What do you like to listen to when doing your 4:20?

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Top 40 radio.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 27 February 2000 02:42 (twenty-five years ago)

five years pass...

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

AFROMAN, NATCH

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Actually my real answer is UB40, "Red Red Wine."

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Can I just say right now how much I hate the phrase "4:20"? It brings up the absolute worst associations of Santa Cruz and dipshit trustafarians with Bob Marley t-shirts.

I listen to Bob Marley.

― Just kidding I'll listen to almost anything haha (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

The Turtles.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

do people really do a "4:20" with regularity?

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

At 4:20 in the afternoon I am usually sipping green tea waiting for 4:30 so I can go home.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

do people really do a "4:20" with regularity?

Is this like doing a "number 2"? Is this some kinda insanely complicated poo?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

at 4:20 i'm usually looking at my work computer's clock thinking "oh fuck how am i going to make it through this last hour?"

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Is this like doing a "number 2"? Is this some kinda insanely complicated poo?

i used to could do a 720 when i was a skateboarder

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

this isn't a bible reference?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

No, it's stoner code for blazing some doobage.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I just wanted to say doobage there. Sorry folks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I think I could only do a 4:20 if UB40 was on.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I think I could only do UB40 if a 4:20 was on (fire.)

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

No, it's stoner code for blazing some doobage.

I was kidding

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

anyway I wouldn't know. the last time I was stoned I wa watching VH1.

I remember laughing at Tool and Cocteau Twins videos but that's about it

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

ghost
les rallizes denudes
steely dan
hawkwind
can
royal trux
fahey
lee perry
king tubby
anthem of the sun
operation of the sonne
rubber soul
blue cheer
black sabbath
pink floyd
red krayola
white mice
wu-tang
flacid mothra's pimple
boredoms
ash ra tempel
charalambides
codeine
the olivia tremor control
summer hymns (secret shame?)
henry flynt
guided by voices (vampire on titus through under the bushes)
satwa
innervisions
shuggie otis
exile on mainstreet
neil young!!!!!

etc.
i am high a lot.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I wish it was me (but it was kyle) who wondered "does every Tool video feature a miserable gauzy puppet that eventually disintegrates into dust"?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Adam, did you see the post where I said I just wanted to SAY doobage there!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

no. sorry.

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

oh look, by my clock it just turned 4:20.
i feel better knowing somewhere someone is living out the cliche by lighting up and listening to DMB or Bob Marley in a dorm room

― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

for those like ian who get high a lot, is there anything you either consciously or unconsciously DONT listen to when doing your 420?

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

there's a riot goin' on
sonic youth
double leopards
fursaxa
pelt/jack rose
scorces
skullflower, sunroof
bardo pond
olneyville sound system
sleep
born heller

xpost (i listen to these stoned)

I hate listening to hardcore and punk when I'm high.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

I don't like stuff that is particularly hyperactive or too noisy (and I mean noise-y like grating white noise noise-y.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

PM Dawn sound great on all drugs but when sober...they are actually not good at all!

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't listen to depressing records when stoned -- so no There's a Riot Goin' On, no Welcome to the Monkey House, no Best of Culture Club (whose best songs were the morose ones or at least the ones expressing reservations and trepidations).

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I should note that I'm not saying I need to hear UB40 to get high. I'm just saying I could never go "oh shit, 4:20. Time to toke up!" unless I had a suitably ironically obvious wack soundtrack.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

is that because you just dont feel like it, or because it fucks you up too much?

xpost

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

The local alt.rock station used to play "Two Joints" by Sublime or Bob Marley when 4:20 rolled around. HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT! (No wonder they switched format.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

The most I have ever enjoyed music is when I was really high and heard Hot Butter's "Popcorn".

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Okay I have never ACTUALLY expressly smoked pot because it was 4:20. I think I would need to already be fucked up on something else (robitusson, heroin, benadryl) to start thinking like that haha

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

don't feed the gremlins after midnight, dood!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

heroin = robitusson/benadryl

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

what is this benadryl?

