Music That Makes You Want to Take Drugs

[sfbeary]

Earlier this week, I and a friend were driving into Berkeley while listening to a compilation I'd made of the British '60s rock group Small Faces that includes "Here Come the Nice" and "Itchycoo Park," which both contain fairly blatant and celebratory drug references. I blurted out, "This makes a far more convincing argument to take drugs than the Grateful Dead."

Then I started to think about the different kinds of drug songs, both disco and otherwise, and how some of them to my ears characterize various drug experiences in ways that seem marvelous, while others make me want to run in the opposite direction.

When it comes to druggy dance songs, I love:

El Coco - "Cocomotion"
the Glass Family - "Smoke Your Troubles Away"
B.T. Express - "Peace Pipe"
Elite - "Poppers" (an obscure Italian Disco cut, but a hilarious one)
Tantra - “The Hills of Katmandu” (this one isn’t obviously about drugs, but the lyrics could’ve been lifted from any number of ‘60s psychedelic rock records, and the overall vibe of the music is totally trippy)
E-Zee Possee - "Everything Starts With an E" (possibly the most overt pro-Ecstasy record of the early '90s)

I don't love:

anything by the Grateful Dead
anything by Jimmy Buffett

What are your favorites and anti-favorites?

[markydefad]

Top of my list:

1) EVOLUTION - Giorgio Moroder (can't find the video--but it is like a 15:18 popper rush to me!!!!!)

2) OXYGENE 4 - Jean Michel Jarre (my fave j.o. background music back in the day!)



3) NOW I NEED YOU/WORKING THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT - Donna Summer (T.R.I.P.P.Y.)



4) PARTY BOYS - Foxy (D.R.U.G.G.Y.)

[markydefad]

Newer stuff that works for me! :icon_exclaim:



"DARK BEAT" - Oscar G & Ralph Falcon

[sfbeary]

This is the first time I've included videos!

"Poppers"



"Peace Pipe"



"Everything Starts With an E"



M People's fabulous gospel-house rendition of "Itchycoo Park"

[markydefad]

Another from the DRUGGY Hall of Fame:

Rinder & Lewis: "LUST"

[markydefad]

This sounds STONED to me:

Rinder & Lewis: "MONDO DISCO"

[keefelc]

Marky, how funny - YOU are the only one willing to admit you know what kind of music Barry is talking about!!! :icon_lol::icon_lol:

[markydefad]

Marky, how funny - YOU are the only one willing to admit you know what kind of music Barry is talking about!!! :icon_lol::icon_lol:

So far, Keefe. So far, just me. :icon_confused: Might YOU have some ideas??? :icon_lol::icon_question: I have a lot more!

[markydefad]

This reminds me of the "after-glow" from all night Trocadero parties: :icon_exclaim:

Roxy Music: "THE MAIN THING"

[markydefad]

CRYSTAL METH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The walls of Trocadero seemed to VIBRATE to this! :icon_exclaim::icon_mrgreen:

Sparks: "BEAT THE CLOCK"

[Funky Dude]

Hehehe good topic, over the past 5 years I've developed tastes for a variety of music genres and late 60s/early 70s psychedelic acid rock happens to be one of my favourite genres as I dig trippy music man! And whilst I'm not a druggo, hearing stuff like "Alexander" by Electric Banana, "Speed" by Ron Wray Light Show, "Summertime Blues" by Blue Cheer, "Hard Lovin Man" by Deep Purple and anything by Jimi Hendrix gets me tempted to wanna go on drugs but don't need to anyhow as the music itself puts me on a trip!

Anyhow in the category of funk and disco music, obvious choices would be Funkadelics early psychedelic funk with Eddie Hazels fuzzed out guitar work like:
Super Stupid
I've Got A Thing
Testify (the live 1969 TV version YouTube - George Clinton and The Parliaments 1969 (Part 1) starts at 2:58, what a cool song!!!:icon_biggrin:)

And there's the Temptations early work like:
Psychedelic Shack
Cloud Nine

Sly & The Family Stone are good candidates with:
Stand
Family Affair
Sing A Simple Song
Wanna Take You Higher
etc.............

