my mom used to tell me that in Sexual Healing when Marvin says "baaaaby, i got sick this morning, a sea was stormin, inside of me..." that it was a drug reference, of the 'wake up and throw up from heroin' variety, rather than i lovesick reference. who knows, she is a master of subtleties so perhaps.
Uncle Tupelo wrote/played a lot of songs about drinking. Like VU it's really hard to tell where they stand on the subject. At first glance, they sound like traditional anti-drug songs, talking about the pitfalls of addiction but I never get the feeling they judge it that way. The songs seem more observational than anything. Anyway, damn fine songs. Whiskey Bottle has the great line:
Whiskey Bottle over Jesus Not forever but just for now
Elliott Smith's St. Ides Heaven seems like a pro-drug tune but the second stanza is really more about people who interfere in your addiction process. Not really a ringing endorsement of the lifestyle.
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F*cking amazing
Miriam Makeba's version is killer too
Too Soon You're Old - Penny Goodwin
Stop The Pusher - Bo Diddley
The Spinners - Charlotte
She actually wrote it.
But I like the Charlatans' version better!
The Dramatics - The Devil is Dope
Modern Lovers - I'm Straight
The LP that this song came from (A Dramatic Experience) was an anti-drug concept album.
There's like a whole minute of a dude crying at the end because his son died of an overdose.
Most surreal thing I ever heard
Crazy drums as well.
From all accounts, the follow-up album was just as odd.
Never knew about an LP
Whiskey Bottle over Jesus
Not forever but just for now
Elliott Smith's St. Ides Heaven seems like a pro-drug tune but the second stanza is really more about people who interfere in your addiction process. Not really a ringing endorsement of the lifestyle.