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Whats you faveroite song about Heroin?

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What are you guys's faveroite songs that are about heroin? lyrics wise, music wise. Im just looking for some good heroin songs.. Or any other drug related song?? Post away. . .
 
well there are plenty about weed. here's 1 for speed DJ Quik - speed
 
how can we forget Notorious B.I.G - Ten Crack Commandments . i think u can figure out what its about =D
 
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White light/White heat and Heroin by the Velvet Underground. Just real raw beautiful music.

White Light/White Heat is about injecting methamphetamine, not heroin.

"Hmm hmm, White light
Aww she surely do moves me
Hmm hmm, White light
Watch that speed freak, watch that speed freak everybody gonna go and make it every week
Hmm hmm, White heat"

Lou Reed 1968
 
***EDIT*** Blowmonkey he was asking directly about heroin music. Not drugs and music...

Opiate inspired music...

"Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around"
By The Silos. Off of the "Susan Across the Ocean" CD (Watermelon, 1993), this is a terrific version of the traditional American pop music car song, but at least one that's honest about what all the driving around is really all about...



"Cod'ine"
By Buffy Sainte-Marie. Off of that old hippie chick Buffy's "Best of" double LP (Vanguard, 1970), this is kind of a "House of the Rising Sun," written by Sainte-Marie and moaning the woes of that ol' codeine jones. Come on, a codeine habit can't be that bad!



"Sister Morphine"
By Marianne Faithfull. My favorite version of this song is on Faithfull's live CD, "Blazing Away" (Island, 1990). Faithfull supported her dope habit for years off the royalties she earned from the Rolling Stones cover of this haunting song.



"The Needle and the Damage Done"
By Neil Young. From the lovely "Harvest" LP (Warner Bros., 1972), this is one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I've heard about how a dope habit looks to someone on the outside, who might be unlucky enough to love someone who's in love with the needle.



"Heroin"
By The Velvet Underground. There are tons of different versions of this song: It originally appeared on the V.U.'s first LP, "The Velvet Undergound & Nico" (Polydor, 1967) along with that other Lou Reed dope classic "I'm Waiting for the Man" (though Reed actually was always more of an amphetamine freak than a junkie, per se). This is THE smack anthem for the generation of dope fiends who came of age in the 1960s.



"Comfortably Numb"
By Pink Floyd. Off of the Floyd's bombastic rock operetta, "The Wall" (Columbia, 1979), this song pretty much captures what dope does for a lot of us: "Hello, is there anybody in there/Just nod if you can hear me..."



"CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)"
By Steve Earle. This is a great song by one who knows of what he speaks. Country/rock/New Traditionalist Earle bottomed out on speedballs, and this tune is from his 1996 comeback CD, "I Feel Alright".



"Cold Turkey"
By John Lennon. This fantastic song first appeared on the Plastic Ono Band LP, "Live Peace in Toronto" back in the early mid-1970s. Some lyrics: "My feet are so heavy/So is my head/I wish I was a baby/I wish I was dead/Cold turkey has got me on the run."



"Chinese Rock"
By The Ramones. Most readily found on the Ramones compliation CD "Ramones Mania" (Sire, 198, this statement on the junkie worldview was also covered frequently by the late ur-junkie and former New York Doll, Johnny Thunders. Some lyrics: "I'm living on a Chinese rock/all my best things are in hock/I'm living on a Chinese rock/everything is in the pawnshop..Life is a bitch/I should have been rich/Instead I'm digging a Chinese ditch."



"Pills"
By New York Dolls. An anthem to their favorite pasttime by the grandfathers of glam; with the exception of David Johansen, most of the members ODed over the course of subsequent years. This can be found on the "New York Dolls" LP (Mercury, 1973). Lyrics: "Hold out your arm, boy, stick out your tongue/I've got some pills, boy, and I'm going to give you some."



"Too Much Junkie Business"
By The Heroes. Originally performed in 1983 by Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers refugees and inveterate dope fiends. This has all kinds of great stuff on it. Thunders also did a number of covers of it, before his untimely overdose in New Orleans some years back.



Heroin Hates You
By Iggy Pop. This is a recording of a 1979 performance at the Stardust Ballroom in El Lay, remastered and released by Other People's Music in 1997. Has all the great Iggy standards and a wonderful title.



"Junkie Romance"
By Wayne Kramer. Kramer was a founding member of the seminal political rock band, MC5, who went on to do a big chunk of time in prison on dope charges. This puncturing of certain romantic heroin mythologies is from his solo album, "The Hard Stuff" (Epitaph, 1995).


"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth"
By The Dandy Warhols. Oddly, this song became the hit off of their first Capitol Records CD, "Come Down" (1997), which led to the filming of a wild video for MTV, involving dancing syringes. And, of course, what became the chorus: "I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passe."



"Smack Jack"
By Nina Hagen. This performance by the gravel-voiced East German rock chanteusse is found on her 1982 "NunSexMonkRock" LP. Some lyrics: "You are always running out/And you are always running short/Nothing matters any more/All you want is go and score/No one starts with two a day/But they all seem to end that way." (Seems to me that two a day ain't bad, as habits go!)



"God Smack"
By Alice in Chains. I'm not much of a fan of this style of heavy metal/thrash/grunge, but this song is off of "Dirt" the 1992 theme CD (Columbia) that is basically all about getting over heroin. The album also includes "Junkhead," "Hate to Feel," "Sick Man," and "Down in a Hole."



