Stoner question for those over 35 (yes, I am being ageist)

[LostinVA]

In college/alternative, did you have a song you loved to play over and over while you were stoned, just fascinated and moved by the words? (whether they deserved it or not!)

Mine was "Dust in the Wind" by Kanasa....

Man, it was totally profound and soul-lifting... especially so after the best part of a good bud had been shotgunned down...

[rbnyc]

1. My Freshman year of college...

...we used to get stoned and listen to the JoY Division album, closer, over and over.

[MN ChimpH8R]

16. That had to be depressing

I mean, it's a great album, but it's so obviously Ian Curtis' suicide note. "The Eternal" and "Decades" can still creep me out, but they are such compelling pieces.

[rbnyc]

26. Actually, one of us didn't make it.

Sadly. But I think it's still wonderful music.

[mitchum]

20. "Closer" and Gun Club's "Fire of Love" were the ones for us

[LiberalEsto]

2. Inna-gadda-da-vida

by Iron Butterfly......

[Book Lover]

3. Yep

The instrumental off the 3rd side of Physical Graffiti, Bron Y Ur. Now how's *that* for a stoner response!

[LostinVA]

10. That's good! A friend loved to listen to Laurie Anderson

performance art albums while stoned. We would all just ignore him and eat pizza and salt and Tom's vinegar potato chips.

[no name no slogan]

11. Throbbing Gristle

yeah, we were warped, but then it also got rid of (or kept away) the assholes who always wanted to get high with us-- on our dime, of course.

[LostinVA]

18. OOOH! I hated those people....

They also always showed up and drank our cheap beer and rotgut, too.... they are probably all Republican shills now...

[swag]

44. "Greatest Hits" was when I caught up with them, finally.

Great confluence of smoke and sound. I'm sure you had fun.

[no name no slogan]

64. "Entertainment Through Pain"

Very appropriate. And a very good way to clear the room after a party, too.

[jus_the_facts]

4. Hey You ~ Pink Floyd

Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don’t help them to bury the light
Don’t give in without a fight.

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I’m coming home.

But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.

Hey you, standing in the road
Always doing what you’re told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, don’t tell me there’s no hope at all

Together we stand, divided we fall.


Well, only got an hour of daylight left. better get started
Isnt it unsafe to travel at night?
It’ll be a lot less safe to stay here. you’re father’s gunna pick up our trail before long
Can loca ride?
Yeah, I can ride... magaret, time to go! maigret, thank you for everything
Goodbye chenga
Goodbye miss ...
I’ll be back

[Guava Jelly]

9. me to

song sounds so good when you are buzzen.
quite depressing though

[Taverner]

5. Yes...I did as a matter of fact

The entire Queensryche Operation:Mindcrime Album

Good times...good times...

[Burma Jones]

6. Desolation Row

Amongst others.....

[graywarrior]

7. Anything by Cream.

[seemunkee]

8. The entire Dark Side of the Moon album

[democracyindanger]

12. The entire Paul's Boutique album.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. For a while in the late 70's, almost anything by Steven Halpern.

[evlbstrd]

14. Apostrophe.

Zappa and the Mothers. The Jack Bruce bass solo on the title cut absolutely kicks ass.

[DBoon]

33. and the whole album is just humorously strange enough

to be rip-roaringly funny when stoned

Though the part about the pancake breakfast would give me the munchies (IHOP! IHOP!)

[evlbstrd]

37. It's really fun to make your own pancakes stoned.

You can put almost anything in those suckers and like 'em.

They're so light an fluffy brown, they're the finest in the town.

[6000eliot]

15. Rubber Soul by The Beatles

was always my favorite lp to listen to while stoned.

[MN ChimpH8R]

17. Genesis' "The Cinema Show"

from "Selling England By the Pound" - not for the lyrics but for where the incredible solos by Steve Hackett and Tony Banks could take me.

Gong's "The Isle of Everywhere" from "You." Funky space fusion heaven.

[flamingyouth]

19. Pebbles Vol. 3 "The Acid Gallery"

[TallahasseeGrannie]

21. In a gadda da vida, babeee

but I didn't inhale

[two gun sid]

22. Eat A Peach - The Allman Brothers...

The guitar solos of 'Blue Sky' and 'Mountain Jam' used to draw me right into the music.

Also, I could really get into anything by "Little Feat'.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

23. Tangerine Dream's "TimeSquare"

also "Diamonds And Dust" (their studio remake of the signature soundtrack song they did for James Caan's "Thief")

Nowadays I like to get into various Gregorian Chants when I find a little herbal essence in my pipe...

