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Chancellor of Soul (harlem_144)
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Username: harlem_144
Post Number: 146
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.207.40.18
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 3:23 pm: �� |     ���  |
Hey Sder's......can you name any songs that
featured anti-drug lyrics ??? |
Manny (manny)
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Username: manny
Post Number: 117
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.11.43
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 3:49 pm: �� | ��� |
Hi again, Mr. Chancellor
The Dramatic's �Beware Of The Man With The Candy In The Hand" and "The Devil Is Dope".
Also, I think, "Freddie's Dead" by Curtis (from the film Superfly).
Peace & Soul Food (and Soul music as the only "drugs") |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 213
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 204.108.65.10
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:10 pm: �� | ��� |
In the late '60s, James Brown had a 45 out on the white later King label, titled something like "Don't Take Drugs". I'm not sure of the title, but one line I remember: "Don't Take Drugs....They're killers (pronounced: "Killahs)! Then his patented scream....Auwww!!! There might have been a "Good God!" or three, in there, too. Does anybody else remember it? I let my friend borrow it. He left it atop the dashboard of his car. It was Chicago in the summer, so naturally, the record warped terribly. I let him keep it as a souvenir. So now I don't have a file copy. |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 800
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:16 pm: �� | ��� |
James did King Heroin. Curtis had Freddie's Dead. Speaking of Tony Hestor's anti-drug songs. There was a book that stated the irony of Tony's songs, as he was battling drug use as well. Can anyone tell me if that information was true??? I really didn't believe that, guess that I didn't want to. |
Tony.C. (tonyc)
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Username: tonyc
Post Number: 22
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 195.93.33.10
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:20 pm: �� | ��� |
What a good thread,I,d have to say my 2 fave anti- drug songs would have to be
1)Sam Dees-Signed Miss Heroin.
2)The story of Sam Stone-Swamp Dogg(Jerry Williams)one of the most poignant and meaningful songs i,ve ever heard-i bubble up every time i play it.Luv and stuff 2 all. |
DyvaNaye (westside314)
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Username: westside314
Post Number: 373
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 209.212.74.198
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:28 pm: �� | ��� |
'Free Basing' - late 80's song - I never knew who made this song but it sounded like either Lillo, Kashif or Paul Laurence...
White Horse - Laid Back ' If you wanna ride, dont ride the white horse...' - good dance song...
There was a couple of rap songs I liked that came out on this subject matter:
'Season of the Victim' - what I liked about this song was that it used Sly and the Family Stones song 'You Caught Me Smiling Again'...catchy tune about crackheads...
'Self Destruction' - all star rap song featuring the best that the Bronx and Harlem had to offer in 1989 - Kool Moe Dee, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, KRS 1, Grandmaster Flash, ...etc...
Lost and Turned Out - Whispers - this was about prostitution and drugs...
Who Really Cares - Whispers - listen to it good, thed interpretation leads there...
Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong - Whispers - same as above. The song lyrics cry out for help from a person with a torn life, and all that comes with it.
Dont Be a Drop Out - JB - Dont he mention something about living a clean life or something?...(is the the right song or 'Money Wont Change You')
Escapeism - JB words: Oh naw man I dont do no drugs alcohol!'...uh..., yeah James...
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Chancellor of Soul (harlem_144)
4-Laureate
Username: harlem_144
Post Number: 149
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 63.78.189.114
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 5:48 pm: �� | ��� |
Hey Manny !
How are you ? The one anti-drug-Vietnam song
that blows me away everytime I hear it, " See
What You Done Done", by Delia Gartrell. Also
" Stone Junkie", by Curtis Mayfield. |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
6-Zenith
Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 805
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 5:56 pm: �� | ��� |
You got it Dyva, Paul Laurence is is. I don't know how I forgot that hot jam. Oh, thanks Dyva, that reminded me of the House cut, Don't Let It Be Crack by Clausell. Then there was General Kane & Crack Killed Applejack. |
Manny (manny)
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Username: manny
Post Number: 118
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.12.155
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 6:26 pm: �� | ��� |
Hi again, soulful friends!
