Top 10 Cocaine Songs of All Time

Part one is here, and part two is here.

Of course, the No-1 song is a given, but not the version you may be thinking of.

Surely “White Lines” by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, has to be the best cocaine song ever…or were those white lines talcum powder?

I am a long-time J.J. Cale fan (saw him perform back in '73) so knew what you were talking about.
Thanks for the memories.

I have a friend who used to be a guitar teacher. His party piece was teaching his beginner classes to play an arrangement he had done of Cocaine Blues for their graduation concert. He would teach them all to strum the chords and then each student would get a little piece of the solo work to play. So it ended up this little ensemble piece were everyone got to play a bit of lead.

What amused him was that the parents loved it and never had any idea what the piece was that the kids were playing. He would be listening mentally singing, “Cocaine running around my brain…” while the smiling parents watched.

Well come on then, spill the beans! What am I missing? :slight_smile:

No Steppenwolf? Snowblind Friend should have been in there.

White Christmas :slight_smile:

That list is silly. Everyone knows the top coke song is “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing”.

Cole Porter’s “I Get a Kick Out of You” wins hands down.

“A Spoonful Blues” by Charlie Patton.

Yet no mention of Black Sabbath’s “Snowblind” or Eric Clapton’s “Cocaine.” Hmm.

It’s not really Eric’s song. He did a cover. The J.J. Cale original was number one on the list.

Fair enough (though there are covers on the list). I still think Sabbath’s song is better than Buckcherry’s, and “My Michelle” is only peripherally a song relating to cocaine, but fault can always be found with these Top Ten Lists.

Snowblind by Styx
Casey Jones by the Grateful Dead
The No-No Song by Ringo Starr

Looks like the same list from here
So who plagerized from whom?

I always thought “Big Shot,” by Billy Joel, had something to do with coke. “You had to have the white-hot spotlight . . .”

Sabbath’s “Snowblind” gets an honorable mention.

Read the explanation for the #1 pick as to why they chose Cale to represent “Cocaine” over Clapton.

Not to mention, “You had the Dom Perignon in your hand and the spoon up your nose”

What?! No mention of Jackson Browne’s “Cocaine”? (Actually, I don’t know who wrote it, but I do have a recording of Browne singing it, and he is exceedingly wasted.)

“You take Sally, I’ll take Sue. There ain’t no diff’rence ‘tween the two.
Co-cAAAAAINe. Runnin’ all 'round my brain.”

It’s the same as the Rev. Gary Davis version on the list.

I really love yet another tune called “Cocaine Blues,” one by Luke Jordan, especially a lunatic version by The Holy Modal Rounders:

I called my Cora, hey hey
She come on sniffin’ with her nose all sore,
The doctor swore she’s gonna smell no more
Sayin’, Run doctor, ring the bell - the women in the alley
I’m simply wild about my good cocaine

Particularly the verse when his furniture is repossessed:

If ever there was a devil without any horns,
It must have been the furniture man
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