"Hymns of A Needle Freak"

[Junkette]

David Bowie- Ashes to Ashes

Weeknd- King of the Fall

[Snout]

I think that "cArmelita" by wArren zevon is the bestest song about dope

[Zoops]

I think that "cArmelita" by wArren zevon is the bestest song about dope

Didn't he have something about "detox mansion" and 'rehab mountain" in one of his songs, or maybe it was "detox mountain," and "rehab mansion' IDK, did he?

Yep, Detox Mansion is the song:

>meh<

[MoeMentim]

Yeah, Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" is about the best heroin song ever.  "Things to do in Denver When You're Dead" isn't explicitly about dope, but is to me.

  For real? Nobody has Mentioned the Velvet Underground yet?  Gotta believe I missed it, but I don't want to short-change folks dipping their toes in the water.  There's a rich history of this life portrayed in rock & roll and imho it starts with the Velvets & never comes close to being topped.

  Dead Flowers (Townes Van Zant and/or Stones) is up there too.

  One of the first few posts mentioned a song "She's like Heroin."  Is that a cover of The Gun Club's "She's Like Heroin (to Me)?"  Other than that song there's really no drug references but the whole album ("Fire of Love") is soaked in opium through and through. 

  Sort of an inside joke, but the "Desperate Teenage LoveDolls" soundtrack was in constant rotation in the first couple years of my opiate romance.  It's a brilliant pop-soaked pre-postpunk classic (does that make sense?  as in a few years ahead of...)  and gets, along with Redd Kross who put the cheap flick & great soundtrack together, no credit ever.  "Hey, thanks for killing my Mom."

 

  Crime "frustration" 1976.  Tell me again how the Sex Pistols weren't a Monkees/Archie comics rip-off of the American music bastard child punk rock...  Lyrics (a few words off):

Frustrated and ya shoot it up my way
Transfusion when you're movin' down a highway
Love the way ya scream and cheat and beat your guitar
Everybody says you've taken it too far

Well

Frustrated baby I'm gonna move on you
Frustrated honey and I know what'cha do
I see your face nearly every day
All you hippies can fade away

Double trouble for Mad Dog Colonel
Philadelphia and you do the stroll
Seen ya in your alley Mustang Sally
Take you home and they shoot you up

Well

Frustrated baby I'm gonna move on you
Frustrated honey and I know what'cha do
I see your face nearly every day
All you hippies can fade away

[sk8phaze]

Alice In Chains- Nutshell

Pretty much sums up my life lately and
How things could be...

[Roman Totale]

I second @Zoops for "Totally Wired" for the best musical and lyrical experience of an amphetamine high. 
"Can't you see?  A butterfly stomach ground-ground.  I drank a jar of coffee and then I took some of these.... And I'm totally wired.  I'm totally biased.  I'm irate -- peeved.  I'm irate -- bad state, bad state, cause I'm totally wired.  And I'm always worried.  And I'm always worried. "

Spacemen 3 had some good ones for the opiate/downer experience -- "Call The Doctor" for that supra-nod/sub-OD experience, and "Feel So Good" for that, well, feeling so good experience, come to mind.

Jesus and Mary Chain have the reputation as an heroin band, while to me they had a lot of very "uppers" type music (and I know the band members went through a lot more amphetamine and alcohol in their heyday than anything else).  But I'd say "Taste Of Cindy" is one of the great modern songs to accompany a coke binge, and "Some Candy Talking" likewise for opiates...even "Head On" (covered soon after by the Pixies) captures the experience: taking yourself to the dirty part of town where all your problems can/can't be found, after which the world could die in pain and you wouldn't feel any shame...

[DiacetylKineval]

Layne is who inspired me to sing. Id check into jar of flies since it wasnt mentioned, rotten apple and dont follow being particularly great. Sunshine is great. But im kind of a fiend for women as well. I cant believe theres no black sabbath mentions. I particularly love sweet leaf, though its about weed, i kind of imagine a long lost girlfriend as well. Supernaut man, were gonna reach up, and touch the sky. Pretty sure hotel california is about heroin, good song gotta admit. Also idk how yall feel about metallica, but poor twisted me is a good song, fairly simplistic lyrically, but it gets me when he says good to see my friends, as though ive been strung out for some time, and maybe am feeling alienated, because most of my closest friends arent dope users by any means, its really a joke among us what a greasy addict i am

[DiacetylKineval]

Also 'got my pills gainst mosquito death' always makes me think of when i have a stash of the 10mg mallinkrodt mdones from my cpp friend lol

[LadyKalma]

Due to some bad circumstances, a month or so ago we had to undergo 4.5 days of sickness. Fullblown, no sleep, puking bile, shitting water, sweating, shivering sickness. And this was the song that kept popping into my head:
Leftover Crack-Heroin or Suicide


Hey see you know what I, I know what I dont
You promise you promise and I know you won't
The problems and pressures we face everyday
Are sometimes more like but always on display
It breaks in your ears it aches in your bones and brings you to tears
With various incisions you load another bullet
Your shootin' with precision

I'm talented with atrophy yea i do it well
you know I'd like to take a break from suffering in hell
Squattin' is the excuse is I frequently abuse
Either way I hold the chain im gonna need a noose cause PAIN!!!!!!!!
Sweats on my skin, sick with bad memories and burns for my sin PAIN!!!!!!!
To cough with each breath
The only solution is the sweet taste of death!