Hey, Mr. Chancellor!
I'm very well, thanks, appart from my high addiction to the LSD (Longtimeconnected to Soulful Detroit). Hope you're also very well.
I remeber that my sister haved diverse J.J. Cale's discography and played many times "Cocaine". I don't remeber the lyrics, if was an apologie of the consum or a critical (??).
I thinks that the cover illustration of MFSB untitled first album (wich includes "Freddie's Dead") is the most "anti-drug message" in the soul scene that I knows.
Peace and Best Regards To All |
DyvaNaye (westside314)
5-Doyen
Username: westside314
Post Number: 386
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 209.212.74.198
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 6:34 pm: �� | ��� |
Manny....'ahem'....
Did you check into the Soulful Detroit Anonynous thread? You opening statement just got you in trouble with me brother! I have to send Juice Free after you! LOL. |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 812
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 6:38 pm: �� | ��� |
Dyva: Along the "lines" (pun not intended) of "yeah...sure" was White Lines by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. |
Edgar (edgar)
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Username: edgar
Post Number: 24
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 200.46.13.153
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 6:43 pm: �� | ��� |
Diana Ross - Sleepin'
The Pointer Sisters - Billy Said Yes
Marvin Gaye - Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky) |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 214
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.81.20.74
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 7:14 pm: �� | ��� |
"Junkers' Blues" by Champion Jack Dupree from 1942. Great rollin' piano blues song:
"They call, they call me a Junker, 'cause I'm loaded all the time,
I don' use no refers, I be knocked out with that ancien' wine,
Six months, six months ain' no sen'ance, an' one year ain' no time,
When theah's boys in pen'atenchrey, doin' nine to ninety-nine,
I was standin', I was standin'-on the corner, with my refers in my hand,
Upstairs de sargen' took de refers out my hand,
(great plunky boogie woogie piano solo)
My brotha', my brotha' used the needle, an' my sister sniffed cocaine,
I don' use no junk, I'm de nicess' boy you evah seen,
My mutha', my mutha', she tol' me, an' my fatha' tol' me too,
That that junk is a bad habit, why don' you leave it, too?
My sista', she even tol' me, an' my gran'ma tol' me too,
That usin' junk right now'll be the death of you!"
(boogie woogie piano to fade out) |
Robb_K (robb_k)
5-Doyen
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 215
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.81.19.159
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 7:19 pm: �� | ��� |
"King Heroin" by James Brown was a different single from the "Don't Take Drugs" on white King. I believe "King Heroin" was much later, and on Polydor. Isn't that right? "Don't Be A Drop-out" was a great song on one of the later blue King pressings (1964?). |
douglasm (douglasm)
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Username: douglasm
Post Number: 70
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.113.12.67
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 7:40 pm: �� | ��� |
Tony C....
"There's a whole in daddy's arm where all the money goes...."
Is the "Sam Stone" you mentioned the John Prine song?
doug |
lenny (lennytone)
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Username: lennytone
Post Number: 62
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.241.87.19
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 7:57 pm: �� | ��� |
'Angel Dust' by Gil Scott-Heron
'White Lines' by Grandmaster Flash |
Phil (phil)
3-Pundit
Username: phil
Post Number: 52
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 212.129.41.36
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 5:33 am: �� | ��� |
Manny, the only words of "Cocaine" that I remember are :"If you want to get down, down on the ground, COCAINE !", and I've never heard of a song about the good sides of this product (are there some ???)
You're right, Doug, "Sam Stone" is a John Prine's composition, that I didn't know ! |
Manny (manny)
4-Laureate
Username: manny
Post Number: 120
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.11.227
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 7:26 am: �� | ��� |
Thanks, french-connection friend Phil!
Peace!
(Sex, No-drougs and R&B!) |
Manny (manny)
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Username: manny
Post Number: 121
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.11.227
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 7:40 am: �� | ��� |
Hi again, soulful friends!
