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the drugs have it

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Dave Andrews

Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit"
Eric Clapton "Cocaine"
GnR - "Mr. Brownstone"
Ringo Starr "No No Song"
Grateful Dead "Casey Jones"


don't do drugs
 
In 1966 a lot of stations refused to play Kicks because they thought it was a pro-drug song. It was an anti-drug song. Maybe those dum-dum music directors could have listened to the song first?

Don't Bogart Me by the Fraternity Of Man was a Los Angeles hit in 1968. It got to only #133 nationally but was featured in the 1969 Easy Rider movie. The lyrics urged a marijuana smoker to pass his joint to his friends instead of keeping it to himself. The expression was adapted from film star Humphrey Bogart's common practice of keeping a cigarette in his mouth.

Easy Rider also included Steppenwolf's version of Hoyt Axton's The Pusher. Because today is Sunday, I'll be reverent and not quote the main line of the song. A performance of The Pusher is on good ol' YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb3nicduLfM
 
"Snowblind Friend" - another Axton-penned Steppenwolf song

"The Needle and the Spoon" and "That Smell" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
 
The Needle and the Damage Done -- Neil Young
I Wanna Be Sedated -- The Ramones
Cloud Nine -- The Temptations
One Toke Over the Line -- Brewer and Shipley
I Want a New Drug -- Huey Lewis and the News
Panama Red -- New Riders of the Purple Sage
That Acapulco Gold -- The Rainy Daze
Coming Into Los Angeles -- Arlo Guthrie

and, of course, "Light My Fire" (The Doors/Jose Feliciano) was about marijuana, according to Spiro Agnew.
 
Green, Green Christy Minstrels (offered tounge-in-cheek)
Green Grass Gary Lewis and the Playboys (more t. i. c.)
Crimson & Clover Tommy James and the Shondells
Little Green Bag George Baker Selection
 
"Rock Star" by Nickelback. The one in which, when radio stations play it, they actually censor out the words "drug" or "drugs" whenever they come up in the lyrics! ::) Welcome to political correctness, 2013-style! ::)
 
Dave Andrews said:
Ringo Starr "No No Song"
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Somewhat ironic, in light of Ringo's later "battle with the bottle." I seem to recall that he was doing wine cooler commercials at the time, and he sued to have an album that he recorded in Memphis to be shelved because he was not happy with the way that it came out. I believe that this was about the time that he was undergoing his bout with alcoholism. It was around 1987, if I recall.
 
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles

That one was a mocker, if I am not mistaken.
 
firepoint525 said:
Dave Andrews said:
Ringo Starr "No No Song"
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Somewhat ironic, in light of Ringo's later "battle with the bottle." I seem to recall that he was doing wine cooler commercials at the time, and he sued to have an album that he recorded in Memphis to be shelved because he was not happy with the way that it came out. I believe that this was about the time that he was undergoing his bout with alcoholism. It was around 1987, if I recall.
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The No No Song was released as a single in 1975.
 
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Heroin - The Velvet Underground
 
firepoint525 said:
"Rock Star" by Nickelback. The one in which, when radio stations play it, they actually censor out the words "drug" or "drugs" whenever they come up in the lyrics! ::) Welcome to political correctness, 2013-style! ::)
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Same with "What It's Like" by Everlast.
 
KeithE4 said:
firepoint525 said:
Dave Andrews said:
Ringo Starr "No No Song"
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Somewhat ironic, in light of Ringo's later "battle with the bottle." I seem to recall that he was doing wine cooler commercials at the time, and he sued to have an album that he recorded in Memphis to be shelved because he was not happy with the way that it came out. I believe that this was about the time that he was undergoing his bout with alcoholism. It was around 1987, if I recall.
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The No No Song was released as a single in 1975.
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Take note of the highlighted word above.
 
"Battle With The Bottle" sounds like something Webb Pierce or Merle Haggard would have recorded in the 1960s. :D

And, speaking of country singers:

Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash

And...

Drug Train - Social Distortion
Marijuana - Country Joe & the Fish
Needle & The Spoon - Lynyrd Skynyrd
 
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