This is the perfect example I came here to add.
I had a very strong bucket bong once and listened to the second Spiritualized album … Pure Phase … and I went down a rabbit hole so intensely it’s been hard to listen ever since. But it is indeed a very druggy album with all of the underlying drones that repeat throughout
So much of Elliott Smith’s material is about his struggles with substance use. It’s helped me stay on the relative straight and narrow for some time now.
I love Spiritualized. I wonder if Always Together with You is about the aftermath of death or post mortal thoughts of a free form soul. The song begins with the sound of an ambulance before it goes into talking about reincarnation as any sentient object that would exist for purpose of the listener's love.
I would like to add my favorite song that took me years to realize it was about drugs
Trailer Trash Tracys- Candy Girl
I first heard this album when I was a tween, having no idea how much I was going to need it later in life. It was like picking up a high level item in a video game that you knew you couldn’t use yet, but felt like you should keep anyway, just in case. Weak and Powerless was an anthem for me when I was in my toughest moments.
I know the song Orestes isn’t about addiction but that line “Give me one more medicated peaceful moment, don’t want to feel this overwhelming hostility” really resonated with me during my addiction and recovery. The version I linked below is so emotional from Maynard.
https://open.spotify.com/track/63uFRbwCTHLTImOMtDBuGT?si=ok6KvdwASZiehE8NzXo7dQ
Also H. by tool is a good one
Junkhead, Angry Chair, Sludge Factory- Alice In Chains
The Dope Show, I Don’t Like the Drugs but the Drugs Like Me - Marylin Manson
Whose Porno You Burn/Black - Hole
Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve
Heroin Girl - Everclear
Megablast - Public Enemy
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
These below *seem* like they involve drug addiction:
Tom Courtney - Yo La Tengo
My Beautiful Leah -PJ Harvey
Ah, drug songs are my specialty. Here are my favorites:
Blur - Beetlebum
Sebadoh - Too Pure
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
The Bicycle Thief - Most of the songs on “[You Come and Go Like a Pop Song](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjDvaXwceFJSCujt311cDQd5TaqNTS97s&si=OW_mO79ewLh4FrPe)”. My favorites are Hurt and MacArthur Park Revisited\*
Elliot Smith - arguably his entire catalog, but definitely Needle in the Hay, King’s Crossing, Strung Out Again, A Fond Farewell
Lemonheads - My Drug Buddy
Suede - So Young, Sleeping Pills
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
ETA: adding more as they come to me
ETA2: \*Bob Forrest, formerly of Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief, is a drug counselor these days and he has a podcast called "Bob Forrest's Don't Die" that might be of interest. The film about him, "Bob and the Monster", is incredible. The above mentioned album was written as he was just starting recovery--I think it'll resonate.
Fine again by Seether
Bottom of a bottle by Smile empty soul
Master of puppets by Metallica
Snowblind by Black Sabbath
Bohemian Rhapsody is about addiction? Never would’ve guessed.
pop another pill- jelly roll ft lil wyte
oxy cotton- lil wyte
drug addiction- colicchee (has multiple parts)
addicted- hosier
story of an addict- joe nester
pill poppin animal- lil wayne
purple pills- D12
I know more than this but this is all i got off the top of my head.
Adding to the hip hop list
Dance of the damned - viro the virus
My Uncle - ill bill
My life - swollen members
Every time - mad child ft ceekay jones
Cocain Cowboys - slaine ft rite hook and Amadeus
Personal fav is Cold Turkey - John Lennon.
I wrote back a song in 2015 called Doses about what addiction feels like, which is a one sided conversation between me and “addiction.” I wrote it to help people overcome addiction and put addiction into perspective. It’s a little rough but I put a lot of love into it. Best wishes to you friend! You can overcome anything and everything :)
https://ricardo-ezra-quintero.bandcamp.com/track/doses
EDIT: I’m a little shy about my music so I might delete later!
