Farin Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 from Listverse.com Cocaine has had a significant impact on popular music. While booze is far more likely to result in sloppy work and an unsightly beer gut in middle age, coke leaves you wired enough to ensure that you will produce a whole lot of something, and thus ups the odds that you will actually produce something good. Keith Richards may have fallen out of a tree in Fiji while out of his gourd on other than vitamin supplements, but he is what rock n’ roll is all about: debauchery. And, while a sober Eric Clapton was quoted as saying, “I hate listening to my old records, which I did stoned or drunk,†he’s alone in that camp as most fans of his music hate listening to anything that he’s done straight. Keith Richards’ entire career, Neil Young’s coked out performance at “The Last Waltzâ€, Stevie Nicks having built up such a tolerance to cocaine that she had to have it blown up her rectum to get a high (this never happened, apparently, but is nonetheless one of the more entertaining urban legends), cocaine use is an integral part of the rock-star lifestyle. It’s what young boys dream about: One day, if I practice enough and work on perfecting my skills as a singer-songwriter, I too will be able to snort cocaine off of the breasts of a vacant-eyed stripper whose name I’ll forget before I’m back on the tour bus and liquidating a savings account by mobile phone to settle debts with unsavory characters. Here we have compiled a list of the Top 10 Cocaine Songs of all time — songs about, influenced by, and more than likely written on clouds of Peruvian marching powder: Top 10 Cocaine Songs Of All Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 Nice list but they forgot this one . . . Drinkin' Cocaine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 Heaven forbid a rap should be considered a song, but the first one I thought of was White Lines by Grandmaster Flash. Ticket to ride, white line highway Tell all your friends, they can go my way Pay your toll, sell your soul Pound for pound costs more than gold The longer you stay, the more you pay My white lines go a long way Either up your nose or through your vein With nothin' to gain except killin' your brain. The video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 That's the first one that came to my mind also Kari, but I was thinking of the version he did with Duran Duran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted July 4, 2008 Report Share Posted July 4, 2008 What about Snowblind Friend? That was the first one that came to my mind. Snowblind Friend I actually prefer it by Hoyt Axton. Snowblindfriend I was going to nominate this for the 10 but forgot. Maybe I'll do it this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udo Posted July 4, 2008 Report Share Posted July 4, 2008 What, no Aerosmith? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted July 4, 2008 Report Share Posted July 4, 2008 Right up there close to the top ten should be Rev. Gary Davis doing Cocaine Blues later covered by Jackson Browne on the Running On Empty album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydaholic Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Would My Drug Buddy by Lemonheads count as a cocaine song? You can tell just by looking at the video that they were probably all on heroin at the time. So they must have used Cocaine aswell. The song doesn't mention any names of drugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 It may just be plain ol' marijuana though... that's more of a 'drug buddy' kinda drug. It's more likely to have "leftovers" (there's still some of the same stuff we got yesterday) and also more likely to induce feelings of "I love... my drug buddy." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ombre Vivante Posted August 23, 2008 Report Share Posted August 23, 2008 I can't believe they'd skip David Bowie's "Station To Station." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kayla Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Most of pop singers using cocaine before they starting the program. Actually its habit of the singers. without that they can't play their on style, they hope so. -------------- kayla Crackcocaine Addictiontreatment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Say what now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 3, 2008 Report Share Posted September 3, 2008 Most of pop singers using cocaine before they starting the program. Actually its habit of the singers. without that they can't play their on style, they hope so. -------------- kayla Crackcocaine Addictiontreatment I really appreciate your zealot fervor approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polarsyn Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I couldn't believe Jackson Browne's song "Cocaine" wasn't on the list either. Good song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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