Heroin Rock

[Hillbilly]

Antonio and I were trading vids back and forth on another thread about Songs about Heroin. I thought I would start a new thread. Just for that.

I'm not a Junkie myself but for some reason songs about Heroin or influenced by Heroin have always fascinated me.

Here we go: Kermit sings "Hurt" it's the same song Johnny Cash covered by Trent Reznor. For some reason, it might be the video but Kermit's version is the most Sad and Powerful.

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Feel free to add your own and comment.

[woodman]

Don't know how to embed a video. Here's a link to 'Needle and the Damage Done' by Neil Young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0t0EW6z8a0

[tater]

Mmmmmm...I love frog legs ;)

Here ya go ya junkies


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM

[SLV^GLD]

Damn, this list could get super long.
Most Depeche Mode is heroin heavy but Imma go with one of my all time favorite bands, Modest Mouse. A lot of their songs are heroin and drug tinged but here's two that are just in your face with the subject:

Night on the Sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MKyBBiKlQg

Also, the more popularly recognized Lounge (Closing Time)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhxQMVAsYs4&feature=related

If you don't like Modest Mouse then you don't like music. If you simply don't understand Modest Mouse then you're probably fairly straight and sheltered, LOL.

[SLV^GLD]

Back when I was into junk no music sounded better than Portishead.
They are not actually very heroin inspired but this song obviously is.

The Rip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKVBtEuPSwc

Sorry, they are not "rock", per se. Also, they have far better songs but i was trying to stay on topic.

[osoab]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwC7Qzljso

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

Failure is the epitome of heroin rock. I don't know if they made any songs that didn't have to do with the stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Z2QjsmjWM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7uJrkJR5rE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cntLoJ8nCs

My brother OD'd on that shit. Fuck heroin.

[sirgonzo420]

I'm surprised I'm the first to mention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcwt9mSbYE

[Olmstein]

Mr Brownstone, he's a real motherfucker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVYDnQwi3OQ

[osoab]

How about some Sublime?

Boss DJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHBe30LVdaA

Badfish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKox6__hziY

Pool Shark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08HNApcVvk

[Antonio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeC6CF7P4I0

Here is the most famous Russian song about dying from dope written by Vysotsky who died at 42. This song has been translated in many languages and is probably the most famous Russian song ever. This guy is quite famous in France, Poland etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vysotsky
I know a few Americans who listen to him all the time, they don`t understand a single word but his expressiveness gets thru the language barrier. It`s a sort of ultimate Russian blues.

The fastidious horses
Russian title: Koni priveredlivye
By the cliff, along the precipice, right over deadly ground,
With the whip, I strike my steeds; strike them hard to urge them forward.
I am getting short on air, gulp the haze, drink the wind, yet
With a fatal rapture, sensing: I am done for, I am done for!

Slow down a bit my horses, slow down, please!
Don't you listen to my stinging thong!
But the horses -- just my luck! -- are so hard to please!
Neither lived I so long, nor will I finish this song...
I will let horses drink, I'll complete this refrain,
Just a little bit more I will stay on the brink...

I will vanish from the Earth, swept by a storm like fluffy feather;
At a gallop, in the morning by the snow they'll drag me over
Can't you please prolong my journey to the end of my tether?
Can't you ease your dash, my horses, carry on a little slower?

Slow down a bit my horses, slow down, please!
Don't take orders from my whip and thong!
But the horses -- just my luck! -- are so hard to please!
Neither lived I so long, nor will I finish this song...
I will let horses drink, I'll complete this refrain,
Just a little bit more I will stay on the brink...

Just on time - one can't be late arriving at God's quarters!
Why do the angels over there sound like some nasty mortals?
Or, perhaps, it's just a sleigh-bell that's gone mad and burst out sobbing,
Or it's me shouting at my steeds to slow down my sled from dashing.

Slow down a bit my horses, slow down, please!
I am begging you, don't rush along!
But the horses -- just my luck! -- are so hard to please!
Since I haven't lived long, let me finish this song...
I will let horses drink, I'll complete this refrain,
Just a little bit more I will stay on the brink...

[Hillbilly]

That was actually the first one I posted in this thread: http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/woman-hid-54-bags-of-heroin-money-in-her-vagina/msg202273/#msg202273

to kick this whole thing off. Glad to see you dig the Velvets though.

Here is another one of my Faves.




I'm surprised I'm the first to mention:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xcwt9mSbYE


*edited for code problem.

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[Horn]

Quote this Hillbilly, if you wanna be learnt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPaxK-q5gI

[Horn]

My brother OD'd on that shit. fuck heroin.


Brother in law went the same way. Was caught in the crossfire of a covert op.

Dealers left him parked him front of the hospital.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZaOmNT8iVE

[Hillbilly]

That's the one I was trying to post above but I screwed the Code up. Great song!

Thanks



Quote this Hillbilly, if you wanna be learnt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFPaxK-q5gI

[osoab]

Steve Earl : CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu__5E6ykf8

cocaine cannot kill my pain
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Like a freight train through my vein
Cocaine cannot kill my pain

Now whiskey got no hold on me
Whiskey got no hold on me
Whiskey got no hold on me
Left them chains in Tennessee
Whiskey got no hold on me

Now don't come knockin' on my door
Girl, don't come knockin' on my door
Don't come knockin' on my door
Even that won't work no more
Don't come knockin' on my door

'Cause heroin is the only thing
Heroin is the only thing
Heroin is the only thing
The only gift the darkness brings
Heroin is the only thing

Guess you'd best leave me alone
Guess you'd best leave me alone
Guess you'd best leave me alone
At least until these blues have gone
Guess you'd best leave me alone

Cause cocaine cannot kill my pain
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Like a freight train through my vein
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Yeah, cocaine cannot kill my pain
Cocaine cannot kill my pain
Cocaine cannot kill my pain

[Serpo]

Lou Reed ....Walk on the wild side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ88oTITMoM
and Its such a perfect day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

[Antonio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JawMQRSCRkU

Heroin PM.

[banjo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELr-M1I1QQ&feature=related

[Antonio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-fc2j38Ab4

no dope music thread is complete without Sam Stone.