Got these from the net, can we continue together? Bonus points for songs about quitting smoking!
1 When I Get Low I Get High - Ella Fitzgerald2 How to Roll a Blunt - Redman3 Chalice in the Palace - U-Roy4 Roll Another Number (for the Road) - Neil Young5 Smokin' - Super Furry Animals6 The Hymn for the Cigarettes - Hefner7 Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright8 Dieu Fumeur de Havanes - Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve9 Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding10 Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray - Patsy Cline11 Smoking Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee12 Cigarette Smoke - Arctic Monkeys13 Cigarettes & Alcohol - Oasis14 Cold Beer and Cigarettes - David Bazan15 Smelling Cigarettes - The Fiery Furnaces16 Smoking In the Boys Room - Brownsville Station17 More Cigarettes - The Replacements
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)
Subway Sect - Chain Smoking
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:18 (sixteen years ago)
Few of those songs are about smoking dope
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:18 (sixteen years ago)
19. Rolf Harris, Nick O'Teen and Al K. Hall
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― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:21 (sixteen years ago)
oh sorry i just realised the first 5 songs are about smoking weed, maybe we should have another thread about that.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:22 (sixteen years ago)
The Kinks, Harry Rag
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:23 (sixteen years ago)
20. Spoon - "Japanese Cigarette Case"21. whichever Wilco song has that "last cigarettes / all you can get" lyric
― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:23 (sixteen years ago)
Tweet, "Smoking Cigarettes"
― DavidM, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:24 (sixteen years ago)
Tiny Tim, Sly Cigarette <------ great song
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:32 (sixteen years ago)
The Wilco song from YHF was21 Jesus, etc. - Wilco
24 A Day in the Life - The Beatles ("made the bus in seconds flat, found my way upstairs and had a smoke")25 America - Simon & Garfunkel ("We smoked the last one an hour ago")26 Alright - Supergrass ("Smoke a fag, put it out")27 So Hard - Pet Shop Boys ("We've both given up smoking so whose matches are those?") BONUS POINT!28 Rock'n'Roll Suicide - David Bowie ("Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth")
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:35 (sixteen years ago)
Pursuit of Happiness -- Cigarette Dangles
― unfit octomom (rent), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)
30. Nomeansno - The Day Everything Became Nothing
"I was standing underneath a streetlight wishing I had a cigarette"
was the first song that came into my head.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)
Guided By Voices, Cigarette Tricks
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:38 (sixteen years ago)
Nick Drake, Been Smoking Too Long
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)
33 Heavy Fuel - Dire Straits ("Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right")34 Spark - Tori Amos ("She's addicted to nicotine patches.") BONUS POINT35 Nobody Home - Pink Floyd ("I've got nicotine stains on my fingers.")36 Nicotine & Gravy - Beck37 Nicotine Bomb - Mission of Burma38 Nicotine - Ani DiFranco
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 14:47 (sixteen years ago)
My favourite song about smoking:
39. Tex Williams - Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette (Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death/Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate/That you hate to make him wait/But you've gotta have another cigarette)
Also:
40. The Lucksmiths - Smokers in Love
Hmm, despite being a heavy smoker, I seem to be erring towards anti-smoking songs here. I shall have to think about positive ones.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:07 (sixteen years ago)
41. Night train - Guns n' Roses ('I smoke my cigarette with style'
― vain_bowers, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:16 (sixteen years ago)
42. Nicotine Stain (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:17 (sixteen years ago)
43. Little Billy (The Who)
^ anti-smoking song written for the American Cancer Society!
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:20 (sixteen years ago)
Rilo Kiley, Smoke Detector
― Jake Brown, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)
^44.
45. The Smithereens - Cigarette
― willem, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:49 (sixteen years ago)
46. "Another Puff" -- Jerry Reed, classic song to induce quitting
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)
47. "Soon I Will Be Gone" -- FreeNow lighting a cigarette Now knowing I will regret The way our love had to end In her room Standing alone All alone Soon I will be gone
Although I prefer Marti Jones' exquisite cover of the tune.
