c90: songs about stimulants/being stimulated

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i have to work a 12-hour shift at the stimulants table in my school's library lobby. my duty is to dispense free legal stimulants (coffee, red bull, maté) to the toiling masses. i need an appropriate mix for this endeavour; already planned to be on it are the fall's "totally wired," "white light/white heat"(the song), "livin on a prayer"(songs of hope/perseverance like this are also appropriate, e.g., eye of the tiger). thanks!

― brains (cerybut), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

elliott smith - st ides heaven

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if this qualifies, but Acen's "Close Your Eyes" is a stimulant-based experience if there ever was one.

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 8 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rise" by Public Image Ltd. - ANGER IS AN ENERGY

"I See Red" by Split Enz - see above

"Hyperactivate" by Thomas Dolby

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i've got songs about being stimulated alright...

sorry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Excorcism" by Killing Joke

Rise from my unconscious let it rise
Get it out get it out get it out

Behind the illusion of reality
Are forces that speak to me
We will draw them out
We will cast them out

Drink wines that foam
Watch the ugliness rise
Watch it bubble to the surface
Let it out let it rise

All the hate all the hate
I saw you
You just wanted to take a razor and cut his face until it bled
You wanted to inflict
I saw the barbed hooks penetrate deep into the side of his flesh

Get it out

Let it rise
Let it rise let it bubble to the surface

Get it out

All desires that are undeclared
All resentments [their mockeries will show]
Bulging eyes the animal soul begins to rise
Let it out

Get it out

Let it rise - let the images rise
Let it rise - let it bubble to the surface
Get it out - get it out - get it out now
Let it rise to the surface - let it rise - let it rise - guilt

All your guilt and the pain and the hurt you cause
All the tears in the child's face
All resentment undeclared
Let it rise
Let it rise let it bubble to the surface

Clean it up - clean it up
Cover yourself with water
Wash it away, that's right, wash it away
Wash it all away, wash away the tears

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Anal Babes - "Cocaine Swastika" and "Amphetamine Penis"

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mr. Pharmacist"!
"Chemical World" or "Coffee & TV" by Blur
much as I hate it, "Sweet Shop Avengerz" by Bis
"Sometimes" by Midnight Oil for perseverance

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Descendents: "Kids"
Naked City: "Speedfreaks" (instrumental, tho)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Slaughter and the Dogs - "Cranked Up Really High"
Crime - "Hot Wire My Heart"
The Sonics - "Strychnine"

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 9 May 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Totally Wired" - The Fall

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Kinda lame, but "25 or 6 to 4" is a cocaine classic.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 9 May 2003 03:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Motorhead - White Line Fever

― earlnash, Friday, 9 May 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Deep Purple-"Speed King"
Edwin Starr-"25 Miles"
Byrds-"Artificial Energy"
Bill Haley-"Rock Around The Clock"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Java Blues" by Rick Danko (with steaming, percolating guitar runs)

I got the Java Blues
Coffee's got me, got me

― bflaska, Friday, 9 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"Up All Night" - Gore Gore Girls
"Jump" - Van Halen
"Rock N Roll All Night" - KISS
"Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Theory's "Smear"...which is actually sortuv an invocation of adrenaline, which is a stimulant, no?

(nickalicious in suggesting one of his own band's songs dispicable-person shockah!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 9 May 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Tones on Tail's "Go" seems kinda like a stimulated bit of thing...

The only coffee song I can think of is at the end of Killdozer's "The Rub"...

I like coffee
It likes me
sumpn sumpn what's this shit you're giving me
I'd rather drink from the dick of a goat
I tell you motherfuckers that's all she wrote
I like coffee
It likes me
A cup a cup a cup a cup of coffee

..Could you play that in the library?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

GG Allin "I Wanna Fuck Myself"

― ss, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Gluecifer - "Burning White"
Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
Venom - "Angel Dust"

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the Workdogs "Stimulant"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Descendents. "Coffee Mug."
Laika. "Let Me Sleep." (contrary to its title; just listen! :) )
any of the five bazillion versions of "Black Coffee" that exist.
Frank Sinatra. "The Coffee Song."
any of the six trillion versions of "Java Jive" that exist.
Death By Chocolate. "The Land of Chocolate."
Happy Mondays. "24 Hour Party People." (well, er...yeah.)

can think of loads of wired-sounding songs, but not necessarily all to do with stimulants. more that they act as stimulants, regardless of titles and/or lyrical content. some friends and i in fact put together a CD swap with a "caffeine" theme awhile ago, in which some stuff i listed above featured...

― janni (janni), Friday, 9 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

just wired sounding is great.

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 9 May 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fall - "fit and working again"
SPK - "germanik"
Mars - "helen fordsdale"
Jesus and mary chain - "Never Understand"

― rexJr., Friday, 9 May 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince, "Head" (about being stimulated)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nervous Eaters - "Just Head"
Turbonegro - "Good Head"

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 9 May 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Sunrise, wrong side of another day, Sky high and six thousand miles away, Don't know how long I've been awake, Wound up in an amazing state,Can't get enough, And you know it's righteous stuff,Goes up like prices at Christmas, Motorhead, you can call me Motorhead, alright Brain dead, total amnesia, Get some mental anasthesia, Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights, And if I can't be wrong I could be right, All good clean fun, Have another stick of gum, Man, you look better already, Motorhead, remember me now Motorhead, alright Fourth day, five day marathon, We're moving like a parallelogram, Don't move, I'll shut the door and kill the lights, I guess I'll see you all on the ice, I should be tired, And all I am is wired, Ain't felt this good for an hour, Motorhead, remember me now, Motorhead alright

― dave q, Saturday, 10 May 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

sheer. utter. majesty.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 10 May 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

And I was listening to it last night too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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