― whatever (nordicskilla), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Allergy medicine.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I likey the smoke, and me listen to:
(but don't actually say 420)

Roy Ayers
Alpha's Come from Heaven
Arto Lindsey's Mundo Civilizado
Certain Bob James tracks (the phonkay ones)
Grace Jones' Private Life
Tortoise - TNT
Biconical of the Rammellzee
Money Mark's Keyboard Repair
Grover Washington Jr's Live at the Bijou
Cal Tjader's Monterey Concert
plus Pharcyde's 'Quinton's on his way'
and Freestyle Fellowship's 'M-m-m-m-Mary'

hey!!! that's a nice lil list!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Since I Left You by The Avanlanches = Greatest Stoner Album of All Time

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, I forgot about Kruder and Dorfmeister and Boards of Canada. And more recently M83 and Manitoba/ Caribou. Damn..

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Monday, 28 March 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

lately it's been the four tops. can get pretty intense at times, though.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

i forgots: Funkadelic "one nation under a groove"

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Boards is too creepy when I'm high. I like electric Miles, Can, minimalist stuff like fenesz or phillip jeck if I'm alone. I try to listen to somehing different each time though. I don't like listening to something brand new or something I haven't heard yet, i get way too amped up about it and think its my new favorite of all-time or something.

― jmeister (jmeister), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Four Tops???

Motown is one of the few things I can't stand when I'm smoking - a whole relentlessly upbeat album of it would make me want to jump out of the window.

Otherwise, no difference at all to what I usually listen to.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I know what 4:20 refers to, but what's the etymology?

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/420.htm

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

BOREDOMS. Super Roots 7 and Vision Creation Newsun especially.

― mnra, Monday, 28 March 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Smoke it up, Boulder.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ijamming.net/2004Indexpics/Chinese-Beatles.jpg

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

at 4:20 I am noting that I have to wait 10 minutes until it's time to listen to that Spin Doctors song where they go "WHAT TIME IS IT? FOUR THIRT-AY"

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

I try to listen to somehing different each time though. I don't like listening to something brand new or something I haven't heard yet, i get way too amped up about it and think its my new favorite of all-time or something.

haha OTM, except I do it anyway because it's fun to get way too amped up about it.

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

The Unicorns!!!!

I'm impossibly cheerful high.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

today: gucci mane - so icy

― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

Howard Stern

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

The Immortals-Ultimate Warrior

I can perform the HELL outta this when high.

― modernaire, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Very orchestral pop like The Beach Boys and Belle & Sebastian is my happy place.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

oops, that's "Ultimate Warlord"

― modernaire, I wanna be, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Tough question.

Whatever it is I'm listening to, it only lasts for about 15 seconds. I listen to a lot.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Most often:

Miles Davis
Talking Heads
Boredoms
Can
Harmonia
Manitoba/Caribou
Guided By Voices
Ariel Pink
Nas
MBV
post-2000 Radiohead
Sonic Youth

I really need to get some Scientist/King Tubby/etc though.

Hey, Mark never answered his own question!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Upsetter - CITY TOO HOT

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Friday, 1 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't really have any favorite albums in particular for these occasions though the early Monster Magnet records are pretty great. And Melvins - Lysol - is good too. And Dre 2001. And maybe some old Keith Murray and Reggie Noble too.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Firesign Theatre!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Ege Bamyasi!

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 2 April 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

Missy Eeeeeeee. Actually I don't really care what's on all *that much* 'cause I usually like i t (except *cold/metallic* sounds). But I just remember that she just sounded great.

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Saturday, 2 April 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

HOLY CHRIST THAT BEATLES COVER IS TERRY FYING

No smoke these days, but circa my youngncrazies Massive Attack's Mezzanine was a favorite, as was Homework and (if I was really really fucked up) Richard Cheese.

