It's not the side effects of the cocaine...

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The cocaine album: made when band/artist is totally out of his/their skull on the white stuff. Which are the classics? And which the duds?

― thing of thing, Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

and his entire oeuvre, really.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000250F.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d803/d80364gn0u3.jpg

Apparently Steve Gadd doesn't remember playing his solo on the title track.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

What?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Had to be said.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe it. Somebody told me they saw him play some show recently (maybe Steely Dan) and while everyone was wearing a suit and tie, he had on a white t-shirt, shorts and looked like he hadn't slept in several days.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Guns'n'Roses -- Use Your Illusion Vol. 1 & 2

(Of course, there were probably plenty of other substances being used in those sessions.)

Aerosmith -- Draw the Line

Pretty self evident from even just the title.

― earlnash, Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g123/g12306mucdt.jpg

― frankE (frankE), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yup... check out Neil Young's nostril on the vid... STALAGTITE!

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowie on Station To Station: "I know it was made in LA because I read it was."

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ick.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002C25.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

destroy http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000009HF2.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The irony of that whole thing with Scorcese editing out Neil Young's nostril coke frame by frame in The Last Waltz is that Scorcese himself was probably wired to the gills on the stuff. How else could he have been so meticulous?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000063KFE.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000002IWY.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00001OH7U.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RGKP.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a friend of a friend who's trying to put together a web promo for a site he's working on... said friend of a friend's sister is since-high-school-buddies with Evan Dando and he's trying to do a "Rick James, Bitch!" style skit where Dando and dude would be arguing about who has a bigger head. They're trying to get Dando to do some sort of super brief thing about how he never even met the guy, why should he care how big his head was.

All I could think of was that a clip with Dando saying "Cocaine is a hell of a drug" would be fucking classic. But what are the chances?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002MU3.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC:

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/cd/sleeves/274.jpg

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Evan Dando is the Rick James of alt rock. Except far more boring.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004WMZM.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― cedric hendrix, Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, is Monster REM's cocaine album? Or is it just bad?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.epitonic.com/art/artists/arabonradar/soakthesaddle_cover250.jpg

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young's Coke Booger: C/D?...classic

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Um, is Monster REM's cocaine album?"

I think it was the Michael Stipe drinks coffee record.

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

black sabbath - vol. 4 = classic

― sean marvin (williamtell), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://user.tninet.se/~bmm117l/metallica/pictures/killemall-back.jpg

"kill em all"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

CLASSIC:
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~fc3t-nkmr/rolandkirk.jpg
(In the video of this concert, at one point, Roland crouches down at the front of the stage and holds out a mirror with a bunch of the nose candy cut up for people in the front rows.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Avalon by Roxy Music.

― rw, Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, Metallica desperately needed a Clearasil sponsor in the early eighties.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

prolly some mixture of coke and E:

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005IS7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 20 May 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c706/c706312ed1o.jpg

― s>c>, Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

baby i got your money:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000K3GK.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.musicmatic.de/S/StoneRo2a.jpg

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 20 May 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

cocteau twins - blue bell knoll

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

COCAINE

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"The One Man Twins" shows Kirk doling out little spoon-fulls of blow from one of the many mojo bags strapped about his neck and shoulders -- this is the same show that nickalicious sites, so the snow must've really been blowing at that particular show.

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/pics/totally%20wired.jpg

our hearts and minds agree?

― my name is limitless, Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

oops

http://www.visi.com/fall/discog/pics/totally%20wired.jpg

― my name is limitless, Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

naw mate, that's a speed anthem.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

it's an anthem to jars of coffee and "some of these"

― jefji, Thursday, 20 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006N4K.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Blender magazine called this "the Cocainiest Album Ever!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001ELP.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Otherwise reputable producer extraordinaire Bob Ezrin, when quizzed about his feelings about his involvement with this much-maligned opus, explained that he was "doing a lot of cocaine at the time".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Stanley sounds like he's bleeding out of both nostrils on that one.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg000/g095/g09590fpurw.jpg
it's the only way to explain his vocal on "Kingdom Come."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d144/d14404yg5c6.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 20 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the only way to explain his vocal on "Kingdom Come."

To say nothing of "It's No Game"...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 21 May 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre800/e840/e84099axe89.jpg

Dud, mostly. Grace Slick apparently remembers little if anything from this record, which is just as well: Her vocals are erratic and she comes in at the wrong place several times on "Easter?" and "Son of Jesus."

― Joseph McCombs, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Eagles of Death Metal- Peace, Love, Deathmetal

though, i'm pretty sure meth was the substance of choice(San Bernadino=meth capital of the west coast), this album goes hand in hand with the slopes.

a close runner up-
white light, white heat- but, yet again, meth.

damn, i guess neither, huh?

― eedd, Friday, 21 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought White Light White Heat was about smack!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember is some book I read many years ago Brockris repeatedly making a point that Lou wasn't a big heroin user but a whites/crosstops popper.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Check out "Take No Prisoners" for live proof of above.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 21 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009RAJJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

White Light, White Heat is so definitely not about smack.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought it was about meth, not coke.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

it is!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Even though I'm (mostly) a non-user, I've always been a bit of a drug-snob: a believer that most coke-inspired music sucks (and most speed-fuelled music rules!); and many of the LPs already mentioned convince me I'm right. But there are exceptions, and I'm always discovering more. Such as these...
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:tbbTjjLqJH4J:www.muzieklijstjes.nl/Tips/SlyTheresariotgoingon.jpg http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ulIoqjup6CEJ:images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JSN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:yRJSF_lSusYJ:www.jambase.com/features/overheard/johnson.gif http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:9tsXiYnKl_AJ:www.rockdiscography.com/coversah/black-sabbath/blacksab_vol4.jpg http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:cHYpWaD-2iEJ:www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc300/c387/c387387m90i.jpg

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Miles was clean during Jack Johnson. You're thinking On the Corner, where he was shooting shit into his leg...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

White Light, White Heat is so definitely not about smack.

And your source is.....?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Doug Yule is my uncle.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, he wasn't in the band at the time. Sorry, nephew.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

..or should that be nephyule?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 May 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's made mention in "Uptight" about how they were all pretty hepped up on the meth, turning they're eyes yellow and lou even having drop a couple of shows due to usage.

WL/WH's too up tempo to be a dope tune.
now, the Gift on the otherhand...

― eedd, Sunday, 23 May 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

White Light/White Heat is about injecting methamphetamine.

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 23 May 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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