Wine is fine, but whiskey’s quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows.
Dark Lady by Cher. Do a thorough background check on your psychic or you’ll end up killing her and your worthless, cheating lover.
I always liked those monkeys, especially my grandmother’s kitschy little ornament that portrayed those monkeys in ugly dime store ceramic. However, I like your idea. Isn’t what is evil really quite subjective? Of course, you are probably making that point, or at least I understood your comment to mean just that.
Playing cards was considered evil among Baptists, but it’s fun and more fun in the world is never evil.
Yes but also, putting the lime in the coconut will make you feel better. Which I guess makes the song even worse because it’s giving conflicting advice!
Knowing when to hold em, when to fold em, that might work if you dealing with a simple problem. I am not sure it helps when things are complex and multi layered. Our brains are not exactly wired to understand too much info, at least that it what I notice.
One of my favorite songs is “Don’t Worry, Baby” but the lyrics are basically about a girlfriend telling her guy to not worry about crashing his car in a street race with the guys he’s been bragging to.
There could be a follow up;
Well, I’ve been in a coma now
For oh I don’t know how long
In the summertime, when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather’s fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find.
Drinking and driving is a really bad idea.
N.I.B. by Black Sabbath-my name is Lucifer, please take my hand.
Don’t.
You beat me to it, was the first line that came to mind when reading the thread title
I’ve read a long time ago that the “Highway to Hell” was a real dangerous road somewhere in Australia where many accidents happened, so maybe it’s a warning not to drink/take drugs and drive? 
The song is saying it’s a dangerous world out there, so don’t take chances. It’s bad advice whether AIDS is running rampant or not.
Well, chasing stationary geological features is never a good idea.
If you can’t be with the one you love
Love the one you’re with.
I think 99% of love songs would fall under this category but not Love The One You’re With, IMHO. That seems most practical to me, rather than pining after some unrequited love turning into a bitter incel or something.
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Right, that has also always been my interpretation: if the one you love doesn’t want you, you can’t force it, but why stay celibate? Have sex with someone who wants you. Nothing wrong with that.
ETA: even Aretha covered it, though she first was reluctant.
And in the song Sweet Leaf, they really want you to take up smoking:
Come on now, try it out!
Don’t Fear the Reaper
Note to the Ramones: DON’T beat on that poor kid with a baseball bat and DON’T shoot your friends in the back when they’re trying out a new move on the dance floor.
Does anybody still think “Do the Hustle” is good advice?
I don’t know, of the two antagonists in Christian lore I’ve always found the devil to be the much more interesting and attractive character. In hell, they sure have the better parties (AC/DC sang about that too, see link). Don’t forget that rock’n’roll and the blues are the devil’s music.
I think it’s a 60’s love-in type song giving rock stars permission to cheat on their wives. It is my interpretation. Not sure why Aretha covering it makes more palatable. Like she wouldn’t give bad song advice by virtue of being Aretha.