[NNadir]

24. Probably some Grateful Dead tripe. I try to forget that part of my life.

[JPZenger]

72. I Don't Remember that part of my life

Its not that I try to forget that part of my life, its that I can't even remember that part of the my life. I just remember people telling me about how I stared into the eyes of a cat for an hour. The cat kept starring back the whole time.

[babylonsister]

25. Put the headphones on and blasted away with Pink Floyd. nt

[GreenInNC]

27. Frampton Comes Alive

[Kat45]

28. Pink Floyd, the "Dark Side of the Moon" album and the one that

came out after that (I always forget if the name of it is "Wish You Were Here" or "Welcome to the Machine.") That was definite stoner music.

[GatoLover]

29. Stairway to Heaven

:bounce: eom

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. The Doors -- Strange Days, and My Eyes Have Seen You.

Weird shit, that.

[mtnester]

31. Kashmir (for the making out aspect)...

and for just plain fun, nothing better than Ram Jam's Black Betty blasting (when you were still in the laughing it up mode before the munchies set in)


On edit - I was in high school, however, even now, when "indulging," Kasmir is still good for the making out, if you can get through it without passing out from the sheer strength of the doobage nowadays)

[DBoon]

32. Tales from Topographic Oceans by Yes

all four vinyl sides

[BrewerJohn]

58. With ya there

TFTO is the way to go.

I do remember though, one time, getting particularly out there to "Midnight Man"
by the James Gang.

[greatauntoftriplets]

34. To this day I love Dust in the Wind....

There is a Subaru commercial that uses that. :eyes:

Another song from that era was Nights in White Satin. Moody Blues.

:smoke:

[alarcojon]

35. Bohemian Rhapsody

and lots of Yes and Pink Floyd.

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. Dr. John Gris Gris

We also listened to "Dust in the Wind" by KanSAS. Never heard the version by Kanasa.

[NMMNG]

38. The entirety of Pink Floyd's "Animals"

Stuff by The Cure was a good second choice.

[spacelady]

39. Where's Kanasa? I'm from Nebraska, so it sounds close by........

and yes, bud had an influence on The Joker circa 1973 as my favorite song of all time, "Slow Ride" by Foghat, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Rush & Pink Floyd, some of the favorites.

[hfojvt]

40. I am well over 35

but I never got stoned, although most people do not believe that since when I say things I often get the response "RU on drugs?"

Dust in the wind is kinda a sad song, although Sew-crates seemed to like it, and I always did too.

[SW FL Dem]

41. I love that song

I listened to it many times while drunk. I have to be one of the very few DUers of our generation that never got stoned. I have asthma and my Dad had emphysema from smoking so the thought of inhaling smoke was disgusting to me. Of course that didn't prevent me from downing the grain alcohol punch.

[swag]

42. Just albums, really. Those first four Stranglers albums.

The first two Killing Joke records. Siouxsie and the Banshees' first few records. Sex Pistols, of course. The dubbier Clash stuff.

Joy Division. Lou Reed "Rock and Roll Animal."

Also "Flowers of Romance" by PiL.



It changed through time, but that's what I remember from the first happy months of inhaling and holding. Iggy Pop's live "TV Eye" album was also always in rotation back then.

[mitchum]

45. Christ! We could have spent our wasted youths together

excellent taste, sir

[swag]

49. Maybe beers over spinning vinyl some day.

I salute you.

[datasuspect]

43. dead kennedys

exploited
sex pistols
new york dolls
eno
bowie
gg allin
DAC
buttholes
sabbath
led zep
hendrix
cream
crucifucks
skatenigs
SOD
slayer
etc.

[swag]

47. For the Butthole Surfers,

I liked Rembrandt Pussyhorse, Creamed Corn from the Socket of Davis, Psychic, Powerless, Another Man's Sac, and Locust Abortion Technician best back then. Seemed to me to be the pinnacle, just as Evol and Sister were the hardcore of Sonic Youth's burning greatness and Pussy Galore's Right Now! was the fulfillment of everything Rock 'n' Roll had ever had to offer. Can't forget Scratch Acid's Big Bone Lick, of course.

Speaking of acid, that's what I was more into at that point.

Can't find my Crucifucks recollection in the archives, otherwise, I'd link it.

Great taste, sir.

[datasuspect]

50. ah. the wonders of lsd

10 gel tabs and an assload of blow, a cheap motel room and some hookers.

it doesn't get any better than that.

