Pick your favorite dope tune from this list: Kid Charlemagne

[MrScorpio]

A Junkie's Lament - James Taylor

A Passage To Bangkok - Rush

All Night Train - The Allman Brothers Band

Angel - Sarah McLachlan

Bad - U2

Because I Got High - Afroman

Burn One Down - Ben Harper

Choke Me - The Used

Chop Suey - System Of A Down

Cocaine - Eric Clapton

Cold Turkey - John Lennon

Come Undone - Robbie Williams

Doctor Robert - The Beatles

Drugs Or Me - Jimmy Eat World

Fall To Pieces - Velvet Revolver

Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - Queens Of The Stone Age

Flying High Again - Ozzy Osbourne

Geek Stink Breath - Green Day

Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles

Helmet In The Bush - KoRn

High Hopes - Sammy Hagar

Hurt - Nine Inch Nails

I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground

Journey To The Center Of The Mind - The Amboy Dukes

Junkhead - Alice In Chains

Karma Payment Plan - Modest Mouse

Kicks - Paul Revere And The Raiders

Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan

Knife Party - The Deftones

Laquer Head - Primus

Master Of Puppets - Metallica

Medicine Jar - Paul McCartney And Wings

Mirror in the Bathroom - The English Beat

Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley

Morning Glory - Oasis

Mother's Little Helper - The Rolling Stones

Mr. Brownstone - Guns N' Roses

Mutilated Lips - Ween

My Sweet Prince - Placebo

Needles - System Of A Down

No Excuses - Alice In Chains

Not An Addict - K's Choice

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - The Dandy Warhols

One Toke Over The Line - Brewer And Shipley

Peephole - System Of A Down

Running To Stand Still - U2

Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails

Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

She Talks To Angels - The Black Crowes

Ship Of Fools - The Doors

Sister Morphine - The Rolling Stones

Snowblind - Black Sabbath

Special K - Placebo

St. Jimmy - Green Day

Swallowed - Bush

Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath

The House That Jack Built - Metallica

The Needle And The Damage Done - Neil Young

The Noose - A Perfect Circle

The Pusher - Steppenwolf

This Is The Place - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis

Truckers Atlas - Modest Mouse

True Faith - New Order

Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Vitamin R - Chevelle

Water - The Roots

White Lines - Grandmaster Flash

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Wicked Garden - The Stone Temple Pilots

Wire - U2

Would? - Alice In Chains

[WCGreen]

1. I'm Waiting on the man.....

[gmoney]

16. seconded... and a wild card

I love this obscure little Alt-Country gem: "Cocaine Parties" by The Star Room Boys

Check it out: http://tinyurl.com/9jxtl

[Az]

2. A couple of notables in there

Chop Suey,
True Faith,
Hurt

[KitchenWitch]

3. Mother's Little Helper

[Tafiti]

4. Dude, that's just not fair.

Favorite? Impossible.

[KitchenWitch]

5. You forgot Steely Dan's "Hey 19"

The lines:

The Cuervo Gold
The fine Columbian
Make tonight a wonderful thing

[The Magistrate]

6. Sister Morphine, Sir

Though it was "Kid Charlemagne" for me till encountering that one on the list. "Sister Morphine" is a more haunting piece of music, and more of an experiential piece. "Kid Charlemagne" is a trafficker's song at bottom.

[Robeson]

7. Another Steely Dan, "Time Out of Mind"....

....also, good call on Steppenwolf's "The Pusher", which was actually written by Hoyt Axton.

[hfojvt]

8. Kicks

but does that belong on the list?
Isn't that an anti-dope song?

I used to really like "got to get you into my life" but only when I thought it was about a special person and not about a special herb. Same with "white Rabbit" ruined for me when I find that the last line is 'feed your head' rather than 'keep your head', but it turns out the doormouse never said that either. However, if the witness cannot recall what the doormouse said, it is 'off with your head' so keep works better than feed in an Alice sort of way.

I am guessing that there is a song 'snowblind' by Sabbath and this was not an error about 'snowblind' by Styx. Lucy in the Sky apparently did not make the cut either.

[evlbstrd]

9. Don't Bogart That Joint.

Snowblind Friend-Steppenwolf

[Robeson]

10. Oh, yes. Hoyt Axton lyrics again, on another great Steppenwolf song...

...he is a vastly under-appreciated songwriter. And another good call on the Little Feat's tune.

[evlbstrd]

12. I had a friend in college we called Hoyt.

A guy from Texas. He was great.
And the real Hoyt was a great writer and performer.

[Robeson]

13. You got that right....

...glad you, too, appreciate him....:thumbsup:

[evlbstrd]

14. It was truthful American music.

My favorite kind.

[Robeson]

15. You know, you're right. It reflected what many Americans were...

...going through at the time, similar to what Woody Guthrie was saying with what Americans were going through during his time.

[evlbstrd]

17. I guess it's now called American Roots Music.

Johnny Cash is almost cooler than he ever was in his lifetime, now. But I always heard those guys along with our 60's music heroes.

[Robeson]

19. I think "American Roots Music" is a good term....

...That's really how it should be phrased. And it would actually give this country some cultural "roots", which right now, it sorely lacks.

[evlbstrd]

20. I agree.

It rightly acknowledges the African American contributions, the Labor movement in the early part of the twenth century, Folk and protest. They are all intertwined.

[enigmatic]

11. "Waiting For My Man"- Velvet Underground

Lou Reed is one of my heroes..

[gmoney]

18. Lou Reed: "Twenty-six dollars? ...what was I thinking?"

"You can't even get a b___job for twenty-six dollars." I seem to recall Lou saying that in one interview or another.

[enigmatic]

23. Lou just spits those classic one liners out..

I've got the "Take No Prisoners" album I just transfered to mp3; I'm going to have to play that in it's entirety one of these nights on the show. Lou is absolutely hilarious on it...

[NMMNG]

21. White Rabbit

[In_The_Wind]

22. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf should have made the list!

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away