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onewheelwizzard:
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.

KharBevNor:
If we included alcohol as a drug, nigh on my entire music collection would be eligible. But I suspect we mean the more illegal sorts of drugs...your list is pretty good.

Casting an eye over my last.fm top 50 reveals only about 14-15 bands that I would definitely call drug music. I have no real problem filling out whole CD's of ridiculous stoner shit for when, ahem, I feel in the most appropriate mood for such things, ahem.

Apart a lot of yours, I would highly count Acid Bath, Orange Goblin, Ewigkeit (Jim Fog claims he gave his CD collection away to Oxfam so he could make more original music. I think he just set fire to them all and inhaled the fumes through a straw), Alien Sex Fiend, Swans, Sigh, The Sisters of Mercy, Star One (even if Lucassen is clean as a whistle, he's smoked the annual drug output of Afghanistan in secondary influences), Bob Dylan, Overlord, Crowbar, Electric Wizard, Bauhaus, Moonspell (well, the song 'Opium' at least), The Meads of Asphodel, The Inbreds, Syrafex, and in a non-stoner sense, Motorhead, The Anti-Nowhere League, The Ramones, countless other speed popping and glue huffing punks, and probably most of the EBM, Acid (hmmm...) and dark trance I listen to. I'm also gonna add Skyclad to this list, because there's odd drug references in their lyrics, and I like to put them in everywhere. I've also found that the mid-period prog stuff (mainly Oui Avant-Garde A Chance and bits of The Answer Machine?) are pretty rocking when I'm, ahem. And then there's all that depressive black metal composed in a haze of weedsmoke and NyQuil fumes.

Not that I would ever endorse the taking of drugs. Ahem.

nescience:
Khar, don't forget Placebo, as I know you're a fan.

Misereatur:
SunnO)) is definitelly drug music.
Wait, fuck that, Anything realesed by Southern Lord is drug music.


Also, Progressive rock is a drug music of some sort.
Not to play it, because Weed (I'm talking about Marijuana right now, nothing else) will effect your technique mostly. But for a listening drug Weed would be great for Soft Machine or any other jazzy prog' rock.

Electronica is also drug music. Listening to Ulver's Pedition City on drugs would be.. interesting.
Ambient and Noise will also do.


Hell, Every music is drug music.

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: nescience ---Khar, don't forget Placebo, as I know you're a fan.
--- End quote ---


Oh damn no. I've left out loads, don't worry.

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