Hi, Phil, I remember a cover by JJ Cale that was a imitation of french cigarettes "Gitanes" (very charismatic!). I have smoke many times Gitanes.
Hey, DyvaNaye, yes i check periodically the thread "Soulful Anonymous", because the confession by anothers make me feel minus "rare". BTW, I thinks many of us needs a special Social Re-insertation Program. (Smile, or not)
(have you see the pick I posted in the "Melba Moore Discography"? Those are things I do regularly and some people simulates that don't knows me when see to me at the street!
Considering alcoholism as another way of "drug dependence", in the 80's there was a great institutional campagne-adversiting by the National Trafficc Direction (security in the roads) where was featured Stevie Wonder chanting and saying in spanish "Si bebes no conduzcas" (if you drink, don't drive you!).
Peace & Soul Food
(with some "bland" drugs as black tobacco: Gitanes, Partag�s, Habanos,..) |
Phil (phil)
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Username: phil
Post Number: 53
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 212.129.42.60
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 8:48 am: �� | ��� |
Hi Manny, I've never smoked Gitanes, they're too strong for me. I used to smoke light tobaccos, like Rothmans or Peter Stuyvesant. I've stopped cigarettes, now, though I still appreciate the Peter S., added with some Maroccan (but natural !)product. |
Manny (manny)
4-Laureate
Username: manny
Post Number: 124
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.10.186
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 9:15 am: �� | ��� |
I'm glad for your healt that you don't smokes today (or smokes something more saludable!).
I should to left the tobacco because are highly uncompatible with some sports very hards as cyclism and speleo & canyoning. I'll try soon! When i comes to Guara mountains (a kind of french province in Aragon!) many french people offer me Gitanes or i offer to him Habanos. The canyoning folks is smoking allways!
I think "Gitanes" don't have nothing in common with the french label "gitanes" specialized in Jazz. (Also I haved a bycicle Gitanes, today i got a Colnago!)
Peace & Health |
Phil (phil)
3-Pundit
Username: phil
Post Number: 55
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 213.36.130.107
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 10:50 am: �� | ��� |
Manny, do you mean that people smoke while canyoning ? Some waterproof tobacco ??? :o) |
douglasm (douglasm)
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Username: douglasm
Post Number: 71
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.113.12.67
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 12:09 pm: �� | ��� |
Hello....
....a couple of songs out of genre include "The Pusher" and "Snowblind Friend", both done by Steppenwolf, and (i think) written by Hoyt Axton. Let's throw Buffy Saint Marie's "Codine" in, and i would be failing my true pop roots if I didn't include "Kicks".
doug |
Manny (manny)
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Username: manny
Post Number: 125
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.10.212
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 12:11 pm: �� | ��� |
Very funny that you says, Phil!
Habitually, smokers canyonerings take the tobacco box in the can hermetical closed and in the diverse stopping we made for dinner out of the water is where we somoke. Also when practique cyclism runnin with the bycicle the air of the speed make not possible smokin! (smile). Only when stoped for drink and dinner! Of course i take with me the cigarette butts, don't leave it at the environement!
Somebody can tought what relation have betwen tobacco and soul music? With soul i don't knows but with jazz i associate it strong (see many Blue Note covers with tobacco smoke or George Benson & Joe Farrell's Lp with the Benson box cigarettes!)
Peace & Soul Food |
Erik T (erik_t)
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Username: erik_t
Post Number: 18
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 64.228.108.6
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 3:38 pm: �� | ��� |
Someone asked about 'king Heroin', it's off 'There It Is', Polydor '72 lp I believe. Bobby Byrd has an anti-drug tune on his Rhino 'Best Of' cd, I thought James Brown had one at the end of a '95-released JB's era comp which I have somewhere (hot cd but it doesn't track properly & I don't think it's just my copy that has that problem but I digress).
