Does Keith Richards remember co-writing this tune with Mick Jagger? Probably not. Does "dead flowers" refer to heroin, a relationship gone sour or both? Who knows. Does "little susie" = brown heroin? Very likely. "Dead Flowers" - as performed by the late, great Townes Van Zandt - appears on The Big Lebowski soundtrack. The song also has been recorded by Steve Earle and Poison, among others. "Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac/Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day/Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon/And another girl to take my pain away . . ."
According to an urban legend, "Fire and Rain" deals with a girlfriend of Taylor's who died in a plane crash. In actuality, the "Suzanne" of the song was actually an acquaintance of Taylor's who committed suicide. The rest of "Fire and Rain" focuses on Taylor's efforts to kick his heroin addiction. "Won't you look down upon me, Jesus/You've got to help me make a stand/You've just got to see me through another day/My body's aching and my time is at hand/And I won't make it any other way . . ."
A haunting ballad from The Joshua Tree, "Running to Stand Still" deals with a strung-out chick who lives in the notorious Ballymun Flats area of Dublin. "She runs through the streets/With her eyes painted red/Under black belly of cloud in the rain/In through a doorway she brings me/White gold and pearls stolen from the sea/She is raging/She is raging/And the storm blows up in her eyes/She will . . ./Suffer the needle chill/She's running to stand still . . ."
Let's face it, most if not all of the members of Guns N' Roses were strung out at one time or another during the band's meteoric rise and fall. Izzy Stradlin, who wrote the lyrics for "Mr. Brownstone," later sobered up and quit the band during the middle of its infamous world tour in 1991. "Now I get up around whenever/I used ta get up on time/But that old man/He's a real muthafucker/Gonna kick him on down the line . . ."
A personal poem by lead singer Anthony Kiedis detailing his battles with drug addiction, "Under the Bridge" evolved into the band's biggest hit - reaching No 2 on the Billboard Charts. The song also served as a lament for original RHCP guitarist, Hillel Slovak, who died of a heroin overdose in 1988. "Under the bridge downtown/Is where I drew some blood/Under the bridge downtown/I could not get enough/Under the bridge downtown/Forgot about my love/Under the bridge downtown/I gave my life away . . ."
"Discovered" by Kris Kristofferson, Prine released his self-titled debut album to critical acclaim in 1971. "Sam Stone" vividly depicts a heroin-addicted Vietnam veteran ("the gold rolled through his veins, like a thousand railroad trains") who ends up a "flag draped casket on a local hero's hill." The John Prine album also contains such classics as "Hello in There" and "Illegal Smile," among others. "There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes/Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose . . ."
One of the most famous anti-heroin songs ever, "The Needle and the Damage Done" was directed at original Crazy Horse guitarist, Danny Whitten, who overdosed at the age of 29 several months after the song's release. Young later remarked about the song: "I am not a preacher, but drugs killed a lot of great men." The song appears on Harvest, which was the best-selling album of 1972. "I've seen the needle and the damage done/A little part of it in everyone/But every junkie's like a settin' sun . . ."
One of Trent Reznor's most personal songs of despair, self loathing and addiction, "Hurt" first appeared on The Downward Spiral, which was recorded at the Benedict Canyon home where actress Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family in 1969. Johnny Cash covered the song to critical acclaim on his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around. Not only did Cash personalize the song to such an extent (with help from an awesome video) that he turned it into a moving tribute to his entire life and career, but he also changed one of the lines from "I wear this crown of shit" to "I wear this crown of thorns." Bottom line: "Hurt" is one of the most depressing songs of all time. "I hurt myself today/To see if I still feel/I focus on the pain/The only thing that's real/The needle tears a hole/The old familiar sting/Try to kill it all away/But I remember everything . . ."
The greatness of "Hotel California" lies in the wide range of interpretations the song has provoked over the years. Is it a metaphor for the music business, the mindless hedonism of California in the 1970s, Satan worship, Christian mysticism, drug addiction or simply excess in general? In an interview, Don Henley said the song was "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles." Drug references certainly abound throughout "Hotel California," including the word "colitas, which means "little bud" in Spanish. However, some critics say the whole song actually details a descent into heroin addiction. By the way, the image used on the album cover is actually the Beverly Hills Hotel. "There she stood in the doorway/I heard the mission bell/And I was thinking to myself/This could be Heaven or this could be Hell . . ."
Many critics at the time "Heroin" was released asserted that the song advocated drug use. However, the lyrics clearly neither condemn nor endorse heroin. "I'm Waiting for the Man" is another classic Velvet Underground song dealing with heroin. Author Denis Johnson took the title of his acclaimed short story collection, Jesus' Son, from "Heroin" (the story itself was later made into a 1999 cult film starring Billy Crudup and Jack Black). "I don't know just where I'm going/But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can/Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man/When I put a spike into my vein/And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same/When I'm rushing on my run/And I feel just like Jesus' son . . ."
External resource for individuals looking for help with drug addiction: http://www.rehabinfo.net/texas/
What about Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd?
She Talks to Angels by the Black Crowes
What about "Perfect day" by Lou Reed
gonna kick tomorrow
NUTSHELL ALICE IN CHAINS or pretty much their whole catalog could be included
What about "Voodoo" by Godsmack
Just so you know, 'Heroin' was originally by Lou Reed.
"The Beast" another Only Ones songs cooks up a perfect recipe for addiction and unlike most of these songs mentioned (notice I said most) the song was written well before PP had bothered with it himself. Only saw what it did to others. Throughout the years the lyrics have gone through a series of changes from this couldn't happen to me...to i thought that this couldn't happen to me, etc... A decent list, but I think if you take the list of a down in the gutter addict and compare it to an occasional "chipper" or someone who hasn't used at all, than naturally they would all be completely different lists. "Heroin is a love in a world shared only with the drug itself" - R. Fraser
How bout Bush "This Cloud". He actually says Shoot up in the song.
Low (Cracker). Poppies, junkie cosmonauts, low (not "high"), etc. Always seemed obvious to me, but no one ever mentions it on lists like this.
Golden Brown by the stranglers. All the songs her, save Heroin by the VU are about NOT using heroin more then about heroin itself. Not everyone that uses hates it. Everyone might hate paying for it, but then that is just human nature.
