# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Glassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Glassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glassy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/61 "2005-02-24T17:02:31Z")
I’m very fond of “You Don’t Know How It Feels” by Tom Petty. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/62 "2005-02-24T17:16:46Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane That’s by far the best acid song, but for opiates my favourite is _Cod’ine_ by [Buffy Sainte-Marie](http://www.creative-native.com/index.htm). (Visualize an old Delta-blues singer pounding on the guitar - chang CHANG, chang CHANG …) "My belly is cravin’, got a shakin’ in my HEAAAAD. I feel like I’m dyin’ and I wish I was deaaaad. If I live till tomorrow it’ll be a long tiiiime, But I’ll reel and I’ll fall, and I’ll rise on cod’ine. \*Chorus:\*And it’s real, and it’s real, one more time." (chang CHANG) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/63 "2005-02-24T18:24:00Z")
I’ve got the following playlist on my iPod, under the title “Bad Influences” Smoke Two Joints - Sublime Bong Tokin’ Alcoholics - Kottonmouth Kings Blood and Whiskey - Dropkick Murphys Beer - Reverend Horton Heat A Final Hit - Leftfield One Toke over the Line - Brewer and Shipley Bales of Cocaine - Reverend Horton Heat Drug-Stabbing Time - The Clash Dope Nose - Weezer Alcohol - Bare Naked Ladies Opium - Marcy Playground Drug Ballad - Eminem Hits from the Bong - Cypress Hill Drugs - Talking Heads Poppies - Marcy Playground Soma - The Strokes So High - The Kottonmouth Kings Strange Brew - Cream Stoned - Smash Mouth ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/64 "2005-02-24T19:00:10Z")
Fred Eaglesmith (alt country?) - Codeine ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/65 "2005-02-24T19:01:37Z")
**Novacaine for the Soul** - Eels **Drug Buddy** - The Lemonheads **Fixing a Hole** (?) - The Beatles **She Said She Said** - The Beatles ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/66 "2005-02-24T19:44:42Z")
**Catnip Dream** - Shonen Knife No subtext here, just a hard-rockin’ drug song for cats. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/67 "2005-02-24T19:48:15Z")
How about **Sunday Morning Coming Down** by Johnny Cash (and written by Kris Kristofferson)? Also, are we excluding songs about alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine from this thread? Because, if we aren’t, that would add dozens (if not hundreds) of songs. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/68 "2005-02-24T20:36:33Z")
Ooh, how could I forget _Rehab_ by The Negro Problem? ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/69 "2005-02-24T20:48:25Z")
Pretty much anything off the album “Spanker Madness” by the [Asylum Street Spankers](http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com). Songs include: High as You Can Be Wake and Bake Gettin’ High It’s a really fun album. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/70 "2005-02-24T21:06:14Z")
Cab Calloway’s _Minnie the Moocher_. Or, Harry Gibson’s more light-hearted _Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine?_ Sonny Bono – _Pattie’s On A Bummer Now_ Dillinger – _Cocaine In My Brain_. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/71 "2005-02-24T21:21:21Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > That’s by far the best acid song, but for opiates my favourite is _Cod’ine_ by [Buffy Sainte-Marie](http://www.creative-native.com/index.htm). > > (Visualize an old Delta-blues singer pounding on the guitar - chang CHANG, chang CHANG …) > "My belly is cravin’, got a shakin’ in my HEAAAAD. > I feel like I’m dyin’ and I wish I was deaaaad. > If I live till tomorrow it’ll be a long tiiiime, > But I’ll reel and I’ll fall, and I’ll rise on cod’ine. > > \*Chorus:\*And it’s real, and it’s real, one more time." > (chang CHANG) I think Donovan’s version kicks Sainte-Marie’s ass. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/72 "2005-02-24T21:25:19Z")
> [@lightingtool](#): > > Pretty much anything off the album “Spanker Madness” by the [Asylum Street Spankers](http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com). Songs include: > > High as You Can Be > Wake and Bake > Gettin’ High > > It’s a really fun album. Not off the same album (I think,) but don’t forget “Funny Cigarette.” ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/73 "2005-02-24T21:56:55Z")
Two I haven’t seen mentioned… - A Passage to Bangkok\* \*\* Rush \*\* - Am I High ? \* \*\* Asleep At The Wheel \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/74 "2005-02-24T21:57:30Z")
I gotta wonder: What’s the best drug song… for what? For singing about reality? For advocating drug abuse? For advocating getting clean? What exactly do you mean by “best”? Regardless, I second the nomination for **H** , by **Tool** , mostly because the first time I heard it, I couldn’t decide if it was about a dysfunctional love affair or drug addiction. Then I looked at the title on the liner notes and realized it was about a dysfunctional love affair with a drug addiction. My second nomination is **Marijuana** by **Rev. Horton Heat**. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/75 "2005-02-24T22:05:10Z")
One Toke Over The Line–Brewer & Shipley One toke over the line sweet Jesus One toke over the line Sitting downtown in the railway station One toke over the line. Waiting for the train to take me home sweet Jesus Hooooping that the train is on time. Sitting downtown in the railway station. One toke over the line. ---
**Author:** ![Typically\_Sunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Typically\_Sunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typically_Sunday)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/76 "2005-02-24T22:39:53Z")
Feel Good Hit of the Summer by Queens of the Stone Age C-c-c-c-cocaine! ---
**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, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/77 "2005-02-24T22:45:01Z")
Just thought of some more. **Cindy’s Cryin’** by Tom Paxton **Carmelita** by Warren Zevon **Too High** by Stevie Wonder **Cure for Pain** by Morphine …and I don’t think anyone has mentioned **Casey Jones** by the Dead. Say, I may need an audio intervention. My music library appears to be chock a block with these things. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/78 "2005-02-24T22:59:24Z")
You gotta be high to listen, if not, to even sing this song. Oh stewball was a racehorse, and I wish he were mine. He never drank water, he always drank wine. His bridle was silver, his mane it was gold. And the worth of his saddle has never been told. Oh the fairgrounds were crowded, and stewball was there But the betting was heavy on the bay and the mare. And a-way up yonder, ahead of them all, Came a-prancin’ and a-dancin’ my noble stewball. I bet on the grey mare, I bet on the bay If I’d have bet on ol’ stewball, I’d be a free man today. Oh the hoot owl, she hollers, and the turtle dove moans. I’m a poor boy in trouble, I’m a long way from home. Oh stewball was a racehorse, and I wish he were mine. He never drank water,he always drank wine. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/79 "2005-02-24T23:15:33Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Someting by Cheech and Chong? > > Don’t bogart that joint? > > I pick **Down to seeds and Stems again** by **Commander Cody**. > > Your choice? _Smoke thet Cigarette_ by Sammy Davis, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-drug-song/291633/80 "2005-02-24T23:23:02Z")
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