Best "Opiate" Songs

the only ones - another girl another planet:



pretty much the whole only ones' catalogue seems to deal with peter perrett's heroin addiction, but they are just such a fantastic band.
i think 'another girl, another planet' is one of the best songs ever written.


also, i haven't read this whole thread but i haven't seen these mentioned:

the stooges - open up and bleed

the birthday party - she's hit

the beasts of bourbon - chase the dragon

johnny thunders and the heartbreakers - chinese rocks

the lemonheads - my drug buddy

the charlatans - codine
 
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Rufus Wainwright-Going to a Town
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Rolling Stones- Angie
 
speedtrials245 said:
Bright Eyes - Down in a Rabbit Hole
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Damn good song. I believe it's about coke but a great nod song none the less.

When my girlfriend cheated on my when I was in Italy years ago and then dumped my ass when I got home I listened to that song on repeat, along with Goldmine Gutted. Actually all of Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
 
Songs about opiates (or that I perceive to be : ) ):
Needle and the Damage Done-Neil Young
No Quarter-Led Zeppelin (guitar riff after intro drops on the listener like a plunger)
Coming up from Below-Edward Sharpe
Last Flowers-Radiohead ("you can offer me escape/you can offer me relief")
This is the Place-Red Hot Chili Peppers

Song to nod to:
Sunday Morning-Velvet Underground
Pale Blue Dots-Thieving Irons
Goldmine Gutted-Bright Eyes
Hallelujah-Helio Sequence
Nude-Radiohead
Solitude is Bliss-Tame Impala
Street Joy-White Denim
Silver City-Ghostland Observatory

anything by Beach House
Definitely Shoegaze lol
 
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Or one of those really chill and 'backgroundy' music songs on that last 3 disk box set they released with a lot of their "bootlegs" that were GOOD. one song on their i used to listen to all the time
 
The Killers - When You Were Young. Relationship song in the first place, but totally applicable on opiates imo.
 
This used to be by far my favourite song to listen to while high on opiates:

 
as a sub-thread discussion, do you like "heroin" off the velvet underground and nico or rock n roll animal better?
 
^ "Rooster" is about Jerry Cantrell's uncle's experiences in Vietnam.

Pretty much any song written by Layne Staley is about dope, though. ;)
 
The xx - Swept Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PT4KT_BXGA

The xx - Angels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nW5AF0m9Zw (great video also)

Anything by the xx is great when your in a deep nod. Also, Beach House is good opiate music too. Dream-pop is probably my favorite genre to listen to when im high on opie's.

Big Sean ft. Juicy J - Experimental (great shit to listen to when your coming up on a large dose of Oxy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQO36Ca8z9I

This is just some new recent shit that i've been playing when i'm nodding. Some old favorites include AIC, Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, Three 6 Mafia, Lil Wyte, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and of course the Doors.
 
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