ANTI-drug songs?

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"Say No Go" - De La Soul
"I Believe in You" - Talk Talk (maybe?)

― PB, Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fun With Music"- Brian Brain

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pot Head" - Daniel Johnston (someday you're gonna get so messed up, you'll eat the head off your kid, and won't you be sorry, pot head)

― aaron ef, Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

King Heroin - James Brown
Just say no - kids of Grange Hill

― Masked Gazza, Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"My Fault" by Eminem
(I didn't mean to give you mushrooms, girl!)

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

White Lines!

― Seuss, Saturday, 26 March 2005 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

nice and smooth - "sometimes i rhyme slow"

― Priti (priti), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cr-cr-cr-cracked Out! - Masters of Ceremony

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Afro Man - "Because I Got High"

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide Solution

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Straight Edge"

DUH

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Pot Song" by Neil Diamond

― Vestigal Appendages, Esq. (King Kobra), Saturday, 26 March 2005 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Kicks"--The Raiders
"I'm Straight"--The Modern Lovers

― late adopter, Saturday, 26 March 2005 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Drugs Don't Work (kind of).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"No coke", Dr Alban.

― lundy fastnet irish sea (cis), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"Needle And The Damage Done", obviously.

Does "Because I Got High" count?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuzzy Haskins, "Mr junk man"

― the todster (the todster), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

NWA - "Dopeman"
Dr Hook - "I Got Stoned and I Missed It"

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought "The Drugs Don't Work" was about taking drugs to try and forget somebody

― splates (splates), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I would guess that acts such as Petra and Winger may have done some of this?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I vaguely remember reading that "the drugs don't work' is about anti-depressants or some such.

― Seuss, Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulp - Sorted For E's And Wizz

― splates (splates), Saturday, 26 March 2005 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

New York Dolls - "It's Too Late"
New York Dolls - "Looking For A Kiss"
Martika - "Toy Soldiers"
Rolling Stones - "Sister Morphine"
Rolling Stones - "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Visage - Tar

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Phuture - Your Only Friend

― ana (ana), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Phuture - Your Only Friend

:'(

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

donae'o - my philosophy

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"One Million Bottlebags"--Public Enemy

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"Night of the Living Baseheads" - Public Enemy

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimmy eat world, 'drugs or me'

― lundy fastnet irish sea (cis), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

devin tha dude ft. tela - drugs

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill Cosby's "I Don't Need No Bad Drugs"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "That Smell"

― Keith C (kcraw916), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought "The Drugs Don't Work" was about taking drugs to try and forget somebody

Well, yes, but "the drugs don't work, they just make you worse" doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement to me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Camera Obscura - Keep it clean
Ralph Carmichael & Kurt Kaiser - Natural High

― sibsi (sibsi), Saturday, 26 March 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee" scores pretty high on the hilarious irony/hypocrisy meter.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 March 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought "The Drugs Don't Work" was about Richard Ashcroft's dad dying and how the drugs didn't, you know, work

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 26 March 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the cure - numb

― Marcel Verhoeven (Marcel Verhoeven), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Why Do You Think They Call It Dope? - Love/Hate

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) - Marvin Gaye

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Saturday, 26 March 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

mary are you living - jeff dahl
high on drugs - angry samoans

― dan (dan), Saturday, 26 March 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the Dramatics - The Devil Is Dope

― mucho, Saturday, 26 March 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

NWA, "Express Yourself" ("Yo, I don't smoke weed or ses/'Cause it's known to give a brother brain damage")

― mike a, Saturday, 26 March 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

3 years later, however...

― latebloomer: AKA Sir Teddy Ruxpin, Former Scientologist (latebloomer), Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Motley Crue - On With The Show
Motley Crue - Merry Go Round
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home

― Mike Bietz, Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Life by the Drop," Stevie Ray Vaughn

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry Norman - "Why Don't You Look Into Jesus?"

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"White Lines!" - I read somewhere that the original version of this song actually sang the praises of cocaine and that it was only under record company pressure that G. Flash altered the lyrics slightly. Does anyone know more about this?