Perfect Blue Buildings by Counting Crows is about heroine and I did not realize it until just recently
"HEAD CREEPS" by Alice in chains
Dirt by Alice in Chains!
LOVE IN VAIN by the ruts best song about gear ever written i think wen uve been there u think all songs are about heroin cus theres a hell of a lot of a songs about long painful love affairs and thats exactly what ur rship with gear is like
What i thought Hotel Calforina talked about was sex and how they did it in a hotel. but then i found out that it had to do with drugs....<3
think someone already said it but pool shark by sublime deserves some recognition mostly the acoustic version because its about the only way you can tell what hes saying but the original version i think is even more intriguing, because its one of brads most intimate songs and yet he makes it so fast paced and angry, like hes trying to cover up his emotions anyway, very good song
howzabout Dr. Wu by Steely Dan? or Ride the White Horse by Laidback and agree with Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles
Guys, for the record, Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" is not about heroine. I don't feel like explaining it all, so just trust me on that, or do some research. "Come back down" by Bush would look nice on the list though.
I can't believe noone mentioned The Ballad of Johnny Butt by Sublime. should be number four on the list
no chinese rocks? no johnny thunders?
where is 'golden brown' by the stranglers?!
how about "my congressman" by Fifteen
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Major Tom....
comfortably numb should be #1. then out of the ones you named neil young for sure.
Joni mitchell: Cold blue steel and sweet fire Cold Blue Steel out of money One eye for the beat police Sweet Fire calling "You can't deny me Now you know what you need" Underneath the jungle gym Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief Looking for Sweet Fire Shadow of Lady Release "Come with me I know the way" she says "It's down, down, down the dark ladder Do you want to contact somebody first Leave someone a letter You can come now Or you can come later" A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer Edgy-black cracks of the sky "Pin-cushion-prick- Fix this poor bad dreamer!" "Money" cold shadows reply Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked Corridors spit on prayers and pleas Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire Black soot of Lady Release "Come with me I know the way" she says "It's down, down, down the dark ladder Do you want to contact somebody first Does it really matter If you come now Or if you come on later?" Red water in the bathroom sink Fever and the scum brown bowl Blue Steel still begging But it's indistinct Someone's Hi-Fi drumming Jelly Roll Concrete concentration camp Bashing in veins for peace Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Fall into Lady Release "Come with me I know the way" she says "It's down, down, down the dark ladder Do you want to contact somebody first I mean what does it really matter You're going to come now Or you're going to come later"
what bout any song by Sixx AM? or Motley Crue
A Baltimore Love Thing, by 50 Cent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EWJrX1qlpc
I think you all need to go out and do a shot of dope before you coment on what is and what isant a Heroin song, most of you have never exprienced life as at that level, you would not understand what it does to you and how it makes you feel, and why someone would want to right a song about it. Heroin is a love hate relationship with who ever it gets a hold of. So take a shot and turn up the tunes and you will know what is and what isant a song written about Heroin. You need to hear some old Modist Mouse-its all Heroin music the real junkie kind- :) Have a shot for me!!!
krista i agree totally...(battlin' this demon for 6 yrs) but back to music....i think "save me" from shinedown is a great song, but not top ten.........(i know he says "pills" in the song, but i think the song is completely about heroin..cause why would u need a candle and a spoon for pills.)
Banks Of The Deep End....Govt. Mule
Comfortably Numb I never thought was a song about Heroin use I t5hought it was about a preformer using speed or upper to get him out of his depression so he can preform?
'cant stand me now' by the libertines...
I am real surprised none of the druggies added "Black Baloon" by The Goo Goo Dolls.
Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles is one of my favs....
And where is Golden Brown by The Stranglers ?
sister morphine by marianne faithful, an achingly beatifully bruised ballad about addiction
Voodoo by Godsmack?!? really? Godsmack doesn't deserve to be only any top 10 lists, unless that list is of the top 10 shittiest radio rock bands.
how about pool shark by sublime?
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
H. by tool. An obvious choice, but one of my favorites.
post blue-placebo
Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains
Well, there are more songs from Placebo about H. Like "My Sweet Prince" and so on. Btw, the new single "Battle for the Sun" sounds like he has firmly resolved to kick it, LOL! Hope he makes it, I didn't for 20+ years. Placebo aside, there are soooo many songs about our dearly hated stuff, like an old Defunkt one "In the good times" [Get your works for a dollar(!), get water from the fire-hydrant, heat it up with a match, in screw of coke bottle cap, ...... , use the filter of your cigarette for cotton, tie your arm with your shoe string, watch it all disolve in you, and watch yourself disolving in a doorway of a vacant building, listening to the sounds, the cosmic, indifferent to what's going on - dreamin'] Btw, that must have been so long ago if he could get indifferent to what's going on + dreaming for a buck! (Btw, does anyone know how much is a gram of smack in the States now?) Once I got high with Nick Cave after a gig, but can't remember if he ever wrote a song about H. Does anyone know one? Seems like that stuff has eaten half of my brain ... well, since we only use like 20% of it, I can only hope there is enough left, :). Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy/The Mission and some other darkwave (gothic) bands should be looked up, too, but their songs are a lot like "Hotel California" - you can't really be sure what are they singing about. Could be about anything.... Depeche Mode - some implications in Useless (see the video - playing with words Use-less) or Dirt Mike Ness: Dope Fiend Blues falls into this cathegory, too. Let me think of some more ... Wolfsheim: Heroin, she said James Brown: King Heroin, obviously Marilyn Manson also likes to mention it here and there... And many many more... (I have a theory: to make good music - or art in general - you have to be either on drugs or crazy, everything else is commercial shit!) Bye
UH, HELLLOOOOO . . . "THE NEEDLE AND THE SPOON" BY LYNARD SKYNARD . . . .
No Nirvana? Disapointment
Depech Mode - Enjoy the Silence "everything i wanted, everything i needed is here in my arms.."
Wow...HOW about Marvin Gaye "Flyin High" in the friendly skies
what katie did by the libertines
just watch trainspotting
blue veins by the racontures
Jesus, 200,000 responses and nobody's mentioned Blue Cheer's "Doctor Please". I'm glad someone put up the Beatles' "Happiness..." Everyone forgot to mention "Lust for Life".
China Girl by Bowie??
