# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/41 "2006-03-20T12:30:03Z")
This is gonna sound lame compared to most of the classics listed here, but the _Dressed To Kill_ album by KISS sounds great after a heavy session. The songs are all pretty much standard mid-seventies hard rock, but it’s the guitar tone that does it. I recommend unplugging the headphones and blasting it through the speakers. The band themselves have always complained about the sound of this album, and said that the producer (Neil Bogart) was smoking a lot of pot at the time, so there ya go. Without pot: “eh”. I wholeheartedly second _Master Of Reality_ by Black Sabbath and _Moving Pictures_ by Rush, and would add _Stained Class_ by Judas Priest. Just try not to shoot yourself after. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/42 "2006-03-20T12:37:55Z")
Much of Santana works here. Just sail away on the guitar… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/43 "2006-03-20T12:40:25Z")
> [@Denis](#): > > [ > > 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. “Yoko! Move up!” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/44 "2006-03-20T14:18:26Z")
**Kraftwerk** _Radio-Activity_ will trip you out when you’re that way inclined. If you want a more peaceful, mellow thing, I’d recommend **R.E.M.** _Murmur_. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/45 "2006-03-20T14:28:49Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > Maggotbrain by Funkadelic !!! _shakes fist_ Okay, my second choice goes to “I Am The Walrus” by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/46 "2006-03-20T16:13:31Z")
\*\*Born to Synthesize \*\* off \*\*Todd Rungren’s \*\* _Intitiation_ album. The entire album \*Pink World \* by **The Planet P Project**. _Tales From Topographic Oceans_ by **Yes** (the whole album) \*Olias of Sunhillow \* solo album by **Yes** frontman **Jon Anderson** _(That’s it for )The Other One_ by **The Grateful Dead** and **Darkstar** ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/47 "2006-03-20T16:48:12Z")
Already established, but most of Pink Floyd. Alan’s Pyschedelic Breakfast, all of Umma-Gumma etc. From Yes: Gates of Delirium and Close to the Edge are incredible in altered states. Guinnevere from Crosby, Stills and Nash. Elephant Talk by King Crimson. Zappa, especially Joe’s Garage. Much more but a good list could be built out of this thread. Jim ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/48 "2006-03-20T16:55:59Z")
\*\*Close To The Edge \*\* - Yes **Security** - Peter Gabriel ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/49 "2006-03-20T17:59:54Z")
I came back to throw in Umma Gumma and Joe’s Garage but I see I’m a day late and a dollar short. So how about, \*\*Kate Bush’s \*\* _The Red Shoes_? Oh, and Beethoven’s 5th and 9th Symphonies will make your face explode. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/50 "2006-03-20T18:29:17Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > I came back to throw in Umma Gumma and Joe’s Garage but I see I’m a day late and a dollar short. > > So how about, \*\*Kate Bush’s \*\* _The Red Shoes_? > > Oh, and Beethoven’s 5th and 9th Symphonies will make your face explode. Only fair, you beat me to Tales From Topographic Oceans. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806/51 "2006-03-20T19:04:26Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Only fair, you beat me to Tales From Topographic Oceans. 😉 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-songs-albums-that-sound-really-good-when-stoned/348806.md?page=2)