# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/21 "2004-06-16T03:52:33Z")
**Pinkfloyd** - Umma Gumma, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother **King Crimson** - In the Court of the Crimson King **Mothers of Invention** - Uncle Meat, Absolutely Free, We’re Only In It for the Money **Jimi Hendrix** - Electric Ladyland 🆒 **Frank Zappa** - Hot Rats **Jethro Tull** - Benefit All I.M.H.O., of course 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/22 "2004-06-16T03:59:11Z")
the Velvet-fucking-Underground ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/23 "2004-06-16T04:38:30Z")
Many good choices… Airplane Pink Floyd (duh) Jimi (duh) Santana (peaking on acid at Woodstock… WAILING!) John Sebastian (also peaking on acid at Woodstock… plucked out of the audience…) Doors (Mr Mojo Risin’… duh) Jimmy Page (smack) Eric Clapton (smack) (all of Cream for that matter…) Janis (smack) Duane Allman (shrooms) Sly Stone MUSTA been on something! Rush mighta smoked something in their time… (see _A Passage To Bangkok_) Bob Marley (duh) Billie Holliday was supposed to be addicted… Stones had their fun… Syd Barrett (of Pink Floyd) (DUH!) others I’m sure… ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/24 "2004-06-16T05:34:48Z")
also Spacemen 3 ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/25 "2004-06-16T06:27:56Z")
When I was a kid, we used to trip out to Uriah Heep’s “Magicians Birthday” Queen’s “Prophet Song”, Zappa, lot’s, lots of Zappa, Flipper, Einstürzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Foetus, Christian Death, and yeah, Butthole Surfers. 'Specially Rembrant Pussyhorse, Psychic Powerless, and Locust Abortion Technician Nothing beats Hawkwind as a soundtrack for being on just about any kind of drugs. ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/26 "2004-06-16T06:30:02Z")
Oh, The Birthday Party and The Cramps were always on our acid playlist as well. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/27 "2004-06-16T06:39:52Z")
**Rufus Xavier** Wow - a Spirit fan ?? Great to listen to whether “drugged” or not. I vote for Spirit as the most overlooked rock group of all time. Okay, sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/28 "2004-06-16T07:01:55Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > Nothing beats Hawkwind as a soundtrack for being on just about any kind of drugs. Except possibly: Chrome Psychic TV The Damo Suzuki Network Acid Mothers Temple I don’t do drugs stronger than alcohol or caffeine, but I’ve had some _very_ weird experiences while listening to the latter two–I was stone cold sober, but was definitely “elsewhere” and could barely stagger along without holding onto the walls. (This is why I don’t do drugs–my own brain chemistry is quite enough, thankyouverymuch.) But my strongest tripping experience was while listening to some obscure Siberian shamanic music–again, while sober. To this day, I’m too scared to play that particular track on the CD again. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/29 "2004-06-16T07:25:02Z")
> [@nitroglycerine](#): > > Oh, The Birthday Party and The Cramps were always on our acid playlist as well. Jesus Nitro…you’ve got gooood taste. The only music I could listen to tripping was Bach. Everything else sounds too trite. All the stuff nitro mentioned + VU, Sonic Youth, TISM … pot and alcohol. Only use alcohol these days…dont listen to much Bach. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/30 "2004-06-16T08:21:28Z")
Godspeed You Black Emperor ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/31 "2004-06-16T14:29:52Z")
Never have done drugs but if I did- old Moody Blues (nothing done since 1970), America, Seals & Crofts- keep it mellow would be my rule! This came up the other night as a friend & I were watching THE LAST UNICORN & we were laughing about the drugginess of the America soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/32 "2004-06-16T14:44:41Z")
Nope - those suggesting \*\*Hawkwind \*\* nailed it. Accept no substitute when off your head. Specifically \*\*Space Ritual \*\* era Hawkwind - not the later NWOBHM (new-wave-of-British-heavy-metal) influenced crap… I was there - Glastonbury 1984 - ahhh… ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/33 "2004-06-16T16:00:51Z")
Speed: Iggy Pop sp. Lust for Life (the whole album) Acid: Bach like **antechinus** and Frank Zappa instrumental stuff Ecstacy: Almost anything, lordy even dance music sounded good. Why would anyone listen to that stuff if not on one? I remember listening to Steely Dan on headphones and it was wild. It felt like I could reach out and touch each musical part as if it were solid. Dope: No thanks, never my cup of tea, as it were. Gawd this makes me look like junkie! Honesty I haven’t touched this stuff in years, I’m not indestructible any more. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/34 "2004-06-16T16:04:04Z")
I only do alcohol and caffene, but Hawkwind has got to be one of the best for druggish music, that or else some obscure classics (Philip Glass maybe). For drug related music, Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit must be about tops. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/35 "2004-06-16T16:08:26Z")
My two favorties are Pink Floyd and DJ Tiesto. When I go into an altered state I have playlists for each type of drug. These two bands/DJ’s are on all of them. Mmm… Tiesto. Sig is perfect here… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/36 "2004-06-16T17:33:43Z")
Hm. My stoner friends back in the day were into **Monster Magnet** and **Nurse With Wound.** Interesting combination, that. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/37 "2004-06-16T17:57:51Z")
Soul Couchging Sublime Ozric Tentacles I had a very surreal experience once while “on weed” with Pink Floyd’s “Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict” off Umma Gumma (sp?). Try that one with headphones on. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/38 "2004-06-16T17:59:00Z")
Soul Coughing :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/39 "2004-06-16T18:01:37Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > **Pinkfloyd** - Umma Gumma, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother > > **King Crimson** - In the Court of the Crimson King > > **Mothers of Invention** - Uncle Meat, Absolutely Free, We’re Only In It for the Money > > **Jimi Hendrix** - Electric Ladyland 🆒 > > **Frank Zappa** - Hot Rats > > **Jethro Tull** - Benefit > > All I.M.H.O., of course 🙂 Dude…are you the guy who stole all my records about ten years ago??? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586/40 "2004-06-16T18:16:08Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > I had a very surreal experience once while “on weed” with Pink Floyd’s “Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict” off Umma Gumma (sp?). Try that one with headphones on. 😃 You’ll go paranoid listening to that song. All those small, furry animals around you sitting in a cave and grooving with a pict. That’s just crazy. For me it’s not a particular group, although I’m surprised no one has mentioned Iron Butterfly. It’s the hammond organ. Nearly any group using a hammond organ will sound while in an altered state. Pink Floyd, The Doors, Yes, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Santana,etc. It’s all about the organ, man. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-the-best-drug-music/250586.md?page=3)