I think I'm sort of looking more to the days when these funk bands were more psychedelic rock oriented, so going onto the funky disco side of things, examples of trippy dance songs would be:

Isley Brothers - That Lady, Midnight Sky (because of the fuzz guitar)
New York Disco Machine - If You Really Don't Love Me (very very very trippy)
Rinder & Lewis - Lust, Envy
Cloud One - Atmosphere Strut, Spaced Out, Jump Jump Jump etc... (their synthy spacy sounds are very trippy)
Universal Robot Band - Dance & Shake Your Tambourine, Space Disco, Sunshine, Freak With Me etc... (very much similar to Cloud One, spacy and trippy synths)
Crown Heights Affair - Dreaming A Dream (the drum beats seem to be distorted with a flanger effect which was popular in the psychedelic scene)
Pleasure - Ghettos Of The Mind
Chocolats - Brasilia Carnival
Billy Preston - Struttin, Space Race, Outta Space
Commodores - Blow Your Mind, Machine Gun
Moon People - Hippy, Skippy, Moon Street (late 60s funk which was sampled in Christine Aguleira's "Ain't No Other Man", very trippy stuff)
ORS - Moonboots
Cerrone - Supernature (obviously anything with sequencer synths like this is trippy in a disco way and puts one in a trance)
Telex - Le Fond De L'air Est Rouge (this song makes me vision colourful votexes lol:icon_lol:)
Mass Production - Sky High

[thommy2458]

I am going with what reminds me of taking drugs-not
references:
I Feel Love/Donna Summer
Hills of Katmandu-Wishbone/Tantra
War Dance/Kebel....can't spell it!
Remember/Vivian Vee
Walk the Night/Skatt Bros
Carry On,Turn Me On/Space
Fear/Easy Going
And some house...
Can't Get Enough/Liz Torres
Shake Your Body/Jeanette Thomas
Dream Drums/Electroluv
House Music Anthem/Marshall Jefferson
Plastic Dreams/Jaydee
And rock...
Are You Experienced/Jimi Hendrix
Revolver/The Beatles
Surrealistic Pillow/Jefferson Airplane

Thanks Barry for a great thread
Thom

[markydefad]

Yeah, it's me the Drugster again (that is sooooo not true!)

Druggy in other genres......

POT:
XTC: "GRASS"



COKE:
Fleetwood Mac: "GOLD DUST WOMAN"



The Eagles: "LIFE IN THE FAST LANE"



LSD:

The Beatles: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"

[markydefad]

MDA:
Giorgio Moroder: "From Here To Eternity"



SPEED:
Donna Summer "Sunset People"

[Funky Dude]

A couple more good ones come to mind:

Stone Roses - Fools Gold (a late 80s stoner rock song with a lot of 70s funk style wah guitar and drum beats which makes it danceable, this is a very trippy song)
Splash - The First Galaxy (another great space age style dance song)

[markydefad]

XTC:
"Brain Damage" - 12th Street (uses sample of Massive Attack's 'Unfinished Sympathy")
(Dialogue taken from movie "Human Traffic")

http://www.discogs.com/12th-Street-C...elease/1581176

[markydefad]

these remind of me of my college days......

THE MOODY BLUES: "FLOATING"



THE MOODY BLUES: "NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN"



THE MOODY BLUES: "CANDLE OF LIFE"

[markydefad]

Quaaludes/Angel Dust: :icon_exclaim:

Donna Summer: "GRAND ILLUSION"



Munich Machine: "BOLECTRO"

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[markydefad]

more of my druggy faves....

Gazebo: "MASTERPIECE" (1982 Italo classic)

(the long version I had here previously doesn't play all the way through--so I found a shorter version....)



Yello: "LOST AGAIN" (1983)



Blancmange: "WAVES"

[markydefad]

3 versions of the druggy classic "A WHITER SHADE OF PALE"

Procol Harum ( their 1967 hit)




Munich Machine featuring Chris Bennett (1978 cover)



Annie Lennox (1995 cover)

[SandraDee]

This a personal fave; it could be used for a 'trip' or indeed in a porn movie - or both!

[SandraDee]

'High Above The Clouds' by Narada Michael Walden is kinda trippy (not that I'd condone the use of drugs kidz!); NMW coincidentally plays drums on that James Mason track!:icon_eek:

[srg]

For me it's:

Peter Tosh's "Buk-in-hamm Palace" 12" versions...especially the dub version "Dubbin Bukk-in-hamm" with the fabulous background vocals from Ms Gwen Guthrie herself.

[sfbeary]

I knew this topic would provoke interesting responses. What's druggy to some is sexy to others and vice versa.

This one to my ears is both:



Thanks Marky for the "Waves' clip; I hadn't seen that before. The mermaids are very nice!