So I just recently started listening to Spacemen 3, and their album "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To" made me consider how much of the music I love is entwined with drugs. If there were some common strain going through most of the music I listen to, it is an influence from drug use or culture.
I was wondering if many other people find this to be true about their tastes. Actually using drugs isn't part of the equation ... many of your standard good-music standbys, like The Beatles and Pink Floyd and stuff like that, are obviously enjoyed by people who never take drugs, even though they definitely fall into the rather large cateogory of "drug music." But there's a pronounced bias in my own tastes towards this category and I was wondering if anyone else is in a similar position.
Artists who are part of my drug-music collection:
The Beatles, Black Sabbath, 13th Floor Elevators, Deep Purple, Acid Mothers Temple, Animal Collective, Dead Meadow, Bardo Pond, The Doors, Dungen, The Flaming Lips, Blue Cheer, Cream, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Jefferson Airplane, Pelt, Pelican, Sleep, Spacemen 3, Buffalo, Jack Rose, Isis, Hypnos 69, earthlings?, Desert Sessions, Earth, SUNN 0))), Jimi Hendrix, Kyuss, Love, QOTSA, Roky Erickson, Santana, Yawning Man, and some more. I realize that many of these are easy to consider without thinking about their drug influences (The Beatles are an obvious example), but they're all drug music in some fashion as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know how welcome a discussion about actual drugs would be in this forum, so let's keep this about the music. But I can't be the only one here with music interests along these lines, so this thread can be about recommendations between people with tastes tending towards drug-influenced music.