[swag]

52. Whiff of Lysol wafting through Wi-Fi packets.

Smell of rectal mucous and carbolic soap
shirt-tails flapping in the wind

Whatever happened to Otto's boy
who played the violin?

[datasuspect]

53. is that yours?

nice couplet.

[swag]

54. No, not mine.

Just elided some memories of Burroughs fragments that I had read in the same era. I would claim the verse, but I'm pre-postmodern.

Thanks for noticing, though. Cheerio.

[datasuspect]

55. the body of the message sounded burroughs-esque

especially the anal mucus aspect.

but the subject line sounded too modern.

[swag]

56. The subject was not Burroughs, you are correct.

That was just a spontaneous recollection of impressions from the Value Inn, Madras, OR this past autumn. Not recommended.

The body of the message was recalled WSB fragments.

[datasuspect]

57. bad things happen in dark places

when your head is filled with chemical fumes.

[haydukelives]

46. Steely Dan

Pretzel logic

[donheld]

48. Kanasa???????????

Wot is that?

[GatoLover]

66. Kansas

eom

[carpetbagger]

51. Physical Graffiti side 3 (Light/Seaside/Ten Years Gone)

Makes me want to quit my government job, move to the beach, and light up.

[hobo_baggins]

59. I used to play the beatles anthology volume 3...

some of those songs tripped me the fuck out

[hobo_baggins]

60. shit, just realized this post was for old people...dammit

[Porcupine]

61. Jethro Tull- Thick As a Brick, n/t

.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

62. Yaz "Upstairs At Erics"

And, long before college, an August in my grandmother's house in WV, a kid left to his own devices with a portable 8-track player and tapes of "Dark Side of the Moon" and "I, Robot," quite high, with the speakers separated to about two feet, lying on the floor feeling like the music was transmitting out of my head and into the tape deck.

Oh, yeah. Got *that* t-shirt! :hippie:

[Jamastiene]

63. Nice To Be With You by Gallery and others

I had a whole slew of records. Oddly enough, a lot of them were at one time 45's that belonged to my mother.

Here is a list: (some of these were my very first 45's)
Nice To Be With You by Gallery
Le Freak by Chic
Ginger Haired Man by Gallery
Dark Lady by Cher
Take Comfort by Bread
If I Can't Have You by the Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees
The Women by the Village People
YMCA by the Village People
Rock On by ? Essex
Pac Man Fever by Buckner & Garcia
The Goonies by Cyndi Lauper
Dragonfly by Blondie
The Attack of the Giant Ants by Blondie
Sunshine Superman by Donovan
anything and everything by the Doors especially Light My Fire
It's Still Rock & Roll To Me by Billy Joel
Centerfold by the J. Geils Band
California Girls by David Lee Roth
anthing and everything by the Beach Boys
Helter Skelter by the Beatles
anything by the Rolling Stones
Lots of Beatles/John Lennon music

[4_Legs_Good]

65. John Barleycorn by Traffic

But it was less about the lyrics and more about the layers, and the amazingness of being able to separate them all and hear them all individually and distinctly. Awesome, awesome experience.

david

[malta blue]

67. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic. eom

[m_welby]

68. Aqualung - Jethro Tull

and Soft Parade - The Doors.

and Satanic majestys request - Rolling Stones

and Station to Station - David Bowie

and Blues for allah - Grateful Dead

and Overnight Sensation - Zappa

and Fear of Music - Talking Heads

Is that enough? (spent alot of time listening to music in altered states of conciousness).

[Inspired]

69. The Wall

[Loonman]

70. Stone Roses first LP

Perfect album.

[ldf]

71. there is no song ever written/performed

that i want to hear, over and over again.....???

but then, about 1971/72, i had a roommate who's girlfriend would put on neil young's "after the goldrush" and the then current cat stevens' album. she would repeat them over and over and over.

remember on "turntables" where you could lift the arm and the record would play over and over? that is what she would do.

till this day i can not stand either of those two artists.

:shrug:

[ThreeCatNight]

73. No one has mentioned Genesis

The REAL Genesis...not the Phil incarnation
Suppers Ready would be my choice.

[NoPasaran]

74. That John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Frank Zappa live album

That came as a bonus with Lennon's "Sometime in New York City" album

[libpunkmom]

75. Butthole Surfers

:evilgrin:

[adriennui]

76. anything by pink floyd

also, the more pretentious doors music