Drug that has inspired the worst music?

All drugs inspire good music. Why booze not on list?

Cocaine, easy. Not a very creative drug.

All drugs inspire good music. Why booze not on list?

I was going to include alcohol but it's more difficult to stick to a certain genre or era.

According to Joe Boyd, it's cocaine.
But bad music is Bad Music no matter what drugs you're doing.

I'll go with Meth. Inspired god-awful alt-rock from the 90's such as Elastica, the Dandy Warhols and all the usual cast in mtv's 120 minutes.

Meth = Motorhead, Suicide, therefore greatness. Cocaine = Fleetwod Mac, Steely Dan, therefore greatness.

Combine them, and you get Johnny Cash.

Weed = ICP

Heroin = STP, AIC, all i can say is that my life is pretty strange

I'll be a curmudgeon and say X, though I'd presumably reverse that opinion 180 degrees if I ever tried the stuff.

speed and meth are different though aren't they?

speed = category, meth = instance

I'll be a curmudgeon and say X, though I'd presumably reverse that opinion 180 degrees if I ever tried the stuff.

-- Myonga Vön Bontee

Anything good made by cokeheads is merely coincidence

PCP should be on the list so I can vote for it.

What music has been inspired by mushrooms exclusively?

lol oh wait what was I thinking: http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=shroomadelica

Lightning Bolt sound really good ON shrooms, but that's not quite the same thing.

the correct answer is anti-depressants

or birth-control

that's racist!

http://beachboysboots.blogspot.com/2007/09/cocaine-sessions.html

Anything good made by cokeheads is merely coincidence

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See also: Black Sabbath Vol. 4.

Cocaine easily, although I'm having a bit of trouble working out the difference between LSD-inspired music and mushrooms-inspired music.

Cocaine's hard to parse, though. It's had a lot to do with the destruction/down years of a great many musical talents, but tons of bands do tons of coke when they're on, too.

Cocaine is going to win this hands down.

kaopectate. who's got time to write a song when they're doing the green apple quickstep?

lsd

Penicillin.

Viagra, just ask Mick n Keef

rohypnol

Heroin is the one that actually keeps you from being able to hold a guitar, let alone play it.

Whereas without meth there would be no "Desolation Row".

Cocaine = Dion, therefore greatness.

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Twattish as those guys are, I bet they're listening to some pretty bangin tunes.

I wonder how much great dance music has been made whilst actually on ecstasy, rather than just been inspired retrospectively by the feelings it produces. I for one would find it nigh-on impossible to focus on a meticulous process like programming while I was actually pilling.

Chap otm

Are you "blowing up" right now, Jon?

The correct answer is methadone.

The drug that has inspired the worst music...love

Lol that was just terrible, apologies all around.

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You forgot to include the correct answer.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Ecstacy_monogram.jpg

OK, now I found it. Ecstacy, no doubt.

LSD has influenced the best music although in retrospect the fate of one Roger Barrett shows it may not have been such a good idea to take it.

Cocaine would be my second pick. A lot of usually good acts have released extraordinarily bad albums under the influence of that particular drug. I mean, "Be Here Now".....

you assume they had no, for the previous two?

I wonder how much great dance music has been made whilst actually on ecstasy, rather than just been inspired retrospectively by the feelings it produces.

About ten years ago, I asked that question to someone on the fringes of the hard trance scene. According to him, it was commonplace for all involved in the creative process to get royally tw@tted.

I'm voting shrooms.

you assume they had no, for the previous two?

They surely couldn't afford it for "Definitely Maybe" and that one didn't sell that much before "Morning Glory" was released either. Cocaine isn't exactly cheap, you know....

Yeah you never see members of small time indie bands on coke.

They were signed to Ignition Management, who signed a licensing deal with Creation. Alan McGee make it look like it was his idea (once again..).

Trust me, there was money around.

Heroin without a doubt.

Bactine

If you approach it as "which has inspired the least good music", def. the horse, turns musicians dull. If you approach it as "which has inspired the most bad music", pot takes it far and away, but it's also the most widely used, so of course it has. I still haven't figured out what the difference between acid music and shroom music is.

Voting heroin.

I wasn't including mushrooms, since lsd users are inclined to do mushrooms as well, yet I find mushrooms more related to psych-folk hippie musicians that wont do chemicals, and LSD to rock music from the late 60's and 70's (although it is still a huge influence on certain genres and there are many psych-folk musicians who do chemicals either way).

