Just Say Maybe: 20 Songs That Might Be About Drugs
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'Love Is the Drug,' Roxy Music sang. Yet when it comes to rock 'n' roll songs, drugs are often the drug. The creators of the following alleged dope ditties almost invariably deny it, so we're placing them on trial. Guilty or not? The question itself is intoxicating.
The defense: It's just a silly love song.
The verdict: Guilty. As McCartney admitted, it is his paean to "some other kind of mind." "If I am true I'll never leave," he sang. With songs such as 'Hi Hi Hi' and his Japanese pot bust, he has stayed true to his beloved for years.
'Got to Get You Into My Life'
--The Beatles (1966)
The defense: It's just a silly love song.
The verdict: Guilty. As McCartney admitted, it is his paean to "some other kind of mind." "If I am true I'll never leave," he sang. With songs such as 'Hi Hi Hi' and his Japanese pot bust, he has stayed true to his beloved for years.
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jplongshotat 9-18-2008
I was looking for definative insight and all I got was a judgement on each song based on the perception of how "clean" is the artist. Just a waste of my time.
lanaat 9-19-2008
wonder why tom petty's "girl on LSD" isn't listed here
valueone1at 9-19-2008
Sure we all were all wacked out on drugs in the 60's and 70's. Now people are all runnig scared because we are in power. They aint seen nothing. DISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH.
Jimat 10-25-2008
that is exactly what is wrong with this country. all the little marists from the 60's college campi spouting their socialist agendas. a little advise from the heartland, mr. marx, don't show yourself here. we still cling to our guns and religion unlike barry the kenyan and his ilk.
abluehoundat 10-27-2008
People like you are the reason america is going down the tubes. Earn your own way or die pennyless in a ditch, and don't threaten to take whats I work hard to have. All you are is a thief that wants to vote in a political party that will steal from me to give to lazy worthless scum like you. Communis is dead freak, join it.
brian22855at 11-29-2008
"Distribute the wealth?"
What a moronic tribute to a moronic campaign (by both major parties). Who's wealth are you distributing? And who will you choose to control the "distribution?" What if you don't like the favorites of those empowered to redistribute this "wealth?"
The Age of Enlightenment and/or of John Locke posited that the sole valid object of government was to protect individual liberty and rights to private property, which resulted in untold amounts of wealth that have benefited the entire human population.
Don't believe in private property, even though its protected by the U.S. and all state constitutions? Don't believe in constitutional forms of government? Or believe that constitutions chosen by constitutional majorities can validly be rewritten by minorities or by individual leaders?
OK, that's fine - that pretty well leaves you with the stellar performers like . . . fill in your favorite socialist, no matter what decade or generation (Che, Chavez, Castro?). As long as you're willing to live by the actual results they deliver(ed) and not just their rhetoric.
"Free" is way easy to sell - its the basis for con jobs through-out recorded history. But, "free" is tremendously difficult to deliver, and even more so over the long haul. In fact, its never been done.
Brian in Fort Wayne, IN
Huh? Oi.at 10-25-2008
Wow.
They are saying all this now?
It's been like this sense forever. People should already know htis.
Oh well.
Also the hidden crud in the songs about Paul being dead.
Creepy man.
Linxat 10-25-2008
So big friggin deal. Are we supposed to be schocked by this? Oh My!! We were all stoned back then....
urkiddinmeeat 10-25-2008
Does anyone really give a chit?
thedayosat 10-25-2008
Paul should excessivly sue the writer of this trash for being so excessivly late. It 1966 ('till I figue about 1967) it "might" have been "newsworthy"
Today, it would be considered fermenting trash. Hope he doesn't get paid by AOL for writing this crap.
laryjoeat 10-25-2008
Play "Day Tripper" backwords and the Beatles sing "AOL news is lame, AOL news is lame."
ReReat 10-25-2008
I still love the Beatles!!!!
Jenna !at 10-25-2008
the beatle's song lucy in the sky with diamonds. L S d
Richardat 10-25-2008
No Jenna..."Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" is a song about a picture that John Lennon's son Julian had drew when he was 6 yrs.old....Julian supposedly told his father that the picture was a girl called Lucy who was in the sky with diamonds. Anything else?
billyat 10-27-2008
richard is correct
billyat 10-27-2008
and also a bit smug
redonionsauceat 10-27-2008
My God. This story only confirms my thought that this country is preoccupied with making stuff up to get a headline. Are we all so "drugged" that this is all we see? I am a 60's child. I graduated from HS in 1970. Unless you were there, you couldn't possibly understand what did go on then. The truth be known, it wasn't my grneration selling the drugs at first, it was my parent's generation. I say we should get the hell off any kind of drugs and be real.
tearstainedwaterat 10-25-2008
HI
JOEat 10-26-2008
That is sooooo dumb... It is just a song!!!!
lethalivdripat 10-26-2008
Blaaa