You ain't never seen a stoner lounge dance like me.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't aware that stoner lounges could dance.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

zing

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Harry Nilsson
Cheap Trick
homemade New Orleans soul/funk/RnB comp feat. Cyrill Neville, Lee Dorsey, Warren Lee, Eddie Bo, Betty Harris, et al

― Will (will), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

spiritualized
brian eno
my dying bride
boards of canada
billie holiday
john coltrane
isis
the stone roses
radiohead

lots of other stuff. those are the first bands that spring to mind where the musical experience is enhanced in one way or another

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Art Tatum blew my mind while high.

Love Supreme didn't do it for me, but whilst on the herb I swore by Interstellar Space

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Buncha goddamn hippies.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

mbv
matmos
fennesz
tim hecker
arvo part
crystal castles
leafcutter john
the horrors (lately)
kind of femme-y gay disco or early house with piano
and i have a few filters and vst things set up on ableton that i use to play sad haunting 50s songs through that makes them sound amazing.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

and alice coltrane 'ptah the el daoud'

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

It's about 4:05 where I am. I'm a-gonna set the clock forward (ya dig?) and listen to Wayne Shorter's Etcetera. But, in answer to the question, I have no specific likes; I'm just as likely to enjoy some live Deep Purple or 154 as I am some William Parker or Mel Torme.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

it's 4:23 EST!...I'm listening to the Richie Hawtin Transitions thing...so, when does this "high" hit me?

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Note to self: clock is 11 minutes slow.

xpost

― mark 0 (mark 0), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Money Mark's Keyboard Repair

I canNOT recommend this album ENOUGH. Also:

Devin the Dude
Cornelius
Gong
Explosions In The Sky
MF Doom
anything vaguely Eno-related
Telefon Tel Aviv
Talvin Singh
Tom Waits Bone Machine
Ghostface
Buckethead's mellow albums
The Monks
Wolf Eyes
Ween The Mollusk
A Tribe Called Quest
Killah Priest "Heavy Mental"
Medeski Martin and Wood
Benevento Russo Duo bootlegs
Comets On Fire
Tom Petty
Critters Buggin Guest

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Goodie Mob Soul Food

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

OH SHIT...SUN RA SOLO PIANO VOL ONE...YES.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

c'mon!!!

QotSA- s/t
Kyuss- entire discography!!!
Smashing Pumpkins- Gravity Demos (no vocals to distract!!!!!!!)
VU- WL/WH (yeah, it works anytime, really)
SY- Sister/Whitey Album
pavement- WZ

― edde (edde), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Happy Flowers - entire discography
Butthole Surfers - Hairway To Steven
Nectarine No. 9 - A Sea With Three Stars
Monster Magnet - Spine Of God
Young Gods - Only Heaven
Ween - The Pod (really the only time you can listen to this band)

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

true story: the first time i ever "did 4:20" it was over a thanksgiving dinner with people who were mostly strangers to me and dark side of the moon was playing.

This was in the year 2000.

― grady (grady), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

has anybody ever listened to "12:55" or "5:15" while doing a 4:20?

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

i never indulge, but i like to join the circle and share the vibe when my friends do.

good starts:
string cheese incident
dj spooky
radiodread

― Wrinklepossum's Awesome Blossom (Wrinklepaws), Thursday, 7 September 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ween - The Pod (really the only time you can listen to this band)

Don't be mean!!

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

the music from the veldt in Final Fantasy 3

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

I once listened to Liquid Swords while watching Shogun Assassin on mute. One of the most disquetingly cool experiences ever.

DJ SHADOW
Endtroducing...
Private Press

BRIAN WILSON (& Beach Boys)
Smiley Smile
SMiLE
Pet Sounds (duh)
Adult Child

MILES DAVIS
Porgy & Bess
Miles in the Sky
Files de Kilimanjaro

Key if you're a jazz douche like me:
Infinite Search--Miroslav Vitous
The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vols. yada yada--Art Tatum
The Scene Changes--Bud Powell
The Koln Concert--Keith Jarrett
Forest Flower: Live in Monterrey--Charles Lloyd
Pithecanthropus Erectus--Charlie Mingus

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ween - Zoloft
Animal Collective
Built to Spill
Microphones
Man-Machine and Computer World

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hoping and assuming La Dusseldorf would be nice.

