Songs that are both anti-drug AND pro-drug...

"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)"

any Spiritualized song.

"I do not sniff the coke, I only smoke the sensimilia"

"my brother's a basehead"

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony: "Ecstacy"

I've been smokin weed for a very long time, why should I change?
And plus they say that ecstasy shit fucks up the brain
Ah, why should I, just to get high, weed gets me high...

Lily Allen: "Alfie"

He can't be bothered cos he's high on THC.
I ask him very nicely if he'd like a cup of tea.

smokin
not cokin

get funky, sax

Because I Got High

"Ten Crack Commandments" by Biggie?

Sort of, anyway... he explicitly details a bunch of awful hypothetical scenarios for both the dealer and the user, but then at the end of the song he concedes that despite everything that could theoretically go wrong, if one was to "follow these rules," he or she would "have mad bread to break up."

lemonheads - 'style'

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street
We like livin' right, and bein' free

I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all

Watching while some old friends do a line
Holding back the want to in my own addicted mind
Wishin’ it was still a thing that even I could do
Wishin’ all these old things were new

Placebo Syndrome?

Allen Ginsberg, "Put-Down-Yr-Cigarette Rag" (Nicotine bad; cannabis good)

"I Feel Like Dying"

oh, but that's depending on before or after the drugs are gone, not on what type of drug it is.

Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" perhaps?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j85Ko9ly2e8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzgNAzquCw

Girl Problem by Her Space Holiday

Here is the point
Where I fall apart
For the second time in a week
It could be from
All those chemicals
That I pump into me
You have been gone
For what feels like
The longest winter break
It's just three days
But it's so much more
Than I can really take

I've got a girl problem
I've got a drug problem
And I don't want to solve them
They sit right where I want them
They kill my memory
They wrote this melody
And if I take enough
I won't miss you so much

Here is the part
Where I apologize
For thinking that we should
Take some time off
Because the loneliness
Would do us both some good
I soon found out
Just how miserable
I could really be
All by myself
In this haunted house
With my paranoid disease

I've got a girl problem
I've got a drug problem
And I don't want to solve them
They sit right where I want them
They kill my memory
They wrote this melody
And if I take enough
I won't miss you so much

marky mark should be the new rickroll

The Ramones, Carbona Not Glue

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Loudon Wainwright III, The Acid Song:

So next time you wanna go out there
When you feel like feeding your head
Think twice before dropping acid
Hold out for mushrooms instead

"Because I Got High"

American Sneakers, "CIA"

because i got high

"Heroin"

There's a paragraph in my second book (bottom of page 307) where I talk about this: "any number of musical chemistry classes that try to scare you at the same time they try to lure you in, making pharmaceuticals and whatnot simulataneously attractive and replusive." Along with "White Lines", here are the songs I list, for whatever it's worth. (I'm not gonna swear I'd agree with them all now):

Guns N Roses - Coma
Guns N Roses - Mr. Brownstone
Guns N Roses - Nightrain
Velvet Underground - Heroin (xp)
Phuture - Your Only Friend
Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues
Sly and the Family Stone - Luv N Haight
Marvin Gaye - Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)
Temptations - Cloud Nine
Village People - Ups And Downs
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
"All of psychedelia, maybe"
"Hell, all of honky-tonk, too: 40-proof bottles of tear-stopper."

fred neil - sweet cocaine
townes van zandt - cocaine blues
holy modal rounders - cocaine blues

If you wanna ride
Don't ride the white horse
Ride the white pony

Pusherman

Don't perhaps a reasonable majority of "drug" songs have this ambiguity going on? (with the exception of the most overtly proselytizing psychedelic-era or madchester songses.)

