Great Anti-Drug Songs?

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  • 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.

  • "please dont procrastinate, its not good to masterbate.." = Heroin

  • pknypkny 549 Posts

  • DOTTS JOHNSON - KILL THE HARD DRUGS PUSHER

  • LokoOneLokoOne 1,823 Posts

  • Bert Jansch 'The Needle of Death'


  • "The Prophet":



    Final Decisions:


  • Forgot about:



    F*cking amazing

  • DJFerrariDJFerrari 2,411 Posts
    Nat Adderley 'Quit it'

    Miriam Makeba's version is killer too

  • Couple obvious ones:
    Too Soon You're Old - Penny Goodwin
    Stop The Pusher - Bo Diddley

  • Not great but...

    The Spinners - Charlotte


  • El PrezEl Prez NE Ohio 1,141 Posts
    Night of the living baseheads.



  • Codine is a Buffy St Marie song? Any way I think she covers it too.


    She actually wrote it.

    But I like the Charlatans' version better!

  • Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
    The Dramatics - The Devil is Dope
    Modern Lovers - I'm Straight



  • The Dramatics 'The Devil is Dope'

    The LP that this song came from (A Dramatic Experience) was an anti-drug concept album.

  • There's a great anti-drug track on the Madhouse "Serve Em" LP but I can't remember the title.

  • I have this 45 called Once you Understand.

    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.

  • I have this 45 called Once you Understand.

    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.

  • that's the one. so weird.
    Never knew about an LP


  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    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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