How about one of the many by Monster Magnet? Black Balloon, Needle Freak...
When you talk about heroin music, you mean one of two very different things. You either mean: 1. Music written about heroin (often by people who haven't used it) example- Heroin, Velvet Underground or 2. Music that people listen to when high on heroin. "Typically includes mellow tones and a rhythm that matches an addict's heartbeat." example- Space Needle, Never Lonely Alone
Stooges-loose RHCP - taste the pain Richard Hell an Dee Dee Ramone- Chinese Rocks
PurpleHeart(up there ^^ ) said it best when he/she said ''Any love song can sound like a heroin relationship with the User'' Don't ya just love the laugh after Lou Reed sings 'it's my wife ' from Heroin. Perfecto! regardless of wether he was an addict
Goo Goo Dolls. Black Balloon
Ks choice "Not a habit" and Morphine "Cure for Pain" or Blues travelers "The mountains win again". Okay, the last 2 could be about addictions of any kind
I know their not very popular, but Babes In Toyland has quite a few songs "Pearl" "Catatonic" and "Spun" "She found a stick and filled it thick with black sugar shit... burn it black with a candle, all bent at the handle, black sugar shit, is shit" -Pearl "I know the sugar plum fairy Her name is Mary, she's halfway inside my arm, Half way does great half harm.... Silver beads shot out her eyes" - Catatonic "I've blown my recovery, living is nice when you're spun like a kite... now that I know just what your'e all about, I want out" -Spun Spun is sung with such power, it's really cathartic when she bellows "Now I want out!" Great stuff. Also I think Staind's "It's Been a While" is very touching... especially the line about 'I cannot blame this on my father...' I've come to notice most drug addicts have had absent fathers or some real relationship issues with their fathers at least... myself included.
HOW CAN ANYONE FORGET THE LATE GREAT JAMES BROWN THERE IS NO IF ANDS OR BUTS ABOUT IT HE IS TALKING ABOUT HEROIN
comfortably numb is the ultimate heroin inspired song- "okay just a little pin prick...stand up i do believe its working good, that will keep you going thru the show"
"good intentions" by 10 years. "heave the silver/ hollow sliver/ piercing through another victim" all about w/ds
Can't forget Megadeth..."I seen, the man use the needle, seen the needle use the man" Supposedly that was a reflection of Dave Mustaine's days with Metallica
"Blue Water Baboon Farm" by Dave Matthews is another great, but little known song
Skinny Puppy--songs people listen to while doing heroin. Dark, yet strangely soothing. (Still like them, though I no longer do drugs...)
Just because a song/album/artist title has some drug them in it, doesn't make said song a beautiful peice of music that is going to get you through withdrawls - and I mean heroin withdrawls 'cause fuck everything else, you guys got it easy, so just shut the fuck up. I didn't come here to say what's what, I came here to get some ideas for songs to listen to while I'm detoxing. And in rehab, if they'll let me keep my mp3 player there. But seriously, if you don't have a deep destructive beautiful painful and gloriously agonizing relationship with said drugs, there's no way you'll be able to find the real songs that mean anything. And by that I mean songs that will help you get through fucking withdrawls!!!! AAAAAA!!!!!
Atmosphere - God's Bathroom Floor
HERES A GOOD ONE MIKE NESS DOPE FIEND BLUEs!!
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - All Around you If you gonna go on a trip, you are going to need some supplies if you know what I mean :P Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights - that has to be about H. Also, can some more people post good ones to listen to when flipping off the wall like Lucile Ball? And to the poster of Space Needle - Never Lonely Alone, thanks!
It was over the holidays, listening to the heroin diaries, and realized just how my baby sister must feel... while I can't say that I truly know what she's going through, I do wish there was someway to help her... This shit is ruining our lives!!!!
The Crystal Ship by the Doors
some of the songs put up are whack...not all drug songs refer to dope..and not all songs that are about dope are good some of them suck which is why theyre not in the top ten although i was a little supprised to find that down was no where to be found on the list so i nominate down - theres something on my side I've come so close, it's almost hard to believe When you're up close, it blinds you brilliantly Just one rush can change your life forever Just one push can end it all together Why can't we learn from the plague that surrounds us Learn from my mistakes Learn from this mistake Learn from our mistake Learn from their mistakes There's no shoulder to cry on when you have no shame There's no finger to point when you are to blame Open book, in my eyes shows you rain, then storming I can't look, when covered by the nothing and the suffering Learn from my mistakes Learn from this mistake Learn from our mistake Learn from their mistakes Learn from my mistake Believe me, all my friends, in the ending of the story There's no junkie out there with a happy ending It consumes you, and haunts you like the devil It's the art of the process that kills off all the rebels Learn from this mistake Learn from my mistake Learn from our mistake Learn from my mistake down II is basically a junkies biography
HeY! wHaT aBoUt ThEsE??? -HEROIN or Suicide by Leftover Crack -We were on HEROIN by Wasted Youth -We must bleed by The Germs -Chinese Rock by The Ramones -Bullet with butterfly wings by Smashing Pumpkins ..... ???
this freaks me out. my spouse died from cirrhosis. besides etoh, he told me that heroin use began in his early teens. the lyrics quoted above really hit home. though i never called him a junkie, that's what he was. we had a good life...3 children, a beatiful home, and so much love. i'm a nurse, tried to 'cure' him, help him, etc....it never worked. i'd said to him once that lady heroin was the other woman. my grief is so fucked up. don't know how to move on mentally.
What about 10 years - Russian Roulette and Wasteland
Alot of these songs mentioned in here are not necessarly inpired by herion. Some of these songs just relate to shooting needles. If the word heroin or any nick name for the drug are not in the song it could really mean any drug that can be shot up. Me myslef I perfer poping a few opioids.
@Tina nicley put "Learn from this mistake" and "Ghost along the Mississippi" says it all. But you are right the cd Down II is a story of a junkies battle.
james booker's "junco partner"
not an addict by K's Choice
How about 'Too Many Puppies' by Primus? Apparently it is supposed to have two meanings besides the obvious war slant.