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)
48. "What She Said" - The Smiths"I smoke ’cos I’m hoping for an early deathAnd I need to cling to something."
― kenan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:01 (sixteen years ago)
49. Dave Van Ronk, Talking Cancer Blues50. Peggy Seeger, It's A Free World51. Infliktors, (Where'd You Get That) Cigarette
― dad a, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)
Tex Williams rules thread
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)
52. The Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction"But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smokeThe same cigarettes as me"
― kenan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:10 (sixteen years ago)
Oh yes he does (xpost re: Tex Williams)
Thought of another one:
53. It & My Computer - Sur Une Cigarette
― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:11 (sixteen years ago)
54. "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" -- Patsy Cline55. "Don't Smoke in Bed" -- Peggy Lee56. "Deep in a Dream" -- Chet Baker (falls alseep while smoking and dreams of a perfect lover who comes to him on a cloud of smoke; comes two abruptly when the burning cigarette reaches his fingers and the dream dissolves. Classic.)
See also: the whole of "Drag," k.d. lang's concept album about smoking
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)
57. Bob Seger - Turn the Page"With the echo from the amplifiers ringing in your head,You smoke the day's last cigarette, remembering what she said."
― kenan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:12 (sixteen years ago)
Damnit, "Deep in a Dream" is SO GOOD. I'd have gone with the Sinatra version, tho.
― kenan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:13 (sixteen years ago)
58. The Fall, No Xmas for John Quays. "Found talking to the cigrarette machine"
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)
54. "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" -- Patsy Cline was #10. So we are only at #57 right now.
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:16 (sixteen years ago)
Yeah, Sinatra is good on this as well. But Chet Baker personifies the idea of the rotted-out, nodding-off smoker...
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)
I am confused. #58? Princess Superstar - Quitting Smoking Song #59 Hawksley Workman - Jealous of your Cigarette
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)
60. Dramarama - Last Cigarette
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:32 (sixteen years ago)
61.Je Suis Une Cigarette - Mathieu Chedid62.Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler - Edith Piaf [she just want to forget and smooooke]
― warmsherry, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)
63. Bottle Rockets - Smoking 100s Alone
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:08 (sixteen years ago)
64. Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild Women - Sons of the Pioneers65. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Merle Travis66. Last Delicious Cigarette - Matmos
― masonna ringtones (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:11 (sixteen years ago)
Does 65 count, seeing as we've already had Tex Williams' version on the list? (I know Travis wrote it.)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)
Gah. Sorry, emil.y. I somehow missed it when scanning the thread. One of my favourites too, anyhow.
― masonna ringtones (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:20 (sixteen years ago)
66. Ashtray Heart (Capt. Beefheart)
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)
67. Why Am I So Short? (Soft Machine)
"I like to smoke and drink and ball..."
― Queueing For Latchstrings (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 17:29 (sixteen years ago)
68. Wilco - Shot In the Arm ("The ashtray says you were up all night")69. Spiritualized - Dont' Just Do Something ("And life ain't good without cigarettes..."
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 18:22 (sixteen years ago)
i just quit smoking, assholes, this aint helping me at all
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)
I'm on day 10, stevienixed!
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 18:35 (sixteen years ago)
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 18:48 (sixteen years ago)
70. MBV folks! - "Cigarette In Your Bed"
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)
71.Them - the song that goes :"one more coffee,one more cigarette,one more motinging trying to forget etc..." great song btw
― Zeno, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)
you just cant win , i think it's called
72 "Don't Smoke in Bed" - Nina Simone73 "Don't Smoke" - The Microphones74 "Chain Smoker" - Creeper Lagoon75 "Balcony Smoker" - Jenny Wilson76 "Blabber 'n Smoke" - Captain Beefheart77 "You Burn Me up I'm a Cigarette" - Robert Fripp78 "Pink Cigarette" - Mr Bungle
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)
79. Stooges-"Little Doll" ("Little doll I can't forget/Smokin' on a cigarette")
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)
80. Death Cab For Cutie - Title Track
― dad a, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)
81. Roger Miller - "Dad Blame Anything a Man Can't Quit"
l'm a two pack a day man, smoke like a fiendLike a burned out bearing in a bad machinel can't breath in the morning 'til l get myself a cigarette litl say dad blame anything a man can't quit
― drunk dudes NOTM (james k polk), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)
oooooooooooooooooh lord, help me. i was looking through my pockets for a pack. LE SIGH. i'm on hour 12. urgh
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)
Tweet, "Smoking Cigarettes" -> such a great song
good news: the twelfth hour is the worst, all the others are piss easybad news: it comes back every day, good news: and after a while only every second day...
