Best Pot-Smoking Song

Why do I get the feeling this poll has been conducted several times already?

I forget who recorded it, but it was fucking hilarious!

im odd like that

I did that: Innagodadavida by Iron Butterfly. And yes, I probably spelled that wrong, but oh well, I was stoned when I put it on the record player (I told you it's been a long time!)

:)

Whoa, don't criticize it...

I can't believe "Legalize It" wasn't in there.

That IS the best pot-smoking song...er...if I smoked pot (nudge nudge wink wink).

David Peel and The Lower East Side
60's....

We thought it was hysterical!

My husband reminded me so I downloaded it. Cracks me up

A big hit & favorite singalong from the fabled days of the Austintatious Kozmik Kowboys.

M is for the Mudflaps on my pickup truck.
O is for the Oil I put on my hair.
T is for T-Bird.
H is for Haggard.
E is for Enema.
R is for REDNECK!

It took Ray Wiley Hubbard many years to get over writing that particular anthem. Then he wrote "Screw You, We're from Texas."

That boy has a really weird website! www.raywylie.com/

Recently I heard some of that stuff again and I realized that the Dead almost never played in tune.

I'm glad I quit. I can't believe I ever did something so dumb in the first place.

and LOVE it. L O V E it! Best concerts I ever saw were The Dead. There's nothing wrong with getting a bit altered mentally and checking out a cool band ya know. Sometimes The Dead will be in such a groove I get goosebumps all over. It's like "the zone" man. Sorry you don't get it. :(


Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes,
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.
Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may decline.
Did it matter, does it now? Stephen would answer if he only knew how.
Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell,
Hell halfway twixt now and then,
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.
Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing "What for?" across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.
Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
Several seasons with their treasons,
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.
Did he doubt or did he try? Answers aplenty in the bye and bye,
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills.
Saint Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain,
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,
Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.
Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman, spinnin' that curious sense of your own.
Can you answer? Yes I can. But what would be the answer to the answer man?

I don't agree that "There's nothing wrong with getting a bit altered mentally and checking out a cool band ya know" but to get what I'm saying, you'd probably have to be sober sometimes.

go right ahead. What's right for me is what's right for me and there ain't a damn thing you can do bout it bro. :P

Geez, these guys suck. Do you wanna get something to eat?

And thanks for being intentionally cruel towards a band I like. Way to go big guy - feel better now?

this IS the lounge, you know.

I actually don't mind the Dead, but as a working musician myself I also know that NOBODY, no artist, is above the occassional jab.

After all these are just normal people we're talking about. They didn't walk on water. :silly:

Sometimes I get overly sensitive/protective when it comes to The Dead. They just meant soooooo much to me during my high school years growing up here in the bible belt of NC. Just to know that there were guys out there who wanted to be free, play good music, and experiment with psychedelics with no apologies.. well, I could go on and on. At any rate, sorry I over-reacted. Dopey me - taking life too seriously again. :dunce:

I'm purported to have some of the WORST taste in music on this entire site. You're talking to a guy who can put on a Throbbing Gristle record and hold a polite conversation with his mother on the other end of the phone.

And I have to admit, if the mood's right, a little Dead does the trick quite nicely.

(now where did I put my Ambien) :P

Better with acid than pot.

Yep, the good ole daze.

was at a Grateful Dead show. My and my g/f at the time had such a GREAT time (we could taste the music) - even though our ride left us and I had summer school the next day. Hehehe. What a long strange trip it's been... :smoke:

but I love the GD and I've never seen them in concert. I'm in my early 20s so it was all sort of before my time. I have, however, seen Dark Star Orchestra in concert and was blown away...

The Dead wrote some meaningful, poetic songs (especially Hunter and Barlow) and their music speaks to me like few bands can.

Has anyone actually ever listened to the lyrics to a song like Weather Report Suite or Eyes of the World? They are literary masterpieces! And isn't Terrapin Station one of the most beautiful songs EVER?

I've never understood those who are so quick to criticize the Dead and then throw in their Judas Priest tape. :rofl:

To each his own I guess. :)

P.S. Ever seen this website: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/ ?

But John Tesch does......