500 Channels by Choking Victim should be there. And when there is no hope, I'll smoke some crack, I'll shoot some dope!
Needle and Spoon by Skynard. Come on folks take a trip to the moon
The list is uh at best... it's just how do you narrow it down. I often burn My heroin disks to have of reminders of what almost was and wasn't. Today, I'm clean tomorrow is a mystery. The Music Helps.. How about Lennons Cold Turkey.... I love him but ya gotta laugh.. You know he never felt the pain. The hardest thing I ever did was be a junkie.. People say kickings hard. Well, kicking sucks... Staying High is HARD. Good Luck to my Fellow users and recovery bros. Remember, if your using. ya got like a %20 chance!!!! Thats it. Otherwise it's Jail or the box... I remember praying for the box, even trying for it... I'm much happier today. Took my kid fishing yesterday..
Ok, a couple of corrections here, kiddies: It's "Come Down" by Bush (fucked that one up TWICE) and "Wasteland" by 10 Years. Come on, people, it's not that hard.
Ever heard of Angry chair or Down in A Hole by Alice in Chains?
Alice In Chains- Junkhead Alice In Chains- Angry Chair Alice In Cahins- Down In A Hole A Perfect Circle- The Package Staind- Its Been Awhile 10 Years- Wasteland Goo Goo Dolls- Black Ballon [[All Of Them Songs Should Of Been Up There]] [[I Know What Its Like To Be On Heroin, I Did Heroin For 5 Years & I Was Strung Out Really Bad, I Finally Got Off Of It In Dec. 09 & Then I Ended Up Relapsing In Feb.2010, But I Can HONESTLY Say Now I've Been Clean Off Heroin Since Then, But Sometimes Here And There I Will Mess Around With Pills, But NOTHING Like How I Did With Heroin] And I noticed somebody said something about the song {Save Me By Shinedown} The reason they said i got a candle & i got a spoon is b/c u can cook certain pills && shoot them up.
can't believe High and Dry by radiohead isn't on here.
Hello the beatles. 1st of all McCartney's cacophony "fixing a hole". "Im fixing a hole where the rain gets in and stops my mind from wandering", u dont get more much more heroin inspiration than that. Also Lennon's "everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey," "the deeper you go the higher you fly the higher you fly the deeper you go", that heroin for sure.
Wow SweenDog I have to admit, you do sound legit. Good luck bro. And yes, Hotel California is a great song but it's not about H.
A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free - elliott smith. there are two versions. one is more straightforward about the heroin than the other. SweenDog67 - that is beautiful..
really, My Sweet Prince -Placebo should be on here. it's a really great song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NME1Iu79U listen.
"Pusher Man" Steppenwolf
If you don't think comfortably numb isnt about heroin try doin a hit while listening to the song, you'll see.
hello sublime pool shark lying in my pastic bed thinking how things werent so cool to me tyingg off that dinasoar tonight used t be so cool to now i got the needle and i cant shake but i cant breath i take it away but i want more and more one day im gonna ose the war
In A Rut by The Ruts is the only song I know that isn't ambiguous or critical. It's just about the reward.
Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath s not on this list? It should be at least 4.
Since the 60s addicts have believed that many of Love's Forever Changes tracks alluded to heroin using. Andmoreagain and the Old Man in particular, with the Red Telephone and Live and Let Live protests against the drug laws.
And also from Jim Carroll's Catholic Boy album, Wicked Gravity and City Drops Into the Night.
Remembered two more: Smashing Pumpkins '1979' and Buffy St. Marie "'Poppies'.
Heroin by VU is definitely #1. The lyrics are already enough to confirm that, but the music itself is a metaphor for the rush going up and down, coming in waves. Good list!
I rewrite this whole list with Alice in Chains songs. Kicking methadone currently..worse than Heroin and Im livin off the album Dirt.
I think Slow Cheetah by Red Hot Chili Peppers could be 11 or 12. Also Snow by RHCP - not about coke. It's about H. Should be on some list some where.
Good list, Velvet Undergrounds #1 is obligatory on any sort of "top ten", but not necessarily deserved. My contribution to this list would be the songs Shine A Light and Soul On Fire by Spiritualized, Sad Waters as sang by Nick Cave. Thanks for the read!
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles how is that not even up there? it should be number 1 or 2
Ummmmmmm. "Me and Mrs.Jones"? Also, what about "Chase the Dragon" by The Beasts of Bourbon? Which was also covered brilliantly by Machinegun Fellatio And by the way. I spent a few weeks on a morphine drip, listening to Pink Floyd among others in hospital and can tell you that Comfortably Numb is definitely about Opiates.
The only true meaning behind any song lies with the artist who penned it, what anyone else views as the true meaning is left to their interpretation of the lyrics. It's real easy to take something such as a lyric and spin it into a completely unrelated meaning from what was intended by the artist.
just wanna get this straight, COMFTORABLY NUMB BY PINK FLOYD IS NOT ABOUT HEROIN, it is about Roger Waters suffering from syptoms of Hepatitis B causing his muscles to spasm and in order to perform he needed muscle relaxtant, which is also an intravenous drug (injeced into a vein)
Currently kicking Oxy.Take Me To The River by The Talking Heads.I know it's not a withdrawl song, but for some reason it makes me think of being washed clean..
I'm glad you put Velvet Underground, but there were so many songs about heroin from NYC and Cleavland in the 1970's, my favorite being "Ain't it Fun" by The Dead Boys (later covered by GnR). "Chinese Rocks" is also a good one, by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers
you can just fill this list with velvet underground / lou reed songs
to the person who said "why would you need a candle and spoon for pills?"...ummm...PROB cuz you can crush them up and bang em, im sure youv heard of people shooting oxys? i love how a bunch of people who have probably never even touched dope, let alone seen it, are commenting on this shit..
clean by depeche mode... gives you strength
Poor old Keith Richards. Looks like he suffers from Hep-B too. Few more; Waiting on a friend by the Stones. Heroin by the Kings of Infinite Space, believe it or not.China White by Morphine. Sidewalk Sally and Out of This Place by Rose Tattoo. All Them Ladies by MGF. Dirty Degenerate Boy by The Mark of Cain. I also suspect Little Wing by Hendrix.
Been reading through the comment all great suggestions... To the fucking morons who made comments belittling some of the suggestions and remarking that there's no way they have done junk and don't know what there talking about. I hope they haven't and never will fell the way "we" feel when we hear these song. As for me and many others it's too late for me I can't be saved maybe those people still have hope.
what about sublime pool shark...