Also, jmeister's right way up there about listening to things the first time while stoned. I thought the Books' Lost and Found was brilliant for a while because of that. Turns out I was just stoned every time I heard it.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Thursday, 7 September 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

This is impossible.. I didn't know about ILX until 2002. How could I possibly have started this thread? I have no recollection of this whatsoever, and on top of that the first time I smoked weed was 2001.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 14 March 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

And I don't use the phrase 4:20 to refer to weed ever.. and also I'm not a "weed culture" dude although I enjoy it, I think weed culture is totally lame. Except I do enjoy top 40 radio while high, so maybe I did post this somehow..

― billstevejim, Saturday, 14 March 2009 03:36 (sixteen years ago)

AFX, autechre, radiohead, dead c, black nasty, silver jews, etc.

― Lowell N. Behold'n, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:36 (sixteen years ago)

(some old threads, perhaps ones that never got answered at first, are mis-dated. it has something to do with the switch to ilx 2)

house music btw

― cathlamet wa (jergins), Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:45 (sixteen years ago)

this question is just impossible.

― ian, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:46 (sixteen years ago)

michael hurley
robert ashley
charalambides
robret pete williams
taj mahal travelers
popol vuh
dead c seconded
flying burrito brothers
and so so so soo much more. basically any of the music that i really love alraedy.

― ian, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:49 (sixteen years ago)

robert* pete williams

and
unaccompanied ballad singing of any type (esp. shirley collins, nimrod workman, anne briggs, assorted dudes on folkways-style anthologies.)

and
sacred harp singing

and
john fucking fahey

― ian, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:52 (sixteen years ago)

my life is pretty much smoking weed & listening to records yet i still find time to get angry and/or depressed! wtf,ian.

― ian, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:53 (sixteen years ago)

my list from three years ago still mostly otm.

― ian, Saturday, 14 March 2009 05:55 (sixteen years ago)

the same shit i listen to any other time, except it sounds better

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 14 March 2009 06:03 (sixteen years ago)

Granny's is the only real answer, but I guess some things do lend themselves more to this activity for whatever reason. I mean, nobody thinks to themself, "Ok, gonna get good and weeded. Songs of Leonard Cohen will be perfect!" Or maybe some people do, but they're a real drag at parties.

Marc Moulin - Placebo Sessions
Triosk meets Jan Jelinek - 1+3+1
Uusitalo - Tulenkantaja
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Triple R - Friends
Donnacha Costello - Colorseries
Arovane - Lilies
Manu Katche - Neighborhood
Django Reinhardt box set
Thomas Fehlmann - Honigpumpe
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Morvern Callar soundtrack

And whatever, 1000 things. That's just me scrolling through my iTunes library and imagining I have a fresh bag of something sticky, which I do not. :(

― kenan, Saturday, 14 March 2009 07:56 (sixteen years ago)

Art Tatum blew my mind while high.

Love Supreme didn't do it for me, but whilst on the herb I swore by Interstellar Space

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen)

Buncha goddamn hippies.

― Haikunym (Haikunym)

That's JAZZ HIPPIE to you.

This made me think of an old fave: Pharoah Sanders - Karma. Incense preferable, dashiki optional.

― kenan, Saturday, 14 March 2009 08:11 (sixteen years ago)

Goodie Mob Soul Food

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious)

Amen

― kenan, Saturday, 14 March 2009 08:51 (sixteen years ago)

Keeps me from snapping, keeps me calm

― kenan, Saturday, 14 March 2009 08:56 (sixteen years ago)

whatever i normally listen to, except i'm paying much closer attention.

― messiahwannabe, Saturday, 14 March 2009 10:04 (sixteen years ago)

I want to see Geir's answer.

― ilxor, Saturday, 14 March 2009 13:47 (sixteen years ago)

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