Drugs and Music (472 hits)
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Submitted by ramirez60 (View user info) at 2007-09-23 06:57:24 EDT
Yesterday I went to go see this one-man band called Anchorsong perform (http://anchorsong.com/video.htm check out No Virus, No Fever for an idea of his awesomeness) and it was really good. I'd say its electronic music but I have a hard time picking a genre for it. It's not music I normally have listened to, being more of a Jazz and Rock guy myself but I find I've been getting into it lately. I was a little drunk by the time he went on, and I remember thinking how awesome this would be if I was tripping and it made me wonder, when and why did druggie music change?
I had this long argument with a buddy of mine not too long ago about how I didn't understand his disdain for Rock or Popish music. Not that I don't understand not liking it, but, for me anyway, the music is associated with events or people in my life and listening to it reminds me of that. That's why artists like Billy Joel ( GO LI) Bruce Springstein, Eagle Eye Cherry, Matchbox 20, Sublime, etc etc have a special place in my heart that makes me smile whenever they come on. He commented that he had music like that, it was just different music, but recently he's been listening to a lot of trance that's really impersonal. He's not a bona-fide druggie but I'd say he's a somewhat regular user so I feel like he's a fair example. When druggie music meant listening to Hendrix's ridiculous guitar riffs, or The Doors poetic, if a little narcissistic, lyrics, or dreams of a better future from Lennon, it made sense to me. Why you'd want to do drugs, why you'd want to be in this high where your mind is in this utopia of feelings where the pain is replaced by pleasure.
But it seems like today people do drugs for the same escapist ideas, but instead of escaping into pleasure, they escape into numbness. I guess this could be seen with all the floyd fans there are, but Floyd still preached to fight the man and the way of the wall (Another Brick for an obvious example). Have drug users just changed and thats why they listen to such odd music instead of music filled with emotions?
If it were convenient to do so, I'd toke up and go listen to this guy.
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Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-09-24 09:11:46 EDT (#)
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Leather pants
Submitted by Surgeon (user info) at 2007-09-24 08:30:26 EDT (#)
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shunt..
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-09-24 04:53:17 EDT (#)
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You should take pills and crack cocaine, then you could listen to Radio 4 and it'd be the most banging anthem you will have ever heard.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-09-23 22:57:42 EDT (#)
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Hahaha "popish" music. Catholic Rock.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-09-23 20:27:29 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-09-23 20:12:54 EDT (#)
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matchbox 20?
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2007-09-23 18:41:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-09-23 07:17:33 EDT (#)
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You want shot for mentioning Sublime and Matchbox 20 in the same sentence.
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after deciphering that string of incoherrence, i agree.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2007-09-23 17:22:24 EDT (#)
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Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-09-23 17:17:15 EDT (#)
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it really depends on the drug and the music - you can't really get stoned and listen to Pendulum (drum and bass) and you can't really take an e and listen to soft rock.
Submitted by beat_raven (user info) at 2007-09-23 14:24:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-09-23 11:29:12 EDT (#)
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I personally dont think you have to toke to listen to bob marley, he's a legend.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2007-09-23 10:29:31 EDT (#)
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whoa, deep
Submitted by Respek (user info) at 2007-09-23 09:06:24 EDT (#)
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Drugs are bad. Mmkay.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-09-23 08:55:30 EDT (#)
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I guess they're your ears and you must have some function between them if you're at least threatening to listen to Bob. But...Matchbox 20? Billy Joel? There's no excuse for that kind of behavior.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-09-23 07:17:33 EDT (#)
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You want shot for mentioning Sublime and Matchbox 20 in the same sentence.