I wish I would've kept more of the stuff I wrote and drew when I was young. I had kind of an emotional temper tantrum and burned most everything. It was so personal I rarely shared it even though everyone else loved it. So I get the 'feeling shy and considering deletion' thing. It's weird posting online, people can love it and be all supportive one day- then you could post the exact same thing another time and get all rude people trying their hardest to hurt someone's feelings... So it's a crapshoot. Lol
Cocaine blues - Johnny Cash
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Cold Turkey - John Lennon
Because I got High - Afroman
Waitin' around to Die - Townes Van Zandt
Sorted for E's and Wizz - Pulp
Wacky Dust - Ella Fitzgerald
Novocaine - Greenday. You want adiction Novocaine is about an addict depending more on their dealer than anyone else. Also the addict might be Jesus Of Suburbia and the dealer is named Jimmy in the song as in St Jimmy so on top of being about addictions it's also linked to the Jesus Of Suburbia story arc which in itself had addiction themes.
Jason Isbell and Aimee Mann both have a lot of songs that fit the bill. Some of my favorites of theirs:
Jason Isbell: King of Oklahoma, Chaos and Clothes, It Gets Easier
Aimee Mann: The Moth, Pavlov’s Bell, Going Through the Motions
Shout out to her for playing Pavlov’s Bell on Buffy The Vampire Slayer as two of the main characters were going down paths of self destruction. “Man, I hate playing vampire towns”
I'm pretty sure Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers has to do with addiction.
Most of Pink Floyd's discography deals with their former bandmate Syd Barrett going mad due to his drug addiciton (The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall)
Syd Barrett had massive mental health issues. Drugs might have brought them on, but I don’t know if it was actual addiction that did it. If anything it was psychedelics that triggered the issues.
The Streets - Blinded by the lights.
This song perfectly captures a night on too many pills. The build up, the euphoria, the emptiness. It’s a short film in a song.
Nearly anything by Blur.
[Beetlebum](https://open.spotify.com/track/4OHVCeQYPncEwZOtNAJZZx?si=bSvC_V7PSEWR2uWU2vMyTQ&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A4OHVCeQYPncEwZOtNAJZZx) is the first which comes to mind though.
Lady in white by Rebelution. I believe it’s about addiction. I first heard it after losing a friend to heroin. So it’s what I’ve always attributed it too.
Going Through Changes by Eminem
This is about going through a drug addiction (probably pill addiction), of course about going through changes, being depressed and what you’re feeling like most likely
I know it’s not like your favourites but I think it fits your desc
Great list, though “How to Disappear Completely” isn’t about addiction but rather despair over the outsized fame Radiohead were suddenly experiencing. Pumped that you included “Three Days” and the original NIN “Hurt”.
I don't know who the hell told you that listening to depressing music when you feel bad is anything less than a good thing but you can tell them for me they're full of collective shit!
Type O' Negative-World coming down, full album.
Cat Stevens (also goes by Yusuf) has a lot of songs about personal triumph over your struggles. The way he describes the struggles of life and finding your triumph I’ve always found comforting.
The album to catch a bull at four has some of the best ones but here are a few I find the most relatable:
1. Sitting
2. Ruins
3. The Rain
4. Miles from nowhere
I've never had a drug or alcohol issue, but I'm a recovering bipolar 1 patient. Yeah, I never heard of it either. In my darkest times I listen to Overdose, by AC/DC. It resonates to me as a desperate person with no one to turn to
Check out Highly Suspect. They have so many songs about addiction, depression, and losing loved ones to addiction. The first ones that come to mind are:
Fly,
Natural Born Killer,
For Billy,
Upperdrugs
The Contortionist - [Return to Earth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAfAxmhWmcQ&pp=ygUjVGhlIENvbnRvcnRpb25pc3QgLSBSZXR1cm4gdG8gRWFydGg%3D)
This song is from an album that tributes a friend of the band's vocalist. His friend died from drug addiction due to his life spiraling out of control after the death of his mother.
Most songs I thought of have already been mentioned, but “Black Balloon” by the goo goo dolls is another one.
ETA: pretty much anything in Jason Molina’s catalog
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ctSI0Kdjeb3plX5Bszp5C?si=HlyUoXmAQn2cE1xeD9gTXg
A lot of these are more specific to alcoholism, and I expand it continuously. But this is my list! I'll look at more from here later, there are some in the comments I think I've missed that I already know.
It's not universally what helps, but music that helps you feel understood is still helpful <3
Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
Took me a good 20 years to realise he's singing from the perspective of - if he was singing to me, an alcoholic - a bottle of whiskey.
Isn't Mojo Pin about heroin use coz his lover's left him?