The Dead just kind of, well, go on

and on, and on, and on,.... :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring: :boring:

He's the only "musician" who makes Yanni look like the Butthole Surfers

311's "Who's Got The Herb?" - but it's gotta be from their Live CD. The studio version isn't half as good.

Gonna sit down in the kitchen
And fix me something good to eat
And make my head a little high
And make this whole day complete
Cuz we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

Well pass it to me baby
Pass it to me slow
We'll take time out to smile a little
Before we let it go
Cuz we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

Well there ain't nothin' to do
And there's always room for more
Fill it, light it, shut up
And close the door
Cuz we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

We gonna sit around the kitchen
Fix us somethin' good to eat
And make ourselves a little high
And make the whole day complete
Cuz we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on
Cuz we gonna lay around the shanty, mama
And put a good buzz on

i love him even more now.

;)

Marijuana is a Gregorian chant listing all the names of pot, symbolizing its right to be smoked as part of a religious experience. It is 30 years ahead of its time considering the Gregorian monks now sell millions of records.

Band- Darkside
Album- Guitar Voodoo
Track- All That Noise


This is best listened to on a sunny spring day while inside sitting by the window at about 72 degrees fahrenheit.

edit- at 2:15pm

Just a few:

most stuff by Pink Floyd - I'll single out the live version of Great Gig in the Sky and the studio version of Shine on You Crazy Diamond.

"Ganja" by the little-known Stone City Band

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Carmignola and the Venice Baroque Orchestra

http://www.sonyclassical.com/music/51352/index.html

Lots of Snoop Dogg - starting with Gin and Juice

& actually most of the Sgt.Pepper album back in my halcyon hipnik days.

But Dylan's "Everybody Must Get Stoned" is pretty good too.

Or is it rolling or loading the bong time...

Or that sweet sweet moment when you inhale and know you are doing something illegal...

Or is it that favorite moment, that moment we all look forward too when captain crunch and chocolate milk sounds like a really good thing.....

And I used to be able to smoke pot to anything-except for old time country. Nothing worse than being high and listening to an old country song. It throws you into a crying jag for no apparent reason while cracking up.
"Shit, his dog died! That's so damn funny *sniffle*. But it's funny! *sniffle*"

Campus Grill where all the stoners and drunks too and a combination thereof would show 3AM. Along with disgruntled normal-headed late shift people who did not always appreciate us. Food always tasted great though. That place is gone through urban removal but probably other places like it in the area. Though not as convenient.

spot at 3am. Making patterns w/ the syrup was especially fascinating when I was high. Just watching the syrup swirling 'round and 'round on a big round stack of pancakes was the best part of the night.

Damn, I was such a dumb stoner!

to get a constellation effect on the table. This sometimes aroused commentary. We often had the hash earlier, actually.

But I waited for the CORNED BEEF until after I got to the diner.
The other hash was a big treat for us all.

(from the musical "Hair".)

and 'let's go smoke some pot'---i don't remember who did it, but it was sung to the same tune of 'let's go to the hop'

Bet no one else has heard this one.

(my friend, pass it over to me) Steppenwolf, I think.
I haven't smoked pot in so many years I'm suprised I remember one..

Of which the late, great Lowell George was a member. Little Feat played it, later. Lowell wrote "Willin'"--give me weed, whites & wine & I'll show you a sign that I'm willin' to be movin'.

A couple of obscure memories: "Acapulco Gold" & "She Pawned her Dianmond for Some Gold." And the Jim Kweskin Jug Band's rendition of "If You're a Viper."

Here's a fairly complete list of pot songs. Who really wrote what?

www.ukcia.org/potculture/references/records.html

(Houston's own rock/jazz band, Smokin' Fitz, played Cab Callaway's "The Reefer Man.")

Plus most tunes by Bob Marley & most of the reggae crew.

Especially because it was eliminated from the CD version of "Waiting For Columbus" back when CDs were new and Tipper was on her "I hate music" tear.

All good selections.
My response is: Any song that you are listening to whilest gettin faded is the best song to be listening to whilest getting faded.
Even "Rubber Duckie" by Kermit the Frog becomes great under those conditions. Good weed does that.

I used to get baked and listen to Dr. Demento's radio show. But I'm just showing my age.