Someone else mentioned pro-coke songs & I contemplated a moment & came up with the Meatmen's 'Win Wenches & Wheels' ("got some cocaine on a blade!")... I've been told there are anti-coke lyrics on later Parliament cuts but I never really listened to those lyrics enough to check... "Loose Booty" is light heartedly anti-drug, "Super Stupid" is too in a way but I wasn't sure if the guy was 'super stupid' for mistaking 'skag' for coke, or for getting involved with purchasing powder to begin with. Here are some more... not by Funkadelic...
Amphetamine Annie- Canned Heat, fun stomper.
Bop Pills- I forget who did this before the Cramps, I have it on a wonderful compilation, 'Songs The Cramps Taught Us' vol 3...
Hand Of Doom- Sabbath 'Paranoid' lp
Too Much Seconal- Johnny Winter
Run Run Run, Waiting For The Man- Velvet Underground capture the 2 primary motifs of junkie life; waiting & running...
Home Is Where The Hatred Is- Gil Scott-Heron, whom of course has other anti-drug classics...
I have a tape of the Staples Singers playing an anti-coke song that is reminiscent of 'King Heroin' in a blues style, can't remember the name... I'll stop here... although for the record, Hoyt Axton, George Clinton, Gil Scott-Heron, Lou Reed, the 2 Canned Heat guys who overdosed, Ozzy Ozbourne, Johnny Winter, Lux Interior, I must say, are all a tad ironic in their roles as anti-drug people... of course Hoyt was only popped with weed, so of course I'm stretching to make a point but anyway.... finally lemme add 'Carmelita' by Warren Zevon... |
GO_GET_GONE_GIRL (gogogirl)
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Username: gogogirl
Post Number: 57
Registered: 5-2004
Posted From: 63.159.80.109
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 6:11 pm: �� | ��� |
All,
Wasn't Curtis's "Freddie's Dead" & "Pusherman", anti-drug songs? Had to be.
There was a "Message In The Music."
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douglasm (douglasm)
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Username: douglasm
Post Number: 72
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.113.12.67
| | Posted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 - 8:37 pm: �� | ��� |
Eric....
...Axton's "The Pusher" was written in reaction to a friend's overdose. And admitedly, he writes
"....I've smoked alot of grass, and I've popped alot of pills....."
doug |
paulie3$hoes (paulie3hoes)
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Username: paulie3hoes
Post Number: 20
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.163.57.74
| | Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 5:54 pm: �� | ��� |
eh whut about dat dere tune snowboid by dat broad anne murry aint dat one of dem tunes dat youse guise is tawkin bout, capice??@#$%^&* |
Mark Speck (mark_speck)
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Username: mark_speck
Post Number: 23
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 199.183.107.174
| | Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 6:03 pm: �� | ��� |
"The Truth Shall Set You Free"--King Hannibal
Best,
Mark |
~medusa~ (~medusa)
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Username: ~medusa
Post Number: 89
Registered: 3-2004
Posted From: 68.249.245.42
| | Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 6:11 pm: �� | ��� |
Purple Haze~Jimmy Hendrix
Angel Dust~Gil Scott Heron |
Erik T (erik_t)
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Username: erik_t
Post Number: 19
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 64.228.108.50
| | Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 6:46 pm: �� | ��� |
Hi Douglasm, I mentioned Hoyt, straining to include him in my point, but I qualified it as such, because I don't really see smoking grass as a drug issue. I also know a few people who quit hard drugs but still smoke. If they can say they don't 'do drugs', so can I! |
Soul Sister (soul_sister)
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Post Number: 544
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 65.43.156.232
| | Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 9:30 pm: �� | ��� |
King Heroin first came to mind, then Curtis' stuff for the warnings. I'm late coming to this thread so on the lighter side I'll list these as indirect drug songs:
Psycadelic Shack & Cloud 9-The Temptations.
Stoned Love-The Supremes
Lets Go Get Stoned-Ray Charles
Stone Soul Picnic-The 5th. Demention
S.S. |