Down the years there have been loads of songs which have been about drugs or were they, :) . You decide.

 

The Beatles and Lucy in the sky with diamonds

 

Stranglers and Golden brown

 

The Shamen and Ebeneezer Good

 

Any others you can think of.

Edited January 13, 200718 yr by brian91

do you include 'love'?... as bryan ferry reckons 'love is the drug and i need to score'...lol

 

think eric clapton/john martyn's 'cocaine' might have been :)

All three you mention were indeed about LSD, Heroin and Ecstasy respectively.

 

'There Shoe Goes' by The La's and 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed are also famously about heroin.

Peter Paul & Mary puff the magic dragon

'There She Goes' by The La's

That was the one I was about to mention :lol: And one a lot of people think of as a 'great love song' :lol:

A few Songs about Drugs (excluding alcohol as a drug):

 

"Black Betty" — Ram Jam

"The Crystal Ship" — The Doors

""Geek Stink Breath" — Green Day (methamphetamine)

"Here Comes the Nice" — Small Faces

"I'm One" — The Who (comedown from amphetamine)

"Jerk It Out" — Caesars (possibly about (meth)amphetamine)

"Losing My Ground" — Fergie

"Return to Oz" — Scissor Sisters (methamphetamine)

"Semi-Charmed Life" — Third Eye Blind (methamphetamine)

"White Light/White Heat" — Velvet Underground

"Blinded by the Light" — Bruce Springsteen, covered by Manfred Mann (Cocaine)

"China Girl" — David Bowie/Iggy Pop (Cocaine)

"Don't Stop Me Now" — Queen (Cocaine)

"Dr. Feelgood" — Mötley Crüe (Cocaine)

"Gold Dust Woman" — Fleetwood Mac (Cocaine)

"Hash Pipe" — Weezer (Hashish)

"Learning to Fly" — Tom Petty (Cocaine)

"Life in the Fast Lane" — Eagles (Cocaine)

"Line up" — Elastica (Cocaine)

"Moonlight Mile" — The Rolling Stones (Cocaine)

"Never Let Me Down Again" — Depeche Mode (Cocaine)

"One Way Ticket" — The Darkness (Cocaine)

"Pass that Dutch" — Missy Elliott (Cacaine)

"Pranging Out" — The Streets (Cocaine)

"Purple Hills" (a.k.a. "Purple Pills") — D12 (various)

"What a Waster" — The Libertines (Various)

"White Lines (Don't Do It)" — Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel (an anti-cocaine song)

"White Rabbit" — Jefferson Airplane (pills, marijuana, psylocibin)

"Yellow" — Coldplay (Cocaine)

"Blinded by the Lights" — The Streets (Ecstacy)

"Ebeneezer Goode" — The Shamen (Ecstacy)

"For My People" — Missy Elliot (Ecstacy)

"Starry Eyed Surprise" — Paul Oakenfold (Ecstacy)

"Baby's Got A Temper" — The Prodigy (Rohypnol)

"A Horse With No Name" — America (Heroin)

"Angel" — Sarah McLachlan (Heroin)

"Another Girl, Another Planet" — The Only Ones (Heroin)

"Bad" — U2 (Heroin)

"Beetlebum" — Blur (Heroin)

"The Bewlay Brothers" — David Bowie (Heroin)

"Captain Jack" — Billy Joel (Heroin)

"Comfortably Numb" — Pink Floyd (Heroin)

"Cold Turkey" — John Lennon (Heroin)

"Cop Shoot Cop" — Spiritualized (Heroin)

"Dead Flowers" — The Rolling Stones (Heroin)

"Don't Mess With Doctor Dream" — the Thompson Twins (Heroin)

"Enjoy the Silence" — Depeche Mode (Heroin)

"Even Flow" — Pearl Jam (Heroin)

"Golden Brown" — The Stranglers (Heroin)

"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" — The Beatles (Heroin)

"Harvester of Sorrow" — Metallica (Heroin)