....but just barely, must have been something I was smoking, or perhaps that alzheimers thingy is acting up again.

But you can't forget 'Champagne and Reefer' by Muddy Waters.

:smoke:

Oh man.. the memories. I can't even tell you how many times me and the fellas smoked up to Cypress Hill and The Beastie Boys my first year in college. Good times brother, good times. :smoke:

DUH!!!

You know I work so hard, all day long
Everything I try to do, seems to always turn out wrong
That's why I wanna' stop by, on my way home and say
Let's go get stoned

(Let me tell you one more thing)
Ain't no harm, to have a little taste
But don't lose your cool, and start messing up the man's place
Ain't no harm, to take a little nip
But don't you fall down, and bust your lip
Let's go get stoned

I was gonna go to court
but I got high
I was gonna pay my child support
but I got high
Now they're takin my whole paycheck and I know why
hey hey!
Cause I got high cause I got high cause I got high
badada-da-da-da-da!

to hear when using marijuana. If that's what you're asking.

Doesn't ZZ Top have a song about pot that is all about innuendo?

"...and if you give meeeeeee
Weed,
Whites and wine
And you show me a sign.
I'll be willin'
To be movin'"

:smoke:

Though if I had to pick from the list I guess John Prine's illegal smile would do.

Love Prine's lyrics, keep thinking about "your flag decal wont get you into heaven anymore" everytome I see a cheesy magnetic ribbon.

:smoke:

from the Easy Rider soundtrack:

"Don't bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to me"

Now heaven would be a DJ
Spinning up all night long
And Heaven would be just kickin' back
With Jesus packing my bong
And if you don't believe in Jesus then Mohammed or Buddha too
And while the world is warring
We'll just sit back and laugh at you

:D I'm certainly not a skater, but I love this song.

an honorable mention

:smoke:

What's from the earth is of the greatest worth...

lyrics just don't get no better than that!

When I wake up early in the morning.
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream)
Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me
Leave me where I am - I'm only sleeping.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find there's no need (there's no need)
Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
And after all I'm only sleeping.

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time.
Lying there and staring at the ceiling
Waiting for a sleepy feeling...
Please, don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
And after all I'm only sleeping.

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time.

When I wake up early in the morning
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream (float up stream)
Please, don't wake me, no, don't shake me
Leave me where I am - I'm only sleeping

Or


Tomorrow Never Knows
(Lennon/McCartney)

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying.
Lay down al thoughts, surrender to the void,
It is shining, it is shining.
Yet you may see the meaning of within
It is being, it is being.

Love is all and love is everyone
It is knowing, it is knowing.

And ignorance and hate mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing.

But listen to the color of your dreams
It is not leaving, it is not leaving.

So play the game "Existence" to the end
Of the beginning, of the beginning

I think that the line "just a pin prick" implies something a bit harder than weed.

How can ANYone leave off a 65-minute heavier-than-the-Earth-itself dirge about a stoner caravan making their way to Jerusalem when talking about pot-smoking songs?

That and anything by Bongzilla (that's all they sing about). Get some metal into the mix, man.

greatful deadB-)

Man whats the matter with that cat there?"
"must be full of reefer"
"full of reefer?!"
"yea man"
"you mean that cats high?!"
"sailing"
"sailing"
"sailing lightly"
"get away from here
Man is that the reefer man?"
"thats the reefer man"
"I belive hes losing his mind"
"I think hes lost his mind!"

Oh have you ever met that funny reefer man reefer man
have you ever met that funny reefer man reefer man
If he said he swam to china, and he sell you south carolina
then you know your talkn to that reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
If he said he walks the ocean, any time he takes the notion
then you know your talkn to reefer man.

Have you ever met this funny reefer man reefer man
oh baby baby baby reefer man reefer man
If he trades you dimes for nickles
and calls watermellons pickles
then you know your talkn to that reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
If he takes a sudden mania
he'll want to give you pennsylvaina
oh you know your talking to the reefer man

Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
Have you ever met funny reefer man reefer man
If he said one sweet is funny
because he wont sell me atlantic
then you know your talkin to that reefer man

of the whole orchestra. The nephew of his keyboard player is an old friend.

and thinking it would be a cool song. Then I heard the rest of it.