Even in the most enthusiastic, drugged-out bliss-fests, there is the subtext of the inevitable comedown, or "lord knows, i'm ruining my life, but i just can't help myself; i've fallen into some ultimately-doomed love affair with substance x, y, or z"

Why I Didn't Like August '93 by Elevator To Hell

I've got a girl problem
I got a girl problem
And if you need a bottom
I got a girl problem

And if you don't
Mind the smell
I need somebody's gonna
Feel what I
Wanta feel what I
Wanna hear why is this somethin' that I
didn't feel?
I've got a girl problem

I got a drug problem
I got a drugged problem
And if you wanna smoke some
I got a drug problem

And if you don't
Mind the smell
I need somebody to appreciate
Wanta feel 'n what I
want to hear why is this something that you
didn't feel?
I've got a girl problem.

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-- gr8080, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:29 AM (11 hours ago)

lol

Ooh, that Loudon Wainwright song reminds me:

"I don't need the acid factories/I've got mushrooms in the fields"

-The Fall, "Two Steps Back"

In what way is "Pusherman" pro-drug?

first line is "Lord, I've smoked a lotta grass!!!"

(to general cheers from the audience, on the Live album)

and the rest of the song is not about grass.

Ah, okay. I haven't heard the live version, I thought you were talking about the original version on Superfly. Still, I didn't know Curtis Mayfield was a stoner, somehow he seemed kinda too straight for that.

Hang on, my mistake:

I'm talking the Steppenwolf song, which is called "The Pusher"

So, question still stands.

Pusherman lyrics:

I'm your Mama
I'm your Daddy
I'm that nigga
In the alley
I'm your doctor
When in need
Want some coke?
Have some weed
You know me
I'm your friend
Your main boy
Thick and thin

I'm your Pusherman (2x)

Ain't I clean
Bad machine
Super cool
Super mean
Dealin' good
For The Man
Superfly
Here I stand
Secret stash
Heavy bread
Baddest bitches
In the bed

I'm your pusherman (3x)

Silent life of crime
A man of odd circumstance
a Victim of ghetto demands
Feed me money for style
And I'll let you trip for a while
Insecure from the past
How long can a good thing last?
Woo-hoo, no...

Got to be mellow, y'all
Gotta get mellow, now
Pusherman gettin' mellow, y'all

Heavy mind
Heavy sign
Makin' money
All the time
My 'El D.'
And just me
For all junkies
To see

Ghetto Prince
Is my thing
Makin' love's
How I swing

I'm your Pusherman (2x)

'Two bags, please'
For a generous fee
Make your world
What you want it to be
Got a woman I love desperately
Wanna give her somethin' better than me
Been told I can't be nuthin' else
Just a hustler in spite of myself
I know I can break it
This life just don't make it
Lord, Lord, yeah

Got to get mellow, now
Gotta be mellow, y'all
Got to get mellow, now

I'm your Mama
I'm your Daddy
I'm that nigga
In the alley
I'm your doctor
When in need
Want some coke?
Have some weed
You know me
I'm your friend
Your main boy
Thick and thin

I'm your Pusherman (4x)
Lord, Lord

You can be the judge of how "pro"-drugs that is, but the film is most surely pro-pusherman.

Flamin' Groovies - "Slow Death"

Like a lot of rock 'n' roll drug songs, both pro and anti.

Only Ones - "Another Girl, Another Planet"

Nother example of the same.

Actually I was looking for songs that praise one drug while condemning another - probably shoud've made that clearer!

Angry Samoans, "STP Not LSD"

The Clash, "The Right Profile": Nembutal numbs it all but I prefer ... alcohol!

the Who, "I Like Nightmares"

Pulp, "Sorted for E's and Wizz"

Dave Van Ronk, "Talking Cancer Blues" -- all about cigarette cancers, until the punchline last verse: "Smoke pot! It's the thinking man's cigarette."

Kid Cudi, "Day N Nite"

Horace Ferguson: Sensi Addict

"me no take no cocaine, for it mash up me brain... I'm an addict, a sensimilla addict"

track on paul's boutique w/ 'i do not sniff the coke i only smoke the sensimilla' sample