Those so-called 'drug songs' in full

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Golden Brown - a good even tan
Heroin - a ship's captain who likes the theatre. Or horses. (Jury still out on this cryptic puzzler).
Waiting for The Man - ...who sells the Big Issue.
There She Goes - a nice lady
Because I Got High - young man's rock-climbing obsession gradually takes over his life
Hi Hi Hi - Hullo, I'm Paul McCartney, good to see you.
Medication - Jason Pierce remembers his whooping cough antibiotics.

AND SO ON.

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

That Jefferson Airplane one about rabbits.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - a girl called Lucy takes helicopter lessons with Anne Diamond and the ladies from Diamond Car Insurance ads.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oooo and Grandmaster Flash's dispute with the tennis umpire - White Lines.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The Needle and the Damage Done - botch job on denim jacket repair, Neil laments.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Spiritualized's Home Of The Brave - all about Jason Pierce's search for a bowl to eat his cornflakes out of.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

all the other spiritualized songs ever - not drugs...

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Ebeneezer Goode - when Scrooge repents!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

No, no, seriously right, that was about this funny character they knew who used to hang out at raves, and he was really called Ebeneezer, it's not actually about drugs at all...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

They have now started to say it's about drugs, I think this is because they want to jump on some kind of 'drugs' bandwagon.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

When I was at school, saying "Ah, but it's NOT really about drugs, AHHHHH, DO YOU SEE?" was what all the smug, think-they're-clever kids did. It shames me to say that I was one of those kids.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i think, zenith, that we were all that sort of kid...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Also we were right.

Oh oh oh now I have remembered what started this whole meme originally i.e.

"Isn't it ironic that 'Perfect Day' got to #1, god I wonder how many of the idiots who bought it knew that it is really ABOUT DRUGS."

(PD being a good example of a song that is actually quite lovely and mysterious if not about drugs and is hugely trite if it is.)

(I am not sure the same can be said about Ebenezer Goode)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmm i think this then coalesced with the "there she goes/golden brown is about DRUGS you know" smartarsery and then mutated into "no song 'about drugs' is about drugs" except cocaine by eric clapton which is about heroin.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

EG = masterpiece.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i was ][ that close to playing it on friday, did it get played after i left?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I don't think so.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

oh well, there's always next time ;)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes!

But its drugsiness does not affect that either way.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

I almost said "the kind of kid who now has a blog"...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Everything Starts With An E - rejected schools programming ditty

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Eight Miles High - proposal for new City Academy specialising in the four pillars of hip-hop.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Chinese Rocks - Johnny Thunders joins the Google Earth remote archaeology craze.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I Don't Smoke Da Reefer - I prefer to have my waves preserved by salting or refridgerating them.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hits from the bong - Inexperienced campanologist comes to grief.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

The Chronic - Dr Dre devotes entire album to the problems facing sufferers from long term back pain.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Queens Of The Stone Age - Feelgood Hit of the Summer, a splendid ode to Whigfield, Macarena, Birdie Song etc.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Sly & The Revolutionaries - Cocain

Dub ditty concerning the incorrect pronounciation of the word 'cooking' by Jim Carey throughout his film career.

I JUDGE THAT...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

entire evidence for "perfect day = drug song" is that L.Reed sings "esp.when givin head" in WOtWS, hence all LR songs etc

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pass the dutchie (on the left hand side) --- they drive on the other side in holland hence overtaking is otherwise than here

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

legalize it --- filesharing is a kind of audience-generated dub