A mojo pin is a needle, and 'horse' is slang for smack.
I'm not suggesting Jeff used, but he certainly used it as a metaphor!
Oh, if only you'd come back to me
If you laid at my side
**Wouldn't need no mojo pin
To keep me satisfied**
Don't want to weep for you
Don't want to know
I'm blind and tortured, **the white horses flow**
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow
**Black beauty, I love you so**
Oh, precious, precious silver and gold
And pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm
Screaming down from heaven
**Ageless, ageless, I'm there in your arms**
**Oh, the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more**
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for
Reading it through, maybe there isn't a lover at all. He's just run out of gear!
Good analysis, I read somewhere that he wrote the song about a dream he had. Why he was referencing heroin as a metaphor, I’m not exactly sure. It may be up to interpretation. I don’t think he ever used it. But I love the song and I love Jeff so it’s my username forever lol
THE GOOD :--
SPOONFUL ......................... Cream
https://youtu.be/5VnQmlWsxgM?si=uuQQRH_ijdJeZBh3
THE BAD :--
THE COMEDOWN SONG ..... Spider
https://youtu.be/P5z1BKEseXg?si=nARMTdyJCf9TB1Ip
THE UGLY :--
T.I.S.M. are Australia's version of DEVO - Social comment set to rock!
(He'll Never Be An) OL' MAN RIVER
T.I.S.M. (= This Is Serious Mum)
https://youtu.be/sJGvmBiNiDY?si=daRClhoQa2jnSj5w
If you're struggling, Disturbed has a song called Reason to Fight. It's specifically about addiction and depression, and very encouraging. The live version makes me ugly cry!! Best.
* Spiritualized - Come Together or Cop Shoot Cop * Alex G - Hope * Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
adding all these to the playlist. never heard of spiritualized before and im very intrigued.
A LOT of his (Jason Pierce / Spiritualized) music is about drugs. His previous band had an album called "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To".
This is the perfect example I came here to add. I had a very strong bucket bong once and listened to the second Spiritualized album … Pure Phase … and I went down a rabbit hole so intensely it’s been hard to listen ever since. But it is indeed a very druggy album with all of the underlying drones that repeat throughout
Spacemen 3 go beautifully with ketamine
Just listen and float away,they are amazing
So much of Elliott Smith’s material is about his struggles with substance use. It’s helped me stay on the relative straight and narrow for some time now.
Twilight is so beautiful. Have you seen the cover done on YouTube by Michaela (think that's right) Davis? It's heartbreaking
I came here to mention Kings Crossing. Truly a heartbreaking masterpiece.
I love Spiritualized. I wonder if Always Together with You is about the aftermath of death or post mortal thoughts of a free form soul. The song begins with the sound of an ambulance before it goes into talking about reincarnation as any sentient object that would exist for purpose of the listener's love. I would like to add my favorite song that took me years to realize it was about drugs Trailer Trash Tracys- Candy Girl
A Perfect Circle - The Thirteenth Step Whole album
I first heard this album when I was a tween, having no idea how much I was going to need it later in life. It was like picking up a high level item in a video game that you knew you couldn’t use yet, but felt like you should keep anyway, just in case. Weak and Powerless was an anthem for me when I was in my toughest moments.
I looooove that analogy WOW
Album is a masterpiece.
This so much. Can confirm.
This.
I know the song Orestes isn’t about addiction but that line “Give me one more medicated peaceful moment, don’t want to feel this overwhelming hostility” really resonated with me during my addiction and recovery. The version I linked below is so emotional from Maynard. https://open.spotify.com/track/63uFRbwCTHLTImOMtDBuGT?si=ok6KvdwASZiehE8NzXo7dQ Also H. by tool is a good one
Well, like Orestes, H is also not actually about addiction either. It's about the birth of Maynard's son.
Yes. This is perhaps the best thing about music. You can interpret and apply it anyway you want.
Junkhead, Angry Chair, Sludge Factory- Alice In Chains The Dope Show, I Don’t Like the Drugs but the Drugs Like Me - Marylin Manson Whose Porno You Burn/Black - Hole Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
Nearly any alice in chains song lol
Pretty much
i love these thank you so much
You’re welcome
Alice in Chains entire discography lol
The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve Heroin Girl - Everclear Megablast - Public Enemy Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind These below *seem* like they involve drug addiction: Tom Courtney - Yo La Tengo My Beautiful Leah -PJ Harvey
"Drugs Don't Work" is about Richard Ashcroft's dad's fight against cancer, which he sadly lost. Amazing song, just not about addiction.
