# Who did the best drug music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586 "2004-06-16T01:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/1 "2004-06-16T01:40:21Z")
The music you had to put on when you were buzzing. The music that expanded your mind. My choice? Traffic. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/2 "2004-06-16T01:42:09Z")
mozart ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/3 "2004-06-16T01:50:03Z")
> [@longhair75](#): > > mozart You know…were I still toking…I’d try him. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/4 "2004-06-16T01:59:45Z")
Jefferson Airplane. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/5 "2004-06-16T02:10:03Z")
Cab Calloway. But only with cocaine or opium. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/6 "2004-06-16T02:12:41Z")
Butthole Surfers. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/7 "2004-06-16T02:13:03Z")
Pink Floyd Grateful Dead Radiohead It all depends on what kind of drug you’re talking about of course, but those were the three on constant rotation back in _my_ less respectable days. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/8 "2004-06-16T02:20:05Z")
I used to have the album “This is the Moody Blues”. It was good for the deep introspection that went with my dope smoking. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/9 "2004-06-16T02:26:54Z")
Pink Floyd Generic “jam band” music (Phish, The Dead, Rusted Root, Blues Traveler etc) Dr Dre / Snoop Dogg Smashing Pumpkins Beastie Boys ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/10 "2004-06-16T03:00:09Z")
Sonic Youth (Ms. cornflakes votes for Philip Glass or Jethro Tull.) ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/11 "2004-06-16T03:07:42Z")
Pink Floyd. Esp. Shine on You Crazy Diamond & the entire Dark Side of the Moon CD. Roxy Music is also quite good. Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms Steely Dan. Anything, really. ---
**Author:** ![saluki\_fan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@saluki\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saluki_fan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/12 "2004-06-16T03:14:59Z")
Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Phish, and Nirvana ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/13 "2004-06-16T03:24:30Z")
With psychedlics: Pink Floyd Shpongle good trance ---
**Author:** ![jweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/14 "2004-06-16T03:32:11Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > Pink Floyd. Esp. Shine on You Crazy Diamond & the entire Dark Side of the Moon CD… As a complete coincidence, I’m listening to Dark Side of the Moon and drinking a beer as I write this. Yeah, it’s only one beer, but I did give blood earlier this afternoon, so it won’t take me much to ‘feel the flow’ so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/15 "2004-06-16T03:37:02Z")
Mike Oldfield: _Tubular Bells_ (I & II) A University roommate had both of those, we wasted a lot of time with them (in a manner of speaking). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/16 "2004-06-16T03:37:20Z")
Black Sabbath\* Deep Purple Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow\*\* Pink Floyd Donovan War Beethoven \*When Ozzy was with the band. Accept no short, curly-haired, balding, leather-lunged substitues who should have stayed with Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. \*\*not to be confused with Rainbow, which was the travesty that happened after Ronnie James Dio split the band. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/17 "2004-06-16T03:40:52Z")
My top 20, 1984-1987: Bob Marley Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd Jimi Hendrix The Who(67-73 recordings) Cream Talking Heads The Doors Santana (67-72 recordings) Peter Gabriel Jethro Tull(Thick as a Brick) The Police Mozart (Symphonies 35-41) Jean Michel Jarre (Oxygene) Omm Kalthoum (Inta Omry) King Sunny Ade The Allman Brothers The Eurythmics Traffic Spirit ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/18 "2004-06-16T03:41:06Z")
Barry Manilow. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/19 "2004-06-16T03:42:30Z")
Yes, I’m kidding. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/20 "2004-06-16T03:48:17Z")
> [@Gail](#): > > I used to have the album “This is the Moody Blues”. It was good for the deep introspection that went with my dope smoking. Second on the Moody Blues and pot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586.md?page=2)