# What is the best drug song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633 "2005-02-24T02:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leroy\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Leroy\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leroy_Brown)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/21 "2005-02-24T05:13:30Z")
FOCKER! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/22 "2005-02-24T05:21:43Z")
I’m kind of fond of _Gin and Juice_ as covered by The Gourds. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/23 "2005-02-24T05:32:36Z")
Marijuana Marijuana LSD LSD College kids are makin’ it High-school kids are takin’ it Why can’t we? Why can’t we? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/24 "2005-02-24T05:34:22Z")
“Snowblind,” by Styx. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/25 "2005-02-24T05:37:42Z")
“The Devil Went to Jamaica” – [http://www.123lyrics.net/d/david-alan-coe/devil-went-to-jamaica.html](http://www.123lyrics.net/d/david-alan-coe/devil-went-to-jamaica.html) “The Ballad of Robin Head” – [http://www.mage.co.uk/songs/robinhed.txt](http://www.mage.co.uk/songs/robinhed.txt) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/26 "2005-02-24T06:22:44Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > _Cocaine_ - by **Jackson Browne** (different song) That was **Cocaine Blues**. It was covered by a lot of people, but I think Dave Van Ronk wrote it (and if he didn’t he should have – he _owned_ it). Also, **Illegal Smile** by John Prine **Coming into Los Angeles** by Arlo Guthrie **Codeine** by Buffy St. Marie **Outside of a Small Circle of Friends** by Phil Ochs ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/27 "2005-02-24T06:23:43Z")
_White Lines_, Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel What’s not to love? It’s about drugs AND goofy 80s dance clubs. Freeze! Rock! ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/28 "2005-02-24T06:50:25Z")
I don’t know if it counts as “drug music” or just “music made with the main purpose of listening to while on mushrooms” but I love anything by [Shpongle](http://www.shpongle.com/frame-main.htm). I especially like “Dorset Perception,” “Divine Moments of Truth,” and “Around the World in A Tea Daze.” (You can check out clips of their songs on the Shpongle website, too. :)) ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/29 "2005-02-24T08:00:36Z")
_Comfortably Numb_, Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![syngin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@syngin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syngin)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/30 "2005-02-24T08:17:37Z")
Any Pink Floyd or Stone Roses song suits me perfect when i’m rollin a number ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/31 "2005-02-24T08:26:56Z")
No Quarter by Led Zepplin Great dope-smokin’ song ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/32 "2005-02-24T08:31:51Z")
“feel so good” by Spacemen 3 ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/33 "2005-02-24T10:43:44Z")
**Verve** - Blue ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/34 "2005-02-24T11:29:16Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > That was **Cocaine Blues**. It was covered by a lot of people, but I think Dave Van Ronk wrote it (and if he didn’t he should have – he _owned_ it). I’ve generally heard it attributed to the Reverend Gary Davis, and that’s who Browne (at least co-)credits it to on _Running On Empty_. Browne added lyrics that namechecked a few people in his personal sphere, hence the amended writer credit. ---
**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/35 "2005-02-24T11:36:03Z")
I always enjoyed tripping to Hawkwind’s Space Ritual. But I will agree with the suggestion of Velvet Underground’s Heroin. ---
**Author:** ![InvidiousCourgette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@InvidiousCourgette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InvidiousCourgette)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/36 "2005-02-24T11:46:15Z")
I will add that I feel the Happy Mondays (and by extension Sean and Bez) might be considered the most influential band in terms of drug culture, in the UK at least. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/37 "2005-02-24T12:03:11Z")
Mr. Brownstone - Guns N’ Roses ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/38 "2005-02-24T12:08:03Z")
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (& the Stooges?) Rocks Off - Rolling Stones Passage To Bangkok - Rush apologies to Loopydude, but I gotta go with Down In A Hole by Alice In Chains over Godsmack. I think I resent the band Godsmack for their crappy generic grunge lite. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/39 "2005-02-24T12:09:42Z")
Up In Smoke…by Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke, That’s where my money goes. In my lungs, and sometimes up my nose. When troubled times begin to bother me… I take a toke, and all my cares, go Up In Smoke. C’mon, let’s go get high… ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/40 "2005-02-24T12:58:23Z")
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