Anyway, "Needle of Death" (Bert Jansch), "The Pusher" (Steppenwolf), "Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix U (Blues for Jimi and Janis)" (John Lee Hooker)

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Freddie's Dead", probably a lot more by Curtis Mayfield

― autovac (autovac), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't it great how many of these artists were being totally two-faced? The Stones! Motley Crue!!!? I remember thinking the anti-drugs lyrics on Straight Outta Compton were, erm, less than sincere when I first heard them.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Freddie's Dead" and "Pusherman" off the Superfly soundtrack.

― darren (darren), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

damn those x-post blooz

― darren (darren), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Puff the Magic Dragon, by PP&M

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 March 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Needle of Death" by Bert Jansch

― jared (jsk baby), Saturday, 26 March 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Laidback - "White Horse"

― Seb (Seb), Saturday, 26 March 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey stoopid" - Alice Cooper

― A pair of brown eyes, Saturday, 26 March 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"needle and the damage done" by neil young.

― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 27 March 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurt.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 27 March 2005 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. When I said Petra and Winger, I did of course mean Petra and Stryper....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 27 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Drugs No Way-The Bunnybrains

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 27 March 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Fugazi, "Shut the Door"
MC Lyte, "I Cram To Understand U"
Husker Du, "Pink Turns to Blue"
Fugazi, "Repeater"
The Clash, "Hateful"
P.O.S., "Music For Shoplifting"
James Brown, "Public Enemy Number 1"
Descendents, "Good Clean Fun"
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock, "It Takes Two"

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 27 March 2005 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Me and Mr. T," Crucial Youth. "You know why no one ever dies on the A-Team? It's because they don't use drugs!"

― mike a, Sunday, 27 March 2005 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Donovan "the land that doesn't have to be"
Buffy saint-marie "codeine"
Laura Veirs - "up the river"

― Kevin Erickson, Sunday, 27 March 2005 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Boys, "Red/Green"
whatever that horrible anti-drug song is on the first NERD album

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The Coup - "Last Blunt"
Brand Nubian - "Slow Down"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
scariest. song. ever.

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

beatles, "doctor robert"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

minor threat, "straight edge"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

cole porter, "i get a kick out of you" (sort of)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Donnie D's on the back up
Drug free so put the crack up
No need for speed
I'm anti d-r-u-g-g-i-e my
body is healthy
And rhymes makes me wealthy
And the funky bunch helps me
to bring you a show with no intoxication
Come on feel the vibration

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Almost anything by Spacemen 3 or Spiritualized, when they aren't being militantly pro-drug. Just like real addicts!

― Ryan Pitchfork, Monday, 28 March 2005 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

does white lines count? it walks a line (sorry) between disapproval and underhanded endorsement

same with eminem's 'kids' which is more hilarious

― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 28 March 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

4hero - mr. kirk's nightmare

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 28 March 2005 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"White Horse" is an anti-herion, but pro-cocaine song.
"Don'r ride the white horse/ride the white pony"

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Monday, 4 April 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Where exactly in "White Lines" is there any backhanded endorsement of the drug?

― musically (musically), Thursday, 20 April 2006 04:25 (twenty years ago)

I seem to recall, and I believe I read this in the book "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life," that Grandmaster Flash and crew were totally coked up throughout the "White Lines" sessions. Assuming this is accurate, I pose no argument on whether it is actually a "backhanded endorsement," boldfaced hypocrisy, or some sort of ironic fluke. I rather like the song, and tthe man, whatever the case may be. And how about that Duran Duran cover? No coke for them, obviously.

― Sexy MFA (Hexy M.F.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

S.O.A. - Lost in Space

Teen Idles - Deadhead

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 20 April 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Anybody who thinks "Because I Got High" is an anti-drug song is ignoring a century or more of American music tradition. Also "Repeater" is an anti-guns song -- the good Fugazi anti-drug song from that album is "Shut the Door", and "Glue Man" is better than that.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 April 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

The McGruff anti-drug song, of course!
The one that goes "users are losers, and losers are users, so don't use drugs, don't use drugs!"

PS My Uncle St3v3 P4rk3r, who actually helped invent the McGruff persona, was recently named the "official" national voice of McGruff the crimedog!