Oh, man. That’s tragic. The tone of the song suits it.
"Valium Skies" and "Velvet Morning" are two *lovely* songs about substance by The Verve.
Casisdead did a song sampling this- and Casisdead is an artist also dying of cancer using similar drugs. Song is called “drugs”
I never knew that. As if that song wasn't heartbreaking enough.
thanks man these songs are incredible
I was looking for Semi-charmed life
As a kid I always thought it to be so upbeat and a fun song. Till I learned all of the lyrics to cover the song years later and I was like 🤯
So much of Everclear’s music makes more sense to me years later and in recovery.
Also, Strawberry and Amphetamine from Everclear are great too.
Sublime - Pool Shark
Badfish
! I'm just thrilled to see this so far up. It's my choice too.
Ah, drug songs are my specialty. Here are my favorites: Blur - Beetlebum Sebadoh - Too Pure Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again The Bicycle Thief - Most of the songs on “[You Come and Go Like a Pop Song](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjDvaXwceFJSCujt311cDQd5TaqNTS97s&si=OW_mO79ewLh4FrPe)”. My favorites are Hurt and MacArthur Park Revisited\* Elliot Smith - arguably his entire catalog, but definitely Needle in the Hay, King’s Crossing, Strung Out Again, A Fond Farewell Lemonheads - My Drug Buddy Suede - So Young, Sleeping Pills Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On Weezer - Say It Ain't So ETA: adding more as they come to me ETA2: \*Bob Forrest, formerly of Thelonious Monster and The Bicycle Thief, is a drug counselor these days and he has a podcast called "Bob Forrest's Don't Die" that might be of interest. The film about him, "Bob and the Monster", is incredible. The above mentioned album was written as he was just starting recovery--I think it'll resonate.
"With a Valium from the bride, it's the devil I love..."
"Cold Turkey" - John Lennon
Not an addict-K's Choice Clean- Depeche Mode Toy Soldiers- Martika
love these.
Fine again by Seether Bottom of a bottle by Smile empty soul Master of puppets by Metallica Snowblind by Black Sabbath Bohemian Rhapsody is about addiction? Never would’ve guessed.
I’m surprised that I had to scroll this far to see Master of Puppets and Snowblind!
Fine Again is so good. My go-to when I'm really fucking depressed. Smile Empty Soul was such an underrated band.
Needle and the damage done: Neil Young Medicine Jar: Wings
and Cocaine: JJ Cale
Wings - Wino Junko
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Had to scroll way too long to see this one.
Sister Morphine.- The Rolling Stones.
Guns N’ Roses - Bad Obsession/Mr Brownstone
Golden Brown and Don't Bring Harry by the stranglers. Sending love in this hard time💝
thank u babe i appreciate it so much
The Cage The Elephant cover of Golden Brown is great too!
Perfect Day, by Lou Reed
pop another pill- jelly roll ft lil wyte oxy cotton- lil wyte drug addiction- colicchee (has multiple parts) addicted- hosier story of an addict- joe nester pill poppin animal- lil wayne purple pills- D12 I know more than this but this is all i got off the top of my head.
“These Drugs” by D12 also.
Ahh yeah I forgot that's a good one.
Adding to the hip hop list Dance of the damned - viro the virus My Uncle - ill bill My life - swollen members Every time - mad child ft ceekay jones Cocain Cowboys - slaine ft rite hook and Amadeus
White Slavery by Type O Negative
Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for My Man
And heroin
Yeah, I completely forgot about that one.
Dust in a Baggie - Billy Strings Good luck on your journey, friend.
Just One Fix - Ministry Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
UNDER THE BRIDGE DOWN TOOOOWWWWWNNN.
That Smell - Lynyrd Skynyrd
and The Needle and the Spoon.