"The Needle and the Damage Done" — Neil Young (Heroin)

"No Rain" — Blind Melon (Heroin)

"Perfect Day" — Lou Reed (Heroin)

"Running To Stand Still" — U2 (Heroin)

"Sister Morphine" — The Rolling Stones (Heroin)

"Sledgehammer" — Peter Gabriel (Heroin)

"Smack My b**ch Up" — The Prodigy (Heroin)

"Some Candy Talking" — The Jesus and Mary Chain (Heroin)

"There She Goes" — The La's (Heroin)

"Under the Bridge" — Red Hot Chili Peppers (Heroin)

"And It Stoned Me" — Van Morrison (Hash)

"Because I Got High" — Afroman (Hash)

"Space Cowboy" — Jamiroquai (Hash)

"Animal Nitrate" — Suede (amyl nitrite/poppers)

"Breaking Glass" — David Bowie (drug relapse)

"The Dope Show" — Marilyn Manson (non-specific)

"Feel Good Hit of the Summer" — Queens of the Stone Age (various drugs including nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, alcohol and cocaine)

"Give Me Novacaine" — Green Day (Novacaine)

"Go Or Go Ahead" - Rufus Wainwright (crystal meth)

"I've Had Enough" — The Who (pills)

"I Wanna Be Sedated" — The Ramones (tranquilisers)

"Jesus of Suburbia" — Green Day (Ritalin)

"Lithium" — Nirvana

"Medazzaland" — Duran Duran (midazolam, an anaesthetic sedative used prior to surgery)

"Minnie the Moocher" — Cab Calloway (opium)

"Monkey" — George Michael (hard-drug addiction)

"Mother's Little Helper" — The Rolling Stones (barbiturates or sedatives)

"The Perfect Drug" — Nine Inch Nails (absinthe)

"Scooby Snacks" — Fun Lovin' Criminals (Diazepam, AKA Valium. Possibly Vicodin as well.)

"Seattle head" — Duff McKagan (various, mostly alcohol)

"Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll" — Ian Dury (any drugs)

"Shake the Disease" — Depeche Mode (unspecified addiction)

"Sunday Morning" — Velvet Underground (being strung out on dope, drugs)

"Telegram Sam" — T. Rex (Drug dealers)

"Toy Soldiers" — Martika (nonspecific drug addiction)

"Velocity Girl" — Snow Patrol (speed, alcohol)

"White Light/White Heat" — The Velvet Underground (heroin)

"White Rabbit" - Jefferson Airplane (pills, marijuana, psylocibin)

"With a Little Help from My Friends" — The Beatles (nonspecific)

"You Caught Me Smilin" — Sly and the Family Stone (hard drugs)

 

 

think youve been doing some homework thisispop!!! lol

A Horse With No Name" — America (Heroin)

and there was me thinking it was about a lost horse in the desert :lol:

i bet that took a lttle while to compile, Thisispop :D

Didn't realise Queen's Don't Stop Me Now was about cocaine, how naive of me.

 

Ok...couple more (and obvious ones)

 

Dillinger - Cocaine

Eels - Novocaine for the Soul (actually, this might just be a metaphor?)

"Minnie the Moocher" — Cab Calloway (opium)

 

Could this be the oldest? 1930! Anyway it's still probably the best:

 

She messed around with a bloke named Smokey

She loved him though he was cokey

He took her down to Chinatown

Where he showed her how to kick the gong around

 

:lol: :lol:

"Heroin" - Velvet Underground

"I'm Waiting For The Man" - Velvet Underground (at first, I actually thought it was about Lou Reed waiting for his favourite male prostitute to show up.... :lol: Then I realised he was actually singing about his dealer..)

"The End" - The Doors (fuelled by a particularly intense acid trip. References to the 'Blue Bus' in the song were apparently literal, there was a bunch of hippie acid dealers in Venice Beach who went about their business in a blue bus.... :lol: :lol: )