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

"White Lines" endorses cocaine in the line "don't don't do it"...(the two "don't's" cancelling each other out)...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Modern Lovers - I'm Straight

I saw you though today walk by with hippie Johnny.
I had to call up and say how I want to take his place.
So this phone call today conerns hippie Johnny.
He's always stoned, he's never straight.
I saw you today, you know, walk by with hippie Johnny.
Look, I had to call up and say, I want to take his place.
See he's stoned, hippie Johnny.
Now get this, I'm straight and I want to take his place.
Now look, I like him too, I like hippie Johnny.
But I'm straight
and I want to take his place.

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to second The Devil is Dope by the Dramatics. And I always thought Pink Turns to Blue was about a pregnancy...

Here are some more—
Alcohol pt. 1- Robert Jay
Double Crossin' Liquor- Stick McGee
The Pusher- The Prophet and his Disciples
Slow Death- The Flaming Groovies
The Truth Shall Make You Free- The Mighty Hannibal
Bass Strings- Country Joe and the Fish
Live Long, Be Strong (Don't Do Drugs)- LA "Sunshine" Jefferson
Cop Shoot Cop- Spiritualized
Captain Junkie- Bill Cosby

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

The Remix For P Is Free by Boogie Down Productions

― Samuel., Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

KICK THAT BUTT
by Harvey Sid Fisher
harveysidfisher.com
IF YOU'RE UNDER EIGHTEEN AND YOU'RE SMOKING
THEN I'M TALKING TO YOU

YOU CAN LAUGH YOU CAN LISTEN YOU CAN LEAVE
DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO

DON'T MEAN TO CAUSE OFFENSE BUT IT DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE
IF YOU THINK THAT TOBACCO IS COOL

THE FRONT END OF THE BUTT IS PLAYIN WITH FIRE
AND THE BACK END OF THE BUTT IS A BUTT HEAD FOOL

I WILL SPELL IT OUT I WILL YELL IT OUT
COMPREHEND THIS IF YOU ARE ABLE

I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW BUT I WILL SAY IT REAL SLOW
CIGARETTES HAS A WARRNIING LABEL

CHORUS:

STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP IT
BE SMART DROP DROP DROP DROP DROP IT DON'T START

STAY OUT OF THAT RUT RUT RUT RUT RUT
KICK THAT BUTT KICK THAT BUTT KICK THAT BUTT

YOU MAY THINK THAT TOBACCO IS SAFE AS YOU PUFF PUFF AWAY

CAUSE YOU'RE FEELING OKAY NOTHING'S WRONG
THERE'S NO PROBLEM TODAY

ALL THE MEDICAL TESTIMONY YOU THINK IT'S BALONEY
YOU KNOW IT ALL AND THE WHOLE WORLD DOES NOT

YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS YOU GOT YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND
YOU'RE BLOWIN SMOKE UP YOUR YOU KNOW WHAT

YOU THINK YOU CAN PUFF THAT TRAGIC DRAG
AND YOU'LL STOP ANYTIME YOU WANT BUT WILL YOU

PUTTING UP MONEY TO BUY CIGARETTES
IS LIKE PAYING SOMEONE TO KILLLLLLLL YOU

CHORUS: STOP STOP STOP.......KICK THAT BUTT......

BRIDGE:
TOBACCO'S A TIME BOMB, IT WILL DO YOU HARM

HERE'S YOUR WAKE UP CALL, HERE'S YOUR SMOKE ALARM

IF YOU FIND IT HARD TO QUIT
DON'T BE BEAT 'N DON'T BE WEAK 'N DON'T SUBMIT

THINK ABOUT THE DAMAGE YOU ARE DOING
BEFORE YOU TAKE ANOTHER HIT

GET SOME HELP MAKE A CALL GET BACK UP IF YOU FALL
GET UP AND GIVE IT ONE MORE TRY

AND IF YOU FAIL MY FRIEND YOU JUST GET BACK UP AGAIN
AND YOU TRY TRY TRY NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER SAY DIE

I WISH YOU ALL GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LONG LIFE
MAY YOUR EVERY LOVING DREAM COME TRUE

SMOKING MAY NOT BE THE END OF THE WORLD
BUT WHY GAMBLE THAT IT COULD BE THE ENNND OF YOU

― Helltime Producteaux, Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Marshall Jefferson vs. Noosa Heads - Mushrooms
Green Velvet - La La Land

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Every Sly Stone album after Fresh.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

M-D-Emm - "Get hip to this"

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 08:53 (twenty years ago)

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