What's The Connection? Heroin 1

This connection is of songs with the word Heroin appearing in the title. Not too difficult. I'll have to post songs "about" Heroin later. There are plenty. If I didn't hate needles so much, this could have been a problem for me when I was younger. Luckily I do hate needles. Heroin, I can't say I do, but I've stayed away as much as possible. After all these years, there still is no song that conveys this drug better than the Velvet Underground.

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01 Boy George - You Are My Heroin

02 Sam Dees - Signed Miss Heroin

03 Lana Del Rey - Heroin

04 James Brown - King Heroin

05 Enuff Z'nuff - My Heroin

06 Velvet Underground - Heroin

07 Muslimgauze - Heroin Smuggler

08 System Of A Down - She's Like Heroin

09 All - World's On Heroin

10 The Cure - Heroin Face

11 Gun Club - She's Like Heroin To Me

12 The Flaming Lips - Jesus Shootin' Heroin

13 Cheap Trick - Waitin' for the Man-Heroin' (Live)

14 Drive-By Truckers - Heroin Again

15 Billy Idol - Heroin

16 Everclear - Heroin Girl

17 New Model Army - Heroin (12' Mix)

Just Say Yes...No...Maybe...3

This is the last pick of the series (for now) so make suggestions in the comments if I missed something you think I should add to a future volume (I still have a few left to add.) I like that the very last track on each of these volumes is a short bit. Today's bit is from the Hair Broadway show. Growing up that soundtrack had great meaning to me. It was one of the few non-jazz albums in our house growing up. My mom and dad used to host dance parties in the early 70's where I used to play the records. They mostly ballroom danced (our garage had linoleum tiled floors and a dropped ceiling and a bar so they could dance.) I played records and tended bar with my brothers for all my parent's friends. Lots of fun. But she claimed that the Hair soundtrack was an album that someone else brought to our house and left at one of their parties. I don't know about that because my mom and dad dressed pretty "groovy" (as Greg Brady used to say). Anyway, I used to listen to it a lot. The whole thing is about being a hippy on drugs.

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43 Catatonia - Is Everybody Here On Drugs

44 Marilyn Manson - I Don`t Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)

45 Lords Of Acid - Marijuana In Your Brain

46 Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - Hustlers Convention

47 Kim Fowley - The Trip

48 The Jazz Butcher - She's on Drugs

49 Rick James - Mary Jane

50 Steppenwolf - The Pusher

51 Huey Lewis and the News - I Want A New Drug

52 Electronica - Coke, Sex, Drugs

53 Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla

54 20-20 - Yellow Pills

55 Translator - Favorite Drug

56 Neil Young & The Restless - Cocaine Eyes

57 The Verve - The Drugs Don`t Work

58 Robby Fulks - She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)

59 Nashville Pussy - You Give Drugs A Bad Name

60 Courtney Love - All The Drugs

61 Hair Company - Be-In

Just Say Yes...No...Maybe... 2

Once you get started on this pick, you notice so many songs that are about drugs. Some with a message like Grandmaster Melle Mel and some that are just about drugs being fun like Buckcherry and everything in between. A couple of good covers in here. Storm and The Balls mashing up two songs in a brilliant way is so good. Nina Hagen from a soundtrack covering Knocking On Heaven's Door, but changing the lyrics to talk about her relationship with heroin addict Herman Brood is another brilliant song. Some of my highlights on this series. I also love The Stairs and their psychedelic Weed Bus. I got that as a promo CD single years ago and it made me want to find the whole album (also good). System 01 features Timothy Leary - hard to get more druggy than that.

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21 Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

22 Buckcherry - Lit Up

23 Weezer - We Are All On Drugs

24 Sly and the Revolutionaries - Cocaine

25 Black Slate - Legalize Collie Herb

26 Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines

27 Lydia Lunch with The Anubian Lights - Champagne Cocaine Nicotine Stains

28 Storm and The Balls - Star Spangled Pushernoia

29 Motel21 - Drug Addict (Monoloop Remix)

30 System 01 - From Psychodelics to Cybernetics

31 The Toyes - Smoke Two Joints

32 Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned

33 Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

34 Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 and 35

35 Nina Hagen - Herman's Door

36 The Velvet Underground & Nico - I'm Waiting For The Man

37 Stairs - Weed Bus

38 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Tell Me About Your Drugs

39 The Cramps - Drug Train

40 Murderdolls - I Take Drugs

41 Nashville Pussy - She's Got the Drugs

42 Cheech & Chong - Acupulco Gold Filters

Just Say Yes...No...Maybe... 1

I got the idea for this pick from the title from the old commercials during the 80's, Reagan Era anti-drug campaigns. These are all drug songs. Some anti drugs, some pro drugs and some a little ambivalent. Hence the Yes, No, Maybe. All the songs are about drugs in one sense or the other. I'm Libertarian, so I think it's up to you. Make your own judgement as long as you are an adult and we'll judge your actions. So these include my favorite drug songs in several volumes, some covers and some originals. It covers the genre spectrum and there is at least one song in each volume that you will hate (and hopefully many you will like). Let me know what drug songs I am missing in the comments and maybe I will include them on later volumes, if they aren't already on the way.

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01 Soft Boys - Cold Turkey

02 Peter Tosh - Legalize It

03 The Tubes - White Punks On Dope

04 NWA - Dopeman (Remix)

05 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit

06 This Mortal Coil - Drugs

07 The Velvet Underground & Nico - Heroin

08 Eric Clapton - Cocaine

09 Frank Zappa - Cocaine Decisions

10 Pato Banton - Don't Sniff Coke

11 Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

12 Dead Kennedys - Drug Me

13 Simpletones - I Like Drugs

14 The Golfers - I Used To Do Drugs

15 The Fall - Totally Wired

16 Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey

17 General Kane - Crack Killed Applejack

18 Jackson Browne - Cocaine

19 Dillinger - Cocaine In My Brain

20 Jackson Browne - Cocaine Ending