Top 10 Anti-Drug Classic Rock Songs
The saying "sex, drugs and rock & roll" was created because it has basis in fact. Rock stars are well known for their excesses with women and mind altering substances. Drugs have ended the lives of many talented musicians and have ended the careers of many more.
An anti-drug rock song sounds like an oxymoron. But in fact, those who've seen the destructive power of drugs up close can produce a much more powerful anti-drug message than any tax-rich, government PSA writer.
Many of the anti-drug songs in this list were inspired by first hand experience. Each one is delivered not only with musical credibility, but with subject matter credibility as well. Not all of these bands practiced what they preached consistently during their careers, so my suggestion is do as they say, not as they do.
These are, in my opinion, the top 10 anti-drug classic rock songs ever recorded. If you disagree, please add to the comments which songs you would drop, and what you would replace them. But remember they need to fall within the genre of "classic rock".
Top 10 Anti-Drug Classic Rock Songs
1. Heroin - The Velvet Underground
2. The Needle And The Damage Done - Neil Young
3. That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Cocaine - Eric Clapton
5. Mr. Brownstone - Guns N' Roses
6. The Pusher - Steppenwolf
7. Amphetamine Annie - Canned Heat
8. Kicks - Paul Revere & the Raiders
9. Suicide Solution - Ozzy Osbourne
10. Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead
Honorable mention: Cold Turkey - John Lennon
And why do Iget the feeling that there is one missing...Gotta rack my brain for it...
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"Hotel California-The Eagles"
It begins the char. coming from the desert(hard times). He is giving up, and going to the hotel. The Hotel is actually a drug, that could "Be Heaven or Hell". The "Lit up candle" that showed him the way is a reference to a drug. The impact is "A beautiful place". Now the woman has a lot friends, who dance to "remember and dance to forget."
Now, the friends are only in it for the drugs, and dance is actually taking the drug either to remember a good time, or forget a bad time. Then he gets all deep into it and he gets a compliment from the captain, who refers to 1969, the year the Church of Satan was founded. Some take it as a reference to Satanism, but I think this 'captain' is Satan who is glad to have another druggie with "enthuthaism".
Then the woman says that they are prisoners of their own device, or that they are addicted to drugs. Ultimately, they can't kill the beast (the addiction), and they can never leave.
That's my take on it, and I am sure that there is another Eagles song that references to the evil of drugs (they did that kind of thing), but I could be wrong.
About Cocaine addiction
"Mama Told Me Not To Come" by Three Dog Night
Sweet Leaf - black sabbath (marajuana)
Feel good hit of the summer - queens of the stoneage (nicotine,valium,vicidon,marajuana,ecstacy,alcohol...cccc cocaine)
And Gerrygross49, Sabbaths Hand of Doom...what an awesome tune that is!
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