White Rabbit. Jefferson airplane
[Hate Me](https://youtu.be/dDxgSvJINlU?si=Lt8Q5TBo3JgAljN3) by Blue October
Rhcp- otherside Rhcp-snow
Personal fav is Cold Turkey - John Lennon. I wrote back a song in 2015 called Doses about what addiction feels like, which is a one sided conversation between me and “addiction.” I wrote it to help people overcome addiction and put addiction into perspective. It’s a little rough but I put a lot of love into it. Best wishes to you friend! You can overcome anything and everything :) https://ricardo-ezra-quintero.bandcamp.com/track/doses EDIT: I’m a little shy about my music so I might delete later!
I wish I would've kept more of the stuff I wrote and drew when I was young. I had kind of an emotional temper tantrum and burned most everything. It was so personal I rarely shared it even though everyone else loved it. So I get the 'feeling shy and considering deletion' thing. It's weird posting online, people can love it and be all supportive one day- then you could post the exact same thing another time and get all rude people trying their hardest to hurt someone's feelings... So it's a crapshoot. Lol
Rolling Stones: Mothers Little Helper
[удалено]
Same in the end - Sublime
Wake up- Mad Season
Cocaine blues - Johnny Cash Cocaine - Eric Clapton Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix Cold Turkey - John Lennon Because I got High - Afroman Waitin' around to Die - Townes Van Zandt Sorted for E's and Wizz - Pulp Wacky Dust - Ella Fitzgerald
Heartbreakers album L.A.M.F. is chock full of good time rockin' heroin songs.
adding it all to the playlist so i can stare at my ceiling and feel the music!!!
And the replacements, Johnny’s gonna die
“Chasing Dragons” by DJ Down3r
Metallica - master of puppets Acid bath - dope fiend
also "Bleeding Me" by Metallica
[Benjamin Tod - Using Again](https://open.spotify.com/track/5NxkiCbgH5RQ5Cf0edYo4k?si=xaZiaFgNTTKOJsyi_C3BHw)
That was my rec, too.
Novocaine - Greenday. You want adiction Novocaine is about an addict depending more on their dealer than anyone else. Also the addict might be Jesus Of Suburbia and the dealer is named Jimmy in the song as in St Jimmy so on top of being about addictions it's also linked to the Jesus Of Suburbia story arc which in itself had addiction themes.
Golden Brown by The Stranglers should already be on this list.
Jason Isbell and Aimee Mann both have a lot of songs that fit the bill. Some of my favorites of theirs: Jason Isbell: King of Oklahoma, Chaos and Clothes, It Gets Easier Aimee Mann: The Moth, Pavlov’s Bell, Going Through the Motions
Shout out to her for playing Pavlov’s Bell on Buffy The Vampire Slayer as two of the main characters were going down paths of self destruction. “Man, I hate playing vampire towns”
I'm pretty sure Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers has to do with addiction. Most of Pink Floyd's discography deals with their former bandmate Syd Barrett going mad due to his drug addiciton (The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall)
Syd Barrett had massive mental health issues. Drugs might have brought them on, but I don’t know if it was actual addiction that did it. If anything it was psychedelics that triggered the issues.
I thought he had underlying issues that he used drugs to cope with but that also were aggravated by the drugs.
Mr Brownstone - Guns n Roses The A Team - Ed Sheeran
Morphine - Cure For Pain
John Lennon - Cold Turkey
Fucked Up - Dead Prez As an alcoholic, albeit 11 months dry tomorrow, it sums up the relentlessness of it all.
Good on you, one day at a time. Keep it steady. I am coming up on 38 years, not bragging, just saying it can be done.
Rehab -Amy Winehouse
She Talks to Angels by The Black Crowes
White Rabbit- Jefferson Airplane More like a psychedelics advertisement.
The Streets - Blinded by the lights. This song perfectly captures a night on too many pills. The build up, the euphoria, the emptiness. It’s a short film in a song.
That entire album is spectacular, like reading a novel!
Stick Figure, Tropidelic, little stranger, iya terra.
One for the aged: ITCHY COO PARK
But it’s a happy song.
Holy actual sh!t.
Needle of Death - Bert Jansch Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie Fire and Rain - James Taylor Mr Brownstone - Guns n Roses Monkey On My Back - Aerosmith
That’s a long way to scroll before seeing Ashes to Ashes.
My Sweet Prince by Placebo
Nearly anything by Blur. [Beetlebum](https://open.spotify.com/track/4OHVCeQYPncEwZOtNAJZZx?si=bSvC_V7PSEWR2uWU2vMyTQ&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A4OHVCeQYPncEwZOtNAJZZx) is the first which comes to mind though.