Talk about preachy. Sheesh.

Little Feat....

John Prine's Illegal Smile was not about smokin dope according to Mr. Prine....but I kinda suspect it probably was...lol

Not a song, but a sound experience ... anything by The Firesign Theater.

I'm especially partial to Everything You Know is Wrong, but anything will do.

Now that will reveal when I started down the smoky road. :D

That was OK too and also seemed to last all afternoon like Sad Eyed Lady and the long version of Light My Fire!! God, people you left out the friggin Doors!!

I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before,
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh, boy
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had a look
Having read the book,
I’d love to turn you on...

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream

Ah..................

I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all,
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
I’d love to turn you on...

A hardcore version of "let's go to the hop"...

Everybody solo!

Helplessly hoping CSNY
Redemtion song Bob
Legalize it Tosh
Willin Feat
Carolina in my mind JT
Attics, China Doll, Wharf Rat The Grateful God damn Dead

You know, Black Sabbath.



Alright now!!
Won’t you listen?

When I first met you, didn’t realize
I can’t forget you, for your suprize
You introduced me, to my mind
And left me wanting, you and your kind

I love you, oh you know it

My life was empty forever on a down
Until you took me, showed me around
My life is free now, my life is clear
I love you sweet leaf, though you can’t hear

Come on now, try it out

Straight people don’t know, what your about
They put you down and shut you out
You gave to me a new belief
And soon the world will love you sweet leaf

:P

I'm in love with Mary Jane.
She's my main thing.
She makes me feel alright.
She makes my heart sing.
And when I'm feeling low,
She comes as no surprise.
Turns me on with her love.
Takes me to paradise.
Do you love me Mary Jane?
Do ya? Do ya? Do ya?
Now do you think you love me Mary Jane.
Don't you play no games.

I'm in love with Mary Jane.
I'm not the only one.
If Mary wanna play around,
I let her have her fun.
She's not the kind of girl
that you can just tie down.
She likes to spread her love
and turn your head around.

..."Marquee Moon" you can find to play around with....



Tikki

I love the song, but I was under the impression that it was about war.

to be a good song to smoke to. It's got lots of interesting sounds, etc and it's long. I love to listen to it pretty much regardless of what I'm doing. :)

I read this message this morning - and spent my entire day trying to remember all the good tokin' up songs. Then I heard "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin on the radio - and it reminded me of how cool we thought the bass and treble were going back and forth on the speakers - thanks for the memory!

...tonight I'm just a little cat in black pjs


And "Burn One Down" by Ben Harper isn't bad.

lotta good reggae songs about the ganja.

:evilgrin:

It's much more mellow. The original song is "Pass the Kouchie" by The Mighty Diamonds. Here's a sample:

http://mfile.akamai.com/12844/wm2/muze.download.akamai.com/2890/us/uswm2/790/416790_1_03.asx?obj=v50201

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/wma-pop-up/-/B000002JRU001001/103-2787852-4364660

Completely mesmerizing.

Also any song by Barrington Levy or Jacob Miller will work. Bob Marley and The Mighty Diamonds made some perfect songs as well.

"Two Heads"? :D :D

didn't he? This ol' Longhaired Country Boy - just wants to get drunk in the morning and stoned in the afternoon or something, and the one about tooling along in my chevrolet just toking on a number and diggin' on the radio.....

And there was a Dr. John song we used to sing when we got stoned ... Or was it Dr. Hook? AAAUUUGHHH what was it???????

That's Mr. kt. Personally, I go for the more obnixious "Pass the Dobie" by I have no I idea who...

That's Mr. kt. Personally, I go for the more obnixious "Pass the Dobie" by I have no I idea who...

Simply, the greatest.

or, alternatively, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade

you are "doin it" stoned

oh yeah

Pot, for me, was ALWAYS, and still is a fantastic "sense" heightening buzz. (Notice I have not used any sex words for fear of being deleted by the new, fired up Mods) :P

I'm so high - three 6 mafia
Weed has got me high - three 6 mafia
Blue Berry Yum Yum - - Ludacris
Smoke and get high - Project Pat
Whole Lotta Weed - Project Pat
Weed Song - Bone