PINK FLOYDS COMFORTABLY NUMB IS NOT IN ANY WAY RELATED TO HERION. People are so nieve to think that JUST because there is a needle present. If you knew anything about the band you would realize it's actually about when he had an STD He went to the doctor and the doc thought it just to be a simple stomach flu, the medicine he injected him with however, made him extremely disoriented. He had a show to play that night but when he looked at his hands they looked as if they were 10x bigger then normal. "My hands felt just like two balloons" But when he got on stage to play the fans still cheered making him feel "comfortably numb" Also, when he was at a very young age his father was killed in war. This caused him to grow up much quicker then your usual child "fading ships on the horizon" is used to symbolize his lost childhood.
I've been an addict for years and music always helped me get high - though I hardly needed it, and helped me when I wanted to "get clean" as if thats ever possible. I'm pregnant now and at least for these 9 months I am clean, its too 140mg of methadone a day (nothing but legal heroin) to do it but its much safer for the baby. Anyway, to the person who asked what you would need a spoon and light for for pills, well in Baltimore when you buy dope off the street its bought either as raw or scramble. I always preferred scramble to shoot and raw to snort but I haven't snorted in years. Regardless the scramble comes in pills, either single or double O, they also come in tester size and 6's or $6 pills. But when you buy them you ask for pills or scramble. So when I talk about getting pills its always heroin. I've done dope in many states and its called so many different things. Baltimore Love Song by 50 though I haven't heard it I read the lyrics and thats a great song. The part about being bi-sexual refers to how here BOY means dope and GIRL means coke or crack. Someone who does girl, may or may not do boy. Get it? Anyways, there are some great songs on here I had completely forgotten about like Wolfsheim and K's Choice. Thanks guys.
Only a gullible person with zero life experience would say that Comfortably Numb is not about heroin.
No sorry, it's called knowing a little something about the band and songs I listen to. You think it's about heroin because it speaks of being numb and you see someone give him a needle. Try learning something about the music and bands you listen to then try to comment about it.
the ballad of johnny butt sublime are u kiddin noone said that
@SarahC- Do you think I don't know the whole story? I have heard everything you have heard. About his (Waters) childhood. About getting hepatitis, but it was misdiagnosed. About him getting a sedative before a show. Come on. I don't believe everything I hear. Not many bands will come out and admit a song is about heroin cause it's just not considered cool.
Comfortably Numb isn't about heroine, it is about cold medication. None of the members of Pink Floyd used heroine.
Kim - You are an idiot. Can't even spell heroin.
Sarah, you are stupid. Kim, Cold medication? You are stupider if that is even a word.
Roger Waters was not a heroin user. I don't see how a person can write about what they don't know. But to say the song is not about drugs is ridiculous. "Just a little pin prick" is a reference to him getting a sedative before a show. Sedatives are drugs. duh
Roger Waters was not a junk man. As much as I would like it to be, I do not believe the song was heroin inspired. But I don't really care what the song was intended to be about as far as I am concerned it is all about the H.
ANY song by Spiritualized, as I am pretty sure that almost all of his songs are about heroin. My personal favorite is Medication.
Roger Waters claims the song Comfortably Numb is about former member Syd Barret who went insane years before, then again it kinda sounds like hes talking about h
Mutiny in Heaven by The Birthday Party
Wow, I guess you really need to do some research if you're going to imply that this song is about heroin, or ANY of Pink Floyds songs for that matter. Take it however you like, however, the FACTS ARE, that this song IS in fact about a medication being given FROM A DOCTOR to Syd Barret (and considering how you know nothing else about the band by the sounds of it, Syd Barret left the band after loosing his mind FROM AN STD THE SAME ONE HE WAS BEING GIVEN THE WRONG MEDICATION FOR)The doctor thought what he had was a stomach flu (so saying it was a cold medication IS CORRECT) If you're going to try to call me an idiot, you should really do some research on what you're calling me an idiot for. Thus concluding you to be the idiot of this whole thing. I'll give you a tip.. when researching the meaning of a song.. don't look for peoples opinions.. look for the ACTUAL FACTS from the ACTUAL BAND MEMBERS and then maybe next time you wont make yourself look like the idiot you are.
Sarah: I honestly don't know if those are indeed the facts. I honestly don't care to look it up, either. At any rate, I am forced to lean towards that whatever it is about, it isn't Heroin. However, the great thing about songs is that people's opinions do actually matter. In fact, to me this song is about Heroin, despite the fact that it was not the original meaning. It just fits perfect. I'm sure many other Heroin addicts agree with this. The point is a song is whatever it means to you. If one song can speak to so many different people in so many different ways (unlike many one-sided MTV pop songs) the artist has done their job as far as I am concerned.
Silly kids. Take an acid trip and then see if you think "comfortably numb" is about heroin. When he talks about the pin prick to keep him going throughout the show, when in a bad acid trip the hospital has a medication they give you to kick you back into reality. He even talks about how it made him trip as a kid when his fever was too high. Who here can deny that pink Floyd was a tripper? I mean he turned himself into a vegetable for christ sake. 10 years, wasteland. "hollow sliver piercing through another victim" Red hott chill peppers- "under the bridge, is where i drew some blood" elliot smith " a fond farewell" and "needle in a hay sack". actually pretty much all of elliot smiths songs mention it. as someone else commented, if you haven't tried heroin and you havn't been addicted, don't comment. you'll make yourself look stupid. have a good day.
YOU GUYS FORGOT COMFORTABLY NUMB?!?!? R U FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!
Heroin Addict Sister by Elizabeth Cook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFArKWnFWIg
THANK YOU!!!! You just helped me win a up at my methadone clinic. I fucking TOLD them Hotel Califorina was about herion!!!
wow, really guys.. yet again wrong on the true meaning of a song. Take it however you will.. but ACTUALLY Hotel California is another song constantly misunderstood. It's actually not really about anything.. It was just about their lives and growing up as middle class kids. Again.. look actual facts up about the band first.. They even say in an interview, " We know a lot of people are taking the lyric meaning of this song to be drug use related but it's actually not at all what it's about, it's about when we were younger, just simple kids growing up as middle class citizens"
This thread looks like it's gonna last forever. While I have you all here; Is Monster Magnet's Bummer supposed to be a dealer singing , then his customer then back to the dealer? BTW. I forget which Eagle, but one of em said in an interview back in the 80's, that the Hotel California was the Betty Ford clinic. It's obviously pointless trying to inform some people that Comfortably Numb is about someone going through withdrawals and needing a whack to get him on stage. The kind of people who don't want to believe this are the same kind who think the Beatles Lucy.... isn't about LSD and that Michael Jackson was straight.
