"Hymns of A Needle Freak"

[Daughter of Dionysus (OP)]

List your favorite songs about addiction
And/or drugs in general

ALICE IN CHAINS (Not Jerry Fuckwad Cantrell and his band of sycophants)
~DIRT~
...
"You, you are so special
You have the talent to make me feel like dirt"

~SLUDGE FACTORY~
(Just the beginning of this song
With Layne's aaaahhh ooooowww oh yeah reminds me
Of doing a shot. The pain of the poke the relief of the dope)
"You insult me in my home
You're forgiven this time
Things go well
You're eyes dilate
You shake and I'm high"
...
"Once again you see it in
Discolored skin
Gives you away"

K's CHOICE
~NOT AN ADDICT~
"It's not a habit it's cool
I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side"
...
"The deeper you stick it in your vein
The deeper the thoughts
There's no more pain"
...
"I'm not an addict
Maybe, that's a lie"

AIC
~GOD SMACK~
"What in Gods name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun"
...
"So your sickness weighs a ton
And God's name is SMACK for some"
~JUNKHEAD~
"A good night
The best in a long time
A new friend turned me onto an old favorite
Nothing better than a dealer who's high
Be high, convince em to buy"
*FOR ME THIS ONE SUMS IT UP SO PERFECT*

3 DOORS DOWN
~LOSER~
"This is getting old
Well I can't break these chains that I hold
There's nothing left if this mind of my soul
Addiction needs a pacifier
But the buzz of this poison
Has taken me higher"

EMINEM
~MY MOM~
...
"Cuz my Mom loved valium
And lots of drugs
She's the reason why I'm high what I'm high on"

SIXTO RODRIGUEZ
~SUGARMAN~
...
"Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers coke
Sweet Mary Jane"
...
"Sugarman
Met a false friend
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart
When I found it
It had turned to dead black coal"

AMY WINEHOUSE
~REHAB~
"Didn't get a lot of your class
But I know it don't come in a shot glass"
...
"He said I just think you're depressed
Just me?
Yeah maybe
And the rest?"
*I know this song is like so 2007
But OMG the talent that girl had*
<RIP AMY>

RIP Mr. Layne Thomas Staley
I REALLY HATE using this name in association
With addiction
B/c Layne was so much more than an addict

[Illadelph215]

Love your choices and love AIC. The only one I need to add would be "angry chair". Song is my go to and very personal to me. My list won't be as pretty and won't have lyrics as I'm on my phone but I would say off hand...."fall to pieces" by velvet revolver...."hurt" Johnny Cash edition (sorry NIN!)....and most recently "hold it kid" by the weeks. Loving the thread tho!!

[monkawat]

Alice in chains- junkhead

Champagne supernova- oasis

[Smacky-Doodle 2.0]

SOAD - 'She's like Heroin'

Sublime - 'Badfish'

Devildriver - 'Bitter Pill'

NIN - 'Hurt'

Primus - 'Damn Blue-collared Tweekers'

[gutterslut]

my random ass list...too many songs to name

avenged sevenfold - bat country
third eye blind - semi charmed life
mindless self indulgence - cocaine and toupee & 2 hookers and an 8ball
three 6 mafia - sippin on some syrup & bin laden
nonpoint - double stakked
goo goo dolls - black balloon
10 years - wasteland
smile empty soul - bottom of a bottle
system of a down - psycho
lil wyte - oxycotton
cold - same drug

[monkawat]

lol lil wyte

oxycotton xanax bars percocets and lortabs valium morphine patches ectasy and it's all up for grabs, whatcha want, whatcha need, hit me up i gotchu mane

[gutterslut]

lol lil wyte

oxycotton xanax bars percocets and lortabs valium morphine patches ectasy and it's all up for grabs, whatcha want, whatcha need, hit me up i gotchu mane

ayeee...haha. also forgot to put "my smoking song" by lil wyte too

[monkawat]

He's probably the worst rapper ever lol

but I can't stand the whole "white trash rap" scene, none of them have any real talent when it comes to lyricism or even when it comes to delivery.

But who doesn't like oxycotton- that song is a classic and it banged hard on my first subs I had in my 94 mustang

[DeadCat]

Good list.

I always liked that K's Choice; "Not an Addict" because it came out when I was hitting my stride as a go for broke junkie.

Than that SOAD "She's Like Heroin" I THINK should be attributed to LA's mad men, The Gun Club in the early 80's but I could be wrong.

I don't know that it is dope realted so much but it reminds me of thise days; "Smells like Sex and Candy" by Marcy Playground.

Drugs and drug use references are all though pop music for so long. It should be considered a musical genre.


Aren't those first years of serious drug use like the beginning of a great love affair with the intense, can do no wrong early days , the set bliss going all the way to the painful breakup? In South Florida I copped every day after work an doften early before work and as soon as that warm glow enveloped me seconds after pushing the plunger home I often "said  "Hello old friend. I've missed you today."

[Smacky-Doodle 2.0]

Than that SOAD "She's Like Heroin" I THINK should be attributed to LA's mad men, The Gun Club in the early 80's but I could be wrong.

You mean the "She's like Heroin to me, she cannot miss a vein."?  Yep, I've heard it before, but the songs are unrelated near as I can tell.  Completely different lyrics.  The System of a Down song is really weird, a person could interpret it to be about transgenders as well as Heroin itself.  It's just one of my personal faves, that's all.

[Anti-hero]

Rock star
Nickel back
Gonna pop my pills from a pez dispenser
Dope show
Manson

[theSWPK]

cold - same drug

I love me some Cold!

[JonnyCakes]

The Black Crowes "She talks to Angels"

"she dont mention the word addiction in certain company"
"She got her eyes black as night now, and she pulls the shades down tight, she got a smile now when the pain comes, oh the pain, the pain gonna make everything all right
and she says she talks to Angels, she says they cal her out by name..."

[Griffin]

2x4 by blind melon
Needle, fetal
Someone's pouring warm gravy all over me
And you see that synthetic therapy
Don't you know it seems to be so unappealing
But, oh what a feeling

[sk8phaze]

Nutshell by Alice in chains. That song says it all.