"Cure for Pain"
By Morphine. CD titled "Cure for Pain" (Ryko, 1993). Lyrics: "Where is the cave where the wise woman went/and were is all the money that I spent/I propose a toast to my self control/You see it crawling helpless on the floor...Where is the cure for pain?/That's the day I throw my drugs away." Vocalist and songwriter Mark Sandman dropped dead of a heart attack during a Morphine concert in Italy.



"Drug Train"
By Social Distortion. The lead singer Mike Ness knows what he's singing about, his experience with needles goes way beyond all those tattoos. "It'll take you as high as the heavens/It'll take you to the depths of hell/It'll make you friends/It'll take your friends/Who will never live to tell." Amusingly, in the jacket design for Social D's subsequent CD, "White Light, White Heat, White Trash" the illustration for white trash is a white guy shooting up.



"Shooting Gallery"
By Mark Lanegan. The lead singer for the Screaming Trees, a Seattle band, this is from his solo album, "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" (SubPop, 1993). The song is not particularly explicit, but is all the stronger for its subtlety.



"Cop Shoot Cop"
By Spiritualized. Founded by Jason Spaceman, Spiritualized is the successor to the late, great Spacemen 3. Both of these groups have always been all about dope--and managed to produced some decent music as they went along. This long, long tune is from "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" (Arista, 1997), which is basically Jason's working through of a bad dope run following a break up.



"The Beast"
By The Only Ones. Off of the Only Ones LP, "Special View" (Epic, 1979). It's not hard to figure out what "the beast" is.


"Under the Bridge"
By Red Hot Chili Peppers. With only one exception I can think of, every member of this Southern California funk-rock band has had a long and difficult turn with heroin--fatally in the case of co-founding member Hillel Slovak. In this song off of the CD, "BloodSugarSexMagik" (Warner Bros., 1991), Anthony Keidis mourns the losses.



"Needle in the Hay"
By Elliot Smith. This dope song is off of "Elliot Smith," but his subsequent release "Either/Or" also has some drug numbers, including "Speed Trials." If you get a chance to see Elliot in concert, go.



"Cough Syrup"
By The Butthole Surfers. Off of the Surfer's 1996 CD, "Electriclarryland," the title of this song is pretty much self-explanatory. Dope fiend/music biz lore has it that the Butthole Surfer's Gibby Haynes gave River Phoenix the fatal snort of dope that ODed him at the Viper Club. Lyrics: "I can't walk/so I guess I'm going to stay at home..."



"DF-118"
By UK Subs. This is an ode to hydrocodone, in a British preparation called DF-118, by the UK punk band. "I get so stressed out/Pressure is my world/I want a squeeze of DF-118." Apparently, frontman Charlie Harper had a heart attack, was given a shot or ten of hydrocodone in the hospital and liked it so much he wrote a song about it.


"One Track Mind"
By Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers. Yet another dope fiend anthem from the archetypal heroin rockers. In part this tune, is a complaint against Track Records, but the references to "tracks on my arms, tracks on my face" suggests where the real problem probably lies...



"I Like Drugs"
By The Simpletones. This punk song by the British band really couldn't be more straightforward: "Yesterday, I was at school dusted/Everybody tells me I'll soon bebusted/I like drugs/I like drugs/I like drugs/Don't ask me why/Don't ask me why/Don't ask me why."



"Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
By Traffic. Opiate Anthem, Beautifully descriptive tale of the inevitable outcome of the Dream Scene... Lyrics: "the Man on the street has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your Dreams"



"Ashes to Ashes"
By David Bowie. Bowie's story of Drug Addiction in the Outer Space Cosmos "a la Brian Eno".



"Kicks"
By Paul Reveere & the Raiders. Refections of Paul Reveere's real life endless cycle of chasing the High --Thinly veiled description of addiction for the benefit of the innocent virgin ears of 60's teens...



"Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll"
By Ian Drury & the Blockheads. Bouncy Ska influenced music, to the anarchistic lyrics of the early Punk movement. Drug induced & saturated...



"The Needle and the Spoon"
By Lynard Skynard. A southern rock tune I've listened to while rigging away.



"Been Smoking Too long"
By Nick Drake off of "Time Of No Reply". This tune is a lament on all the seemingly unimportent things that go rolling by while smoking Opium. A known opium user Drake died long before his brilliance was realizied by the public in a both unintentional and strange anti-depressent over dose.



Pool Shark
By Sublime.
So maybe this one is too obvious A must-hear for anyone who has ever been strung-out. I know I have listened to this countless times, and have good memories of tie'n off the dinosaur with my seatbelt...




"My life in a coffin" CD
By Spoonfed. This band in out of southern California, they're a mix of punk/ska. "Capo by the Sea", its about being strung out and in rehab, and having a severe needle fetish. Another cool song is "Deadworld", its about this junkie scrounger chick that ends up dying as usual.


"Jane Says"
By Janes Addiction. Classic dope song from dope addicts. Jam
 
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mm, about 50% of trent reznor's (nine inch nails) lyrics/music are heroin based.

such beautiful and powerful msuic.. fuckin amazing

also
"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed.. not really abotu heroin, but whenever i hear it i just remember Trainspotting, and that kind of links it to my own h experinces.. i dunno, i feel like that song makes a whole lotta sense after that movie
 
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What about Tool? "H" anyone? well alotta tools music was based on herion.
Just thought of the Red Hot Chilie Peppers too.
 
Wow Blahblahblah, im impressed..Very nice list of songs. But just to let cha know.. Elliot Smith is dead. Seeing him in concert may be a reach. He killed himself, stabbed himself in his heart. Pretty harsh, huh?
 
Under the Brige - Red Hot Chili Peppers or Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done would have to be my favorites.
 
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