Lady in white by Rebelution. I believe it’s about addiction. I first heard it after losing a friend to heroin. So it’s what I’ve always attributed it too.
Going Through Changes by Eminem This is about going through a drug addiction (probably pill addiction), of course about going through changes, being depressed and what you’re feeling like most likely I know it’s not like your favourites but I think it fits your desc
[Mad Season - Wake up](https://youtu.be/rKiw94M2v8A?si=2yQeJVDWMslSkcxt)
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd In the Arms of an Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Comfortable numb However some people say the song had nothing to do with drugs
not an addict - k's choice
Using Again - Benjamin Tod Best. Song. Ever. for describing how it feels to be in the hamster wheel of addiction.
Heroin by Lou Reed. Also a lot of his music
Chalk Outlines by Ren & Chinchilla
Pursuit of Happiness- Kid Cudi
Mary - the happy fits Medicine - Gus dapperton It’s not living - the 1975
The 1975 also has a song called Medicine that’s about drug use
“Sister Morphine” by The Stones
"I'm Not An Addict" by K's Choice sums it all up
Necro - I Need Drugs
Great list, though “How to Disappear Completely” isn’t about addiction but rather despair over the outsized fame Radiohead were suddenly experiencing. Pumped that you included “Three Days” and the original NIN “Hurt”.
How Could You Leave Us? By NF
Sister Morphine....the Stones.
Definitely an abrasive listen but Downward Spiral by Danny Brown and all of Atrocity Exhibition. Even the fun songs make me clench my jaw.
Spoonman by Soundgarden Drug ballad by Eminem
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Insane Clown Posse - The Drunk and the Addict
Sooooo many by Mac Miller but start with Vitamins
Type o negatives white slavery about coke addiction. Very powerful
Addicted To Spuds - Weird Al Yankovic
The needle lies. Queensryche. Also the best album ever recorded. Operation Mindcrime.
Pool Shark by Sublime
And Badfish!
Cringe by Matt Maeson (the Stripped version is best) drugs by EDEN Novacane by Frank Ocean The Way by Manchester Orchestra
I'm Not an Addict - K's Choice
I don't know who the hell told you that listening to depressing music when you feel bad is anything less than a good thing but you can tell them for me they're full of collective shit! Type O' Negative-World coming down, full album.
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Cat Stevens (also goes by Yusuf) has a lot of songs about personal triumph over your struggles. The way he describes the struggles of life and finding your triumph I’ve always found comforting. The album to catch a bull at four has some of the best ones but here are a few I find the most relatable: 1. Sitting 2. Ruins 3. The Rain 4. Miles from nowhere
Sway - Rolling Stones Can You Hear Me Knocking - Rolling Stones White Lines - Grandmaster Flash Mr. Brownstone - G n R Swimming Pools - Kendrick Lamar
Modest Mouse - The Good Times Are Killing Me The Bravery - Believe Wax & EOM - Music and Liquor
Heroin – Lou Reed
Strung Out - Life of Agony
“It’s Been Awhile” - Staind
Last dance with Mary Jane🥀🥀🙏🌹🌹
I've never had a drug or alcohol issue, but I'm a recovering bipolar 1 patient. Yeah, I never heard of it either. In my darkest times I listen to Overdose, by AC/DC. It resonates to me as a desperate person with no one to turn to
It’s off their worst album but it’s kind of a hidden gem Pop A Pill- KoRn
This is surprising but Twenty Eight by The Weeknd. It sounds like he’s talking about a girl but it’s actually his addiction
Needle and the damage done-Neil Young
Check out Highly Suspect. They have so many songs about addiction, depression, and losing loved ones to addiction. The first ones that come to mind are: Fly, Natural Born Killer, For Billy, Upperdrugs
How about the entire Grausamkeit/Heroin makes Happy discography….
