Drug that has inspired the best music?

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Same poll in reverse.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Cannabis. 10
Ecstasy. 6
Cocaine. 4
LSD. 4
Heroin. 3
Methamphetamine (speed). 3
Mushrooms.0


Matt DC, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:09 (seventeen years ago)

LSD, seriously. 1967-68 was fantastic!

Geir Hongro, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

This is a more interesting poll than the first I think (coke is gonna walk that one). I voted Ecstacy but can also see the arguments for cannabis, LSD and speed. Still not sure what mushroom music actually is.

Matt DC, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:15 (seventeen years ago)

Hawkwind?

Neil S, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:17 (seventeen years ago)

there's a good argument to be made that weed is the answer to both polls.

(maybe i'm just biased by this year, when the erykah/mimi/lil wayne albums should all just come with a big "sponsored by cannabis" sticker on the front, though; probably ecstasy more generally)

lex pretend, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:21 (seventeen years ago)

Cannabis has undeniably inspired the most good music, given that it has been taken by so many more musicians than any of the other mentioned drugs.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:23 (seventeen years ago)

I was gonna say heroin (Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, etc etc etc) but then started kicking myself. argh! What a thing to say!

Masonic Boom, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:26 (seventeen years ago)

There she goes.
There she goes again.

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:27 (seventeen years ago)

.. MEDLEY!

Beetlebum, what you done?

GOLDEN BROWWWNNNN Texture like SUNNNN...

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

Mark invoking There She Goes makes me want to change my answer to heroin in the other poll.

Matt DC, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:29 (seventeen years ago)

It's quite a nice little indie pop song, Matt, you nasty brute.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

The problem is, I can just as easily argue that Heroin has inspired some of the most RUBBITCH periods of bands I really do like - i.e. latter period BJM and hey, "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" ::vomits::

Masonic Boom, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

I actually think the "ooh look it's about heroin really" thing might be my least favourite school of lyric writing ever. Blame university.

Matt DC, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

There is no drug that turns an uninspired writer into an inspired one.

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:34 (seventeen years ago)

or do I mean untalented? as 'uninspired' can be a temporary condition....

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

alcohol isn't a drug?

and i'm curious -- what bands were specifically shroomers?

Mike McGooney-gal, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:42 (seventeen years ago)

It's not a drug, it's a drink!

Neil S, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:42 (seventeen years ago)

The NME had a 'scene' called Shroomadelica, a couple years ago.

who were they, where did they go? dunno.

Mark G, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

Unlistenable Velvets tracks such as "Heroin", "Sister Ray" and "Here Comes The Man" are all excellent examples of the needle and the damage done.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

Booze would win this hands down I think.

Matt DC, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:46 (seventeen years ago)

"Here Comes The Man" dunno that one

Some "stoner rock" bands I think are heavy mushroom users along with the weed

Colonel Poo, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:47 (seventeen years ago)

I was gonna say "vagina".

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)

Ecstasy inspired a since-unparalleled rush of spontaneous creativity in the UK in the early 90s. LSD and weed did similar things twenty five years earlier, but the later scene is closer to my heart.

Then again, reggae's debt to the erb bears considering...

chap, Friday, 29 August 2008 13:06 (seventeen years ago)

Ach, I like the "unlistenable" ones so that's my decision made.

Masonic Boom, Friday, 29 August 2008 13:22 (seventeen years ago)

I rarely think about the influences of chemical consumption on music anymore, since I just drink coffee now and the occasional beer.

It might be good to note however, that Meat Puppets believe II to be one of the first albums recorded under the influence of ecstacy, which makes A LOT of sense.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:20 (seventeen years ago)

(then again, the Meat Puppets are probably some of the biggest bullshitters in rock and roll, so take that with a grain of salt)

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

Somehow I get the impression that the "jam bands" and Krautrockers were 'shroom bands, although that's just a subjective opinion.

Me, I'm tempted to say acid. But in the end, Geir's and Lex's logic is undeniable. Cannabis it is.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

Insight:

"The first one was our LSD record," offered Curt upon the 1999 reissue of the Meat Puppets' catalog ("What Is This?," April 9, 1999). "We were three days in the studio, and we tripped the whole time. And it was really cool, and really trying, too, because we went insane. [Meat Puppets II] was our ecstasy record. That's why people like that record so much, I hate to tell you. Then the weed album, Up on the Sun. That's the pedestrian album. Weed and alcohol. I did that whole thing in 72 hours, straight through – recorded and mixed it."

kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:29 (seventeen years ago)

sigh...what about love?

henry s, Friday, 29 August 2008 14:30 (seventeen years ago)

And "life"

Chewshabadoo, Friday, 29 August 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

coke = tusk

impudent harlot, Friday, 29 August 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

and station to station

impudent harlot, Friday, 29 August 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

Gaucho

will, Friday, 29 August 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

Lot of music I like has been inspired and/or fueled by coke, so I vote that. Sabbath Vol. 4 and BOC's Tyranny and Mutation should have come with razors and mirrors, they were so cocaine-soaked.

Bill Magill, Friday, 29 August 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

I actually don't know what inspired Chrome's music, and I'd be scared to ask.

Soukesian, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:39 (seventeen years ago)

cannabis and coke are so prevalent, there's no way any other drugs can compare. my favorite artists in metal, rap, dub/reggae, classic country, rock, techno/dance/house/jungle/etc = smokers.

i hate pot culture as much as anyone, and think it's a lame cop-out when bands make songs about pot and wear tacky pot leaf shirts, but the shit is everywhere in music.

rockapads, Friday, 29 August 2008 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

Meat Puppets 2 evolved from one drug only. The various deserts of Arizona.

I have it on very good authority that they went out there and drunk water from one of only 3 oasi in the Painted Desert and then started creating

Fer Ark, Friday, 29 August 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

Meat Puppets 1, however was done in an asbestos infested garage, on real bad shit from Mehico

Fer Ark, Friday, 29 August 2008 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

Meat Puppets 12 was done on smack, crunk, wank and arse. It was shit

Fer Ark, Friday, 29 August 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

also cocaine (well, crack) has 'inspired' a shitload of brilliant rap music, mainly as subject matter rather than loads of brilliant rappers being crackheads (ODB excepted)

spaghetti, Friday, 29 August 2008 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

It might be good to note however, that Meat Puppets believe II to be one of the first albums recorded under the influence of ecstacy

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret beat them by two years.

energy flash gordon, Saturday, 30 August 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

Anti-depressants?

Abbott, Saturday, 30 August 2008 04:11 (seventeen years ago)

Unlistenable Velvets tracks such as "Heroin", "Sister Ray" and "Here Comes The Man" are all excellent examples of the needle and the damage done.

Oh man I'm sorry you dropped the needle wrong onto all your Velvets records to the point where they are now unlistenable. :(

Abbott, Saturday, 30 August 2008 04:13 (seventeen years ago)

don't forget all the jazz cats and their junk habits - parker miles coltrane and i think pretty much everyone else in the 40's-60's

messiahwannabe, Saturday, 30 August 2008 04:21 (seventeen years ago)


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