Drugs And Music - Your Views

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Hi Im doing research for my dissertation about why some music genres have certain drugs asssociated with them and would like your views on the subject.

What, if any, drugs do you/have you taken to what genre of music, why did you take them, if you think any genres of music have had drug use change over time etc please let me know your views.

Also if you know of any other online forums I should ask these questions to please let me know. If you have anything else to add just contact me by my email address below.

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I always thought they more into amphetamines. I read something Reed said about never having used heroin when he wrote the first album and that during his time at the Factory he used to take so many amphetamines he only slept for 3 hours a week.
 
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Bill Hicks:See I think, drugs have some ddone good things for us. I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us. Do me a favor, go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CRAB, and burn them. 'Cause you know what? The musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Reeeeeeeal ****ing high on drugs.--Today young men on acid realized that alll matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.-


 
I would link grunge music with drugs with the death of andy wood lead singer of Mother Love Bone and Malfunkshun and the death of Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain not to mention the countless other addictions that must've took plave.
 
Well... Drugs are being used by musicians? Wow!

I always wondered about:

The Gratedul Dead
The Doors
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Guns N Roses
Led Zepplin
The YardbirRAB
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Layne Stanley (God rest his soul!)

All kinding aside, there are far fewer musicians that don't do some sort of drug than ones that don't. IMO
 
I think drugs have defo influenced some of the greatest music of all time.:afro: Has anyone noticed how downhill the Chilli Peppers have gone since they cleaned up? And Marilyn Manson?! It's sad to admit I guess but drugs give you a different view in the world, make you think in a different way. They're called mind opening for a reason. I listen to rock/metal and I smoke weed but that's not why I smoke weed. I smoke it cos I like to be mellow and rock music helps with that too. Just like some ravers take E - it gives you energy and they need it dancing to that music! (I would never take anything chemical myself) So I suppose different genres do go with different drugs. I wonder if any composers like Beethoven were on drugs?...;)
 
I love the idea of drugs and music. I'm not overly interested in whether an artist has taken them when they make music but just the whole idea of a trippy journey filled piece of music really floats my boat. If thats the artists intentions than great but if it's not it's even better. I like to think that the unintentionally trippy songs are the best because even the artist hasn't thought about where it's meant to be going.

I hardly ever take drugs yet a lot of the music I listen to just sort of takes me away anyway, I guess. Dopesmoker by Sleep, it's rediculous the amount of noise that is present there yet I pick up a rhythm in amongst all the noise and it's great. I also love the last 4 or 5 minutes of the Spaceship Landing song by Kyuss. Stuff by Hawkwind is particularly awesome, it's just psychedelic through and through.

I find I always sit there and think how awesome it would be to be on something and listening to the song, but even then it's still great.
 
Oddly enough, the merabers of Pink Floyd claimed to have never used drugs. That's the last band I would have expected that from, especially if you've heard Umma Gumma
 
1. Yes Acid is worth it...but its a dieing drug...
2.Music and Drugs go hand in hand..due to lifestyle...and expression.
3.Artists..not just musicians have been known to do drugs..due to the belief that drugs expand your mind...and that is personal belief..science has yet to prove it.

I have done all the drugs I have done to most the music I listen to..I listen to all kinRAB..country,classical, hip-hop,jazz..etc...and most are enjoyed while smoking pot...

Dropping fry tenRAB to make most people..me...want to listen to trance..techno...dance..stuff that is easy to move to..due to the body high acid gives...makes ya wanna dance...rememeber the videos of hippies waving about their arms and dancing around one another...

Smoking dope...often makes me wanna to jam to something heavier..something with screaming vocals..heavy guitar...heavy percussion...cause speed makes everything go fast...

Eating shrooms...the only thing I can ever really get into is..4 Non Blondes..strange...

Popping pills...anything and everything..because its such a routine drug for me...its like smoking pot....
 
i like to take exstacy to the happy mondays and certain tracks off hail to the thief.

smoke weed to sigur ros and radiohead again. oh and do nitrous oxide to radiohead. nothing compares to that, i once did a whippet standning up listening to sit down stand up and during a fast bit i passed out and fell into my dogs water bowl.
 
Have you heard Atom Heart Mother?
A total dogs dinner of an album I have a feeling if it wasn`t for drugs that album would be very very different.You never know it may have even been better (no really difficult in the circumstances.

As for the drugs are better arguement i`d like to throw this in....

Frank Zappa - Drug free & teetotaller his whole life.

Britney Spears & Robbie Williams - Currently in rehab.
 
I'll add 311 is probably the best band I've listened to while high on pot.
Acid is a tough one because I've had good trips and I've had bad trips. A lot of people equate acid with a deep religious experience, because when you do it with people, it bares your soul, and sheRAB your ego, so you can see the person for who they really are. After that the doors of perception seem to open up a little.
 
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