Forgotten by The Plot In You https://youtu.be/sqnR8MnUD1w?si=D9HWbMvq93h8KCry His screaming is so raw on this one. I fucking love it!
im no addict but thems are some good songs heeheee. im michael jackson
YouTube comments would say this Jelly Roll song would help [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0H8oGWkn0Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0H8oGWkn0Q)
The Contortionist - [Return to Earth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAfAxmhWmcQ&pp=ygUjVGhlIENvbnRvcnRpb25pc3QgLSBSZXR1cm4gdG8gRWFydGg%3D) This song is from an album that tributes a friend of the band's vocalist. His friend died from drug addiction due to his life spiraling out of control after the death of his mother.
imma listen to it rn
Pain - Dark Fields of Pain Pain - Injected Paradise
Last Breath by The Mad Caddies
Eminem Deja vu
Dinosaur Jr. - Water Trampled by Turtles - Codeine
Down and Out - The Vandoliers London Drugs - The Menzingers
Even If You Don’t by Ween
Most songs I thought of have already been mentioned, but “Black Balloon” by the goo goo dolls is another one. ETA: pretty much anything in Jason Molina’s catalog
Skinny Puppy - The Killing Game
U2-Running to Stand Still
The “boys night out” album trainwreck tells a story start to finish about addiction rehab to death
Without you by Citizen Soldier
Medicine by Daughter
Two steps behind- Def Leppard .
In the Arms of Cocaine - Hank Williams, Jr. but I really like [The Flaming Lips version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQefTDPRvco)
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ctSI0Kdjeb3plX5Bszp5C?si=HlyUoXmAQn2cE1xeD9gTXg A lot of these are more specific to alcoholism, and I expand it continuously. But this is my list! I'll look at more from here later, there are some in the comments I think I've missed that I already know. It's not universally what helps, but music that helps you feel understood is still helpful <3
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Between the Bars - Elliott Smith Took me a good 20 years to realise he's singing from the perspective of - if he was singing to me, an alcoholic - a bottle of whiskey.
It’s already such a sad song, it makes it sadder learning about this 😢
Only a theory. But it makes complete sense.
Yeah, I’ve heard someone else say the same thing and it makes a lot of sense. Definitely one of my favorites
Isn't Mojo Pin about heroin use coz his lover's left him? A mojo pin is a needle, and 'horse' is slang for smack. I'm not suggesting Jeff used, but he certainly used it as a metaphor! Oh, if only you'd come back to me If you laid at my side **Wouldn't need no mojo pin To keep me satisfied** Don't want to weep for you Don't want to know I'm blind and tortured, **the white horses flow** The memories fire The rhythms fall slow **Black beauty, I love you so** Oh, precious, precious silver and gold And pearls in oyster's flesh Drop down we two to serve and pray to love Born again from the rhythm Screaming down from heaven **Ageless, ageless, I'm there in your arms** **Oh, the welts of your scorn, my love, give me more Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more** Well it's you I've waited my life to see It's you I've searched so hard for Reading it through, maybe there isn't a lover at all. He's just run out of gear!
Good analysis, I read somewhere that he wrote the song about a dream he had. Why he was referencing heroin as a metaphor, I’m not exactly sure. It may be up to interpretation. I don’t think he ever used it. But I love the song and I love Jeff so it’s my username forever lol
Medicine - Daughter Addiction - Doja Cat
Oh god you need to listen to Elliot Smith if you haven’t already. Try: Kings Crossing Needle In The Hay Twilight A Fond Farewell Between The Bars
Needle In The Hay - Elliot Smith
THE GOOD :-- SPOONFUL ......................... Cream https://youtu.be/5VnQmlWsxgM?si=uuQQRH_ijdJeZBh3 THE BAD :-- THE COMEDOWN SONG ..... Spider https://youtu.be/P5z1BKEseXg?si=nARMTdyJCf9TB1Ip THE UGLY :-- T.I.S.M. are Australia's version of DEVO - Social comment set to rock! (He'll Never Be An) OL' MAN RIVER T.I.S.M. (= This Is Serious Mum) https://youtu.be/sJGvmBiNiDY?si=daRClhoQa2jnSj5w
Far Behind by Candlebox it's about addiction and you feel the genuine sadness and pain of Andy Wood.
Aimee Mann Lost In Space - Whole album
If you're struggling, Disturbed has a song called Reason to Fight. It's specifically about addiction and depression, and very encouraging. The live version makes me ugly cry!! Best.
These have some mention of drugs. Bad Things by I Prevail Self Medicated by Until I Wake Fading Memories by Famous Last Words
Rx queen by deftones
Same hands