Friday, January 23, 2015

The 100 Greatest Drug Songs Ever (Mojo, 2002)


A playlist coming from the lysergic past of music magazine Mojo (issue 109, december 2012):
Since the dawn of time, man has been smoking, chewing and sniffing his way towards mystical enlightenment and the odd great cave painting, epic poem or mind-blowing pop song.
Enjoy responsibly.

Previously on the druggy side of Spotirama:
50 Druggiest Albums Ever (NME, 2011)


THE 100 GREATEST DRUG SONGS EVER
(Mojo, 2002, from #1 to #100)



Full list

Strikethrough songs (7/100) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (1967)
2. The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)
3. The Velvet Underground - Heroin (1967)
4. The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine (1971)
5. Small Faces - Here Comes the Nice (1967)
6. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It) (1983)
7. Dillinger - Cokane in My Brain (1976)
8. Love - Signed D.C. (1966)
9. Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun (1991)
10. Plastic Ono Band - Cold Turkey (1969)
11. Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done (1972)
12. Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? (1944)
13. The Byrds - Eight Miles High (1966)
14. Fats Waller - The Reefer Song (1943)
15. Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 (1966)
16. Ry Cooder/Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Hashishin (1970)
17. Ramones - Carbona Not Glue (1977)
18. The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind (1968)
19. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (1972)
20. The Smoke - My Friend Jack (1967)
21. The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) (1966)
22. The Charlatans - Codine Blues (1966)
23. Country Joe & the Fish - Section 43 (1966)
24. The Beatles - Got to Get You Into My Life (1966)
25. Grateful Dead - Dark Star (1969)
26. John Prine - Sam Stone (1971)
27. The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man (1967)
28. The Byrds - Artificial Energy (1968)
29. The Temptations - Cloud Nine (1968)
30. Lemonheads - My Drug Buddy (1992)
31. The Beatles - Rain (1966)
32. The Heartbreakers - Chinese Rocks (1977)
33. David Peel & the Lower East Side - I Like Marijuana (1968)
34. Rodriguez - Sugarman (1970)
35. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (1967)
36. Oasis - Morning Glory (1995)
37. Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles (1969)
38. David Essex - Rock On (1973)
39. Tim Hardin - Red Balloon (1967)
40. Happy Mondays - Do It Better (1988)
41. Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (1971)
42. The 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster (1966)
43. My Bloody Valentine - Glider (1990) [entry as "Glider EP"]
44. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)
45. Country Joe & the Fish - Bass Strings (1967)
46. Phil Phillips - Sea of Love (1959) [entry as the single "Sea of Love/The Evil Dope", although some search say the single's b-side was actually "Juella"] (I put both of them in the playlist)
47. MC5 - Rocket Reducer N°. 62 (1969)
48. Ella Fitzgerald w/ Chick Webb & His Orchestra - Wacky Dust (1938)
49. The Third Bardo - Lose Your Mind (1967)
50. Flowered Up - Weekender (1991)
51. Kenny Rogers & the First Edition - Just Stopped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was In) (1967)
52. Louis Armstrong - Muggles (1929)
53. Rick James - Mary Jane (1978)
54. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (1978)
55. The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post (1969)
56. Roland Stone - Junco Partner (1961)
57. The Fall - Totally Wired (1980)
58. Bert Jansch - Needle of Death (1965)
59. KRS-One - I Can't Wake Up (1993)
60. Bomb the Bass - Bug Powder Dust (1995)
61. Primal Scream - Loaded (1991)
62. The Holy Modal Rounders - If You Want to Be a Bird a.k.a. Bird Song (1968)
63. Empirion - Narcotic Influence (1994)
64. Traffic - Hole in My Shoe (1967)
65. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (1990)
66. Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (1967)
67. Eric Burdon & the Animals - A Girl Named Sandoz (1967)
68. Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine (1967)
69. The Flamin' Groovies - Slow Death (1972)
70. The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper (1966)
71. Pulp - Sorted for E's & Wizz (1995)
72. Spacemen 3 - Walkin' with Jesus (1986)
73. The Dramatics - The Devil Is Dope (1973)
74. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (1970)
75. Billy Boy Arnold - Whiskey, Beer & Reefer (1993)
76. Underworld - Born Slippy (1995)
77. The Stranglers - Golden Brown (1981)
78. The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist (1968)
79. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1966)
80. Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer (2000)
81. The Count Five - Psychotic Reaction (1966)
82. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Live from the Royal Albert Hall) (1966)
83. Steppenwolf - The Pusher (1968)
84. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Ah Feel Like Ahcid (1968)
85. The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel (1997)
86. Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968)
87. The Creation - How Does It Feel to Feel (1968)
88. Fingers Inc. - Mystery of Love (1985)
89. Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die (1968)
90. Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue (1984)
91. James Brown - King Heroin (1972)
92. The Doors - The Crystal Ship (1967)
93. Fred Neil - Sweet Cocaine (1967)
94. The Mighty Hannibal - The Truth Shall Make You Free (1972)
95. Cab Calloway - Reefer Man (1932)
96. Syd Barrett - If It's in You (1970)
97. Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (1995)
98. Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over the Line (1971)
99. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The L.S. Bumble Bee (1967)
100. Afroman - Because I Got High (2001)

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