On the eight day of the 30 Day Song Challenge, we’re sent 8 miles high and invited to post a song about drugs or alcohol. I considered several options, but decided to go with this old favourite, a song I loved deeply long before I understood what it was about. Here’s Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, with “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”
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Rob Wynne
Here’s the entire challenge again, for anyone who didn’t grab a copy of it earlier.
I’ll try and repost it once a week or so until I’m done. 🙂
Linda Walsh
This song is raw and brutal and one of Lennon’ s most ferocious:”Cold Turkey” https://youtu.be/OLlrH8q5d3M
Jennifer Diamond
I’m going in a little different direction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8
Bruce Adelsohn
This one is irresistible, here. Sadly, I don’t see it on YouTube. Good thing Tom Smith keeps an accessible copy at his own page. http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff/oddio/SF02_Crystal_Gayle_128.mp3
Lauren Cox
Fun story: my best friend’s dad is Gene Lorenzo, the First Edition’s piano player. And she got the genes and is a brilliant musician herself. #growingupinnashville
Laura Gallagher
Laura Gallagher
Then there’s this one -- which made me feel so guilty when my doctor prescribed the anti-anxiety pills, which I tend to leave in the bottle 90% of the time because things like this song freak me out about getting addicted to them. Karl pointed out that the guys in the Rolling Stones giving women a hard time about that kind of drugs was pretty rich, given their history. Can’t remember just how he phrased it, but it made me feel better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13olfeD026g
Laura Gallagher
Now I’m trying to go to bed, and it’s stuck in my head.
Jim Poltrone
I’ll cover all the bases with this one:
https://youtu.be/kEUX9k0npgA
Heather Munn
White Rabbit (both the original):
https://youtu.be/WANNqr-vcx0
Heather Munn
And this cover: https://youtu.be/zLeO003g6Dc
Patricia Jones
https://youtu.be/46lKvk08L1s
Elaine Roberson
Jimmy Buffett -- Wasting Away in Margaritaville
AJ Foreit
https://youtu.be/bBscap3gdTs
Tom Jeffers
One of my faves from a guy from my hometown of Winnipeg, Neil Young.
https://youtu.be/Hd3oqvnDKQk
Annette Spirit Davis
Our internet is being a jerk today so I can’t post the links to the song(s). Two very different artists did very good songs about drugs. The first being Alice in Chains “Junkhead” and the second is Lou Reed “Waiting for my Man”.
Rob Wynne
One of the songs I considered was the VU’s “Heroin”. I was just yesterday listening to the Fresh Air interview with with the guy who wrote the just-released biography about Lou Reed.
Annette Spirit Davis
“A Perfect Day” would have been a good one as well. If you listen to the Alice in Chains ‘Dirt” CD it is all about addiction and trying to fight it, “Dirt” is one of my favorites CD’s all of the songs are good.
Stephanie Weippert
Despite what you may think, this is *not* a love song. ?
https://youtu.be/68MKLkNSMN4
Tiger Faircloth
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/D-vjT5TiLT0
Juanita Coulson
Sorry. Not participating in that one.
Allegra Sloman
T J Burnside Clapp
And of course, the classic drug song (recited as only the Shat can):
Kathy Mar
Don’t know how to do this, but one of my favorite drug songs is the Steppenwolf cover of Hoyt Axton’s Snowblind Friend.
Rob Wynne
I can call that up for you!
Juanita Coulson
Changed my mind about not joining this one. My offering: Buffy Sainte-Marie: Codeine.
Iain Muir
https://youtu.be/14ViwvgtvbA
Iain Muir
https://youtu.be/TIvmy0U-ePg
Rob Wynne
Love this song. Bill Sutton and I wrote a D&D parody of it.
https://www.autographedcat.com/2006/01/01/all-for-me-swag/
Iain Muir
https://youtu.be/5CWIIoSf4nw
Daniel Reitman
Manny Jacobowitz
Dell Christy
Don’t know how to post link from my phone, but the first thing that comes to mind is Golden Earring’s Twilight Zone. This is the one song where I will turn the radio way up in my car -- to the point where the mirror vibrates from the bass.