ANTI DRUG & DRUG SONGS

"Drug" songs

First We Take Manhattan - LEONARD COHEN (1988 / the drugs that keep you thin)
I Want A New Drug - HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS (1983)
Love Is The Drug - ROXY MUSIC (1975), SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE JUKES (1984)
Love Is A Stranger - EURYTHMICS (1982 / love is a dangerous drug)
Sex & Drugs & Rock’n’roll - IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS (1977)




Cocaine in songs

Across 110th Street - BOBBY WOMACK (1972/3)
Cocaine - J.J. CALE (1976 & 1977), ERIC CLAPTON (1977)

Cocane In My Brain - DILLINGER (1976)

Cocaine Decisions - FRANK ZAPPA (LP The Man From Utopia, 1983)
Der Kommissar - FALCO (1982 / Den "Schnee" auf dem wir alle Talwärts fahr'n)
Ganz Wien - FALCO (1982 / Ist heut auf Heroin...träumt mit Mozambin... greift auch zu  Kokain)

My Love - KOVACS (2014 / My love, no more whiskey and cocaine)
No Coke - DR. ALBAN (1990)
God Part II - U2 (LP Rattle & hum, 1988 / I don’t believe in cocaine, I got a speedball in my head)
I Get A Kick Out Of You - FRANK SINATRA (1962 / Some they may go for cocaine)
Kokain - EXTRABREIT (1983)
Loser - BECK (1994 / cocaine nose job)
Maracaibo - LU COLOMBO (1980 & 1982 / cokaina)
Make Your Own Way - CINDERELLA (1990 / drove me to cocaine eyes by the age of 15)
Smuggler’s Blues - GLEN FREY (1984 / cocaine, hash)
Sugar Walls - SHEENA EASTON (1984 / written by Alexander Nevermind a.k.a. Prince)
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - GRANDMASTER FLASH (1984), DURAN DURAN (1995)
You Could Be Mine - GUNS N' ROSES (1991 / and your cocaine tongue)




Heroin in songs

Big in Japan - ALPHAVILLE (1984)

Golden Brown-THE STRANGLERS (1982)
Heroin - VELVET UNDERGROUND (1967 / Heroin, be the death of me... Heroin, it’s my wife & it’s my life)
Hurt-NINE INCH NAILS (1995), JOHNNY CASH (2002)
King Heroin - JAMES BROWN (1972)

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - DANDY WARHOLS (1998 / heroin is so passe)
Snowblind - STYX (1981)
Under The Bridge-RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (1991)
You Are My Heroin - BOY GEORGE (LP Tense nervous breakdown, 1988)


see:
Ενας Νέγρος Θερμαστής από το Τζιμπουτί - ΒΑΣΙΛΗΣ ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ (1979 / Μου `λεγε πώς καπνίζουνε στο Αλγέρι το χασίς και στο Άντεν πώς χορεύοντας πίνουν την άσπρη σκόνη)




Various

Along Comes Mary - THE ASSOCIATION (1966 / Mary: Marijuana)
Ashes To Ashes - DAVID BOWIE (1980 / We know Major Tom's a junkie)
Brown Sugar - ROLLING STONES (1971)

Burnt By The Sun - SOPHIE SOLOMON feat. RICHARD HAWLEY (2005 / Prozac)
Captain Jack - BILLY JOEL (LP Piano Man, 1973)
Changes - TUPAC (1998 / give the crack to the kids who the hell cares... more black & white are smoking crack tonight)
Country House - BLUR (1995 / knocking back Prozac)
La Cucaracha - TRADITIONAL MEXICAN SONG (piano puede caminar, porque no tiene, porque le palta, marijuana que fumar)
Don’t Mess With Dr.Dream - THOMPSON TWINS (1985)
Down Under - MEN AT WORK (1982 / full of zombie / zombie: Australian slang for Marijuana)
Eight Miles High - BYRDS (1966)

First Six Months Of Love - MICHELLE GUREVICH (Gone on a serotonin ride, 2016)
Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) - MARVIN GAYE (1971)

The Future-LEONARD COHEN (1992 / give me crack & anal sex)
Got To Get You Into My Life-THE BEATLES (1966 / the song refers ro Marijuana)
Hanging Around - THE STRANGLERS (1977)
Hassan I Sahba - HAWKWIND (1977 / hashish)

I Got 5 On It - LUNIZ (1995 / refers to Marijuana)
I’m Waiting For The Man - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (1967),VANESSA PARADIS (1992)
Itchycoo Park-SMALL FACES (1967 / What did you do there? I got high)
Johnny - THIN LIZZY (1976 / he broke into a drugstore to cure his daily need / over just a little dope / just another juiced up junkie)
Legalize it / Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (1976 / 1978, Marijuana)

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - BEATLES, ELTON JOHN (LSD)
Me Gustas Tu - MANU CHAO (2001 / Marijuana)
Mr. Tambourine Man - BOB DYLAN (1965-1966), BYRDS (1966)
Monkey - GEORGE MICHAEL (1987)
Mothers Little Helper - ROLLING STONES (1966)
My Brother's A Basshead - DE LA SOUL (1991 / about crack addicts)
Narcotic - LIQUIDO (1997 / Mary Jane)
Numbers - SOFT CELL (1983 / you're looking so thin these days, are you doing speed)
Original Prankster - OFFSPRING (Prozac can make it better)
Pretty Paracetamol - FISHER Z (1979)
Puff The Magic Dragon - PETER PAUL & MARY (1963 / OST Meet the parents: R. DE NIRRO & BEN STILLER)

Queen Of ChinaTown - AMANDA LEAR (1977 / opium queen)
Say No Go - DE LA SOUL (1989)
Senorita-JAMES (2001 / Mary Jane's on the game again: Marijuana - also see: Serotonin)
She Took My Soul In Istanbul - MARC ALMOND (1988 / hashish)
Sign O The Times - PRINCE (1987 / she came across the needle... high on crack)
Sister Morphine -THE ROLLING STONES (1969)
Special K - PLACEBO (2000 / Ketamine)
That Smell - LYNYRD SKYNYRD (1977 / got a monkey on your back)
The Pusher - STEPPENWOLF (1967)
Time To Pretend - MGMT (2005)
White Rabbit - JEFFERSON AIRPLANE (1967)
LP & single: Psychocandy - JESUS &MARY CHAIN (1985 / Marijuana)

see:
Ταξιδιάρα Ψυχή - ΤΡΥΠΕΣ (1985)
Τι Να Σου Προσφέρω-2002 GR (1983)

Bands named after drug related terms

DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS

DOOBIE BROTHERS, THE

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

JESUS & MARY CHAIN, THE

MARY JANE GIRLS
MOTÖRHEAD
PROZAC