HOW BOUT "SANCTIFIED" BY NINE INCH NAILS? THE BEST ONE! OH AND ALL ALICE IN CHAINS...YEAH! YEAH YEAH....
Spacemen 3: "Come Down Easy" "Feelin' Just Fine (Head Full of Shit)" "Call the Doctor" "Walkin' with Jesus" Mudhoney: "Revolution" (Spacemen 3 cover. . . sort of. . . funny story, that) Eat: "Mr. & Mrs. Smack" Come: "Brand New Vein" Leonard Cohen: "The Butcher" Fang: "Junky Dare" Butthole Surfers: "Mexican Caravan" Richard Hell: "Blank Generation" The Cramps: "Garbage Man" Gun Club: "She's Like Heroin To Me" John Phillips: "Drum" "Topanga Canyon"
what about master of puppets by metallica???
The entire album of Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium.
Pool Shark by sublime...Shot my weight in dope to this song
NIRAVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO CAN EVERYBODY FORGET????????
Um... Medicine by Bobaflex
"Hand of Doom" by Black Sabbath
Hotel California? Are you fucking serious? Half these songs are so lame... Best fucking heroin song ever hands down - "Chinese Rocks" by Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. Who writes this drivel?
More than 50% are really fucking stupid. Just because the word "heroin" is in the song, or they mention a neddle dosen't mean it's about it's about slaming dope. It's obvious that 99% of you have never have never done the drug or let alone seen it. So if you're not entirely sure if the song is about heroin, don't fucking say anything!
Reading through these comments, one question comes to mind... why the fuck did i get clean? maybe, then listening the song suggestions, i should be reminded, but mostly i just think... why the fuck did i get clean?
how the hell has nobody mentioned Stairway to Heaven or Master of Puppets!?!?!
Believe it or not - Captain Jack by Billy Joel.
alll of you need to listen to lead you on by machine gun kelly, best song ever
Here are 2 more not mentioned:'Bloodstain' performed by Alice Temple on Unkle's 1998 album Psyence Fiction. "Bloodstain on a blue vein, take it with no shame, love tracks on a loose train.." Also Keith Richard's solo effort 'Take It so Hard'"You want a little bit once in a while, Yeah you got a taste for it."
The La's - There She Goes
Shinedown in Save me I have a candle I have a spoon I live in a Hallway with no doors and no rooms. How did I get here and what went wrong? No Im far beyonde gone. Also, I disagree with the person typing Comfortably Numb is not about heroin. "come on now it's just a little pin prick, there will be no more Ahhhhhh! but you may feel a little sick." Dude that is opiates. I'm done with them.
CHINESE ROCKS!!!!!
I personally know Roger Waters and knew Syd Barret born Roger Keith Barret and comfortably numb isn't about heroin or Syd it's about Roger waters when he was 8 he got yellow fever and almost died and he still has effects from it so he takes medication
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When it comes to music, anyone can find subliminal references to their drug/religion/political statement if they read into it enough. Music can inspire people to do anything. What about all the great Jazz musicians who wrote amazing songs with little or no lyrics at all...??? Some of them used Heroin and lots of drugs. Junkies want to feel that every song was written for them and their habit. It's the self centered mentality. I personally like Alice in Chains when it comes to songs that deal with my morphine addiction. RIP Layne
YOU GUYS R SO EFFIN STUPID N NOT TRUE PINK FLOYD FANS IF U SAY COMFORTABLY NUMB IS NOT BOUT KICKIN DRUGS/OPIATES SAW A COMMENT SAYIN ITS BOUT RODGER WATERS... AHAHHA U FUCKIN STUPID HAVE U SEEN THE MOVIE PINK FLOYDS THE WALL ITS ALL BOUT SYD BARRETT YA FUCKIN IDIOT N HE WAS HIGH OFF HIS ASS EVERYDAY STRUGGLIN LIKE A MOTHA FUCKA N UR GONNA SAY ITS NOT BOUT DRUGS DO A SHOT OF HEROIN LISTEN TO THE SONG THEN KILL UR SELF FOR BEIN AN IDIOT N MISTAKIN PINK FLOYDS ENNNNNNTIRE GOD DAMN ALBUM IS FOR SYD YA RETARDS! sorry bout that i hate when people say that songs not bout drugs COMFORTABLY NUMMMMMMB key word of the day NUMB us junkies use that would atLEAST once a day. i been sober 34 days n music is the only thing helpin me right now im drippin sweat as we speak. major props for those of u in recovery im waitin for that day when i can say i feel good. of course i dont feel like shit but i dont feel good. heroin was a huge part of my life 6 years straight never day without it. h is like an abusive relationship just glad i got out alive. NEWAYS some my fav: kickstart my heart- motley crue* H-tool* heroin girl- Everclear* Thrash unreal- against me* opiate- tool.
Thrash Unreal - Against Me!
Who knew by pink. Very true to the heart lyrically. Song was inspired by a former significant other who O.D.
The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZfs
Tool-"H"
Thrash unreal-against me Lua-bright eyes Carmelita-Warren zevon Junky nurse-royal trucks Lua -bright eyes Wasteland-10 years Black balloon-the kills Needle in the hay-Elliot smith Jane says- janes addiction In chemicals- Postdata Not an addict- k's choice Pills-perishers Thrash unreal-against me
no one gives a flying fuck if you think or dont think the pink floyd songs about heroin......................if you want a song that is fuckin amazing and cannot be debated for what its about listen to lead you on by machine gun kelly
Weak and powerless A perfect cirlcle
Silver-Moist
Aneurysm - nirvana.
How about Lou Reed : Perfect day that one is dedicated to heroin !