the only reason why i didn't smoke in the last 7 months is that quitting was much more difficult than i thought. before i had always assumed i could stop at any day but i never stopped for more than 4 weeks. i don't want to waste all that energy i have put into not smoking!
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)
82 "Smoking Room" - Codeine83 "Twenty Tens (I've Been Smoking All Night)" - The Virgin Prunes
btw 32 "been smoking too long" is nick drake covering a robin frederick song
― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:06 (sixteen years ago)
84. Saved -- LaVerne BakerI used to smoke, I used to drink, I used to smoke, drink, and dance the hoochie-cooBut now I'm standin' on this corner prayin' for me and you
Albums, not songs: There's Bob Seger's "Smokin' O.P.'s" and Joe Walsh's "The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get." And does anyone remember the Midwest nu-wave band The Dancing Cigarettes?
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:38 (sixteen years ago)
SebastiAn - "Smoking Kills"
― josephcharles, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:52 (sixteen years ago)
86. I'm a Disposable Lighter (For Your Love) - Th'Cigaretz
some late 70s new wave/punk band. Their album is on Cancer Records and thanks The Ramones for equipment use and technical assistance.
― drunk dudes NOTM (james k polk), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)
87. "Glasses & Ashes & Bottles & Cans" -- Jackie & Roy
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
88. graham day & the gaolers - wanna smoke
― w/ sax (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)
89. "Flowers On The Wall" - Statler Brothers. Come on, young 'uns! 'smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo'
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)
90. "King of the Road" - Roger Miller. Also before your time"
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)
91. "Smoke (La Vie En Fumer)" - The Tubest. Oh, for fuck's sake!
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)
^^^
I mean The Tubes, of course. I'm just excited.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)
92. "I Mean It" - Romeo Void. 'The ashtray is heaped with my response to you." Ouch, Deborah.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)
93. "Cigarettes" by Greg Dulli: "The cigarettes are gonna kill me, I know/I gotta get a light before I hit the door/does anybody have a light/avec moi because I need to get right"
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 00:15 (sixteen years ago)
94. "Cigarettiquette" - Lambchop I'M SMOKING AGAIN.
95. "Fishnets and Cigarettes" - New York Dolls
96. "Chain Smoking" - Subway Sect
97. "Ping Pong Affair" - The Slits
98. "Breathing" - Kate Bush
99. "America' - Simon & Garfunkel
100. "Smokin' In the Boy's Room" - Brownsville Station
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:31 (sixteen years ago)
96. "Chain Smoking' - Subway Sect see #18 sorry
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:34 (sixteen years ago)
96. "I Can't Forget" - Leonard Cohen
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:37 (sixteen years ago)
101 Benny Spellman – Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)
― Bill E, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:38 (sixteen years ago)
PS I don't smoke right now. I quit in 1986, and if you are quitting now it should encourage you to know that it got much easier after the 21st year.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:50 (sixteen years ago)
102. Super Furry Animals - "Let's Quit Smoking"
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)
103. Ry Cooder, "Fool for a Cigarette"104. Gary Stewart, "Caffein [sic], Nicotine, Benzedrine"
― eddhurt, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:15 (sixteen years ago)
99. "America' - Simon & Garfunkel didn't see #25 Alex so
99. "America" - Yes Well, that's too easy. One of my favorites then: "Sensual Seduction" by Snoop Dogg. It was that or "Fodderstompf" by PIL which does not mention smoking but acts it out with that godforsaken cough.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:35 (sixteen years ago)
100. "Easy Skanking" - Bob Marley
― youcangoyourownway, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:38 (sixteen years ago)
^^^^^
I"Fodderstompf" DOES mention smoking: "I’m just gonna go and get a cigarette do you want oneYes please Wont be a secondOkay"
I had to go listen to it after thinking about it. I haven't heard it in about, oh never mind it's nauseating to think of how many decades. It's just as I remembered it.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:46 (sixteen years ago)
106(?) Les Paul & Mary Ford - "Smoke Rings"107(?) Chicory Tip - "Cigarettes, Women and Wine"
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)
39. Tex Williams - Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette (Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death/Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate/That you hate to make him wait/But you've gotta have another cigarette)B-b-b-b-but no one knew cigarettes were bad for you in 1947!
