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the drugs have it
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Thomps2525
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I would have mentioned Ray Stevens' 1961 hit Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green & Purple Pills three days ago but it took me until today to finish typing the title. 
Let's Go Get Stoned -- Ray Charles
The Pill -- Loretta Lynn ;D
I think we ought to leave alcohol songs out of this. The list would never end.
The Pill -- Loretta Lynn ;D
I think we ought to leave alcohol songs out of this. The list would never end.
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Thomps2525
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You're right---we shouldn't list drinking songs. I guess I may as well drop my own idea: I was thinking of asking for songs with the word "love" in the title.
These Drugs - Eminem
A Girl Named Sandoz - Animals
Because I Got High - Afroman
Last Dance With Mary Jane - Tom Petty
Legalize It - Peter Tosh
The Animals song was named for the Sandoz pharmaceutical company; one of their chemists synthesized LSD in 1938.
These Drugs - Eminem
A Girl Named Sandoz - Animals
Because I Got High - Afroman
Last Dance With Mary Jane - Tom Petty
Legalize It - Peter Tosh
The Animals song was named for the Sandoz pharmaceutical company; one of their chemists synthesized LSD in 1938.
Was the Byrds' "Chestnut Mare" about heroin?
CTListener said:
Good idea. Listing all those Country songs would crash this website.
Now, may I add Wasted On The Way Crosby, Stills & Nash? Considering the lyrical reminiscing, you gotta believe the threesome were were
not promoting, but regretting their roles in the substance abuse culture of the '60s & '70s.
Silkie said:
You gotta wonder, although The Byrds themselve have categorically denied this, insisting instead that the song was inspired by a lengthy flight they took across the European continent.
Now, for another contribution to the thread... Itchycoo Park, Small Faces
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Thomps2525
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"I feel inclined to blow my mind, get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun...What did you do there? I got high." Yeah, I guess Itchycoo Park might have some slight reference to drugs. Did you know that song was banned by the BBC? The BBC also banned the Coasters' Charlie Brown because "throwing spitballs" is bad behavior; they banned Paul McCartney's Hi Hi Hi for "sexually suggestive lyrics" and a presumed drug reference; and they banned Paul Simon's Kodachrome because the title is a brand name and airplay would be, in effect, free advertising. Horrors!
LARadioRewind said:
What nerve!
Tom Wells said:
I've never heard suspicious lyrics from Sugartown. 'Splain please. In the interest of disclosure, until posts to the contrary on R/D persuaded me otherwise, Some Velvet Morning never picked my suspicion either.
Thanks for revisiting Sister Mary Elephant. Forgot about that C&C classic.KeithE4 said:
Class.......... Class.......... CLASSSS........... SHAAAD UUUUUUP !!! Thank you. And, Basketball Jones; wasn't that song a parody of a so/so number called Love Jones? Got a lot of calls for Love Jones in college radio, but wasn't familiar with it myself. College chums from the Chicago area seemed more familiar with it than the rest of us.
"Hey Elephant, I gotta go to the can, man!" Yup, I remember that. And "Basketball Jones" was indeed a parody of "Love Jones." (Brighter Side of Life, wasn't it?) Cheech and Chong also recorded "Bloat On," a spoof of the Floaters' "Float On." ("Hamburger.. and my name is Big Boy.")
I was going to add "Santa Claus and his Old Lady" to the list of non-drug C&C records, except for the reference to "magic dust."
I was going to add "Santa Claus and his Old Lady" to the list of non-drug C&C records, except for the reference to "magic dust."
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Thomps2525
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Are you trying to imply that when Archie and Reggie and Betty and Veronica sang Sugar Sugar, they were really singing about LSD? Oh no, this is too disillusioning and too horrible to think about!
How about Smoke Two Joints? It was done by the Toyes in 1983 and by Sublime in 1992. The title wasn't exactly subtle.
How about Smoke Two Joints? It was done by the Toyes in 1983 and by Sublime in 1992. The title wasn't exactly subtle.
Nope. I can't believe that about about Sugar, Sugar.
No one would ever be able to convince me of that one.
But 1966 in general was...quite a bit different from 1969, ( and even more different from Don Kirschner kid-stuff). :
I'll maintain that the Archies are pure as the driven snow in Sleepy Eye.
But, umm,,,,I do think Sugartown may be so "influenced".
No one would ever be able to convince me of that one.
But 1966 in general was...quite a bit different from 1969, ( and even more different from Don Kirschner kid-stuff). :
I'll maintain that the Archies are pure as the driven snow in Sleepy Eye.
But, umm,,,,I do think Sugartown may be so "influenced".
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