After a brilliant guitar solo, the doctor is back in the second verse with a shot that is supposed to revive Pink from his drug-and-wall induced trance and keep him "going through the show." There has been a lot (a lot!) of debate over just what, exactly, this "pinprick" is. Some suggestions include: Noxolone (aka, Narcan), a drug used to counter the effects of heroin overdose; Thorazine, used to bring people down from acid trips; a mixture of amphetamines (to increase wakefulness) and cotricosteroids (to aide in stress response). Each possible pinprick is entirely based on just what drug one believes Pink is high on in the first place, with suggestions for those ranging from heroin to LSD, ketamine to DXM, all of which are known for the dissociative hallucinations they can cause.
the fuck is wrong with u people? heroin makes u fuckin miserable after a while.its not something to brag about.unless youre rich and can have it whenever u want it until you die, dont fuck with it.bcuz youre in for some real hard times physical mental and spiritual pain that u cant fully describe with words.Withdrawals are a real bitch.makes u want to die. u put loved ones and yourself thru awful shit. whether anyone wants to admit it or not, everything happens for a reason tho. LISTEN TO:Gil Scott Heron - Home Is Where The Hatred Is. 9 months clean motherfucker! Believe that shit.
Many of you are oblivious to good music and inspired intellectual expression. You fools are Incapable of interpreting the meaning of the song and the rightful intentions of the artist. Alternative reel also made the numbskull mistake to excluded "Carmelita" by the great Warren Zevon, who is considered a genius by many. Zevon is known for his satirical style and his political, historical, and knowledgable references about the real world through his work. And he has live through it and has seen it all, unlike the many inexperienced artists you internets rubes have suggested to be on the "Heroin-Inspired Songs" list. He unfortunately died early from a rabid form of incurable lung cancer. However, Zevon certainly got his kicks before the whole shithouse went up in flames. "Enjoy Every Sandwich"
Well first of all, no one here is stupid, perhaps infected with self-obsession. None of the members of Pink Floyd, with exception to Syd, are known as drug addicts. The 60's and the 70's produced drugs Worth doing, it might surprise people to find out who was using... In the music business,more so. Comfortably Numb, why argue about it, take it for what it says to you. I have had a very high fever producing delirium and Roger's words describe it perfectly. Go outside of the Wall,and read more of Rogers lyrics. All of Blind Melon's first album.
Whoever made this list needs to get their shit together cause no heroin music list is complete without Alice in Chains
the Mona Lisa was given back to France by Jackie O when it toured our country in 61 the deal resulted in the french connection. The real Mona Lisa was put under glass on its return. Kennedy would have been considered one of our worst presidents if not made a martyr etc. the warren commission isn't opening because caroline's precious ears can't hear about her fathers affairs? doubtful. I'm going with the fact that he didn't know they had been in bed since they blew up that battleship on the docks in NY in WW1, after that big business. Not only did the conflict in Vietnam create massive wealth for the vice president he was not aware, the orange jumpsuit was a Sicilian. a guy named Joe Batters called it in. The war that followed not only created the production path way it created a built in American consumer in the soldiers returning home. you know china white on air-force planes etc. across 112th street by the Delphonics is an artistic result of that problem. all junkies coke or heroin quit, then surround Langley Virginia like cesar surrounded Vercingetorix, how do black budgets get funded? ya that's it w/ rock and roll albums. restore our civil liberties and end the American gestapo, FDR was the mob and labeled the forming CIA just that until concessions were made between the two parties etc. what is it that jewls whinfield says to tim roth in the end of PULP FICTION "you're the weak and I am the tyranny of evil men but I'm trying real hard to be the shepherd" ya that pretty much sums up CIA and the theme of that picture. that's probably why it won canne. W gave out ambassadorships to his highest contributors. so, do ambassadorships conduct foreign relations? or do all CIA desks have that gig well in hand. do the math on this one and we can get fractal, stop it or mark my words NSA CIA and the FBI will all become one security force. When the lie is the truth and the truth a lie it's time to cover your ass not keep polluting it
also, while your conflicted and dealing w/ all this false pride from chasing the dragon, i beg of any of you who have, "really dealt w/ the struggles of heroin addiction" to go down to Cardinal Glendon. find one of these young people coming back from the war. look for the ones who have been blown apart by an IUD, you know... just look for the kid missing his face, genitals, and all four limbs, tell him about how hard it was to recover from heroin addiction. see if he has any sympathy or is impressed. If you have recovered, go donate some blood cause the kid i just mentioned needs it to survive. in the meantime- while Charlie Darwin's natural selection and survival of the fittest is in play; get well, stay well, and be well. and sure as hell don't glorify heroin use. that scene died in the art community along w/ some 3,000 other people on September 11th
Gosh you good stoned just reading the list. One that possibly should be here is Space Oddity by Bowie, which may be out getting high. Certainly Bowie hinted at this in Ashes to Ashes saying "Major Tom's a junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all-time low"
comfortably numb isn't about heroin.
How about "Friday" by Rebecca Black?
champagne supernova by oasis
Where is Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Stabbing Westward, Tool?
How about golden brown by "The Stranglers".
Blue Oyster Cult: Flaming Telepaths.... "Well I've opened up my veins too many times And the poison's in my heart and in my mind Poison's in my bloodstream Poison's in my pride I'm after rebellion I'll settle for lies"
Any non Australian Alt-Rock aficionado won't know this, but 'Something to lean on' by the Beasts of Bourbon sums up heroin dependency perfectly ... In my own personal opinion.
Weak and Powerless by A Perfect Circle, Aneurysm by Nirvana, Strawberry by Everclear Many songs can be interpreted as dope songs. The feeling of misery, hoplessness, and carefreeness that comes from its can be translated to many songs. I think H by tool is a heroin song but there are many interpretations.
Try listening to some Deftones yo :D you'll be able to depict any songs that relate to heroin, its totally a love hate relationship for sure.
To whomever put this list together: You should add "down in a hole" by Alice in Chains.
Ian Moore's "Lie" & "Train Tracks" Also, how about the very obvious "Jesus Shootin Heroin" by the Flaming Lips.
Bad fish
Never let me down again DepecheMode,my personal favorite song,about H...