Don't mistake the demeanor
My kindness and weakness
I'll burn you with reality
While you cry to your Jesus
You're suffocating in a tomb
You're choking in an empty room
You're empty life thats ending soon
Completely spells your doom

I made a choice deep inside
heroin or suicide?
sickness praised in times of need
we waste away from hands of greed
Jesus nailed to wooded T's
cannot compete with my disease
humanity the weak condition
my soul is sick from my decision

[gnossos]

There are a handful of bands/songs/album perfect for throwing on as your fixing up your shot. My greatest pleasure in life used to be playing Alice in Chain's "Junkhead" (the Trainspotting vid, of course) just as I was doing my first shot. Life as a "needle freak" is such a rollercoaster, it really depends on what mood you're in (which could be really, really good, or really, really bad - depending on how much dope you've got left).

You mentioned the word "hymn," so I have to make a suggestion that's likely unexpected. Pop singers that can fuckin belt it out are my guilty pleasure, so I fuckin love Sia. When I'm at my most hopeless moments: dopesick, no money, no dope, dealing with the aftermath with a binge, trying to come down off a days/weeks long speed bender, etc. etc. It doesn't specifically mention addiction, but Sia did struggle with some form of it at one point so maybe she was being vague. (Maybe I'm just a junkie who relates every song I hear to dope). This tune really inspires me:

Sia - Soon We'll Be Found

Come along it is the break of day
Surely now, you'll have some things to say
It's not the time for telling tales on me

So come along, it wont be long
'Til we return happy
Shut your eyes, there are no lies
In this world we call sleep
Let's desert this day of hurt
Tomorrow we'll be free

Let's not fight I'm tired can't we just sleep tonight
Don't turn away it's just there's nothing left here to say
Turn around I know we're lost but soon we'll be found

Well it's been rough but we'll be just fine
Work it out yeah we'll survive
You mustn't let a few bad times dictate

So come along, it wont be long
'Til we return happy
Shut your eyes, there are no lies
In this world we call sleep
Let's desert this day of work
Tomorrow we'll be free

Let's not fight I'm tired can't we just sleep tonight
Don't turn away it's just there's nothing left here to say
Turn around I know we're lost but soon we'll be found

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- Neil Young - Needle & the Damage Done - "Every junkie's like a settin' sun"

- Stone Temple Pilots - I Got You 

- Ozzy Osbourne - Junkie

- Elliott Smith -  Distorted Reality's Now a Necessity to Be Free
                            "I'm floating in a black balloon / OD on Easter afternoon / Distorted reality's now a necessity to be free..."
                       Waltz #2
                       Alphabet Town
                            "I know what you are, I just don't mind..."
                       Needle in the Hay (duh)

Between the Bars
Drink up, baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make

Drink up with me now and forget all about
The pressure of days, do what I say
And I'll make you okay and drive them away
The images stuck in your head

People you've been before that you
Don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Drink up, baby, look at the stars
I'll kiss you again, between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there, with your hands in the air
Waiting to finally be caught

Drink up one more time and I'll make you mine
Keep you apart, deep in my heart
separate from the rest, where I like you the best
And keep the things you forgot

People you've been before that you
Don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

          ... and anything else of his. Just be sure to keep in mind as you listen to his heartbreakingly downtrodden voice that he wanted to die so badly that he stabbed himself in the heart with a fucking STEAK KNIFE. Like Nirvana and AIC, his music is depressing in the context of his death. SUPER depressing.

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- Alice in Chains - anything, particularly Unplugged

- Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual (full album)

- Sublime - just about anything (one of the VERY few bands with a singer who OD'ed tragically young - and like, a week after getting married, at that - that is actually cheerful rather than suicide-inducing).

- Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (full album)

[Carousel]

Skinny Puppy--Addiction
Skinny Puppy--Spasmolyitic (watch the video and it all makes sense)
And many other songs by SP, pre 1995...before their keyboardist Dwayne Goettel (aka aDuck...may he RiP) died of a Heroin OD. Nivek Ogre, cEvin Key and Dwayne all had their run with Heroin...supposedly thanks to Al Jorgensen of Ministry introducing it to them in the mid 80's...as the story goes.

I can't be the only Skinny Puppy fan around...right?

[Smacky-Doodle 2.0]

MEGADETH - Use the Man 

[Raine]

I feel like dying- Lil Wayne
Spyder by Imperial Drag
Heroin, perfect day, waltzing matilda - all 3 by Lou Reed
La la land- Green Velvet
Learn from this mistake- Down
Scarlet Begonias- Grateful Dead
Pool shark - Sublime


Acid bath in general, not just Hymns of a needle freak, reminds me of dope. Also a lot of Alice in Chains but unlike some of these songs/bands, I appreciated them before ever using. Bad Melon remind me of dope too, their sadder or slower songs anyway.

[Snoop]

The Nurse Who Loved Me- APC

"She's got everything I neeeeeeed, Pharmacy keys"

[MoeMentim]

The Nurse Who Loved Me- APC

"She's got everything I neeeeeeed, Pharmacy keys"

ha!  that title reminded me of a great bo diddly song also covered by the new york dolls - "pills"
 

[bonedust]

How has no one mentioned Wolfsheim's "Heroin, she said"?!

Also Acid Bath's (my favorite band) "Dope Fiend".