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    • Love a bit of Desert Rock.

      I only found out recently that Josh Homme spent a bit of time with Screaming Trees before forming QOTSA. They could “stoner” quite well

      • Yes.
        From “Richard P. Havens, 1983” originally a double album on vinyl which, despite the title, was released in 1969. Eight of the sixteen tracks are his own songs or co-writes. Four are Lennon-McCartney covers. He wasn’t a very prolific writer. A personal favourite of old, I love the warmth of his voice.

  40. I win the thread with the best track from the best non-roots dub album of all time. If this doesn’t bliss you out nothing will. Ladies and gentleman prepare your bass bins for Jagnath Bhairavi by Suns Of Arqa!

    • is that off the Whirling Dub album? I think I recognise the cover. I was looking for my Suns Of Arqa CDs a while back, and they’ve all disappeared except Animan. I saw them twenty years ago in Plymouth and they were just incredibly good (saw them last year and they were terrible).

  47. This magnificent Aussie band, King Lizard and his Wizard Gizzard, who completely blew me away at Roskilde this summer would seem to belong here.

    Catch them live! Quite extraordinary. They just hit a groove and don’t let up for the whole gig.
    Very difficult to put into words. Maybe the clip will help a little.

  52. Just when I thought that maybe I had nailed it, I did not need any more music along comes this thread. I have a lot of the music posted here but there is more which I shall be investigating, which will lead to investigating more which will lead to….

  62. Amazing variety of different stuff here.

    I’m throwing in the remarkable Dead Skeletons from Iceland.

    Another WTF have I just heard band,

    An hypnotic groove that hits the sweet spot and does not let go?

    Konono No 1!

  88. Genesis – Carpet Crawlers

    It has to be the Seconds Out version for me. Collins in the 70s still had a far less strident, but arguably naturally more soulful, voice than Gabriel and that suits this song really well in this live setting. It’s the way the muted rhythm section, the voice, the harmonies, the melodic keyboard riff from Banks and Hackett’s sympathetic guitar all combine to create a hushed near-reverential “stoner groove”.

  104. I think Bowie’s managed a few stoner grooves in his time. The whole of Young Americans has a murky fug of reefer smoke about it that surrounds the soul and funk tropes he messes about with. I could have gone with Win or Fascination but went for the most obvious groove of Fame

  139. Still a work in progress, but there’s already six hours of very varied music here.

    This thread has been a lot of fun to browse through. From Richie Havens and Serge Gainsborough to Gong and New Kingdom. And beyond.

  173. Some observations

    1. Thanks for starting this thread Twang and apologies for being instrumental in hijacking it with multiple entries. It was for a good cause!
    2. Thanks to everyone who contributed, some great new music to go and discover for a while
    3. Thanks to Kaisfatdad for setting up the Spotify list. I’d started one myself but was too slow!!

    Finally, I was fed up seeing the “busted flush” thread at the top of the ‘Most commented’ list so took it upon myself to try and get this thread to the top. There is no criticism implied of that thread or those who put comments in it. It was simply threatening to do a Bryan Adams and stay at No.1 for weeks and that’s not good for anyone’s sanity now is it?

    The Afterword is a lot more than just music and it doesn’t always have to be a haven of consensus and love-ins but it’s nice to be reminded how music is great. I also liked the fact that with a title ‘Stoner grooves’, this thread could go anywhere. It felt a little bit like throwing the church doors open and welcoming everyone in because a groove, or indeed a stoner groove, goes way beyond any single genre, any artist or any music era. Sometimes it’s nice to get out of the rut and into the groove.

      • Forthed.(?) Well said Bisto!

        This thread continues to be a joy and has reminded us that our groove is as groovy as ever.

        Not ever lost it. Just a few moments of self doubt.

        Must dash! Back to the party!

    • I entirely support your admirable evolution of my modest little thread, and it is now a groovesome magnificent thing. Thank you all. Now everyone get the fuck over to my little home brewed effort and show the love!

  174. I can’t upload from work but I was always partial to War’s The Cisco Kid after I bonged a few riploads…and ALL of Santana’s Abraxas after I bowled a few smokes. Anyone else a little hungry?

  181. Crikey – 231 contributions to a drug-related music thread, and no mention of the Grateful Dead?

    Afterworders – you know my mantra:

    ON EVERY THREAD –
    WE NEED THE DEAD!

    So here’s the archive link to the 11 December 1969 show at the Thelma Lounge, Los Angeles. 80 minutes worth of this show finally got an official CD release last year, as the subscribers’ Bonus disc to Dave’s Picks Vol. 10.

    https://archive.org/details/gd69-12-11.sbd.gerland.10987.sbeok.shnf

    It contains the classic triumvirate of Dark Star – St. Stephen – The Eleven, which is my recommendation for this thread.

  184. There’s been a great resurgence in psych/stoner rock in recent years. Causa Sui are one of my favourites of the new breed who can weld a mean groove and riff

    Causa Sui – Homage

  194. Ernest Ranglin’s magnificently fluid guitar lines fit perfectly on the thread.

    Jazz reggae? Reggae jazz? Just sit back, enjoy and pass the dutchie from the left hand side.

  209. Blimey, bisto! Some range of music there.
    As an aside, isn’t it odd, but slightly comforting, that Steve Hillage should still be out there, grooving away?

  213. The boys in blue see red with the Cool Ruler.

    Another old favourite with a lovely groove.

    And while we’re over in Jamaica let’s visit Rita Marley. She’s got a part time job as a teacher and her pupils are Smokie, Herbie and Milla.

  214. THE great lost album of the last ten years is West Coast by Studio. I know nothing about them except that they were from Sweden, and had a good line in dubbed up Balearica that also sounds a bit post-punk

  216. I think you’re right Tigger. I don’t doubt that there are some loping Krautockers.

    And also some more loping jazzers. We’ve really only dipped our toe into jazz here so far.

  228. Going out on a limb here but I’ve always loved the groove of Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream album. Like Norman Whitfield albums and Massive Attack albums it works both as music in the head with the lights off as well as music for the heart and feet. Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel is probably the best example of the languid funk they had back then which, when coupled with the ambient doodlings of MacNeil’s keyboards and Burchill’s guitar effects, just makes for something really sublime and ‘stoned’.

  229. In a similar vein but possibly going even further into a stoner groove is Japan’s Sons of Pioneers, again the vibe being led by a dominantly funky and tone-setting bassline (getting towards a dub feel), a brilliant looping drum (that today would probably be created without a real drummer and lose something in the process) and fleshed out with ambient doodlings that overall give the song a trance-like effect. Then there’s Sylvian’s quasi-religious lost soul croon that seems to come from another time and dimension all together.

    • Meteora in Greece, as featured in picture there, is fantastic. Went there for a day trip when staying in Parga. Wouldn’t want to be stoned when walking around there though. Bit of a long way down.

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