"Poppies" by Marcy Playground - "When soon his majesty sent soldiers and thieves to India searching for gold. Instead from the ground some magic they found of something far better I'm told"
Been Smoking too Long- Nick Drake/Well I go to find me some breakfast /But I ain't got no food/ Take me a shower/But the water don't feel no good.// I've got opium in my chimney/No other life to choose/Nightmare made of hash dreams./Got the devil in my shoes// New house of the Pope- Frank Black and the Catholics (pixies) Not if you were the Last Junkie on Earth-Dandy Warhols Anything Could Happen-The Clean //Went to a doctor, said I look so hard And with a smile on his face pointed to a junkyard/Look for an answer in empty doorways/Talk to a dancer, said it's out on the highways//Well come on doctor, won't you gimme a shot/I'm feeling cold boy, feeling hot/Doctor said no boy you gotta learn/First I'll shoot up and then it's your turn// Boss Dj- Sublime Black Betty-Ram Jam Blister in the Sun-Violent Femmes Handshake drugs-Wilco ....and the best have already been mentioned...pool shark, needle and the damage done, hurt- they kill me to listen to for i have been a junkie 5years now I hope i dont lose the war
How about the Stranglers "Let me down easy"? Let Me Down Easy When I rest my weary head After all my words are said When my eyelids close with the weight of a hundred years Please Let Me Down Easy Let Me Down Easy My boat can slip away into a calmer sea Let Me Down Easy I know there'll be nothing to fear Let Me Down Easy My body slips away out into weightlessness Let Me Down Easy Now I know that there's nothing to fear Let Me Down Easy
Clapton,have u ever luvd a women,thats the song2 change ur view
Ebay about hey Jude/happiness its a warm gun/tomorrow never knows/king heroin/and strawberry fields forever = / by Beatles and James brown
i just wanna say-james taylor's Junkies Lament. and i miss the 70's-does anyone else?
That Smell by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ought to be No. 1
Don't forget " my sweet prince" by placebo. Awesome song
How about pretty much any one of Kurts songs
What about Beck - Loser. http://youtu.be/YgSPaXgAdzE
nobody has mentioned tim buckley's - song to the siren
Comfortably numb should be on this list instead of the rhcp.
Who s the tard who thinks Johnny Cash wrote hurt? LMMFAO
nobody mention the epic "sister morphine" by marianne faithful,40 years old and stills beats most of these songs,well worth a listen
How about ANYTHING by Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Temple of the Dog??
Failure's "Dirty Blue Balloons" is the definitive heroin inspirde song. There's even a suble audio sample of ken lighting a match and cooking it during the buildup to the spacey atonal solo.
Love, love, love 'Heroin' by The Velvet Underground. It makes me want to marry the sky. Some of my personal favorite heroin songs: Glycerine - Bush Chine White - Dog Fashion Disco Post Blue - Placebo Sugarman - Rodriguez H. - Tool Space Needle - El-Creepo! Junkie's Promise - Sonic Youth Golden Brown - The Stranglers On A Plain - Nirvana Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Jane Says - Jane's Addiction Hurt - Nine Inch Nails Rehab - Mary Magdalan Scream of the Butterfly - Acid Bath All Them Ladies - Machine Gun Fellatio Whether or not the artists actually had heroin in mind when they wrote these songs (though most of them definitely did) they sound like heroin to me and they are beautiful. No, I'm not a veteran junkie or anything, but I've had my share and I'd probably know better then most people on this site about what heroin songs sound like. Haha.
BillY Joel: " captain jack" from the Piano Man Album Among other lyrics that discribed a user: "captain jack will get you high tonight, just a little push and you'll be smiling" Jack, jake , jones= old street talk for junk or heroin. Signed an x 15yr vet. User.
Bad by U2 Moment of Surrender by U2
Hard monkeys- Ten years after. And of course Junkie man-Rancid
Needle and the spoon - skynyrd. Maybe not top ten but i like the song. Anyeurism - nirvana. I probably didnt spell that right
BEETHOVEN. dragons breath
yall are fuckind dumb man, voodoo is not about heroin, happiness is a warm gun is not about heroin sure it says i need a fix but its not about heroin read a fucking book you ignorant fucks are just shoot up some heroin
Lead You On- Machine Gun Kelly
FUCKING MOTLEY CRÜE DANCING ON GLASS
How about Justin Bieber "Baby"?
Deftones - Knife Party
Lover Dearest by Marianas Trench
whiter shade of pale
Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth - Dandy Warhols.
Great songs, every one. I'd like to add one I don't think was mentioned yet -- tho, strictly speaking, I think it's about opium, not H per se (still a great song): Steely Dan's "Time Out of Mind." But for me, the very best of them all was mentioned a couple of times, way up-thread: Lou Reed's "Perfect Day." For everyone hurting, everyone feeling no pain, everyone in between: God be with you. "You're going to reap just what you sow."
A BALTIMORE LOVE THING BY 50 CENT!!! INCREDIBLE SONG
Where the hell is alice in chains?? Non druggie rockersat all lol
Jane's Addiction...Jane Saysv& Comin Down the Mountain. Lynard Skynard...Needle and a Spoon....10 Years....Wasteland. Godsmack...Voodoo. Led Zeppelin....Stairway to Heaven.
Lead you on by MGK is a really good song and it talks about heroin addiction and it even brought tears to my eyes its really serious...
I've seen AiC mentioned a lot, but not specifically Sludge Factory. "You insult me in my home, you're forgiven this time. Things go well, you're eyes dilate, you shake and I'm high..." "Once again you'll see it in discolored skin gives you away. So afraid you'll kindly gurgle out a day for me..." Story of my life. If you've never been there, you cannot say what is or isn't a song about brown. Also, the person who parallels Comfortably Numb to detox, spot on man. It IS how that hit makes you feel after being sick a while.
i hate to see people that do herion
what about "space lord" by monster magnet, no negative sh*t in that song
Strawberry Gashes- Jack Off Jill.
Australia spy vs spy harrys reasons up there, with the best heroin songs iv seen the needle in a 100 haystacks/career in ruins it doesnt matter.rose tatoo astra wally about the bondi astra hotel real life character (i knew him) gets around with caps in his hat go on wally kill another friend.james raine aussie crawl hammerhead cold chisel had a friend heard she died on the needle she was crucified cheap wine.bobby womack across 110th street grace slick white rabbit all of rock n roll animal lou reed.plus all of the usual not comfortably numb/hotel california
" Come as you are" written by Kurt Cobain.
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