Best "Opiate" Songs

brad nowell poolshark "acoustic of course"

every time i hear it or play it i feel like fixin up
 
"my baby likes to shoot pool, i like lying naked in my bedroom..,."

ah yeah. when i was junkie my partner and i made a mix of just songs to shoot to. that was on there, for sure.
 
monsters of folk - slow down jo
alot of brian jonestown massacre
jerry garcia band - mission in the rain
jerry garcia band - take a melody
ryan adams - hotel chelsea nights
most neil young
most jerry garcia band
alot of electro
yeasayer
widespread panic - jack
widespread panic - end of the show
bright eyes - poison oak
townes van zandt

I don't know I have an entire playlist on i-tunes thats labeled shooting mix with an assortment much more diverse than what I have listed
 
skinny puppy - twfo or whatever the fuck. SP - rivers also good.
 
I have a couple to add:

Tonight's the night - The Shirelles
Stay with me baby - Duffy
The Valley - Los Lobos
Have a little faith - The Chamber Brothers

Those are some songs that traditionally don't get mentioned in this type of discussion, but they really do it for me.
 
Again, Brightblack Morning Light superb

Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know You Know
King Crimson - Cadence and Cascade
Arlo Guthrie - Running Down the Road
Ash Ra Tempel - Light: Look at Your Sun
Atomic Rooster - Moods
Beatlles - Happiness is a Warm Gun
Can - Flow Motion - The whole album
Can - She Brings the Rain
CCR - Graveyard Train
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Take a Pebble
The Moody Blues - Are You Sitting Comfortably
Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun
- Crying Song
- Mudmen
- Green is the Colour
- Comfortably Numb
- Many More
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
- In this Place
The Youngbloods - Euphoria

Im sure I got more... but owell
 
definitely another space song by failure, i dont do opiates or anything like that but its just about drifting off and fading into nothingness in fact the album fantastic planet by them would be highly recommended, since it is a loose concept album about opiates, and the day in the life of an addict, as it starts with a sample of a clock ticking, and ends with the same sample, big favorite of mine, if you couldnt tell haha
 
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I'd have to think about it for a bit longer, but The 'Stranglers - Golden Brown' instantly springs to mind.
 
id have to say Junkhead, Hate to feel and heroin by alice in chains, also bitter pill and this dark day by 12 stones and medicate by flaw
 
Kenickie said:
"my baby likes to shoot pool, i like lying naked in my bedroom..,."

ah yeah. when i was junkie my partner and i made a mix of just songs to shoot to. that was on there, for sure.
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Why would you want to slam dope while listening to Sublime - Pool Shark? That song is about his struggle with opiate addiction and how he wants to be done with it but deep down inside knows hes not going to 'win the war'
 
^lou reed's sweet jane is way more junky.

didn't have the time to read this over, so some of these were most likely said:

Alice in chains-junkhead
Velvet Underground- Heroin (although, Pale blue eyes has a very heroin feel to it too)
lil' white-oxycotton
Nirvana- dumb
 
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