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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 10:22 PM
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Songs you can thank cocaine for?
I just heard "The King Kong Song" by ABBA. There's no way anyone sober had anything to do with that tune.

Yours?
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 10:25 PM
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1. the ultimate cocaine anthem
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 10:27 PM
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2. I can't get youtube...what is it?
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 10:28 PM
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3. Black Sabbath - "Snowblind"
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 10:31 PM
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4. cocaine .... of course, with whats his name. plays guitar, old, cute... i love him
what is his name

eric claptin.

i would have him on cd and sing with him.... cocaine,

then would look at my little kdis and niece and wonder how appropriate

cocaine....

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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 10:51 PM
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5. Casey Jones
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slay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:22 PM
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8. I was at the RFK show in '92 when they first played it again after an 8 year absence
that train horn - wow! might have had something to do with the lsd too.. hrmmm.. :evilgrin:

Grateful Dead Breakout "Casey Jones" RFK 1992 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCVJuzXoIJk

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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:06 PM
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6. Buckcherry "Lit Up"
"I love the cocaine. I love the cocaine."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw5JGv9YdV0
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:13 PM
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7. Bob Seger -- American Storm
actually an anti-coke backlash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtxWTgx1f7g
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:40 PM
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9. Many of David Bowie's albums from the late '70s
nt
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cbdo2007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:46 PM
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10. I've never done cocaine but this song makes me feel like I think it probably feels like....
Edited on Wed Jan-19-11 11:56 PM by cbdo2007
System of a Down - This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song

stick with it, it gets pretty f'd up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQOSfnV4hM
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:54 PM
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11. Leadbelly-Take A Whiff On Me
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:57 PM
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12. Cocaine Blues

Dave Van Ronk's version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qzPjztRAoY


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Blues
"Cocaine Blues"/"Coco Blues" (Cocaine, running all around my brain)

One of the most familiar, usually known as "Cocaine Blues," is Reverend Gary Davis’ arrangement, an eight-bar blues in C Major. Davis said that he learned the song in 1905 from a traveling carnival musician, Porter Irving.<3><4> This version is made up of rhyming couplets, followed by a refrain "Cocaine, running all around my brain" or "Cocaine, all around my brain").<5> The song is sometimes known as "Coco Blues," as on Davis’ 1965 album Pure Religion and Bad Company.

Gary Davis was a key influence on the folk revival singers of the early 1960s, including Dave Van Ronk, who learned this version of "Cocaine Blues" from Davis (it features on his 1963 album Folksinger) and Bob Dylan (a 1961 variant features on The Minnesota Tapes, a 1962 variant is on Gaslight Tapes<6> and third version is on more recent compilation album Tell Tale Signs). However, on Van Ronk’s record, the song is wrongly credited to Luke Jordan, who recorded a completely different of the same name, see below.<7><8>

Davis’ version of "Cocaine Blues" was subsequently recorded by a number of artists in the folk revival/singer-songwriter tradition, including Richard Fariña and Eric Von Schmidt (1963), Hoyt Axton (1963, on Thunder 'n Lightning), Davey Graham (1964, on Folk, Blues and Beyond), Nick Drake (on Tanworth-in-Arden 1967-68), Jackson Browne (1977, on Running on Empty), Stefan Grossman (1978, on Acoustic Guitar), Townes Van Zandt (1993, on Roadsongs) and Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1995, on South Coast), as well as by the punk band UK Subs.<9> "Sweet Cocaine" by Fred Neil (1966) is loosely based on the same song.<10>

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