# Need help, songs/albums that sound REALLY good when stoned **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806 "2006-03-17T20:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/21 "2006-03-18T16:44:23Z")
_Dazed and Confused_ by Led Zeppelin. I don’t do illegal substances, but it seems to me this song would be perfect. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/22 "2006-03-18T16:54:13Z")
Absolutely _anything_ by [Ozric Tentacles](http://www.ozrics.com/indexnew.htm). I’m kinda partial to _Sploosh!_ off of “Strangetude”. All their stuff is instrumental and has a prog feel to it. Worth checking out. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/23 "2006-03-18T23:08:03Z")
Every good boy deserves favor by the moody blues eletric ladyland by hendrix ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/24 "2006-03-18T23:12:16Z")
I once got a real **trip** out of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”! ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/25 "2006-03-19T01:13:28Z")
Based on exhaustive research years ago, I would have to add my vote to many of those mentioned before. Led Zepplin II- album and the song Kasmir. Pink Floyd- DSotM & The Wall- albums Iron Butterfly- Inna Gadda da Vida song from the album- Ball I’d add: Deep Purple- Machine Head- album Rush- 2112 album Listen to Steppenwolf- Monster, the title song. See if it seems as relevant today as it did then. I would add to the note about headphones: a good bean bag chair in conjunction with the headphones can’t be beat. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/26 "2006-03-19T01:16:03Z")
After hitting Submit I remembered: Humble Pie- Rockin’ the Filmore- album Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road- album ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/27 "2006-03-19T04:31:41Z")
I wonder how many of you thought of **Dark Side of the Moon** as your first choice. I would add **Nights in White Satin** by the Moody Blues The soundtrack to **The Last Waltz** by The Band and friends **Tubular Bells** by Mike Oldfield (the original vinyl, if possible) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/28 "2006-03-19T04:47:51Z")
What, no mention of **Meddle** by Pink Floyd? (_Echoes_, anyone?) **Cricklewood Green** and **A Space in Time** by Ten Years After **Quadrophenia** by The Who ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/29 "2006-03-19T04:59:24Z")
**The Best of Jolson**. Featuring Swanee; You Made Me Love You; I’m Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover/Baby Face; Sonny Boy; Toot, Toot, Tootsie!; April Showers; Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody; Ma, She’s Making Eyes At Me/Dinah; California, Here I Come; Anniversary Song; Ol’ Man River and many more. Believe it or not, it used to go down a bomb back in the day. I was the only person who had a copy and late at night someone would ask to hear it and what a hoot it was. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/30 "2006-03-19T05:12:06Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > What, no mention of **Meddle** by Pink Floyd? (_Echoes_, anyone?) I’ll see your **Meddle** and raise you an **Atom Heart Mother** ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/31 "2006-03-19T05:58:36Z")
I feel that I should add a little obscurity here–judging from how it’s enhanced by a nice alcohol buzz, I’d say In the Woods… **Omnio** and T **hree Times Seven on a Pilgrimage**. Circulus’ **The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope About to Be Sent** certainly involved the consumption of some substances during its production, so I suspect they’d go well with the listening as well. And… well, a little bird told me that Front 242’s \*\*05:22:09:12 OFF \*\*is downright trippy while under the influence. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/32 "2006-03-19T22:08:58Z")
- Emerald Tears \*, by Dave Holland. English jazz bassist playing nothing but solo bass. A bit boring straight, a transcendent experience otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/33 "2006-03-20T01:33:18Z")
From this century, I’d recommend most anything by Massive Attack as being perfectly lovely when altered, especially if you happen to be boinking at the same time. Soul Coughing, definitely–vocals which sound like percussion and the actual lyrics themselves will keep you going “whhhuuuut?” for quite a while. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/34 "2006-03-20T01:42:15Z")
How about _The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld_. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/35 "2006-03-20T02:07:14Z")
I’m basically straight edge without the pretension or Fugazi, but I will mention [Devendra Banhart](http://www.cripplecrow.com/). As a non-stoner, he seems to be a great contemporary smoking-mans music maker. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/36 "2006-03-20T02:20:13Z")
Never experienced it, so I can’t say, but how about “Source Tags and Codes” by “… and You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead”? It’s modern rock, but sung in a voice that a mix between a West Coast stoner and a classic rock epic. The songs tend to noodle a bit in places too in the “classic rock stoner album” sort of way. The songs seem to be “saying something” to me that I can’t quite figure out even when I’m listening to them sober. Speaking of sober, this probably doesn’t qualify, but when I’m drunk a lot of the times I put on Minor Threat. I think it’s humorous to listen to a straightedge band while not sober, and the songs are good in a not-paying-attention way, but I don’t know if a difference substance would give you the same sense of humor that alcohol does. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/37 "2006-03-20T03:22:56Z")
**King Crimson** - _Red_, _Larks’ Tongues In Aspic_ **Fennesz** - _Endless Summer_, _Venice_ **Boards of Canada** - any of their stuff but especially _Music Has The Right To Children_ **Autechre** - earlier stuff like _Tri Repetae++_, _Amber_, etc. **Tortoise** - all albums except _In the Fishtank_ **Polvo** - all of their stuff. Warning: some of that is electronic. I don’t know whether your boat is floated by electronica. If you just like guitar-y rock sort of stuff, then **King Crimson** and **Polvo**. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/38 "2006-03-20T03:32:05Z")
**King Crimson** - _Red_, _Larks’ Tongues In Aspic_ **Fennesz** - _Endless Summer_, _Venice_ **Boards of Canada** - any of their stuff but especially _Music Has The Right To Children_ **Autechre** - earlier stuff like _Tri Repetae++_, _Amber_, etc. **Tortoise** - all albums except _In the Fishtank_ **Polvo** - all of their stuff. Warning: some of that is electronic. I don’t know whether your boat is floated by electronica. If you just like guitar-y rock sort of stuff, then **King Crimson** and **Polvo**. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/39 "2006-03-20T09:15:14Z")
Should I be worried that most of my favorites are listed here, and I’ve never touched the stuff? I guess I should at some Happy the Man, like \* lunch at the psychodelicatessen\* and \* stumpy meets the firecracker in stencl forest\* and pretty much anything by Umphrey’s Mcgee ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/40 "2006-03-20T10:05:20Z")
**Rush** , _Moving Pictures_-either with headphones or good surround stereo. Lots of textures for “herbal” exploration. Once again: **Rush** _Exit…Stage Left_. This is the live album from the tour supporting the preceeding. It’s not really the best “live” sounding recording, but, once again, a lot of aural textures. **Fear** , _The Record_-if you’re into hilariously ironic nihlism while exploring, here you go. These guys are very tight for a punk band, and the lyrics are funny as hell. Not for the mellow buzz! As others have said, **Pink Floyd**. 'Nuff said. **Alan Parsons Project** , _Turn of a Friendly Card_ and _I, Robot_. Definite headphone w/herb material. Primus, Primus, Primus. Try it, you’ll like it! 😃 If you can get hold of any of the **National Lampoon** recordings like _Lemmings_, or especially _Radio Dinner_, you will laugh until death. If you get the jokes. No wait. These were Nat Lam at their prime, so they will kill you anyway. Even if you are totally sober. Or soberly totalled. **Disclaimer** Poster does not, nor would he advocate chemical/neural fun not approved by the rather Calvinistic laws of The Land of the Free, Because of the Brave. Yeah. Dig it. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806.md?page=3)