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)
everyone knew it. that is why smoking was cool. these days the importance of the length of life is so totally fucking overstated.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)
I vote for these!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 November 2021 01:48 (four years ago)
The Chats - Smoko
― enochroot, Friday, 5 November 2021 03:25 (four years ago)
the kd lang album
― brimstead, Friday, 5 November 2021 03:28 (four years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7BW2br4Rc
― The Speak Of The Mearns (Jonathan Hellion Mumble), Friday, 5 November 2021 22:06 (four years ago)
https://img.discogs.com/I245JPD5yvo4hxJLyETp4Kb0mkM=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13412686-1553717876-3218.jpeg.jpg
https://www.discogs.com/release/13412686-Various-Smoke-Smoke-Smoke-That-Cigarette
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 6 November 2021 00:27 (four years ago)
should we make anything of the fact that Lorde and Addison Rae both released singles this year that prominently mention cigarettes?
― jaymc, Saturday, 19 July 2025 16:40 (five months ago)
Last summer i remember thinking it weird that, when walking around the city, i'd noticed more people smoking cigarettes than usual (ie. not just outside bars) with many of them being younger women.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 19 July 2025 17:33 (five months ago)
The only solution is one song about smoking 100 cigarettes.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 19 July 2025 20:04 (five months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujFDyK5uiew
― Proust Ian Rush (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 July 2025 20:22 (five months ago)
xp if this didn't move the needle nothing will:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQeuHHPf_uM
― henry s, Saturday, 19 July 2025 23:33 (five months ago)
Dang! In any event, Brooke Shields anti-smoking PSA.
― henry s, Saturday, 19 July 2025 23:34 (five months ago)
The Birthday Party Friendcatcher has Icy Cigarette fingers puff and poke and a couple of other references.
― Stevo, Sunday, 20 July 2025 09:46 (five months ago)
This one came up in my feed a few days back. Bit on the nose as advertising, but I thought it was a pretty good tune. Cool truck in the video and hey gold plated machine guns are kinda classy.
FUERZA REGIDA - MARLBORO ROJO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddkbVYutRXA
― earlnash, Sunday, 20 July 2025 11:20 (five months ago)
Matias Aguayo - I Don’t Smoke
― ed.b, Sunday, 20 July 2025 11:34 (five months ago)
Hefner -- The Hymn for the Cigarettes
― Blood On The Knobs, Monday, 21 July 2025 18:36 (five months ago)
Cool truck in the video and hey gold plated machine guns are kinda classy.
plus he does his best dice clay impression at the end. hilarious video
― budo jeru, Monday, 21 July 2025 19:18 (five months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsZb9U0_T9U
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 21 July 2025 21:32 (five months ago)
Alvarius B. "Smokin' to Live"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGnujRSmwQ
― willem, Monday, 21 July 2025 22:14 (five months ago)
lefty frizelle - cigarettes and coffee bluesmiranda lambert - me and your cigarettes
― lil $CHUB (Spottie), Monday, 21 July 2025 22:15 (five months ago)