Mr Brownstone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tjKe3nPpL4
The only drugs I know anything about (honest).
Oasis – Cigarettes and Alcohol
Oh those naughty Beatles.
May also contain the line “she’s a prick teaser”
Gil Scott Heron – Angel Dust
Not sure if it’s about the drugs, but it’s called PCP, so worth posting:
Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
3 for the price of one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIHSrd25dJE
Paracetamol – Black Sabbath
Statin Island Groove – Down to the Bone
Keep the Aspirin-distra flying – Josh Ricketts
Not forgetting Fluticasone – GlaxoSmithKline’s magnum opus
Nice outfit Nancy
Oh I forgot this one. The mighty Tiger Lillies with Heroin and cocaine:
Grandma’s Viagra Song
“Some folks like water, some folks like wine, but I like the taste of sweet strychnine!”
Fairport with Marijuana Australiana
and an honourable mention to Bananas by Man.
Merle Haggard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsq1K7f_yc
Commander Cody
Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 – Amphetamine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMxflk_dok
I Love You Mary Jane
https://youtu.be/xRkpOdRbbsc
I Like Marijuana, says Mojo Nixon (prefer this version to the David Peel original):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNopDby0Ok
The Fugs had a little problem…
“I Couldn’t Get High”
Consumer Warning: The downer-est drug song I’ve ever heard
Tone Loc – Cheeba Cheeba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-Sdq2EKrg
A blast from the Manchester past.
Alberto y lost trio paranoias – Anadin
It may be perfectly innocent, but if we’re going by title you can’t beat Puff The Magic Dragon. Here’s New Order:
http://youtu.be/IGIc5JAHHHU
(Angel Dust)
Ray Barretto – Acid
Not in the title, but very much in the chorus….
I think that counts. It could trigger hundreds more entries, but blues used to be the term for speed in tablet form when I was a teenager.