Meth, heroine and coke are by certain standards, violent drugs, they cause too much deterioration on the user's mind and body. Personally I think ecstasy and pot inspire the best music and they are low-risk drugs but I'm too much of a fan of electronic music.

the correct answer is anti-depressants

-- sexyDancer, Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

In other words, Starbucks's Hear Music label.

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On The Reverend's argument I sort of want to change my vote from coke to horse, because I'm pretty sure there must be fucking shitloads of awesome coke-inspired hip-hop and hair metal and stuff.

i voted for E. i love music inspired by all of these drugs* but E has by far inspired the most insipid garbage.

*= i don't think coke 'inspires' much more than extreme attention to detail. maybe more of a studio engineer's drug?

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^^ lol

But seriously you people suck. Most coke music is awesome. Hi Bowie.

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^ noise

not a big fan of this poll:

x = Loveless
shrooms = Fun House
coke = Low
weed = Paranoid (obv.)
cid = Free Your Mind and Your Ass will Follow (see also Lee 'Scratch Perry')
speed = Hex Enduction Hour
horse = see Charlie Parker

when will people learn? drugs don't make music; godlike messiahs of sound make music!

(those are all the examples that came first to mind, btw folx)

PCP should be on the list so I can vote for it.

― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:14 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Got to thinking about PCP early this morning as I was listening to Siouxsie & the Banshees "Dazzle" which mentions angel dust.

Then when I got to work, I noticed this front-page article about the resurgence of PCP use in DC.

So what's PCP music? What was Joseph McCombs talking about upthread? Are there any artists who have been notably influenced by PCP in their songcraft?

The Dead Milkmen talked some shit about PCP, but I seriously doubt they were dusted.

Jayo Felony - Sherm Stick

Ultramagnetic MCs = PCP music

sXe

DMX <-- dope PCP muzik

id say ketamine. can't think of anything decent linked to it.

I can't really think of anything confirmed to be linked to it at all.

Are you referring to this article which incensed the 'community' over at dubstep forums?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/mar/05/wonky-ketamine-dubstep-zomby

I can't really think of anything confirmed to be linked to it at all.

Yeah, you could argue that it's conducive to listening to certain types of music a la Reynolds and have a case but producing music on/as a result of it, nuh-uh I suspect

id say ketamine. can't think of anything decent linked to it.

― NI, Friday, 20 March 2009 01:21 (9 hours ago) Permalink

I can't really think of anything confirmed to be linked to it at all.

― The Lost Boys Buff Guy Playing Sax (rockapads), Friday, 20 March 2009 01:24 (9 hours ago)

Are you guys being serious? Surely the whole minimal house, dub-house, clicks and pops, bands like My Toys Like Me, and to an extent dubstep are geared towards the K-floor?

or what sreynolds said in that article..

Stay tuned to find out if these guys are being serious!

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i have never seen a "k-floor"

well you can't exactly call it a dancefloor

I read the Reynolds article, but wasn't really convinced by it. Isn't he talking about a 3 or 4 group micro-scene? As far as the minimal stuff goes, I've heard the term "ketamine house", but I've also heard "heroin house" used to describe mid-90s dub techno.

I went through a big ket phase a few (almost 10) years ago, and minimal/dub/clicks-n-pops, or whatever, really doesn't seem to me like it's inspired by the drug at all. Not a huge fan of "wonky", but if that other stuff mentioned is inspired by k, then I definitely disagree with NI.

people who do k anywhere but on their living room floor are fools, btw.

From the Reynolds article:
"A vial of ketamine ... is this the drug that's feeding the wonky phenomenon?"

Isn't that a quote from Brass Eye?

I'm siding with Ecsstasy too... I'm starting to feel that a lot of those coked up 80s productions have a certain sort of charm in retrospect... which I've still yet to find in bangin choons.

as we all know, Villalobos stimulates a part of the brain known as Shatner's Bassoon

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I'm siding with ecstasy too.

whatever drugs the eagles were on

So what's PCP music? What was Joseph McCombs talking about upthread? Are there any artists who have been notably influenced by PCP in their songcraft?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:21 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pon­cho: "I had some angel dust. Conned Billy into smoking it with me. We recorded 'Cortez,' I'm sitting there nodding out. That was the take. I had the song all turned around—I thought the second chord was the first chord. It's only three chords."