Stoned Alone: Good Songs Verifiably Recorded Under The Influence

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List some good songs in which the performers are (reliably) reported
to have been messed up/stoned/drunk when recording. Let's stick
to the realm of popular music (rock, pop, hip-hop, reggae...), not
experimental genres, which sound effed up anyway.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Monday, 19 July 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

John Fahey, Of Rivers and Religion

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

― twitchy, Monday, 19 July 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' is questionable whether it is a good song, but regardless, the drummer is obviously too coked up to play, and it shows.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 19 July 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Led Zeppelin "Hot Dog". *insert usual bellowing about Page being too strung out to play the guitar solo*

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 19 July 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Notorious BIG - the whole of "ready to die" (according to the XXL feature on the recording of said album)

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 19 July 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

according to my friend, he read that q-tip was too stoned to even remember recording his verses on the beasties' 'get it together'; can anyone verify this?

― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 19 July 2004 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Jacob - what was Biggie high on, and do you have any more details?

― yo, Monday, 19 July 2004 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Burgers, and lots of them.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 19 July 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Beach Boys - "Little Pad"

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 19 July 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Just lots and lots of weed. Apparently he'd smoke till he was nearly comatose then suddenly get up and do a take.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 19 July 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Beck's Mellow Gold

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(which was released on BONGLOAD RECORDS btw)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Madvillain, Madvillainy (all of it)

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

now remember...

M A R I J U A

plink plang plonk pling plang plong

A J U A N A

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 19 July 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Skip Spence--"oar"

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

AT: Melle Mel will admit it. Melle Mel made "White Lines" high.

BLVR: He used coke while making the record?

AT: No, no, I'm talking about crack.

BLVR: He did crack while doing "White Lines"? Do you mean, during that period in his life, or that night in the studio?

AT: He said, "The most ironic thing about doin 'White Lines' is, I was doin this anti-drug message, but was snortin the shit as I was doin it. That was the most ironic thing about doin 'White Lines.'" He said he was makin the quintessential antidrug song while drowning in his own shit.

― jaymc, Monday, 19 July 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the second most ironic thing about doin "white lines"?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd think the most ironic thing about that song was something else, but no.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 19 July 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Royal Trux claim to have "tested" Twin Infinitives with every drug available.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 July 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Could you ask them which magical ultra-rare drugs actually made their music sound nice?

The funny thing about the Madvillain is that "America's Most Blunted" comes across like the least stoned thing on there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"Revolution I"

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 19 July 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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