Best "Opiate" Songs

[vegan]

not that it "mimics, represents, or recreates the effects",
but because the music and the lyrics are so powerful :

faith no more - the real thing

 

[MgmtBlue]

Underworld, especially Sola Sistim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N8Nj4pFCQ

 

[renee82]

local H - bound for the floor (so pathetic)

 

[tdawe1]

I thought this thread was about Tool's wonderful EP...my favorite track off of that is the title track.

I like stuff like Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, This Will Destroy You, Russian Circles on opiates.

These are good choices, also:

Fuck Buttons
Ben Frost
Errors
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Nathan Fake

 

[phr]

I want to kill you like they do in the movies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS2rOsDdqJo

Just dose and hit play. By the end of the song, depending on the roa used, you'll be good.

 

[axl blaze]

the velvet underground - "heroin"

for obvious reasons. I always prefer shoegaze for shooting, for also obvious reasons

 

[random no one]

lou reed - heroin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5eXSPKHlso

Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwsewrrM1Mo

ill Niño - Liar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAkuX25E1Y4

 

[JahRed24x]

Wolfsheim : Heroin, She Said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FveMb2Z4QY


I just found this song today. I thought the lyrics were pretty realistic.

The chorus:
""Heroin" she said, "was the best I had...
No more mountains left to climb.
The world so slow... all my dreams just too high
To be fulfilled in time...!"


another one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_NME1Iu79U

 

[studman69]

Spacemen 3, people. Deep psychedelic heroin drone.

 

[fayder]

Marcy Playground - Opium

 

[xHighonLifex]

anyone ever tried idoses?

i havent n i dont have much faith in it but was just wonderin if ne of yall might have tried it

 

[DeucalionAH]

One of my all-time favorites is 2x4 by blind melon. I tend to listen to a lot of their music while opiated. It seems that most of my other favorites have been mentioned but I'll throw out a few more:

2x4-blind melon (i know i mentioned it)
I'm not an Addict -K's Choice
Pillmatic-Gym Class Heroes
Oxycotton-Lil Wyte (i'm not a big fan of rap but this is a drug user's classic of the past 10 years)
No Rain-Blind Melon
Slow Motion-Third Eye Blind
Brompton Cocktail- Avenged Sevenfold
Vicodin Song- Terra Naomi
She Talks to Angels- Black Crows
Mr. Jones- Counting Crows (simply because the song is awesome)
Lips Like Morphine- Kill Hannah
Bound for the Floor- Local H
Blame it on the Tetons- Modest Mouse
Dramamine-Modest Mouse
Hurt-Nine Inch Nails
Feel Good Hit of the Summer-Queens of the Stone Age
Pitiful-Sick Puppies
Riptide- Sick Puppies
White Balloons-Sick Puppies (i think this is about a user who has been hiding his habit but finally admits it to his girlfriend and tries to quit for her. the title makes me think of coke but these lyrics could apply to an opiate user in the same situation)
It's Been Awhile-Staind (i think it's about being clean for once, but i still love it with opiates)
I Wanna Be Sedated- The Ramones
Handshake Drugs- Wilco

oh, and anything by tool

 

[roadkill barbie]

It's gotta be the seldom heard 'Never lonely alone' by Space Needle (wonder if that's a clue in itself,, hmm ). Its featured on the excellent 'black tar heroin' documentary on youtube,, as is the song itself,, so beautifully minimal and totally encapsulates the opiate experience for me- seriously worth checkin out

Also worth mentioning are Marilyn Mansons 'Coma White' and 'I dont like the drugs (but the drugs like me),, and Im with Deu on the frequent references by a great 90's band Blind Melon

But as far as opiate songs go nothing beats Never lonely alone by Space Needle

 

[DeucalionAH]

I'll have to look up those songs you mentioned. It's awesome finding songs that you would have never come across normally. I know the Marilyn Manson songs and I definitely like "I Don't Like the Drugs, But the Drugs Like Me.

Oh, I must add that I saw Blind Melon in concert two years back and it was awesome! Of course it isn't the original Blind Melon since Shannon Hoon passed 15 years ago.

 

[tremours]

pretty much every portishead song

 

[JoeTheStoner]

im enjoyin a warm vicodin buzz while listening to...

Mount Sims - Falling Up

oh and also Von Haze - Sooner Or Later is a good one as well.

 

[thefoot]

Anything by Pink Floyd

 

[stylishkidsriot]

I never gave much thought to the question but right now, I'm listening to the album "Playing With Fire" by Spacemen 3 while on codeine/dionine and it sounds incredible.

EDIT: Hey, I just realized Spacemen 3 were mentionned a few posts up! :D

 

[I<3Molly92]

slow motion- third eye blind
listened to this the first time i nodded off on H. pure bliss

 

[Shpongleyes]

Wow you guys listen to literally the same music that I listen to when I'm on opiates...

Here's my favorites:

Phish - Free
Phish - Dirt
Phish - Sugar Shack
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here & Comfortably Numb
The Crystal Method - Jaded
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Massive Attack - Teardrop
The Disco Biscuits - Rain Song
Melody Club - Take Me Away
Marcy Playground - Opium
Shpongle - No Turn-Unstoned
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Umphrey's Mcgee - In the Kitchen
Grateful Dead - Box of Rain
Lotus - Bellwether
Dave Mathews Band - Warehouse
Spacemen 3 - Walkin' with Jesus
Cynic - Evolutionary Sleeper
HIM - The Sacrament
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Weedeater - Gimme Back My Bullets
Trey Anastasio - Ether Sunday
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Wintersun - Sleeping Stars
Mike Oldfield - Oceania
The Allman Brother's Band - Ain't Wastin' Time No More
The Doors - End of the Night
Lil Wyte - Oxy Cotton (Dragged and Chopped)
Dj Paul - Pop a Pill
Notorious BIG - Big Poppa